United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1980
Designates the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health located in Montgomery County, Maryland, as the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. Directs the Committee on Rules and Administration to place appropriate markers or inscriptions at suitable locations within such center to commemorate and designate such building.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1980
Earth Data and Information Service Act of 1980 - Establishes the Earth Data and Information Service within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to collect, interpret, compile, and distribute data obtained by remote sensing satellites and other sources on the Earth's resources and environment. Directs the Service to: (1) provide rapid processing of, and ready access to, such data at a reasonable cost to both foreign and domestic users; (2) promote competition among suppliers of equipment and services to the Service; and (3) make available to all users remote sensing data and basic information products and services. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) plan, initiate, construct, acquire, own, manage, and operate an Earth Data and Information System to provide a reliable source of useful data and basic information products to users; (2) include in such system remote satellites, ground facilities and other necessary equipment; (3) establish communication networks to transmit such data and products to users on a timely basis. Requires the Secretary to consult with the Federal Communications Commission in establishing such networks. Stipulates that the communication services needed for such networks, insofar as practicable, shall be procured from the private sector. Permits the Secretary to: (1) recommend continued research and development by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on remote sensing components and systems for both space and ground operations of the System; (2) arrange for the participation of specified personnel in operating and planning the System; and (3) widely disseminate the data and basic information products to the users. Permits the Secretary, under the President's supervision, to participate in a program of international activities related to the functions of the Service. Directs the Secretary to establish a schedule of user charges for products and services provided under this Act. Sets forth penalties for unlawful reproduction for sale or distribution of any data or basic information products produced by the Service. Specifies procedures by which the President may transfer to the Service related functions of any other Federal department or agency. Requires the Secretary to present to the President, who shall transmit to Congress in January of each year, a report containing a description of the activities and accomplishments of the Service during the preceding year. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the U.S. Representative to the United Nations should abstain in any vote regarding the continued seating of the representative of Cambodia to the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1980
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with public and private nonprofit entities pursuant to which the Secretary may assist in the protection, restoration, and interpretation of historic Camden, South Carolina.
United States · United States Congress · 4 September 1980
State and Local Government Fiscal Note Act of 1980 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to estimate the costs which would be incurred by State or local governments in complying with any significant bill or resolution (likely to result in annual costs greater than $200,000,000 or have exceptional fiscal consequences) and compare such estimates with any made by congressional committees or Federal agencies. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1984 for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 3 September 1980
Congratulates Polish workers on the successful completion of their strikes. Urges the Polish government to respect the agreement. Calls upon other nations to not interfere in Poland's internal affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 August 1980
Sets forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Recommends the following levels of Federal revenues: $615,100,000,000 in fiscal year 1981; $698,700,000,000 in fiscal year 1982; and $792,100,000,000 in fiscal year 1983. Recommends an increase in the aggregate level of Federal revenues of $5,200,000,000 in fiscal year 1981 and decreases of $13,300,000,000 in fiscal year 1982 and of $35,600,000,000 in fiscal year 1983. States that the appropriate level of new budget authority is: $699,600,000,000; $778,800,000,000; and $852,600,000,000 for fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983 respectively. Sets the appropriate level of total budget outlays in such years at: $633,000,000,000; $709,900,000,000; and $777,700,000,000. Recommends in light of economic conditions, budget deficits of $17,900,000,000 in fiscal year 1981 and $11,200,000,000 in fiscal year 1982 and budget surpluses of $14,400,000,000 in fiscal year 1983. States that the appropriate level of the public debt is $961,800,000,000 in fiscal year 1981 with an increase in the temporary statutory debt limit of $40,900,000,000. Sets the appropriate level of the public debt in fiscal year 1982 at $1,003,000,000,000 with an increase in the temporary debt limit of $41,200,000,000. Recommends a level of public debt in fiscal year 1983 of $1,021,600,000,000 with an increase in the debt limit of $18,600,000,000. Sets forth recommended levels of new budget authority and outlays for each major functional category of the budget in fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983. Revises the Congressional Federal Credit Budget for fiscal year 1981 to set the appropriate level for: (1) new direct loan obligations at $68,300,000,000; (2) new primary loan guarantee commitments at $75,100,000,000; and (3) new secondary loan guarantee commitments at $53,100,000,000. Allocates the appropriate levels of total Federal credit activity among the major functional categories. Expresses the sense of Congress that the following ceilings should be applied in fiscal year 1981: (1) $32,100,000,000 for off-budget lending activities; (2) $36,200,000,000 for on-budget lending activities; (3) $75,100,000,000 for new primary loan guarantee commitments; and (4) $53,100,000,000 for new secondary loan guarantee commitments.
United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1980
Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to replace specified references to "exemptions" with references to "interim variances" and to replace a reference to "exempt public water systems" with a reference to "public water systems granted interim variances." Permits State-prescribed public water system schedules to require compliance with less stringent contaminant levels or treatment techniques during a period of interim variance. Mandates that such schedules require final compliance with each contaminant level and treatment technique requirement for which such interim variance was granted by a specified date. Sets such date at: (1) the later of January 1, 1988, or seven years after such requirement takes effect; or (2) in cases where the public water system has entered into an enforceable agreement to become part of a regional public water system, the later of January 1, 1992, or nine years after such requirement takes effect. Permits a State with primary enforcement responsibility to determine that the best technology, treatment techniques, or other means need not be constructed and in place before a variance may be granted.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1980
Authorizes the President to negotiate agreements with foreign governments limiting exports of automobiles and trucks to the United States. Terminates such authority and any agreements pursuant to such authority on July 1, 1985. States that action taken pursuant to such agreements shall not be treated as violating U.S. laws.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1980
Methane Transportation Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1980 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to designate an organizational entity within the Department of Energy to manage the methane vehicle research, development, and demonstration program established under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements or arrangements with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, or any other Federal department or agency, providing that such departments or agencies conduct specified parts or aspects of such program as the Secretary deems necessary or appropriate which are within the particular competence of such department or agency. States that the Secretary shall have responsibility to ascertain that such program include activities to: (1) promote research on methane-fueled vehicles; (2) determine optimum overall specifications for such vehicles; (3) determine means and facilities for storing, transporting, and dispensing methane for use as vehicular fuel; (4) conduct demonstration projects with respect to the feasibility of such vehicles; (5) gather performance data on such vehicles and related methane transmission and storage facilities; (6) enter into arrangements to assure adequate continuous supplies of methane for use in the demonstrations assisted under this Act; (7) ascertain the need for modifying available methane-fueled vehicles in order to improve their efficiency and performance and facilitate their use by fleet owners; and (8) ascertain and report to Congress on any changes in fuel supply patterns, tax policies, and standards governing the manufacture of vehicles needed to facilitate the manufacture and use of such vehicles. Directs the Secretary to assure maximum coordination between Federal agencies and departments and the Department of Energy in carrying out such program. Directs the Secretary to initiate and provide for research and development in areas relating to such vehicles. Directs the Secretary to promulgate rules and regulations and to issue an initial report for proposals for technical and financial assistance to support public and private entities in developing and implementing demonstration projects to gather data on the operation of such vehicles and facilities for the transmission and storage of methane as a vehicular fuel. Sets forth the types of technical and financial assistance to be provided under this Act, including grants and loans to cover specified percentages of the costs associated with the installation of methane transmission, storage, and dispensing facilities. Sets forth requirements as to the number and duration of such demonstrations. Directs the Secretary to consult with the Postmaster General, the Administrator of the General Services Administration, the Secretary of Defense, and the heads of other Federal agencies to determine the practicability of using methane vehicles in the performance of agency functions and to arrange for appropriate use of such vehicles at the earliest practicable date. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report on all activities undertaken under this Act to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 through 1986 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to apply long-term capital gains treatment to amounts actually paid to a taxpayer in respect of a small business participating debenture, which constitute the distribution of a share of the earnings of the issuer. Defines "small business participating debenture" (SBPD) as a written debt instrument issued by a qualified small business which: (1) is a general obligation of the business; (2) bears interest at not less than the rate prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; (3) has a fixed maturity; (4) grants no voting or conversion rights in the business to the purchaser; and (5) provides for the payment of a share of the issuer's earnings. Limits "qualified small business" to one (whether or not incorporated): (1) whose equity capital does not exceed $25,000,000; (2) the face value of all of whose outstanding SBPD's does not exceed $1,000,000; and (3) which has no outstanding securities subject to regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Treats members of a controlled group of companies as a single taxpayer. Denies capital gains treatment where the taxpayer is "related" to the SBPD-issuing company, having at least a ten percent interest in it. Treats losses on such debentures as ordinary losses. Allows an interest expense deduction for interest and share-of-earnings payments made on such a debenture.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1980
Disapproves the President's determination transmitted to Congress on March 26, 1980 (against providing import relief for the leather wearing apparel industry).
