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United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Designates October 1989 as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1989
Designates September 1989 as National Alcohol and Drug Treatment Month.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1989
Radiation Victims Fair Treatment Act - Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to repeal provisions which: (1) substitute the United States as defendant in all suits against private contractors for radiation injuries arising from atomic weapons testing programs; and (2) make the Federal Tort Claims Act the sole remedy for those injuries. Details the applicability of statutes of limitations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1989
Designates the week of February 11 through February 17, 1990, as Vocational-Technical Education Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1989
Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act Amendments of 1988 to delay the effective date of provisions relating to procurement integrity among Government contractors, officials, and agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1989
Low-Income Housing Credit Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the low-income housing income tax credit (under current law the credit will expire after tax year 1989). Permits States a one-year carryover of unused credit authority. Assigns carryovers to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to allocate to eligible States applying for excess credit. Allows the credit only if an extended low-income housing commitment (beyond the current 15-year period) is in effect with respect to any building for the relevant taxable year. Describes procedures to effect transition to a non-low-income use in connection with such extensions. Permits the credit in connection with the acquisition of an existing building only if the taxpayer incurs rehabilitation expenditures of at least $3,000 per unit. Revises rent restrictions to: (1) declare unnecessary a required rent reduction below the initial rent if the median gross income of the area decreases; (2) permit higher rent if units are occupied by higher income individuals and the project has an operating deficit; (3) base income limitations on the number of bedrooms in a unit; and (4) use State median gross income in certain low-income housing status determinations. Broadens categories of existing buildings eligible for a waiver of the ten-year requirement for the low-income housing credit. Revises credit provisions relating to single-room occupancy units and special needs housing. Revises restrictions that limit credit benefits in connection with buildings financed with tax-exempt bonds and below market loans. Permits the credit to be allocated: (1) on a project basis; and (2) in connection with owner-occupied buildings of four units or less if a development plan is submitted. Directs housing credit agencies to adopt plans for allocating credit amounts among projects, prohibiting the credit with respect to any building not included in such a plan. Modifies at-risk rules in connection with buildings subject to the historic rehabilitation credit and those associated with financing provided by certain nonprofit organizations. Sets the tax credit rate on a semiannual basis rather than monthly. Increases the credit in connection with buildings in high cost areas (low-income census tracts or difficult development areas). Establishes special rules for determining the eligible basis and applying at-risk rules in connection with qualified buildings acquired in foreclosures.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1989
Designates the Labor Day Weekend beginning on September 2, 1989, as National Drive for Life Weekend. Calls on people to observe that weekend with a pledge to be responsible by driving sober.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1989
Designates September 15, 1989, as National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1989
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1989 - Title I: General Prohibition Against Discrimination - Declares that it shall be discriminatory, on the basis of disability, to deny opportunities or to afford them unequally, to provide opportunities less effectively (or differently or separately, unless necessary for effectiveness), to assist an organization or individual that discriminates, or to otherwise limit opportunities enjoyed by others. Prohibits the use of standards, criteria, or administrative methods that have the purpose or effect of discrimination or perpetuate discrimination. Declares it discriminatory to deny equal opportunities because of the relationship or association of an individual with another individual with a disability. Allows as a defense to a charge of discrimination that an application of standards or criteria has been demonstrated to be both necessary and substantially related to the ability of an individual to take advantage of the essential components of the opportunity, and that the taking advantage cannot be accomplished by reasonable accommodations, modifications, or the provision of auxiliary aids or services. Title II: Employment - Prohibits discrimination by any employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee against any qualified individual with a disability in job application procedures, hiring or discharge, compensation, advancement, training, and other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment. Lists types of actions construed to be discrimination. Makes the remedies set forth in specified provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other specified Federal law available to any individual who believes that he or she is being or is about to be subjected to discrimination in violation of this Act. Title III: Public Services - Declares that no qualified individual with a disability shall be excluded from the participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination by a State, or by an agency, political subdivision, or other instrumentality of a State. Lists types of actions deemed, for purposes of this Act and specified provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to be discrimination with regard to public transportation. Makes the remedies and rights set forth in specified provisions of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 available to any individual who believes that he or she is being or is about to be subjected to discrimination in violation of this Act. Title IV: Public Accommodations and Services Operated by Private Entities - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in the enjoyment of any place of