United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
States that each person has the right to be free from any classification based on sex, made by the United States or any State, unless such classification is necessary to achieve a compelling interest of the United States or such State. Provides that if any person under color of Federal or State law subjects one to a classification based on sex which is not necessary to achieve a compelling governmental interest, he or she shall be liable to the person injured. Allows any person aggrieved by a violation of this Act to bring a civil action in the appropriate district court of the United States. Enables the Attorney General to bring an action for declaratory or injunctive relief.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe-Dexter by the Sea Claim Settlement Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to pay a specified amount to the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe of Washington to settle tribal claims regarding a previous transfer by the United States of certain lands within the Shoalwater Bay Reservation known as Dexter by the Sea. Extinguishes tribal claims of title to such lands. Ratifies the validity of a specific land transfer by the United States to George N. Brown, patentee. Conditions such payment upon: (1) tribal waiver of all rights and claims to certain lands within the Reservation; and (2) dismissal with prejudice by a certain Federal district court of a specified Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe complaint.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Amends the Social Security Disability Amendments of 1980 to make permanent the provisions of title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act concerning benefits for individuals who perform substantial gainful activity despite a severe medical impairment.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Pension Correction Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers to make certain retroactive changes in pension plans if a short form amendment incorporating specific changes in the Internal Revenue Code is adopted by reference and notice is provided to the Secretary of the Treasury. Provides for any extension for a period of five years to any participant loan entered into prior to August 12, 1982 and by its terms was due and payable before August 13, 1985. Repeals the ten percent penalty on distributions made to key employees of a top-heavy plan prior to age 59 1/2 by reason other than death or disability. Changes the vesting requirements for top-heavy plans from six year graded vesting to 11 year graded vesting. Repeals requirements which impose a lower benefit limitation on top-heavy plans in which 90 percent or more of the aggregate benefits are received by key employees. Exempts from the limitation on estate tax exclusions amounts received from a qualified plan to the extent such amount is attributable to an irrevocable election made before January 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1983
National Task Force on Organ Procurement and Transplant Reimbursement Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish within 60 days a National Task Force on Organ Procurement and Transplant Reimbursement to develop a plan for a comprehensive organ donor network and organ procurement system. Sets forth membership and operating provisions. Authorizes the Task Force to submit interim reports to the President and each House of Congress, and a final report within six months after its establishment. Terminates such Task Force three months after submitting such final report.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1983
Public Safety Officers Protection Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to include within the protected class, for purposes of the prohibition against arson, public safety officers injured or killed within the course of their duty.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1983
Authorizes the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration to enter into contractual agreements to pay the costs associated with the Federal Columbia River Power System hydroelectric projects, power resources acquired under long-term contracts, and replacement power resources directly to the appropriate entities, to the primary obligees of such entities, or to their trustee.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1983
Honest Budgeting Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973 to require all transactions of the Federal Financing Bank to be reflected in the unified budget of the United States government. Treats amounts of loans guaranteed by a Federal agency and financed by the Bank as outlays of such agency. Treats amounts disbursed by the Bank for the purchase of loans guaranteed, loan assets sold, and debt obligations issued by a Federal agency as a means of financing that agency. Prohibits a Federal agency from issuing, selling, or guaranteeing any investment security obligations of a type formerly financed through the Bank unless such an obligation is offered for sale to the Bank.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce to continue to use diplomatic and legal means to achieve worldwide compliance with the International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial whaling.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the States should: (1) adopt the International Symbol of Access to identify vehicles carrying the physically handicapped and grant only to such vehicles access to special parking privileges; and (2) enter into agreements of reciprocity relating to special parking privileges granted to handicapped persons.