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Magnetic Fusion Energy Engineering Act, 1980 - Declares it to be the policy of the U.S. to: (1) establish a national goal of demonstrating the engineering feasibility of magnetic fusion by the early 1990's; (2) achieve, no later than the year 1990, operation of a magnetic fusion engineering device based on the best available confinement concept; and (3) establish as a national goal the operation of a magnetic fusion demonstration plant by the year 2005. Directs the Secretary of Energy to initiate activities or accelerate existing activities in research areas in which the lack of knowledge limits magnetic fusion energy systems in order to ensure the achievement of the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) maintain an aggressive plasma confinement research program on the current lead concept; (2) maintain a broadly based research program on alternate confinement concepts and advanced fuels; (3) ensure that research on properties of materials likely to be required for the construction of fusion engineering devices is adequate to provide timely information for the design of such devices; (4) initiate design activities on a fusion engineering device using the best available confinement concept to ensure operation of such device, no later than 1990; and (5) develop and test the adequacy of the engineering design components to be utilized in the fusion engineering device. Directs the Secretary to prepare a comprehensive program management plan for the conduct of the research, development, and demonstration activities under this Act. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan for the creation of a national magnetic fusion engineering center to accelerate fusion technology development via the concentration and coordination of major magnetic fusion engineering devices and associated activities at such a national center. Provides for the establishment of a technical panel on magnetic fusion of the Energy Research ADvisory Board to advise the Secretary on the conduct of the national magnetic fusion energy program. Requires the technical board to report at least annually to the Energy Research Advisory Board, and requires the Board to report to the Secretary. Requires the director of each magnetic fusion laboratory installation operated for, and funded by, the Federal Government to establish a program advisory committee solely for the purpose of advising such director. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to actively seek to enter into or to strengthen existing international cooperative agreements in magnetic fusion research and development activities of mutual benefit to all parties. Directs the Secretary to: (1) assess the adequacy of the supply of manpower in the engineering and scientific disciplines to achieve the purposes of this Act; (2) assure the dissemination of information concerning the national magnetic fusion program; and (3) report annually to Congress concerning activities undertaken pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1980 - Subtitle A: Taxation of Foreign Investment in United States Real Property - Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose on a nonresident alien or foreign corporation a tax of 28 percent of the excess over $5,000 (if any) of the net capital gains realized by the taxpayer during the taxable year from the sale of United States real property interests. Defines "U.S. real property interest" as either: (1) an interest in real property located in the United States; or (2) any interest (other than solely as a creditor) in any corporation, partnership, or trust which was in a U.S. real property holding organization (a business entity in which a controlling interest is held by ten or fewer individuals and of which U.S. real property interests constitute more than 50 percent of the fair market value of the organization) for up to five years prior to such sale. Includes within the term "interest in real property" fee ownership and co-ownership of land or improvements thereon, leaseholds of land or improvements, and options to acquire such leaseholds of land or improvements. States that nonrecognition provisions shall not apply to amounts realized on such sales, except as prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Requires individuals who acquire a U.S. real property interest from a nonresident alien or a foreign corporation to withhold an amount equal to 28 percent of the amount realized on the transaction. Provides an exemption from such withholding requirement if: (1) the buyer knows the seller is a foreign person, or the seller of a property interest provides the buyer with notice which indicates that any tax liability with respect to the sale has been satisfied or does not exist; (2) the transaction involves the acquisition of stock in a corporation which is effected through the medium of an organized securities exchange; or (3) the transaction involves the sale of property used as a single family principal residence and the amount realized upon disposition does not exceed $150,000. Allows a credit against the income tax for any tax so withheld. Requires any entity holding United States real property interests to file an informational return for the calendar year in which such interests are held. Requires every entity making a return to furnish an informational statement, as prescribed by the Secretary, to each person who at any time during such year held an interest in such entity. Provides civil penalties for organizations which fail to file such returns. Overrides, for taxable years after December 31, 1984, tax treaties which would exempt foreign investors from the requirements established by this Act. Permits the Internal Revenue Service to inspect the books and records of a taxpayer to insure compliance with the requirements of this Act without regard to any restrictions on IRS inspections otherwise imposed by law. Subtitle B: Inclusion in Wages of FICA Taxes Paid by Employer - Includes in a taxpayer's wages the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance and hospital insurance taxes paid by the taxpayer's employer, unless such wages are for domestic service in the employer's private home, or for agricultural labor. Subtitle C: Telephone Tax - Extends the two percent telephone tax through 1981. Subtitle D: Cash Management - Requires any large corporation (which had taxable income of at least $1,000,000 for any of the three immediately preceding years) to pay at least 50 percent of its current year tax as estimated tax. Includes any minimum tax in such estimated tax payments. Increases from 80 percent to 85 percent the amount of estimated tax that must be paid to avoid penalties for underpayment. Subtitle E: Import Duty on Certain Imports of Ethyl Alcohol - Amends the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States to impose an import duty on ethyl alcohol imported for use as fuel. Subtitle F: Amendments Relating to Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax - Allows a credit against or refund of crude oil windfall profit taxes to any qualified royalty owner for any portion of such tax paid in connection with qualified royalty production between February 29, 1980 and January 1, 1981. Limits such credit to $1,000. Provides for allocation of such credit among family members, and among stockholders in qualified family farm corporations. Denies an income tax deduction where such credit or refund is allowable. Reduces the adjusted base price of crude oil for purposes of computing the windfall profit tax by a multiple of .008 for fiscal year 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Provides for decreasing interest rate differentials between deposits or accounts in insured banks and those in savings and loan institutions. Prescribes maximum rates for savings and loan accounts in excess of 0.25 percent of the maximum rates for bank accounts decreasing to 0.05 percent until June 30, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the Federal Unemployment Tax Act officers and crewmembers of fishing vessels of up to 15 net tons if the area in which such vessel operates has fishing management regulations and catch limitations for vessels of from ten to 15 net tons which are the same as those regulations and limitations for fishing vessels under ten net tons.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1980
