United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
Emergency Agricultural Act - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, with respect to 1978 crops only, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, to make payments to cotton, feed grains, soybean, and wheat producers for setting aside acreage to approved conservation uses in addition to required set-asides. Requires a minimum acreage set-aside, under this program, of: (1) 15 million acres for wheat; (2) 10 million acres for feed grains; and (3) 3 million acres each for cotton and soybeans. Authorizes additional payments for set-aside acreage opened to the general public for hunting, trapping, fishing, and hiking. Requires the Secretary to make up to 50 percent of any such payment immediately, in advance of determination of performance. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to increase the Corporation's borrowing authority from $14,500,000,000 to $25,000,000,000. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make private domestic corporations and partnerships controlled by farmers and ranchers, and engaged primarily in farming or ranching, eligible for real estate and operating loans. Increases the maximum allowable total principal indebtedness for real estate loans which may be outstanding by any one borrower to $200,000, or $300,000 in the case of a guaranteed loan. Increases the amount of indebtedness which may be outstanding for operating loans for an individual from $50,000 to $100,000, or in the case of a guaranteed loan, $200,000.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations corresponding to the principles set forth in a certain private letter ruling relating to the exclusion from gross income of amounts deferred by participants in public deferred compensation plans.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1978
Consumer and Agricultural Protection Act - Establishes a National Board of Agricultural Governors, independent of the Department of Agriculture and consisting in part of agricultural producers, whose primary duty shall be the annual establishment of cost of production prices for cotton, dairy products, dry beans, feed grains, poultry, rice, soybeans, sugar, livestock and wheat. States that such prices shall take into account: (1) machinery ownership costs; (2) general farm overhead costs; (3) a value for the management services contributed by the producer; (4) labor costs; and (5) a value for the land utilized. Sets 1978 cost of production prices as follows: (1) dry beans, $22.00 per hundredweight; (2) wheat, $4.75 per bushel; (3) sugar, $.25 (raw) per pound; (4) corn, $3.15 per bushel; (5) soybeans, $6.60 per bushel; (6) barley, $3.00 per bushel; (7) grain sorghum, $5.39 per hundredweight; (8) oats, $1,65 per bushel; (9) cotton, $.70 per pound; (10) cattle, $.55 per pound; (11) calves, $.65 per pound; (12) milk, $12.00 per hundredweight; (13) hogs, $.50 per pound; (14) rice, $10.00 per hundredweight; and (15) poultry, $.40 per pound. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to guarantee or make direct nonrecourse loans to producers of specified nonperishable commodities. Specifies formula for the determination of loan levels and conditions for the calling of such loans. Directs the Board to establish mandatory release prices for each commodity, expressed in terms of a percentage of the cost of production price plus storage costs and interest charges. Requires the release for domestic or export sale of a portion of a commodity under loan when such commodity's market price reaches the mandatory release price level. Requires the Secretary to establish and maintain a National Commodity Reserve of cotton, feed grains, rice, soybeans, sugar, and wheat, for provision during national emergencies and for the protection of producers from depressed prices. Requires the Secretary, upon receiving written production estimates from producers prior to the production year, to determine and announce production adjustments if he finds that, in the absence of such adjustments, domestic stocks, including Reserve quantities, will exceed domestic and foreign demand and the replenishment needs of the reserve. Directs the Board to apportion production cutbacks and mandatory set-asides among producers equally. Specifies civil penalties for the use of land removed from production for harvesting any crop or for grazing. Permits production adjustments with respect to livestock, dairy products, poultry, and perishable commodities (designated by the Board) only upon a vote by a majority of the producers of such a commodity. Provides for coverage under this Act of any commodity not specified, by means of a petition and majority-vote referendum among the producers of such commodity. Permits the termination of such commodity, whether specified or unspecified by the same means. Bars the importation of a specified commodity at less than the domestic cost of production price, adjusted for transportation and handling costs. Authorizes the board to impose price maintenance custom duties on imported agricultural commodities. Prohibits the purchase of domestic specified commodities for foreign assistance programs at less than cost of production prices.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1978
Expresses Congressional disapproval of the Presidential denial of import relief to the producers of nuts, bolts, and large screws, under the Trade Act of 1974, transmitted to the Congress on February 10, 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1978
Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to acquire the Museum of African Art. Establishes within the Smithsonian Institution a bureau to be known as the Museum of African Art. Sets forth the functions of such bureau. Establishes a Commission for the Museum of African Art to assist the Board in the operation and development of the Museum. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1978
Social Security Refinancing Act - Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to finance the payment of disability insurance benefits and hospital insurance benefits through general tax revenues, rather than through employment and self-employment tax revenues. Reduces employment and self-employment tax rates below the rates established by the Social Security Financing Amendments of 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual a credit against the individual income tax equal to 15 percent of the social security taxes paid by that individual during the taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1978