public accommodation. Lists types of actions construed to be discrimination. Prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in public transportation services provided by a private entity that is primarily engaged in transporting people, but that is not in the principal business of air transportation. Lists types of actions construed to be discrimination. Makes specified provisions of the Fair Housing Act relating to enforcement available, subject to exception, to any aggrieved individual. Title V: Telecommunications Relay Services - Defines "telecommunications relay services" to mean services that enable simultaneous communication between individuals who use telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDDs) or other nonvoice terminal devices and individuals who do not use such devices. Declares it discriminatory for any common carrier that offers telephone services to the public to fail to provide interstate or intrastate telecommunication relay services that are equal to those provided to their customers who are able to use voice services, except in any State in which services are provided through an entity designated by the State. Declares it discrimination by a State that makes such a designation if the State fails to provide interstate or intrastate relay services that are equal to those provided to their voice customers. Makes specified provisions of the Fair Housing Act relating to enforcement available, subject to exception, to any aggrieved individual. Requires the Federal Communications Commission to enforce this title. Makes specified provisions of the Communication Act of 1934 apply with respect to the enforcement of this title. Provides for cease and desist orders by the Commission and for monetary penalties. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Prohibits retaliatory discrimination against any individual because of actions related to this Act. Declares that a State shall not be immune under the 11th Amendment to the Constitution from an action in Federal court for a violation of this Act. Requires the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to issue minimum guidelines to supplement the existing Minimum Guidelines and Requirements for Accessible Design. Allows the awarding of reasonable attorney's fees, in certain circumstances, in any action or proceeding under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1989
Designates October 1989 and 1990 as National Down Syndrome Month.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1989
Designates October as National Quality Month.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1989
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the weeks of November 19 through November 25, 1989, and November 18 through November 24, 1990, as National Family Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1989
Designates October 6, 1989, as German-American Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1989
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) Japan has not lived up to the terms of the 1986 agreement regarding the Japanese semiconductor market; (2) the administration should convey this message to Japan; (3) the President, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Commerce should seek full access to the Japanese market for semiconductors; and (4) the President and the USTR should take measures to achieve compliance with such agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1989
Pediatric AIDS Resource Centers Act of 1989 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the Office of Maternal and Child Health, during each fiscal year, to make grants to eligible consortia to aid in the development of centralized and decentralized Pediatric AIDS Resource Centers. Requires the grants to be used to provide a continuum of care for individuals infected with the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and the families of such individuals, and to improve the availability of services that prevent HIV infection among women of childbearing age, infants, children, and youth. Sets forth application requirements and provides for the uses of the grant funds, including both health and social services uses. Requires that the grants be made to consortia in areas that have a high incidence of HIV infection among women and children and areas whose low incidence is expected to increase. Requires matching contributions from the recipient consortia in specified percentages, subject to waiver by the Secretary. Limits grants, unless a waiver is issued by the Secretary, to five years. Requires at least ten percent of a grant to be used to promote the medical and social research capability of historically black colleges and universities that are participants in a consortium. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give priority to consortia that include minority community-based organizations located in and representative of communities and subpopulations reflecting the local incidence of the syndrome. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1989
Designates the week of September 9 through September 15, 1989, as National Nursing Home Residents' Rights Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1989
Congratulates the United Jewish Appeal on its 50th anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1989
National Voter Registration Act of 1989 - Requires each State to establish procedures with respect to presidential and congressional elections to permit voter registration by: (1) application in person simultaneously with application for a motor vehicle driver's license; (2) mail application; or (3) application in person at designated Federal, State, and private sector locations. Declares that this Act does not apply to any State that has no voter registration requirement with respect to presidential and congressional elections. Requires each State to: (1) assure that any eligible applicant who submits his or her application 25 days before the election is registered to vote in the election; (2) require the appropriate State election official to notify each applicant of the disposition of the application; and (3) provide that the name of a voter may not be removed from the official list of eligible voters except by reason of death, criminal conviction, mental incapacity, change in residence, failure to vote in two consecutive elections, or voter request. Requires each State to designate a chief State election official to coordinate State functions under this Act. Provides a private right of action for an individual aggrieved by a violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1989
Designates May 29, 1989, as the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the U.S.S. Iowa.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1989
