United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Water Quality Act of 1987 - Title I: Amendments to Title I - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (the Clean Water Act) to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through 1990 for: (1) specified research, investigation, and training programs in water pollution control; (2) State and interstate pollution control programs; (3) undergraduate programs in water quality control; (4) grants for developing waste treatment management plans for areas with substantial water quality control problems; (5) water pollution control programs in agricultural areas; (6) agreements among Government agencies providing for maximum use of existing programs for water quality control; (7) grants to States for lake pollution control; and (8) carrying out the Clean Water Act generally. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to award an annual grant to support a National Clearinghouse on small flows (of sewage) and innovative or alternative technologies information. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to continue the Chesapeake Bay Program and establish such an Office within EPA to: (1) collect and disseminate research and other information on the environmental quality of the Bay; (2) coordinate Federal research efforts; (3) conduct research on sediment deposition in the Bay; and (4) conduct research on how environmental changes effect the living resources of the Bay, with particular emphasis on the impact of pollutant loading. Directs the Administrator to make a grant to a State affected by the interstate management plan developed under the Bay Program to implement management mechanisms in the plan if the State has approved and is committed to implementing all or substantially all aspects of the plan. Requires a State or combination of the States, in order to qualify for such grants, to submit a plan of proposed abatement actions to reduce Bay pollution and meet applicable water quality standards and of estimated costs for the approval of the Administrator. Limits such grants to 50 percent of the plan implementation costs. Limits administrative costs. Requires States to submit progress reports biennially to the Administrator for transmittal to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990. Establishes the already existing Great Lakes National Program Office within EPA. Requires such Office to be located in a Great Lakes State. Requires such Office to carry out the responsibilities of the United States under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1978, monitor the water quality of the Great Lakes, and serve as a liaison with the International Joint Commission Canadian members. Directs the Office to develop a five-year plan for reducing the amount of nutrients introduced into the Lakes and a five-year study and demonstration project program for the control and removal of toxic pollutants. Directs the Administrator to report annually to the Congress on Great Lakes water quality. Establishes, within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Great Lakes Research Office to develop, coordinate, and report on research on issues related to the Great Lakes resources. Require such Office to be located in a Great Lakes State. Requires the Program and Research Offices to prepare annually a joint research plan. Requires interagency cooperation and reporting with respect to such program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991, earmarking funds for specified purposes. Directs the Administrator to research the harmful effects on the health and welfare of persons caused by pollutants in water, especially the bioaccumulation of these pollutants in aquatic species and any reduction in the value of aquatic industries. Title II: Construction Grants Amendments - Sets a time limit on resolving treatment works construction contract disputes. Limits the 75 percent Federal share of treatment works construction costs to grants made by a State before FY 1991. Makes the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority project eligible for grants of 75 percent of construction costs. Authorizes the Administrator to make a grant to fund all the costs of modifying or replacing bio disc equipment (rotating biological contractors) in any publicly owned treatment works if deficiencies are not attributable to negligence. Deems the activated bio-filter feature of the project for treatment works of Little Falls, Minnesota, an innovative wastewater process and technique entitled to an 85 percent grant. Permits the use of Farmers Home Administration funds for the nonfederal share of construction costs for publicly owned treatment works under this Act. Directs the Administrator to make preconstruction agreements with grant applicants for treatment work construction assistance to specify which costs are eligible for Federal payments. Sets forth contract terms and conditions concerning design approval and payments including interest payments. Qualifies for purposes of treatment works grants a system of user charges imposing lower charges for low-income residential users. Requires the Administrator to reallot to States treatment works construction grants for FY 1987 through 1990. Extends through FY 1990 the authorization of appropriations for minimum allotments to States and specified U.S. territories and possessions. Increases the allotment for specified U.S. territories and possessions. Extends through FY 1994 the reservation of certain amounts from State allotments for State administrative expenses. Extends through FY 1990 the use of funds to control pollutants from storm sewers. Increases the mandatory set-aside for rural States and other States to up to seven and one-half percent. Extends through FY 1990 specified provisions relating to minimum expenditures for increasing the Federal share of grants for construction of treatment works utilizing innovative processes and techniques. Requires a State to allocate at least 40 percent of its water quality management planning grant to regional and interstate public comprehensive organizations if it would significantly assist in encouraging such organizations' participation in developing wastewater treatment programs. Increases the amount of additional funds which the Administrator shall have available for addressing water quality problems of marine bays and estuaries subject to lower levels of water quality due to the impact of discharges from combined storm water and sanitary sewer overflows. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1990 for the construction grant program. Adds a new title VI: Grants for Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds to the Clean Water Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 through 1994 for capitalization grants to States which establish Water Pollution Control Revolving Funds which would gradually take over the Federal program. Requires a participating State to: (1) enter into agreements with the Administrator; (2) establish the required Fund; (3) deposit in its Fund from State monies an amount equal to 20 percent of the capitalization grant; (4) make loan commitments for publicly owned waste treatment plants within one year which commit all of the Fund; (5) submit required annual and intended use reports; and (6) comply with generally accepted procedures and standards. Sets forth permitted uses of the Fund. Authorizes the Administrator to reallot a noncomplying State's capitalization grant. Sets forth required accounting procedures. Directs the Administrator to review annually each State plan and report for using the Fund. Authorizes a State to use Federal grant funds to set up a Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund upon request. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress by February 10, 1990, on the operation of the State Funds. Directs the Administrator to make grants for treatment works improvement programs for: (1) Avalon, California; (2) Walker and Smithfield Townships, Pennsylvania; (3) Taylor Mill, Kentucky; and (4) Watsonville, California. Directs the Administrator to make a grant to the State of California for the construction of a collection system for specified areas of Nevada County. Directs the Administrator to make grants to the Wanaque Valley Regional Sewage Authority, New Jersey, for the construction of treatment works of a specified capacity. Limits the Federal share to 75 percent of construction costs. Directs the Administrator to make grants to Lena, Illinois, for the construction of a replacement moving bed filter press for the treatment works. Limits the Federal share to 75 percent of construction costs. Requires Pennsylvania to give Federal funding priority to the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority secondary treatment project and to a project for wastewater treatment for Altoona, Pennsylvania. Authorizes the Chicago tunnel and reservoir project to receive grants without regard to allocation limitation if the Administrator determines that such project is cost-effective without redesign or reconstruction and the Governor of Illinois demonstrates the water quality benefits accruing from such project. Permits the towns of Hampton and Nashua, New Hampshire, to continue using an ad valorem tax user charge system for collecting the costs of operation and maintenance of sewage treatment works in satisfaction of specified requirements for grants for treatment works. Requires the Administrator to review such system for compliance with other requirements. Title III: Standards and Enforcements - Extends the compliance date for specified priority toxic pollutants, all other toxic pollutants, and the application of best practicable technology for all other pollutants to no later than three years after effluent limitations are established or by March 31, 1989, whichever is earlier. Directs the Administrator of EPA to promulgate final regulations by the end of 1986 establishing effluent limitations for direct dischargers and limitations requiring pretreatment for all the priority toxic pollutants which are discharged from certain categories of point sources in accordance with a specified schedule. Permits the Administrator to modify the effluent limitations for nonconventional pollutants such as ammonia, chlorine, color, iron, and total phenols. Permits the Administrator to add or delete from the list of pollutants for which such modification is permitted as indicated by current evidence or the lack of it. Requires that such modifications not interfere, alone or in combination, with the prescribed water quality standard. Requires as new conditions for the modification of treatment requirements with respect to the discharges of pollutants from a publicly owned treatment works that an applicant for such modification demonstrate that: (1) in the case of a treatment works serving a population of 50,000 or more, there is in effect a specified pretreatment program for toxic pollutants introduced into such works for which there is no pretreatment requirement in effect; and (2) the effluent which is discharged from such works is receiving primary treatment and meets the criteria for water established by the Administrator. Prohibits the discharge of a pollutant into saline estuarine waters that do not support fish and wildlife or whose quality is below applicable standards. Prohibits dumping in the New York Bight Apex. Extends the filing deadline for treatment works modification. Extends the innovative technology compliance deadlines for direct dischargers. Permits variances from an otherwise applicable effluent limitation or pretreatment standard if an applicant can demonstrate during the rulemaking (or did not have an opportunity to demonstrate) that factors relating the facilities, equipment, and processes of such person are fundamentally different from the factors considered in the rulemaking. Requires the Administrator to assess and collect fees for variance applications. Requires the Administrator to report biannually to the appropriate congressional committees on the status of variance applications. Permits the modifications of ph levels and the amount of iron and manganese in discharges from remined areas of coal remining operations if such operations provide potential for water quality improvement and use the best available technology (BAT). Requires States within two years to identify bodies of water within or adjacent to them which will not meet State water quality standards because of toxic pollutants after the implementation of BAT. Requires each State to develop an individual control for each such body to achieve the applicable standard within three years. Requires that Administrator, within nine months of this Act's enactment, to develop guidelines for such identification and for measuring water quality criteria for toxic pollutants on other than pollutant-by-pollutant criteria, using biomonitoring and assessment techniques. Directs the States to establish numerical criteria, based on EPA's national water quality criteria, for toxic pollutants which could otherwise interfere with designated water uses. Permits such criteria to include the use of biological monitoring or assessment methods. Permits the Administrator, with State concurrence, to modify effluent limitations: (1) if a non-toxic polluter demonstrates that complete compliance does not satisfy a reasonable cost-benefit analysis; or (2) for five years if a toxic polluter demonstrates that a modified maximum limitation within the polluter's economic means will result in reasonable progress to post-BAT water quality standards. Directs the Administrator, within one year of this Act's enactment and then biennially, to publish guidelines for effluent limitations for toxic pollutants for industrial categories currently without such guidelines and to establish a schedule for the review, revision, and promulgation of other effluent guidelines. Directs the Administrator to study and report to the Congress on water quality improvements achieved through the application of BAT economically achievable. Authorizes a two-year extension for a treatment works to comply with a categorical pretreatment standard if it uses an innovative treatment system which has potential for industry-wide application and the treatment works can still comply with the terms of its permit. Establishes criminal penalties for the knowing disclosure of confidential information gained by authorized personnel in the course of inspection of treatment facilities. Permits a State to adopt more stringent standards for marine sanitation devices on a houseboat than those required under Federal law. Increases criminal and civil penalties. Adds administrative civil penalties for specified violations. Establishes criminal penalties for the knowing endangerment of a person through violations of specified provisions. Requires the Secretary of the Army and the Administrator to each report to the Congress by December 1, 1988, on the enforcement mechanisms available and on improving enforcement. Directs each State to report biennially to the Administrator on the water quality of the publicly owned lakes. Requires the Administrator to then report such information to the appropriate congressional committees, including an evaluation of methods and procedures used. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct lake water quality demonstration programs at: (1) Lake Houston, Texas; (2) Beaver Lake, Arkansas; (3) Greenwood Lake and Belcher Creek, New Jersey; (4) Deal Lake, New Jersey, (5) Alcyon Lake, New Jersey; (6) Gorton's Pond, Rhode Island; (7) Lake Washington, Rhode Island; (8) Lake Bomoseen, Vermont; (9) Sauk Lake, Minnesota; and (10) Lake Worth, Texas. Directs the Administrator to publish within one year of enactment and update biennially a lake restoration guidance manual. Directs the Governor of each State to submit to the Administrator for approval a report: (1) identifying navigable waters not meeting applicable water quality standards because of pollution from nonpoint sources (e.g., rainfall runoff as opposed to identifiable pipes); (2) identifying categories of significantly polluting nonpoint sources; (3) identifying State and local programs for controlling such pollution and improving the water quality of the navigable waters; and (4) describing administrative measures to be taken. Requires each Governor to develop Administrator-approved nonpoint source pollution management programs identifying: (1) the best management practices to institute; (2) an implementation schedule; (3) any additional State authorities necessary for the program including an implementation schedule for acquiring such authorities; (4) available financial assistances; and (5) the effect of existing Federal programs on such program. Provides for resubmission of rejected programs which are subsequently modified. Directs the Administrator to develop a program for any State which fails to do so and report on such actions to the Congress. Authorizes the Administrator to provide technical assistance to a local agency to develop a four-year plan if a State fails to submit a satisfactory plan and the local agency is of sufficient geographical size. Treats such local agency as a State agency for implementation assistance purposes after such plan has been approved. Directs the Administrator to convene a management conference of the affected States when any State is unable to meet its applicable water quality standards because of pollution from nonpoint sources in another State. Requires the offending State to modify its management program to reflect an agreement reached in such conference. Directs the Administrator to provide grants to States to assist in the implementation of approved four-year plans. Limits the Federal share to a maximum of 60 percent of costs. Sets forth other terms and conditions for such grants, including reporting and administrative requirements. Limits each grant per State to a maximum of 15 percent of total authorizations. Authorizes the Administrator to give priority in making grants to States with management programs with particularly difficult nonpoint pollution problems, innovative technologies, or which address essential groundwater quality protection problems. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991. Directs the Administrator to transmit to the Office of Management and Budget and the appropriate Federal departments and agencies a list of those assistance programs and development projects identified by States for which individual assistance applications and projects will be reviewed. Requires each Federal department and agency to modify existing regulations to allow States to conduct such review and accommodate the concerns of the State regarding the consistency of such applications or projects with the State program. Directs the Administrator to collect and make available information pertaining to management practices and implementation methods. Directs the Administrator to report annually, and finally by January 1, 1990, to the Congress on the State management programs and the grants. Earmarks funds for such programs. Authorizes the Governor of any State to nominate to the Administrator an estuary within the State's jurisdiction which is of national significance and to request a management conference to develop a comprehensive management plan. Directs the Administrator to convene such conference if the need for it is sufficiently documented. Gives priority to: (1) Long Island Sound, New York and Connecticut; (2) Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island; (3) Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts; (4) Puget Sound; Washington; (5) New York-New Jersey Harbor, New York and New Jersey; (6) Delaware Bay, Delaware and New Jersey; (7) Albemarle Sound, North Carolina; (8) Sarasota Bay, Florida; (9) San Francisco Bay, California; and (10) Galveston Bay, Texas. Prohibits convening such a conference before a final adjudication has been made in any pending State boundary dispute involving such estuary. Requires a management conference to assess the relevant ecological data and develop a comprehensive conservation and management plan which recommends priority corrective actions and compliance schedules and coordinates intergovernmental efforts. Requires each conference to include the Administrator and affected governmental and private interests. Limits the terms of a conference to five years. Requires Administrator approval of any plan. Permits the use of construction grant or State revolving fund monies for implementation approval of any plan. Authorizes the Administrator to provide up to 75 percent of research and study costs through State grants. Requires such State to report to the Administrator biennially. Earmarks funds for the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to coordinate and implement an assessment, research, and water quality sampling program for pollutants and ecosystems to determine when an estuarine management conference should be called. Requires the Administrators to report to the Congress biennially on estuarine health and research. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Prohibits the location or placing of a landfill, surface impoundment, waste pile, injection well, or land treatment facility, or the placement of solid waste in any of these if they are located over the Unconsolidated Quarternary Aquifer, or the recharge zone of such aquifer in the Rockaway River Basin, New Jersey. Title IV: Permits and Licenses - Exempts from permit requirements and effluent limitations certain stormwater runoff discharges from mining operations or oil or gas exploration, production, processing, or treatment operations. Requires exempted run-offs to be a product of precipitation flows or systems designed to collect or convey such water. Requires that such run-offs be uncontaminated (as determined by the Administrator). Prohibits the Administrator from requiring additional pretreatment by a discharger of conventional pollutants when its publicly owned treatment works is not meeting NPDES permit requirements because of inadequate design or operation. Authorizes a partial NPDES permit program covering a portion of the discharges into the navigable waters in such State if it covers administration of a major category of such discharges or a major component of the State's NPDES permit program. Provides that a State may return, or the Administrator may withdraw approval of, delegated NPDES permit program responsibilities. Sets forth anti-backsliding requirements relating to renewal or reissuance of NPDES permits. Permits limited exceptions. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress within two years on the extent to which States have modified water quality standards or NPDES permits should be modifiable to permit less stringent effluent limitations. States that prior to FY 1993 no permit shall be required for discharges composed entirely of stormwater other than: (1) those associated with industrial activity or municipal separate storm sewers; or (2) those which are determined to be in violation of a water quality standard or contribute significantly to water pollution. Requires the Administrator to report to the Congress on the nature of most stormwater discharges and which classes of such discharges should have permits. Revises the sewage sludge disposal timetable. Directs the Administrator to identify in two stages those toxic pollutants which may be present in sewage sludge in concentrations which may adversely affect public health or the environment. Directs the Administrator to publish regulations specifying acceptable management practices and establishing numerical limitations for each such pollutant and requiring compliance within 12 months after publication. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate a design, equipment, management practice, or operational standard for certain pollutants if a numerical limitation is not feasible and the same protection can be achieved. Requires NPDES permits to include requirements for the use and disposal of sludge, and provides for implementing such regulations. Authorizes the Administrator to issue a permit to implement such regulations to a facility not subject to NPDES. Authorizes the Administrator to initiate studies and projects to promote the safe and beneficial use of sewage sludge. Authorizes appropriations. Stays the decision of Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concerning revised pretreatment requirements for certain publicly owned treatment works. Prohibits the authorization of removal credits until final regulations are issued. Permits the merger of permit requirements for log transfer facilities subject to both EPA's and the Army's jurisdiction so long as certain requirements are satisfied. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Permits the Administrator to enter into noncompetitive procurement contracts with State audit organizations for audits of recipients of Federal assistance under this Act. Includes the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands within the definition of "State." Excludes agricultural stormwater discharges from the definition of "point source" pollution. Requires that the Attorney General and the Administrator receive notice of any citizen suits or proposed consent judgments. Revises venue provisions to permit an applicant for judicial review of certain Administrator actions to bring suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal district in which such applicant has its principal place of business or where such applicant transacts the business which is directly affected by the action in question. Increases the appeal period. Provides a random selection procedure to determine the forum when reviews of a particular EPA action have been filed in more than one court. Empowers the court to award attorney's fees to a prevailing or substantially prevailing party. Directs the Administrator to assess the sewage treatment needs of Indian tribes, reporting to the Congress within one year. Authorizes the Administrator to reserve one-half of one percent of specified funds for Indian needs after FY 1986. Authorizes the Administrator to treat Indian tribes specially or as States as required to meet such tribes' sewage treatment needs. Defines "point source" to include a landfill leachate collection system. Amends the Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 to prohibit the issuance of any new permit to non-eligible authorities now presently permitted to use the New York Bight Apex to dump or transport municipal sludge. Prohibits anyone but an eligible authority from dumping or transporting municipal sludge within the 106-mile Ocean Waste Dump Site. Authorizes the Administrator to issue a research permit to the Orange County, California, Sanitation Districts for the discharge of preconditioned municipal sewage sludge into the ocean to analyze the effects of disposing of such sludge by way of pipelines. Limits such permit to five years. Limits the amount of sludge which may be discharged. Requires such districts to report to the Congress on the results of such program. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to the State of California, for construction of a project consisting of publicly owned treatment works in San Diego to provide primary or advanced treatment of municipal sewage and industrial waste for the city of Tijuana, Mexico, and for San Diego. Requires the Administrator to make additional grants for defensive treatment works in case of breakdown. Authorizes the Administrator to permit ocean discharge of certain specially-treated pollutants. Imposes a cap on raw sewage discharges from the drainage areas of the North River Plant, Manhattan, New York, and the Red Hook Plant, Brooklyn, New York, into navigable waters (the Hudson-Raritan Estuary) if New York City fails to meet the deadlines for achieving advanced preliminary treatment contained in the consent decree of December 30, 1982 (August 1, 1986, for the North River plant; August 1, 1987, for the Red Hook Plant). Permits the Administrator to raise such cap for seasonal variation or natural disasters, or other circumstances beyond the control of the city of New York. States that violations of this Act shall be considered violations of the Clean Water Act, as well as of the consent decree. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Administrator should not agree to any further modification of the advanced preliminary treatment schedule in the consent decree. Directs the Administrator to implement monitoring activities for both plans and commence enforcement actions in the event of unexcused violations. Directs the Administrator to pay, in the same proportion as the Federal share of other project costs, all expenses for the relocation of facilities for the distribution of natural gas with respect to the entire waste water treatment works known as Oakwood Beach and Red Hook projects, New York. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator to make grants of up to 75 percent of costs to the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority for the construction of necessary secondary waste water treatment works to improve the water quality of Boston Harbor and adjacent waters. Authorizes the Administrator to make a grant up to 85 percent of costs to the San Diego Water Reclamation Agency, California, to demonstrate innovations in wastewater reclamation. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Administrator to make a grant of 75 percent of construction costs to the city of Des Moines, Iowa, for construction of the Central Sewage Treatment Plant. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator to study the feasibility and desirability of eliminating the regulation of de minimus discharges of pollutants into navigable waters. Directs the Administrator to report on such study to specified congressional committees within one year after enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to study the effectiveness of specified innovative and alternative wastewater treatment processes and techniques which have been used in treatment works constructed under the Clean Water Act. Directs the Administrator to report within one year on such study to specified congressional committees. Directs the Administrator to study the testing procedures for analysis of pollutants established under specified provisions of such Act. Directs the Administrator to report on such study to specified congressional committees within one year after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to study the pretreatment of toxic pollutants and report to the appropriate congressional committees within four years after enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to study methods for controlling point and nonpoint sources of pollution in specified groundwater systems and aquifers, including: (1) the Upper Santa Cruz Basin and the Avra-Altar Basin of Pima, Pinal, and Santa Cruz Counties, Arizona; (2) the Spokane-Rathdrum Valley Aquifer, Washington and Idaho; (3) the Nassau and Suffolk Counties Aquifer, New York; (4) the Whidbey Island Aquifer, Washington; (5) the Unconsolidated Quarternary Aquifer, Rockaway River area, New Jersey; and (6) groundwater in Litchfield, Hartford, Fairfield, Tolland, and New Haven Counties, Connecticut; and (7) the Sparta Aquifer, Arkansas. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress within two years on the final status of such studies and plans. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to undertake a study on consumptive uses of Great Lakes water, focussing on control measures which would reduce the quantity of water consumed without adversely affecting the projected growth of the region. Requires that such study include an analysis of both existing and new technology, including assessments of water quality assessment methodologies, the economic and environmental affects of manufacturing uses, and regulation of such uses. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator to study the problem of the corrosive effects of sulfides in collection and treatment systems, the extent to which the uniform imposition of categorical pretreatment standards will exacerbate this problem, and the range of available options to deal with the effects. Requires that such study be conducted in consultation with the Los Angeles City and County sanitation agencies which have observed examples of corrosion probably caused by sulfides. Directs the Administrator to report on such study to specified congressional committees within one year after enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator to study and report to the Congress within one year on the problems of rainfall induced infiltration into wastewater treatment sewer systems. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on the effects of dams on water quality and the performance of State revolving loan funds. Directs the Administrator to conduct and report to the Congress on a comprehensive study of pollution in Lake Pend Oreille, Montana and Idaho, and the Clark Fork River, Idaho, Montana, and Washington.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Compassionate Pain Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a 60-month program under which parenteral diacetylmorphine shall be made available through hospital and other prescribed pharmacies for the relief of pain from terminal cancer (as defined by this Act). Directs the Secretary to provide for the manufacture of such drug. Permits physicians registered under the Controlled Substances Act to prescribe such drug. States that for purposes of such program the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and titles II and III of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 shall not apply with respect to: (1) the importing of opium; and (2) the manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of parenteral diacetylmorphine. Requires: (1) the Secretary to make program reports to specified congressional committees; and (2) the Comptroller General of the United States to make a program report to such committees 56 months after the program is established. Requires the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees concerning: (1) the extent of research activities in the management of pain which have received funds through the National Institutes of Health; (2) the ways in which the Federal Government supports the training of health personnel in pain management; and (3) recommendations for expanding and improving the training of health personnel in pain management. Permits the Secretary at any time six months after implementation of the program to modify or terminate the program.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Home and Community Based Services Block Grant Act of 1987 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to establish a program providing States with block grants, out of appropriations authorized for FY 1988 through 1992, which are to be used by States to provide home and community based services to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Requires States to give priority to individuals who have attained age 60 and to those in greatest economic need. Sets the Federal share of the costs of State projects supported by such grants at no less than 60 percent of necessary costs and no more than 80 percent of such costs. Limits the percentage of Federal funds which may be used to cover State administrative expenses. Requires each State to submit a State plan to the Secretary of Health and Human Services which: (1) describes the State's intended use of its grant; (2) provides assurances that grant amounts will supplement and not supplant existing Federal and State financing for home and community based services; (3) specifies the manner in which similar services existing in the State will be coordinated with the services funded by such grant; and (4) describes the manner in which grant-funded services will be evaluated. Requires the State plan to be made available for public comment. Directs States to report annually to the Secretary regarding the extent to which the home and community based services provided pursuant to this Act prevented or delayed the institutionalization of individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Requires the Commissioner on Aging to: (1) develop guidelines to be used by States in carrying out activities under this Act; and (2) submit an annual report to the Secretary and the Congress describing such activities.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Amends the Education for Economic Security Act to increase and extend the authorization of appropriations for the Magnet Schools Assistance Program through FY 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for psychologists' services under the supplementary medical insurance program (part B of title XVIII).
