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United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1985
Declares that the United States and the Soviet Union should initiate a joint effort to immunize all the children of the world by the year 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1985
Directs the President to take immediate action to initiate negotiations to establish an International Copper Action Commission composed of government representatives from copper producing and consuming countries, international copper industry representatives, major copper consumer representatives, and members of the Congress. Outlines Commission functions to include: (1) serving as a forum for consultations between copper industry representatives and government officials; (2) developing consistent copper trade guidelines; (3) developing worldwide copper demand forecasts; and (4) promoting copper consumption, research, and market development.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1985
Grants a Federal charter to the Confederate Memorial Association.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1985
Amends the Federal criminal code to provide that any person convicted of espionage shall forfeit to the United States any money or other property involved in or obtained as a result of such espionage activities. Provides that where such money or property is unavailable for forfeiture, the person convicted of such crime must forfeit property up to the value of the property gained from the espionage activity. Permits the courts to order the forfeiture of proceeds received or to be received from a contract relating to the depiction of such offense in a movie, book, newspaper, magazine, radio or television production, or live entertainment or presentation of any kind. Authorizes the Attorney General to pay a reward not to exceed $100,000 for information leading to the arrest or conviction of persons committing espionage, or leading to the prevention, frustration, or mitigation of the effect of an act of espionage. Disqualifies an officer or employee of the United States or of any State or local government while performing official duties from receiving such a reward.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1985
Authorizes and directs the head of the appropriate Federal agency (as designated by the President) to erect in the Arlington National Cemetery or along the approach to such cemetery, in Virginia, a statue or other memorial to honor the combat glider pilots of World War II. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1985
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to remove from specified lands conveyed to Jerome, Arizona, the condition that such lands be used for cemetery or park purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1985
Designates the week of October 6 through October 13, 1985, as National Housing Week.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1985
Native American Culture and Art Development Act - Establishes a corporation to be known as the Institute of Native American Culture and Arts Development, with a board of trustees including Native Americans from the private sector, appointed by the President, and Members of Congress. Identifies the Institute's primary functions as: (1) scholarly study and instruction in Native American arts and culture; and (2) the establishment of degree-awarding programs in Native American art and culture. Establishes within the Institute: (1) a Center for Culture and Art Studies; and (2) a Center for Research and Cultural Exchange. Establishes the Institute as a nonprofit and tax-exempt organization. Prohibits the Institute from engaging in any political activity regarding elective public office. Transfers to the Institute the functions of the Institute of American Indian Arts. Directs the President of the Institute to submit an annual report to the Congress and the Board. Establishes the Institute of American Indian Arts, at Santa Fe, New Mexico, as the site of the Institute of Native American Culture and Arts Development. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1985
Designates the week of October 20 through October 26, 1985, as National Temporary Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1985
Permits members of the clergy and members of the uniformed services to deduct expenses related to tax-exempt housing allowances and subsistence allowances without regard to the operation of Revenue Ruling 83-3.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1985
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exclude the employees of States and local governments from the provisions of that Act relating to maximum hours. Revises the definition of "employee" under that Act to exclude any volunteer for a State, local, or interstate public agency, even if such volunteer is paid expenses or a nominal fee to perform the voluntary services.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1985
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act to declare that contributions, gifts, or payments by union members to a separate fund which is used by the union for political purposes must be voluntary and unrelated to monies required as a condition of employment. Declares it to be unlawful to use monies paid to an organization as a condition of employment for any type of election or campaign activity by such organization.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1985
Designates July 6, 1986, as National Air Traffic Control Day.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1985
Calls for special recognition during 1990 of the bicentennial of the first patent and copyright laws.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1985
Non-Smokers Rights Act of 1985 - Restricts smoking to designated areas in all U.S. Government buildings. Sets forth a civil penalty for anyone who smokes in a designated non-smoking area.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1985
Designates October 1985 as National Community College Month.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1985
Calls on the Soviet Union to: (1) release Anatoly Shcharansky, Yosef Begun, and other Prisoners of Conscience and allow them to leave the Soviet Union; (2) issue exit permits to long term "Refuseniks" including Ida Nudel and Vladimir Slepak; and (3) allow thousands of Jews who have requested such permits to leave.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1985
Declares that the Senate agrees to cooperate with the Jacob K. Javits Senate Fellowship Program. Directs the Senate to provide assistance as may be necessary for the success of this fellowship program.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1985
Designates the Salt-Gila aqueduct of the Central Arizona project as the Fannin-McFarland Aqueduct.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1985
Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, and construct facilities for the National Air and Space Museum. Directs the Federal Aviation Administration to lease to the Smithsonian Institution, without compensation, land at Washington Dulles International Airport for expansion of the Museum. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits the use of funds for Museum facilities until private donations equal appropriated amounts for the construction of the major component of such facility.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1985
Clean Campaign Act of 1985 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that if a legally qualified candidate for Federal elective office uses a broadcast station to refer to another candidate for that office: (1) such reference shall be made in person by such candidate; or (2) the station licensee must provide the candidate to whom the reference was made the opportunity to use the same amount of broadcast time, during the same period of the day, without charge. Requires any station licensee which allows a person to broadcast material endorsing or opposing a candidate, to provide to the candidate opposing the endorsed candidate or to the candidate opposed by the material the opportunity to use the same amount of broadcasting time, during the same period of the day, without charge.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1985
Designates August 1985 as Polish American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1985
Indian Juvenile Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention Act - Title I: Inter-Departmental Agreement - Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an agreement to coordinate specified efforts of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Bureau) and the Indian Health Service relating to alcohol and drug abuse programs for Indian youth. Provides for the biennial review of such agreement by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires the Secretary of the Interior, upon a tribe's request, to coordinate resources and services related to alcohol and drug abuse with any Indian tribe. Title II: Education - Requires Bureau schools and schools operated under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to provide instruction on alcohol and drug abuse to students in kindergarten and grades one through 12. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to publish, on a quarterly basis, an alcohol and drug abuse newsletter and to circulate it to specified Government agencies that provide such alcohol and drug abuse-related services to Indian people. Title III: Family and Social Services - Requires any initial training program for new community health representatives and community health aids funded under the Bureau to include not less than two weeks of training on the problems of alcohol and drug abuse, including instruction in crisis intervention, family relations, juvenile alcohol and drug abuse, and the causes and effects of fetal alcohol syndrome. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide training in alcohol and drug abuse problems to specified schools, Indian Health Service personnel, and others. Title IV: Law Enforcement - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the U.S. Attorney General, to promulgate guidelines under which any tribal or Federal law enforcement officer may place an Indian juvenile who has been arrested for alcohol or drug abuse in a facility other than an emergency shelter or a community-based alcohol or drug abuse treatment facility. Requires such guidelines to be made available to any State which exercises criminal jurisdiction over Indian country. Requires the Secretary of the Interior, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to establish temporary emergency shelters to house Indian juveniles who have been arrested for offenses related to alcohol or drug abuse. Requires the Bureau to prescribe standards by which such shelters shall become licensed. Title V: Juvenile Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation - Requires the President to include in the budget submitted to the Congress a request for funds to establish a program that provides alcohol and drug abuse treatment services (including detoxification and counseling services, and follow-up care in Indian Health Service facilities and in facilities operated under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act) to Indian juveniles. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to relevant congressional committees on the progress of such treatment to Indian juveniles. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to complete a study to determine: (1) the size of the Indian population in need of residential alcohol and drug abuse treatment; (2) the location of facilities at which such treatment is available or could be made available; and (3) the cost of providing such treatment. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with Indian tribes and the Secretary of the Interior, to identify and utilize existing facilities owned by the Government or an Indian tribe, or local community or private hospitals, for use as residential alcohol and drug abuse treatment centers for Indian juveniles. Title VI: Definitions, Effective Date, and Authorization of Appropriations - Sets forth definitions and the effective date. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1985
