United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1974
Requires the establishment and operation of a vessel traffic control system for Prince William Sound and Valdez, Alaska, which shall include VHF-FM communications, complete radar coverage, positive control of vessel transit, and a computerized control center. Requires oil tankers operating between Alaska's North Slope and lower States to have collision avoidance systems. Authorizes the appropriation of $23,000,000 for the establishment of such vessel traffic control system. Provides for charges on each barrel of oil from the North Slope to support such control system. (Amends 33 U.S.C. 1221)
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1974
Higher Education Insured Student Loan Amendments - Sets requirements for the repayment of higher education student loans under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Provides that loans made under such Act's authority may be released by a discharge in bankruptcy under the Bankruptcy Act only if such discharge is granted after the five-year period (exclusive of any applicable suspension of the repayment period) beginning on the date of commencement of the repayment period of such loan. Requires the Commissioner of Education to issue regulations to insure that each student borrower under such Act is notified of the terms and conditions associated with such loans, together with the financial responsibility of such student to repay the loan.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is especially appropriate to honor former President Harry S. Truman through the creation of a perpetual educational scholarship program to develop increased opportunities for young Americans to prepare and pursue careers in public service. Establishes, as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the United States Government, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, to be subject to the supervision and direction of the Board of Trustees. Authorizes the Foundation to award fifty-one scholarships in any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1973, for undergraduate study for persons who plan to pursue a career in public service. States that each recipient shall be known as a Truman scholar. Sets forth provisions governing: (1) the scholarship requirements; (2) the procedure for selection of Truman scholars; (3) stipends and institutional allowances; and (4) the scholarship conditions. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund. Prescribes the procedure for expenditures from the fund. Directs that there shall be an Executive Secretary of the Foundation, appointed by the Board, who shall be the chief executive officer and shall carry out the functions of the Foundation subject to the supervision and direction of the Board. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 to the fund. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for administrative expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Highway Energy Conservation and Safety Act - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold funding of Federal-aid highway projects from any State which has a maximum speed limit on any public highway of over 55 miles per hour.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Makes permanent the provisions regarding payments to States for training of personnel to inspect long-term care institutions pursuant to the Medicare and Medicaid provisions of the Social Security Act. Provides for publication of information on charges and the rating of such institutions. Requires such institutions to provide periodic in-service training for their nonprofessional employees in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1974
Amateur Athletic Act - Title I: General Provisions - Sets forth the findings of the Congress. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title II: Coordination of Amateur Athletic Activity - Establishes an independent agency known as the Amateur Sports Board composed of five members who shall elect their own chairman. Authorizes the Board to issue charters, with respect to each sport for which application is made for a charter, to a corporation which meets the requirements and any applicable regulations under this Act. Lists prerequisites which must be met before a charter is granted. Declares that a charter issued pursuant to this title shall grant authority to the holders of such charters to: (1) act as the representative of the United States to the appropriate international governing body or bodies for the sport or sports over which it has jurisdiction; (2) act as the representative of athletes competing in international competition in its sport or sports; (3) designate individuals and teams to participate in international competition and certify in accordance with international rules the amateur status of such individuals and teams; (4) conduct domestic competition in which all eligible amateur athletes may compete, including, but not limited to, Olympic trials or national championships; (5) conduct domestic exhibitions with representatives of foreign nations, the purpose of which is to promote interest in its sport or sports; (6) to take whatever actions, consistent with rules and regulations promulgated by the Board pursuant to this Act, as may be necessary to insure the safety and well-being of athletes representing the United States in international competition in its sport or sports; and (7) assume such other authority as the Board deems appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title. Title III: Support and Encouragement of Sports and Physical Fitness - Establishes the National Sports Development Foundation. Provides that the Foundation shall, to the extent practicable: (1) promote equal opportunity for and encourage participation and excellence in athletic activity and physical fitness programs for individuals of all ages; (2) foster and support organizations, groups, and individuals concerned with sports and coordinate their activities voluntarily with educational and recreational programs conducted by Federal, State, and local governments; (3) support the development and dissemination of technical, financial, and training assistance to not-for-profit organizations and to individuals concerned with sports and physical fitness education; (4) promote increased athletic exchanges with foreign nations; (5) support studies with respect to athletic activity, including competition and physical fitness; (6) identify, without duplicating existing government or private activities, the need for provision of sports facilities by public or private groups and availability of such facilities by specified means; and (7) promote safety and good health in sports. Authorizes up to $50,000,000 to carry out the purpose of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974
Equal Credit Opportunity Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to require that financial institutions and other firms engaged in the extension of credit make that credit equally available to all creditworthy customers without regard to sex or marital status. Makes it unlawful for any creditor to discriminate against any applicant on the basis of sex or marital status. Defines the terms used in the Act. Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act. Makes changes in specified Acts of Congress in order to make those Acts comply with the purposes of this Act. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the requirements of this Act to the extent that they will not be enforced by another Government agency after enactment of this Act. Provides for the assessment by a United States District Court of actual and punitive damages in any action brought against a violator of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1974
Inflation Adjustment Tax Act- Provides for the adjustment of the individual income tax tables, the standard deduction, and the personal exemption deduction each year according to the price index.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1974