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Amends the Federal- State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 and the Federal Supplemental Compensation Act of 1982 to provide alternative State triggers for the extended and the supplemental unemployment compensation programs based on specified total unemployment rates. Directs the Secretary of Labor to study alternatives to the insured unemployment rate, which would be available with respect to all States, which might provide a more accurate measurement of the employment and labor market situation in each State. Directs the Secretary to report the results of such study to Congress within two months after the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Federal Credit Control Act of 1983 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to submit to the Committees on the Budget of both Houses a fiscal policy report which includes alternative levels of new direct loan authority and new loan guarantee authority. Requires the first concurrent resolution on the budget for each fiscal year to: (1) establish the appropriate level of total new direct loan authority and total new loan guarantee authority; and (2) estimate new direct loan authority and new loan guarantee authority for each major functional category. Directs congressional committees to which allocation of new direct loan authority or new loan guarantee authority were made to subdivide such allocations among their subcommittees. Prohibits either House of Congress from considering any bill or resolution specifying fiscal year levels of new direct loan authority or new loan guarantee authority until the first concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year has been agreed upon. Exempts from such proscription bills or resolutions specifying levels of new direct loan authority or levels of new loan guarantee authority for a fiscal year following the fiscal year to which the concurrent resolution applies. Requires committee reports which accompany legislation specifying levels of new direct loan authority or new loan guarantee authority, to detail how such levels compare with the appropriate level of new loan guarantee or new loan guarantee authority set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to issue periodic up-to-date tabulations comparing the total new direct loan authority and the total new loan guarantee authority in enacted legislation to the appropriate level of such authority as set forth in the most recently agreed upon concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires the Director to report projected total new direct loan authority and total new loan guarantee authority for each fiscal year in a period of five fiscal years. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to submit to specified congressional committees an estimate of the total new direct loan authority and the total new loan guarantee authority needed to implement bills or resolutions reported by such committees for the fiscal year in which such legislation would become effective, and for each of the four following fiscal years. Requires the President's message to Congress on the budget to include all essential facts regarding direct Federal loan obligations and loan guarantee commitments, an estimate of total budget outlays resulting from loan guarantees, and an allocation of such total budget outlays among all budget accounts for the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and the four fiscal years thereafter. Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the President to include rescissions of direct loan authority or loan guarantee authority in any rescission or deferral message to Congress. Requires loan guarantee authority or direct loan authority to be fully obligated or committed unless the Congress has completed action on a recission bill rescinding a proposed amount within a prescribed 45-day period. Applies specified procedures to the disapproval of proposed deferrals of direct loan authority or loan guarantee authority. Requires the Comptroller General to report to both Houses of Congress if the President and other specified parties have failed to transmit a special message to the Congress regarding reservations or deferrals of loan guarantee authority or direct loan authority. Empowers the Comptroller General to bring a civil action in the United States District Court if direct loan authority or loan guarantee authority required to be made available for obligation or commitment has not been made available.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
Authorizes the President to present on behalf of Congress a gold medal to Danny Thomas in recognition of his humanitarian efforts and outstanding work as an American. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by said Secretary. Provides, effective October 1, 1983, funds not to exceed $22,000 to carry out the purposes of the Act. Provides that the Secretary may cause bronze duplicates of the medal to be coined and sold under regulations prescribed by the Secretary at a price sufficient to cover the costs of producing the gold medal. Directs that the appropriation used to carry out the provisions of the Act shall be reimbursed out of the proceeds from such coin sales. Provides that the medals are to be national medals.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1983
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 to the General Services Administration for: (1) the National Historical Publications and Records Commission; and (2) funds to Federal, State, and local agencies and to nonprofit organizations for the collection, preservation, and publication of historically significant documents.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1983
Abraham Lincoln One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Anniversary Act - Establishes a Commission on the One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Anniversary for Abraham Lincoln to plan and conduct activities to commemorate the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Authorizes appropriations. Designates the week of February 12-18, 1984, as National Recognition of Abraham Lincoln Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should convene a national, bipartisan commission to address the problems in Central America. Suggests certain requirements for the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1983
Requires certain vessels in ocean, coastwise, or Great Lakes service to: (1) provide a flotation device, light, and whistle for each life preserver and exposure suit carried; and (2) ensure that crewmembers wear exposure suits in at least one fire and boat drill each month. Requires specified mobile oil-drilling units to: (1) carry an exposure suit and fully-equipped life preserver for each person onboard; (2) have exposure suits at watch and work stations; and (3) provide boat drills at least once a month. Sets forth required components for exposure suits and exempts certain vessels from provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1983
