United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
National Tree Trust Act of 1990 - Title I: National Tree Trust - Authorizes the President to designate a private nonprofit organization meeting certain criteria the National Tree Trust Foundation, which shall promote tree planting. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make a grant to the Foundation in FY 1991. Title II: Assistance for Tree Planting and Forest Improvement - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish rural and community tree planting and forest improvement programs as special components of the Rural and Urban Forestry Assistance Programs under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act. Provides for financial, technical, and related assistance to State foresters in order to assist nonindustrial private landowners, local governments, civic organizations, and individuals to plant, maintain, and improve trees and forests. Authorizes the Secretary to develop a cost-sharing program (with a Federal share of up to 75 percent) to encourage tree planting and management on nonindustrial private lands. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that any qualified contribution to a missionary of a church shall be treated as a charitable contribution to the church.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Solar and Geothermal Power Production Incentives Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) to remove the size limitations placed upon solar and geothermal facilities eligible for PURPA regulatory benefits. Amends the Federal Power Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to promulgate proposed modifications to its regulations to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1990
Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the University of Utah all Federal rights and interest in certain portions of property comprising Fort Douglas, Utah, subject to certain conditions. Retains a Federal reversionary interest in such property if the University uses it for other than educational or research purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1990
Yosemite National Park Centennial Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell medals in commemoration of the centennial of Yosemite National Park, California, in 1990. Requires that all sales of such medals include a surcharge of $2 each. Requires that all surcharges be paid to an endowment fund for the benefit of the Park to be administered by the National Park Foundation. Requires that the net income from the fund be paid to the Secretary of the Interior to fund special supplemental projects relating to back country trail development and rehabilitation and the preservation of Sequoia groves within the boundaries of the Park. Requires the Secretaries to enter into a memorandum of agreement to allow: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury to deliver medals to the Secretary of the Interior; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the sale of the medals in National Park facilities. Grants the Comptroller General the right to examine all records of the National Park Foundation which are related to such medals.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Designates September 16 through 22, 1990, as National Rehabilitation Week. Urges each State Governor and local government chief executive to issue proclamations calling upon their citizens to observe such week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1990
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, to make between ten and 50 (currently, between three and five) grants to States or individuals (currently, to States) for demonstration projects involving health care services in the home. Requires five of such grants to go to the current grantees, with 50 percent of the remainder going to States and 50 percent to individuals. Requires grant applications to be submitted to the Governor of the State in which the applicant resides. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Depository Institution Money Laundering Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act, the Federal Credit Union Act and other law to prescribe guidelines under which specified Federal officers shall be authorized or required to terminate all rights, privileges, and franchises of depository institutions convicted of money laundering or cash transaction reporting offenses. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to prescribe guidelines for: (1) the termination of the insured status of State depository institutions and credit unions convicted of such offenses; and (2) the removal of personnel affiliated with such institutions who were involved in the offenses.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1990
Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the Federal Credit Union Act to cite conditions under which depository institutions, mortgage lenders, and insured credit unions are not liable under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund) with respect to property acquired either through foreclosure or in a fiduciary capacity. Confers immunity from Superfund liability upon certain banking regulatory agencies and the National Credit Union Administration Board for properties acquired in connection with: (1) the exercise of receivership or conservatorship authority; and (2) the provision of loans and other financial assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1990