National Security Protection Act of 1985 - Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to the Congress within 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act: (1) on the existing capabilities of the military departments and the Office of the Secretary of Defense to conduct counterintelligence operations; and (2) on plans of the Secretary for reduction in the number of members of the armed forces of the United States and civilian employees of the Department of Defense who hold clearances granting them access to classified information. Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to punish acts of espionage in time of peace by imprisonment for any term of years or for life or by death. Makes such acts of espionage involving the Soviet Union or any other Communist country punishable by death or mandatory life imprisonment. Requires the Secretary of Defense to use polygraph examinations to assist in determining the initial eligibility of persons to have access to sensitive compartmented information and the continued access to such information. Permits the Secretary to use polygraph examinations to assist in determining the initial eligibility of persons to have access to classified information other than sensitive compartmented information and the continued access to such information. Prohibits the use of the polygraph examination as the sole basis for denying eligibility for clearance or access to any classified information. Permits the refusal of clearance or access to classified information of individuals who refuse to submit to polygraph examinations. Requires a report to the Congress on plans to implement the polygraph examination requirements. Restricts the death penalty for an act of espionage to cases involving the Soviet Union or any other Communist country and the documents or information involved is classified. Imposes a mandatory life term of imprisonment for espionage involving the Soviet Union or any other Communist country. Prohibits any probation or suspension of sentence for individuals convicted of espionage involving the Soviet Union or other Communist country, and denies such individuals any opportunity for parole.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1985
Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals Act - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to revise the humane standards for animals transported in commerce. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate standards to govern the humane handling, care, treatment, and transportation of animals by dealers, research facilities, and exhibitors. Requires each research facility to establish an institutional animal committee with sufficient expertise to assess the appropriateness of animal care and treatment in experimental research. Requires the committee at each facility to: (1) inspect at least semiannually all animal study areas and animal facilities at the research facility; (2) file an inspection certification report of each inspection at the research facility; (3) notify the administrative representative of the research facility of any deficiencies; and (4) notify the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and the funding Federal agency if such deficiencies remain uncorrected. Requires each research facility to provide for annual training in the humane treatment of animals for scientists, animal technicians, and other personnel involved with animal care and treatment in such facility. Directs the Secretary to establish an information service at the National Agricultural Library to provide information on improved methods of animal experimentation, including: (1) employee training; (2) preventing unnecessary duplication of animal experimentation; (3) reducing or replacing animal use; and (4) minimizing pain and distress. Requires a funding Federal agency to suspend or revoke Federal Support for a project if it is determined that conditions of animal care, treatment, or practice in a particular project have not been in compliance with standards promulgated under this Act. Requires the Secretary to inspect each research facility at least once each year. Requires such follow-up inspections as may be necessary until all deficiencies which may be found are corrected. Imposes penalties for the release of any confidential information or trade secrets by any member of an Institutional Animal Committee. Increases penalties for violations of the Animal Welfare Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1985
Authorizes the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Foundation to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the courageous slaves and free black persons of the American Revolution. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, to select the site, approve the design and plans, and provide for maintenance. Prohibits the use of any Federal funds for the memorial's construction. Terminates the Foundation's authority to establish such memorial five years from the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
International Air Transportation Protection Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to revoke an air carrier's international air transportation certificate if the Secretary establishes that a hostile takeover of such air carrier has occurred, and that a sale or transfer of such certificate has occurred (or been attempted) as part of the liquidation of such air carrier (other than in the ordinary course of business). States that the Secretary is not precluded from issuing any certificate for international air transportation if the Secretary finds the applicant is willing and able to provide such transportation and such transportation is consistent with public convenience and necessity.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1985
Designates the week beginning May 18, 1986, as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1985
Amends the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956 to authorize additional appropriations for assistance to non-Federal organizations for developing reclamation projects.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1985
Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide financial assistance to North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, for the endowment of the Sam J. Ervin, Jr., Program in Public Affairs (which is an endowment for a fellowship program, public service research, and a distinguished speaker series). Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1985
Designates the week of June 2 through June 8, 1985, as National Intelligence Community Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1985
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorization - Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for procurement for the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, and ammunition and for the unspecified procurement. Prohibits funds appropriated pursuant to this or any other Act from being used for procuring the Division Air Defense system or for the purpose of entering into a new contract for the production and assembly of the Division Air Defense System until certain steps are taken. Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from entering into a multiyear contract for the procurement of the Armored Combat Earthmover (ACE). Prohibits funds authorized under this title from being used to contract for the procurement of 5-ton Army trucks until the Secretary certifies to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House that all engines for such trucks have undergone certain testing. Authorizes the Secretary to extend up to 18 months the 5-ton truck multiyear procurement contract in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to award a multiyear contract for the procurement of 5-ton trucks not later than May 1, 1986, or notify the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of the impracticability of such a contract before February 1, 1986. Permits the use of funds appropriated for the multiple launch Rocket System (MLRS) program for FY 1985 to make economic order quantity material and component purchases for use with MLRS program end items proposed for procurement in FY 1989. Merges appropriations for FY 1986 for Army aircraft procurement with a specified amount remaining available from FY 1985 for such procurement. Authorizes appropriations for the Navy and Marine Corps for FY 1986 for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, and shipbuilding and conversion and for other unspecified procurement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into multiyear contracts for the purchase of LHD-1 class amphibious assault ships. Permits such contracts to include an unfunded cancellation ceiling. Sets aside a specified amount of the funds authorized for shipbuilding and conversion to be available only for the aircraft carrier service life extension program. Prohibits a certain amount of such set-aside funds from being obligated or expended until the Secretary of the Navy makes certain certifications to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House concerning a service life extension program for the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. Prohibits funds authorized under this title from being obligated or expended for the procurement of C-12 or C-12 type aircraft unless such aircraft are procured through competitive procedures. Prohibits funds appropriated for shipbuilding and conversion from being obligated or expended until the Secretary of Defense has reported to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House on procedures which would permit allied or friendly nations to construct diesel-electric submarines in U.S. shipyards. Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy from entering into multiyear contract for the procurement of P-3C Orion aircraft. Authorizes the transfer of prior-year funds remaining available for use in FY 1986 for shipbuilding and conversion. Authorizes appropriations for the Air Force for FY 1986 for procurement of aircraft and missiles and for other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for the reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1986 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and other weapons, and for other unspecified procurement. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for FY 1986. Extends through FY 1986 the authority of the Secretary of Defense, in carrying out the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Between the NATO Ministers of Defense concerning the NATO AWACS program, to waive the reimbursement for the cost of specified functions performed by certain personnel and to assume contingent liability for program losses and specified charges. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for the armed forces and defense agencies for FY 1986 for research, development, test and evaluation. Requires that a specified amount of the funds authorized to the Navy be used only for the Navy Oceanography Program. Requires that specified amounts of the funds authorized to the defense agencies be used for: (1) the hardened ballistic missile materials program; and (2) computer and related research at Syracuse University, New York. Requires, before any decision is made regarding the full-scale development of a small intercontinental ballistic missile or the selection of its basing sites, the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to the appropriate congressional committees an environmental impact statement with respect to such development and basing. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for the armed forces and defense agencies for FY 1986 for operation and maintenance, including funds for the reserve forces, the National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, defense claims, and the court of Military Appeals. Authorizes the transfer of funds from the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense Fund to the operation and maintenance accounts of the military departments in specified amounts. Authorizes additional appropriations for increases in civilian personnel costs, unbudgeted increases in fuel costs, and inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the working capital funds of the armed forces and defense agencies. Requires the Secretary of Defense, not later than December 1, 1985, to submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a plan for the establishment and operation during FY 1986 of a pilot program for the exchange of visits between high-ranking U.S. military and civilian officers and personnel and their counterparts from the Soviet Union. Outlines details to be included in such plan. Authorizes certain appropriated funds to be available for travel and subsistence expenses for those participating in such program from the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to use certain funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) in support of the Tenth International Pan American Games to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, in August, 1987. Directs that such support be in the form of logistical support, personnel services, and other services and equipment. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes strengths for active duty personnel as of the end of FY 1986. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981, to extend for one year the limitation on the enlistment for active duty in the armed forces of persons whose score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is below a prescribed level. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes average strengths for the selected reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1986. Permits the reduction and increase in such strengths as specified. Authorizes a specified number of reserves to serve on full-time active duty in order to organize, administer, instruct, recruit, or train the reserve components. Permits the end strength levels to be increased by two percent in the national interest. Part C: Civilian Personnel - Authorizes an end strength for civilian personnel for the Department of Defense for FY 1986. Requires the apportionment of such personnel among the various military branches and departments. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Congress on such allocation within 60 days after the enactment of this Act. Specifies the types of civilian employees to be included in such end strengths. Permits the Secretary to increase the number of such personnel by two percent in the national interest. Directs the Secretary to notify the Congress of any such increase. Part D: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes average military training student loads for each component of the armed forces for FY 1986. Requires the adjustment of such loads as the manpower strengths of each component are adjusted. Title V: Compensation and Other Benefits; Educational Assistance and Miscellaneous Personnel Matters - Prohibits adjustment to compensation levels of members of the uniformed services in conformity with adjustment to GS-level compensation to Federal employees during FY 1986. Increases by three percent the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic subsistence allowance for members of the uniformed services, effective January 1, 1986. Prohibits a member of the uniformed services serving in Alaska or Hawaii from being paid a station housing allowance. Excepts from such provision those already serving in Alaska or Hawaii the day before the enactment of this Act. Prohibits all such members receiving a station housing allowance from receiving a variable housing allowance. Prohibits a member from receiving housing allowances which exceed actual housing costs. Allows the basic allowance for quarters and the variable housing allowance to be paid in advance. Increases the family separation allowance. Requires temporary lodging expenses to be paid to a member making a permanent change in a duty station. Increases the mileage allowance for minor dependents of members making a permanent change in duty stations. Increases the weight allowances for the transportation of household goods of members making a permanent change in duty stations, according to a table based on pay grades. Extends through September 30, 1985, the availability of funds appropriated under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1985 to execute agreements for the continuation of pay to certain dental officers. Revises eligibility for basic allowance for quarters to disallow such allowance for members who make a permanent change of station for either field duty or sea duty. Increases the frequency of travel and transportation allowances to a home port when a member is away from home port and involved in a ship overhauling or inactivating by providing such allowances every 60 days a member is away from such home port. Provides transportation allowances from the home port to the port of overhauling for members' dependents, including spouses. Raises the dislocation allowance from one to two months of a member's basic allowance for quarters. Provides travel allowances for travel undertaken in connection with certain leave. Provides travel and transportation allowances for survivors of deceased members to attend the member's burial ceremonies, if such member dies while on active duty. Provides certain time and geographic limitations for such allowances. Increases the death gratuity paid to survivors of members who die while serving on active duty. Includes officers along with enlisted crew members as eligible for receiving hazardous duty pay when such members are involved in frequent and regular aerial flight. Revises tables for hazardous duty pay for enlisted members and officers. Revises similarly tables for the payment of special pay while on duty at certain places. Authorizes the payment of special pay for positions of unusual responsibility which are of a critical nature to an armed force under the Secretary concerned. Authorizes such pay when a member is assigned to and present within a danger area for a period of not less than six days. Raises special pay for naval officers who work in connection with nuclear propulsion plants and who agree to extend their commission in such work for specified periods. Outlines provisions for the payment of such special pay. Extends from September 30, 1987, to September 30, 1990, the date by which a naval officer is required to execute an agreement-to-extend in order to be eligible for such special pay. Authorizes special pay for naval officers selected for nuclear power training who agree to participate in such a training program for assignment to active duty. Raises the amount of such pay and extends through September 30, 1990, the period of execution for eligibility for such pay. Revises similarly provisions for special pay to nuclear career officers not above grade 0-6 who have completed less than 26 years of commissioned service. Raises from $50 to $80 the special monthly pay for qualified enlisted members extending their tour of duty at designated locations overseas. Part B: Extension of Expiring Bonus Authority, Benefits, and Personnel Management Authorities - Extends for one year, through FY 1986, the authority to provide reimbursement in place of quarters to crew members assigned to a naval vessel rendered temporarily uninhabitable. Extends the special pay provisions for certain Navy aviation career officers from FY 1985 to FY 1986. Extends for two years, through FY 1987, the authority to pay reenlistment bonuses and bonuses to reserve commissioned officers who extend their periods of active duty. Increases the number of certain officer personnel who may be on active duty in specified grades. Part C: Educational Assistance Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to repay any loan made, insured, or guaranteed under part B of the Higher Education Act of 1965, or any loan made under part E of such Act, after October 1, 1975. Specifies those who qualify to have their loans so repaid. Specifies percentages and maximum amounts of such loan repayments. Defines loan repayment recipients as those persons who enlist or reenlist in the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of an armed force who enlist or reenlist for service on active duty after September 30, 1980. Amends the Veterans' Educational Assistance Act of 1984 to repeal the requirement that a member must have served on active duty without a break in such service since December 31, 1976, in order to be eligible for veteran' educational assistance under such Act. Reduces by $100 per month for 12 months the basic pay of a member who elects to become entitled to such assistance. Requires an election by a member to receive such assistance within 120 days of entering upon active duty. Provides for revocation of such election. Provides for reimbursement to a member of that portion by which the $100-per-month pay reduction exceeds the amount of educational assistance received for any reason. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to permit a member to transfer all or a portion of such educational entitlement to a spouse or dependent children upon certain conditions. Part D: Miscellaneous Personnel Matters and Benefits - Limits the size of certain headquarter staffs within the Department of Defense. Authorizes the Governor of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home to exempt up to two physicians employed by the Home from reductions in retired pay due to such employment. Revises general military law clarifying the precedence of the Purple Heart award. Authorizes the President to advance two retired lieutenant generals to the grade of general on the retired list of the Air Force. Authorizes members of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve to have limited use of commissary stores. Repeals the test program on such use by Selected Reserve members created under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984. Part E: Military Retirement - Limits the amount available for obligation to each branch of the armed forces for basic pay and payments into the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund for FY 1986. Directs the Secretary of Defense, not later than September 1, 1985, to submit to the Congress a report proposing changes in the military nondisability retirement system, in other elements of the military compensation system, or in other military personnel programs. Outlines changes to be proposed in such report. Requires the Secretary to submit a separate report on the anticipated effects such changes will have on recruitment and retention of armed forces. Title VI: (Reserved) Title VII: Department of Defense Efficiency and Economy Matters - Department of Defense Efficiency and Economy Act of 1985 - Directs the Secretary of Defense, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to issue proposed regulations dealing with the unallowability of contractor indirect costs. Requires the Secretary, in determining allowable costs, to consider whether the costs incurred benefit the United States or are necessary for the operation of the business. Specifies certain costs which should be considered unallowable under such new regulations. Authorizes the Secretary to make disallowances and to assess a penalty of three times the disallowed expense whenever there is clear and convincing evidence that such expense is disallowable. Considers as a false claim specifically punishable under specified Federal law an expense submitted by a contractor for reimbursement that was not actually incurred. Requires the Secretary, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Armed Services Committees of the Congress on specific actions taken to address the problems related to spare parts purchasing by DOD. Requires the Secretary to issue proposed regulations and legislation as part of such report if such problems have not been remedied. Increases penalties under specified provisions of Federal law for the making of false claims in DOD procurement. Part B: Competitive Labor Purchase Requirements - Amends the Davis-Bacon Act to provide that the minimum wages paid on a construction, alteration, or repair contract awarded by DOD shall be the prevailing wages as determined by the Secretary of Labor. Outlines the manner in which the Secretary shall make such determination. Revises provisions dealing with wage-rate determinations to require the consideration of local wage rates for private industry (currently, surveys of wages paid outside the local area are used) in the determination of the prevailing rate for employees under certain DOD contracts. Makes inapplicable to DOD contracts certain Federal provisions which require an overtime rate of pay for work performed after eight hours of work per day. Requires wages of employees DOD