Amends the Small Business Act to provide for the continuation of financial assistance to establish small business development centers under the Small Business Development Center program.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Commission on the Extraterritorial Application of United States Laws Act - Establishes a Commission on the Extraterritorial Application of United States Law to study and make recommendations concerning the extraterritorial application of U.S. law. Sets forth the powers of the Commission. Requires the Commission to submit its final report to the President and Congress within one year of its first meeting. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Hazardous Waste Management Act of 1983 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act ("the Act") (as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976) to revise findings, objectives, and definitions. Revises provisions for identification and listing of hazardous waste under the Act to add requirements with respect to specified wastes. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where appropriate, to list as subject to hazardous waste management provisions: (1) within two months after enactment of this Act, additional wastes containing chlorinated dioxins or-dibenzofurans; and (2) within six months after such enactment wastes containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), containing remaining halogentated dioxins and-dibenzofurans, and other specified wastes (or publish reasons for not listing such wastes). Directs the Administrator, within six months after the enactment date of this Act, to submit to the Congress a work plan: (1) for developing regulations identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste, including measures or indicators for toxicity; (2) identifying those particular wastes on which the Agency intends to decide whether to list as a hazardous waste within two years after such enactment date; and (3) for cooperating with officials of the National Toxicology Program to evaluate the feasibility of identifying or listing hazardous waste based on the presence of certain constituents (such as known carcinogens, mutagens, or teratogens) at levels which cause such wastes to be hazardous per se. Directs the Administrator, within two years after the enactment date of this Act, to: (1) promulgate regulations identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste; (2) either promulgate, with respect to each waste identified for decision within two years, regulations listing such waste as a hazardous waste, or publish the reasons for the decision not to list such waste; and (3) report to the Congress on progress in evaluating the feasibility of identifying or listing hazardous waste based on the presence of certain hazardous constituents at levels which may cause such waste to be hazardous waste per se. Sets forth delisting procedures. Directs the Administrator, when evaluating a petition to exclude a waste generated at a particular facility, to: (1) consider factors, other than those for which the waste was listed, which could cause the waste to be hazardous; (2) provide notice and opportunity for comment on such additional factors before granting or denying such petition; and (3) make a final decision on each such petition within 18 months after granting a temporary exclusion from regulation of such waste. Sets forth national goals with respect to hazardous waste disposal under the Act. Prohibits the disposal into or on any land without certified prior treatment, of specified hazardous wastes within six months of the enactment of this Act, unless the Administrator determines the prohibition on one or more methods of land disposal is not required in order to protect human health and the environment for as long as the waste remains hazardous. Requires that such prohibition is to be applied, taking into account specified factors, to specified forms, compounds, and concentrations of the following hazardous wastes: (1) cyanides; (2) arsenic; (3) cadmium; (4) chromium; (5) lead; (6) mercury; (7) nickel; (8) selenium; (9) thallium; (10) highly acidic (having a pH of two or less) liquid wastes; (11) polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); and (12) halogenated organic compounds. Authorizes the Administrator to substitute: (1) more stringent concentration levels where necessary to protect human health and the environment; and (2) a later effective date of prohibition, if necessary to allow an alternative method of management to become available for a hazardous waste for which storage is not possible until such later date. Sets forth a schedule for additional prohibition determinations. Directs the Administrator to submit to Congress a schedule for reviewing all hazardous wastes listed in specified Federal regulations which are not covered by a land disposal prohibition under this Act. Directs the Administrator to complete such review and promulgate regulations in accordance with a specified timetable with deadlines from 24 to 54 months after enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator, in the case of any hazardous waste identified or listed after such 54 months, to make such prohibition determination within six months. Sets forth criteria upon which such prohibition determinations are to be made. Prohibits land disposal of any identified or listed hazardous waste for which the Administrator has failed to make a determination within the specified deadline. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing best available management practices for each hazardous waste identified or listed under the Act. Sets forth a preferred hierarchy of management practices for such purposes. Sets forth a timetable for promulgation of such regulations, with deadlines from four years to ten years after the enactment of this Act. Sets forth requirements for review and revision of such regulations. Revises provisions for standards applicable to generators of hazardous waste. Adds requirements for: (1) reports for 1981, 1982, and 1983; (2) retention of records and manifests; and (3) small quantity generator waste. Requires, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, that any hazardous waste which is part of a total quantity generated by a generator generating less than 1,000 kilograms during a calendar month and which is shipped off the premises on which it is generated shall be accompanied by a copy of the EPA Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest form signed by the generator. Requires that such form contain specified information. Prohibits, effective two years after the enactment of