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United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Extends the Solid Waste Disposal Act for one year by authorizing for fiscal year 1974 additional sums in the amount of $238,500,000.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Wilderness Study Act - Provides for a study of various lands enumerated in this Act to determine their suitability for designation as wilderness in accordance with the Wilderness Act of 1964. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to report the findings of such study to the President within five years after the date of the enactment of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Designates lands in the Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee, as the North Cohutta Wilderness Preserve.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Designates specified lands in the following national forests for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System including: (1) Bankhead National Forest, Alabama; (2) Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas; (3) Ozark National Forest, Arkansas; (4) Appalachicola National Forest, Florida; (5) Chattahooche and Cherokee National Forests, Georgia and Tennessee; (6) White Mountain National Forest, Maine; (7) Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri; (8) White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire; (9) Natahala and Cherokee National Forests, North Carolina and Tennessee; (10) Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia; (11) George Washington National Forest, Virginia and West Virginia; (12) Jefferson National Forest, Virginia; (13) Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky; (14) Sumter National Forest, South Carolina, (15) Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont; (16) Chequamegon National Forest, Wisconsin; (17) Clark National Forest, Missouri, Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan; and (18) Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Steel Trade Act - Limits the total quantity of imported carbon and specialty steel mill products to fourteen million seven hundred and nine thousand tons during the year beginning January 1, 1971. Limits the total quantity of other steel products which may be imported during such year to four hundred and eleven thousand tons. Provides that beginning with the year 1972 and during each succeeding year the total quantities of the above products which may be imported during such year to four hundred and eleven thousand tons. Provides that beginning with the year 1972 and and during each succeeding year the total quantities of the above products which may be imported shall be increased by 1 1/2 percent per year over the tonnages permitted to be imported in the preceeding year. Declares that: (1) the percentage of the total quantity of the imports of the above products from a particular nation shall not exceed the percentage of total imports represented by imports from that nation during the year 1968; (2) the percentage of the total quantity of imports of carbon and specialty steel mill products and other steel products which may be entered in any year represented by imports in a particular category shall not exceed the percentage of total imports represented by imports in that category during the year 1968; and (3) the percentage of the total quantity of imports of the above products in any year cleared through any customs district shall not exceed the percentage of total imports which cleared through such district during the year 1968. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to adjust the percentage limitations to the extent required by significant changes in the composition of domestic market requirements. Provides that such adjustment shall be consistant with the policy of this Act and shall not increase the total amount of imports permitted to be entered in any year from any country of origin. Declares that the quantity of imports of carbon and specialty steel mill products and other steel products from any nation under this Act in either half of any year shall not exceed 60 percent of the total permissible quantity of imports from that nation in that year. Authorizes the President to enter into international arrangements or agreements with other nations to obtain voluntary compliance with the provisions of this Act. Provides that the countries which enter into such agreements shall not be subject to the provisions of this Act, if the President finds there will be no disruption of the markets. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to submit a report to Congress, three years after the date of enactment of this Act, as to the effect of the import limitations, together with his recommendations as to whether such limitations should be continued, modified, or revoked.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to hire comptrollers to examine proposed expenditures of the executive agencies to determine if each such expenditure is consistent with the legislative intent of Congress with respect to the legislation authorizing it, and if it is inconsistent, to prohibit the making of such expenditure.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1973
Provides that all American war dead in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, who laid down their lives for their country and the preservation of the ideals of freedom throughout the world, are to be honored by their country by the flying of the flag at half staff for thirty days after the last American prisoner has been returned from Southeast Asia
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973
Requires the advice and consent of the Senate for appointments to Director of the Office of Management and Budget under the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 16)
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973
Comprehensive Older Americans Services Amendments - Title I: Declaration of Objectives - States that the general purpose of this Act is to make available comprehensive health, education, and social service programs to our older citizens. Title II: Administration on Aging - Declares that the Commissioner on Aging shall be the principal officer of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for carrying out this Act. Establishes within the Administration on Aging a National Information and Resource Center for the Aging to collect, review, organize, publish, and disseminate information and data related to the particular problems caused by aging, including information describing measures which are or may be employed for meeting such problems. Establishes the National Advisory Council on the Aging designated to advise and assist the President as he may direct on matters relating to the special needs of Older Americans; to assist the Commissioner on Aging in carrying out his functions under this Act; to review and evaluate programs of the Federal Government with emphasis on identifying unsolved problems of older Americans; and to make recommendations to the President, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Commissioner, and Congress for the establishment of new programs for the aged. Provides that not later than one hundred and twenty days after the close of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the President for transmittal to the Congress a complete report on the activities carried out under this Act. Title III: Grants for State and Area Programs - Prescribes standards and procedures for the establishment by the several States of State and area social service programs in order to develop a greater capacity and foster development of comprehensive systems to serve older persons. Provides that the Commissioner shall not finally disapprove any State plan, or any modification thereof, without first affording the State reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. Authorizes appropriations of $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and $15,000,000 for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 for grants to States for paying such percentage as each State agency determines, but not more than 75 percent of the cost of administering the State plan. Title IV: Training and Research - Directs the Commissioner to make grants to State agencies and educational institutions for the purpose of: (1) publicizing available opportunities for careers in the field of aging; (2) encouraging qualified persons to enter or re-enter the field of aging; (3) encouraging persons from other professions to undertake assignments on a parttime basis in the field of aging; and (4) assisting in covering the cost of courses of training or study. