United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to allow, on order of a veterinarian: (1) a new animal drug approved for one use to be used for a different purpose; and (2) a new drug approved for human use to be used in non-food producing animals.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1992
Congratulates the residents of Jerusalem and the people of Israel on the 25th anniversary of the reunification of that city. Urges that: (1) Jerusalem remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected; and (2) the President and Secretary of State issue an unequivocal statement in support of such principle.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1992
Entitles a member or employee of the Capitol Police whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and who is separated from the Capitol Police to receive a lump-sum payment for accumulated and current accrued annual leave, based on service with the Capitol Police. Terminates this Act after two years.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1992
Urges the United States to: (1) hold the Government of Serbia accountable for the attacks on and occupation of the Republics of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia, and for human rights abuses in Kosovo; (2) withhold diplomatic recognition of Serbia and Montenegro until Serbia ceases its aggression against such republics and halts the brutal repression of the Albanian people in Kosovo and the denial of the right to self-determination; and (3) actively encourage its allies to follow the same course.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1992
Title I: Interagency Council on the Homeless - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Interagency Council on the Homeless, and the Council's authority, through October 1, 1994. Title II: Federal Emergency Management Food and Shelter Program - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Federal emergency management food and shelter program.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1992
Department of Energy Laboratory Technology Partnership Act of 1992 - Establishes the Department of Energy (DOE) partnership program under which the Secretary of Energy must ensure that departmental laboratories enter into research partnerships with industry, educational institutions, and other Federal agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to establish Secretary of Energy Partnerships to develop research and demonstration activities listed in the biennial National Critical Technologies Report or in other specified areas. Grants such partnerships the same preference they would receive under the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 if they agree that products embodying inventions made under a cooperative research and development agreement will be manufactured substantially in the United States. Directs the Secretary to encourage research partnerships with minority educational institutions and private sector entities owned or controlled by disadvantaged individuals. Cites the technology research and demonstration areas which such partnerships may target. Directs the Secretary to: (1) encourage the exchange of scientists and engineers among departmental laboratories, educational institutions, industry, and other Federal agencies; (2) provide fellowships to facilitate personnel exchanges from such areas; (3) provide education and training and further partnerships; (4) develop evaluation mechanisms; (5) develop a management plan for implementation of this Act; and (6) report biennially to the Congress on its implementation. Directs the Secretary to establish the Laboratory Partnership Advisory Board to provide guidance on the implementation of this Act. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to: (1) increase the number of DOE Under Secretaries from one to three and the number of Assistant Secretaries from eight to 11; and (2) establish the position of General Counsel. Requires the Secretary to make recommendations to the Congress regarding establishment of an Office of Technology Research within DOE. Directs the Secretary to establish a Laboratory Career Path Program to recruit employees of departmental laboratories to serve in positions in DOE. (Currently such transfers are unlawful.) Sets forth mechanisms to ensure the integrity of service that the proscription against such transfer was meant to achieve.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1992
Civil Liberties Act Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 to increase the authorization of appropriations to the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund. Modifies requirements regarding payments made in the case of deceased persons. Terminates the duties of the Attorney General a specified period after the Fund terminates (currently, when the Fund terminates). Excludes any payments made under such Act from consideration as income for purposes of eligibility for benefits under all laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, effective as of August 10, 1988. Includes non-Japanese spouses and parents of an individual of Japanese ancestry within the definition of the term "of Japanese ancestry."