contracts to be computed on a 40-hour week, with hours in excess of 40 hours to be compensated at not less than one and one half times the basic rate of pay. Outlines the liability of a contractor or subcontractor for unpaid wages. Part C: Miscellaneous Cost Savings Provisions - Removes restrictions on contracting-out authority of the Secretary if he or she determines that such contracting-out would be cost-effective and in the best interest of the national defense. Authorizes the Secretary to close or realign any military installation, upon certain considerations, if the President submits a budget reflecting a budget deficit in a fiscal year and the Secretary notifies the Congress at least 60 days prior to taking action. Title VIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the President, effective October 1, 1985, to dispose of certain quantities of specified materials currently held in the National Defense Stockpile. Requires to be deposited into the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund 30 percent of all money accruing to the United States during FY 1986 from lands in the naval petroleum and oil shale reserves. Title IX: General Provisions - Limits to $1,000,000,000 the size of the Special Defense Acquisition Fund. Grants limited authority for the Secretary of Defense to exceed the permanent ceiling on U.S. forces assigned to NATO. Requires the Secretary of Defense, within 60 days of the date of enactment of this Act, to advise the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives, in writing, of his or her views regarding the desirability of legislation that would prohibit the inclusion of contractor administrative and general overhead expenses in the computation of contractor profits. Limits the use of authorized funds in conducting polygraph examination tests. Directs the Secretary of Defense, not later than December 31, 1986, to report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the use of polygraph examinations administered by or for DOD during FY 1986. Outlines details to be included in such report. Requires the Secretary to establish and report annually on a continuing polygraph research program to support polygraph activities within DOD. Authorizes the appropriation of funds to DOD for such program. Provides certain restrictions on the contracting for educational services which are provided to members of the armed forces or civilian DOD employees or their dependents. Directs the President, not later than December 1, 1985, and not later than December 1 of each year thereafter, to report to the Congress concerning the Soviet Union's compliance with arms control commitments. Directs the Secretary of Defense, not later than April 1, 1986, to report to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the continued use of independent cost estimates in the planning, programming, budgeting, and selection process for major defense acquisition programs in DOD. Outlines details to be included in such report. Extends through 1988 certain reporting dates for the Commission on Merchant Marine and Defenses. Directs the President, in submitting a proposes budget for FY 1988, to submit a single proposed budget for DOD and related agencies for FY 1988 and 1989 and thereafter to submit a two-year proposed budget for DOD and related agencies biennially. Requires the Secretary of Defense, not later than July 1, 1986, to submit to the Committees on Armed Services and on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives a report containing the Secretary's views on certain aspects of the proposed two-year defense budget. Abolishes the position of Administrator of Education for Overseas Dependents, the Office of Education for Overseas Dependents, and certain functions transfers from DOD related to overseas education. Revises provisions concerning the organization of the Advisory Council on Dependents' Education. Extends and expands the authority of the Secretary of Defense to transport humanitarian relief supplies to certain countries. Declares as a policy of the Congress that: (1) it supports the objective of the U.S. to reverse the erosion of the arms-limitation treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; and (2) the Congress' approval for funds for research on the Strategic Defense Initiative does not express or imply an intention to abrogate or erode such treaty. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the purchase of foreign currencies from the Treasury Department to carry out DOD programs. Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated under authorization in this Act to be used for the B1-B aircraft program unless the Secretary of Defense first notifies the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives. Division B: Military Construction - Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations in specified amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations in specified amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Authorizes the Secretary to convert four transient housing units in Chinhae, Korea, to family housing units. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for Naval Strategic Homeporting until the Secretary reports the Congress on such and 90 days elapse after such report is received. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations in specified amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for the construction of ground launch cruise missile facilities in the Netherlands until that country has approved the deployment of such missiles there. Restricts the use of authorized funds for the construction of beddown facilities for the B-1 bomber aircraft until the Secretary of the Air force has made certain notifications to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives and 21 days have elapsed since such notifications. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire 20 family housing units for a specified amount at classified locations. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for the design and construction of a research and engineering facility for the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure program. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations and Recurring Administrative Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1985 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the NATO Infrastructure program. Limits the total costs of all projects to the total amounts authorized to be appropriated for each military department concerned. States that such authorizations shall expire at the end of FY 1987 except as otherwise specified. Establishes maximum amounts on certain expenditures, including unspecified minor military construction projects and per unit improvement and rental costs for military family housing. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1985 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VIII: General Provisions - Prohibits the Secretary of a military department from contracting for the acquisition of any interest in land exceeding $100,000 unless the Secretary notifies the appropriate congressional committees of intent to do so and 21 days elapse after such notification. Raises from $100,000 to $400,000 the maximum interest in land a Secretary may purchase. Requires a member of the armed forces who moves out of an assigned military family housing unit to leave such unit in a satisfactorily clean condition or be liable to the United States for the cleaning costs of such unit. Expands activities and expenses to be included within authorizations for military family housing. Extends to October 1, 1986, the authority of the Secretary of a military department to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing where there exists a deficit in available family housing. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements under certain conditions with the Secretary of State whereby the Secretary of State provides housing and related services to personnel under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned who are assigned to duty in a foreign country. Requires notification to the Congress and a 21-day lapse period before such agreements may take effect. Changes from October 1, 1985, to October 1, 1986, the effective date for the repeal of Federal law relating to the sale and replacement of nonexcess real property and the abolition of the Department of Defense Facilities Replacement Management Account. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out sale and replacement transactions with respect to specified facilities at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and March Air Force Base, California. Requires the Administrator of General Services to transfer certain surplus land adjacent to Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., to the Secretary of the Army for use in connection with the National Defense University. Directs the Administrator to reacquire certain land previously conveyed to the city of Los Angeles and to transfer such land to the Secretary of the Air Force to be used for military family housing. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell a tract of land within Fort Jackson, South Carolina, known as the Gregg Circle Area. Requires the buyer of such land to construct up to 400 units of family housing and lease such units to the Army or rent such units to military personnel. Requires the sale of the Gregg Circle Area tract to be carried out under public advertisement and competitive bidding, with the Secretary having full authority to determine which offer is in the best interest of the United States. Requires the Secretary, before any contract for the sale of such land is entered into, to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the procedures used in selecting a buyer and allow 21 days to elapse after such report is submitted. Authorizes the Secretary to use the proceeds from such sale for specified housing improvement facilities at Fort Jackson. Prohibits any funds appropriated under this Act from being available for any project for which all requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 have not been completed as of March 29, 1985, with specified exceptions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985, to convey a portion of March Air Force Base, California, to Air Force Village West Corporation to be used as security for financing the construction of facilities on such land. Revises Federal law concerning building-height restrictions on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. Division C: Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization - National Security Programs Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986 - Title I: National Security Programs Operating Expenses - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1986 for plant and capital equipment and operating expenses in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) defense nuclear waste and byproduct management; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development; (6) security investigations; and (7) naval reactors development. Title II: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $10,000,000 the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is the lesser. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to or requested of the Congress unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost and exempts from such procedures any project which has an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services for construction projects in support of national security programs. Division D: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 to carry out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1985
Amends the Small Business Act to treat businesses owned by economically disadvantaged Indian tribes (including any Alaskan Native village or regional or village corporation) as socially and economically disadvantaged small businesses for purposes of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) business development program. Sets forth specified factors to be considered by the SBA in determining the economic disadvantage of an Indian tribe.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1985
Directs the Administrator of General Services to provide for the distribution within the United States of the U.S. Information Agency film "Hal David: Expressing a Feeling."