Home owners' Equity Act - Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 to direct the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to adopt regulations permitting Federal savings and loan associations to offer reverse annuity mortgage loans.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1978
Brown Lung Disease Act - Requires that any claim for disability payments due to byssinosis (Brown Lung Disease), other than for those paid by the employer of a textile worker, pursuant to this Act, shall be filed pursuant to the applicable State worker's compensation law. Provides that, for periods when such law does not provide adequate coverage, benefits may be claimed under this Act. States that the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) shall publish a list of State worker's compensation laws which provide adequate coverage. Sets forth the standards by which the Secretary shall judge the adequacy of the coverage for byssinosis provided by a State's workers compensation law. Directs each employer to pay benefits for each death or total disability due to byssinosis arising out of employment in a textile plant. Sets forth the amount of such payments. Provides for the reduction of such payments by the amount of State worker's compensation payments received, or in accordance with the amount of Social Security benefits received. Requires the Secretary, in conjunction with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, to establish standards, which shall include appropriate presumptions, for determining whether a worker is totally disabled from, or in the case of a deceased worker was totally disabled, from byssinosis, and whether such byssinosis arose out of the employment in a textile plant or plants. States that each employer shall be liable for the securing of benefits to employees equal to or greater than those provided by this Act. Sets forth the means by which an employer shall secure the payment of benefits for which such employer is liable during any period in which a State worker's compensation law is not included on the list published by the Secretary. States that nothing in this Act shall relieve any operator of a textile plant of the duty to comply with any State worker's compensation law, except insofar as such State law is in conflict with the provisions of this Act and the Secretary, by regulation, so prescribes. Provides that during any period after the date of enactment of this Act in which a State workmen's compensation law is not included on the list published by the Secretary certain provisions of the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act shall be applicable. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with and make grants to public and private agencies and organizations and individuals for the construction, purchase, and operation of fixed site and mobile clinical facilities for the analysis, examination, and treatment of respiratory and pulmonary impairments in active and inactive textile plant workers. Requires the Secretary to initiate research within the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Authorizes the Secretary to make research grants to public and private agencies and organizations and individuals for the purpose of devising a simple and effective test to measure, detect, and treat respiratory and pulmonary impairments in active and inactive textile plant workers.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Eliminates the requirement, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, that the package label of margarine or oleomargarine bear those words in typeface or lettering as large as any other typeface or lettering. Repeals the requirement that the individually wrapped contents of such a package contain the word margarine or oleomargarine. Repeals the requirement that public eating places when serving margarine or oleomargarine must: (1) give prominent and conspicuous display, in a manner likely to be understood, of such fact; and (2) either label each separate serving margarine or oleomargarine, or serve such separate serving in a triangular shape. Requires that public eating places when serving margarine or oleomargarine must: (1) prominently and conspicuously display such fact; or (2) label such product in a manner likely to be understood by the ordinary patron in such eating place.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee, amounts paid or expenses incurred by the employer for educational assistance to the employee. Limits to 25 percent the amount of payments which may be made by such programs to shareholders or owners (or their spouses or dependents), each of whom owns more than five percent of the stock or of the capital or profits interest in the employer.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Emergency Natural Gas Extension Act - Extends to February 15, 1978, the period in which the President may require emergency deliveries of natural gas under the Emergency Natural Gas Act of 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Agricultural Trade Expansion Act - Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to permit the Commodity Credit Corporation to finance export sales of agricultural commodities on credit terms in excess of three years, but not more than ten years. Exempts such sales from the requirement that exports be transported on privately owned United States - flag commercial vessels.
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1977
Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to include all Members of Congress and other officers and employees in the legislative branch of the Government under the Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance system.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1977
Trade Procedures Reform Act - Amends the Antidumping Act of 1921 to require conditional payment of antidumping duty upon entry of imported articles. Permits "across-the-board" appraisal of the value of such articles. Eliminates the requirement that the Secretary of the Treasury, upon an interim finding that certain imports are unlikely to injure United States industries, refer the case to the International Trade Commission for investigation. Permits simultaneous investigation by the Secretary and the ITC. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to permit Congressional disapproval of the President's determination to reduce import relief. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to procedures for relief from unfair trade practices through complaint to the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require the Secretary of the Treasury to initiate investigations within 30 days with respect to the existence of violations of such Act which require the imposition of countervailing duties (subsidy of imported products by foreign governments).