Military Survivor Benefit Improvement Act of 1989 - Amends Federal armed forces provisions to revise the reduction in retired pay for participants in the Survivor Benefit Plan. Differentiates, in the level premium to be paid each month by participants in the Plan, as to whether the annuity being provided is a standard or reserve-component annuity and whether the person becomes an active participant in the Plan before or after the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to carry out a program, to be known as the Supplemental Survivor Benefit Plan (SSBP), which would enable participants in the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) who are providing coverage for a spouse or former spouse beneficiary under the SBP to also provide a supplemental annuity for that spouse or former spouse beginning when the participant dies or when the spouse or former spouse becomes 62 years of age, whichever is later, in order to offset the effects of the two-tier annuity computation under the SBP. Outlines the following administrative provisions concerning the SSBP: (1) commencement of annuity; (2) the amount of such annuity for the beneficiary of a person providing the standard or the reserve-component annuity under the SBP (the latter annuity further defined by whether or not the beneficiary under the SSBP is initially under 62 years of age at the commencement of the annuity; and (3) adjustments in such annuities required by periodic adjustments in the cost-of-living index. Terminates a SSBP annuity when the beneficiary dies or otherwise becomes ineligible to continue to receive an annuity under the original SBP. Allows a person who provides an annuity for a spouse or former spouse under SBP to elect to provide a supplemental spouse annuity under these provisions. Requires a person providing a supplemental spouse annuity to be a participant in the SBP in order to cover a spouse or former spouse under the SSBP. Requires such election to be voluntary. Allows a person to make such an election only if the beneficiary of such person's annuity is not currently computed under the determination of spouse or former spouse beneficiary annuity under the SBP. Allows a person who anticipates becoming a participant in the SBP who has a spouse or former spouse to elect to provide a supplemental spouse annuity under the SSBP. Outlines conditions and requirements for such an anticipatory election. Requires a person to actually provide a spouse or former spouse annuity under the SBP in order to provide a supplemental spouse annuity under SSBP. Allows a person who elects to provide SBP coverage for a former spouse after having been an SBP participant without coverage for that former spouse to also provide a supplemental spouse annuity for such former spouse under the SSBP. Requires notice to a current spouse of a person providing coverage under the SBP and the SSBP to a former spouse. Provides for irrevocability after a specified period of time of the election to provide SSBP coverage under both a standard annuity and a reserve-component annuity. Authorizes provision of a supplemental spouse annuity under the above provisions by a person who is a participant in the SBP and is providing coverage for a spouse (or spouse and child) but is not a participant in the SSBP, who does not have an eligible spouse under that Plan, and who remarries, thereby allowing such person to elect to provide such coverage for the former spouse. Requires the person to be under the SBP in order to make the election for such coverage under SSBP. Outlines conditions for such an election. Outlines administrative guidelines to be followed: (1) when there is a change of a former spouse beneficiary under the SBP to a current spouse or child beneficiary under the SBP; and (2) upon reinstatement of an SSBP annuity after discontinuance of an SBP annuity and reinstatement of such annuity. Requires a person who elects to provide a SSBP annuity to a former spouse to provide the Secretary concerned with a written statement as to whether the election being made is pursuant to a written agreement incident to a divorce, dissolution, or anullment that has been incorporated in, or ratified or approved by, a court order. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the enforcement of such voluntary written agreements ratified by a court order. Provides a time limit for the making of such an election of one year after the date of the court order or filing involved. Directs the retired pay of a person electing to provide a supplemental spouse annuity under the above provisions to be reduced each month as required under prescribed regulations. Outlines considerations for the determination of such regulations by the Secretary of Defense. Prohibits any reduction during any month in which there is no eligible spouse or former spouse beneficiary. Requires the amount of the reduction to be adjusted whenever there is an adjustment to the reduction in retired pay for beneficiary coverage under the original SBP. Directs the President to prescribe regulations to implement the SSBP. Revises the annuity computation for the survivors of certain retirement-eligible officers who die while on active duty, making such an officer's retired pay rate the rate of pay applicable at the time of death. Defines those persons eligible for such recomputation. Authorizes an eligible retired or former member of the armed forces to participate in the SBP during an open enrollment period. Allows such person, at the same time, to also elect to participate in the SSBP. Defines as eligible a person who on the day before the first day of the open enrollment period is not a participant in the SBP and is either entitled to retired pay or would be so entitled but for the fact that such member or former member is under 60 years of age (for reserve members or former members). Allows a person who is a participant in the SBP but not at the maximum base amount while providing coverage for a dependent child but not for a spouse or former spouse to: (1) elect to participate in the SBP at a higher amount; or (2) elect to provide an annuity under the SBP for a spouse or former spouse. Authorizes current SBP participants to elect to participate in the SSBP during the open enrollment period. Outlines those persons eligible to make such an election and sets limitations on eligibility for certain SBP participants not affected by the two-tier annuity computation (a computation that differentiates in the annuity amount depending on whether the annuitant has attained the age of 65). Requires any SSBP election to be made in writing, signed by the person making the election, and received by the Secretary concerned before the end of the open enrollment period. Defines the open enrollment period as the one-year period beginning on the effective date of this Act. States that if a person dies before the end of a two-year period after making such an election, the election is void and the amount of reduction in retired pay taken as a result of such election shall be paid in a lump sum to the person's beneficiary under the SBP.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1989