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1992
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the establishment of individual medical savings accounts. Declares individual medical savings accounts exempt from taxation, except for the tax on unrelated business income. Limits contributions to such accounts to $3,000 plus $600 for each dependent of the individual for whom the account is created. Adjusts such amounts for inflation beginning after 1993. Allows distributions from such accounts for qualified medical expenses and qualified long-term care expenses. Provides for the tax treatment of nonqualified distributions, excess contributions, and an account that ceases meeting applicable requirements or engages in prohibited transactions. Requires the taxation of any portion of an account used as security for a loan. Sets forth additional taxes for nonqualified distributions and disqualification cases. Declares that contributions to individual medical savings accounts are not to be considered gifts for gift tax purposes. Establishes a penalty for failure to make required reports on such accounts. Excludes qualified distributions from such accounts from gross income. Excludes employer contributions to such accounts from gross income. Requires the same tax treatment for qualified long-term care insurance as that provided for accident or health insurance for purposes of: (1) taxation of life insurance companies; and (2) exclusion for benefits received under, and for employer contributions for, medical insurance.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1992
Elwha River Ecosystem and Fisheries Restoration Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to acquire title to the Elwha River Hydroelectric Project and the Glines Canyon Hydroelectric Project (the Projects), both in the State of Washington, including all rights and interests in the Projects and the electric power generated by the Projects held by the owner of the Projects and by the pulp and paper mill on Ediz Hook in Port Angeles, Washington (the mill). Grants consideration in the forms of: (1) deeming satisfied or assumed obligations and liabilities of the owner and the mill to the United States, including project removal and any ecosystem, fish and wildlife mitigation, or restoration obligations; and (2) the United States providing to the mill, through Port Angeles City Light, power to replace the power generated by the Projects. Authorizes the Projects to continue to operate under the terms and conditions of licenses and permits issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission until title is transferred under this Act. Mandates a power exchange agreement between the Secretary and the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration. Regulates the power supplied to the mill, including price and a term of 40 years. Mandates interim and final operating plans for the Projects designed to promote the purposes of ecosystem, fisheries, and wildlife restoration, protection, and enhancement and the other purposes of this Act, with electric power production incidental and subordinate to the purposes of this Act and such production reduced or terminated as necessary to achieve the purposes of this Act. Establishes the Elwha River Ecosystem and Fisheries Restoration Task Force and requires it to prepare a comprehensive and multidisciplinary analysis of the most effective and reliable alternatives to carry out the purposes of this Act. Requires: (1) in carrying out construction, dam removal, fishery restoration, or monitoring under this Act, preference to the employment of members of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe; and (2) in carrying out the final plan, satisfaction of the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Directs the Secretary to conduct an assessment of present conditions of the ecosystem, water quality, fisheries, and wildlife of the Elwha River Basin and to monitor and evaluate subsequent changes thereto associated with implementation of the final plan. Directs the Secretary, if the final plan requires removal of the Projects, to protect the continued availability of high quality water for users of Elwha River water. Makes the Secretary responsible, if removal is begun but, for budgetary reasons, is not completed, for all fishery mitigation and correction of water quality problems. Establishes the Elwha River National Fish Refuge, comprised of lands acquired by the United States under this Act that are located outside of the exterior boundaries of the Olympic National Park. Authorizes the Secretary to manage lands acquired by the United States under this Act, outside the Park, and not needed for the refuge for the benefit of the Tribe for housing, cultural, or economic development. Reduces any repayment obligations of the Administration to the United States by the value of replacement power supplied to the mill, less the amount of power delivered to the Administrator. Directs the Secretary to retain surplus Federal land on Ediz Hook, Washington, and authorizes the Secretary to transfer title to such lands to the Tribe for tribal economic development if the Tribe and the city of Port Angeles agree concerning development of the land. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1992
John Heinz Competitive Excellence Award Act of 1992 - Establishes the John Heinz Excellence Award, to be evidenced by a national medal coined and provided to the U.S. Senate by the U.S. Mint. Allows two such separate awards to be presented annually (one to a qualifying individual, including Federal, State, or local government employees, and one to a qualifying organization, institution, or business). Prohibits presentation of an award within a category in a given year if there is no qualified individual, organization, institution, or business recommended by the selection panel established by this Act. Sets forth qualification criteria for such awards. Requires the Senate majority and minority leaders to present such award to an individual and an organization, institution, or business that has demonstrated excellence in promoting U.S. industrial competitiveness in the international marketplace through technological innovation, productivity improvement, or improved competitive strategies. Directs the Office of Technology Assessment to: (1) ensure that all nominees receive a detailed summary of any evaluation conducted of such nominee; and (2) make available to the nominee and the public a summary of each award winner's competitiveness strategy (excluding proprietary information unless the award winner consents).