National Summer Youth Sports Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants or enter into contracts for the conduct of an annual National Summer Youth Sports Program concentrated in the summer months, with opportunity for continued activities throughout the year, designed to offer disadvantaged youth living in areas of concentrated poverty an opportunity to receive educational instruction, sports instruction, and health and nutritional services, and to participate in educational programs and sports competitions. Prohibits assistance under this Act unless 90 percent of the youths participating in a program are from families with incomes below the poverty level and that such youths will have maximum participation in program planning and operation. Provides that programs under this Act shall be administered by the Secretary, through grants or contracts with the National Collegiate Athletic Association or any other qualified national organization of colleges and universities. Provides that each such grant or contract shall contain provisions to assure that the program to be assisted will: (1) expand educational opportunities for disadvantaged youths, designed to provide an opportunity to engage in competitive sports and benefit from sports skills instruction; (2) help young people learn good health practices and become better citizens by utilizing the personnel and facilities of higher education; (3) enable the contractor and institutions of higher education located conveniently to areas of concentrated poverty and their personnel to participate more fully in community life and in the solution of community problems; (4) provide a combination of employment and on-the-job training in sports instruction and administration; and (5) serve major metropolitan centers of the United States as well as other areas, within the limits of program resources. Requires local projects under any such program to be conducted under approved contracts between the principal contractor or grantee and selected institutions of higher education qualified to carry out a program under this Act. Provides that, except where the Secretary determines that unusual circumstances make a larger percentage necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act, a contract under this Act with respect to any program may not provide for payment of more than 80 percent of the direct costs incurred in carrying out the total program. Provides that the non-Federal share may be cash or in-kind contributions. Permits such payments to be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments and on such conditions as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, June 30, 1976, and June 30, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1974
Authorizes increases in the maximum pay rate for public service jobs in areas where the cost of living is 15 percent or more above the national average.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1974
Alaska Cost of Living Tax Impact Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to conduct a study of the impact of the high cost of living in the State of Alaska on the tax burden imposed on the income and estate and gift taxes paid by the residents under the Internal Revenue Code. Details the scope of such study and requires its submission to Congress within one year of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1974
States that, notwithstanding the compilation or publication of any other index, the Secretary of Labor through the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall continue to compile and publish a Consumer Price Index measuring the changes in consumer prices of goods and services which is based upon prices paid by urban wage earners and clerical workers.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Federal Employees Political Activities Act - Provides that an employee of an executive or Federal agency, or of the District of Columbia, may not use his official authority to affect the result of any election or process defined in this Act. Defines such employee's right to express his opinion on political subjects and candidates, and to take an active part in any partisan or non-partisan political activity. Prohibits Presidential appointees, employees of Congress, or members of the uniformed service from requesting or inviting political contributions from other such employees. Provides for enforcement of this provision by the Civil Service Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Community Anticrime Assistance Act - Declares it to be the policy of the Congress to provide anticrime assistance grants to cities, combinations of cities, public agencies and nonprofit private agencies for the purpose of involving citizens and the private sectors in cooperative anticrime programs with local governments. Title I: Grants to Cities and Public Agencies - Authorizes the Director of Community Relations, in consultation and cooperation with the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration in the Department of Justice to make grants to, or cooperative arrangements with cities and combinations of cities with a population of not less than one hundred thousand and public agencies thereof, including regional planning organizations, to meet all or part of the cost of establishing or operating, including the cost of planning, programs designed to carry out the purpose of this title. Provides that grants and cooperative arrangements made under this title may be made to carry out programs including: (1) programs to encourage the participation of industry, business, labor unions, and other private enterprises in crime prevention efforts of the city and the neighborhood in which they are located; (2) the recruiting and training of police-community relations officers, which includes the development of programs of police training and education to sensitize police to the needs of the community; (3) the recruiting and training of community service officers to serve with and assist police departments in the discharge of their duties through such activities as recruiting police officers, improvement of police community relations and grievance resolution mechanisms; and (4) the recruiting, organization, and training of citizen preventive patrols for the purpose of patrolling apartment buildings, neighborhoods, and schools. Provides that grants and cooperative arrangements under this title shall be made only upon an application to the Director containing specified assurances, including: (1) satisfactory assurances that such applicant will place special emphasis upon programs, which involve disadvantaged persons and minority groups in the criminal justice system; and (2) satisfactory assurances that such applicant will make special effort to assure that programs established under this title are directed to the areas of the city with the highest incidence of crime. Title II: Grants to Nonprofit Private Agencies - Authorizes the Director to make grants to, or cooperative arrangements with, nonprofit private agencies to meet all or part of the cost of establishing or operating: (1) programs to encourage the reporting of crime and the marking and identification of personal property; (2) to enhance the delivery of social services into neighborhoods such as the removal of waste, street cleaning, building inspection, recreational facilities, and improved street lighting; (3) to provide volunteer escorts for elderly citizens and other persons requiring assistance to and from their residences in high crime areas; (4) to provide counseling to ex-offenders, narcotics addicts, and persons on probation; (5) programs to improve communication between the community and police departments; and (6) to provide alternatives to incarceration (including release to the custody of community programs) for persons convicted of minor or victimless crimes. Title III: Administration - Directs the Director to require of applicants under this Act to submit: (1) a description of the purpose of this program; (2) a description of the anticipated use of funds under the grant; (3) a description of the geographic area of the community in which the program will be carried out and the incidence of crime in such area; (4) a description of the extent that the program anticipates assistance, financial or otherwise, from departments or agencies of the Federal, State, or local governments; and (5) a description of the anticipated number of citizens who will participate in the program or be benefited by its operation. Provides that the Director and the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration shall work together in the management, evaluation, monitoring and auditing of programs funded pursuant to this Act. Directs the Director to provide technical assistance to cities, combinations of cities, public agencies, and nonprofit private agencies either directly or through contracts with other Federal departments or agencies to enable such recipients to fully participate in all programs available under this Act. Authorizes the Director, on the application of any person claiming to be aggrieved by the denial of assistance under this Act, to give such person a public hearing to determine whether such person was so aggrieved. Provides that if the Director determines such person was aggrieved, he shall grant, in whole or in part, the assistance with respect to which such hearing was held. Provides that not more than one-third of any grants made under this Act shall be used for the lease or rental of any building or space therein. Provides that no part of any grant may be used to purchase buildings or land for research, except to the extent such research is incidental to the carrying out of programs under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for grants and cooperative arrangements under title I of this Act $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975. Authorizes to be appropriated for grants and cooperative arrangements under title II of this Act $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975. Title IV: Prohibition on Use of Weapons - States that no part of any appropriation under this Act may be expended for the use of weapons by civilian personnel in the programs or activities authorized by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