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1977
Amends rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate to require that bills, joint resolutions, and amendments, reported by the Senate Committee on Finance, which contain or extend tax expenditures provisions be referred to the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the committees having legislative jurisdiction over the subject matters involved.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1977
Declares that there be no reduction of customs duties on textile, apparel, or fiber products and that such products be excluded from the current Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations in Geneva.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1977
Public Broadcasting Financing Act - Title I: Construction and Planning of Facilities - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to establish new procedures for the planning and construction of public telecommunications facilities. Sets forth new requirements for the application to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for construction grants. States that such applications must include a five-year plan outlining the applicant's projected facilities requirements and must contain assurance that the planned facilities will be used only for educational or cultural purposes. Title II: Telecommunications Demonstrations - Authorizes the appropriation of $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 to be available to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for disbursement as grants for demonstration projects in the improvement of public telecommunications services. Title III: Corporation for Public Broadcasting - Subjects the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to the requirements of Title VI (Equal Employment Opportunities) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Title IX (prohibition of discrimination in education because of sex or blindness) of the Education Amendments of 1972. Adds to the 15 member Presidentially-appointed board of directors of the Corporation, four members appointed by organizations representing public radio and television licensees. Provides for the reduction of such board by attrition to 15 members, 11 of whom shall be Presidentially-appointed. Terminates the provision for Presidential designation of the chairman of such board. States that the chairman shall be elected from the board membership. Establishes the Public Broadcasting Fund in the Treasury. Authorizes a initial appropriation of funds to such Fund and provides for annual contributions of public moneys to the Fund based on the amount of non-Federal financial support received by public broadcasting entities. Sets forth regulations governing the use of the Fund. Title IV: General Provisions - Defines terms used in this Act and amends existing definitions to conform to the amendments made by this Act to the Communications Act of 1934.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1977
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Organic Act - Title I: Declaration of a National Ocean Policy - Declares the policy and purpose of this Act. Title II: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Establishes within the Department of Commerce the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Transfers to the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: (1) certain functions of the Department of the Interior relating to commercial fisheries, migratory marine species of game fish, and marine minerals technology; (2) all functions of the National Science Foundation under the National Sea Grant College and Program Act of 1966; and (3) certain functions of the Department of Defense relating to surveys and charting of lakes and connecting waters, and water research. Sets forth the responsibilities of the Administrator with regard to the formulation and implementation of ocean and atmospheric programs. Establishes a working capital fund for the purpose of carrying out the activities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Requires the Secretary to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Sets forth the procedure for transfer of personnel, positions, records, and funds to the Administration. Requires a comprehensive review of each Administration program every five years.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1977
International Maritime Mobile Satellite Telecommunications Act - Declares it to be the policy of the United States to participate, in cooperation with other countries, in the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT) whose purpose is to provide for the space segment necessary for improving maritime telecommunications and safety services. States that it is the intent of Congress that United States participation in INMARSAT shall be in the form of a designated private entity (the Corporation) subject to appropriate governmental oversight and regulation. Directs the President to take specified actions to foster the successful development and operation of INMARSAT. Grants to the Federal Communications Commission the same regulatory powers over the Corporation as the Commission has over a common carrier. Authorizes the creation of a maritime mobile satellite telecommunications corporation as the United States designated operating entity in INMARSAT. States that such corporation will not be an agency or establishment of the United States. States that the Corporation shall be the sole owner and operator of the United States land earth stations which provide access to the INMARSAT space segment. Places initial ownership of the Corporation wholly in United States common carriers specifically authorized by the FCC to own Corporation stock. Provides for private ownership beginning five years after the date of enactment of this Act. Establishes procedures for the organization of the Corporation by a Presidentially appointed board of incorporators.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide chiropractic care to any eligible veteran for outpatient medical treatment upon the request of the veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1977
Directs the President to instruct the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations to initiate negotiations with Japan and the European Economic Community to achieve orderly marketing agreements resulting in a reduction in steel imports.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1977
Designates the South Portal Federal Office Building of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare at 200 Independence Avenue Southwest, Washington, D. C., as the "Hubert H. Humphrey Building."