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1992
National Children's Advocacy Program Act of 1992 - Requires the Director of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, in coordination with the Director of the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, to establish a national children's advocacy program of centers to provide information, services, and assistance so that communities can establish multidisciplinary programs that respond to child abuse. Provides for solicitation of proposals from applicants to operate such centers, proposal criteria, management plans, selection of proposals, funding of the centers, and program coordination. Requires regular monitoring and evaluation of each center's activities, annual reports, discontinuation of funding in cases of failure to implement program activities, and solicitation of new proposals upon discontinuation of funding for any center. Requires the two Directors to: (1) establish a children's advocacy advisory board to develop identified goals and program objectives; and (2) review annually the solicitation and selection process and program activities of each center. Directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to send to the Congress an annual, detailed review of the progress of such program activities. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1992
Directs the Secretary of Energy to develop, issue, and commence implementation of a plan for the restructuring of the employee work force of Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear facilities. Outlines plan requirements, including: (1) that any changes in functions or missions at such facilities be carried out so as to minimize the economic impact of such changes on such DOE employees, with prior notice of such changes at least 120 days before they take place, retraining, early retirement and attrition, and other similar means of minimization; (2) first preference for terminated DOE defense facility employees in any DOE hiring; (3) retraining of such employees for work in environmental restoration and waste management activities of DOE; (4) relocation assistance for appropriate employees; (5) retraining, education, and reemployment assistance for employment outside of DOE; and (6) local impact assistance to communities that are affected by any DOE defense facility restructuring plan. Directs the Secretary to issue yearly plan updates containing specified information. Requires appropriate consultation by the Secretary when developing such plans. Requires all plans and updates to be submitted to specified congressional committees. Directs the Secretary, when entering into a contract for the procurement of environmental restoration and waste management activities (contract) at a DOE nuclear defense facility, to require the contractor and any subcontractor to: (1) recognize any collective bargaining agreements in force at the facility and any labor organizations authorized to act on behalf of such employees; (2) employ employees of the collective bargaining units at such facility; (3) assume the liability and obligations of the pension programs of the preceding employer at such facility for employees retained under the contract; and (4) credit periods of employment with previous employers toward contract requirements relating to sick leave, vacations, health insurance, and other employment-related benefits, with limitations. Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program for the identification and ongoing medical evaluation of current and former DOE employees who are subject to significant health risks as a result of exposure to hazardous or radioactive substances during such employment. Outlines program implementation provisions, requiring the Secretary to: (1) carry out certain activities under the program in concurrence with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS); (2) permit the participation of specified organizations; (3) notify each employee identified and examined or tested of test results; (4) collect and assemble information relating to such examinations and tests; (5) carry out such program within one year after enactment of this Act; and (6) enter into an agreement with the Secretary of HHS under which each Secretary of Energy carries out required activities under the program. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to provide for insurance to cover the reasonable health care costs for DOE employees who: (1) were defense nuclear facility employees; (2) through such employment, received a level of exposure to hazardous or radioactive substances that poses a significant risk to such employee's health; (3) as a result of such exposure, have developed a significant illness, disease, or clinical sensitivity; and (4) are not entitled to benefits under the Medicare or any other health insurance program. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe, with participation by specified organizations, standards for determining the eligibility of former employees for such insurance coverage. Requires establishment of the insurance program within six months after the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1992
Endangered Species Employment Transition Assistance Act of 1992 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to establish an Endangered Species Employment Transition Assistance program for dislocated workers who have been terminated or laid off, or have received a notice of termination or layoff, as a consequence of compliance with the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to make determinations of such eligibility pursuant to criteria established in consultation with other specified Federal officials. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States, substate grantees, employers, employer associations, and employee representatives to: (1) provide training, adjustment assistance, and employment service to such eligible individuals; and (2) make needs-related payments for completion of such training or education programs to such individuals if they do not qualify or have ceased to qualify for unemployment compensation, are enrolled and participating in such training, and have a total family income (exclusive of unemployment, child support, and welfare benefits) not in excess of the lower living standard income level. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Comptroller General to identify, assess, and report to the Congress on the effects on employment that are attributable to compliance with the Endangered Species Act of 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1992