Reconciliation Act of 1980 - Title I: Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - Amends the National School Lunch Act to reduce Federal funding for: (1) general reimbursement of the school lunch program; (2) commodity assistance; (3) special assistance; and (4) child care food program. Revises provisions concerning nutritional requirements, eligibility guidelines, adjustments, and qualified institutions. Amends the Child Nutrition Act to reduce Federal funding of the special milk program. Revises provisions concerning adjustments and qualified institutions. Title II: Senate Committee on Armed Services - Provides for once-a-year cost-of-living adjustments in the uniformed services retired and retainer pay. Title III: Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - Reduces the fiscal year 1981 authorization of appropriations contained in the: (1) Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 for highway safety programs; (2) Airport and Airway Act for airport development and planning; (3) Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 for railroad employees protection; (4) National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966; and (5) Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act. Title IV: Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works - Reduces the authorization of appropriations for fiscal year 1982 for the interstate system in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. Title V: Provisions Reducing Spending in Programs within the Jurisdiction of Senate Committee on Finance - Amends the Federal - State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to: (1) eliminate the national trigger under the extended benefits program; (2) delay the payment of benefits; (3) give the States options as to the criteria for State "on" and "off" indicators; (4) stop payment of extended benefits to individuals who move to States in which there is not a State "on" indicator; and (5) revise the eligibility requirements. Redefines Federal service for ex-servicemen filing claims for unemployment compensation to mean active service of one year or more. Amends title IX (Employment Security) of the Social Security Act to establish a Federal Employees Compensation Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. Prohibits the Secretary of Labor from certifying State unemployment compensation laws which do not conform with these provisions. Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to include the resources sold at less than fair market value (to establish eligibility for benefits) in determining the individual's resources. Amends title XX (Grants to States for Services) of such Act to exclude child day care services from Federal day care regulations. Amends title XI (General Provisions) of such Act to establish ceilings for fiscal years 1979 and thereafter on payments to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam. Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of such Act to: (1) reallocate OASDI taxes; (2) limit retroactive benefits; (3) exclude prisoners from specified benefits; and (4) suspend benefits to prisoners in specified circumstances. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of such Act to set forth criteria for determining the reasonable cost of hospital services. Amends title XI (General Provisions) of such Act to establish the Health Facilities Costs Commission to study the reimbursement of hospitals under Medicare and Medicaid. Amends title XVIII and title XIX (Medicaid) of such Act to prohibit providers of services from increasing amounts due from any individual, organization, or agency to offset reductions made based on the reasonable cost of hospital services. Amends title XI of such Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Hospital Transitional Allowance Board to make payments to applicant hospitals to promote closings and conversions of underutilized facilities. Directs the Secretary to require coordinated audits of entities providing services under titles V (Maternal and Child Health), XVIII, and XIX of such Act. Amends title XVIII of such Act to prohibit program payments in excess of the provider's proportional share of the costs, unless higher proportional payments are justified. Amends title XI of such Act to authorize reimbursement for inappropriate inpatient hospital services in specified circumstances. Amends title XVIII of such Act to authorize payments for detoxification facility services if such services are required on an inpatient basis. Amends title XI of such Act to require Professional Standards Review Organizations to give priority to reviewing routine hospital admission testing, preoperative hospital stays, and elective admissions when services are not available. Amends title XVIII of such Act to direct the Secretary to specify those surgical procedures and preoperative medical services which can be performed safely either on an inpatient basis or on a ambulatory basis. Provides for payments for such procedures and services. Sets forth criteria for determining the reasonable charges for physicians' services. Amends title XI of such Act to exclude specified items in determining the reasonable costs and charges of health services. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations limiting the amount of costs or charges that will be considered reasonable for outpatient services. Amends title XVIII of such Act to prohibit payments where payments can be made under liability insurance. Amends title XIX of such Act to set forth restrictions on the choice by recipients of medical service provided for by the State. Requires laboratory services to meet specified requirements. Directs the Secretary to withhold periodic interim payments to hospitals under title XVIII to make the lag time for such reimbursements equal to that for hospitals not receiving such reimbursements. Amends title XIX of such Act to withhold disputed payments to States until a final determination has been made. Requires the States to develop methods for determining reasonable rates for payment of skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities. Amends title XVIII of such Act to impose limits on home health agency reimbursements. Requires reasonable physicians' charges to be determined as of the fiscal year in which the service is rendered. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to delay transferring funds from the general fund into the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, or Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. Title VI: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs - Repeals the cost-of-living adjustment in Civil Service annuities schedules to take effect on September 1, 1980. Title VII: Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend the Federal loan insurance program for students and the State student loan program to October 1, 1986 (from 1981). Raises the ceiling on loans to independent, undergraduate students and graduate or professional students. Permits deferment of repayment of loans made to Public Health Service officers, full-time volunteers for tax-exempt organizations, interns, and the temporarily disabled. Authorizes States to make loans to students otherwise unable to obtain loans in specified circumstances. Increases the permissible interest rate on such loans. Shortens the duration of such loans. Directs the Secretary of Education to enter into agreements with credit bureau organizations for the exchange of information concerning student borrowers. Permits the collection of an insurance premium to cover the insurer's administrative costs, including the costs of monitoring the enrollment and repayment status of students. Authorizes agreements for the multiple disbursements of loan proceeds into escrow accounts to be used for specified purposes. Requires eligible lenders to agree to provide loan counseling to the student borrower. Makes parents of dependent undergraduate students eligible to borrow funds. Sets forth restrictions on such loans. Revises the provisions concerning special allowances by: (1) changing the formulas for computing such allowances; and (2) requiring a plan for doing business from an Authority issuing obligations. Deletes the provision making the Student Loan Marketing Association government-sponsored. Expands the authority of such Association to issue stock, deal in student loans, and make new loans to borrowers. Limits the authority of the Secretaries of Education and the Treasury over such Association. Authorizes State agencies to consolidate loans. Requires the Secretary to pay the beneficiary's loss pending completion of the due diligence investigation. Delays the repayment of loans after a deferral. Requires the full amount of interest paid on behalf of any student to be repaid with specified exceptions. Repeals the restriction on the discharge of loan debts. Establishes, as a Government corporation, the National Direct Student Loan Association to provide for the collection of student loans. Sets forth the powers, duties, and authorities of such Association. Reestablishes the program for direct loans to students in institutions of higher education. Increases the amount of loans qualified institutions may make. Provides for a capital distribution of the balance of the student loan fund established prior to the effective date of the Education Amendments of 1980. Title VIII: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs - Directs the Clerk of the House of Representatives to: (1) delete provisions in the GI Bill Amendments Act of 1980 amending the veterans' vocational rehabilitation program; (2) reduce increases in such Act for educational assistance for veterans, survivors and dependents, and correspondence courses, on-job training, and education loans; and (3) postpone the effective date until January 1, 1981. Reduces the amount of assistance for flight training. Permits educational loans for flight training in specified circumstances. Restricts the availability of educational assistance for correspondence courses. Repeals provisions establishing the Predischarge Education Program. Makes enlisted members of the Armed Forces eligible for educational assistance to pursue a secondary school diploma. Revises restrictions on enrollment in vocational courses. Provides for deductions from payments made by the Veterans' Administration (VA) for debts owed the United States by virtue of an individual's participation in a VA benefits program. Requires interest and administrative costs to be charged on amounts owed to the United States resulting from participation in a VA benefits program. Authorizes suits to collect debts resulting from such programs. Permits the VA Administrator to release the name and address of individuals to a consumer reporting agency in specified circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 to revise the definition of "farm labor contractor" to: (1) broaden specified exclusions from such definition (thus broadening certain exemptions from coverage under such Act); and (2) exclude from such definition (and such coverage) any nonprofit or cooperative association of farmers, growers, ranchers, duly incorporated under appropriate State laws, and operated solely for the mutual benefit of the members thereof, and any full-time or regular employee of such association or cooperative who engages in such activity solely for such employer. Adds other definitions relating to such revisions. Revises the definition of "agricultural employment" to specify that listed activities take place on a farm or ranch. Limits the definition of "migrant worker" to only those workers who cannot regularly return to their domicile each day after working hours, or who are transported from and to their domicile each workday by the person who recruits, solicits, hires, or furnishes such worker for agricultural employment on a farm or ranch owned or operated by another person.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Urges the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to dismantle consumer credit controls and to discourage the provision of credit for speculative, nonproductive purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1980
