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United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Establishes a Select Committee of the Senate on Federal Responsiveness and Accountability to study the problems of accountability and responsiveness at all levels of the Federal Government. Limits the expenses of the committee to an amount not to exceed $400,000 before February 29, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Urges the President to seek an immediate international suspension of the transfer to nonnuclear weapons countries of nuclear enrichment and reprocessing facilities and technology to permit time for the negotiation of additional safeguards to reduce the risk of diversion or theft of plutonium and other nuclear materials to military or other uses that would jeopardize world peace and security.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Emergency Mortgage Relief Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make emergency mortgage relief payments to mortgagees on behalf of distressed homeowners. Sets forth as conditions for making such payments: (1) the holder of the mortgage has indicated an intention to foreclose; (2) mortgage payments have been delinquent for at least two months; (3) the mortgagor has incurred a substantial reduction in income as result of involuntary unemployment or underemployment due to adverse economic conditions and is financially unable to make the full payments; (4) there is a reasonable prospect that the mortgager will be able to make the adjustments necessary for a full resumption of mortgage payments; and (5) the mortgaged property is the principal residence of the mortgagor. States that mortgage relief payments may be made in amounts up to $250 per month for up to twelve months with an extension of up to an additional twelve months. States that the payments shall be repayable with an annual interest rate not exceeding eight percent. Directs the Secretary and the Federal supervisory agencies with respect to financial institutions to take steps to encourage forebearance in residential mortgage loan foreclosures, and to request all mortgagees to give such agencies at least 30 days notice prior to instituting foreclosure proceedings. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purposes of this Act not to exceed $500,000,000. States that mortgage relief payments shall not be made after July 1, 1976. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within sixty days after enactment and at sixty-day intervals thereafter on the actions taken under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Provides that specified publications of institutions of higher education shall continue to qualify as second-class mail. (Amends 39 U.S.C. 3626)
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1975
Incorporates the Gold Star Wives of America. Sets forth the object, purpose, and powers of such corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1975
Provides for the administration of oaths and affirmations and for the issuance of subpenas in investigations, hearings, and proceedings in the Department of the Interior.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1975
Social Security Cost-of-Living Improvement Act - Provides for a second annual cost-of-living increase in Federal old-age, survivors, and disability benefits under the Social Security Act. Defines the base periods from which the need for such increases shall be determined. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to develop a special Consumer Price Index for the elderly.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1975
Ozone Preservation Act - Declares it to be the finding of Congress that the discharge of certain fluorocarbons into the atmosphere from aerosal spray containers threatens to deplete the protective layer of ozone in the earth's atmosphere thereby increasing the incidence of solar ultraviolet radiation and threatening human health and agricultural crops. States that one year and a half after the enactment of this Act the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, under the Clean Air Act, shall prohibit the sale and distribution of aerosol spray containers which use certain fluorocarbons. Directs the Administrator, at the same time, to issue regulations controlling other uses of flurocarbons and chlorofluoromethane compounds such as in air conditioning systems. Provides for the waiving of any such regulations if scientific information later determines that flurocarbon compounds do not pose a threat to the public health. Provides a civil penalty of a fine of up to $1,000 per day or one year of confinement, or both, for violation of regulations promulgated under this Act. Authorizes the appropriations of such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1975, 1976, 1977, and for the transition period ending September 30, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1975
Consumer Leasing Act - Declares it the purpose of this Act to assure a meaningful disclosure of the terms of leases of personal property so as to enable the lessee to compare more readily the various lease and credit terms available to him, to limit balloon payments, and to assure meaningful and accurate disclosures of lease terms in advertisements. Requires, under the Truth in Lending Act, the lessor of personal property to give to the lessee, prior to the consummation of the lease, a dated written statement on which the lessor and lessee are identified setting out in a clear conspicuous manner the terms of the lease, as specified by this Act. Imposes specified limitations upon consumer lease advertising. Makes a lessor who violates the provisions of the Act civilly liable to the lessee.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1975
Exempts from Federal income taxation a trust established by a taxpayer for the purpose of providing care for specified mentally incompetent relatives of the taxpayer.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1975
Requires the extension of crop insurance under the Federal Corp Insurance Act to all counties and all agricultural commodities. Directs the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to pay 50 percent of the premium costs of the crop insurance issued to any farmer under the provisions of such Act. Repeals the $12,000,000 limitation on the authorized administrative costs of the corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1975