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants for the purpose of establishing multidisciplinary centers of gerontology to recruit and train personnel; conduct basic research on the problem of the aged; provide consultation to public and voluntary organizations; and create opportunities for research projects with respect to aging. Authorizes appropriations of $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for the purposes of attracting personnel to and training personnel in the field of aging. Authorizes appropriations of $20,000,000 for the fiscal year 1973, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for establishing multidisciplinary centers or gerontology. Title V: Multipurpose Senior Centers - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to units of general purpose local government or other public or nonprofit private agencies to pay not to exceed 75 percent of the cost of leasing, altering, or renovating existing facilities to serve as multipurpose senior centers. Establishes standards to be followed by the Commissioner in making such grants and authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1973-1975 to carry out the provisions of this section. Creates a Multipurpose Senior Center Insurance Fund to be adminstered by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to insure mortgages on multipurpose senior centers. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of making grants to meet the costs of compensation of professional and technical personnel for the initial operation of multipurpose senior centers. Title VI: National Older Americans Volunteer Program - Provides that no compensation paid to individual volunteers under the Retired Senior Volunteer Program under the Older Americans Act shall be considered income for any purposes. Provides continuing appropriations for such program in the amount of $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for the continuation of the Foster Grandparent Program under the Older Americans Act. Title VII: Nutrition Programs - Provides under the Older Americans Act of 1965 that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commodity Credit Corporation may donate specified products acquired by them to a recipient of a grant or contract for providing nutritional services for the elderly. Title VIII: Special Impact Programs - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to public or nonprofit private agencies for payment of part of the cost of any program designed to: (1) assist in meeting in special housing needs of older persons; (2) improve the transportation services available to older persons; (3) meet the needs of unemployed low-income older persons; (4) provide continuing education to older persons; and (5) provide retirement education and information to persons planning retirement. Authorizes appropriations of $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for providing assistance under this title. Title IX: Amendments to other Acts - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to States which have submitted a long-range program and an annual program for library services for older persons. Specifies that the Commissioner is authorized to make grants to institutions of higher education to assist such institutions in planning, developing, and carrying out programs specifically designed to apply the resources of higher education to the problems of the elderly. Directs the Commissioner to make grants to State and local educational agencies or other public or private nonprofit agencies for educational programs for elderly persons whose ability to speak and read the English language is limited and who live in an area with a culture different from their own. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 3001,3011(b); 42 U.S.C. 3012(3), (4); 42 U.S.C. 3044; 42 U.S.C. 3044a, 3044b; Amends 20 U.S.C. 354, 355, 355nts; 20 U.S.C. 1504(a) (2); 20 U.S.C. 1505(a); 20 U.S.C. 1078; 20 U.S.C. 1209, 1210, 1211; 20 U.S.C. 954)
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973
Requires each Member of Congress and each employee of the Congress to file, not later than May 15 of each year or not more than three months after the last day he occupies such office or position (if he leaves such position before May 15), with the Comptroller General, a report containing a full and complete statement of: (1) the amount and source of each item of income, each item of reimbursement for any expenditure, and each gift or aggregate of gifts from one source (other than gifts received from his spouse or any member of his immediate family) recieved by him or by him and his spouse jointly during the preceding calander year which exceeds $100 in amount or value; (2) the value of each asset held by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, which has a value in excess of $5,000, and the amount of each liability owed by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, which is in excess of $5,000 as of the close of the preceding calander year; and (3) any business transaction by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting in his behalf, during the preceding calander year if the aggregate amount involved in such transaction exceeds $5,000 during such year. Provides that the reports required by this Act shall be in such form and detail as the Comptroller General may prescribe. Establishes a penalty of $2,000, or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both for whoever willfully fails to file a report or knowingly files a false report under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1973
Expands the membership of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to include elected school board officials.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1973
Requires congressional authorization for the reinvolvement of American forces in further hostilities in Indochina. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall take effect sixty days after the agreement is signed in Paris on January 27, 1973, or upon the release of all United States prisioners of war held by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and its allies and an accounting of United States personnel missing in action, or upon the enactment of the Act, whichever is later.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Act for Freedom of Emigration in East-West Trade - States that after October 15, 1972, products from any nonmarket economy country shall not be eligible to receive most-favored-nation treatment, such country shall not participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly, and the President of the United States shall not conclude any commercial agreement with any such country during the period beginning with the date on which the President determines that such country: (1) denies its citizens the right or opportunity to emigrate; (2) imposes more than a nominal tax on emigration or on the visas or other documents required for emigration, for any purpose or cause whatsoever; or (3) imposes more than a nominal tax, levy, fine, fee, or other charge on any citizen as a consequence of the desire of such citizen to emigrate to the country of his choice. Provides that, before any of the aforementioned commercial agreements are entered into with any foreign country, the President shall submit to the Congress a report indicating that such country is not in violation of any of the requirements of the preceding paragraph.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1973
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of Roberto Walker Clemente in a number not to exceed two hundred thousand.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Authorizes appropriations for construction of facilities and equipment for public mass transportation projects, including preferential bus lanes, highway traffic loading and parking facilities, construction of fixed rail facilities, and the purchase of passenger equipment, including rolling stock for fixed rail. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 142(b))
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