Communications Act Amendments of 1980 - Title I: General - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to declare that such Act applies to, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has jurisdiction over: (1) all interexchange and international telecommunications and all transmission of electromagnetic energy by radio, which originates or is received within the United States; (2) the licensing and regulating of all radio stations; and (3) all persons engaged within the United States in such telecommunications or such radio transmissions. Directs the FCC to develop and report to Congress on methods for determining the value of and collecting fees for the commercial benefit received by various classes of licenses. Title II: Domestic and International Telecommunications; Rural Telecommunications Development - Directs the FCC to establish a transition plan to foster marketplace competition and to implement deregulation for interexchange and international telecommunications services, equipment, and carriers. Requires such plan to: (1) classify common carriers; (2) establish and implement an accounting system; (3) provide a procedure for the formation of fully separated affiliates and to monitor compliance; and (4) provide for practices and procedures for exchange access charges and a Universal Service Pool in substitution for existing arrangements. Declares the policy of the United States to be reliance when possible upon full and fair marketplace competition to provide all telecommunications services. Directs the FCC to revise, reduce, or eliminate rules with respect to telecommunication services or carriers operating in a market as competition develops. Grants the FCC continuing authority over the provision of regulated telecommunications services and carriers. Directs the FCC to ensure that all allocation, assignment, and authorization policies, standards, and rules with respect to the licenses issued to telecommunication carriers are not inconsistent with such policy. Permits the FCC to establish nonadjudicatory (excluding economic) methods for choosing among competing applicants for radio frequencies to be used by telecommunications carriers. Requires the FCC to identify those carriers deriving revenue from the procedures established by the telephone industry to allocate the costs and divide the revenues associated with the provision of basic telephone service. Classifies such carriers as regulated carriers. Requires the FCC to identify those regulated carriers which, together with affiliates, each serve 750,000 or more telephones to be classified as dominant-regulated carriers. Requires the FCC to identify any telecommunications carrier which owns, controls, or leases any international telecommunications facility. Classifies such carrier as a regulated international telecommunications carrier. Classifies further as dominant-regulated carriers any carrier providing basic telephone service internationally and the Communications Satellite Corporation. Directs the FCC to classify or reclassify as a regulated carrier any carrier which owns or controls telecommunications facilities for which there is no reasonably available alternative or which provides any other regulated service. Directs the FCC to classify or reclassify as a dominant-regulated carrier any regulated carrier which is dominant in such ownership, control, or provision. Permits the FCC to reclassify any dominant-regulated carrier as a regulated carrier and any regulated carrier as an unregulated carrier. Prohibits the FCC from regulating the resale of any telecommunications service except those offered by a quasi-governmental entity which has a statutory monopoly for the delivery of letters. Prohibits any regulated carrier from establishing or enforcing any restrictions on the resale, sharing, or other use of any service provided by such carrier. Prohibits any dominant-regulated carrier from engaging in any resale activity other than through a fully separated affiliate. Authorizes the FCC to prescribe different requirements for different regulated carriers, considering the extent of telecommunications facility ownership or control and the nature of services offered. Makes a regulated carrier liable for damages to any persons injured for violations of such Act. Requires every regulated international carrier, regulated interexchange carrier, and every carrier which owns or controls an exchange telecommunications facility for which there is no reasonably available alternative facility to interconnect with the telecommunications equipment of any other carrier or person upon reasonable request. Subjects all internal arrangements for interconnection to specified tariffs. Requires every regulated carrier to make available any regulated telecommunications service for reasonable and nondiscriminatory tariffs. Requires every telecommunications carrier to provide the FCC and the public with such information relating to telecommunications operations as is necessary for the FCC to carry out its duties under this Act. Authorizes the FCC to impose different filing, notification, and information requirements on different carriers. Requires regulated carriers to make public tariffs showing charges, practices, and regulations for regulated telecommunications services and through routes. Prohibits any regulated carrier from providing regulated telecommunications services unless such tariffs are filed. Prohibits deviation from such tariffs. Requires that new or revised tariffs proposed by regulated carriers for regulated telecommunications services be conditionally accepted or finally approved by the FCC before taking effect. Authorizes the FCC to facilitate public negotiation between such carriers and interested parties opposing such tariffs. Directs the FCC to hold hearings for good cause shown, upon request, with the burden of proof on the carrier to show that such tariff is just and reasonable. Authorizes the FCC to accept, condition, or reject such tariff or prescribe a different tariff. Requires any non-dominant-regulated international carrier with respect to interconnection arrangements, and permits any regulated carrier, to file any new or revised tariff. Permits any party in interest to request a hearing concerning the lawfulness of such tariff. Authorizes the FCC to accept, condition, or reject such tariff. Requires every regulated carrier subject to this Act to file with the FCC copies of all contracts or agreements with other carriers in relation to any regulated telecommunications service. Authorizes the FCC to appraise any or all of the property owned or used by any regulated carrier, and by any regulated exchange carrier which originates, terminates, or transfers interexchange or international telecommunications. Repeals the provision relating to the Interstate Commerce Commission valuation of such property. Permits any non-dominant-regulated carrier, upon notifying the FCC, to construct, acquire, or utilize new or extended exchange telecommunications facilities. Authorizes the FCC to require such carrier to obtain a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require such construction, acquisition, or operation. Requires dominant-regulated carriers to obtain such a certificate. Permits the FCC to authorize a long-term facilities construction plan for a regulated carrier, rather than requiring such carrier to obtain a separate certification for each element of such plan. Authorizes the FCC to condition or refuse such authorization or certification as the public convenience and necessity may require. Authorizes the FCC to require, after opportunity for a hearing, a regulated carrier to extend its facilities for the expeditious and efficient performance of its services. Permits telecommunications carriers to meet, plan, and agree, under the auspices of the FCC, on matters affecting the design, maintenance, management, development, and coordination of telecommunications networks necessary to the joint provision of end-to-end through services. Authorizes the FCC to authorize temporary or emergency augmentation of facilities or services or discontinuance, reduction, or impairment of services or facilities. Requires any dominant-regulated carrier and its affiliates to: (1) file with the FCC a description of the operational protocols and technical interface requirements for connection with or use of any regulated telecommunications services; and (2) report regularly to the FCC any material change in such protocols or