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1977
Affirms Senate support for existing restrictions on unfair or subsidized competition from imports. Urges the President to enforce laws to prevent dumping, trade discrimination, and other unfair competition having an adverse impact on the American steel industry.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1977
Declares that the President should establish a Commission on Domestic and International Hunger and Malnutrition which should: (1) collect and generate information and resources on food, hunger, malnutrition and related concerns; (2) assess current programs affecting domestic and international hunger and malnutrition; (3) analyze and report its findings and recommendations to the President, the Congress, and the public; and (4) assist the President and the Congress in implementing its recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an income tax deduction for certain Americans living abroad for cost-of-living, housing and education expenses attributable to the higher cost-of-living abroad.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1977
Continues the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs through December 31, 1979. Authorizes the expenditure of additional funds, not to exceed $250,000 per annum, by the Select Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1977
National Endowment for Children's Television Act - Establishes a National Endowment for Children's Television. Authorizes such Endowment to enter into contracts and provide grants to individuals or groups engaged in upgrading children's programming. Establishes within such Endowment a National Council on Children's Television.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1977
Natural Diversity Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide grants to the States for implementing State programs for maintaining landscape and other natural diversity with supporting biological data management systems. Requires each State to prepare a plan identifying, classifying, maintaining, and monitoring elements of natural diversity occurring within its boundaries in order to renew its grants. Directs each State to submit to the Secretary a priority list of sites which contain important elements of the State's natural diversity and which can be best protected through acquisition. Directs the Secretary to make matching grants for acquisition upon a finding that the site will contribute to the goals of this Act. States that the sites acquired by such grants shall be known as Diversity Preserves and that a registry of sites shall be maintained by the Secretary. Requires each Federal land management agency to establish a natural diversity program and biological data management system and to designate sites on Federal lands for entry on the registry. Directs the Secretary to prepare an annual summary assessment of the status of the nation's national diversity. Establishes the Federal Natural Diversity Office in the Department of the Interior and a technical advisory committee.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain individuals to compute the amount of the deduction for retirement savings on the basis of the earned income of their spouses.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1977
Requires the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force to keep the Secretary of the military department of which such individual is a member, fully and currently informed on matters considered or acted upon by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1977
Solar Energy for Homes Act - Authorizes the administrators of Federal housing programs, established under title II or III of the National Housing Act or (of) title V of the Housing Act of 1949, to increase the amount of loans made on single- or multi-family dwelling units by up to 20 percent where such increase reflects the cost of solar energy equipment. Amends the National Housing Act to authorize home improvement loans for the cost of acquisition and installation of solar energy systems.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1977
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make and insure loans under such Act for the solar heating or cooling of residential structures on family farms.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1977
Guarantees automatically any loan to a qualified veteran for the purchase and installation, of solar heating and/or cooling in a dwelling which he owns and occupies. Authorizes the Veterans' Administration to make loans for such purposes in certain circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1977
Grants a Federal charter to the National Ski Patrol System, Incorporated. Declares that the purpose of such corporation is to promote public safety in skiing.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1977
Communications Act Amendments - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to increase from $1,000 to $2,000 the maximum amount of a forfeiture penalty which may be assessed by the Federal Communications Commission in addition to any other penalty provided for by such Act against any person violating the terms of any license, permit certificate, or other authorization issued by the Commission. Directs the Commission, when determining the amount of the forfeiture penalty, to consider the nature, circumstances, extent and gravity of the prohibited acts. Provides that if any person fails to pay an assessment of a forfeiture penalty after it has become final the Commission shall refer the matter to the Attorney General of the United States who shall recover the amount assessed in any appropriate United States district court. Directs that no forfeiture liability shall be determined against any person not holding a license, permit, certificate, or other authorization issued by the Commission, unless prior to the notice of apparent liability such person (1) is sent a citation of the violation charged; (2) is given a reasonable opportunity for a personal interview with an official of the Commission; and (3) subsequently engages in the type of conduct described in the citation. Repeals the authorization for the assessment of a forfeiture penalty against any person violating the rules governing radio stations operating in common carrier, safety and special radio fields. Directs the Commission to regulate the rates, terms and conditions for pole attachments which are not regulated by any State authority. Defines the term "pole attachment," for purposes of this section, as any attachment for wire communication on a pole, duct, conduit, or other right-of-way controlled by a utility.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1977