News Media Source Protection Act - States that the policy of the United States is to permit the flow of information from individuals through the media to the public with reasonable freedom from governmental intrusion, so that constitutional protection of a free flow of news is divested only when a compelling and overriding interest in the source of such information can be demonstrated. Sets forth the following procedural determinations needed prior to any consideration of compulsory disclosure of news media sources: (1) a demonstration that there is probable cause to believe a crime has been committed, and that the testimony sought is directly relevant to a central issue in that criminal allegation; and (2) a demonstration that no reasonable alternative for obtaining the testimony is available. Extends the protection of this Act to any legitimate member of the professional news media, including an individual regularly engaged in gathering, collecting, photographing, filming, writing, editing, interpreting, announcing, or broadcasting local, national, or worldwide events or other matters of public concern, or public interest, or affecting the public welfare, for publication or transmission through a news medium. Describes the sources of written, oral or pictorial information or communication to which protection under this Act is assured. Provides that no legitimate member of the professional news media shall be held in contempt, or adversely prejudiced, before any grand jury, agency, department, or commission of the United States or by either House of or any committee of Congress for refusing to disclose information or communication as to news media sources. States that where a person seeks disclosure of any news media information or communication from a person who is a legitimate member of the professional news media and who refuses to make such disclosure in a proceeding before any Federal court of the United States, such person seeking disclosure may apply to a United States district court for an order providing such disclosure. Requires such application to state in writing the name of any specific individual from whom disclosure is sought, the specific nature of the source or content of information sought, the direct relevance of such evidence, and any information demonstrating that such evidence is not reasonably available by alternative means. Allows appeals as a matter of rights, of any order entered pursuant to an application under this Act, and permits a stay of such order. Provides that an application for disclosure shall be granted when the applicant has established that the person seeking protection of a source is not a legitimate member of the professional news media, or that the information sought is not a news media information source, or information or communication affecting a news media source. Permits the granting of an application for disclosure when: (1) the applicant has established that the source to be disclosed is of substantial and direct relevance to a central issue of the action; (2) the applicant is able to demonstrate that the source is not reasonably available by alternative means; and (3) the action which is the subject of the court proceeding is murder, forcible rape, aggravated assault, kidnaping, airline hijacking, or when a breach of national security has been established. Allows a person to waive rights and protections afforded under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Provides that on or after June 30, 1973, no import quota or other nontariff trade restriction shall be imposed by or pursuant to law with respect to the importation into the United States of petroleum and petroleum products. (Amends 19 U.S.C. 1862)
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Repeals provisions relating to the interstate transportation of petroleum products, which provisions are for the purpose of protecting interstate commerce from burdens caused by contracts of oil and of encouraging the conservation of crude oil deposits. (Repeals 15 U.S.C. 715-715m)
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike medals in commemoration of Roberto Walker Clemente.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Directs the Committee on Appropriations, not later than sixty days after the President's annual budget message has been received at the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, to report to the House a resolution containing a House-authorized Federal budget for the ensuring fiscal year. Provides that the budget shall include: (1) the total of estimated Federal receipts from all sources; (2) the maximum amount to be provided in obligational authority in each appropriation bill or resolution and in such other legislative provisions of obligational authority as may be specified, and the estimated budget outlay related to each, including those outlays from funds provided in prior years; and (3) a table showing the relationship of total estimated receipts as shown in (1) to the aggregate of the maximum amounts to be provided in obligational authority and the aggregate of the estimated budget outlays as shown in (2). Sets forth a procedure for the adoption of such resolution by the House. Provides that a conference report on a bill or resolution carrying appropriations or otherwise providing obligational authority shall require the approval of two-thirds of those Members present and voting, a quorum being present, if the effect of the adoption of the report would be to provide an amount in excess of that contained in the House-authorized Federal budget for such year. Provides that, within fifteen calendar days after adoption of the House-authorized Federal budget, the Committee on Ways and Means is authorized and directed to report a resolution containing recommendations as to the levels of public debt and aggregate Federal revenues necessitated by figures on outlays and receipts contained in the House-authorized Federal budget. Sets forth a procedure for the adoption of such resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Provides that the recommendations of the President transmitted to the Congress under the Federal Salary Act of 1967 (relating to salaries of members of Congress and certain members of the executive and judicial branches of the Federal government) shall become effective at the beginning of the first pay period which begins after the first period of thirty calendar days of continuous session following the transmittal of such recommendations, unless there has been enacted into law a statute which establishes rates of pay other than those proposed by all or part of such recommendations, or unless between the date of transmittal and the end of the thirty day period either House adopts a resolution disapproving all or part of such recommendations. Provides that if the Committee, to which a resolution has been referred disapproving the recommendations of the President. Provides that the House has not reported the resolution after ten calendar days, it is in order to discharge the committee from further consideration of the resolution. Directs that such motion to discharge may be made only by an individual favoring the resolution and debate thereon is limited to not more than one hour divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. Directs that the motion to discharge may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the committee be made with respect to any other resolution concerning the same recommendations. Specifies that when the committee has reported, or has been discharged from the further consideration of such resolution, it is in order to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. Stipulates that such motion is not debatable and may not be amended. Limits debate on the resolution to not more than two hours to be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. Provides that motions to postpone, motions to proceed to the consideration of other business and appeals from the decisions of the chair shall be decided without debate. Authorizes any part of the recommendations of the President, in accordance with express provisions of such recommendations, to be made operative on a date later than a date on which such recommendations otherwise are to take effect. (Amends 2 U.S.C. 359)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Designates the portion of the project for flood control protection on Chartiers Creek that is within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, as the "James G. Fulton Flood Protection Project".