National Triad Program Act - Requires the Director of the National Institute of Justice to conduct a national assessment of: (1) the nature and extent of crimes against the elderly; (2) the needs of law enforcement, health, and social service organizations in working to prevent, identify, investigate, and provide assistance to victims of such crimes; and (3) promising strategies to respond effectively to those challenges. Specifies that such assessment shall address: (1) the analysis and synthesis of data from a range of sources; (2) the problems of elderly who are living alone or in high crime areas and who are abused and neglected, and the fear of victimization; (3) the identification of strategies and techniques that have been shown to be effective or which show promise; (4) the analysis of the factors that enhance or inhibit development of a coordinated response by law enforcement, health care, and social service providers; and (5) the research agenda needed to develop a comprehensive understanding of the problems of crimes against the elderly. Requires the Director to disseminate the results of such assessment. Authorizes the Director to make awards to coalitions of local law enforcement agencies, victim service providers, and organizations representing the elderly for pilot programs and field tests of promising strategies and models for forging partnerships for crime prevention and service provision. Specifies that pilot programs funded under this Act may include existing general service coalitions of law enforcement, victim service, and elder advocate organizations that wish to use additional funds to work at a particular problem in their community or to target a particular geographic area in need of intensive services. Authorizes the Director to make awards to: (1) coalitions of national law enforcement, victim service, and elder advocate organizations for training and technical assistance in implementing pilot programs; (2) research organizations to investigate the types of elder victimization shown by the assessment to present particularly critical problems or emerging crimes about which little is known, to evaluate the effectiveness of selected pilot programs, and to conduct research and development identified as being critical; and (3) public service advertising coalitions to increase public awareness of, and promote ideas or programs to prevent, crimes against the elderly. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1992
Every Fifth Child Act - Makes appropriations for FY 1993, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in specified amounts to begin a phase-in toward full funding of: (1) the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC) under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966; (2) Head Start programs under the Head Start Act; and (3) the Job Corps program under the Job Training Partnership Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that such programs should receive specified minimum levels of funding to allow: (1) the WIC program to be fully funded through FY 1996; (2) Head Start programs to be fully funded through FY 1998; and (3) the Job Corps to establish at least 50 additional centers and serve at least 50 percent more of low-income disadvantaged youth by the year 2000.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1992
Prohibits a veteran's participation in an approved program of rehabilitative services provided as part of such veteran's care furnished in a State home, or the receipt of compensation by the veteran for such participation, from being considered as a basis for the denial or discontinuance of a total disability rating for purposes of compensation or pension based on a veteran's inability to secure gainful employment as a result of a disability. Considers such payment as a donation from a public or private relief or welfare organization.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1992
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, under specified conditions, to convey to the city of Tacoma, Washington, certain Federal lands adjacent to Lake Cushman in exchange for specified non-Federal lands in the Olympic National Park. Requires the Secretary to adjust the boundaries of Olympic National Park to reflect the exclusion of such conveyed lands from such Park.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1992
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) an appropriate commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Mariana Islands campaign of World War II should be planned; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior should take steps to ensure by June 15, 1994, the completion of a visitor center at the War in the Pacific National Historical Park, Guam, and one at the American Memorial Park, Saipan, for the interpretation of the campaign. Increases the authorization of appropriations for such parks.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1992
Hospital Cooperative Agreement Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish a demonstration program of ten five-year grants for collaboration among hospitals regarding the provision of expensive, capital-intensive medical technology or other highly resource-intensive services. Requires that projects be designed to demonstrate a reduction in costs, an increase in access to care, and improvements in the quality of care. Allows grant funds to be used only to facilitate collaboration and not to purchase facilities or capital equipment. Requires at least three of the grants to be used to demonstrate how such agreements may be used to increase access to or quality of care in rural areas. Requires cooperative agreements facilitated under these provisions to provide for the sharing of medical technology or eligible services. Declares that it is not a violation of antitrust laws for a hospital to carry out activities under these provisions. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1992