requirements and summaries of construction programs or activities which would affect the service offerings of competing carriers or persons seeking interconnection. Requires such information to be withheld from a fully separated affiliate or an internal competitive support division until filed. Directs the FCC to prescribe guidelines of general applicability relating to recordkeeping requirements for regulated carriers. Authorizes (presently directs) the FCC to prescribe for such carriers the classes of property for which depreciation charges may be included in operating expenses. Repeals the forfeiture provision for failure to keep required records. Requires any carrier which provides basic telephone or telecommunications service to allocate to each route all of the costs which vary directly with traffic on that route and a proportionate share of interexchange joint and common costs. Repeals provisions of the 1934 Act concerning consolidations and mergers of telegraph carriers, effective January 1, 1981. Directs the FCC to establish a Joint Board to assist in: (1) establishing uniform practices to ascertain and apportion the costs of exchange operations between exchange and interexchange services and among interexchange services; and (2) managing the Universal Service Pool. Requires the FCC to establish the forms for records to be kept by carriers providing such exchange access. Requires each such carrier to file with the FCC a tariff governing the charges, practices, and conditions for the use of its exchange telecommunications services. Sets forth the requirements for access charges, including nondiscrimination and directly related cost-basing. Directs the FCC to establish a schedule of surcharges to ensure the continued universal availability of basic telephone service at reasonable rates. Limits the annual amount to be collected through surcharges and places such surcharges in a Universal Service Pool. Requires the Joint Board to authorize the transfer of such funds between and among carriers to ensure that exchange basic telephone rates, access costs, and the cost of rural connecting toll links are not unreasonably high. Sets forth the procedures for approving applications for payments. Directs the FCC to review and approve any plan for cooperative arrangements among carriers. Requires a utility to provide reasonable, nondiscriminatory access for pole attachments by any cable television system or by any telecommunications carrier. Directs each State commission to configure exchange telecommunications areas within the borders of each such State. Sets forth the criteria for reconfiguration, requiring every point within a State to be included within an exchange area. Authorizes the FCC to alter the boundaries of an exchange area if such configuration does not conform with the specified criteria. Directs the Joint Board to periodically examine such configurations. Sets forth the terms and conditions under which a fully separated affiliate must operate, including total separation of membership on the governing boards and separate recordkeeping requirements. Permits specified transactions at fair market value between such entities, including the sale of property, the lending of money, and the furnishing of goods and services. Prohibits such entities from jointly owning property or engaging in joint sales or marketing. Requires an FCC ruling to establish a fully separated affiliate. Establishes interim procedures for the conduct of research, development, and manufacturing activities of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) until AT&T establishes such fully separated affiliates. Requires business dealings among AT&T, any competitive support division, and any fully separated affiliate to be on an arms length basis and for fair market value. Permits a refusal to deal with any nonaffiliate if such refusal is based upon prudent business judgment. Requires each division of AT&T to bear its properly allocable share of costs for management and research. Requires AT&T to receive FCC approval before offering any telecommunications service or equipment on an unregulated basis. Prohibits the exchange of information from a dominant-regulated carrier to a competitive support-division which would give an unfair, competitive advantage. Requires all functions related to final assembly of any unregulated telecommunications equipment or equipment to be used in support of any unregulated service to be performed by a fully separated affiliate by a specified time. Sets forth a schedule for the transfer of specified functions and information to such affiliate. Requires the establishment of an assets evaluation board to determine the value of assets transferred from AT&T to any fully separated affiliate. Permits the FCC to waive such transition schedule if intervening events beyond the control of AT&T render it incapable of compliance. Prohibits AT&T from transferring in support of any unregulated services or equipment, any goods or services for which it is the only source of supply to a fully separated affiliate after the transition period. Exempts access to any telecommunications facility from such prohibition. States that the 1956 consent degree involving AT&T shall not bar AT&T and any affiliate from providing telecommunications service or equipment or information services so long as unregulated telecommunications service is conducted by fully separated affiliates. States that the provision of radioexchange telecommunications under any franchise awarded by a State and within a radio exchange area configured by a State commission shall be deemed an exchange service for the purposes of this Act. Directs the FCC to assure the feasibility of competition in the provision of all radioexchange telecommunications services through its allocations, assignments, and authorization standards and policies. Permits the FCC to impose requirements relating to the provision of radioexchange service by a regulated carrier to promote competition. Sets forth the benefits, rights, and entitlements of an employee transferred from a dominant-regulated carrier, a dominant- regulated international carrier, or an affiliate to a fully separated affiliate. Permits a fully separated affiliate and any labor entity representing the employees of such unit to enter into a collective bargaining agreement which will supercede any such agreement between such carriers and the transferred employee. Authorizes the FCC to coordinate the development and establishment of arrangements among regulated interexchange and international telecommunications carriers for mutual backup, restoration, and interconnection of each other's services necessary for the national defense, welfare, and security. Authorizes the President to require any carrier subject to this Act to furnish, for compensation, telecommunications services or facilities to any Federal agency if such service is necessary to promote the national defense and security. Directs the President to coordinate any government program for enhancing the survivability of exchange, interexchange, and international telecommunications facilities and protecting against the unauthorized interception of telecommunications traffic. Prohibits the FCC or any State from regulating the production, marketing, or other provision of customer-premises equipment or information services. Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations for separate pricing on a fair market value basis of such equipment or services or cable television service when offered in conjunction with a regulated service by a regulated carrier. Permits the FCC to establish and enforce requirements relating to interconnection of such equipment and associated switching equipment to the facilities of any regulated carrier, any cable television system operator, and specified exchange carriers. Permits the FCC to establish and enforce minimum uniform technical standards for customer-premises telecommunications equipment. Authorizes the FCC to establish labeling requirements for such equipment. Exempts the use of any information processing capability in support of a telecommunications service or system from the provisions of this Act concerning the provision of an information service. Prohibits any dominant-regulated carrier from providing any unregulated telecommunications service or equipment, except through a fully separated affiliate after a specified time. Authorizes the FCC, until a specified time, to require any unregulated carrier to continue to interconnect its telecommunications facilities with any person for a reasonable period of time if withdrawal of such interconnection would result in an unreasonable hardship. Requires each regulated carrier to continue to provide under tariff any telecommmunications service which such carrier is providing upon the enactment of this Act for a specified time. Directs the FCC to determine which of such services will continue to be regulated or shall be unregulated through a fully separated affiliate or subject to specified safeguards. Authorizes the FCC to determine what basic telecommunications service should be universally available at reasonable rates, prices, terms, or conditions. Permits any person to petition the FCC to classify any interexchange telecommunications service as basic. Directs the FCC to hold a hearing upon granting such petition to determine the terms and conditions of such service. Presumes that unregulated marketplace competition will universally provide such service, unless it is clearly and convincingly demonstrated that regulation is necessary. Permits the FCC to review any such determination and terminate regulation of service when regulation is no longer necessary. Authorizes