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Comprehensive Older Americans Services Amendments - Title I: Declaration of Objectives - States that the general purpose of this Act is to make available comprehensive health, education, and social service programs to our older citizens. Title II: Administration on Aging - Establishes in the office of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, an Administration on Aging to carry out this Act. Declares that the Commissioner on Aging shall be the principal officer of the Administration. Establishes within the Administration on Aging a National Information and Resource Clearing House for the Aging to collect, review, operate, publish, and disseminate information and data related to the particular problems caused by aging, including information describing measures which are or may be employed for meeting such problems. Establishes the Federal Council on the Aging to advise and assist the President as he may direct on matters relating to the special needs of Older Americans: to assist the Commissioner on Aging in carrying out his functions under this Act; to review and evaluate programs of the Federal Government; and to make recommendations to the President, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Commissioner, and Congress on policies and programs for the aged. Provides that, not later than one hundred and twenty days after the close of each fiscal year, the Commissioner shall prepare and submit to the President for transmittal to the Congress a complete report on the activities carried out under this Act. Title III: Grants for State and Community Programs on Aging - Prescribes standards and procedures for the establishment by the several States of State and area social service programs to concentrate resources in order to develop a greater capacity and foster development or comprehensive systems to serve older persons, to include services designed to assist older Americans in avoiding institutionalization. Authorizes appropriations totalling $600,000,000 for such programs for fiscal years 1973, 1974, and 1975. Provides that the Commissioner shall not finally disapprove any State plan, or any modification thereof, without first affording the State reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. Title IV: Training and Research - Directs the Commissioner to make grants to State agencies and educational institutions for the purpose of: (1) publicizing available opportunities for careers in the field of aging; (2) encouraging qualified persons to enter or re-enter the field of aging; (3) encouraging persons from other professions to undertake assignments on a parttime bais in the field of aging; and (4) assisting in covering the cost of courses of training or study. Authorizes the Commissioner to conduct a study of the transportation problems of older Americans, with emphasis upon solutions that are practicable and can be implemented in a timely fashion. Authorizes the appropriation of $7,500,000 for fiscal year 1973, $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 for purposes of such transportation studies and demonstration projects. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants for the purpose of: (1) establishing multidisciplinary centers of gerontology to recruit and train personnel; (2) conducting basic research on the problem of the aged; (3) providing consultation to public and voluntary organizations; and (4) creating opportunities for research projects with respect to aging. Authorizes appropriations of $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for the purposes of attracting personnel to, and training personnel in, the field of aging; and for research and development projects. Authorizes appropriations for $20,000,000 for the fiscal year 1973, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for establishing multidisciplinary centers of gerontology. Title V: Multipurpose Senior Centers - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to units of general purpose local government or other public or nonprofit private agencies to pay not to exceed 75 percent of the cost of leasing, altering, or renovating existing facilities to serve as multipurpose senior centers. Establishes standards to be followed by the Commissioner in making such grants and authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1973-1975 to carry out the provisions of this section. Creates a Multipurpose Senior Center Insurance Fund to be administered by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to insure mortgages on multipurpose senior centers. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of making grants to meet the costs of compensation of professional and technical personnel for the initial operation of multipurpose senior centers. Title VI: National Older Americans Volunteer Program - Provides that no compensation paid to individual volunteers under the Retired Senior Volunteer Program under the Older Americans Act shall be considered income for any purposes. Authorizes appropriations for such program in the amount of $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for the continuation of the Foster Grandparent Program under the Older Americans Act. Title VII: Nutrition Programs - Provides, under the Older Americans Act of 1965, that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commodity Credit Corporation may donate specified products acquired by them to a recipient of a grant or contract for providing nutritional services for the elderly. Title VIII: Amendments to Other Acts - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to States which have submitted a long-range program and an annual program for library services for older persons. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to institutions in planning, developing, and carrying out programs specifically designed to apply the resources of higher education to the problems of the elderly. Directs the Commissioner to make grants to State and local educational agencies or other public or private nonprofit agencies for educational programs for elderly persons whose ability to speak and read the English language is limited and who live in an area with a culture different from their own. Title IX: Community Service Employment for Older Americans - Older Americans Community Service Employment Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to establish an older American community service program in order to promote useful part-time work opportunities in community service activities for unemployed low-income persons 55 years old or older who have poor employment prospects. Makes provisions for allotment of funds to State, local, and private organizations to further the purposes of the program. Authorizes appropriations of $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1973 and $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 to carry out this title. Title X: Middle-Aged and Older Workers Training - Middle-Aged and Older Workers Training Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor, through the Manpower Administration, to make loans and grants for manpower training, including on-the-job, institutional, residential, and other training, designed to upgrade the work skills and capabilities of middle-aged and older persons. Authorizes the Secretary to make such studies, rules and provisions as necessary to carry out this title. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out this title in fiscal year 1973 from funds otherwise available for similar programs. Authorizes appropriations in fiscal year 1974 of $100,000,000 for the purposes of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Establishes an Institute for Continuing Studies of Juvenile Justice to serve as a coordinating center for the collection and dissemination of information in the field of juvenile delinquency and control, including comparisons and analysis of State and Federal laws and model laws and recommendations designed to promote effective and efficient systems of juvenile justice; and as a training center for representatives of all levels of government who are connected with the treatment and control of juvenile offenders. Provides that the Institute shall be under the supervision of a Director, appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who will supervise the staff, faculty, and administrative personnel necessary to the Institute's functioning. Gives the Institute powers to carry out the objectives of this Act. Creates an Advisory Commission to design a curriculum for the Institutes enrollees and to supervise the overall policy and operations of the Institute. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 5041-5048)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to carry out ten maintenance demonstration projects at locations to be determined in order to demonstrate the benefits of eliminating safety hazards through the proper maintenance of highways. Stipulates that each project shall be for highways which are on a Federal-aid system, other than the Interstate System, and that the total mileage of all projects shall not exceed five hundred lane-miles. States that such projects shall be selected so as to demonstrate proper maintenance techniques with respect to various classes of highways, various types of pavements, bases and subbases, and various locations having differing terrain and climatic conditions. Requires the Secretary, together with the State highway department, to establish standards for the projects, including: (1) periodic inspections by the Secretary; (2) test control sites for comparisons; and (3) appropriate recordkeeping requirements. Provides for an annual report to Congress by the Secretary, and authorizes appropriations of $20,000,000 to carry out this Act. (Adds 23 U.S.C. 405)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Imposes a limitation of $250,000,000,000 on expenditures and net lending for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, under the budget of the United States Government.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Pollution Control Tax Act - Imposes a tax under the Internal Revenue Code on the discharge of taxable items by any source of pollution into the atmosphere or into or upon the navigable waters of the United States or the oceans. Requires the tax to be paid by: (1) the operator of the source in the case of a stationary source, or (2) by the manufacturer or importer of the source, in the case of an unstationary source. Defines the term "taxable item" for purposes of this Act. Provides that such item shall include: (1) any substance discharged into water which results in biochemical oxygen demand, (2) any suspended solid discharged into water, (3) any thermal discharged into water, (4) any toxic waste discharged into water, (5) any sulfur oxide, (6) any nitrogen oxide, (7) any hydrocarbon, (8) any carbon monoxide, (9) asbestos, (10) beryllium, and (11) mercury. Provides that the rate of the tax imposed by this Act on the discharge of any taxable item shall relate to the estimated environmental damage caused by such discharge. Requires such tax rate to be uniform geographically throughout the United States. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to submit to the Congress his recommendations of the rates of tax which he deems necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act. Provides for a refund of the tax imposed under this Act where discharges from existing sources are reduced.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Intergovernmental Cooperation Act - Title I: Definitions - Defines the various terms used in this Act. Title II: Accounting, Auditing, and Reporting of Federal Assistance Funds - Authorizes the President to establish rules and regulations that will simplify and, where possible, make more uniform the financial reporting requirements associated with Federal assistance programs. Declares that Federal agencies administering assistance programs to State and local governments shall, to the greatest extent feasible, rely on the internal or independent accounting and auditing of these programs by the recipient jurisdictions. Requires each Federal agency administering assistance programs to maintain continuous liaison with counterpart State and local fiscal control administrators. Requires Federal agency heads to coordinate and make more uniform the auditing requirements of assistance programs coming under their jurisdiction and establishes cross-servicing arrangements with other agencies for audit purposes. Provides that the Bureau of the Budget, or such other agency as may be designated by the President, is authorized to prescribe government-wide rules and regulations for the effective implementation of those requirements. Title III: Consolidation of Federal Assistance Programs - Declares that the President shall examine the various Federal assistance programs and determine what consolidations are necessary and desirable in order to: (1) promote the better execution and efficient management of individual Federal assistance programs; (2) provide better coordination among individual assistance programs; and (3) promote more efficient planning and use by recipients of such programs. Provides that each consolidation plan transmitted must (1) place responsibility in a single Federal agency for the administration of the consolidated program; (2) specify the formula for rendering Federal assistance under the consolidated program, and requirements for rendering Federal assistance, including planning and eligibility requirements, which are suggested by counterpart provisions of Federal assistance statutes affected by the consolidated plan; (3) spell out the differences between the formulas, conditions, and requirements of a consolidation plan and those in such counterpart provisions; (4) provide for the transfer or other disposition of records, property, and personnel the individual