Economic Opportunity Act of 1992 - Amends the Social Security Act with regard to the work supplementation program (program) to: (1) allow States to assign participants to existing unfilled positions; (2) allow States to use funds otherwise available for food stamp benefits to provide and subsidize program jobs; (3) require participants to be paid subsidized wages that are at least 125 percent of aid to families with dependent children or food stamp benefits that they would receive if unemployed; and (4) allow States to use for any purpose certain funds attributable to program savings. Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to authorize payments to States in lieu of equivalent food stamp benefits for program participants.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1992
Forest Resources Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Forest Resources Conservation and Shortage Relief Act of 1990 with respect to the restriction on exports of unprocessed timber from State and other public lands. Revises one of the factors the Secretary of Commerce must consider when deciding whether to increase the volume of unprocessed timber prohibited from export. Requires the Secretary to consider whether the volume of timber from public lands and Federal lands, in the aggregate, (currently, just public lands) that is under contract has increased or decreased by an amount greater than 20 percent within the previous 12 months. Makes effective throughout certain periods any State regulations in effect on August 16, 1991, that prohibit substitution of unprocessed timber originating from public lands for unprocessed timber originating from private lands. Provides that, at the end of such periods, the regulations shall remain in effect until the State legislature enacts any requirements it deems appropriate to supersede them. Authorizes the President to suspend the amendments made by this Act if a panel of experts has reported to the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, or a ruling issued under the formal dispute settlement proceeding provided under any other trade agreement finds, that the amendments made by this Act are in violation of, or inconsistent with, U.S. obligations under such agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1992
Directs the National World War II Memorial Fund, Inc., to construct a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs to: (1) honor members of the armed forces who served in World War II; and (2) commemorate U.S. participation in that conflict. Directs the fund to plan, design, and oversee the construction of the Memorial. Establishes the World War II Memorial Advisory Board to: (1) promote and encourage the donation of private funds for the construction of the Memorial; and (2) recommend the site for and assist in the selection of the design of the Memorial. Terminates the Board within 30 days after completion of the Memorial or on the lapse of the authority provided by this Act. Authorizes the Fund to solicit and accept private contributions for construction of the Memorial. States that the requirements and authority of this Act shall lapse if: (1) construction of the Memorial is not commenced within five years of its enactment; or (2) before such construction, the Secretary of the Interior certifies that funds are not available in an amount sufficient to ensure its completion.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1992
Signal Flare Safety Act - Considers a pyrotechnic signal device, as defined in specified Federal regulations, to be a banned hazardous product under certain provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Act if it: (1) is offered for sale or distributed in commerce to an individual under 16 years old; or (2) does not bear specified warning labels.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1992
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) again urge all parties to the conflict in Somalia to declare an immediate ceasefire; (2) urge the United Nations to remain committed to the diplomatic and peacekeeping tasks in Somalia which fall under its mandate, to facilitate the distribution of emergency assistance to those areas of Somalia which are peaceful and to explore options for assisting people in nonsecure areas, and to appoint mediators to facilitate the achievement of the earliest possible ceasefire; and (3) encourage other neutral mediation efforts by nongovernmental and regional organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1992
Commonwealth Scientists Immigration and Exchange Act of 1992 - Authorizes the special admission into the United States of certain scientists of the Commonwealth of Independent States (Commonwealth) as employment-based immigrants under the Immigration and Nationality Act for a four-year period. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) Commonwealth scientists should be given priority consideration for U.S. international exchange programs; and (2) in making available Soviet threat reduction funds priority should be given to retraining and employing Commonwealth scientists in areas that would enhance the objectives of nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1992
Title I: Accelerated Growth - Economic Growth Acceleration Act of 1992 - Subtitle A: Provisions Relating to Capital Gains - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a capital gains deduction for noncorporate taxpayers for assets held from one to three years. Provides special rules for the gain or loss from the sale or exchange of collectibles and sales of interest in partnerships. Disallows such deduction in computing the alternative minimum tax. Revises the formula for determining gain from the dispositions of certain depreciable realty to take into account depreciation adjustments (adjustments allowed or allowable for exhaustion, wear and tear, obsolescence, or certain amortization). Subtitle B: Provisions Relating to Passive Losses and Depreciation - Treats the real estate development activity of a taxpayer as a single trade or business activity that is not a rental activity. Allows an additional depreciation allowance for the purchase of new equipment as investment property on or after February 1, 1992, which is placed in service before July 1, 1993. Reduces the basis of adjustment of such property by the amount of the additional allowance. Requires application of such allowance in determining the alternative minimum tax. Restricts