National Nutrition Education Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to encourage the provision of nutrition education programs in the classrooms and lunchrooms of elementary and secondary schools by establishing a system of grants for teacher training, pilot and demonstration projects, and the development of comprehensive nutrition education programs. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State educational agencies and institutions of higher education for teacher training with respect to the provision of nutrition education programs in schools. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $12,500,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 to carry out the provision of grants. Provides that the Commissioner may make grants to State and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and other public or private nonprofit education or research agencies, institutions, or organizations to pay the cost of pilot demonstration projects in elementary and secondary schools with respect to nutrition education and nutrition-related problems. States that the Commissioner may make grants to State education agencies to pay the Federal share of the cost of developing and carrying out nutrition education programs in elementary and secondary schools within each State. Sets forth criteria to be followed in applying for grants under this Act. Directs the Commissioner to render technical assistance to local education agencies, through qualified staff members having expertise in nutrition, health education, school food services, home economics, dietetics, and physical education, to public and private nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education for the development and implementation of education programs with respect to nutrition education and nutrition-related problems. Stipulates that in order to be eligible for assistance under this Act a State shall appoint a State coordinator for nutrition education. Directs the State coordinator for each State to develop, prepare, and furnish to the Commissioner a comprehensive plan for nutrition education within that State. Establishes in the Office of Education in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a National Nutrition Education Resources Center. Sets forth the functions of the Center, including the following: (1) to collect and create curriculum materials relevant to nutrition education, including, but not limited to, the integration of nutrition education materials into all subject matter at the elementary and secondary education levels; and (2) to collect information and materials relating to nutrition education and maintain such information and materials in a library for the use of State coordinators and other interested persons. Authorizes appropriations of up to $2,000,000 per fiscal year to establish and maintain the Center.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Health Maintenance Organization Amendments - Makes the offering of supplemental health services, as defined by the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, optional by health maintenance organizations. Eliminates the requirement imposed by such Act that health maintenance organizations offer annual open enrollment for individual membership. Redesignates medical treatment and referral services for drug or alcohol abuse or addiction and home health services as supplemental health services for purposes of such Act. Enables private entities to obtain federally guaranteed loans for the planning, initial development, and operation of a health maintenance organization to serve populations in addition to medically underserved populations. Includes State and local governmental employers as among those employers which must offer employees the option of membership in a health maintenance organization. Sets forth new procedures, penalties, and other requirements to be applied by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare where health maintenance organizations are alleged to be in noncompliance with such Act. Extends the authorization of appropriations for programs under such Act an additional two years.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Establishes within the Internal Revenue Service a Division for Taxpayer Assistance to investigate taxpayer complaints and criticisms. Requires the Internal Revenue Service to publish and distribute with every return form furnished to a taxpayer an outline of criteria used to select returns for audit and the procedures relevant to assessments and collections arising out of an audit for a taxpayer's return.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1975
Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to provide employment for unemployed rural residents through rural conservation employment projects within rural areas of substantial unemployment. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to employ rural residents over eighteen who have been unemployed for at least thirty consecutive days to carry out rural conservation projects within the National Forest System and other lands under the Secretary's jurisdiction, and in conjunction with cooperative projects on non-Federal lands. Directs the Secretary to determine rates of pay, hours, and other conditions of employment. Places a maximum wage limitation of $10,000 per year. Authorizes specified appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1975
Veterans Insurance Amendments Act - Permits veterans insured under Servicemen's Group Life Insurance to choose conversion to either an individual term or whole life insurance policy or Veterans' Group Life Insurance policy upon the expiration of their Servicemen's Group Life Insurance coverage. Extends for an additional year the period in which veterans made retroactively eligible for Veterans Group Life Insurance coverage by the Veterans Insurance Act of 1974 may apply for such coverage.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1975
Requires the continued application of the minimum nursing salary cost differential of 8 1/2 percent which is presently allowed in determining the reasonable cost of inpatient nursing care for purposes of reimbursement to providers under the Medicare program of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1975
Provides for the relief of Mr. Raj Gupta.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1975
Authorizes the President of the United States to designate the week beginning on the first Saturday after the first Tuesday in January as "National Ski Week".