this Act, exemption by reason of the small quantity generated of any hazardous waste generated by any generator in a quantity greater than 100 kilograms during any calendar month from hazardous waste management standards. Directs the Administrator, within 18 months of such enactment, to promulgate revised standards for hazardous waste generated in monthly quantities between 100 to 1,000 kilograms. Requires that small quantity generator hazardous waste standards at a minimum: (1) limit to 180 days on site storage without a permit; (2) require all other treatment, storage, or disposal at a facility with a permit; and (3) require that a manifest accompany any shipment of such waste off the premises on which it is generated (but allows specific requirements for entries on such manifest to vary from those applicable to the manifest required for larger quantity generators). Directs the Administrator to establish such standards of performance for larger quantity generators as may be necessary to achieve the national goals established by this Act and to otherwise protect human health and the environment. Authorizes the Administrator to establish small quantity generator waste standards of performance which vary from standards for larger quantity generators. Sets forth requirements for permits for generators of hazardous waste. Revises standards applicable to transporters of hazardous waste to require retention of records and manifests. Revises standards applicable to owners and operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities to require the rention of records. Directs the Administrator to revise such standards within four years after the enactment of this Act. Establishes requirements with respect to liquids in landfills. Directs the Administrator, within one year after enactment of this Act, to promulgate final regulations which minimize the disposal of containerized liquid hazardous wastes in landfills. Makes such regulations effective immediately upon promulgation. Directs the Administrator to maintain specified requirements, pending promulgation of such regulations. Requires that revised standards specify criteria for the location of disposal facilities. Directs the Administrator to consider specified factors in determining such criteria. Requires that specified minimum standards for incinerators remain in effect. Requires that any modification of such standards provide for equivalent or greater hazardous waste containment, or destruction and removal. Sets forth requirements covering prior releases of hazardous wastes. Provides that hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facility standards shall address releases of hazardous constituents attributable to the migration of waste from all solid waste management units at a facility, whether waste was placed in such units before or after the date of permit issuance. Requires that such standards provide for compliance schedules and financial assurances to ensure adequate cleanup of such releases. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring any facility operating under an interim status permit to obtain a final permit before expanding its capacity by more than ten percent (except capacity for storage or treatment in tanks or containers and enclosed waste piles). Authorizes the Administrator to establish standards for any interim status permit facility expanding its capacity by ten percent or less. Allows such standards for facilities expanding by ten percent or less to vary from the interim permit status standards for facilities which do not expand capacity. Requires landfill disposal facilities operating under an interim status permit to comply with monitoring and corrective action requirements applicable to facilities for which a final permit is issued. Requires any new, replacement, or laterally expanded unit of a landfill or surface impoundment operating under an interim status permit to be subject to requirements respecting liners and leachate collection systems or equivalent protection applicable to facilities for which a final permit is issued. Limits to ten years the duration of any permit for hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal. Allows renewals of such permits. Directs the Administrator to issue final permits or final denials of permit applications: (1) for land disposal facilities within four years of the enactment of this Act; (2) for incinerators within five years of such enactment; and (3) for any other treatment, storage, or disposal facilities within eight years of such enactment. Provides that such time periods shall also apply in the case of any authorized State hazardous waste program. Requires facilities operating under interim status permits to submit applications for final permit review within the applicable time period, with specified exceptions. Authorizes the Administrator, after notice and opportunity for hearing, to promulgate permit application requirements and permit conditions applicable to owners and operators of a class of facilities, upon determination that facilities in the class should be subject to similar design, operating, and management requirements. Limits such classes to facilities which treat or store hazardous waste in containers, tanks, or enclosed piles. Authorizes the Administrator, after notice and opportunity for informal hearing, to issue a class permit for a facility which meets such conditions and requirements. Authorizes the Administrator, in establishing class permit requirements and conditions, to provide that certain conditions shall be established for each facility on a site-specified basis. Directs the Administrator (or the State, as appropriate), in the case of any permit (other than a class permit) issued or renewed after the enactment of this Act to require the facility to use methods at least as effective as the best available control technology to prevent a hazardous waste discharge. Directs the Administrator (or the State) to consider the costs and the health and environmental impacts in determining the best available control technology on a case-by-case basis. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing such standards applicable to owners and operators of hazardous waste resource recovery facilities and to distributors of recovered material from hazardous waste as may be necessary to achieve the national goals established by this Act and to otherwise protect human health and the environment. Directs the Administrator, within two years after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations establishing health and environmental standards applicable to owners or operators of facilities producing fuel from hazardous wastes or burning hazardous wastes for energy recovery and to distributors or marketers of such fuels. Exempts from such requirements, and from labeling and other specified requirements, petroleum refinery wastes containing oil which are converted into petroleum coke at the same facility at which such wastes were generated, unless the resulting coke product would exceed one or more characteristic by which a substance would be identified as a hazardous waste. Prohibits producers, distributors, or marketers of fuels containing hazardous wastes to distribute or market such fuels unless the invoice or bill of sale bears a conspicuous warning and lists the hazardous wastes contained in such fuel. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations requiring that any person who is required to file a notification in accordance with provisions for burning and blending hazardous wastes must maintain such records regarding fuel blending, distribution, or use as may be necessary to protect human health and the environment. Requires, within 12 months after enactment of this Act, notification to the Administrator by: (1) the owner or operator of any facility producing a fuel from any hazardous waste alone or with other material or from used oil alone or with other material; (2) the owner or operator of any facility burning fuel containing any hazardous waste or used oil; and (3) any person who distributes or markets fuel containing hazardous waste or used oil. Requires that such notification describe the location, the facility, the identified or listed hazardous waste involved, and the production or energy recovery activity. Exempts facilities, such as residential boilers, from such notification requirements where the Administrator determines that such notification is not necessary for obtaining sufficient information respecting current practices or facilities using hazardous waste for energy recovery. Establishes requirements for interim control of hazardous waste injection. Prohibits hazardous waste disposal by underground injection above or into a formation which contains, within one-quarter mile of the well used for injection, an underground source of drinking water. Provides for exemptions from such prohibition upon demonstration that such injection will not cause hazardous waste to endanger drinking water sources. Provides for State and Federal enforcement of such prohibitions and identical prohibitions under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Authorizes the Administrator, in authorizing a State Program, to base findings on the Federal program in effect one year prior to submission of a State's application or in effect on January 26, 1983, whichever is later. Requires that State programs, in order to be authorized by the Administrator, provide for public availability of information regarding hazardous waste treatment, storage, and distribution facilities and sites. Sets forth provisions for mandatory inspections at least every two years, beginning 12 months after enactment of this Act, at every facility for the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste for which a permit is required. Directs the Administrator, after notice and opportunity for public comment, to promulgate the minimum frequency and manner of such inspections and maintenance of inspection records. Authorizes the Administrator to distinguish between classes and categories of facilities commensurate with the risks posed. Directs the Administrator, within six months after enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on the potential for such inspections by nongovernmental officers as a supplement to EPA or State inspections. Revises provisions for Federal enforcement of hazardous waste management requirements under the Act to authorize the Administrator to assess a civil penalty for any past or current violation. Allows any person aggrieved by such a violation to intervene as a matter of right in actions for appropriate relief. Provides for criminal penalties for persons who knowingly: (1) cause specified hazardous waste to be transported; (2) treat, store, or dispose of such waste in violation of any material condition or requirement of specified permits or of any applicable interim status regulations or standards; (3) omit material information used for purposes of compliance with regulations promulgated by the Administrator (or by a State program); (4) fail to file any record, application, manifest, report, or other document required to be maintained or filed for purposes of such compliance; or (5) transports, or causes to be transported, without a manifest any hazardous waste required to be so accompanied. Raises the maximum criminal penalties for these and other violations, under specified conditions. Revises provisions relating to conditions for knowing endangerment. Raises the penalties for knowing endangerment. Revises provisions for review of certain actions of the Administrator relating to permits for treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste and authorized State hazardous waste programs. Provides that action of the Administrator with respect to which review could have been obtained under such provisions of the Act shall not be subject to judicial review in civil or criminal proceedings for enforcement. Directs the Administrator to establish an Office of Ombudsman to receive individual complaints, grievances, and requests for information submitted by any person with respect to any program or requirement under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Directs the Ombudsman to render assistance with respect to such submissions and make appropriate recommendations to the Administrator. Provides that the establishment of such Office shall not affect any procedures for grievances, appeals, or administrative matters. Revises provisions relating to imminent hazards to allow any person endangered by the action with respect to which the Administrator has brought suit to intervene as a matter of right in such suit. Makes technical corrections. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986 for: (1) general administration by the Administrator to carry out the Act (including funds for Resources Recovery and Conservation Panels, hazardous waste management, and support for State, regional, local, and interstate agency solid waste plans); (2) grants to State hazardous programs; (3) hazardous waste site inventory; (4) development and implementation of plans by State, local, regional, and interstate authorities; (5) implementation of State, local, and intermunicipal programs for solid waste management, resource recovery, resource conservation, and hazardous waste management; (6) special communities assistance; (7) assistance to States for recycled oil programs; and (8) the Secretary of Commerce to carry out resource and recovery duties.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1983