assistance programs involved; (5) arrange for the transfer of those unexpected balances of appropriations and of other funds available for the individual assistance programs affected insofar as the President considers it necessary in light of the functions authorized by the consolidated program (except that unexpended balances thus transferred may be used only for purposes authorized in the original appropriation); and (6) make provision for terminating the affairs of an agency or administrative unit whose programs have been transferred pursuant to the proposed consolidation. Stipulates that each Federal assistance consolidation plan shall provide for only one consolidation of individual assistance programs. Sets forth the manner in which Congress shall consider Federal assistance consolidation plans. Stipulates that a Federal assistance consolidation plan shall become effective at the end of the first period of 90 calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after transmittal and the end of the ninety day period either House passes a resolution not favoring the plan. Title IV: Congressional and Executive Oversight of Federal Assistance Programs - Provides Congressional review procedures for grant-in-aid programs. Provides that at least 6 months prior to the date on which the program authority is to expire, the relevant substantive Committees of Congress, either separately or jointly, will conduct studies of the program and advise their findings. Requires departments and agencies administering more than one program to annually submit to the Congress and the President comprehensive reports on the effectiveness and progress of the requirements of this Act. Requires the President to annually submit a summary report to Congress. Title V: Program Information Act - Directs the President to transmit to Congress a catalog of Federal domestic assistance programs designed to aid persons in determining whether particular assistance or support might be available to them and to transmit a report concerning the measures being taken to simplify and consolidate the various application forms of the different Federal assistance programs. Provides for the revision of the catalog quarterly and directs the Superintendent of Documents to make it available to the public. Title VI: Extension of Certain Provisions of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 to Political Subdivisions - Extends the provisions of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 pertaining to grants-in-aid to improve States' administrations to political subdivisions of such States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that in computing an individual's old-age, survivors, and disability insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance), benefits will reflect both the current wage levels at the time of such individual's entitlement and the length of such individual's coverage.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Safe States Act - Authorizes the President to provide assistance to the States under the Disaster Relief Act of 1970 for the development, maintenance, and improvement by the States of disaster preparedness plans. Provides that such assistance plans shall also cover relief and assistance for individuals, businesses, and local governments following disasters. Requires the annual testing of such plans. Authorizes grants of up to $250,000 per State to cover costs of the disaster relief plans.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Senior Citizens Community Centers and Services Act - Title I: Construction of Multipurpose Community Centers for Senior Citizens - Authorizes appropriations for grants for the construction of public community centers for senior citizens, in the amount of $70,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $140,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; and $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Authorizes allotments by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to the States on the basis of population of Senior citizens, need for such community centers, and financial need of each State. Provides for regulations by the Secretary within six months after enactment concerning construction, selection and kinds of community centers needed. Requires that State plans designate a single State agency for the administration of the plan, provide for a State advisory council to assist in the plan, specify the need and methods of administration of such a plan, and provide for timely reports and reviews to the Secretary. Requires applications for each construction project through the State agency setting forth plans and specification of the project, certification of the federal share for the project, State approval, and assurances of State financial support. Provides for withholding of Federal payments where there has been a failure to comply with the provisions and regulations of this Act. Title II: Initial Staffing of Multipurpose Community Centers for Senior Citizens - States the Congressional intention that senior citizens staff the community as volunteer or part-time employees, as much as possible. Authorizes appropriations of $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and for each of the two succeeding years, for grants to help compensate professional and technical personnel during the initial operation of the community centers (75 percent of the cost the first year, 66 2/3 percent the second year, and 50 percent the third year). Requires that the applicant owning or operating the center be a public or nonprofit private agency or organization. Limits such appropriations as are necessary after June 30, 1975, to community centers which have previously received grants. Title III: Programs and Services of the Multipurpose Community Centers - States the Congressional intention that senior citizens be involved in the planning of programs. Provides for the amending of State plans under title III of the Older Americans Act of 1966 to assure that programs for senior citizens be conducted, wherever possible, in the multipurpose community centers. Authorizes an appropriation for this title of $60,000,000 for the fiscal year 1974, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; with the Secretary to establish the Federal share to assist the State plan under this title. Title IV: General Provisions - Defines "multipurpose community center for senior citizens" as a facility providing social, recreational, educational, cultural, informational, counseling, health, and legal services to senior citizens. Provides that the Federal share of the cost of construction projects shall be determined by the State plan (not less that 50 percent nor more than 90 percent of the cost of the construction of any project), and approved and promulgated by the Secretary. Provides for payment of installments to the State or directly to the applicant where required, upon inspection and certification to the Secretary by the State agency; or in advance if so determined by the Secretary. Provides for judicial review if the Secretary refuses to approve an application for a project. Provides that if within twenty years of completion the facility or center is sold, transferred, or ceases to be a public or other non-profit community center, the United States shall be entitled to recover from either the transferor or the transferee an amount bearing the same ratio to the then value of the center as the amount of the Federal Share borne to the cost of the construction of such project.