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a charitable contribution income tax deduction for amounts paid to or for the benefit of an institution of higher education in cases where the taxpayer receives the right to seating or the right to purchase seating for athletic events at such institution.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to change the eligibility requirements for trade adjustment assistance for workers and firms. Authorizes the certification of workers and firms as eligible for such assistance if there are increases in imports of articles that are competitive with articles to which the workers (through their firms) or the firms provide essential parts or services. Requires a worker, in order to receive cash assistance, to: (1) be enrolled in a training program approved by the Secretary of Labor; (2) have completed such a program; or (3) have received a written certification from the Secretary or the relevant State or State agency that it is not feasible or appropriate to approve a training program for such worker. Prohibits payment of such assistance to such worker if the worker has failed to begin, or has ceased to participate in, such training program and there is no justifiable cause for such failure or cessation until the worker begins or resumes participation in such training program. Requires the Secretary of Labor to report annually to specified congressional committees on the number of workers who received certifications on the non-feasibility or inappropriateness of job training during the preceding year. Increases the maximum trade readjustment allowance to an amount equal to 78 (currently 52) times the amount of one week's trade readjustment allowance. Provides that such increase shall apply to a worker who receives a certification of non-feasibility of job training. Requires that, if the Secretary approves training for adversely affected workers, the training must be reasonably available. Provides that such training may be paid for directly or through a voucher system. Limits the total amount of payments for training for each adversely affected worker to $4,000. Requires each cooperating State agency (agency which provides trade adjustment assistance services) to advise adversely affected workers of training opportunities as soon as practicable. (Current law requires the agency to provide such advice within 60 days of receiving an application for training.) Terminates on September 30, 1991, trade adjustment assistance programs for workers, technical assistance for firms, and the imposition of import fees to fund such programs. Authorizes appropriations for trade adjustment assistance for workers and for firms through FY 1989. (Current law authorizes such appropriations through FY 1991.) Establishes within the Treasury a Trade Adjustment Assistance Trust Fund. Provides for funding the Trust Fund. Requires the amounts in the Trust Fund to be used to: (1) pay drawbacks and refunds of the duty imposed on all imports by this Act; and (2) carry out trade adjustment assistance for workers and firms to the extent and in such amounts as provided by appropriation Acts. Prohibits the use of the amounts in the Trust Fund to pay certain loans guaranteed under programs for trade adjustment assistance for firms. Directs the President to undertake negotiations to change the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to allow countries to impose a small uniform duty on all imports in order to use the revenue from such duty to fund trade adjustment assistance programs. Directs the President to report to the Congress six months after enactment of this Act on the progress of such negotiations. Directs the President to report to the Congress as soon as the GATT allows the imposition of such a duty. Imposes an additional duty on all imports into the United States, including those imports granted duty-free treatment, with specified exceptions. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from tax a job training voucher received under a trade adjustment assistance program.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Expresses disapproval of the refusal of the U.S.S.R. to recognize the sovereignty of the Baltic Republics. Designates June 14, 1987, as Baltic Freedom Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1987
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1986
Prohibits the obligation of 50 percent of the funds made available for payment of the U.S. contribution to the United Nations until the President certifies to the Congress that the Secretary General of the United Nations has investigated: (1) the use of salary remission arrangements by nationals of member states serving as employees of the United Nations Secretariat or any of its specialized agencies; (2) the excessive use of secondment by member states in a way that prevents nationals of such states from becoming regular career employees of the United Nations; and (3) the blatant control of nationals of member states serving as employees of the United Nations Secretariat or the specialized agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1986
Honors the United Way on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. Encourages the United Way to continue its fine work and achieve its goal of doubling its resources by 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 1986
Declares that the United States extends its sympathies to the people and Government of El Salvador with regard to the recent earthquake. Urges the President to provide appropriate relief to help prevent further loss of life in El Salvador. Declares that the United States is prepared to cooperate with El Salvador in long-term efforts to recover from the effects of the earthquake.
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1986
Declares that the Senate: (1) offers its support and best wishes to the President as he prepares for his meetings with General Secretary Gorbachev in Reykjavik; and (2) endorses and specifically encourages the President to pursue the major issues relating to arms control, Soviet recognition of international human rights, and the removal of soviet combat forces from Afghanistan.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1986
State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Advocacy Improvement Act of 1986 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require States to establish an Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman (Office) encompassing any area or local ombudsman entity designated by the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman as a subdivision of the Office. Requires States to provide assurances that Office staff are not subject to conflicts of interest and that mechanisms are in place to identify and remedy such conflicts. Immunizes Office representatives from liability under State law for the good faith performance of official duties. Directs States to provide legal counsel to: (1) the Office for advice and consultation; and (2) Office representatives sued in connection with the performance of official duties. Requires States to provide appropriate sanctions against: (1) those willfully interfering with Office representatives in the performance of official duties; and (2) extended care facilities which retaliate against residents or employees who file a complaint with, or provide information to, the Office. Requires State licensure and certification agencies to provide the Office with inspection reports, notices of deficiencies, and sanctions issued with respect to extended care facilities as well as other data relevant to the Office's investigations of such facilities. Directs the Office to submit annual reports to State licensure and certification agencies, State agencies on aging, and the State legislature and Governor analyzing and suggesting resolutions to problems experienced by, and complaints received against, extended care facilities. Requires that office staff who do investigative work be trained in Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, and policies regarding State extended care facilities as well as investigative techniques. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide technical assistance and training to State Long-Term Care Ombudsman programs and Ombudsman representatives. Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require that extended care facilities provide ombudsmen with access to facility residents and, with the patient's or guardian's consent, to the patient's medical and social records. Requires that ombudsmen be given access to individuals who are admitted to hospitals from skilled nursing or intermediate care facilities. Directs the Secretary to promptly notify the appropriate Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman of any Medicare or Medicaid sanction imposed on a skilled nursing or intermediate care facility. Requires the Commissioner on Aging to issue a report by January 15th of each year analyzing and suggesting resolutions to problems experienced by, and complaints received against, extended care facilities. Specifies the congressional Committees, Federal agencies, and private organizations which are to receive such reports. Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Commissioner on Aging to designate a full-time staff of the Administration on Aging within 90 days of enactment of this Act. Requires the Administration to conduct studies and issue findings regarding the practices and impact of the Ombudsman program. Amends part B (Peer Review) of title XI of the Social Security Act to require peer review organizations to make available to Ombudsman program personnel their data showing the substantial failure of a provider to meet professionally recognized standards of health care.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1986
Global Resources, Environment, and Population Act of 1986 - Declares public policy with respect to promoting national population stabilization and encouraging other nations to achieve population stabilization to balance population, resources, and environmental quality. Requires that Federal policies, regulations, and public laws be interpreted and administered in accordance with this Act. Directs Federal agencies to use reliable demographic, natural resource, and environmental information in planning and decisionmaking and to assist State and local governments in efforts to balance population, resources, and environmental quality. Requires the President, within three years of enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on: (1) the current and foreseeable trends in national and global population size and age structure; (2) an evaluation of the adequacy of available natural resources to fulfill population requirements; (3) an evaluation of the short-term and long-term impact that such trends will have on the economy and national security of the United States; (4) a review of the effects of Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, programs, and activities on the attainment of national and global population stabilization; and (5) recommendations for legislative actions as considered necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1986
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to direct the Secretary of Labor, in order to prevent curtailment of employment opportunities, to provide special certificates for the employment, at less than the minimum wage, of individuals (including those employed in agriculture) whose earning or productive capacity is impaired by age, physical or mental deficiency, or injury. Requires that, under such certificates, individuals be paid wages which are: (1) lower than the applicable minimum wage; (2) commensurate with those paid to similarly located and employed nonhandicapped workers; and (3) related to the individual's productivity. Requires employers to assure that they will periodically review and adjust such wages in a specified manner. Sets forth procedures for administrative review of such wages.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1986
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 - Title I: Anti-Drug Enforcement - Subtitle A: Drug Penalties Enhancement Act of 1986 - Drug Penalties Enhancement Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to revise and increase the criminal penalties for violations of such Act. Subtitle B: Drug Possession Penalty Act of 1986 - Drug Possession Penalty Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to establish a scale of minimum penalties for first and subsequent possession offenses. Subtitle C: Juvenile Drug Trafficking Act of 1986 - Juvenile Drug Trafficking Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to establish penalties for any person at least 21 years of age who employs anyone under 21 in controlled substance trafficking. Establishes penalties for manufacturing a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a college. Subtitle D: Assets Forfeiture Amendments Act of 1986 - Asset Forfeiture Amendments Act of 1986 - Amends Federal law with respect to the forfeiture of assets involved in unlawful controlled substance activities. Subtitle E: Controlled Substance Analogs' Enforcement Act of 1986 - Controlled Substance Analogs' Enforcement Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to establish penalties for the manufacture or possession with intent to distribute or the distribution of a controlled substance analog (designer drug) all or part of which is intended for human consumption. Makes unlawful simple possession of such an analog if it is knowing or intentional. Subtitle F: Continuing Drug Enterprise Act of 1986 - Continuing Drug Enterprises Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to set forth a minimum life sentence and multimillion dollar fines for individuals or organizations who engage in continuing criminal drug enterprises. Subtitle G: Contolled Substances Import and Export Penalties Enhancement Act of 1986 - Controlled Substances Import and Export Penalties Enhancement Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to increase the basic penalty for violations (currently a maximum 15 years in prison) to a minimum of five years and a maximum of 40 years in prison, or if death results from use of a substance, 20 years to life in prison. Increases the fine from $125,000 to $2,000,000 for an individual ($5,000,000 for an organization). Sets forth enhanced penalties for subsequent offenses. Subtitle H: Money Laundering Crimes Act of 1986 - Money Laundering Crimes Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criminal penalties for financial transactions involving the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity for the purpose of either facilitating such activity or concealing its nature. Sets forth procedures for the civil and criminal forfeiture of any property involved in such unlawful financial transactions. Subtitle I: Armed Career Criminals - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide increased criminal penalties for any person who transports firearms or ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce if such person has multiple convictions for serious drug offenses and/or violent felonies. (Current law provides increased penalties where such a person had multiple convictions for robbery and burglary.) Subtitle J: Authorization of Appropriation for Drug Law Enforcement - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1987 for the Department of Justice for drug law enforcement activities. (N.B.: No "Subtitle K.") Subtitle L: State and Local Narcotics Control Assistance - State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Act of 1986 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to make grants to State and local law enforcement agencies for narcotics control assistance. Subtitle M: Study on the Use of Existing Federal Buildings as Prisons - Requires the Secretary of Defense to provide the Attorney General with a list identifying Federal buildings under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense which could be used as detention facilities. Subtitle N: Drug Law Enforcement Cooperation Study - Directs the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board to study Federal drug law enforcement efforts and make recommendations to the Congress. (N.B.: No "Subtitle O.") Subtitle P: Narcotic Traffickers Deportation Act - Revises Federal law regarding the deportation of persons convicted of violating controlled substances laws to specify such laws, including the laws of any State, the United States or a foreign country relating to a controlled substance. Subtitle Q: Federal Drug Law Enforcement Agent Protection Act of 1986 - Federal Drug Law Enforcement Agent Protection Act of 1986 - Allows the Attorney General to pay for information concerning the killing or kidnapping of a Federal drug law enforcement agent. Subtitle R: Common Carrier Operation Under the Influence of Alcohol and Drugs - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide criminal penalties for operating a common carrier under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Subtitle S: Freedom of Information Act - Revises the Freedom of Information Act to exempt from its coverage, except in certain circumstances, documents compiled in any lawful investigation of organized crime and informant records maintained by a law enforcement agency under an informant's name or personal identifier. Subtitle T: Prohibition on the Interstate Sale and Transportation of Drug Paraphernalia - Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia Control Act - Makes it a Federal criminal offense for any person to: (1) use the U.S. Postal Service or any private parcel service as part of a scheme to sell drug paraphernalia; (2) offer for sale and transportation in interstate or foreign commerce drug paraphernalia; or (3) import or export drug paraphernalia. Subtitle U: Manufacturing Operations - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to make it illegal to knowingly open, maintain, manage, or control a place for manufacturing, distributing, or using controlled substances. Subtitle V: Controlled Substances Technical Amendments - Makes technical amendments to the Controlled Substances Act and the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. Subtitle W: Precursor and Essential Chemical Review - Directs the Attorney General to study and recommend methods to control the diversion of legitimate precursor and essential chemicals to the production of illegal drugs. Requires the Attorney General to report all findings to the Congress. Subtitle X: Improved Drug Crime Reporting - Requires the Bureau of Justice Statistics to compile and publish comprehensive data on drug trafficking and abuse. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987. Title II: International Narcotics Control - Subtitle A: Strengthening United States Narcotics Control Overseas - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the FY 1987 authorization for assistance for international narcotics control. Imposes certain restrictions on the provision of U.S. assistance to illicit drug-producing countries and drug-transit countries. Provides that any aircraft made available to foreign countries for narcotics-related purposes shall be provided only on a lease or loan basis. Requires the Secretary of State to maintain detailed records on the use of such aircraft. Earmarks a specified amount of FY 1987 international narcotics control assistance for research, development, and testing of safe and effective herbicides for use in the aerial eradication of coca. Requires the Comptroller General to investigate and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of the international narcotics control assistance program. Requires the President's annual report to the Congress on the international strategy to prevent cultivation and trafficking in narcotics to include a discussion of the extent to which each source country has cooperated with U.S. narcotics control efforts through the extradition or prosecution of drug traffickers and a description of the state of negotiations on updated extradition treaties. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit participation by any U.S. officer or employee in direct narcotics arrests in foreign countries. Requires the executive branch to establish expeditiously the information sharing system that will list all drug arrests of foreign nationals in the United States as required by the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987. Requires the executive branch to report to the Congress when the system is established. Requires the President to prepare an updated assessment of the threat of narcotics trafficking from Africa. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985 to place conditions on assistance to Bolivia. Directs the President to take steps to improve the capability of the executive branch to collect information concerning the links between narcotics traffickers and acts of terrorism abroad. Requires a report to the Congress. Urges the Secretary of State to increase efforts to negotiate with relevant countries procedures which will facilitate interdiction of vessels suspected of carrying illicit narcotics. Directs the Director of Central Intelligence to: (1) improve the collection and analysis of foreign drug production sufficiently to produce highly reliable data on drug cultivation, harvest, and yields for each major illicit drug producing country; and (2) make support to anti-drug efforts a Level One Priority in his National Foreign Intelligence Strategy and reflect this priority in the National Foreign Intelligence Program. Requires the President to transmit biannual reports to the Congress on major illicit drug producing countries and major drug-transit countries. Requires restrictions on U.S. assistance to such countries. Declares that it shall be U.S. policy to promote the development and implementation of a drug eradication program through multinational development bank assistance. Subtitle B: Strengthening International Narcotics Control and International Drug Eradication - Declares congressional support for the United Nations General Assembly decision to convene an International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Calls for a study of the effectiveness of the United Nations drug-related declarations, conventions, and entities. Requires the President to report any recommendations which result from such study to the Congress. Urges the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs to complete work on a new draft convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Urges the President to direct the Secretary of State to enter into negotiations with Mexico to create the Mexico-United States Intergovernmental Commission on Narcotics and Psychotropic Drug Abuse and Control. Urges Pakistan to adopt and implement a comprehensive narcotics control program. Requires the Secretary of State to report to the Congress with respect to the adoption and implementation of such program. Urges the President to instruct the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to request that the problem of illicit drug production in Iran, Afghanistan, and Laos be raised at the International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking. Increases FY 1987 authorizations for drug education programs abroad. Requires the Director of the U.S. Information Agency and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development to include in their annual reports to the Congress a description of the drug education programs carried out by their respective agencies. Title III: Interdiction - Subtitle A: National Drug Interdiction Improvement - National Drug Interdiction Improvement Act of 1986 - Requires the Secretary of Defense to use specified funds to acquire certain equipment and aircraft for drug interdiction assistance activities of the Department of Defense. Requires the Secretary of Defense to make such aircraft available to the U.S. Customs Service. Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Transportation to provide for the assignment of Coast Guard personnel to naval vessels for law enforcement purposes. Authorizes additional appropriations to the Coast Guard and the U.S. Customs Service for: (1) drug interdiction enhancement; and (2) the establishment and location of command, control, communications and intelligence (C-3I) centers. Authorizes the establishment of a United States-Bahamas Drug Interdiction Task Force. Authorizes appropriations for such Task Force and for construction of a Coast Guard-Bahamas drug interdiction docking facility. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1987 to the Department of Justice for twin engine helicopters with forward looking infrared radiation detection devices for drug interdiction operations in Hawaii. Subtitle B: Customs Enforcement - Customs Enforcement Act of 1986 - Part I: Tariff Act Amendments - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to establish certain entry and reporting requirements for aircraft, vessels, vehicles and individuals arriving in the United States and the Virgin Islands. Sets forth penalties for violations of such requirements. Makes aviation smuggling illegal. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for such violations. Provides for seizure and forfeiture of conveyances subject to penalty for customs violations. Authorizes the issuance of search warrants for places suspected of containing: (1) merchandise brought into the United States unlawfully; (2) property subject to forfeiture under the customs laws; or (3) evidence of customs violations. Authorizes the seizure and forfeiture of smuggled merchandise. Provides that compensation for informers shall not exceed 25 percent of the amount recovered (current law requires that such compensation equal 25 percent of such recovery.) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to require the production of foreign landing certificates to comply with international obligations. Permits the Secretary to authorize customs officials to exchange information or documents with foreign customs or law enforcement agencies under certain circumstances. Allows the Secretary, when authorized by treaty or executive agreement, to station customs officers in foreign countries to examine persons or merchandise prior to their arrival in the United States. Provides that merchandise seized at a foreign station may be transported to the United States for customs proceedings. Permits the stationing of foreign customs officers in the United States (if similar privileges are extended to the United States). Imposes penalties for making fraudulent statements to such foreign officials. Sets forth certain requirements with regard to commercial cover and undercover investigative operations of the U.S. Customs Service, including: (1) the use of authorized funds; (2) the liquidation of corporate and business entities established or acquired as part of an undercover operation; (3) the deposit of proceeds from such operations; and (4) the conduct of financial audits of each undercover operation. Part II: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends Federal law with regard to: (1) recreational vessels and customs regulations; (2) authority of customs officials to demand assistance of any person in making an arrest; (3) reporting requirements on the export and import of monetary instruments; and (4) smuggling investigations. Part III: Amendments to the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to make it unlawful for any U.S. citizen on board any aircraft, or any person on board an aircraft owned by a U.S. citizen or registered in the United States, to manufacture, distribute, or possess with intent to manufacture or distribute a controlled substance. Part IV: Amendments to the Criminal Code - Sets forth criminal penalties for operating an aircraft without lights and for illegal fuel installations aboard aircraft. Subtitle C: Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Prosecution Improvements Act of 1986 - Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Prosecution Improvements Act of 1986 - Makes it unlawful, with specified exceptions, for any person on board a U.S. vessel or a vessel subject to U.S. jurisdiction to knowingly or intentionally manufacture, distribute, or to possess with intent to manufacture or distribute, a controlled substance. Sets forth penalties for violations of this Act. Subjects to seizure and forfeiture any property used in a violation of this Act. Subtitle D: Reports on Department of Defense Drug Control Activities - Requires the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board to submit a report to specified congressional committees on the manner and extent to which the Department of Defense should be involved in narcotics law enforcement activities. Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to specified congressional committees containing a discussion of: (1) the extent to which students enrolled in schools operated by the Department of Defense are receiving drug and substance abuse education; and (2) the extent to which such education should include peer counseling classes. Subtitle E: Driving While Impaired by Drug Intoxication to be Punishable Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice - Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to include driving under the influence of drugs as an offense. Subtitle F: Drug Interdiction Assistance to Civilian Law Enforcement Officials - Allows the Department of Defense to provide certain assistance to civilian law enforcement personnel. Subtitle G: Air Safety - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to allow States to establish criminal penalties for certain activities involving aircraft registration certificates. Requires the operator of an aircraft to make the aircraft's certificate of registration available for inspection by any law enforcement officer. Imposes criminal penalties on certain violations in connection with: (1) aircraft registration; and (2) the air transportation of controlled substances. Requires any person having an ownership interest in any aircraft to report any transfer in ownership of such aircraft. Subtitle H: Communications - Allows the Federal Communications Commission to revoke the license of any person found to have used such license to distribute controlled substances. Subtitle I: Drug Law Enforcement Cooperation Study - Directs the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board, to study Federal drug law enforcement effors and make recommendations to the Congress. Subtitle J: Drug Interdiction - Permits the use in an emergency as a base of operations outside the U.S. land area by Federal law enforcement officials of equipment operated by or with the assistance of Department of Defense personnel: (1) to facilitate enforcement of drug laws; (2) to transport such officials in connection with such operations, including hot pursuit of vessels or aircraft into U.S. land areas. Permits the use of such equipment to intercept such vessels or aircraft for identification and monitoring purposes, but not to interdict or interrupt them. Title IV: Demand Reduction - Subtitle A: Treatment and Rehabilitation - Alcohol and Drug Abuse Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1987 for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health grants. Provides for special allotments to States for alcohol abuse and drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation programs. Requires States to use certain amounts of such funds for innovative community based programs directed toward high risk youth. Mandates the transfer of certain funds to the Administrator of Veteran's Affairs for outpatient programs for veterans. Revises allotment procedures applicable to Indian tribes. Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that, if possession or distribution of a drug is an offense under the Controlled Substance Act, State laws should not be amended to make possession or distribution not a criminal offense. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to appoint an advisory council for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and for the National Institute of Mental Health. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Public Health Service, to take certain actions to expedite research on public health emergencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 for research grants. Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that the Public Health Service should conduct studies on the health effects of alcohol consumption. Directs the Secretary to develop and publish information on the causes of suicide and the means of suicide prevention. Directs the Secretary to prepare and report to the Congress a comprehensive national plan to combat drug abuse. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA), to establish a clearinghouse for alcohol and drug abuse information. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on alkyl nitrites. Directs the Secretary, acting through ADAMHA, to establish a new administrative unit to administer alcohol abuse and drug abuse programs. Subtitle B: Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 - Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 for payments to States to assist their efforts to educate concerning, and to prevent, drug use and alcohol abuse through school and community based programs. Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that the Motion Picture Association of America should label pro-drug films. Subtitle C: Indians and Alaska Natives - Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986 - Part I: General Provisions - Sets forth the purposes of this Act. Part II: Coordination of Resources and Programs - Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and enter into a Memorandum of Agreement to better coordinate the provision of alcohol and substance abuse treatment and prevention services for Indians. Allows the governing body of any Indian tribe to establish a Tribal Action Plan to coordinate available resources and programs in an effort to combat alcohol and drug abuse among its members. Establishes within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs an Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse. Establishes the position of Indian Youth Programs Officer. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to publish an alcohol and substance abuse newsletter to report on Indian alcohol and substance abuse projects and programs. Part III: Indian Youth Programs - Requires the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review Federal, tribal, State, local, and private programs: (1) providing educational services to Indian children; (2) providing family and social services for Indians; and (3) relating to youth employment, recreation, cultural, and community activities. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs to develop and implement pilot programs in selected schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs which further the purposes and goals of this Act. Allows Tribal Action Plans to make provisions for the establishment, funding, licensing, and operation of emergency shelters or half-way houses for Indian youth who are alcohol or substance abusers. Urges States to require their law enforcement officers to place any Indian youth arrested for alcohol or substance abuse in such shelter or half-way house. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989 for the construction, renovation, and operation of such shelters and half-way houses. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to require the compilation of data relating to the number and types of child abuse and neglect cases seen and the type of assistance provided. Part IV: Law Enforcement and Judicial Services - Requires the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review Federal, tribal, State, and local programs providing law enforcement or judicial services for Indian tribes. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance to the Papago Tribe of Arizona for the investigation and control of illegal narcotics traffic on the Papago Reservation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989. Part V: Bureau of Indian Affairs Law Enforcement - Increases the maximum sentence (from six months to one year) and fine (from $500 to $5,000) which a tribal court can impose for any offense. Allows the Secretary of the Interior to charge any officer or employee of the Department of the Interior with law enforcement responsibilities for the purposes of maintaining law and order and protecting property and persons within Indian country. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a training program in the investigation and prosecution of offenses relating to illegal narcotics and in alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment for specified personnel. Requires the Memorandum of Agreement to include a provision for the development and implementation of a procedure for the emergency medical assessment and treatment of every Indian youth arrested or detained for alcohol or substance abuse offenses. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to construct or renovate and staff juvenile detention centers. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) provide for the development of a Model Indian Juvenile Code; and (2) compile data regarding cases involving Indians where alcohol or substance abuse is determined to be a contributing factor. Part VI: Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation - Requires the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review health service programs for Indians. Sets forth Indian Health Service responsibilities, which include providing a comprehensive alcohol and substance abuse treatment program. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to develop and implement a program for: (1) acute detoxification and treatment for Indian youth who are alcohol and substance abusers; and (2) community education and training in treating alcohol and substance abuse. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to the Navajo tribe to establish a demonstration program in Gallup, New Mexico, to rehabilitate adult Navajo Indians suffering from alcoholism or alcohol abuse. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to compile data regarding Indian Health Service involvement in cases or incidents which involved alcohol or substance abuse. Subtitle D: Action Grants - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Act of 1973 to authorize a special initiative (including action grants) to increase volunteerism in preventing drug abuse. Authorizes appropriations for 1987 through 1989. Title V: Anti-Drug Trust Fund - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish an Anti-Drug Trust Fund to provide for expenditures to carry out the Drug Enforcement Act of 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1986
Designates the property known as Steamtown in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as the Steamtown National Historic Site. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to administer such Site through cooperative and grant agreements with the owners. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and technical assistance in maintaining such Site. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President, through the Secretary of State, should: (1) express to the Government of the Soviet Union the American people's disapproval concerning Soviet violations of and noncompliance with specified international agreements; and (2) raise the issue of Soviet violation of the Helsinki Final Act at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna in November 1986. Urges the U.S. Postal Service to increase its efforts to combat Soviet postal malfeasance and undertake an investigation concerning undelivered letters to Andrei Sakharov, informing the Congress and the Universal Postal Union of its findings.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1986
Drug Enforcement Act of 1986 - Title I: White House Initiative Against Drugs - Subtitle A: Drug-Free Federal Workplace Act of 1986 - Drug-Free Federal Workplace Act of 1986 - Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to provide that any individual who is otherwise handicapped shall not be excluded from the protections of such Act because that individual uses illegal drugs. Permits certain personnel actions based on an employee's, or applicant's, use of controlled substances. Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to establish a Government-wide education program designed to provide information to federal employees with respect to: (1) the health hazards associated with alcohol and drug abuse; (2) the symptoms of alcohol and drug abuse; (3) the availability of prevention, treatment, or rehabilitation services relating to alcohol and drug abuse; and (4) penalties for alcohol and drug use by Federal employees. Subtitle B: Drug-Free Schools Act of 1986 - Drug-Free Schools Act of 1986 (the Zero-Tolerance Act) - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 for: (1) allotments to States for drug and alcohol abuse prevention and education activities directed toward students in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools; (2) grants to local governments and other public and nonprofit private entities for drug and alcohol prevention, intervention, rehabilitation, education, and training programs; (3) the development and distribution of education materials; (4) education and primary prevention programs for high risk youth; (5) the procurement and development of curricula; and (6) activities to increase drug and alcohol abuse education and prevention efforts targeted at children in kindergarten through the twelfth grade. Specifies the method of distributing such funds. Sets forth the State application requirements. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out national programs designed to achieve a drug-free learning environment in elementary and secondary schools. States that it shall not be unlawful under Federal statute or regulation for any educational institution to: (1) require, as a condition of admission or continued enrollment, that students refrain from the use of illegal drugs; (2) conduct drug testing of its students and applicants; (3) refuse enrollment to applicants who use illegal drugs; or (4) take disciplinary action against students who use illegal drugs. Allows the Secretary to withhold allotment payments from any State which prohibits drug testing of students by schools. Subtitle C: Substance Abuse Services - Substance Abuse Services Amendments of 1986 - Amends title XIX (Block Grants) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1988 through 1991 for alcohol and drug abuse and mental health services block grants. Requires the Secretary to reserve a specified portion of such appropriations for grants to States with demonstrated need for funds to conduct substance abuse treatment programs. Eliminates certain block grant earmarks. Allows the Secretary to withhold State allotments under such title where the possession or distribution of a drug, which is illegal under the Controlled Substances Act, is legal under such States laws. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory council for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and for the National Institute of Mental Health to make recommendations to the Secretary and the Director of the national research institute for which it was appointed. Grants the Secretary certain additional powers during public health emergencies. Requires the Secretary to report annually to specified congressional committees on actions taken during such emergencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 for: (1) alcohol abuse and alcoholism research; and (2) drug abuse research. Provides an exception to the confidentiality requirement regarding alcohol and drug abuse records for incidents of suspected child abuse and neglect. Requires the Secretary to transmit triennial reports to the Congress on the causes and means of preventing teenage suicide. Directs the Secretary to prepare public service announcements on the dangers resulting from cigarette smoking by women. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1989. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prepare and transmit to the Congress a report which sets forth a comprehensive national plan to combat drug abuse; (2) establish a clearinghouse for alcohol and drug abuse information; and (3) conduct a study on alkyl nitrates and recommend whether they should be treated as a drug under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Subtitle D: Drug Interdiction and International Cooperation - Part I: Mansfield Amendment - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to permit any U.S. officer or employee to assist foreign law enforcement officers in making arrests or to take direct action in an arrest action in a foreign country to protect the life or safety of U.S. or foreign officers or the public. Part II: Narcotics Traffickers Deportation Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the exclusion or deportation of any alien for possession or use of certain controlled substances. Part III: Customs Enforcement - Customs Enforcement Act of 1986 - Subpart A: Tariff Act Amendments - Requires the master of any vessel arriving at any U.S. or Virgin Island port to report such arrival at the nearest customs facility if such vessel is: (1) from a foreign port or place; (2) a foreign vessel from a domestic port; or (3) a U.S. vessel carrying bonded merchandise or foreign merchandise for which entry has not been made. Requires vehicles arriving in the United States to enter only at designated border crossing points. Requires the person in charge of such a vehicle to report the arrival of such vehicle, and present the vehicle and all persons and merchandise on board for inspection to the customs officer. Requires the pilot of any aircraft arriving in the United States from any foreign airport or place to comply with the advance notification, arrival reporting, and landing requirements prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation. Imposes penalties for violations of the arrival, reporting, or entry requirements. Increases the fine for the unauthorized unloading of passengers. Sets forth reporting requirements for individuals arriving in the United States. Prohibits the departure of such individuals until authorized by a customs official. Imposes penalties for violations of such reporting requirements. Repeals the current penalties for failure to report or file a manifest upon arrival in the United States. Authorizes the issuance of summonses for records pertaining to merchandise the importation of which into the United States is prohibited. Increases the penalties for: (1) filing a false manifest; (2) failing to file a complete manifest; or (3) carrying illegal drugs. Repeals the prepenalty procedures in such cases. Increases the penalties for illegal unloading and transshipment. Makes aviation smuggling unlawful. Prohibits the at sea transfer of controlled substances between U.S. owned aircraft and vessels. Prohibits the at sea transfer of prohibited merchandise between aircraft and vessels, regardless of the nationality of either, where the intent is to smuggle the merchandise into the United States. Imposes penalties, including seizure of the aircraft or vessel, for violations of such anti-smuggling provisions. Specifies certain acts that, if engaged in within 250 miles of the U.S. territorial seas, shall be: (1) presumed to indicate intent to smuggle; and (2) deemed prima facia evidence that the aircraft or vessel was used in aiding or facilitating such smuggling. Changes the procedures for the seizure and forfeiture of conveyances used in smuggling to require that a common carrier be seized and forfeited under certain circumstances. Authorizes the issuance of search warrants for places suspected of containing: (1) merchandise brought into the United States unlawfully; (2) property which is subject to forfeiture under the customs laws; or (3) articles which are evidence of a customs violation. Authorizes the seizure and forfeiture of smuggled merchandise. Requires that any deposit made in lieu of forfeiture of property seized under customs laws be treated in the same manner as the proceeds of a sale of any forfeited item. Provides that the expenses of a forfeiture proceeding shall be a priority claim in the same manner as court costs. Provides that compensation for informers shall not exceed 25 percent of the amount recovered. (Current law requires such compensation to equal 25 percent of such amount.) Authorizes the Secretary to require the production of foreign landing certificates to comply with international obligations. Permits the Secretary to authorize customs officials to exchange information or documents with foreign customs or law enforcement agencies under certain circumstances. Allows the Secretary, when authorized by treaty or executive agreement, to station customs officers in foreign countries to examine persons or merchandise prior to their arrival in the United States. Provides that merchandise seized at a foreign station may be transported to the United States for customs proceedings. Permits the stationing of foreign customs officers in the United States (if similar privileges are extended to the United States). Establishes penalties for making fraudulent statements to such foreign officials. Grants the Commissioner of Customs authority to conduct commercial cover operations. Subpart B: Miscellaneous Provisions - Subjects recreational vessels to applicable customs regulations. Allows any customs official needing assistance in making an arrest, search, or seizure, to demand such assistance from any person. Subjects any person who refuses such assistance without reasonable excuse to criminal penalties. Exempts any person who renders such assistance from liability for civil damages. Subpart C: Amendments to the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act - Makes it unlawful for any United States citizen on board any aircraft, or any person on board any aircraft owned by a U.S. citizen or registered in the United States, to manufacture or distribute a controlled substance or possess a controlled substance with intent to distribute. Subpart D: Amendments to the Criminal Code - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish criminal penalties for: (1) operating an aircraft without proper navigation and/or anticollision lights; (2) installing illegal fuel tanks or fuel systems aboard an aircraft except according to regulations; or (3) operating an aircraft with such a fuel tank or fuel system installation, except in accordance with regulations. Subpart E: Denial of Trade Benefits to Uncooperative Drug Source Nations - Narcotics Control Trade Act - Directs the President to designate a country an uncooperative drug source nation if during any fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1986, such country: (1) was a source of any illicit narcotic and psychotropic drugs or other controlled substances that are significantly affecting the United States; and (2) did not cooperate with the United States in preventing such drugs and substances from affecting the United States by taking specified actions. Directs the President to report to the Congress the name of each such country. Denies the products of each such country most-favored-nation treatment until the President notifies the Congress that such country has made significant progress and will continue to make progress in remedying those policies on which an uncooperative drug source nation designation was based. Part IV: Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Prosecution Improvements Act of 1986 - Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Prosecution Improvements Act of 1986 - Makes it unlawful for any person on board a vessel of the United States, or on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, to manufacture or distribute, or possess with intent to manufacture or distribute, a controlled substance. Subjects any property used to commit such unlawful acts to seizure and forfeiture. Subtitle E: Anti-Drug Enforcement - Part I: Drug Penalties Enhancement Act of 1986 - Drug Penalties Enhancement Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to modify the threshold quantity and kinds of controlled substances which trigger enhanced penalties. Establishes a mandatory minimum sentence of five years imprisonment (ten years for subsequent offenses) for violations involving a specified large quantity of such substances. Increases the maximum sentence to 20 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $2,000,000 (life imprisonment and $4,000,000 for subsequent offenses) for such violations. Provides a fine of up to $5,000,000 ($10,000,000 for subsequent offenses) for violations involving a person other than an individual (organization). Provides a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years imprisonment (life imprisonment for subsequent offenses) if a death results from the use of such substances. Provides for the imposition of a special parole term of at least four years (at least eight years for subsequent offenses) in addition to the prison term for such offenses. Increases the fines for certain Controlled Substances Act violations. Grants the court authority to impose a sentence below the statutory minimum, upon motion of the Government, to