National Huntington's Disease Control Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of, and research in, Huntington's disease. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for projects for the establishment and operation of Huntington's disease screening, treatment, and counseling programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,00 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Huntington's disease. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30l 1975 and for each of the next two fiscal years for use for such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to develop information and educational materials relating to Huntington's disease and to ddisseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care and to the public in general. Authorizes the appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1085, and for each of the next two fiscal years to carry out this information program. Sets forth the requirements for applications for grants under this Act and the administration of such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for voluntary Huntington's disease screening, counseling, and treatment. National Huntington's Disease Control Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of, and research in, Huntington's disease. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for projects for the establishment and operation of Huntington's disease screeening, treatment, and counseling programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Huntington's disease. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 and for each of the next two fiscal years for use for such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to develop information and educational materials relating to Huntington's disease and to disseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care and to the public in general. Authorizes the appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year ednding June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years to carry out this information program. Sets forth the requirements for applications for grants under this Act and the administration of such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for voluntary Huntington's disease screening, counseling, and treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1974
Energy and Resources Recovery Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish within the Agency an Office of Energy and Resources Recovery to achieve the purposes and administer the provisions of this Act. Directs the Administrator, within one year of the date of enactment of this Act, after consultation with appropriate Federal, State interstate, regional, and local agencies and after opportunity for public hearings, to promulgate standards for collection, handling, disposal, and recovery of all hazardous and other solid waste which may, if improperly disposed of, cause air or water pollution or other environmental damage. States that the Administrator, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, may require the operator of any disposal system for hazardous or other solid waste to: (1) establish and maintain such records; (2) make such reports; and (3) install, use, and maintain such monitoring equipment or methods as he may require. Establishes a $25,000 per day fine for violations of this Act. Requires the Administrator, within one year following enactment of this section and each year thereafter, to publish guidelines specifying the percentages of energy and resources that can be recovered from solid waste by use of the best recovery management practices and technology that are reasonably available. Provides that as a part of such guidelines, the Administrator shall publish thorough descriptions of existing technology and practices which can be implemented by agricultural producers, industries, municipalities, consumers, and others to achieve the percentages of energy or resource recovery from each category of solid waste that the Administrator finds reasonable. Requires the Administrator, within one year following enactment of this section to make a complete assessment of the use of natural resources and recycled materials in product packaging; and establish guidelines for the packaging of products to encourage efficient use of such resources and materials with a consequential reduction in solid waste. Directs the Administrator to grant to each State 80 percent of the cost of a comprehensive solid waste management and energy and resource recovery program. Authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 to carry out this Act for fiscal years 1975-1977. Authorizes grants to States to establish an energy and resources recovery research institute at one college in each State. Authorizes appropriations of $40,000,000 for fiscal years 1975-1977 for additional purposes of this Act. Empowers the Administration to make loans (either directly or in cooperation with banks or other lenders) to assist any small business concern in affecting additions to or alterations in the equipment, facilities, or methods of operation of such concern to recover energy and resources from solid waste.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974
Provides for displaying for public viewing at the Arlington National Cemetery the names of veterans who died after February 17, 1967. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1974
Disallows the insertion of limitation of liability clauses in contracts granted to licensees for the purpose of distribution of special nuclear material, or the limitation of the liability of such contractors and licensees by the United States. Requires prospective licensees to, as a condition of receiving a license, have and maintain financial protection to cover public liability claims. Authorizes the Atomic Energy Commission to enter into agreements of indemnification in such amounts determined by the Commission to be appropriate to cover public liability resulting from activities under contracts for the benefit of the United States involving a risk of public liability from a substantial nuclear incident. Provides that a contractor engaged in the underground detonation of a nuclear device shall, to the extent indemnified under this Act, be liable to the same extent as would a private person acting as principal, and no immunity or defense founded on the Federal, State, or municipal character of the contractor or the work to be performed shall be effective to bar such liability. States that the Commission shall use, to the maximum extent practicable, the facilities and services of private insurance organizations. Provides that, when it is determined that the United States will probably be required to make payments under this Act, the Commission on its own behalf or through the Attorney General may take charge of, defend and/or settle such action. Authorizes the Commission to enter into an agreement for the indemnification of the nuclear ship Savannah. Provides that the Commission and other indemnitors may, without securing releases or admitting liability, make payments to provide immediate assistance to claimants following a nuclear incident. States that defenses as to the fault of indemnified persons, charitable or government immunity, or expiration of the statute of limitations if suit is instituted within 3 years of the date on which the claimant could reasonably have known of his injury and the probable cause thereof, shall be waived by required provisions in the licensing agreement. States that such waivers shall not preclude other defenses normally assertable. Provides that the Federal district court of the district in which the nuclear incident takes place shall have original jurisdiction over the controversy without regard to the citizenship of any party involved. Provides that such district court, for the purposes of such action, shall be able to effect national service of process. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 2012, 2073, and 2210)