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Authorizes the Federal Financial Bank to purchase general obligation bonds of units of local government when such bonds are issued to satisfy existing liabilities of such units of government; when the maturity of such obligations does not exceed two years; and when such unit of government has submitted a plan to achieve a balanced budget within two years.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Energy Information Act - Sets forth Congressional findings and purposes and defines the terms used in this Act. Title I: National Energy Information Administration - Creates as an independent agency of the Federal Government the National Energy Information Administration, to be headed by an Administrator. Provides that the function of the Administration shall be the collection, tabulation, comparison, analysis, standardization, and dissemination of energy information pursuant to this Act. Directs the Administrator to coordinate exisitng energy information collection activities of all Federal agencies. Requires the Administrator to submit to Congress and the President a plan for the consolidation of the energy information activities of the Federal Government. Provides for the imposition of criminal penalties for the unauthorized disclosure of, or theft of, non-public energy information. Title II: National Energy Information System - Directs the Administrator to establish a National Energy Information system which shall be operated and maintained by the Administration. Provides that such System shall contain such information as is required (1) to provide a description of and facilitate analysis of energy supply and consumption within and affecting the United States on the basis of such geographic areas and economic sectors as may be appropriate and (2) to meet adequately the needs of the Congress and of those Federal agencies which are responsible for energy policy analysis and formulation and for energy regulation. Requires major energy producing companies to file annual financial reports with the Administrator. Requires major energy consuming companies to file annual energy consumption reports, including the amounts and types of energy used, with the Administrator. Provides that the information collected pursuant to this Act shall be made public except where such information: (1) constitutes a trade secret; (2) would substantially harm the company that supplied it if disclosed; (3) was obtained from a Federal, State or local agency on a confidential basis; and (4) was classified for national security on foreign policy reasons. Authorizes the Administrator to delay the disclosure of geological information. Provides that only Federal employees having official use for such information shall have access to the information in the non-public catergories listed above. Title III: Energy Resources Surveys and Inspections by the Department of the Interior - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to compile, maintain, and keep current on not less than an annual basis a survey of all mineral fuel resources and nonmineral energy resources in the public lands of the United States. Stipulates that such survey program shall be designed to provide information about the location, extent, value, and characteristics of such resources. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Directs the Comptroller General to continuously monitor and evaluate the activities and operations of the Administration. Authorizes to be appropriated to the National Energy Information Administration and the Department of the Interior such amounts as may be requisite to full and efficient performance of the duties imposed upon such agencies by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Emergency Grain Standards Amendments - Provides criminal penalties for attempting to influence official inspection personnel in the discharge of their duties under the United States Grain Standards Act. Provides for the inspection of grain exported from the United States in the importing country to determine whether or not it is of the same quality as certified prior to exportation. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to suspend or revoke the designation of an official inspection agency pending or upon a determination that such agency was not in compliance with the United States Grain Standards Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1975
Authorizes the One Hundred and First Airborne Division Association to erect a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia in commemoration of the men of the "Screaming Eagles". Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the National Commission on Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, to select a suitable site in the District of Columbia or its environs. Provides that all plans are subject to approval of the Secretary of Interior. States that neither the United States nor the District of Columbia shall be put to any expense in the erection of such monument. Directs that maintenance of the monument shall be the responsibility of the Secretary of the Interior or the District of Columbia if the memorial is erected upon public grounds under their jurisdiction.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Nation is grateful to all American servicemen who participated in the Southeast Asian conflict and their families. Pays tribute to veterans of the Vietnam era and of all wars.