the determination of adjusted current earnings for purposes of computing alternative minimum taxable income to property placed in service after 1989 and before February 1, 1992. Subtitle C: Provisions Relating to Real Estate Investments by Pension Funds - Modifies exceptions to the exclusion of real property acquired by a qualified organization from the meaning of acquisition indebtedness. Makes certain exceptions inapplicable to sales out of foreclosure by a financial institution. Applies the meaning of acquisition indebtedness investments in certain large partnerships where the principal purpose of partnership allocations is not tax avoidance. Repeals the special rule for publicly traded partnerships with respect to the treatment of unrelated business taxable income. Subtitle D: Provisions Affecting Homebuyers - Allows a first-time homebuyer who purchases a principal residence a tax credit of ten percent of the purchase price, not to exceed $5,000. Limits such credit to one residence and requires acquisition between February 1, 1992, and January 1, 1993. Allows penalty-free withdrawals from individual retirement plans for a first-home purchase. Limits such distribution to $10,000, or other applicable amount if previous distributions have been made.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1992
Recognizes and commemorates the centennial of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Requests the President to issue a proclamation observing the centennial from January 1 through December 31, 1992.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1992
Congratulates the Governments and people of Croatia and Slovenia on the occasion of the recognition of their independence by 38 countries. Urges the President to immediately extend diplomatic recognition to, and establish mutually beneficial relations with, Croatia and Slovenia.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an electric utility a deduction for energy conservation expenditures which are paid or incurred in connection with its trade or business as expenses which are not chargeable to its capital account.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991
Federal-State Pesticide Regulation Partnership Act of 1991 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to remove the authority of political subdivisions to inspect records of persons selling or delivering pesticides for purposes of enforcing such Act. Prohibits local governments from imposing or continuing any requirement regarding pesticides or devices.
United States · United States Congress · 22 November 1991
Wetlands Simplification Act - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 (FSA) to provide that: (1) a technical determination with respect to wetland or converted wetland on agricultural lands (including the identification of wetland and the development of a wetland restoration or mitigation plan) shall be used in the administration of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) (thus giving the Soil Conservation Service sole Federal responsibility for making such determination); and (2) any area of agricultural land or any activities related to the land determined to be exempt from the requirements of FSA shall also be exempt from FWPCA requirements as long as such lands are used as agricultural lands.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1991
Urges and requests the President to require the Secretary of the appropriate military department to award the bronze star to each member of the Navy or Marine Corps who served under General Wainwright during the defense of Corregidor Island, the Philippines, during World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1991
Reforestation Tax Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide corporations a partial inflation adjustment for the deduction from gross income for qualified timber gain. Allows such deduction in computing adjusted gross income. Provides for applying passive loss limitations to timber activities. Increases the amount allowable as a deduction for amortization of reforestation expenditures and provides an inflation adjustment after calendar year 1992. Applies such inflation adjustment to the reforestation credit.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1991
Requires a consignee of imported foreign grain to: (1) include an end-use certificate in the documentation covering the entry of such grain; and (2) submit to the Secretary of Agriculture certain quarterly reports regarding the use of such grain. Sets forth civil penalties. Prohibits the Commissioner of Customs from permitting the entry of such grain unless the importer of record presents such certificate at the time of entry.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1991
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer certain sewage facilities in the Wenatchee National Forest to Public Utility District No. 1 of Chelan County, Washington, in exchange for charges of equal value to the Secretary for sewer service and/or construction of additional facilities serving Federal lands.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1991
Global Clean Water Incentive Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to direct the Secretary of Commerce to implement a schedule of fees that would be: (1) imposed on any product imported into the United States that has been subject to processing, or manufactured from a process, that does not comply with water quality standards prescribed under the Clean Water Act; and (2) in an amount adjusted annually equal to the differential between the cost incurred by businesses located in the United States in meeting such water quality standards and any expenditures made by foreign businesses to reduce water-polluting discharges. Requires the Secretary to make revenues derived from such fees available to fund programs that enhance the export of U.S. products, the costs of which are increased by the Clean Water Act. Directs the U.S. Trade Representative to negotiate an amendment to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that would allow any country to impose additional duties on the importation of products of a foreign country that does not comply with water quality standards comparable to those prescribed under the Clean Water Act.
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