Export Administration Improvement Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit requiring permission under the national security export controls for exports of goods or technology to countries which participate in multilateral export controls on such goods or technology. Authorizes the issuance of a comprehensive operations export license and a distribution export license. Declares that an item on the list of militarily critical technologies shall become part of the commodity control list only if: (1) the Secretary of Defense finds that an item would contribute directly and significantly to the military capabilities of countries subject to national security export controls and would permit a significant advance in the military system of such country; and (2) the Secretary of Commerce finds that countries subject to national security export controls do not have another source for nor possess the item or a like item. Prohibits imposing national security export controls on a good solely because the good contains an imbedded microprocessor or microcomputer. Authorizes imposing a national security export control on a good containing a microprocessor or microcomputer when: (1) the microcomputer's or microprocessor's capabilities exceed the COCOM general exception levels established for computer devices; or (2) the functions of the good itself would make a significant contribution to the military potential of another country or countries that would be deterimental to U.S. national security. Requires the Secretary to remove the national security export control on a good or provide notice of a determination to retain the control if, during the previous year, all export license applications for the export of such good have been approved. Declares that foreign policy export controls shall not apply to goods exported pursuant to a contract entered into before the controls were imposed. Prohibits denying, revoking, or modifying export licenses for such exports. Declares that short supply export controls shall not affect any export contract entered into before the date on which the controls are imposed, including any contract to harvest unprocessed western red cedar from State lands the performance of which contract would make the red cedar available for export. Authorizes the President to impose, expand, or extend foreign policy export controls only if the President makes specified determinations. Requires the President to transmit a report to Congress setting forth such determinations. Requires the Secretary to review the availability of goods or technology (which require a validated export license under the Act) to countries to which exports are controlled under a specified section of the Act from sources outside the United States. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring a validated license where such goods are available from sources outside the United States, unless the President determines that the absence of export controls would be detrimental to U.S. foreign policy. Directs the Secretary to accept the representations of applicants in making determinations of foreign availability, unless contradicted by specified reliable evidence. Extends the export controls on domestically produced crude oil until September 30, 1989. Makes a technical amendment to the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Requires the Attorney General and all other appropriate Federal agencies and officials to enforce the antitrust laws, including the prohibition against vertical price restraints. Directs such officials and agencies to cease propounding arguments in court designed to weaken such prohibition, and to submit to Congress proposed legislation to make any desired changes in such prohibition.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Export Administration Improvement Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to prohibit the Secretary of Commerce from requiring an individual validated license for the export of goods or technology to destinations in countries cooperating with the United States in the establishment and maintenance of export controls if the goods or technology or like goods and technology are available from sources outside the United States. Declares that exports of goods and technology to communist countries shall be eligible for a distribution license or other bulk export license instead of an individual validated license under the national security controls provisions. Makes exports of technology and related goods, including items classified as militarily critical technologies, eligible for comprehensive operations licenses instead of individual validated licenses. Authorizes the Secretary to require a validated license or specific authorization for the export or reexport of a good or technology on the commodity control list which is not subject to international controls only after the Secretary determines that such good or technology is available in foreign countries and the President determines that such action is required by extraordinary national security circumstance. Limits the duration of such requirement to one year with a possible one year extension. Declares that an item on the list of militarily critical technologies shall become part of the commodity control list only if: (1) the Secretary of Defense finds that an item would contribute directly and significantly to the military capabilities of countries subject to national security export controls and would permit a significant advance in the military system of such country; and (2) the Secretary of Commerce finds that countries subject to national security export controls do not have another source for nor possess the item or a like item. Prohibits imposing national security export controls on a good solely because the good contains an imbedded microprocessor or microcomputer. Authorizes imposing a national security export control on a good containing a microprocessor or microcomputer when: (1) the microcomputer's or microprocessor's capabilities exceed the COCOM general exception levels established for computer devices; or (2) the functions of the good itself would make a significant contribution to the military potential of another country or countries that would be detrimental to U.S. national security. Requires the Secretary to remove the national security export control on a good or provide notice of a determination to retain the control if during the previous year all export license applications for the export of such good have been approved.