reflect a defendant's assistance in the investigation or prosecution of another. Amends the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to eliminate special parole terms for violations of such Acts. Part II: Drug Possession Penalty Act of 1986 - Drug Possession Penalty Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to impose criminal penalties for illegal possession of a controlled substance. Part III: Death Penalty and Continuing Drug Enterprise - Subpart A: Death Penalty - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish procedures to be followed for the imposition of the death penalty. Sets forth mitigating and aggravating factors to be considered in determining whether a sentence of death is justified. Requires a special hearing to determine whether a sentence of death is justified. Allows the defendant to appeal a sentence of death to the court of appeals for review. Limits the imposition of the death sentence for treason. Modifies the criminal penalties for specified criminal offenses. Provides for the imposition of the death penalty for: (1) murder by a Federal prisoner; or (2) murder during the course of a continuing criminal enterprise offense. Subpart B: Continuing Drug Enterprise Act of 1986 - Continuing Drug Enterprise Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to increase the criminal penalties for continuing criminal enterprise activities. Part IV: Controlled Substances Import and Export Act Penalties Enhancement Act of 1986 - Controlled Substances Import and Export Act Penalties Enhancement Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to modify the quantity and kinds of controlled substances which trigger enhanced penalties. Imposes a mandatory minimum sentence of five years imprisonment (ten years for subsequent offenses) for violations involving a specified large quantity of such substances. Increases the maximum sentence to 40 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $2,000,000 (life imprisonment and a fine of up to $4,000,000 for subsequent offenses) for such violations. Provides a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years imprisonment (life imprisonment for subsequent offenses) if a death results from the use of such substances. Provides a fine of up to $5,000,000 (up to $10,000,000 for subsequent offenses) for violations involving a person other than an individual (organization). Provides for the imposition of a special parole term of at least four years (at least eight for subsequent violations) in addition to the prison term for such violations. Increases the penalties for certain Controlled Substances Import and Export Act violations. Part V: Juvenile Drug Trafficking Act of 1986 - Juvenile Drug Trafficking Act of 1986 - Establishes enhanced penalties for employing persons under 21 years of age to manufacture or distribute a controlled substance. Establishes enhanced penalties for: (1) the manufacture of a controlled substance in or near an elementary or secondary school (current law establishes such enhanced penalties only for the distribution of a controlled substance in or near such schools); and (2) the manufacture or distribution of a controlled substance in or near a college. Part VI: Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act of 1986 - Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act of 1986 - Sets forth certain recordkeeping requirements for distributors, importers, and exporters of precursor and essential chemicals. Makes it illegal to distribute, import, export, or purchase such chemicals for unlawful purposes. Part VII: Asset Forfeiture Amendments Act of 1986 - Asset Forfeiture Amendments Act of 1986 - Permits the use of funds in the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund for necessary program related expenses and for equipping any vessels, vehicles, and aircraft available for official use by Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Marshals Service. Authorizes appropriations for such Fund through FY 1991. Requires the forfeiture of substitute assets where, as a result of an act or ommission of the defendant, property subject to forfeiture as a result of certain crimes: (1) cannot be located; (2) has been transferred to a third party; (3) has been placed beyond the jurisdiction of the courts; (4) has been diminished in value; or (5) has been commingled with other property. Part VIII: Exclusionary Rule Limitation Act of 1986 - Exclusionary Rule Limitation Act of 1986 - Provides a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule. Provides a general limitation of the exclusionary rule unless specifically provided by statute or rule of procedure. Subtitle F: Public Awareness and Private Sector Initiatives Act of 1986 - Public Awareness and Private Sector Initiatives Act of 1986 - Allows the head of an agency to procure property or services without using competitive procedures if: (1) such property or services are to be used for a public education program to publicize the dangers of illegal drug use; (2) at least 50 percent of the value of the property or services is donated; and (3) the agency procures such property or services within two years of enactment of this Act. Title II: Pending Senate Initiatives Against Drugs - Subtitle A: Federal Drug Law Enforcement Agent Protection Act of 1986 - Federal Drug Law Enforcement Agent Protection Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to authorize awards of up to $100,000 to any individual who provides original information which leads to the arrest and conviction of a person who kidnaps or kills a Federal drug law enforcement agent. Provides that the money for such rewards be taken from the forfeiture proceeds within the Department of Justice. Subtitle B: Common Carrier Operation Under the Influence of Alcohol or Drugs - Provides criminal penalties for operating a common carrier while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Subtitle C: Controlled Substances Technical Amendments - Makes technical amendments to the Controlled Substances Act. Subtitle D: Indian Juvenile Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention - Indian Youth Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Act - Part I: Interdepartmental Agreement - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of the Interior to coordinate specified efforts of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (Bureau) and the Indian Health Service relating to alcohol and drug abuse programs for Indian youth. Provides for the biennial review of such agreement by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, upon a tribe's request, to coordinate resources and services related to youth alcohol and drug abuse with any Indian tribe. Part II: Education - Requires Bureau schools and schools operated under any contract entered into with the Bureau to provide instruction on alcohol and drug abuse to students in kindergarten and grades one through 12. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to publish, on a quarterly basis, an alcohol and drug abuse newsletter and to circulate it to specified Government agencies that provide such alcohol and drug abuse-related services to Indian people. Part III: Family and Social Services - Requires any initial training program for new community health representatives and community health aids funded under the Bureau to include not less than 40 hours of instruction in the area of alcohol and drug abuse, including instruction in crisis intervention, family relations, youth alcohol and drug abuse, and the causes and effects of fetal alcohol syndrome. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide instruction in alcohol and drug abuse problems to specified schools, Indian Health Service personnel, and others. Part IV: Law Enforcement - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the U.S. Attorney General, to promulgate guidelines under which any tribal or Federal law enforcement officer shall place an Indian youth who has been arrested for an offense in which alcohol or drug abuse was a contributing factor in an emergency shelter, a community-based alcohol or drug abuse treatment facility, or any other medical or detention facility. Requires such guidelines to be made available to any State which exercises criminal jurisdiction over Indian country. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Interior, to establish standards for the licensing of temporary emergency shelters to house Indian youths who have been arrested for offenses related to alcohol or drug abuse. Requires the Bureau to prescribe standards by which such shelters shall become licensed. Increases the maximum sentence (from six months to one year) and the maximum fine (from $500 to $5,000) which a tribal court can impose for any offense. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the development of a Model Indian Juvenile Code. Allows the Secretary to charge any employee of the Department of the Interior with law enforcement responsibilities. Part V: Youth Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to include in the budget submitted to the Congress a detailed estimate of the cost of providing comprehensive alcohol and drug abuse treatment services to Indian juveniles (including detoxification and counseling services, and follow-up care in Indian Health Service facilities and in facilities operated under any contract entered into with the Indian Health Service). Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to complete a study to determine: (1) the size of the Indian population in need of residential alcohol and drug abuse treatment; (2) the location of facilities at which such treatment is available or could be made available; and (3) the cost of providing such treatment. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with Indian tribes, to identify and utilize existing facilities owned by the Government or an Indian tribe, or local community or private hospitals, for use as residential alcohol and drug abuse treatment centers for Indian youths. Part VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this subtitle. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Controlled Substance Analogs' Enforcement Act of 1986 - Controlled Substance Analogs' Enforcement Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to impose criminal penalties for the manufacture, possession with intent to distribute, or distribution of controlled substance analogs. Subtitle F: Department of Defense Drug Interdiction - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 for the Department of Defense for: (1) the procurement, refurbishment, or upgrading of aircraft, radar, and related systems; (2) the operation and maintenance of aircraft used in carrying out drug interdiction missions; and (3) enhanced intelligence collection activities concerning the illegal importation of drugs from South America. Directs the Secretary of Defense to make such aircraft, radar, and related equipment available to certain Federal agencies (who shall be responsible for their operation and maintenance). Allows the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation to assign specially trained members of the Coast Guard to naval vessels for drug enforcement purposes. Requires the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board to submit a report to specified congressional committees on the manner and extent to which the Department of Defense should be involved in United States law enforcement activities relating to the control and reduction of drug abuse. Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to specified congressional committees on: (1) the extent to which youth enrolled in schools operated by the Department of Defense for dependent members of the armed forces are receiving drug and substance abuse education; (2) the types of drug education programs currently being provided in such schools; (3) whether additional drug education programs are needed in such schools; and (4) the extent to which preventive peer counseling classes should be used for such programs. Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to include driving under the influence of drugs as an offense. Subtitle G: Money Laundering Crimes Act of 1986 - Money Laundering Crimes Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish money laundering as a Federal offense. Sets forth fines and penalties to be imposed on anyone who, knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, conducts or attempts to conduct such a transaction which in fact involves such proceeds: (1) with the intent to facilitate the carrying on of specified unlawful activity; or (2) knowing that the transaction is designed in whole or in part to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of such proceeds, or to avoid a transaction reporting requirement under State or Federal law. Sets forth fines and penalties to be imposed upon anyone who: (1) transports or attempts to transport a monetary instrument or funds from a place in the United States to or through a place outside the United States, or vice versa, with similar intent or knowledge; or (2) conducts or attempts to conduct a financial transaction that in whole or in part involves the proceeds of specified unlawful activities with intent to violate or facilitate the violation of certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Provides, for each of such offenses, for a fine of not more than $250,000 or twice the value of the monetary instrument, whichever is greater, or imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both. Imposes a civil penalty of the greater of the value of the funds or the monetary instrument involved or $10,000. Authorizes components of the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury, and the U.S. Postal Service to investigate such offenses, as appropriate. Establishes extraterritorial jurisdiction if certain conditions are met. Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 with respect to the permissible notification of the Federal Government by a financial institution that the institution has information which may be relevant to a possible violation of law or regulation. Restricts such information to the name or names and other identifying information concerning the individuals and accounts involved in and the nature of the suspected illegal activity. Preempts any State or local law which prohibits disclosure of such information. Precludes liability under any law for an institution for such a disclosure or for failing to notify the customer of such disclosure. Grants a district court authority to order the institution to delay notifying a customer of the existence of a grand jury subpoena of financial records or of information furnished to the grand jury. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) subpoena witnesses; and (2) require the production of records of domestic financial institutions. Increases the civil penalties for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act's reporting rules. Provides in the case of a reporting violation for a maximum penalty of $1,000,000 and a minimum of $25,000. Imposes a civil penalty for the criminal violation of such rules, in the amount of the transaction or $25,000, whichever is greater, where the violation involves a transaction. Sets a civil penalty of the entire amount of an account (up to $250,000), or $25,000, whichever is greater, where the violation involves failure to report the existence of an account or any required identifying data pertaining to it. Imposes a civil penalty of not more than $500 in the case of a negligent violation. Authorizes the Secretary to assess a civil penalty within six years after the transaction on which the penalty is based. Permits the Secretary to bring a civil action to recover a civil penalty within two years after assessment. Lists money laundering as a predicate offense for purposes of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. Authorizes wiretapping for the investigation of money laundering. Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to authorize the Secretary to prescribe recordkeeping regulations. Imposes penalties for violations of such regulations. Establishes civil and criminal forfeiture procedures for the offense of money laundering. Title III: New Initiatives Against Drugs - Subtitle A: White House Conference on Drug Abuse, Education, Prevention, and Treatment - White House Conference on Drug Abuse, Education, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 1986 - Directs the President to call a White House Conference on Drug Abuse, Education, Prevention, and Treatment to examine the drug abuse crisis. Requires the Conference to report its findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Commerce - Part I: Railroad Safety - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to review existing rules, regulations, standards, and orders governing alcohol and drug use in railroad operations to determine whether they are adequate to ensure safety. Part II: Air Safety - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe regulations establishing a program which requires air carriers to conduct pre-employment, random, and post-accident drug testing of airmen and crewmembers. Requires each air carrier to establish and maintain a rehabilitation program which provides for the identification and treatment of airmen and crewmembers who need assistance in resolving problems with controlled substances or alcohol. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to impose criminal penalties (a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment for up to five years) for certain violations in connection with the air transportation of controlled substances. Requires any person having an ownership interest in an aircraft to report any transfer of ownership within 15 days. Part III: Communications - Requires the Federal Communications Commission to: (1) seize any communications equipment that was used for distributing a controlled substance; and (2) revoke the license of any person who used such license for the purpose of using or distributing a controlled substance. Part IV: Highway Safety - Subpart A: Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 - Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 - Requires the Secretary of Transportation (the Secretary) to promulgate regulations establishing minimum Federal standards for the licensing, testing, qualifications and classifications of commercial motor vehicle operators, and additional regulations for such operators who transport hazardous materials. Sets guidelines for such standards. Establishes guidelines for civil and criminal penalties to be imposed by the States for violations of such standards. Prohibits commercial motor vehicle operators from possessing more than one operator's license. Sets September 1, 1989, as the deadline by which each State must adopt and administer a classified licensing program which complies with the minimum Federal standards for commercial motor vehicle operators. Requires the States to notify the Secretary of the proposed and actual issuance of a commercial license in order to eliminate the multiple licensing of commercial motor vehicle operators. Restricts the issuance of commercial licenses to persons with acceptable safety records. Provides that States must require commercial operators to turn in other commercial licenses. Provides Federal grants to assist States which have programs for license issuance and administration that comply with the Federal guidelines established under this Act. Requires the Secretary to: (1) withhold highway funds and certain apportionments from States which are not in compliance with this Act as of September 30, 1990: and (2) establish by January 1, 1989, a commercial driver's license information clearinghouse allowing rapid communication among the States. Outlines the functions of such information system. Requires any prospective employer to consult such clearinghouse prior to employing a commercial motor vehicle operator in order to ascertain his or her status. Prohibits the employment of drivers whose licenses have been suspended, revoked or cancelled for cause. Requires the Secretary to establish fees for the use of such information system. Makes funds available for FY 1987 to establish such information system. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 to require States receiving grants under the Act to: (1) conduct frequent roadside inspections of commercial motor vehicles; (2) conduct tests to determine blood alcohol content levels of commercial motor vehicle operators; and (3) provide for license suspension or revocation for operators who either have certain blood alcohol content levels, or who refuse to submit to blood alcohol content tests. Authorizes the Secretary to provide funds to encourage the States to determine whether commercial motor vehicle operators are driving under the influence of a controlled substance. Increases authorizations for FY 1987 and 1988 for grants to assist States in the implementation of Federal commercial motor vehicle programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1989 and 1990 for such programs. Subpart B: Motor Vehicle Safety - Expresses the sense of the Senate that the States should enact laws and adopt procedures which provide for the administration of tests which measure the content of controlled substances in the blood of any motor vehicle operator and provide for suspension or revocation of the license of an operator who refuses to submit to such testing. Subtitle C: Harmful Inhalants - Amends the Federal criminal code to make the sale of harmful inhalants illegal. Subtitle D: Action Grants - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Act of 1973 to authorize grants (and other special initiatives) to increase voluntarism in preventing drug abuse. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989. Subtitle E: Habeas Corpus Reform - Reform of Federal Intervention in State Proceedings Act of 1985 - Amends the Federal judicial code to condition consideration of a habeas corpus claim by a prisoner on a showing of actual prejudice resulting from the Federal right violated and that: (1) State or Federal Government action precluded assertion of that right; (2) the Federal right did not previously exist; or (3) the factual basis of the claim could not have been discovered by reasonable diligence. Establishes a one-year statute of limitations for habeas corpus actions brought by State prisoners, and a two-year statute of limitations for similar motions made by Federal prisoners. Vests authority to issue certificates for probable cause for appeal of habeas corpus orders exclusively in the courts of appeals. Permits denial on the merits of habeas corpus writs notwithstanding the failure to exhaust State remedies. Prohibits the granting of a habeas corpus writ with respect to any claim which has been fully and fairly adjudicated in State proceedings. Subtitle F: Armed Career Criminals - Amends title VII (Unlawful Possession or Receipt of Firearms) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to expand the firearms-related crimes for which persons with multiple convictions may receive increased penalties to include serious drug offenses and crimes of violence. (Previous law provided increased penalties for robbery and burglary only.) Subtitle G: Prohibition on the Interstate Sale and Transportation of Drug Paraphernalia - Mail Order Drug Paraphernalia Control Act - Makes it a Federal criminal offense for any person to use the U.S. Postal Service or any private parcel service in interstate commerce as part of a scheme to sell drug paraphernalia. Imposes a penalty of imprisonment for not more than three years and a fine of not more than $100,000. Provides for the seizure and forfeiture of any paraphernalia involved in violation of this Act. Subtitle H: International Narcotics Control - Part I: Interagency Coordinating Committee - Establishes an Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee for Drug-Related Intelligence Collection and Action to coordinate the drug related activities of the intelligence components of specified Federal departments and agencies. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence to report annually to specified congressional committees on such activities. Part II: Declaration; Policy - Declares that drugs are a national security problem and urges the President to explore the possibility of engaging the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and other such organizations, in cooperative drug programs. Part III: Report - Requires the President to prepare an annual report for the Congress listing each country: (1) which encourages or facilitates the production or distribution of illegal drugs; (2) in which a member of a U.S. Government agency has suffered or been threatened with violence, inflicted by or with the complicity of an official of such country; or (3) which fails to provide reasonable cooperation with lawful activities of U.S. drug enforcement agents. Part IV: International Narcotics Control Act of 1986 - International Narcotics Control Act of 1986 - Subpart A: International Narcotics Control Assistance Program - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the FY 1987 authorization for aid for international narcotics control. Permits certain additional funds to be appropriated for FY 1987 only if the President has submitted to the Congress: (1) a budget request for such funds; and (2) a plan showing how such funds will be used. Requires that a specified amount of FY 1987 military assistance authorization be available to provide aircraft to foreign countries for narcotics control eradication and interdiction efforts. States that such aircraft shall be available primarily for use in Latin America. Provides that any such aircraft made available to Mexico shall be provided only on a lease or loan basis. Earmarks a specified amount of the FY 1987 international narcotics control assistance for research, development, and testing of safe and effective herbicides for use in aerial eradication of coca. Requires the Comptroller General to investigate and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of the international narcotics control assistance program. Subpart B: Improving Law Enforcement and Other Narcotics Control Activities Abroad - Requires the President's annual report to the Congress on the international strategy to prevent cultivation and trafficking in narcotics to include a discussion of the extent to which each source country has cooperated with U.S. narcotics control efforts through the extradition or prosecution of drug traffickers and a description of the state of negotations on updated extradition treaties. Requires the executive branch to establish expeditiously the information sharing system that will list all drug arrests of foreign nationals in the United States as required by the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987. Requires the executive branch to report to the Congress when the system is established. Requires the President to direct that an updated threat assessment of narcotics trafficking from Africa be prepared. Requires that a specified amount of the FY 1987 administration of justice program authorization be used to provide Colombia (and other countries in the region) assistance to protect judicial or other officials who are targets of narcoterrorist attacks. Allows the President to suspend foreign assistance to a country which has failed to take adequate steps to prevent money laundering and punish money launderers. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985 to permit foreign assistance to Bolivia when certain conditions are met. Directs the President to report to specified congressional committees on a plan to do aerial and other surveys of major illicit drug producing countries. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct each U.S. Executive Director to multilateral development banks to vote against any loan for the benefit of any major illicit drug producing country. Subpart C: Drug Education Programs Abroad - Authorizes additional appropriations for the U.S. Information Agency for FY 1987 which shall be available only for increasing drug education programs abroad. Authorizes additional appropriations for development assistance programs for FY 1987 which shall be used for additional activities aimed at increasing awareness of the effects of production and trafficking of illicit narcotics on source and transit countries. Requires the Director of the U.S. Information Agency and the Director of the Agency for International Development to include in their annual reports to the Congress a description of the drug education programs carried out by their respective agencies. Subtitle J: Anti-Drug Trust Fund - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow any individual to designate any amount of tax overpayment and to make contributions to the Anti-Drug Trust Fund. Establishes the Anti-Drug Trust Fund. Subtitle K: Freedom of Information Act - Amends the Freedom of Information Act to provide certain Freedom of Information request exceptions for specified law enforcement records and information. Subtitle L: National Forest System Drug Control - Grants officers and employees of the Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture authority to conduct investigations and make arrests for violations relating to the National Forest System. Allows the Secretary of Agriculture to grant such officers and employees certain law enforcement powers (including the right to carry firearms). Amends the Controlled Substances Act to impose criminal penalties for: (1) possessing a firearm while manufacturing a controlled substance on Federal property; and (2) placing a boobytrap on Federal property where a controlled substance is being manufactured. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle M: Authorization of Appropriations for Drug Law Enforcement - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1987 for the Department of Justice for: (1) the Drug Enforcement Administration (including an All Source Intelligence Center); (2) the Federal Prison System; (3) Defender Services; (4) fees and expenses of jurors and commissioners; and (5) the Office of Justice Assistance. Subtitle N: Controlled Substances Production Control - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to make any person convicted of planting, storing, harvesting, or growing a controlled substance ineligible for price supports or other program benefits for ten (rather than five) years. Directs the Secretary to pay a reward for information leading to the conviction of any person who receives such supports or benefits and is subsequently determined to be ineligible for such supports or benefits. Subtitle O: State and Local Narcotics Control Assistance - State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Act of 1986 - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to State and local law enforcement agencies for narcotics assistance. Subtitle P: Study on the Use of Existing Federal Buildings as Prisons - Directs the Administrator of General Services and the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study to identify any Federal building which could be used as a prison by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Requires the Administrator and the Secretary to transmit the results of such study to the President and the Congress. Subtitle Q: Drug Law Enforcement Cooperation Study - Directs the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board to study Federal drug law enforcement efforts and make recommendations regarding: (1) improving the Nation's drug interdiction program; and (2) ways to maximize coordination and cooperation among Federal, State, and local drug enforcement agencies, and between the several Federal agencies involved with drug interdiction. Subtitle R: Drug Interdiction - Permits the use of Department of Defense personnel outside of the United States in drug interdiction activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 for the Customs Service, the Attorney General, the Coast Guard, and other agencies for drug interdiction activities along the southern border of the United States. Subtitle S: Arrest Authority for INS Officers - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to grant Immigration and Nationality Service (INS) officers general arrest authority (including the right to carry a firearm). Subtitle T: Improved Drug Crime Reporting - Requires the Bureau of Justice statistics to compile and publish comprehensive data on drug trafficking and abuse. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1986
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to accept specified lands known as the Taney Farm for administration as part of the Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania, if such lands are offered without consideration. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress within one year of enactment on a boundary study, with recommendations for such Park's development. Prohibits the acquisition of additional lands until the Congress receives such report.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1986
Extends until September 30, 1989, the expiration date of the Defense Production Act of 1950. Extends through FY 1989 the authorization of appropriations under such Act, and limits the total amount authorized during FY 1987 through 1989. Amends the Export Administration Amendments Act of 1985 to delay until October 1, 1987, the effective date of certain provisions under such Act which create the position of Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1986
Digital Audio Tape Tariff Act of 1986 - Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to define "copy-code scanners." Provides a duty on digital audio tape recorders without copy-code scanners and parts. Subjects other digital audio tape recorders to the same staged rate reductions as may later be provided for digital audio tape recorders without copy-code scanners. Subjects radio-television-phonograph combinations to the same staged rate reductions as may later be provided for certain tape recorders, dictation recording, and transcribing machines for civil aircraft.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1986
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Act of 1986 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to grant the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (Network) the exclusive responsibility: (1) for the assignment in the United States of an organ to a recipient, if the organ is not transplanted into a recipient residing in the service area of the regional center for the region in which it is donated; and (2) for the arrangement and approval of the export or import of organs. Declares that an organ exported to a foreign country may only be: (1) provided by the organ procurement network of that country to a nonprofit transplant center; and (2) transplanted into a citizen or permanent resident of that country. Requires the U.S. Network, before approving an export, to determine that all possible efforts to locate a U.S. recipient have been exhausted. Requires organ procurement organizations, agencies, and programs and all persons and entities involved in organ harvesting, donation, or transplantation, to register with, and participate in, the Network to be eligible for Federal assistance. Declares it unlawful for any person to export or import human organs without approval and arrangement by the Network. Establishes a $50,000 fine, or up to five years' imprisonment, or both, for violation of this prohibition. Declares it unlawful for any person to advertise or solicit for, or cause to be advertised or solicited for, any nonimmigrant alien human organ transplant patient or any nonimmigrant alien human organ donor. Establishes a $50,000 fine, or up to five years' imprisonment, or both, for violation of this prohibition. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that each State should enact legislation to prohibit the sale, within the State, of any insurance policy which offers or purports to provide the policy holder or beneficiary: (1) with any type of preference with respect to the receipt of a human organ; or (2) with exclusive access to a pool of human organs for transplantation. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that each State should enact legislation to ensure that any person or entity in the State which is involved in the harvesting, donation, or transplantation of organs shall register with, and participate in, the Network. Amends the Medicare and Medicaid provisions of the Social Security Act to make it a criminal offense (punishable by a $25,000 fine, or up to five years in prison, or both) for anyone knowingly or willingly to solicit or receive remuneration for procuring an organ for any organ transplant. Exempts certain costs from such prohibition.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1986