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Balanced Growth and Economic Planning Act - Establishes an Economic Planning Board in the Executive Office of the President. States that the objective of the Board shall be to develop a balanced economic growth plan. Directs that such plan shall include an appraisal of the Nation's economic needs, an evaluation of available national economic resources, assurances of an adequate supply of raw materials and energy, and an outline of economic goals. Directs the Board to acquire the views of all segments of the economy, evaluate the effectiveness of the economic plan and to review major programs and activities of the Federal Government to determine if such programs are consistent with the Board's plan. Authorizes the Board to hold hearings and hire such personnel as necessary to carry out this Act. Creates a Division of Economic Information within the Board for the purpose of gathering information necessary for policy decisions by the Board. States that there shall also be created a Council on Economic Planning whose function shall be to review and revise the growth plan and submit such to the President. Gives the Council responsibility for reviewing the progress made in implementing the plan. Establishes an Advisory Committee on Economic Planning. States that the Advisory Committee shall be composed of representatives of business, labor, and the public at large, who shall furnish advice to the Board in matters involved in formulating and implementing the growth plan. Authorizes the Advisory Committee to establish regional or industry subcommittees to furnish advice on the growth plan. Provides that not later than April 1, 1977 and biannually thereafter, the President shall transmit to Congress a proposed long-term balanced economic growth plan. States that the plan shall include economic objectives, a forecast of the level of production and investment, and recommendations for legislative and administrative actions necessary to achieve the objectives of the plan. Directs the President to submit to the Congress with the proposed plan a report prepared by the Board and approved by the Council which shall give an economic analysis and examination in support of recommendations made in the proposed plan. Requires the Board to seek widespread consultation with regional, State, and local planning agencies in preparation of the plan. Provides for Congressional review of the plan. Places the responsibility for such review with the Joint Economic Committee. Authorizes the appropriation to the Joint Committee of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this responsibility. Establishes within the Congressional Budget Office a Division of Balanced Growth and Economic Planning. Directs the Division to assist the Joint Economic Committee by supplying the Joint Committee with long-term economic analysis. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes the President to proclaim October 26 of each year as "National Solar Energy Day."
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Authorizes an increase in expenditures by the Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Agencies for an inquiry and investigation relating to intelligence activities carried out by or on behalf of the Federal Government.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Valley Forge National Historical Park in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Stipulates that such park is not to exceed 3,500 acres. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Continues the special supplemental food program (created under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966) for women, infants, and children through September 30, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
National Petroleum and Natural Gas Conservation and Coal Substitution Act - Requires new electric powerplants and major industrial installations which become operational after January 1, 1979, and which utilize fossile energy resources as boiler fuel to be capable of utilizing coal as their primary energy source, in conformance with applicable environmental requirements. Requires that no later than January 1, 1980, existing electric powerplants and major industrial installations which utilize fossil energy resources as boiler fuel (and not scheduled for retirement prior to January 1, 1985) must acquire the capability, to the maximum extent practicable, to utilize coal as their primary energy source in conformance with applicable environmental requirements. Requires that, by January 1, 1985, to the maximum extent practicable, electric powerplants and major industrial installations which utilize fossil energy resources as boiler fuel utilize coal as their primary energy sources in conformance with applicable environmental requirements. Provides civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States (1) should propose an immediate suspension on underground nuclear testing to remain in effect so long as the Soviet Union abstains from underground testing, and (2) should set forth promptly a new proposal to the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other nations for a permanent treaty to ban all nuclear tests.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1975
Revises the Standing Rules of the Senate to change the name of the Committee on Foreign Relations to the Committee on International Relations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1975
Increases farm ownership loan limits of the Farmers Home Administration from $100,000 to $200,000. Increases the total indebtedness limit from $225,000 to $350,000. Increases the operating loan limit from $50,000 to $100,000.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1975