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1985
Waives certain requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of S. 1160 (armed forces funding).
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1985
Waives certain requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of S. 1029 (armed forces funding).
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1985
Authorizes the Society of the Third Infantry Division to erect a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia or its environs in honor of the men of the "Rock of the Marne" of the Third Infantry Division who served in both World Wars, Korea, and maintaining peace. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to select a site for the memorial subject to the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts, the National Capital Planning Commission, and, under certain circumstances, the Mayor of the District of Columbia. Subjects the design and plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary, the National Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Directs that the maintenance and care of the memorial shall be the Secretary's responsibility unless the memorial is on public grounds under the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia in which case these duties fall on the District of Columbia. Provides that funds of the United States or the District of Columbia may not be used to erect the memorial. Directs that the authority to establish the memorial is contingent upon its erection beginning within five years with funds sufficient to ensure its completion.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1985
Amends the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act and the Walsh-Healey Act to require overtime compensation only for hours of employment in excess of 40 hours in a workweek for employees of Federal Government contractors or subcontractors.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1985
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988 to be used by the Secretary of Commerce to assist in the planning and construction of public telecommunications facilities. Repeals a provision that requires 75 percent of the funds appropriated for such purposes in a fiscal year to be available to extend delivery of public telecommunications services to areas not receiving such services. Authorizes appropriations, to match up to a specified amount of non-Federal contributions to public broadcasting entities, for the Public Broadcasting Fund for FY 1987 through 1990. Repeals a provision that requires that a specified portion of the amount made available to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from the Fund be earmarked for expenses of research, training, technical assistance, engineering, instructional support, and the payment of interest on indebtedness. Repeals provisions requiring a public telecommunications entity to refund to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting an amount of Federal funds equal to the amount of any unrelated business income tax paid by such entity.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1985
Waives certain requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of S. 1029 (armed forces funding).
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1985
Recognizes the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the Older Americans Act of 1965, and reaffirms congressional support for such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1985
Authorizes appropriations for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration for FY 1986 and 1987. Earmarks a specified amount each year for international activities.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1985
Designates the Granite Reef aqueduct of the Central Arizona project as the Hayden-Rhodes Aqueduct.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1985
Former Presidents Facilities and Services Reform Act of 1985 - Title I: Presidential Libraries - Authorizes the Archivist of the United States to accept gifts offered to make physical or material changes or additions to presidential archival depositories. Directs the Archivist to promulgate architectural and design standards for such depositories. Requires the Archivist to report to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House prior to accepting title to any land, facility, or equipment for a presidential depository, and prior to accepting any gifts to make changes to such depositories. Authorizes the Archivist to solicit gifts and bequests of money or other property to maintain a depository. Directs the Archivist to establish in the National Archives Trust Fund separate endowments to maintain each presidential depository. Prohibits the Archivist from accepting or taking title to land, facilities, or equipment to create a depository, or from accepting gifts to change a depository, unless there is an endowment sufficient to maintain such land, facility, or equipment. Makes such prohibitions effective for any President who takes the oath of office after May 9, 1984. Title II: Former Presidents - Changes the amount of the annual allowance to which the spouse of a deceased former President is entitled from $20,000 to two-thirds of the allowance to which a former President is entitled. Repeals the requirement that the spouse must waive the right to any other Government annuity or pension to qualify for such allowance. Authorizes the Administrator to provide to each former President, upon request: (1) one office; (2) compensation, without an aggregate ceiling, for members of an office staff who shall be subject to certain provisions of civil service laws; (3) payment for the travel and subsistence allowances for specified office employees; (4) communications services; (5) printing and binding expenses; and (6) appropriate equipment for such office. Allows any Federal employee to be detailed to the office staff of a former President with the consent of the employee's agency head. Declares that the cost of providing transportation by Government aircraft to former Presidents shall be paid from appropriations for such purpose. Authorizes the Administrator to provide a former Vice President with necessary services and facilities for concluding his or her office affairs which are similar to the services and facilities provided to a former President under this title. Prohibits the use of funds provided for necessary services and facilities of a former President or Vice President for partisan political activities or income generating activities. Permits a former President to use such funds to prepare his or her memoirs if the former President signs an agreement providing that the Public Printer will print and distribute such memoirs. Prohibits the expenditure of such funds for a former President any time beyond 90 days after the former President dies. Requires each former President to submit to Congress an annual report concerning activities carried out with the assistance of such funds. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this title concerning the services and facilities to be provided for former Presidents and Vice Presidents. Repeals specified provisions of the Presidential Transition Act of 1963. Title III: Protection of Former Presidents, Former Vice Presidents, and Their Families - Prohibits the United States Secret Service from protecting a former President, former Vice President, or the spouse, widow, widower, or minor child of a former President, except as authorized under this title. Authorizes the Secret Service to protect: (1) a former President for five years after the individual becomes a former President; (2) the spouse or minor child of a former President to the extent that such protection is incidental to the protection of the former President; and (3) the widow or widower of a former President for six months after the former President dies. Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to reinstate the Secret Service protection of a former President for one year and of a spouse or minor child for six months after the original protection has been terminated upon finding that a serious threat warranting such protection exists. Authorizes additional extensions of such periods of protection if the Secretary has submitted a request for an extension to the Congress and 60 days of continuous session have expired after the date of such request. Authorizes the President to direct the Secret Service to protect a former President, or a spouse or child of a former President, if a threat warrants emergency action. Permits the Secretary to authorize Secret Service protection for a former Vice President for a period beginning on the last day of the individual's term and ending on the last day of the fiscal year in which the term expires, and upon finding that a threat exists which warrants such protection.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1985
Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations in specified amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations in specified amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Authorizes the Secretary to convert four transient housing units in Chinhae Korea, to family housing units. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for Naval Strategic Homeporting until the Secretary reports the Congress on such and 90 days elapse after such report is received. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in the specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations in specified amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for the construction of ground launch cruise missile facilities in the Netherlands until that country has approved the deployment of such missiles there. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire 12 family housing units for a specified amount at classified locations. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for the design and construction of a research and engineering facility for the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure program. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations and Recurring Administrative Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1985 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Departments of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the NATO Infrastructure program. Limits the total costs of all projects to the total amounts authorized to be appropriated for each military department concerned. States that such authorizations shall expire at the end of FY 1987 except as otherwise specified. Establishes maximum amounts on certain expenditures, including unspecified minor military construction projects and per unit improvement and rental costs for military family housing. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1985 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VIII: General Provisions - Prohibits the Secretary of a military department from contracting for the acquisition of any interest in land exceeding $100,000 unless the Secretary notifies the appropriate congressional committees of intent to do so and 21 days elapse after such notification. Raises from $100,000 to $400,000 the maximum interest in land acquisition a Secretary may purchase. Requires a member of the armed forces who moves out of an assigned military family housing unit to leave such unit in a satisfactorily clean condition or be liable to the United States for the cleaning costs of such unit. Expands activities and expenses to be included within authorizations for military family housing. Extends to October 1, 1986, the authority of the Secretary of a military department to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing where there exists a deficit in available family housing. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements with the Secretary of State whereby the Secretary of State provides housing and related services to personnel under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned who are assigned to duty in a foreign country, upon certain determinations. Requires notification to the Congress and a 21-day lapse period before such agreements may take effect. Changes from October 1, 1985, to October 1, 1986, the effective date for the repeal of Federal law relating to the sale and replacement of nonexcess real property and the abolition of the Department of Defense Facilities Replacement Management Account. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out sale and replacement transactions with respect to specified facilities at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and March Air Force Base, California. Requires the Administrator of General Services to transfer certain surplus land adjacent to Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., to the Secretary of the Army for use in connection with the National Defense University. Directs the Administrator to reacquire certain land previously conveyed to the city of Los Angeles, and to transfer such land to the Secretary of the Air Force to be used for military family housing. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell a tract of land within Fort Jackson, South Carolina, known as the Gregg Circle Area. Requires the buyer of such land to construct up to 400 units of family housing and lease such units to the Army, or rent such units to military personnel. Requires the sale of the Gregg Circle Area tract to be carried out under public advertisement and competitive bidding, with the Secretary having full authority to determine which offer is in the best interest of the United States. Requires the Secretary, before any contract for the sale of such land is entered into, to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the procedures used in selecting a buyer, and allow 21 days to elapse after such report is submitted. Authorizes the Secretary to use the proceeds from such sale for specified housing improvement facilities at Fort Jackson. Prohibits any funds appropriated under this Act from being available for any project for which all requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 have not been completed as of March 29, 1985, with specified exceptions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985 to convey a portion of March Air Force Base, California, to Air Force Village West Corporation to be used as security for financing the construction of facilities on such land. Revises Federal law concerning building-height restrictions on Santa Rosa Island, Florida.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1985
National Security Programs Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986 - Title I: National Security Programs Operating Expenses : - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1986 for plant and capital equipment and operating expenses in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) defense nuclear waste and byproduct management; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development; (6) security investigations; and (7) naval reactors development. Title II: Recurring General Provisions Reprogramming - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $10,000,000 the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is the lesser. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to or requested of the Congress unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost, and exempts from such procedures any project which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services for construction projects in support of national security programs.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1985
Freedom of Expression Act of 1985 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to repeal the equal time rules and the fairness doctrine provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1985
Designates May 7, 1985, as Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1985
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorization - Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for procurement for the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, and ammunition and for the unspecified procurement. Prohibits funds appropriated pursuant to this or any other Act from being used for procuring the Division Air Defense system or for the purpose of entering into a new contract for the production and assembly of the Division Air Defense System until certain steps are taken. Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from entering into a multiyear contract for the procurement of the Armored Combat Earthmover (ACE). Prohibits funds authorized under this title from being used to contract for the procurement of 5-ton Army trucks until the Secretary certifies to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House that all engines for such trucks have undergone certain testing. Authorizes the Secretary to extend up to 18 months the 5-ton truck multiyear procurement contract in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to award a multiyear contract for the procurement of 5-ton trucks not later than May 1, 1986, or notify the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of the impracticability of such a contract before February 1, 1986. Permits the use of funds appropriated for the multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) program for FY 1985 to make economic order quantity material and component purchases for use with MLRS program end items proposed for procurement in FY 1989. Authorizes appropriations for the Navy and Marine Corps for FY 1986 for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons, racked combat vehicles, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other unspecified procurement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into multiyear contracts for the purchase of LHD-1 class amphibious assault ships. Permits such contracts to include an unfunded cancellation ceiling. Sets aside a specified amount of the funds authorized for shipbuilding and conversion to be available only for the aircraft carrier service life extension program. Prohibits a certain amount of such set-aside funds from being obligated or expended until the Secretary of the Navy makes certain certifications to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House concerning a service life extension program for the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. Prohibits funds authorized under this title from being obligated or expended for the procurement of C-12 or C-12 type aircraft unless such aircraft are procured through competitive procedures. Prohibits funds appropriated for shipbuilding and conversion from being obligated or expended until the Secretary of Defense has reported to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House on procedures which would permit allied or friendly nations to construct diesel- eletrict submarines in U.S. shipyards. Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy from entering into multiyear contracts for the procurement of P-3C Orion aircraft. Authorizes appropriations for the Air Force for FY 1986 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, and for other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for the reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1986 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and other weapons, and for other unspecified procurement. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for FY 1986. Extends through FY 1986 the authority of the Secretary of Defense, in carrying out the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Between the NATO Ministers of Defense concerning the NATO AWACS program, to waive the reimbursement for the cost of specified functions performed by certain personnel and to assume contingent liability for program losses and specified charges. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for the armed forces and defense agencies for FY 1986 for research, development, test and evalution. Requires that a specified amount of the funds authorized to the Navy be used only for the Navy Oceanography Program. Requires that specified amounts of the funds authorized to the defense agencies to be used for: (1) the hardened ballistic missile materials program; and (2) computer and related research at Syracuse University, New York. Requires, before any decision is made regarding the full-scale development of a small intercontinental ballistic missile or the selection of its basing sites, the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to the appropriate congressional committees an environmental impact statement with respect to such development and basing. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for the armed forces and defense agencies for FY 1986 for operation and maintenance, including funds for the reserve forces, the National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, defense claims, and the Court of Military Appeals. Authorizes the transfer of funds from the Foreign Currency Fluctuations Defense Fund to the operation and maintenance accounts of the military departments in specified amounts. Authorizes additional appropriations for increases in civilian personnel costs, unbudgeted increases in fuel costs, and inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the working capital funds of the armed forces and defense agencies. Requires the Secretary of Defense, not later than December 1, 1985, to submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a plan for the establishment and operation during FY 1986 of a pilot program for the exchange of visits between high-ranking U.S. military and civilian officers and personnel and their counterparts from the Soviet Union. Outlines details to be included in such plan. Authorizes certain appropriated funds to be available for travel and subsistence expenses for those participating in such program from the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to use certain funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) in support of the Tenth International Pan American Games to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, in August 1987. Directs that such support be in the form of logistical support, personnel services, and other services and equipment. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes strengths for active duty personnel as of the end of FY 1986. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981 to extend for one year the limitation on the enlistment for active duty in the armed forces of persons whose score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is below a prescribed level. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes average strengths for the selected reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1986. Permits the reduction and increase in such strengths as specified. Authorizes a specified number of reserves to serve on full-time active duty in order to organize, administer, instruct, recruit, or train the reserve components. Permits the end strength levels to be increased by two percent in the national interest. Part C: Civilian Personnel - Authorizes an end strength for civilian personnel for the Department of Defense for FY 1986. Requires the apportionment of such personnel among the various military branches and departments. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Congress on such allocation within 60 days after the enactment of this Act. Specifies the types of civilian employees to be included in such end strengths. Permits the Secretary to increase the number of such personnel by two percent in the national interest. Directs the Secretary to notify the Congress of any such increase. Part D: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes average military training student loads for each component of the armed forces for FY 1986. Requires the adjustment of such loads as the manpower strengths of each component are adjusted. Title V: Compensation and Other Benefits; Educational Assistance and Miscellaneous Personnel Matters - Prohibits adjustment to compensation levels of members of the uniformed services in conformity with adjustment to GS-level compensation to Federal employees during FY 1986. Increases by three percent the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic subsistence allowance for members of the uniformed services, effective January 1, 1986. Prohibits a member of the uniformed services serving in Alaska or Hawaii from being paid a station housing allowance. Excepts from such provision those already serving in Alaska or Hawaii the day before the enactment of this Act. Prohibits all such members receiving a station housing allowance from receiving a variable housing allowance. Prohibits a member from receiving housing allowances which exceed actual housing costs. Allows the basic allowance for quarters and the variable housing allowance to be paid in advance. Increases the Family separation allowance. Requires temporary lodging expenses to be paid to a member making a permanent change in a duty station. Increases the mileage allowance for minor dependents of members making a permanent change in duty stations. Increases the weight allowances for the transportation of household goods of members making a permanent change in duty stations, according to a table based on pay grades. Extends through September 30, 1985, the availability of funds appropriated under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1985 to execute agreements for the continuation of pay to certain dental officers. Part B: Extension of Expiring Bonus Authority, Benefits, and Personnel Management Authorities - Extends for one year, through FY 1986, the authority to provide reimbursement in place of quarters to crew members assigned to a naval vessel rendered temporarily uninhabitable. Extends the special pay provisions for certain Navy aviation career officers from FY 1985 to 1986. Extends for two years, through FY 1987, the authority to pay reenlistment bonuses and bonuses to reserve commissioned officers who extend their periods of active duty. Increases the number of certain officer personnel who may be on active duty in specified grades. Part C: Educational Assistance Programs - Authorizes Secretary of Defense to repay any loan made, insured, or guaranteed under part B of the Higher Education Act of 1965, or any loan made under part E of such Act, after October 1, 1975. Specifies those who qualify to have their loans so repaid. Specifies percentages and maximum amounts of such loan repayments. Defines loan repayment recipients as those persons who enlist or reenlist in the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of an armed force or who enlist or reenlist for service on active duty after September 30, 1980. Amends the Veterans' Educational Assistance Act of 1984 to repeal the requirement that a member must have served on active duty without a break in such service since December 31, 1976, in order to be eligible for veteran' educational assistance under such Act. Reduces by $100 per month for 12 months the basic pay of a member who elects to become entitled to such assistance. Requires an election by a member to receive such assistance within 120 days of entering upon active duty. Provides for revocation of such election. Provides for reimbursement to a member of that portion by which the $100-per-month pay reduction exceeds the amount of educational assistance received for any reason. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to permit a member to transfer all or a portion of such educational entitlement to a spouse or dependent children upon certain conditions. Part D: Miscellaneous Personnel Matters and Benefits - Limits the size of certain headquarter staffs within the Department of Defense. Authorizes the Governor of the U.S. soldiers' and Airmen's Home to exempt up to two physicians employed by the Home from reductions in retired pay due to such employment. Revises general military law clarifying the precedence of the Purple Heart award. Authorizes the President to advance two retired lieutenant generals to the grade of general on the retired list of the Air Force. Authorizes members of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve to have limited use of commissary stores. Repeals the test program on such use by Selected Reserve members created under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984. Title VI: Procurement Policy Reform and Other Procurement Matters - Defense Procurement Improvement Act of 1985 - Requires the Secretary of Defense to prepare an acquisition plan before the completion of the full-scale engineering development of a major defense acquisition program. Requires the establishment and maintenance of two or more production sources as part of such strategy. Allows single production sources only in certain limited circumstances. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress explaining the planned acquisition strategy for each major defense acquisition program not later than the time that a budget request for initial production of the system is made. Requires the Secretary to explain the reasons for use of a single production source if such is chosen. Requires the Secretary to perform a cost analysis for each major defense acquisition program during the first four years of production under such program. Provides for the waiver of such cost analysis in certain instances if the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives are properly notified of such waiver by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to report annually to such Committees the cost of performing such analyses and the savings believed to be achieved. Directs the Secretary of each military department to issue regulations establishing minimum requirements in education, training, and prior experience for program managers of major defense acquisition programs. Outlines minimum education and experience requirements for such program managers. Requires the Secretary of each military department to issue regulations establishing minimum requirements in education, training, and prior experience for brigadier generals, commodores, or any higher grade officers assigned to duty in any material, system, or logistics command in a military branch. Directs the Secretary of Defense to develop a training program for all personnel of DOD responsible for assuring quality control in contractor facilities. Requires such employees to attend the program during the first six months of their assignment. Amends military procurement provisions to increase the reporting and disclosure requirements for certain former employees of DOD concerning duties performed with defense contractors. Increases the liability of a person failing to comply with such requirements. Requires certain present DOD employees who contact or are contacted by a defense contractor concerning future employment opportunities to make certain disclosures concerning such possible employment if he or she participated personnally and substantially as a DOD employee in a permanent contract awarded to such defense contractor. Outlines information to be included in such reporting requirement and imposes liability for failure to comply with such requirements as determined by the Secretary of Defense. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 and 1987 to carry out the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreements programs and certain administrative provisions of this Act. Requires in any Federal court proceeding in which the reasonableness of general or administrative costs for which a defense contractor seeks reimbursement from the DOD are in issue that the burden of proof be upon such contractor to establish the reasonableness of such costs. Title VII: Department of Defense Efficiency and Economy Matters - Department of Defense Efficiency and Economy Act of 1985 - Directs the Secretary of Defense, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to issue proposed regulations dealing with the unallowability of contractor indirect costs. Requires the Secretary, in determining allowable costs, to consider whether the costs incurred benefit the United States or are necessary for the operation of the business. Specifies certain costs which should be considered unallowable under such new regulations. Authorizes the Secretary to make disallowances and to assess a penalty of three times the disallowed expense whenever there is clear and convincing evidence that such expense is disallowable. Considers as a false claim specifically punishable under specified Federal law an expense submitted by a contractor for reimbursement that was not actually incurred. Requires the Secretary, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Armed Services Committees of the Congress on specific actions taken to address the problems related to spare parts purchasing by DOD. Requires the Secretary to issue proposed regulations and legislation as part of such report if such problems have not been remedied. Increases penalties under specified provisions of Federal law for the making of false claims in DOD procurement. Makes rate-of-wages provisions under the Davis-Bacon Act inapplicable for labor performed in connection with military construction projects. Revises provisions dealing with wage-rate determinations to consider local wage rates for private industry (currently, surveys of wages paid outside the local area are used) when determining the prevailing rate for employees employed under certain DOD contracts. Makes inapplicable to DOD contracts certain Federal provisions which require an overtime rate of pay for work performed after eight hours of work per day. Provides in such