the FCC to restrict the number of cable television systems which may be owned or controlled in common by any person or in combination with other media interests, or by a regulated telecommunications carrier offering cable television services in the same operating area. Prohibits any Federal agency or State from imposing any programming control or rate restrictions upon any telecommunications carrier or operator of a cable television or other broad band system, unless there are no reasonably available alternative electronic-media services. Permits any telecommunications carrier to provide any international telecommunications service. Directs any regulated international telecommunications carrier to arrange for the collection and delivery of any traffic of any other U.S. carrier in any country in which such regulated carrier has an operating agreement. Directs the FCC to develop an International Telecommunications Facilities Plan to increase the availability of cost-effective international telecommunications services and promote the economic and national security of the United States. Directs the FCC to authorize carriers and persons seeking to participate in the operation and ownership of such facilities to negotiate a proposed facilities plan with appropriate foreign correspondents. Requires such plan to be submitted to the FCC for review upon completion of negotiations. Directs the FCC to adopt and publish a United States International Telecommunications Facilities Plan for a specified period of time upon approval of such plan. Authorizes the FCC to meet with representatives of foreign telecommunications entities likely to be affected by such plan during such plan's development. Requires adequate notice and transcripts of such meetings to be made public. States that the FCC shall retain jurisdiction over the use of authorized facilities among international carriers and may redistribute such facilities among such carriers. Directs the Secretary of State to select appropriate representatives to conferences involving international telecommunications matters. Exempts such representatives from the private sector from specified restrictions. Directs the President to assess the international information and telecommunications needs of the United States and to develop a policy to promote U.S. interests in international forums and with foreign governments. Establishes a Federal Rural Telecommunications Interagency Task Force to be the principal coordinating body for Federal policies and programs relating to the provision of telecommunications services to rural America. Sets forth the terms and conditions of membership on such Task Force. Directs the Task Force to: (1) review all Federal policies and programs having a significant effect on the delivery of such services and to recommend changes to the appropriate Federal agency or Congress; (2) recommend solutions to interagency policy and program conflicts; (3) solicit the views of State and local governments and the private sector concerning such policies and programs; and (4) identify and develop new programs to enhance cooperation among such entities. Requires each agency represented on the Task Force to submit to the President for transmittal to each new Congress biennial reports including a comprehensive review of the activities of such Task Force from its Chairman and a statement of recommendations from each such agency. Establishes the Rural Telecommunications Planning Program, to be administered by the Secretary of Commerce, to fund the necessary costs of rural telecommunications facilities and services planning projects. Sets forth the requirements for a planning project grant applicant, including that such applicant be a State or State agency that will use such grant to develop a plan for the provision of telecommunications facilities and services to all rural areas of such State. Requires each planning project to: (1) identify rural areas within each State; (2) inventory existing telecommunications facilities and services serving such areas; (3) configure telecommunications service areas to reflect existing communities of interest; (4) identify the services to be facilitated through the use of telecommunications or other services; and (5) provide for a continuing State role. Directs the Secretary to make planning grants not to exceed 75 percent of the necessary costs of such project. Limits the number and total amount of grants any one applicant may receive. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for fiscal years 1982 through 1985. Directs the Secretary to conduct a continuing review of the planning project for each grant recipient. Authorizes the Secretary to terminate such assistance if the recipient fails to adhere, without justification, to the project as approved. Sets forth recordkeeping and auditing requirements. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish criteria for telecommunications loan eligibility. Sets forth factors to be considered in such criteria, including the provision of the most cost-effective communications technology to the widest practicable number of potential users. Directs the FCC to compile and publish a list of regulations and policies directly and significantly affecting the provision of telecommunications services to rural populations. Permits telecommunications carriers serving large rural areas with low population densities to provide cable television services, subject to appropriate conditions. Directs the FCC to coordinate its activities with the Task Force to facilitate the issuance of licenses and the revision of rules. Title III: Provisions Relating to Radio - Exempts from the licensing requirement certain classes of radio stations where no frequency assignments are made on an individual basis. Limits the licensing term to five years for the operation of a radio or television broadcasting station (presently broadcasting stations limited to three years). Permits the renewal of such license for up to five years. Limits the licensing and renewal term for the operation of any other class of station to ten years (presently five years). Authorizes the FCC to grant an application for a license by random selection whenever more than one qualified applicant wishes to operate on a newly available frequency. Directs the FCC to establish procedures for broadcast station license renewal hearings when competing applications have been filed. Excludes on-the-spot coverage of debates among candidates for the office of President and Vice-President which are not arranged by a broadcast licensee from the requirements of the equal opportunity rule. Directs the FCC to prescribe regulations to ensure that a legally qualified candidate for Federal elective office can gain reasonable access to time on a cable television system as specified. Permits the FCC to grant a permit for construction undertaken prior to such grant. Directs the FCC to review all policies, rules, and regulations for radio broadcast station licenses concerning programming requirements. Directs the FCC to revise or eliminate regulations relating to radio or television broadcasting whenever available sources of audio and video services make such regulation unnecessary to protect the public interest. Requires the FCC to report to Congress on any deregulation of radio broadcasting programming and the extent to which new and diverse sources of audio and video or other services are available to the public. Authorizes the FCC to delegate to qualified persons or organizations the authority to prepare and administer examinations for amateur radio operator licenses. Authorizes the FCC to delegate to non-Federal government coordinating committees the function of coordinating the assignment of frequencies above 30 megahertz to stations in the terrestrial private land mobile and fixed services. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Transfers to the Secretary of Commerce from the Secretary of Education the authority to make grants to public and private nonprofit agencies and organizations to carry out telecommunications demonstrations. Revises the purpose of such demonstration projects to promote the development of telecommunications facilities and services for the transmission, distribution, and delivery of telecommunications services, especially rural telecommunications. Title V: Conforming Amendments; Repealer; Reference - Makes conforming amendments to the Criminal Code, the Clayton Act, and the Communications Satellite Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to assist in negotiations with foreign entities for telecommunication trade rights, the marketing of telecommunications services and equipment, and information services and software. Disavows any intent to affect the applicability of the antitrust laws and any pending litigation. Directs the President to report to Congress on the development and implementation of a policy to promote United States interests in international forums and with foreign governments. Authorizes the FCC to establish minimum performance standards for television receivers to reduce their susceptibility to interference from radio frequency energy. Directs the FCC to establish reasonable ceilings for the fees to be paid to State or local government by operators of government-franchised cable television systems.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1980