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1974
Provides allowances and reduced governmental rental rates and charges for certain Alaskan employees of executive departments and independent establishments. Exempts such allowances and reduction from taxation under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1974
Solar Energy Research Act - Declares that it is the policy of the Federal Government to pursue a vigorous and viable program of research and development into the utilization of solar energy as a major source for our national energy needs. Provides that, within sixty days from the date of enactment of legislation creating any permanent Federal organization or agency having jurisdiction over the energy research and development functions of the United States Government, the Office of Solar Energy Research shall be established within that agency. Provides that if, within sixty days from the date of enactment of this Act, no agency with jurisdiction over Federal energy research and development has been established, the Office of Solar Energy Research authorized under this Act shall be established, on an interim basis, within the Atomic Energy Commission, until sixty days from the date of enactment of legislation authorizing the new Federal office of energy research and development. Authorizes the Chairman or Administrator to conduct appropriate research and technical development work: (1) to determine, by laboratory and pilot testing, the usable results of scientific research, (2) to develop and fabricate solar energy transformation processes, equipment designs, and components to the point where they can be demonstrated, certified, produced, and operated on a commercially practical scale; (3) to recommend to the Congress, as deemed appropriate, authorizations for the construction and operation or for participation in the construction and operation, of solar energy conversion facilities, and (4) to undertake, through research grants and contracts, studies of possible economic, social, and environmental effects which will result from the use of solar energy. Establishes a Solar Energy Research Council to be chaired by the Chairman or Administrator to coordinate policy and programs in solar energy research. Specifies the composition of the Council. Directs the development of a program to expedite the increased utilization of solar energy technology by the public and private sectors. Establishes a solar energy incentives task force to carry out the following functions: (1) report to the President and the Congress within one hundred and twenty days following enactment, and at least annually thereafter, recommendations for a viable program, of specified, time limited, incentives or modifications to existing and/or proposed incentives programs to accelerate the commercial application of solar energy technology; and (2) carry out a program of research and investigation into the barriers to innovation in the field of solar energy, the barriers to the acceleration of the commercial application of solar energy technology, and the programs needed to remove such barriers. Authorizes the compilation on a semi-annual basis of a listing of all solar energy conversion components, facilities, and equipment, commercially available in the Nation for private or public use. States that utilization of solar energy shall include such applications of solar energy as, but not limited to, the solar heating and cooling of buildings, solar crop drying and other agricultural applications of solar energy, solar thermal and photovoltaic power generation for terrestrial applications, whether situated on the ground or in space, wind energy conversion, ocean thermal gradient conversion, solar stimulated bioconversion, and solar production of synthetic gases and hydrogen. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act the following amounts: (1) for fiscal year 1975, $56,000,000; (2) for fiscal year 1976, $94,000,000; (3) for fiscal year 1977, $150,000,000; (4) for fiscal year 1978, $150,000,000; and (5) for fiscal year 1979, $150,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1974
Model Criminal Justice Reform Act - States that the ever-increasing number of serious crimes committed in the United States, the blacklog of criminal cases in the courts, and the overcrowded and inadequate conditions of correctional institutions require that only comprehensive reform can achieve a truly adequate system of criminal justice in the United States. Authorizes the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Administration to make grants and provide technical assistance to States and localities for demonstration projects in accordance with the provisions of this Act, beginning July 1, 1974, and ending June 30, 1981. Provides that a State or locality is eligible for assistance under this Act only if the Administrator determines, pursuant to regulations established by him, that a plan for comprehensive criminal justice system reform submitted to him pursuant to this Act establishes the reasonable likelihood of substantial and fundamental change in the criminal justice system of such State or locality within four years after the enactment of this Act. Requires each and any locality within such State having jurisdiction over the trial of criminal offenses to implement such necessary reforms as will insure that: (1) the trial of all such offenses (excluding juvenile offenses) will be commenced no later than sixty days from the date on which the defendant was arrested or from the date on which the defendant was charged by the authorities with such offense, whichever occurs first, and (2) the charges will be dismissed with prejudice for failure to comply with the requirements of this paragraph, except that the Administrator shall, by regulation, provide for the exclusion from such sixty-day period of any periods of delay that he designates as may reasonably be necessitated in the interest of justice. Directs each State and, where appropriate, each such locality within such State eligible to receive assistance under this Act: (1) to establish a system for classifying persons charged with, or convicted of, criminal offenses so as to permit individualized treatment and security standards appropriate to the individual; and (2) to establish a range of correctional facilities that are adequately equipped and staffed to treat the particular classifications of inmates assigned there, including small-unit, community-based correctional institutions. Requires each State to study, through an appropriate and responsible group, the consolidation of law enforcement agencies within such State, as best suited to the particular needs of that State; and to report to the Administrator on its findings not later than two years following the approval of its State plan under this Act. Provides that any State desiring to receive assistance under this Act shall submit a State plan consistent with such regulations as the Administrator may establish under this Act. States that a grant under this Act pursuant to an approved State plan for criminal justice reform may be made to the appropriate State at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Administrator deems necessary. Authorizes the Administrator to issue regulations to implement the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to, and contract with, States and localities to pay 50 percent of the cost of planning and developing State plans and project applications under this Act. Directs the Administrator to pay in any fiscal year to each State which has a plan approved pursuant to this Act for that fiscal year that Federal share of the cost of such plan as determined by him. Sets forth the conditions under which the Administrator may withhold such payments. States that the Administrator and the Comptroller General of the United States, or any of their duly authorized representatives, shall have access, for the purpose of audit and examination, to any books, documents, papers, and records of a grant recipient that are pertinent to the grant received. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