contracts that the overtime rate will instead be paid after ten hours of work per day. Removes restrictions on contracting-out authority of the Secretary if he or she determines that such contracting-out would be cost-effective and in the best interest of the national defense. Authorizes the Secretary to close or realign any military installation if the President submits a budget reflecting a budget deficit in a fiscal year and the Secretary notifies the Congress at least 60 days prior to taking action. Title VIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the President, effective October 1, 1985, to dispose of certain quantities of specified materials currently held in the National Defense Stockpile. Requires to be deposited into the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund 30 percent of all money accruing to the United States during FY 1986 from land in the naval petroleum and oil shale reserves. Title IX: General Provisions - Limits to $1,000,000,000 the size of the Special Defense Acquisition Fund. Grants limited authority for the Secretary of Defense to exceed the permanent ceiling on U.S. forces assigned to NATO. Requires the Secretary of Defense, within 60 days of the date of enactment of this Act, to advise the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives, in writing, of his or her views regarding the desirability of legislation that would prohibit the inclusion of contractor administrative and general overhead expenses in the computation of contractor profits. Limits the use of authorized funds in conducting polygraph examination tests. Directs the Secretary of Defense, not later than December 31, 1986, to report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the use of polygraph examinations administered by or for DOD during FY 1986. Outlines details to be included in such report. Requires the Secretary to establish and report annually on a continuing polygraph research program to support polygraph activities within DOD. Authorizes the appropriation of funds to DOD for such program. Provides certain restrictions on the contracting for educational services which are provided to members of the armed forces or civilian DOD employees or their dependents. Directs the President, not later than December 1, 1985, and not later than December 1 of each year thereafter, to report to the Congress concerning the Soviet Unions's compliance with arms control commitments. Directs the Secretary of Defense, not later than April 1, 1986, to report to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the continued use of independent cost estimates in the planning, programming, budgeting, and selection process for major defense acquisition program in DOD. Outlines details to be included in such report. Extends through 1988 certain reporting dates for the Commission on Merchant Marine and Defenses. Directs the President, in submitting a proposes budget for FY 1988, to submit a single proposed budget for DOD and related agencies for FY 1988 and 1989 and thereafter to submit a two-year proposed budget for DOD and related agencies biennially. Requires the Secretary of Defense, not later than July 1, 1986, to submit to the Committees on Armed Services and on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives a report containing the Secretary's view on certain aspects of the proposed two-year defense budget. Abolishes the position of Administrator of Education for Overseas Dependents, the Office of Education for Overseas Dependents, and certain functions transfers from DOD related to overseas education. Revises provisions concerning the orgnization of the Advisory Council on Dependents' Education. Extends and expands the authority of the Secretary of Defense to transport humanitarian relief supplies to certain countries. Declares as a policy of the Congress that: (1) it supports the objective of the U.S. to reverse the erosion of the arms-limitation treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; and (2) the Congress' approval for funds for research on the Strategic Defense Initiative does not express or imply an intention to abrogate or erode such treaty. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the purchase of foreign currencies from the Treasury Department to carry out DOD programs. Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated under authorization in this Act to be used for the B1-B aircraft program unless the Secretary of Defense first notifies the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives. Division B: Military Construction - Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified in amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations in specified amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Authorizes the Secretary to convert four transient housing units in Chinhae, Korea, to family housing units. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for Naval Strategic Homeporting until the Secretary reports to the Congress on such and 90 days elapse after such report is received. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations in specified amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for the construction of ground launch cruise missile facilities in the Netherlands until that country has approved the deployment of such missiles there. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire 20 family housing units for a specified amount at classified locations. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for the design and construction of a research and engineering facility for the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure program. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations and Recurring Administrative Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1985 for construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the NATO Infrastructure program. Limits the total costs of all projects to the total amounts authorized to be appropriated for each military department concerned. States that such authorizations shall expire at the end of FY 1987 except as otherwise specified. Establishes maximum amounts on certain expenditures, including unspecified minor military construction projects and per unit improvement and rental costs for military family housing. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1985 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VIII: General Provisions - Prohibits the Secretary of a military department from contracting for the acquisition of any interest in land exceeding $100,000 unless the Secretary notifies the appropriate congressional committees of intent to do so and 21 days elapse after such notification. Raises from $100,000 to $400,000 the maximum interest in land a Secretary may purchase. Requires a member of the armed forces who moves out of an assigned military family housing unit to leave such unit in a satisfactorily clean condition or be liable to the United States for the cleaning costs of such unit. Expands activities and expenses to be included within authorizations for military family housing. Extends to October 1, 1986, the authority of the Secretary of a military department to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing where there exists a deficit in available family housing. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements under certain conditions with the Secretary of State whereby the Secretary of State provides housing and related services to personnel under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned who are assigned to duty in a foreign country. Requires notification to the Congress and a 21-day lapse period before such agreements may take effect. Changes from October 1, 1985, to October 1, 1986, the effective date for the repeal of Federal law relating to the sale and replacement of nonexcess real property and the abolition of the Department of Defense Facilities Replacement Management Account. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out sale and replacement transactions with respect to specified facilities at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and March Air Force Base, California. Requires the Administrator of General Services to transfer certain surplus land adjacent to Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., to the Secretary of the Army for use in connection with the National Defense University. Directs the Administrator to reacquire certain land previously conveyed to the city of Los Angeles and to transfer such land to the Secretary of the Air Force to be used for military family housing. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell a tract of land within Fort Jackson, South Carolina, known as the Gregg Circle Area. Requires the sale of the Gregg Circle Area tract to be carried out under public advertisement and competitive bidding, with the Secretary, before any contract for the sale of such land is entered into, to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the procedures used in selecting a buyer and allow 21 days to elapse after such report is submitted. Authorizes the Secretary to use the proceeds from such sale for specified housing improvement facilities at Fort Jackson. Prohibits any funds appropriated under this Act from being available for any project which all requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 have not been completed as of March 29, 1985, with specified exceptions. Amends the Military Construction Authorizations Act, 1985 to convey a portion of March Air Force Base, California, to Air Force Village West corporation to be used as security for financing the construction of facilities on such land. Revises Federal law concerning building-height restrictions on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. Division C: Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclar Energy Authorization - National Security Program Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986 - Title I: National Security Programs Operating Expenses : - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1986 for plant and capital equipment and operating expenses in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; and (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) defense nuclear waste land byproduct management; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development; (6) security investigations; and (7) naval reactors development. Title II: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the cost exceed by more than $10,000 the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is the lesser. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to or requested of the Congress unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost and exempts from such procedures any project which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services for construction projects in support of national security programs. Division D: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 to carry out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1985
Commends the Rural Electrification Administration and dedicated individuals for their contributions to the progress made by the Nation during the past 50 years in achieving the electrification of rural America.