Fishery Conservation and Management Act Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 to revise the criteria to be used by the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce in determining the allocation among foreign nations of the total allowable level of foreign fishing. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to establish a program under which a United States observer shall, to the extent practicable, be stationed aboard each foreign fishing vessel which is within the fishery conservation zone and engaged in fishing or accepting United States harvested fish through transfer at sea. Requires such observers, while aboard foreign fishing vessels, to carry out such scientific and other functions as the Secretary deems necessary. Requires the Secretary to impose, with respect to each foreign fishing vessel for which a permit is issued under such Act, a surcharge in an amount sufficient to cover all the costs of providing a United States observer aboard that vessel. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States the Foreign Fishing Observer Fund to be available to the Secretary as a revolving fund for the purpose of carrying out this Act. Requires all surcharges collected by the Secretary to be deposited into such fund. Requires the Secretary, in determining the level of the fees to be paid to the Secretary by the owner or operator of any foreign fishing vessel for which a permit is issued, to ensure that such fees, at a minimum, fully recover all the direct and indirect conservation and management, research, enforcement, and administrative costs resulting from foreign fishing in the fishery conservation zone. Includes the Northern Mariana Islands within the coverage of such Act. Includes the Northern Mariana Islands within the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council. Increases to 13 the number of voting members on such Council of which eight shall be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce. Requires the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to cause the vessel M/V Olwol, owned by the government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and in the custody of the government of the Northern Mariana Islands, to be documented as a vessel of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to prescribe by regulation the manner in which perishable seized fish may be sold.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1980
Trade Procedures Simplification Act of 1980 - Requires the Attorney General, in consultation with other Federal agency heads, to determine whether: (1) U.S. business conduct and arrangements to expand exports in various countries conflict with basic antitrust principles; and (2) a more liberal enforcement policy for overseas activities would impede implementation of the antitrust laws. Directs the Attorney General to identify conduct and arrangements associated with particular types of export sales which the Attorney General determines would not warrant prosecution under the antitrust laws. Sets forth the procedures for describing such permissible conduct and disclosing such descriptions. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to intervene in such suits and to provide legal assistance to exporters. Prohibits prosecution under the antitrust laws of exporters who: (1) have notified the Attorney General of their intention to engage in such designated permissible conduct; or (2) receive an approval, or no objection, from the Attorney General concerning proposed transactions. Requires the Attorney General and the Secretary of Commerce to report to Congress concerning implementation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week beginning October 5, 1980, as "National Port Week." Requires the Secretary of Commerce to report to Congress on the conditions of U.S. public ports.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1980
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the payment of disability insurance benefits to: (1) any individual for any month during which such individual is an inmate of a penal institution after being convicted of a crime or a facility for the criminally insane or other psychiatric facility after having been found (a) not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity or (b) mentally incompetent to stand trial; and (2) any individual otherwise entitled to benefits on the basis of the wages and income of such inmate for the same period.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1980
Declares that continued insensitivity to the statutory requirements for nominees to the Federal Reserve Board shall not be overlooked by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs or by the U.S. Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1980
Extends the condolences of the Senate to the families of the eight American servicemen who lost their lives during the mission to rescue the hostages in Iran. Declares the sense of the Senate that the President order the American flag to be flown at half-mast on all government grounds from May 4 through May 11, 1980, as a mark of respect for such servicemen.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1980
Paperwork Elimination and Control Act of 1980 - Includes independent regulatory agencies within the definition of the term "agency" for purposes of provisions of Federal law regarding the coordination of Federal reporting services. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to provide for increased communication between the Government and the small business community with respect to Federal information collection activities. Directs the Director to require each agency to include on each of its information collection forms: (1) the expiration date of such form; (2) a registration number; (3) a statement as to whether the information collection is required by law, voluntary, or a requirement for obtaining a benefit administered by the agency; and (4) the name and toll-free telephone number of an agency representative who shall be designated by the agency head to provide assistance concerning the agency's information collection activities. Requires the Director to consult with the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration and to establish guidelines which provide for: (1) differing information collection requirements that take into account the resources available to small businesses; (2) exemptions to small business from certain requirements; and (3) consolidated or simplified requirements for small businesses. Requires the Director to develop and maintain a Federal Business Requirements Locator System to serve as the authoritative register of all Government information collection and recordkeeping requirements. Directs the Director to: (1) promulgate rules requiring each agency head to submit a data profile of each existing and proposed information collection and recordkeeping requirement; (2) compare submitted data profiles to profiles in the System and notify agency officials and members of the public, upon request, of the results; and (3) provide any person, upon request, with a list of requirements applicable to a certain type of business. Requires the use of data profiles to: (1) identify duplicative requirements; (2) locate existing information and promote agency sharing of information; (3) provide a central coordination mechanism for information collection activities; (4) catalog requirements by types of industries; and (5) monitor the total requirements imposed on the public by Government so that such paperwork may be reduced. Directs the head of each agency to submit, annually, an analysis of the agency's information collection activities to the Director with the agency's request for appropriations submitted under the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921. Requires the Director to publish in the Federal Register: (1) a summary of such analysis with a notice soliciting public comments; (2) a summary of comments received; and (3) a statement explaining the Director's determination regarding any issue raised by a comment disagreeing with data or conclusions of the analysis.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1980
Amends the National Sea Grant College Program to include the Great Lakes as a part of the marine environment for the purposes of such Act. Allows payment under any sea grants or contracts to be applied to the short-term rental of buildings or facilities for meetings which are in direct support of any sea grant program or project. Specifies that an individual appointed to serve on the sea grant review panel for a full or partial term may be reappointed to serve for no more than one additional full term. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of such Act through fiscal year 1983. Amends the Sea Grant Program Improvement Act of 1976 to authorize appropriations to carry out the purposes of such Act through fiscal year 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should formulate and implement an emergency loan program to assist farmers in meeting the cost of producing their 1980 crops.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) request the Soviet Union to exchange scientific data regarding the outbreak of pulmonary anthrax near Sverdlovsk as provided for by the convention prohibiting bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons; or (2) take appropriate international procedures or lodge a complaint with the United Nations Security Council, if the Soviet Union fails to make available such data.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1980
Declares that one conservation publication of a State agency which is responsible for the management and conservation of fish and wildlife shall qualify for the reduced postage rates currently in effect for the third-class bulk mail of qualified nonprofit organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week beginning with the Sunday preceding the fourth Thursday in November of each year as "National Family Week."