Postal Reorganization Act Amendments - Provides that if there is a collective-bargaining agreement in effect for postal service employees no party to such agreement shall terminate or modify such agreement unless the party desiring such termination or modification serves written notice upon the other party to the agreement of the proposed termination or modification not less than ninety days prior to the expiration date. Requires the party serving such notice to notify the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service of the existence of a dispute within forty-five days of such notice, if no agreement has been reached by that time. Requires that if arbitration is selected by the parties and if they do not agree upon the procedures therefor, an arbitration board shall be established and its decisions shall be binding upon the parties. Provides that, in the event the bargaining representatives agree to go on strike if an agreement cannot be reached during the forty-five-day period prior to the termination or modification, the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service shall promptly communicate with the employer and the bargaining representatives and use the service's best efforts, by mediation and conciliation, to bring them into agreement, and shall continue to do so for a period of thirty days after the date of termination or modification of the agreement, during which period of time no lawful strike shall be engaged in. Prohibits reduction in rank or pay or removal from the Postal Service of postal employees because of union membership. States that in any lawful strike declared against the Postal Service by the employees thereof, the Postal Service and the bargaining representatives jointly may determine and agree upon, before the close of the third calendar day after the calendar day on which the strike becomes effective, the number of employees needed to accept, process, dispatch, and deliver specified necessary categories of mail, such as social security checks. Provides for a mandatory delivery of such mail during a strike if the parties cannot agree upon a strike-delivery method.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
Requires, under the General Education Provisions Act, that the President shall include in the budget transmitted to the Congress proposed appropriations for carrying out provisions of such Act relating to advance funding of educational programs.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the provisions of the General Education Provisions Act relating to advance funding for education programs should be immediately and continually implemented so as to afford responsible State, local, and Federal officers adequate notice of available Federal financial assistance for education.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1974
Social Security Administration Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to strengthen the fiscal and administrative structure of the contributory social security programs. Title I: Social Security Administration - Establishes, as an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the Government, a Social Security Administration, headed by a Board appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Declares that it shall be the duty of the Administration to administer the programs established by titles II, XVI, and XVIII of the Social Security Act, and to discharge the duties and responsibilities imposed on the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in connection with the administration of the program established by title IV of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. States that the Administration shall also have the duty of studying and making recommendations as to the most effective methods of providing economic security through social insurance, and as to legislation and matters of administrative policy. Provides for the appointment of an Executive Director and a General Counsel of the Administration. Makes the Administration responsible for administering the old age, survivors, and disability insurance program, medicare, supplemental security income, and the black lung benefit program under the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. Prohibits the mailing of announcements with Social Security and SSI checks which make reference by name, title, or signature to any officer of the United States. Transfers to the Social Security Administration: (1) all functions carried out by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, with respect to the administration of programs and activities the administration of which is vested in such Administration, by reason of this Act; and (2) all personnel, assets, liabilities, contracts, property, and records, which the Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines to be employed, held, or used by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare primarily in connection with the functions, activities, and programs which, by reason of this Act are vested in or become the responsibility of the Administration. Abolishes the position of Commissioner of Social Security. Title II: Miscellaneous and Conforming Amendments - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Social Security Act, the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, the Budget and Accounting Act, and the Executive Schedules of the United States Code.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1974
American Arts and Handcrafts Act - Provides financial assistance for the establishment and maintenance of a center for American Arts and Handcrafts in each State. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,300,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974-1977 to enable the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts to make grants under this Act. Provides for the allocation of funds and the authorization of State programs under this Act. Declares that the Federal share for any fiscal year shall be 50 percent of the cost of carrying out an application of a State with a maximum Federal contribution of $100,000 in any one year.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Provides, under the Higher Education Act, that Social Security payments shall not be counted as effective income for students if the effective family income of the student is less than $9,000. States that if the effective family income of the student is: (1) between $9,000 and $15,000, one-half of the amount received by the student from Social Security would be considered as effective income; and (2) over $15,000, all Social Security payments will be considered as effective income.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1974
Provides, relating to travel expenses of persons going to and from a Veterans' Administration facility, that in no event shall the per diem rate for meals and lodging be less than $20 or the mileage rate be less than the current Department of Transportation estimate of the average costs of operating an automobile. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 111(a))
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the department under which the United States Coast Guard is operating to cause the vessel Miss Keku, owned by Clarence Jackson, of Juneau, Alaska, to be documented as a vessel of the United States so as to be entitled to engage in the American fisheries.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Economic Adjustment Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to extend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 for one year in order to provide an orderly transition to an economic adjustment assistance program, and to establish an economic adjustment assistance program to help States and local governments to deal more effectively with problems resulting from changes in economic conditions. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title I: Transition - Authorizes transitional appropriations under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. Title II: Economic Adjustment Assistance Program - Enumerates the objectives of this title and the purposes for which funds provided by this title may be used, including: (1) for assistance for public facilities, public services, business development, planning, research, technical assistance, and such other economic adjustment purposes; and (2) by public entities, private profitmaking and nonprofit enterprises, organizations, and individuals. Authorizes to be appropriated $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and such sums as may be necessary for the four succeeding fiscal years. Provides for the allocation of such funds among the States. Provides that funds allocated shall be obligated to the State upon submission by the Governor of the State, and approval by the Federal regional administrator, of a State plan or plans which contains specified elements, including: (1) an identification of the area or areas selected within the State for economic adjustment; (2) the criteria used in the selection of the areas; (3) statement of economic adjustment objectives; and (4) a description of the types of assistance for which funds obligated under this title shall be expended. Requires that, within 60 days after the end of each fiscal year, States shall submit a report to the appropriate