Grants the Court of Claims jurisdiction to render judgments against the United States upon claims for losses other than lost profits sustained by producers, processors, manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or other persons resulting from the ban on apparel, fabric, yarn, or fiber containing Tris phosphate.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1977
Medicare - Medicaid Administrative and Reimbursement Reform Act - Establishes a new method of reimbursement for routine operating costs for hospitals under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Requires the establishment of uniform accounting and cost allocation system for determining operating and capital costs of hospitals providing services. Requires the establishment of a system by which hospitals will be classified by such criteria as (1) size; (2) type of hospital (general, teaching, or specialized care); and (3) other criteria. Stipulates that the term "routine operating costs" does not include: (1) capital costs; (2) direct personnel and supply costs of hospital education and training programs; (3) costs of interns, residents, and non-administrative physicians; (4) energy costs associated with heating and cooling the hospital plant; and (5) malpractice insurance expense; or (6) ancillary service costs. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to determine annually for the hospitals classified in each category of the hospital classification system established by this Act, an average per diem routine operating cost amount for use in determining the reasonable cost of that portion of the hospital's costs which consist of routine operating costs. Provides for the periodic increase during the year of the routine operating cost as determined pursuant to this Act to reflect increases in the cost of services which are attributable to inflation. Provides for the adjustment of the routine operating cost of a hospital to reflect higher costs to such hospital of a case mix which requires a greater intensity of care than for other hospitals in the same classification. Directs the Secretary to establish a five-member Hospital Transitional Allowance Board to act on the applications of hospitals for reimbursement of expenses incurred in the retirement or conversion of underutilized facilities. Requires that such conversion promote efficient and economical delivery of services covered by the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Establishes a plan for the reimbursement of physicians under which participating doctors of medicine or osteopathy would accept the assignment of patients' claims for reimbursement under the Medicare program. Requires the Secretary to establish procedures for expediting the payment of such assigned claims to physicians. Promulgates an incentive payment to encourage physicians to participate in the program of assignment of claims. Sets forth criteria for determining the reasonable charge which may be made for physicians' services, and medical services, supplies and equipment under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Sets forth the conditions under which anesthesiologists, pathologists, and radiologists may be paid under the Medicare and Medicaid programs for patient care services. Authorizes payment, under the Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits program of Medicare, for antigens prepared by an allergist for a particular patient. Permits the Secretary to make agreements with the States under which the services of a State health agency will be utilized for the purpose of determining whether an institution in such State qualifies as a skilled nursing facility for purposes of the Medicaid program. Combines the Medicare, Medicaid, Office of Long Term Care, and Bureau of Quality Assurance agencies into a single Administration for Health Care Financing headed by an Assistant Secretary. Establishes specific performance criteria with respect to State Administration of Medicaid. Terminates the Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public or nonprofit private regional pediatric respiratory centers affiliated with institutions of higher learning for training and instruction in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of respiratory diseases in children and young adults and in providing health care services to children and young adults suffering from such diseases. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for the making of such grants for fiscal year 1978 and the succeeding four fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1977
Taxpayer Assistance Fairness Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend interest on tax deficiencies resulting from advice obtained from Internal Revenue Service taxpayer assistance programs. Provides for the availability of written confirmations of certain oral advice given under these programs. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make annual reports on interest suspensions and taxpayer service errors. Orders the Secretary to make an efficiency report on the programs to certain Congressional Committees within six months after this enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Amends the National Sea Grant Program Act to extend the authorization for appropriations of such program to fiscal years 1978 and 1979. Amends the Sea Grant Program Improvement Act to extend, for two years, the authorization for appropriations for the national needs category of sea grants activity and the program to encourage international cooperation and exchanges in marine technology transfer and resource development.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere Act - Establishes a National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere to conduct a continuing review of national ocean and marine policy and coastal zone management programs and to advise the Secretary of Commerce with respect to administration of the programs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Directs the Committee to submit an annual report on the status of national marine and atmospheric activities to Congress and the President. Authorizes the appropriation of $445,000 for fiscal year 1978 to carry out the provision of this Act. Stipulates that such advisory committee shall replace an advisory committee with similar functions and duties established in 1971.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Increases the number of students enrolled in the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs at specified educational institutions who may receive financial assistance from the military department concerned.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1977
Transfers authority to enter into contracts with State and local governments for the care of Federal prisoners from the Bureau of Prisons to the Attorney General.
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