Provides for the Federal incorporation of the National Ski Patrol System. Makes the purpose of the corporation the promotion, in all and any ways, of public safety in skiing. Provides that the principal office of the corporation shall be located in Denver, Colorado. Requires the corporation to maintain a designated agent in the District of Columbia. Provides for the membership of the corporation. Sets forth the powers and the limitations of such corporation. Prohibits corporation participation in any political activity or in any attempt to influence legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Emergency Rail Transportation Improvement and Employment Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to authorize the Secretary of Transportation in consultation with the Secretary of Labor to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants, for programs aimed at reducing unemployment and at repairing, rehabilitating, or improving essential railroad roadbeds and facilities. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to provide financial assistance in the form of grants to eligible applicants for projects that involve the repair, rehabilitation or improvement of railroad roadbeds and facilities that best fulfill specified objectives. Provides that such grants shall be expended for the payment of wages. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants for materials and equipment assistance, upon assurances that other financing is not available. Sets forth guidelines and procedures for grant and other financial assistance applications. Sets forth employment priorities applicable to projects financed under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $600,000,000 for the payment of wages, $100,000,000 for materials and equipment assistance, and $7,000,000 for administrative expenses, to remain available for obligation until December 31, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Makes the following changes in title II of the Social Security Act (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) to: (1) eliminates the special dependency requirements for entitlement to husband's and widower's insurance benefits; (2) provides benefits for widowed fathers with minor children; (3) provides that benefits for husbands, widowers, and fathers will be payable on the same basis as benefits for wives, widows, and mothers; (4) permits the payment of benefits to a married couple on their combined earnings record where that method of computation provides a higher combined benefit; and (5) provides eligibility for unmarried divorced husbands of insured individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Renames the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation the Federal Commodity Insurance Corporation. Transfers the functions and duties of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and the Secretary of Agriculture under the Federal Crop Insurance Act to the Federal Commodity Insurance Corporation. States that the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors. Sets forth procedures for the appointment of the Board. Extends the existing crop insurance program from coverage of 7 agricultural commodities to coverage of 25 commodities. Authorizes the Corporation to extend insurance to other commodities on the basis of demand for such coverage and the anticipated risk of loss to the Corporation. Directs the Corporation to offer its insurance program in additional counties according to a specified plan. Specifies the percentage of loss of each crop that the Corporation shall offer insurance against. Stipulates that insurance offered by the Corporation shall not cover losses due to the neglect or malfeasance of the producer or the failure of the producer to follow established good production practices. Requires the Corporation to report annually to Congress the results of its operations and to include in such report, a list of all agricultural commodities for which insurance has been requested but which are not insured by the Corporation, and a list of all counties for which insurance has been requested but which are not covered by the Corporation. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1976, and each fiscal year thereafter, a sum not to exceed $20,000,000 or an amount equal to 2.3 percent of the total insurance liability assumed by the Corporation in the immediately preceding fiscal year, whichever amount is greater, as may be necessary to cover the operating and administrative costs of the Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Rural Development Act Amendments - Sets forth congressional findings and purposes, and defines the terms used in this Act. Establishes a National Rural Development Bank to serve as a source of financial assistance to institutions that have purchased, refinanced, discounted, or rediscounted nonfarm rural development loans made by local rural banks and other financial institutions. Declares it to be the policy of Congress that the Bank provide equity-participation investment funds to sponsors of rural development projects and financial assistance to local lenders. Establishes a National Rural Development Bank Board, to consist of individuals appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and individuals elected by the shareholders of such Bank. Makes it the duty of the Board to establish general policy for the Bank, consistent with congressional policy and purposes. Enumerates the general corporate powers of the Bank and authorizes the Bank to make studies of rural lending and investment needs, and credit requirements of rural industrial and commercial enterprises. Directs the Farm Credit Administration to audit the Bank and participating joint-venture cosponsors not less than once a year. Directs the Bank to issue stock. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase stock to help the Bank inaugurate financial assistance operations. Provides that voting stock of the Bank shall be held only by those local rural banks and financial institutions that obtain financial assistance from the Bank or joint-venture cosponsors. Sets forth an earnings distribution formula. Declares that the Bank shall have the power to issue its own notes, bonds, debentures, and other similar obligations. Authorizes the Bank to make investments in rural development projects proposed or established by joint-venture cosponsors, as defined by this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Treasury not to exceed $200,000,000 annually for not to exceed 10 years for the purchase of capital stock of the Bank.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