Designates the week of October 8 through October 14, 1989, as National Week of Commitment to Helping the Homeless.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1989
Designates October 3, 1989, as National Teacher Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1989
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the President should strongly support funding for the V-22 aircraft program included in the Department of Defense (DOD) appropriation request for FY 1990 and reject any initiatives to defer, cancel, or terminate the program; and (2) appropriations available to DOD for FY 1989 should be obligated to ensure the continued development and production of such aircraft.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Designates October 7 through October 14, 1989, as National Week of Outreach to the Rural Disabled.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Designates February 18 through February 24, 1990, as National Visiting Nurse Associations Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1989
Declares that it is a shared responsibility of both the public and private sectors at the Federal, State, and local levels to take the necessary steps to remove existing barriers to access to quality health care for every child and pregnant woman.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1989
Requires the Architect of the Capitol to establish and implement a voluntary program for recycling paper disposed of in the operation of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1989
Expresses the Senate's confidence, hope, and trust for those who will serve in the Senate during its third century.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1989
Designates October 1989 as Polish American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1989
Designates the week of September 10 through September 16, 1989, as National Check-Up Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1989
Designates the week of June 4, 1989, through June 10, 1989, as National Intelligence Community Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Grants a Federal charter to the Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Title I: Statehood Centennial Coin - Statehood Centennial Commemorative Coin Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than a specified number of one-dollar silver coins and five-dollar palladium coins in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the statehood of Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Requires the Secretary to provide a specified amount of all surcharges to the Documents West exhibition program with the remaining amount of surcharges to be deposited in the Treasury to be used to reduce the national debt. Requires the Secretary to obtain silver for the one-dollar coins only from stockpiles established under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. Requires the Secretary to obtain palladium for the five-dollar coins by purchase of palladium mined and refined in the United States. Grants the Comptroller General the right to examine records and other data of the Idaho Centennial Commission. Title II: Silver Proof Sets - Silver Coin Proof Set Act - Authorizes the Secretary to mint and issue silver coin proof sets. Sets forth certain specified features of such coins and provides for their sale to the public. Requires the Secretary to obtain silver for such coins by purchase from stockpiles established under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act and from Treasury stocks on hand.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Aviation Career Improvement Act of 1989 - Amends Federal military pay provisions to require an officer, to be eligible for aviation career incentive pay, to perform the prescribed operational flying duties (including flight training but excluding proficiency flying) for nine of the first 12, and 12 of the first 18, years of aviation service. (Current law requires six of the first 12, and 11 of the first 18.) Allows such an officer continuous monthly incentive pay for the first 22 years of his or her officer service if an officer performs the prescribed operational duties for at least ten but less than 12 of the first 18 years of aviation service. (Current law requires at least nine but less than 11 of the first 18 years in order to be eligible for such limited incentive pay.) Increases the rates of such aviation career incentive pay, such rates increasing as the years of service increase. Increases the rates of such incentive pay proportionately whenever the President increases the rates of monthly basic pay. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to delay implementation of such provisions until a proper time as determined by such Secretary. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1992 (currently, FY 1989) the period during which an aviation officer may execute a career continuation agreement and therefore be paid an aviator retention bonus. Directs the following officials, on November 1 of each year beginning with 1989, to submit a report to the Secretary of Defense analyzing the effect that the aviator retention bonus program has had during the preceding fiscal year on the retention of qualified aviators in such officials' departments: the Secretary of each military department, the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, the Secretary of Commerce with respect to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to members of the Public Health Service. Directs the Secretary of Defense, no later than December 1 of each year beginning in 1989, to submit such reports to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees), together with comments and recommendations. Increases the limitation on obligations for aviator retention bonuses to be paid to Navy and Air Force officers during FY 1990. Directs the Secretary of Defense to reduce, by no later than September 30, 1992, the number of nonoperational flying duty positions in the armed forces by a number equal to not less than five percent below the total number of such positions in existence as of the end of FY 1989. Directs the Secretary to effectuate a reduction of not less than two percent by the end of FY 1991, with the remainder of such reduction to be realized by the end of FY 1992. Prohibits any increase in the number of such positions after September 30, 1991, unless specifically authorized by law. States that the minimum active duty obligation of any member who successfully completes training in the armed forces as a pilot shall be nine years if trained to fly fixed wing jet aircraft, and seven years if trained to fly any other type of aircraft. Provides a minimum active-duty obligation of seven years for navigators or naval flight officers successfully completing such training. Directs the Secretary, no later than December 1, 1989, to report to the defense committees a legislative proposal for an accidental death insurance plan for aviators serving on active duty that provides for the payment of death benefits of $100,000 for death resulting from the performance of operational flight duty. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to conduct a study of the aviator assignment policies and practices of the armed forces, and submit the results of such study to the defense committees no later than February 15, 1990. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should establish a commission to study the reasons for the critical shortage of qualified aviators in both the armed forces and the commercial airline industry; (2) the President should include in such commission representatives from the commercial airlines, the Department of Defense, and other appropriate sources; (3) the President should appoint all members of such commission no later than February 15, 1990; and (4) the commission should be required to report the results of its study to the President and the Congress no later than March 1, 1991, together with specific recommendations for eliminating such shortage of qualified aviators.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Public Protection From Passive Smoke Act - Title I: Smoke Free Certifications - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require that any vessel at any port (currently at any foreign port) departing for any port in a State or possession obtain a bill of health. Directs the Surgeon General to prescribe regulations to require that domestic vessels, as a part of the bill of health, certify that they do not involuntarily expose the public to the byproducts produced by lighted tobacco. Defines "domestic vessel" to mean any regularly scheduled interstate public conveyance, including air, rail, or bus service. Subjects to monetary penalties any vessel or individual, including a passenger, who violates these provisions or who violates any prohibition on smoking enacted by any vessel under these provisions. Title II: General Health Information Concerning Smoking - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish: (1) a program to inform the public of dangers to human health presented by cigarette smoking; and (2) an Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health. Requires each person who manufactures, packages, or imports cigarettes to annually provide the Secretary with a list of the ingredients added to tobacco that does not identify the company or brand involved. Directs the Secretary to submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a report on the additives. Requires information provided to the Secretary to be treated as a trade secret and prohibits its disclosure, except to such committees. Title III: Health Information Concerning Smokeless Tobacco - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to inform the public of dangers to human health resulting from the use of smokeless tobacco products. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance and make grants to States to: (1) assist in the development and distribution of programs, materials, and public service announcements respecting the dangers to health from smokeless tobacco; and (2) establish 18 as the minimum age for the purchase of smokeless tobacco. Requires each person who manufactures, packages, or imports smokeless tobacco products to annually provide to the Secretary: (1) a list of ingredients added to the tobacco that does not identify the company or brand involved; and (2) a specification of the quantity of nicotine in each product. Directs the Secretary to submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a report on the additives. Requires information provided to the Secretary to be treated as a trade secret and prohibits its disclosure, except to such committees. Repeals specified provisions of the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act and the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986. Places provisions similar to those repealed in this Act, except for repealed provisions of such Smokeless Tobacco Act relating to enforcement, regulations, and construction.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax deduction for interest on any indebtedness incurred to pay the educational expenses, including reasonable living expenses, of the taxpayer, spouse, or dependent.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1989
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the President should appoint a special commission to investigate the events surrounding the destruction of Pan Am flight 103; and (2) the commission should submit to the President and to specified congressional committees a report concerning its findings and recommendations about the security of commercial air carriers.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Agricultural Research Commercialization Act of 1989 - Establishes the Agricultural Research Commercialization Corporation in the Department of Agriculture to facilitate the commercialization of new industrial products and processes using traditional and new agricultural and forestry crops. Directs the Corporation to establish between four and nine regional centers. Provides for the appointment of regional advisory councils whose primary duty shall be project application review. Sets forth center activities, including: (1) identification of new products and of areas for new product commercialization; (2) coordination of research and development programs; (3) provision of technical assistance; (4) dissemination of information; and (5) coordination of private sector, university, and government activities. Sets forth financial assistance criteria. Establishes a Corporation revolving fund. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1999 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Designates the week of October 1 through October 7, 1989, as National Health Care Food Service Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Designates the week of July 24 to July 30, 1989, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on July 27, 1989, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1989