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1980
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act of 1980 - Title I: Regulation of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Facilities and Plantships - Prohibits any person from owning, constructing, or operating an ocean thermal energy conversion facility and prohibits United States citizens from owning, constructing, or operating an ocean thermal energy conversion plantship without a license issued pursuant to this Act. Authorizes the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to issue, transfer, amend, or renew licenses for the ownership, construction, and operation of such facilities or plantships upon application and in accordance with this Act. Sets forth criteria for determining whether to issue such licenses, and directs the Administrator to prescribe any conditions deemed necessary to carry out this Act or which are required by any Federal department or agency. Directs the Administrator to establish bonding requirements or other assurances necessary to assure that upon revocation or other termination of a license, the licensee will remove all components of any such facility or plantship from the ocean and the seabed as directed by the Administrator. Sets the term of such licenses at a maximum of 25 years, with a right of renewal for an additional ten years for each renewal. Directs the Administrator to issue regulations, within one year of the date of enactment of this Act, to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and the heads of other Federal departments and agencies having jurisdiction over or expertise concerning any aspect of the construction or operation of such facilities or plantships to submit to the Administrator written comments as to their expertise or statutory responsibilities with respect to this or any other Federal law. Sets forth application procedures and requirements for licenses authorized for issuance by this Act, including provisions for public notice hearings, and Federal agency review. Requires that applicants for licenses remit a fee at the time of filing such application, to be determined by the Administrator, and to be deposited in the miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. Establishes priorities for the issuance of licenses where more than one application is submitted for the same designated application area. Establishes criminal penalties for the breaking of or injury to any submarine electric transmission cable or equipment being constructed or operated under a license issued under this Act. Requires a licensee to indemnify the owner of any vessel which sacrifices any anchor, fishing net, or other fishing gear to avoid injuring any such cable or equipment. Requires any licensee who causes any break in or injury to any submarine cable or pipeline to bear the cost of the repairs thereto. Directs the Administrator to submit applications for issuance, transfer, or renewal of any license to the Attorney General for antitrust review. Directs the Administrator to designate as an "adjacent coastal State" any coastal State either directly to be connected by electric transmission cable or pipeline to an ocean thermal energy conversion facility or plantship or located within 15 miles of any such proposed facility or plantship. Authorizes the Administrator to make such designation for any other State, upon request, upon a determination that there is a risk of damage to the coastal environment or if it is likely that the thermal plume of any proposed facility or plantship would impinge on possible locations for other ocean thermal energy conversion facilities or plantships which would be connected to such State. Requires that the Administrator transmit to the Governor of any designated adjacent coastal State a complete copy of each license application. Prohibits the issuance of any license for an ocean thermal energy conversion facility or plantship without consultation with the Governor of such State where such State has an approved coastal zone management program in effect pursuant to the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972. Directs the Administrator to condition the license granted so as to make it consistent with such State program. Prohibits the Administrator from issuing such licenses for any facility or plantship unless the adjacent coastal State to which such facility or plantship is to be directly connected has an approved coastal zone management plan in effect. Authorizes State to enter into agreements or compacts to apply for such licenses and to establish agencies for implementing such agreements or compacts. Requires the Administrator to issue regulations requiring licensees to pursue diligently such facility or plantship construction and operation and authorizes the termination of any license for failure to comply with such regulations. Directs the Administrator to initiate a program to assess the environmental effects of such facilities or plantships so as to determine whether their cumulative impact requires that a limit be placed on the number or total capacity of such facilities or plantships to be licensed under this Act. States that the issuance of such licenses is deemed to be a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the environment for purposes of the environmental impact statement provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Authorizes the preparation of a consolidated environmental impact statement by the Administrator and other involved Federal agencies and departments. Directs the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue regulations and enforce procedures concerning any ocean thermal energy conversion facility or plantship, including rules on vessel movement, transfer of materials between facilities and plantships and transport vessels, designation of anchorage areas, maintenance, law enforcement, and the equipment, training, and maintenance required to prevent pollution of and other adverse impacts on the marine environment and to clean up any pollutants which may be discharged. Directs the Secretary to designate a zone of appropriate size around and including any ocean thermal energy conversion facility or plantship for the purpose of navigational safety, and to establish safety zones during the period of construction of such facilities or plantships. States that for the purposes of the vessel inspection laws, such facilities and plantships shall be deemed to be vessels. Requires that licenses include such conditions as necessary to ensure that construction and operation of such facilities and plantships are conducted with reasonable regard for navigation, fishing, energy production, scientific research, or other uses of the high seas, including the operation of other ocean thermal energy conversion plantships and facilities. Authorizes the inspection and monitoring of licensees' activities, and sets forth procedures thereon. Sets forth provisions for the suspension, revocation, and termination of licenses for failure to comply with provisions of this Act or applicable rules or conditions issued or imposed by the Administrator under the authority of this Act. Includes provisions for the immediate suspension of facility or plantship construction or operation upon a determination by the Administrator that such action is necessary to protect public health and safety or to eliminate dangers to the environment, or upon a determination by the President that such suspension is necessary to avoid a conflict with any international obligation of the United States established by treaty or convention. Sets forth provisions concerning recordkeeping, reports, and public access to information. Authorizes licensees to relinquish to the Administrator any right to conduct construction or operation of such a facility or plantship, but stipulates that such relinquishment shall not relieve the licensee of any obligation or liability established by this Act. Authorizes civil actions by any person having a valid legal interest which is or may be adversely affected by actions of licensees or by the failure of the Administrator to comply with the requirements of this Act. Authorizes judicial review of any decision of the Administrator concerning a license. Title II: Maritime Financing for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion - States that for the purposes of the Merchant Marine Act: (1) any ocean thermal energy conversion facility or plantship licensed under this Act, and any vessel providing shipping service to or from such facilities or plantships, shall be deemed to be a vessel operated in the foreign or domestic commerce of the United States; and (2) any vessel documented under the laws of the United States and providing such service shall be deemed to be used in, and used in an essential service in, the foreign commerce or foreign trade of the United States. Amends the Federal Ship Mortgage Insurance provisions of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, to include such facilities and plantships in the definition of "vessel" and to add a definition of "ocean thermal energy conversion facility or plantship." Amends such provisions to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to guarantee, or make a commitment to guarantee, payment of the principal of and interest on an obligation which aids in financing a vessel designed for use as an ocean thermal energy conversion facility or plantship. Increases the aggregate principal amount which may be guaranteed with respect to such facilities or plantships constructed without the aid of a construction-differential subsidy. Increases the aggregate unpaid principal amount of obligations guaranteed under such Act to $12,000,000,000, and requires that $2,000,000,000 of such amount be limited to obligations pertaining to demonstration ocean thermal energy conversion facilities or plantships guaranteed under such Act. Establishes the OTEC Demonstration Fund as a special sub-account of the Federal Ship Financing Fund, to be used for obligation guarantees authorized by such Act which do not otherwise qualify under other sections thereof. Limits to five the number of ocean thermal energy conversion facilities or plantships which may obtain obligation guarantees. Title III: Enforcement - Provides for the enforcement of provisions of this Act and rules or orders issued thereunder and lists prohibited acts. Authorizes the Administrator to issue compliance orders to any person for violation of specified provisions of this Act and to request the Attorney General to commence civil action for relief or civil penalties for any violation for which the Administrator is authorized to issue such compliance orders. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for such violations as specified. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Administrator, after consultation with the Secretary of State, to issue amendments to any regulations issued under this Act to conform such regulations to any treaty ratified by the United States as a result of any United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. Exempts from the provisions of this Act any ocean thermal energy conversion facility or plantship designated by the Secretary of Energy as a demonstration project. Sets forth provisions concerning the relationship of other laws to the facilities and plantships authorized for construction and operation under this Act, including a provision that the law of the nearest adjacent coastal State to which such a licensed facility is connected by electric transmission cable or pipeline is declared to be the law of the United States. Directs the Administrator to establish standards and regulations for the safe construction and operation of submarine electric transmission cables and equipment over which the United States has jurisdiction. Directs the Administrator to submit to Congress an annual report on the administration of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1980
Amends the Federal criminal code to impose maximum penalties of 20 years' imprisonment and/or a $5,000 fine for anyone robbing a pharmacy by force and violence, or intimidation, of any controlled substance, as defined in the Controlled Substances Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1980
False Identification Crime Control Act of 1979 - Prohibits the use or supply of false documentation, false information, or birth or immigration documents of another, for purposes of obtaining a Federal document containing an element of identification. Forbids commerce in such information, documentation, or official documents for purposes of securing a State or local government document containing an element of identification. Proscribes specified acts relative to: (1) forgery, counterfeiting, or alteration of any Federal, State, or local government document containing an element of identification; (2) interstate or foreign commerce in any such counterfeited, forged, or altered document; and (3) receipt, possession, use, or furnishing of any such document with intent to secure false official identification.
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