Amends the Steel Import Stabilization Act to provide that any steel product that is manufactured in a country that is not party to a bilateral arrangement (a non-arrangement country) from steel which is melted and poured in a country that is an arrangement country will be treated for purposes of the quantitative restrictions under that arrangement as if it were a product of an arrangement country. Requires the Customs Service, if provided with documentation that a steel product was exported by an arrangement country to a non-arrangement country where the product was transformed for export to the United States, to treat such documented product as if it were a product of the arrangement country for purposes of quantitative restrictions. Requires the U.S. Trade Representative to consult with Canada, Sweden, and Taiwan for the purpose of negotiating bilateral steel arrangements with such countries. Restricts imports of steel from such countries if such consultations do not result in the successful negotiation of arrangements within 90 days of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1986
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend, through December 31, 1987, the duty on certain mixtures of cross-linked sodium polyacrylate polymers.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1986
Export Revitalization Act - Title I: Exchange Rates and Developing Country Debt- Subtitle A: Measures Relating to Exchange Rates - Declares that it is U.S. policy that: (1) the United States and the other Summit countries (West Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Italy, and Canada) should take steps to institutionalize the process of coordinating monetary and fiscal policies started at the Tokyo Economic Summit in May 1986; (2) the goal of policy coordination should be to eliminate imbalances in trade and capital flows and to stabilize exchange rates; and (3) the United States and other Summit countries should coordinate the participation by central banks in international currency markets in order to reduce severe currency fluctuations, deter currency speculation, aid in the stabilization of the dollar in international currency markets, and promote orderly exchange rate adjustments. Directs the President to: (1) enter into negotiations with the other Summit countries to improve the functioning of the international monetary system; (2) continue the negotiations begun at the Tokyo Economic Summit to enhance the role of the Summit countries in coordinating fiscal and monetary policy and to institutionalize a process whereby the economic policies of these countries converge; and (3) enter into negotiations with other countries to achieve reciprocal opportunities for investment. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board to accumulate foreign currencies in amounts sufficient to make participation in foreign exchange markets effective and credible. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report every six months to the appropriate congressional committees on the progress made in implementing the policies and negotiating objectives outlined in the preceding paragraphs. Sets forth the information to be contained in such reports. Subtitle B: Measures Relating to Developing Country Debtors - Requires the negotiating objectives of the United States with respect to developing country debtors to be to: (1) reduce barriers to U.S. exports and to foreign investment maintained by developing countries; (2) lessen the burden of developing country indebtedness on U.S. exports and international trade, and on the U.S. and international banking systems; (3) encourage developing countries to eliminate structural barriers that limit their efficiency and productivity and block the resumption of economic growth of developing countries; and (4) ensure appropriate financial support for developing country reform efforts from the International Monetary Fund, multilateral developing banks, and private and official creditors. Amends the International Lending Supervision Act of 1983 to declare that it is U.S. policy to take steps to reduce the continuing drag on the economic health of the United States and other countries and on commercial banks as a result of the high level of debt of certain international borrowers. Provides that such policy shall be achieved by strengthening the bank regulatory framework. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the appropriate Federal banking agencies, within six months of enactment of this Act, to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the possible regulatory steps to encourage a reduction in the indebtedness of heavily indebted international borrowers to supervised banks in a way that would improve overall bank asset quality and reduce the burden of these loans on the countries themselves. Sets forth information to be included in such report. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury and appropriate Federal banking agencies, within 60 days of delivery of this report to the Congress, to submit legislative proposals and regulatory changes that would implement the findings of the report. Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to prohibit the Export-Import Bank from making any guarantee, extending credit, or participating in an extension of credit in connection with the export of equipment to be used in copper extraction, production, manufacturing, or smelting operations. Authorizes the President to enter into negotiations with the members of: (1) the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to agree to eliminate official financing or support for new mining or production facilities and to encourage the reduction of commodities from such facilities where the commodity is in oversupply in international trade; (2) each multilateral development bank to reach an agreement prohibiting the furnishing of assistance by such bank for any new mining or production facility for a commodity that is in oversupply in international trade; and (3) the International Monetary Fund to reach an agreement terminating the Compensatory Financing Facility and transferring the resources and assets of the Facility to the general resources of the Fund. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, every six months, to report to the Congress on: (1) the role of the Export-Import Bank in financing U.S. exports to heavily indebted international borrowers and the level of financing to such borrowers provided by the export credit agencies of other Summit countries; and (2) the status of negotiations to end support for production of commodities in world oversupply and the status of negotiations to transfer the resources of the International Monetary Fund's Compensatory Financing Facility. Title II: Bank Export Services - Export Trading Company Amendments Act of 1985 - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to declare that a company shall be deemed to be organized and operated principally for purposes of exporting U.S. goods or services or for purposes of providing export trade services to facilitate the export of U.S. goods or services by unaffiliated persons if its revenues from exporting U.S. goods or services or from providing export trade services exceed its revenues from importing goods or services produced outside the United States. Prohibits the Federal Reserve Board from disapproving a proposed investment solely on the basis of the proposed assets to equity ratio of an export trading company unless the proposed annual average ratio is greater than 25 to one. Prohibits the Federal Reserve Board from imposing a dollar limit on the amount of goods which export trading companies may maintain in inventory. Authorizes the Board, however, to impose a dollar limit on the amount of goods which an export trading company may maintain in inventory if on a case by case basis the Board finds that such limit is necessary to prevent risks that would affect the financial or managerial resources of an investor bank holding company. Title III: Export Promotion - Directs the Secretaries of State and Commerce to review periodically the number of personnel assigned to U.S. missions abroad to determine whether an adequate number of such personnel are engaged in economic or commercial duties to aid U.S. exporters and businesses doing business outside the United States. Declares that the Secretaries should extend the length of assignment of such personnel in order to ensure greater continuity in promoting U.S. exports. Requires each chief of a U.S. mission to a country that is an important trading partner and which has significant potential for U.S. export sales to report annually to the President and the Congress on: (1) the strategy used by such mission to expand U.S. exports; and (2) the efforts of such mission to assist U.S. industries in expanding export sales and in improving their market position. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) each U.S. Executive Director to a multilateral development bank should take specified actions to promote procurement opportunities for U.S. firms; and (2) a Foreign Commercial Officer should be assigned to each such Director to help promote such opportunities. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, through the International Trade Administration, to develop and maintain an effective system to collect and disseminate information on international trade to U.S. exporters. Sets forth information to be included in such system. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to designate an Office of the International Trade Administration to act as business liaison with multilateral development banks which do not have offices in the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to designate eight U.S. missions abroad at which the senior United States and Foreign Commercial Service officer will be able to use the diplomatic title of Minister-Counselor and, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, to provide for the use of that title in additional posts. Requires the appropriate Federal agencies to prepare a reference manual for U.S. businesses containing a list of all Government sources of information related to exporting, foreign investment, foreign market conditions, foreign laws and regulations affecting exports, and sources of export and foreign investment financing. Requires such manual to be available within a year of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1986
Prohibits a trustee in a bankruptcy reorganization case from unilaterally terminating or altering any provision of a collective bargaining agreement relating to benefits for retired employees prior to complying with prescribed procedures.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1986
Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to require hospitals to establish written protocols assuring that: (1) families of potential organ donors are informed of the option of organ donation; and (2) a certified organ procurement agency is notified of potential donors. Requires hospitals performing transplants to abide by the rules of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (Network). Conditions coverage under titles XVIII (Medicare) or XIX (Medicaid) of the Act of an organ procurement agency's organ procurement costs on the agency's being: (1) a "qualified organ procurement organization" under the Public Health Service Act or biennially certified as meeting the standards required of such organizations; and (2) a member of and in compliance with the rules of the Network. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from providing coverage to more than one organization per service area.
United States · United States Congress · 3 September 1986
General Aviation Accident Liability Standards Act of 1986 - Declares that this Act supersedes any State law regarding liability for general aviation accidents. Establishes guidelines for uniform standards of liability of general aviation manufacturers for general aviation accidents. States that all actions for harm arising out of a general aviation accident shall be governed by the principles of comparative responsibility. Establishes, with specified exceptions, a limitation of actions period of 20 years from delivery of aircraft or harm-causing part to the purchaser for general aviation civil liability brought against a general aviation manufacturer. Declares admissible as evidence certain income tax and payroll tax liability for purposes of establishing financial harm arising out of a general aviation accident. Permits the award of punitive damages if a claimant establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the harm suffered was the direct result of conduct manifesting conscious, flagrant indifference to safety. Establishes a two-year limitation of actions period for actions arising out of a general aviation accident. Declares the intent of the Congress that sanctions be strictly enforced for violations of Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, including orders to pay to the other party the reasonable costs of legal fees. Confers original jurisdiction upon the Federal district courts, concurrently with State courts, for all civil actions for harm arising out of a general aviation accident.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1986
National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1986 - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to add to the list of products covered under the Act: (1) freezers which can be operated by alternating current electricity (with specified exceptions); (2) central air conditioning heat pumps; (3) direct heating equipment; and (4) pool heaters. Deletes from specific coverage: (1) television sets; (2) humidifiers; and (3) dehumidifiers. Excludes from such coverage consumer products designed solely for use in recreational vehicles and other mobile equipment. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) to amend Federal energy efficiency test procedures for appliances under specified guidelines. Prohibits manufacturers from making any representations regarding the energy efficiency of appliances covered by this Act unless such appliances have been tested in accordance with the Federal test procedures, and the manufacturer's representations fairly disclose the results of such testing. Sets forth specific Federal energy conservation standards for products covered by this Act and manufactured after certain dates. Establishes deadlines by which the Secretary must issue rules regarding such standards. Details the criteria to be applied if such standards are revised. Revises the information requirements with which manufacturers must comply to provide that the Secretary shall exercise authority in a manner designed to minimize unnecessary burdens on manufacturers of covered products. Revises the rules under which State regulations are superseded by the Federal regulations for testing and labeling requirements and energy conservation standards. Permits the waiver of Federal preemption if the Secretary finds that such waiver is needed to meet compelling and unusual local energy conditions. Prescribes procedural guidelines for such a waiver. Details conditions under which State and local building code requirements regarding energy conservation standards are not superseded by the standards promulgated under this Act. Permits the commencement of a citizen's suit against the Secretary for failure to comply with a nondiscretionary duty to issue rules according to prescribed schedules. Directs the courts to expedite the disposition of such suits. Vests jurisdiction in the Federal district courts over actions brought by any adversely affected person to determine whether a State or local government is complying with the requirements of this Act. Declares that the required submission by the Secretary of an annual report regarding Federal energy efficiency standards does not constitute a defense or justification for a failure by such Secretary to comply with the nondiscretionary duty provided for in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) other industrial nations should take all actions necessary to increase the buying power of their people; and (2) all countries should work together for more fair and open trade.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) legislation should be enacted to require the Secretary of Transportation to work with the Congress to undertake a public offering of Conrail stock; and (2) such offering should be required to realize an amount equal to that assumed under the budget resolution.
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