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Tax Policy Review Act - Title I: Provisions to Terminate on January 1, 1974: Provides that the following provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 shall terminate on January 1, 1974: (1) the $30,000 exemption and deduction of regular income taxes for the minimum tax on preferences; (2) treatment of group-term life insurance purchased for employees; (3) exclusion from gross income of $5,000 employee's death benefit; (4) exemption from tax of $100 of dividends received by individuals; (5) treatment of lost from certain nonbusiness guaranties; (6) twenty-percent variation under the asset depreciation range system; (7) capital gain treatment for lump-sum distribution from pension funds; (8) treatment of employee stock options; (9) tax exemption of credit unions and mutual insurance funds for certain financial institutions; (10) treatment of bad debt reserves of banks and other financial institutions; (11) percentage depletion for oil, gas, and other minerals; (12) capital gain for timber, coal, and iron ore royalties; (13) exclusion of gross-up on dividends of less developed countries corporations; (14) exemption of earned income from foreign sources; (15) alternative tax capital gains; (16) rules for recapture of depreciation on sale at gain of real property; and (17) special exemptions for excess deductions account for farm losses. Title II: Provisions to Terminate on January 1, 1975 - Provides that the following provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 shall terminate on January 1, 1975: (1) exclusion from gross income of amounts received as sick pay; (2) deduction of nonbusiness interest and taxes; (3) fast depreciation methods; (4) deduction of research and experimental expenditures; (5) deduction of soil and water conservation expenditures; (6) additional first-year depreciation allowance; (7) deduction of expenditures for clearing land; (8) amortization of railroad grading and tunnel bores; (9) deduction of intangible drilling and development costs; (10) deduction of development expenditures in the case of mines; (11) tax exemption for ships under foreign flag; (12) special deduction for a Western Hemisphere trade corporation; (13) exemption of income from sources within possessions of United States; (14) exclusion from subpart F income of shipping profits and certain dividends, interest, and gains; (15) tax exemption for a DISC; (16) step-up in tax basis of property acquired from decedent; and (17) capital gains on sale or exchange of patents. Title III: Provisions to Terminate on January 1, 1976 - Provides that the following provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 shall terminate on January 1, 1976: (1) corporate surtax exemption; (2) retirement income credit; (3) credit or deduction for contributions to candidates for public office; (4) investment credit; (5) tax-exempt interest; (6) exclusion from gross income of rental value of parsonages; (7) exclusion from gross income of scholarship and fellowhip grants; (8) exclusion from gross income of gain on the sale of residence by person over 65; (9) additional exemption for age 65 or blindness of taxpayer or spouse; (10) exemption for child whose income exceeds $750; (11) deduction for nonbusiness casualty losses; (12) charitable contribution deductions; (13) medical expense deduction; (14) household and dependent care deduction; (15) deduction of moving expenses; (16) nonrecognition of gain on appreciated property used to redeem stock; (17) nonrecognition of gain in connection with certain liquidations; and (18) deduction for capital gains.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that whoever by any facility of interstate or foreign commerce or the mails, knowingly sells or distributes, or offers or attempts to sell or distribute: (1) a list of names or addresses, or names and addresses, of individuals; (2) information concerning the personal or financial condition or activities of an individual; or (3) information concerning the personal or real property of an individual; without the consent of any individual to whom such list or information relates, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Makes exceptions to the foregoing for: (1) any such sale, distribution, or such offer or attempt, if a Federal statute specially authorizes the sale or distribution of that type of list or information; (2) any such sale, distribution, or such offer or attempt, to any department or agency of the United States Government or of any State or local government if that list or information is to be used only for law enforcement or national security purposes; (3) any such sale, distribution, or such offer or attempt, if the list or information constitutes only an insubstantial portion of a document, publication, newspaper, writing, or other means of communication; and (4) any such distribution of, or offer or attempt to distribute, a telephone directory which contains only names, addresses, and telephone numbers. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1801)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Consumer Protection Act - Title I: Office of Consumer Affairs - Creates an Office of Consumer Affairs, within the Executive Office of the President, to coordinate Federal consumer protection activities, serve as a clearinghouse for complaints, and publish Government consumer information. Provides that the office shall be headed by a Director appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, and gives the Director powers to carry out the objectives of this Act. Requires the Director to transmit to the Congress and the President an annual report of the activities of the office during the preceding year including a summary of complaints and the need for additional legislation to protect the interest of the U.S. consumer. Provides that it shall be the function of the office to: (1) coordinate the programs and activities of all Federal agencies relating to the interests of consumers in order to achieve effectiveness and avoid duplications and inconsistencies; (2) encourage and assist in the development and implementation of consumer programs and activities in the Federal Government; (3) assure that the interests of consumers are taken into consideration by appropriate Federal agencies both in the formulation of policies with respect to consumers and in the operation of programs that may effect