Federal regional administrator, including specified information on the progress made toward the objectives of the approved plan; how the funds were used; reasons for substantive variations from the approved plans; and corrective actions taken. Prescribes procedures for hearings, evaluation, and termination, reduction, or limitation of obligations for a State's unsatisfactory compliance with the plan. Provides for judicial review of such proceedings. Provides that the consent of Congress is hereby given to any two or more States to negotiate and enter into agreements or compacts for cooperative efforts in pursuing the objectives of this Act. Title III: General Provisions - Directs the President to appoint a Federal regional administrator for each Federal region established pursuant to this Act. Provides that Federal regions shall be established and shall conform with the standard Federal regions established by the President for administration of Federal programs. Provides that no person shall, on the ground of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or age be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under, any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds made available under title II. Sets forth labor standard wage requirements for laborers and mechanics employed on federally assisted projects under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the Federal expenses of administration of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Full Disclosure Act - Requires, under the Federal Election Campaign Act, that each candidate for nomination for election to Federal office (other than a candidate who holds the office of President, Vice President, or Member of Congress) shall file with the Comptroller General a financial disclosure report for the calendar year immediately preceding the year of that individual's candidacy. Requires each individual who has served at any time during any calendar year as President, Vice President, or Member of Congress to file with the Comptroller General a financial disclosure report for that year. Prescribes the deadline dates for such filings. Provides that each such report shall contain a full and complete statement of: (1) the amount and sources of all income, other than reimbursements for expenditures actually incurred, and each gift or aggregate of gifts from one source of a value of more than $100 (other than gifts received from any relative or his spouse) received by him or by him and his spouse jointly or by his spouse or by his children during the preceding calendar year, including any fee or other honorarium received; (2) the value of all assets held by him, and of each liability owed by him, or by him and his spouse jointly; (3) all dealings in securities or commodities by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf; (4) all purchases and sales of real property or any interest therein; (5) the amount of each tax paid by the candidate during the preceding calendar year. States that all reports filed under this Act shall be maintained by the Comptroller General as public records, and shall be available, under such regulations as the Comptroller General may prescribe, for inspection by the public.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Federal Citizens Appeal Act - Title I: - Declares that it is the policy of the United States to guarantee citizen access to the operation of the Federal government, and to provide assistance to citizens who have complaints for agency actions which they feel are arbitrary, capricious, contrary to law, in excess of authority, or harmful to person or livelihood. Title II: Right of Citizen Appeal - States that this chapter applies, according to the provisions thereof, except to the extent that: (1) statutes preclude citizen appeal; and (2) agency action is committed to agency discretion by law. Defines the terms used in this Act. Declares that a person suffering legal wrong because of agency action, or adversely affected, or aggrieved by agency action within the meaning of a relevant statute, is entitled to citizen review. States which actions shall be reviewable, the relief available pending review, and the scope of citizen review. Title III: Establishment of Federal Citizens Appeal Board - Establishes, in each of ten Federal districts as independent establishments of the executive branch of the Government of the United States, a board to be known as the Federal Citizens Appeal Board. Specifies the membership composition of such Boards. Enumerates the powers of such Boards. Imposes civil penalties for violations of this title. Prescribes the staes which shall comprise the Federal districts for which a Federal Citizens Review Board shall be established. Title IV: Advisory Council on Citizen Appeal - Establishes an Advisory Council on Citizen Appeal, to be composed of twenty members, two of which who shall be appointed by each of the ten Federal Citizen Appeal Boards. Directs the Council to, at the close of each fiscal year, report to the Congress and to the President concerning the actions it and each of the Regional Federal Citizens Appeal Boards have taken. States that the Council shall be responsible for establishing regulations regarding the procedures of each Federal Citizen Review Board, including, although not limited to, procedures for: (1) filing requests for citizen review, (2) conducting preliminary and prehearing investigations; (3) conducting hearings to determine facts and to mediate disputes, and (4) all other activities of the Boards. Title V: Procedures for Citizen Review - Provides that upon receipt of a request for citizen review as determined under this Act, the Board shall conduct a preliminary investigation. Details the procedures for such investigations. States that prior to the calling of a hearing, the Board shall conduct an investigation to compile all available information regarding the request for citizen review. Requires investigations to be completed no later than twenty days following the initiation. Empowers the Board to issue emergency rulings compelling or setting aside agency action. Title VI: Hearing Procedures - States that the transcript of testimony and exhibits, together with all papers and requests filed in the proceeding, constitutes the exclusive record for decision and shall be made available without charge to the parties. Provides that the record shall show the ruling on each finding, conclusion, or exception presented. Provides that if the Board determines that any employee or officer of any agency has been guilty of a breach of duty or misconduct, the Board shall make note of such breach of duty or misconduct in the official record, and copies of the record shall be made available to the appropriate agency, the Department of Justice, and the Civil Service Commission. Empowers the Board to file motions in Federal district court and to represent a complainant in action brought against a Federal agency which fails to comply with a Board ruling and to provide adequate representation, without cost, to complainants in a court proceeding initiated by a Federal agency appealing a ruling of the Board. States that all rulings of the Board shall be subject to judicial review. Title VII: Grants for Citizens Appeals Board - Authorizes the Advisory Council on Citizen Appeal to make grants to any State or political subdivision for the purpose of establishing citizens appeal boards, to ease conflicts between the citizens and the various agencies of government. Provides that such a grant may be up to 50 per cent of the fair and reasonable cost of establishing and carrying out such a program. Authorizes, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this title, to be appropriated, for fiscal year 1975, and for the two succeeding fiscal years, the sum of $5,000,000 each year. States that for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Titles II, III, IV, V, and VI, there is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1975, and for the two succeeding fiscal years, the sum of $15,000,000 each year.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Provides that specified land shall be available for selection by and transfer to the State of Alaska under the Alaska Statehood Act for the purpose of making such lands available to the city of Ketchikan, Alaska. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1974