Amends the Home Owner's Loan Act to decrease from 70 percent to 50 percent the percentage of a thrift institution's assets that must be invested in housing-related assets ("qualified thrift lender test"). Makes domestic residential real estate loans qualified thrift investments. (Currently, only loans for domestic residential housing qualify as such investments.) Includes as a "qualified thrift asset" loans held by a savings association that were made to purchase any asset from the Resolution Trust Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere Act of 1990 - Title I: HOPE Grants - Subtitle A: HOPE for Public and Indian Housing Homeownership - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to authorize planning and implementation matching grants for public and Indian housing homeownership. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: HOPE for HUD Multifamily Homeownership - Authorizes technical assistance, planning, and implementation matching grants for multifamily housing. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: HOPE for Homeownership through Nonprofit Organizations - Authorizes implementation matching grants to private nonprofit organizations to carry out homeownership programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Preservation of Low-Income Housing and Resident Homeownership - Retitles title II of the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 as the "Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990." Revises mortgage prepayment provisions. Authorizes approval of resident homeownership plans. Sets forth related conditions. Title III: Other HOPE Programs - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to establish the shelter plus care program to provide specified rental assistance in connection with related support services to homeless persons who are seriously mentally ill or who have chronic alcohol or drug problems. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a demonstration program to test the effectiveness of combining housing vouchers and support services to assist frail elderly persons to continue to live independently. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to establish the Operation Bootstrap program to promote the development of local strategies to coordinate certificate and voucher program assistance with public and private resources to enable eligible families to achieve economic independence. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Housing Opportunity Zones - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to designate Housing Opportunity Zones and approve Barrier-Removal Plans for cities and urban counties in order to remove legislative and administrative barriers to new and rehabilitated housing production.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Acknowledges that Jerusalem is and should remain the capital of the State of Israel. Declares that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic religious group are protected. Calls upon all parties involved in the search for peace to maintain their efforts to bring about negotiations between Israel and Palestinian representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Designates the week of June 24 through June 30, 1990, as National Sheriffs' Week in honor of the 50th anniversary of the National Sheriffs' Association.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1990
Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to require the Secretary of the Interior to make available a seven-day admission permit (Grand Circle Adventure Passport) for entry to the Arches National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Zion National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, and the Grand Canyon National Park (Grand Circle Adventure) in Utah, Colorado, and Arizona.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Central Utah Project Completion Act- Title I: Central Utah Project Construction - Authorizes additional appropriations for the Colorado River water storage project, to be available solely for design, engineering, and construction of the Central Utah Project and for certain related projects and the Colorado River Storage Project. Earmarks specified amounts of such additional funds for construction, rehabilitation, or realignment of various water storage and delivery features of the Bonneville Unit of the Project and for various reclamation projects and features within Utah. Requires that amounts appropriated by this Act be used only for design, engineering, and construction of the enclosed pipeline primary water conveyance system and that other incidental costs be borne by non-Federal contributions. Authorizes construction of Project features by the Central Utah Water Conservancy District in lieu of construction by the Secretary of the Interior under this Act, under certain conditions. Prohibits amounts appropriated under this Act from being available until firm contracts for purchase of at least 65 percent of the water to be delivered under the Project have been executed. Directs the District, in connection with the Utah Department of Natural Resources, to develop a comprehensive water conservation plan for each Project component. Earmarks specified funds for the development of such plans. Requires the District to utilize its best efforts to achieving operating agreements with the Jordanelle Reservoir, Deer Creek Reservoir, Utah Lake and Strawberry Reservoir by January 1, 1997. Authorizes the Secretary to allocate as nonreimbursable and nonreturnable the cost of repair and restoration of Reach 3 of the Jordan Aqueduct of the Bonneville Unit of the Project. Authorizes the prepayment of certain expenses in connection with the Jordan Aqueduct System. Title II: Fish, Wildlife, and Recreation Mitigation and Conservation in the Central Utah Project - Establishes the Central Utah Project Mitigation and Conservation Commission to oversee all matters in connection with fish, wildlife, and recreation mitigation and enhancement within the Project and the Colorado River Storage Project in Utah. Requires the Commission to complete certain plans and submit specified reports. Provides funding for the Commission. Authorizes the Commission to reallocate certain funds available for the benefit of fish, wildlife, or recreation. Directs the District to acquire, with funds provided by the Commission, specified additional permanent storage waters above Deer Creek Reservoir or the equivalent in the Provo River Drainage. Earmarks specified funds for such acquisition. Provides all water rights after such acquisition to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources for maintaining instream flows in the Provo River between Deer Creek Reservoir and Utah Lake. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the District, annually, to provide amounts of water sufficient to sustain minimum stream flows established pursuant to a prior Stream Flow Agreement. Directs the District to acquire with Commission funds all of the Strawberry Basin water rights being diverted to the Heber Valley through the Daniel's Creek drainage and to apply such rights to increase the minimum stream flows of streams and rivers in the Strawberry River and Reservoir area. Earmarks funds for such acquisition. Requires the yield and operating plans for the Bonneville Unit of the Project to be established or adjusted to provide for specified minimum stream flows for streams and rivers in the Diamond Fork and Provo Rivers. Requires such minimum flows to be provided continuously and in perpetuity from a date first feasible as determined by the Commission. Directs the District to prepare a study and develop a mitigation plan of the effects of peak season flows in the Provo River. Earmarks specified funds for such study and plan. Provides that, after completion of the Diamond Fork water delivery system, deliveries of water shall begin through that system and the Strawberry Tunnel shall no longer be used, except for delivery of water for fishery purposes. Provides an exception. Requires the fish, wildlife, and recreation projects identified or proposed in the Definite Plan Report (a May 1988 report for the Bonneville Unit of the Project) which have not been completed as of the enactment of this Act to be completed in accordance with such Report and a fish, wildlife, and recreation mitigation schedule appearing later under this Act. Directs the Commission to acquire on an expedited basis big game winter range lands to compensate for the impacts of the Project. Requires such acquired lands to be transferred to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources for management as a big game winter range. Requires the Commission to construct big game crossings and wildlife escape ramps for the protection of big game animals along the Provo Reservoir Canal, Highline Canal, Strawberry Power Canal, and others. Earmarks funds for such construction. Earmarks funds for the planning and implementation of rehabilitation and enhancement projects on wetlands areas around the Great Salt Lake in accordance with a plan to be developed by the Commission. Requires the Commission to complete an inventory of nongame wetland species throughout areas affected by the Project, including the Weber River drainage. Earmarks specified funds for fisheries acquisition, rehabilitation, and improvements within Utah. Requires the project plan for the stabilization of high mountain lakes in the Upper Provo River drainage to be revised to provide for the stabilization of specified lakes in such area. Earmarks specified funds for the stabilization of fish and wildlife habitat improvement in such lakes. Earmarks specified funds for stream access and riparian zone development in Utah at specified areas. Earmarks funds to the Commission to conduct a study of the impacts to wildlife and riparian zones in drainages that will experience substantially-reduced water flows resulting from operation of the Strawberry Collection System. Earmarks specified funds to the District for projects to reduce the salinity of Utah Lake. Earmarks specified funds for: (1) Jordan River riparian zone rehabilitation; (2) acquisition of the wetland acreages along the Jordan River; (3) recreational facilities for the Jordan River Parkway; and (4) riparian area enhancement, stream habitat improvements, and fisherman access along the Provo River in specified areas. Authorizes the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association to lease a specified area of land for golf course purposes, under specified conditions. Earmarks specified funds for: (1) specified Project recreation features; (2) watershed and fish and wildlife improvements in the Fremont River drainage; (3) small dams and watershed improvements in specified areas within Utah and the Project; and (4) improvements to existing hatchery facilities or the construction of new hatcheries for areas affected by the Colorado River Storage Project. Provides certain restrictions in connection with the appropriation of funds for the Colorado River Storage Project. Outlines the fish, wildlife, and recreation mitigation and enhancement plan for the Bonneville Unit of the Project. Title III: Uintah Basin Water Development - Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with non-Federal entities to carry out the operation, maintenance, construction, or rehabilitation of projects authorized by this title. Requires costs for irrigation facilities built pursuant to this title to be borne by water users from such facilities. Earmarks specified funds to increase efficiency, enhance beneficial uses, and achieve greater water conservation within specified water systems of the Uintah Basin. Directs the Secretary to undertake a programmatic review of the downstream fish and wildlife resources impacted by the construction of the offstream projects authorized in such Basin. Directs the Secretary to determine the non-Federal contribution for non-Indian water users. Requires firm contracts for the purchase of at least 65 percent of the water to be delivered to non-Indian water users before any funds may be obligated or expended. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to enter into a contract or cooperative agreement with, or make a grant to, the Uintah Indian Irrigation Project Operation and Maintenance Company or other organization to: (1) administer the Uintah Indian irrigation project; and (2) operate, maintain, rehabilitate, and construct required irrigation project facilities. Provides for the following in connection with the Uintah Indian irrigation project: (1) title to certain rights-of-way and facilities; (2) the use of certain funds by the Secretary in connection with such project; (3) the treatment of noncontract costs; (4) the sale by the Secretary of equipment to a water user organization; and (5) the leasing by the Secretary of irrigation facilities to a water user organization. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a specified contract between the United States and the Uintah Water Conservancy District providing for certain water supply responsibilities. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a conservation pool in the Red Fleet Reservoir for fishery and recreational enhancement; and (2) enter into an agreement with the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation for the management and operation of the Red Fleet recreational facilities. Title IV: Central Utah Project Post-Construction Mitigation and Conservation Account - Establishes in the Treasury the Central Utah Project Mitigation and Conservation Account. Provides for deposits into such Account by Federal, State, and Project beneficiary contributors. Entitles the Commission to administer and expend all sums deposited into the Account. Requires the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to receive all excess interest on the principal of the Account after the date on which the Commission is terminated. Requires funds from such Account to be expended in accordance with a conservation plan to be developed by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Title V: Ute Indian Rights Settlement - Provides that, commencing July 1, 1991, and continuing for 50 years, the Ute Indian Tribe shall receive from the United States 26 percent of the annual Bonneville Unit municipal and industrial capital repayment obligation attributable to 35,500 acre-feet of water representing a portion of the Tribe's water rights which will not be supplied from the Central Utah Project because the Upalco and Uintah units are not to be constructed. Directs the Tribe, commencing in the year 2042, to collect from the Central Utah Water Conservancy District a percentage (to be determined) of the then fair market value of the Bonneville Unit agricultural water which has been converted to municipal and industrial water. Provides that any unused capacity in the Bonneville Unit Strawberry Aqueduct and Collection System diversion facilities shall hereafter be available for use by the Tribe. Allows the Tribe at any time to elect to return all or a portion of the water which is delivered for use in the Uintah Basin. Consents to the revised compact reserving waters to the Ute Indian Tribe and establishing the uses and management of such tribal waters, subject to reratification by the State of Utah and the Tribe. Authorizes specified appropriations: (1) to permit the Ute Tribe to develop a farming/feed lot operation equipped with satisfactory water facilities, as well as a plan and a fund in connection with other farming projects of the Tribe; (2) to permit the Secretary to repair a leak in the Cedarview Reservoir in Dark Canyon, Utah; (3) to undertake stream improvements for certain rivers and creeks within Utah, under a specified condition; and (4) to permit the Secretary to clean the Bottle Hollow Reservoir on the Ute Indian Reservation of trash and debris resulting from a submerged sanitary landfill, to remove all nongame fish, and to secure minimum flow of water to the reservoir to make it a suitable habitat for a cold water fishery. Directs the Secretary to endeavor to maintain minimum stream flows from the outlet works of the Upper Stillwater Dam into Rock Creek during specified periods of the year. Directs the Bureau of Reclamation to transfer specified real property in trust for the Ute Indian Tribe. Authorizes funds for the development of big game hunting, fisheries, campgrounds, and fish and wildlife management facilities on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation. Authorizes appropriations to be paid in three annual installments to the Tribal Development Fund which the Secretary is authorized and directed to establish for the Ute Indian Tribe. Directs the Tribe to prepare a Tribal Development Plan for all or part of the Fund. Authorizes the Tribe to waive and release claims concerning or related to water rights as described. Authorizes the Tribe to resurrect such claims if funds authorized for the Tribe under this Act are not actually received. Provides that the design and construction functions of the Bureau of Reclamation authorized in this Act shall be subject to the provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to the same extent as if such functions were performed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1990
Declares that the Congress urges the administration not to submit any proposal to include civil air transport services under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), or the proposed General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), and to oppose any proposals by other nations now or in the future which would allow any rights or benefits with respect to such services to be included under such agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1990