Designates November 17, 1989, as National Philanthropy Day.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Pollution Prevention Act of 1989 - Establishes within the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) an office to promote pollution prevention through source reduction. Requires the EPA Administrator to develop and implement a source reduction strategy which: (1) establishes standard methods for measuring source reduction; (2) coordinates and promotes source reduction activities and techniques in Federal agencies, businesses, and educational curricula; (3) coordinates and streamlines data collection requirements under existing environmental statutes and identifies data gaps with respect to the measurement of hazardous substances, pollution, or contamination generation and management practices; (4) makes recommendations to the Congress to eliminate barriers to source reduction including the use of incentives; (5) develops and disseminates model source reduction auditing procedures designed to highlight source reduction opportunities; and (6) promotes source reduction for nonhazardous wastes. Directs the Administrator to make matching grants to States for programs to promote source reduction by businesses. Sets forth criteria to be evaluated in the awarding of such grants. Limits the percentage of funds for such programs that may be Federal funds to 75 percent in FY 1990 and 1991, 62.5 percent in FY 1992 and 1993, and 50 percent in FY 1994. Requires the Administrator to establish a Source Reduction Clearinghouse to compile a computer data base which contains information on management, technical, and operational approaches to source reduction. Directs the Administrator to make such information available to the public. Directs owners or operators of facilities required to file annual toxic chemical release forms under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) to include with each such filing a toxic chemical source reduction and pollution control report. Sets forth items to be included in such reports, including: (1) the quantity of each chemical entering any waste stream prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal during the reporting year, and the two years thereafter, and the percentage change from the previous year; (2) the source reduction practices used with respect to such chemicals; (3) a ratio of production in the reporting year to production in the previous year; (4) the total volume of each such chemical that was recycled, treated, or disposed during the reporting year; and (5) the amount of any hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants released which resulted from remedial action and not from current production processes. Directs the Administrator to collect certain waste stream information from a sample of facilities drawn from classifications producing the highest volume of toxic chemicals entering the waste stream. Makes provisions of SARA applicable to the reporting requirements of this Act. Directs the Administrator to make data collected under this Act publicly available in the same manner as data collected under SARA. Establishes the National Pollution Prevention Award. Directs the President or the Administrator to make the award to companies or organizations which have benefited the economic or social well-being of the United States through reduction in the generation of hazardous substances, pollutants, contaminants, or nonhazardous solid waste. Authorizes organizations which receive such award and agree to help other American organizations improve source reduction to publicize such award. Makes such organizations ineligible to receive another award in the same category for a period of five years. Authorizes the Administrator to establish categories to make such awards and sets forth application and qualification criteria. Authorizes the Administrator to seek and accept gifts from private and public sources to carry out such program. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress by September 30, 1991, and biennially thereafter on actions and results of the source reduction strategy. Authorizes and allocates appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Amends the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish Federal motor vehicle safety standards requiring that school buses be equipped with a system of mirrors to provide the driver with a clear, unobstructed view of the ground area in front of the front tires, along both sides, and directly under the front bumper. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the number of school buses manufactured before April 1, 1977, that are being used as school buses as of the date of the report.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Research and Experimental Credit Extension and Reform Act of 1989 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the income tax credit for qualified research expenditures by repealing the provisions that would terminate the credit for expenses incurred or paid after 1989. Revises the method for computing: (1) base period research expenses, adding a factor reflecting the gross national product growth rate; and (2) the tax credit, adding an alternative computation component. Applies the credit to in-house research expenses that the taxpayer pays or incurs for the principal purpose of using the research results in the active conduct of a future trade or business.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1989
Designates the month of November in 1989 and 1990 as National Hospice Month.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1994, the duty on self-folding telescopic shaft, collapsible umbrellas chiefly used for protection against rain.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to require the Director of the ACTION Agency, in making grants under the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, to give priority to programs of national significance, such as afterschool library literacy, guardianship monitoring, and respite care programs.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take specified actions with respect to the International Space Year (ISY), including directing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to continue to develop ISY activities, with certain emphasis, through the Space Agency Forum on ISY.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Designates the week beginning October 29, 1989, as Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1989
Designates May 1989 as National Digestive Disease Awareness Month.