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to report to Congress within three years on the present uses of the public lands and their suitability for various single or multiple uses, including use for grazing, watershed protection, wildlife, recreation, and mineral development. States that the Secretary shall make an interim report within sixty days from the date of this Act indicating the lands of the United States that contain readily available petroleum or other energy resources. Authorizes the Secretary to encourage the development of the oil and gas resources of the public lands and acquired lands of the United States, both reserved and unreserved, except lands in the National Park System, the National Wildlife System. and the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and the National Wilderness System and areas now under review for inclusion in the Wilderness System. Provides that lands heretofore reserved by executive or legislative action that prohibits or limits oil and gas development, shall be subject to the provisions of this Act, but no oil or gas development thereon shall be authorized by the Secretary unless sixty days notice is given to the Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to establish on any reserved or unreserved public or acquired lands of the United States national oil and oil shale reserves, the development of which needs to be regulated in a manner that will meet the total energy needs of the Nation. Provides that the Secretary shall consider and provide for competitive bidding, and the highest bid shall be determined by the Secretary on the basis of the total estimated return to the United States over the probable productive life of the property being disposed of.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Urban Hospitals Emergency Assistance Act - Expresses the findings of Congress. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public general hospitals to assist such hospitals in meeting the costs of: (1) modernization of patient care facilities in urban areas, and (2) construction or modernization of outpatient facilities of such hospitals located apart from the hospital so that ambulatory care service may be decentralized. Enumerates the eligibility requirements to be met for receiving such grants and the priority of applicants. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out such grant provisions $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $250,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Empowers the Secretary to make grants to public and private nonprofit hospitals for special projects to demonstrate innovations in health care delivery construction which implement quality control or improve efficiency in the provision of health services by meeting identified needs, and reducing documented inefficiencies. Authorizes appropriation for fiscal years 1975 through 1977 for such grants. Provides that each public general hospital shall be entitled for each fiscal year to a grant equal to 75 percent of the annual net cost incurred by the hospital for patient care. Sets forth additional grant requirements. Authorizes appropriations for such grants. Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, that each hospital having adopted uniform cost accounting and utilization and reporting systems procedures shall be entitled for each fiscal year to a grant to assist such hospital in meeting the costs of training residents, interns, except noncitizen graduates of foreign medical schools, and individuals preparing for careers in nursing or the allied health professions in programs approved by him after consultation with the appropriate professional accrediting agency or specialty board. Authorizes appropriations for such grants. Defines the terms used in this Act, including "annual net cost of patients care," "low-income person," and "urban". Requires that each recipient of Federal assistance under this Act shall keep such records as the Secretary shall prescribe, including records which fully disclose the amount and disposition by such recipient of the proceeds of such assistance, the total cost of the project or undertaking in connection with which assistance is given or used, the amount of that portion of the cost of the project or undertaking supplied by other sources, and such other records as will facilitate an effective audit. Provides that no funds other than those appropriated under the provisions of this Act may be used for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the Senate that in any allocation of energy supplies or other actions by Federal departments and agencies to alleviate the energy shortage, proper consideration should be given, in light of the facts expressed in the preamble of this resolution, to the provision of adequate supplies of energy to all segments of the tourism industry.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Indian Health Care Improvement Act - Declares that it is the policy of this Nation, in fulfillment of its special responsibilities and legal obligation to the American Indian people, to meet the national goal of providing the highest possible health status to Indians and to provide existing Indian health services with all resources necessary to effect that policy. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title I: Indian Health Manpower - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make scholarship grants to individuals: (1) who are enrolled in medical schools; schools of optometry, osteophathy, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatry, public health, or nursing, or schools licensed by a State to train persons in the allied health professions, and (2) who agree to provide their professional services to Indians after completion of their professional training. Establishes a priority according to which the Secretary shall award scholarship grants under this Act. States that any scholarship grant awarded to any individual under this Act shall be awarded under the condition that such individual will, after the completion of his professional training, provide his professional services to Indians for a reasonable period of time as prescribed by the Secretary. Sets forth a formula by which the United States shall be entitled to recover scholarship grants from individuals who fail to comply with such condition for the full period. Authorizes to be appropriated for this program: $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $16,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $22,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $30.000,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $34,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, and for each succeeding fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary to continue to make such grants to individuals who (prior to July 1, 1979) have received such grants and who are eligible for such grants under this Act during such succeeding fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make scholarship grants for a period not to exceed two academic years to Indians who: (1) have successfully completed their high school education; and (2) have demonstrated an aptitude for being capable of successfully completing a premedical, predental, or preosteopathy course of study. Authorizes to be appropriated for the above program: $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $3,000,000 for each of the next three fiscal years. Permits the Secretary to provide continuing education allowances to Indian Health Service physicians. Authorizes to be appropriated for such programs: $350,000 each year for fiscal years 1975 and 1976; $375,000 for fiscal year 1977, $390,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $410,000 for fiscal year 1979. Title II: Health Services - Authorizes the Secretary to expend over a five-fiscal-year period $123,500,000, in addition to the annual appropriations required to continue the health service program to the Indian people, and to employ additional personnel for the purpose of eliminating backlogs in Indian health care services and to supply known, unmet medical, surgical, dental and other Indian health needs. Title III: Health Facilities - Authorizes the Secretary to expend $400,000,000 over a five-fiscal-year period for the purpose of eliminating inadequate, outdated, and otherwise unsatisfactory Service hospitals, health centers, health stations, and other Service facilities. Enables the Secretary to expend $470,000,000 within a five-fiscal-year period to supply unmet needs for safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities in existing and new Indian homes and communities. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan, together with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to assure that the five-year schedule provided for in this Act will be met. Title IV: Access to Health Services - States that the Service facilities used to provide health care and services to Indians are hereby deemed to be accredited facilities for the purposes of title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. Title V: Access to Health Services for Urban Indians - Defines "Urban Indian", "urban Indian organization" and "urban center" as used in this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall enter into contracts with urban Indian organizations to provide Federal assistance to such organizations for the purpose of establishing and administering outreach programs to make urban Indians in the urban centers in which such organizations are situated knowledgeable of the health service resources available within such centers and the means of gaining access to those resources. Directs the Secretary to prescribe the criteria for selecting urban Indian organizations with which to contract pursuant to this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for this program: $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides that, within six months after the end of fiscal year 1976, the Secretary shall review the above program and shall submit to the Congress his assessment of it and recommendations for any further legislation. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Requires the Secretary to report annually to the President and the Congress on progress made in effecting the purposes of this Act. States that within three months after the end of fiscal year 1978, the Secretary shall review the programs established or assisted under this Act and shall submit to the Congress his assessment and recommendations of additional programs or additional assistance necessary to, at a minimum provide health services to Indians, and insure a health status for Indians, which is at a parity with the health services available to, and the health status of, the general population. Provides that the funds appropriated pursuant to this Act shall remain available until expended.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, for coverage under medicare for routine Papanicolaou tests for the diagnosis of uterine cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Department under which the United States Coast Guard is operating to cause the vessel Miss Keku, owned by Clarence Jackson of Juneau, Alaska, to be documented as a vessel of the United States so as to be entitled to engage in coastwise trade and the American fisheries.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Requires the Armed Forces to provide special educational and health services to dependents of members serving on active duty who are deaf, hard of hearing, seriously emotionally disturbed, moderately or severely mentally retarded, crippled, or have a speech or health impairment or specific learning disability requiring special education and related services. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1079 (d))
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Meetinghouse Preservation Act - States that the purpose of this Act is: (1) to celebrate the Bicentennial of this country through the preservation within each of the several States of a historic site that might otherwise be lost; (2) to provide a meetingplace in each of the several States for those citizens interested in retaining their tangible, indigenous heritage, whether historic, cultural, or natural, and in planning for future changes and developments, and (3) to give existing State programs involved with preserving historic and architecturally important structures an illustration of the best possible techniques used in the preservation of such historic sites and structures, and the multiple, significant ways in which such sites and structures can be used. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to each of the several States for the purpose of enabling each State to acquire and restore an historic site within each State for use as a meetinghouse in accordance with the provisions of this Act, except that no grant to any one State shall exceed $1,000,000. Provides that any application for a grant under this Act shall contain an estimated budget of various acquisition, restoration, and maintenance expenses. Sets forth provisions governing the approval of any application. Establishes a Meetinghouse Coordination Board to review each application made in accordance with the provisions of this Act for the purpose of making recommendations to the Secretary as to which of the historic site or sites contained in such application should be approved by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Prevents the Secretary of Transportation, under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, from requiring any motor vehicle to be equipped with any starter interlock system associated with seat belts or upper torso restraints. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 1392)
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1973
National Arthritis Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to expand the authority of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Disgestive Diseases in order to advance a national attack on arthritis. Establishes a National Task Force on Arthritis to formulate a long-range plan to combat arthritis and related musculoskeletal and other related diseases. Provides that the Arthritis Plan shall include recommendations for the utilization and organizations of national resources for the campaign against arthritis, and a program for the National Institute of Arthritis Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases as a major participant in the campaign against arthritis specifies the composition of the Task Force membership. Authorizes to be appropriated $500,000 for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 to carry out the purposes of the national arthritis program. Establishes within the Institute the position of Associate Director for Arthritis, responsible for programs regarding arthritis within such Institute. Provides that the Director of the National Institutes of Health shall establish an Inter-Institute Arthritis Coordinating Committee to be composed of representatives who can make policy commitments for each of the Institutes and divisions involved in arthritis-related research. Creates within the Federal Government an Interagency Technical Committee on Arthritis which shall be responsible for promoting the coordination of those aspects of all Federal health programs and activities relating to arthritis to assure the adequacy and technical soundness of such programs and activities and to provide for the full communication and exchange of information necessary to maintain adequate coordination of such programs and activities. States that the Director of the Institute shall establish programs for cooperation with other health agencies in the screening, detection, prevention, and control of arthritis which emphasize the development of new diagnostic and treatment methods for arthritis, and the dissemination of the knowledge about these methods to the health professions. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out these provisions $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides that the Director of the Institute, shall provide for the development of centers for basic and clinical research into, training, in, and demonstration of, advanced diagnostic, prevention, control, and treatment methods for arthritis. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out these provisions $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Requires the Director of the Institute after the end of each calendar year, to submit to the President and Congress a report including: (1) a proposal for the Institute's activities during the next five years; and (2) a program evaluation section.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1973
Provides that the Civil Aeronautics Board shall not permit any air carrier which received a Federal subsidy in 1972 to omit, suspend, terminate, or reduce by 50 percent or more, regularly scheduled service, including flag stop service, to a point certificated to be served by that carrier on any day in November 1973, unless the Board finds, that the reduction is in the public interest: (1) that such point will continue to receive adequate regularly scheduled service from another certificated air carrier, or (2) that such air carrier is not providing more than two nonstop round trips per day in each marketpair in which both points are "large hubs" as defined in the most recent edition of "Airport Activity Statistics of Certificated Route Carriers", and (3) that such carrier is using the fuel available to it as efficiently as possible. Requires that notice of any application for authority to omit, suspend, terminate, or reduce, by 50 percent or more, regularly scheduled service shall be published in the Federal Register and shall be sent to all interested persons.
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