Defense Production Act Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to make permanent the provisions of titles I, III, and VII of such Act concerning national defense materials production, supply, priorities, and allocations. (Currently, such provisions terminate as of August 10, 1990.) Restates the defense mobilization preparedness policy of the United States which shall provide for a maximized response to early warning indicators to ensure the timely availability of adequate industrial production and supply for national defense requirements. Increases from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000 the maximum industrial resource shortfall authorized to be reached by the President before a specific authorization by law is required. Extends the term to enter into defense production purchases or purchase commitments to avert shortfalls from September 30, 1995, to no later than ten years from the initial date of such purchase, commitment, or sale. Repeals the requirement of presidential reporting on the effects of offsets on the defense preparedness, industrial competitiveness, employment, and trade of the United States. Repeals a provision which grants immunity from civil and criminal suits and a defense to antitrust law actions for those persons engaging in voluntary agreements for preparedness programs and expansion of production capacity and supply. Provides in lieu defenses for persons against such suits and actions, under certain conditions. Authorizes the President, with respect to certain Defense Production Act activities, to exempt persons who are employed without compensation from Federal antitrust laws or any similar State laws. Requires any such employee who is not required to file a financial disclosure under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to file a confidential disclosure with the appointing department or agency. Authorizes the President to exempt from such laws members of the executive reserve who become employed by the Government during periods of emergency, or who are engaged in the national defense executive reserve training program. Requires financial disclosures from such employees to their appointing department or agency when they are not required to file such disclosure under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. Provides exemptions from the principal conflict of interest laws for Government employees serving without compensation and national defense executive reservists when the President certifies in writing that the national interest requires a waiver of such laws. Repeals certain financial reporting and conflict of interest provisions of the Department of Energy Organization Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 to carry out loan guarantees, loans to private businesses, and purchases of raw materials and installation of equipment for the expansion of defense production capacity and supply. Exempts certain steel plating and thermoelectric coolers from purchase and installation dollar limits. Increases from $1,000 to $10,000 the civil penalty for violations of rules, regulations, and orders under title III of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (the expansion of productive capacity and supply of defense raw materials).
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
Accepts the statue of Philo T. Farnsworth (the father of television) furnished by the State of Utah. Authorizes the use of the rotunda of the Capitol on May 2, 1990, for presentation of the statue. Requires the statue to be displayed in the rotunda for up to six months, after which it shall be moved to its permanent location in the National Statuary Hall. Requires the transcript of the ceremony proceedings to be printed as a House document.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1990
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration from refusing to issue or renew an airman's certificate, or terminate the employment of an airman, solely by reason of the airman's age if such person is under the age of 65.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1990
Establishes the Weir Farm National Historic Site (after impressionist painter J. Alden Weir), Connecticut, as a unit of the National Park System. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1990
Depositor Protection and Abuse Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to prohibit an insured depository institution from marketing any interests in its affiliates in any office space which is commonly accessible to the general public for the purpose of accepting deposits. Grants a Federal banking agency regulatory authority either to prohibit such sales or to impose conditions upon them if the agency determines that any stock or bond of the institution is likely to be confused by the general public with an insured deposit.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1990
Denounces the military offensive in Angola and urges an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of MPLA forces. Supports a peaceful settlement leading to free and fair elections. Urges the U.S. Government to: (1) request the Soviet Union to urge the MPLA to cease its offensive and enter into direct negotiations with UNITA; and (2) continue to assist UNITA and assist in bringing about a negotiated settlement in Angola.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1990
Fair Trade in Financial Services Act of 1990 - Amends the International Banking Act of 1978 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to authorize Federal banking agencies and the Securities and Exchange Commission respectively to deny applications filed by foreign persons to conduct banking or securities activities in the United States if the Secretary of the Treasury has published a determination in the Federal Register that the relevant foreign country does not offer U.S. bankers and securities dealers and brokers the same competitive opportunities, including effective market access, as are available to its domestic counterparts. Directs the Secretary to: (1) initiate negotiations with foreign countries to ensure that they offer U.S. banking and securities interests such opportunities; and (2) submit annual status reports to the Congress regarding foreign treatment of such U.S. business interests.
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