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Expresses the support of the Senate for Lebanon's and Israel's agreement on arrangements for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. Calls upon other nations to work toward the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon. Emphasizes the need of all nations to recognize the sovereignty of Lebanon. Urges Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization to agree to the arrangements for the withdrawal of their forces from Lebanon.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1983
Manufacturing Sciences and Technology Research and Development Act of 1983 - Permits the Secretary of Commerce, through the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, to award grants and enter into cooperative agreements to provide for research on ways of producing more efficient manufacturing processes and methods, including: (1) computer-assisted design; (2) automated materials handling; (3) automated testing; and (4) integrated manufacturing systems. Requires grants to be made on a competitive basis. Permits the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements to establish and support Centers for Manufacturing Research and Technology Utilization. Permits such Centers to conduct applied research on a matching funds basis. Authorizes appropriations for both the grants and cooperative agreements for FY 1984-1988. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of experimental activities to identify the most feasible means of utilizing advanced manufacturing methods by retraining displaced workers. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress within one year on such program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985. Directs the Secretary to select specific domestic technology-sensitive industrial sectors to analyze their long-term capability for remaining competitive. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1984-1988. Directs the Secretary to establish a Manufacturing Sciences and Technology Enhancement Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary concerning the activities to be conducted under this Act. Requires such Committee to submit to Congress an annual report.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
School Lunch Pilot Project Act of 1983 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture in carrying out the school lunch pilot project study to: (1) provide to participating school districts, in lieu of commodities, all cash assistance or all commodity letters of credit; (2) continue the study through June 30, 1986; (3) increase the number of participating districts from 60 to 100; (4) meet project expenses from specified sources; (5) consult with and get approval of the Comptroller General before altering such project; and (6) report to the appropriate congressional committees by December 15, 1986. Requires the Comptroller to report to the appropriate congressional committees every six months through June 30, 1986. Requires the Department of Agriculture, upon request, to compensate a participating district for losses sustained as a result of the Department's previous change in project methodology. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1983
Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to cause a named vessel to be documented as a vessel of the United States entitled to engage in the coastwise trade.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1983
Authorizes the erection of a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia, or its environs, in honor and commemoration of members of the armed forces who served in the Korean war. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to select, with the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, a suitable site on public grounds for such memorial. Subjects the design and any plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary, the National Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Declares that no moneys belonging to the United States or the District of Columbia shall be expended for the erection of such memorial. Authorizes appropriations for site acquisition and preparation in the event nonpublic land is selected for the memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1983
Designates August 1, 1983, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation reasserting the American commitment to the human rights and humanitarian provisions of the Helsinki accords. Requests the President to continue to raise the issue of noncompliance with the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Title I: National Inland Waterways Urgent Improvement Act of 1983 - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to replace the Gallipolis locks, Ohio River, Ohio and West Virginia, according to specified recommendations. Directs the Secretary to mitigate fish and wildlife habitat losses resulting from such construction by purchasing, at Federal expense, specified land. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer such land to the State of West Virginia for operation and maintenance. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to construct a specified multipurpose lock and dam project to replace the William Bacon Oliver lock and dam, Black Warrior River, Alabama. Amends Federal law to authorize the Secretary to construct a new lock at the Bonneville lock and dam project, Oregon and Washington, according to a certain Chief of Engineers' report. Directs the Secretary to construct: (1) a lock and dam (to be called Grays Landing) to replace lock and dam numbered 7, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania; and (2) a lock and abutment (to be called Point Marion lock) to replace the lock and abutment at lock and dam numbered 8, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania. Requires construction of such projects to be carried out according to specified recommendations. Authorizes the Secretary to replace the Winfield locks on the Kanawha River, West Virginia. Establishes procedures for the submission of final environmental impact statements to Congress for the navigation projects authorized by this title. Sets forth related judicial review procedures. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Upper Mississippi River System Management Act - Grants congressional approval of the Comprehensive Master Plan for the Management of the Upper Mississippi River System as a guide for future water policy on such system. Defines the Upper Mississippi River System as those river reaches having commercial navigation channels on certain rivers in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Grants congressional consent to Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin (or any two or more of such States) to: (1) enter into agreements for cooperative effort and mutual assistance in the planning for the use, protection, growth, and development of the System; and (2) form agencies for effecting such agreements. Authorizes officers or employees of the United States, who are responsible for management of any part of the System, to assist such agencies. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to provide for the engineering, design, and construction of a second lock at locks and dam 26, Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois and Missouri. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to monitor traffic movements on the System to verify the need for future capacity expansion of the System and the future need for river rehabilitation and environmental enhancement. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in concert with any appropriate State agency, to undertake with respect to the System: (1) a habitat rehabilitation and enhancement program; (2) the implementation of a long-term resource monitoring program; and (3) the implementation of a computerized inventory and analysis system. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to implement a program of recreational projects for the System and to assess the economic benefits generated by recreational activities in the System. Authorizes appropriations. Declares that the Master Plan for the System has reasonably complied with the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Tobacco Deregulation Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal specified tobacco programs, including: (1) price supports; (2) parity payments; (3) review and adjustment of quotas; and (4) marketing quotas. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to prohibit agricultural commodity assistance for tobacco. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Assistance Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from issuing any tobacco handling orders. Makes such provisions applicable to the 1984 and subsequent tobacco crops. Repeals provisions relating to compacts among States providing for the control or production of, or commerce in, tobacco within such States. Withdraws congressional consent to such compacts. Provides for sliding-scale based payments to low-income tobacco farmers (1982 adjusted gross income up to $24,000) who have terminated acreage allotments and marketing quotas.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Reorganization Act of 1983 - Divides the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and creates a Twelfth Circuit, comprising Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Reassigns former Ninth Circuit judges to the new circuits. Permits specified senior judges of the former Ninth Circuit to elect assignments in either the Ninth or Twelfth Circuit. Establishes guidelines for the disposition of proceedings commenced in the former Ninth Circuit.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Legal Services Corporation Act Amendments of 1983 - Requires appointees to the Legal Services Corporation's Board of Directors (the Board) to: (1) support the principle of providing low-income individuals equal access under the law to comprehensive legal services; (2) have participated in organizations concerned with providing legal services to the poor; or (3) have directly provided such services themselves. States that eligible client nominees to the Board must have been eligible to receive legal assistance under this Act before such nomination. Sets quorum requirements for Board meetings. States that six Board members, including at least one eligible client member, shall constitute a quorum at Board meetings. Delineates conditions under which action suits may be brought against government entities. Directs the Corporation to: (1) provide funds each fiscal year to compensate private attorneys who render legal services to eligible clients; and (2) allow recipients to use Corporation funds to pay for communications intended to influence decisions by government entities or elected officials when such communications are made in response to requests by such entities or officials. Repeals authority for a comprehensive, independent study to determine: (1) alternative methods of delivering legal services; and (2) if specified groups have difficulty gaining access to legal services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through FY 1986. Sets forth formulae to insure that funding for current grantees and contractors is maintained at previous fiscal year levels whenever the Board contains fewer than six members qualified as required by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Amends the Federal Power Act to provide that the annual charge for a license issued under such Act for the development and utilization of power created by any Government dam shall include: (1) the actual unreimbursed cost to the United States resulting from the construction, operation, and maintenance of the licensee's project works; and (2) an annual rental charge not to exceed $1.00 per kilowatt of installed capacity and one-half mill per kilowatt-hour of energy produced.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Amends the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act to extend coverage to American art work while on exhibition outside the United States whether or not such exhibition is part of a cultural exchange.
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