consumer interests; (4) cooperate with and, when requested, provide assistance to the Administrator of the Consumer Protection Agency; (5) advise and make recommendations to all Federal agencies with respect to general policy matters concerning the effectiveness of programs and activities relating to the interests of consumers; (6) submit recommendations to the Congress and the President on the means by which programs and activities relating to the interests of consumers can be improved; (7) conduct conferences, surveys, and investigations concerning the needs, interests, and problems of consumers which are not duplicative in significant degree to similar activities conducted by other Federal agencies; (8) encourage, initiate, coordinate, and participate in consumer education and counseling programs (including credit counseling); (9) encourage, report, and coordinate research and studies leading to improved products, services, and consumer information; (10) cooperate with and give technical assistance to State and local governments in the promotion and protection of consumer interests, including programs relating to the arbitration of disputes between consumers and businessmen and producers; (11) cooperate with and assist private enterprise in the promotion and protection of consumer interests; (12) publish and distribute in a Consumer Register material which will include notices of Federal hearings, proposed and final rules and orders, and other useful information, translated from its technical form into language which is understandable by the public; and (13) keep the appropriate committees of the Congress fully and currently informed of all its activities, except that this paragraph is not authority to withhold information requested by individual Members of Congress. Title II: Consumer Protection Agency - Establishes as an independent agency within the executive branch of the Government the Consumer Protection Agency, headed by an Administrator appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, to advise the Congress and the President as to matters concerning consumer interests and to protect the interest of consumers. Gives the Agency powers to carry out the objectives of this Act and sets out specific functions for the Agency. Asserts that the functions of the Agency shall be to: (1) represent the interests of consumers in proceedings before Federal agencies and courts; (2) encourage and support research, studies and testing leading to a better understanding of consumer products and to improved products, services, and consumer information; (3) submit recommendations annually to the Congress and the President on measures to improve the operation of the Federal Government in the protection and promotion of the consumer interests; (4) publish and distribute material developed pursuant to carrying out its responsibilities which will inform consumers of matters of interests to them; (5) conduct conferences, surveys, and investigations, including economic surveys, concerning the needs, interests, and problems of consumers which are not duplicative in significant degree to similar activities conducted by other Federal agencies; (6) keep the appropriate committees of Congress fully and currently informed of all its activities, except that this paragraph is not authority to withhold information requested by individual Members of Congress; and (7) cooperate with and, when requested, provide assistance to the Director of the Office in the carrying out of his functions. Allows the Agency to intervene and represent the interests of consumers in Federal agencies investigations or hearings where the interests of such consumers would not otherwise be adequately protected. Authorizes the Agency to intervene as a party in a proceeding in a court of the United States involving the review of Federal agency action in a rulemaking proceeding in which the Agency had participated in or an adjudicatory proceeding in which the Agency had intervened, and to the extent that a right of judicial review is otherwise accorded by law. Authorizes the Agency to institute a proceeding in a competent court of the United States to secure such a review. Authorizes the Administrator to request the Federal Agency concerned to initiate such proceedings or to take such other action as may be authorized by law with respect to such agency, when the Administrator determines it to be in the interests of consumers. Authorizes the Office of Consumer Affairs and the Agency to receive information disclosing a probable violation of any law, administrative order, Federal judgment, or other trade practice affecting consumer interests and to take action to prohibit any further violation. Requires the Agency and Office to develop and disseminate data concerning the function and duties of the Agency and Office, consumer problems, and trade practices detrimental to the interests of consumers. Authorizes the Agency to encourage and support development and application of methods and techniques for testing consumer products, to recommend to other Federal agencies with respect to such information within their authority which would be useful and beneficial to consumers, and to investigate and report to Congress on the feasibility of establishing a National Consumer Information Foundation. Authorizes the Agency to conduct studies and investigations of the scope and adequacy of measures employed to protect consumers against unreasonable risk of injuries which may be caused by hazardous household products. Provides for limitations on disclosures to the public of information collected by any instrumentality created by or under this Act. Title III: Consumer Advisory Council; Protection of Consumer Interest In Administrative Proceedings; Miscellaneous Amendments - Establishes a Consumer Advisory Council consisting of 15 members to advise the Director and Administrator on matters concerning consumer interests and to review the effectiveness of Federal programs relating to consumer interest. Requires every Federal agency taking any action affecting consumer interests to provide notice of such action to the Office or Agency and to take action to consider the interests of consumers. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Creates a non-legislative Select Committee on Aging, consisting of fifteen members of the House of Representatives, and directs the Committee to conduct a full investigation on all matters pertaining to problems of older people, including problems of maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding employment, of engaging in productive retirement activity, of securing proper housing, and when necessary, of assuring adequate care or assistance. Authorizes such committee to hold hearings and subpena witnesses and the production of records in carrying out its duties. Directs the Committee to report to the House the results of its study, together with legislative recommendations, as soon as practicable during the 93rd Congress.