National Tay-Sachs Disease Screening and Counseling Act - Provides that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program, under the Public Health Service Act, for voluntary Tay-Sachs disease screening and counseling. Authorizes appropriations of $2,500,000 for fiscal year 1976 for making grants to public and nonprofit entities to establish and operate such screening programs. Sets forth the procedure for applications for and administration of such grants.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
National Genetic Diseases Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program to provide for basic and applied research, research training, testing, counseling, information, and education programs with respect to genetic diseases, including, but not limited to, sickle cell anemia, Cooley's anemia, Tay-Sachs disease, cystic fibrosis, dysautonomia, hemophilia, retinitis pigmentosa, Huntington's chorea, and muscular dystrophy. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public and private nonprofit entities for the establishment and operation of: (1) genetic counseling and testing programs; (2) a genetic disease information and education program; and (3) a genetic disease research, development and diagnosis and treatment demonstration program. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978 for such programs. Sets forth grant application requirements and procedures. Establishes a National Advisory Commission on Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects of Genetic Diseases. Makes it the duty of the Commission to undertake a comprehensive investigation and study of the ethical, social, and legal implications of genetics research.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make grants to any State or local government for construction, renovation, repair, or other improvement of local public works projects. Directs the Secretary to prescribe rules, regulations, and procedures necessary to carry out this Act. Prohibits any such grant for any project having as its purpose the damming or diversion of any watercourse or any such grant for any project located in an area having special flood hazards. Authorizes to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $5,000,000,000 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to carry out an investigation to identify foreign enterprises engaged in commercial whaling. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any fish or fish products produced, owned or distributed by such enterprise to be imported into the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to issue and amend regulations to carry out the purposes of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1975
Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Amendments - Authorizes funds for the provision of emergency jobs under the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act for fiscal years 1976 and 1977, the amount of such funds to be reduced as the national rate of unemployment falls below specified levels for three consecutive months.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1975
Provides for the designation of specified lands in the Isle Royale National Park in Michigan as wilderness.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
Provides that priority for local lead elimination programs financed through the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act shall go to homes in which reside children with lead-based paint poisoning. Provides for the reduction of the amount of lead allowed in paint to 0.06 percent by weight. Authorizes appropriations for programs under such Act for fiscal years 1976, 1977 and 1978. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Childhood Lead Based Paint Poisoning Advisory Board to advise the Secretary a policy relating to the administration by such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
Provides that the eligibility of recipients of supplemental security income benefits under the Social Security Act to receive food stamps and federally donated agricultural commodities shall be determined by regulations in effect on May 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
Redefines the purposes of the Food for Peace Program established by the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act to require that agricultural assistance under such program, if used to promote the foreign policy of the United States, not interfere with the humanitarian purposes of the program. Prohibits the Commodity Credit Corporation from financing the sale and export of agricultural commodities for any exporter or to any country if the sale and export of such commodities would, in any way, be inimical to the interests of the United States. Requires the President to take precautions to avoid disrupting the agricultural production of countries receiving assistance under such Act. Requires the President to assure that free and open competition is maintained in contracting for goods and services under such Act. Increases from 5 percent to 10 percent the amount of the purchase price of agricultural commodities sold under such Act which must be payable in dollars. Directs the President to obtain commitments from countries purchasing commodities that appropriate steps will be taken to assure that the neediest individuals in such countries will have reasonable access to all or part of the agricultural commodities made available to such countries under such Act. Repeals the authority of the President to utilize foreign currencies acquired through the sale of commodities under such Act to procure equipment and services for the common defense including internal security. Repeals the present requirement that countries be engaged in self-help measures designed to increase agricultural production before they can receive assistance under the Food for Peace Program. States that the criteria for designating a country for an agricultural assistance program under such Act shall be determined solely on the basis of specified factors, including: (1) the humanitarian need for external resources to improve the marketing, distribution, and storage system of such country and the need to increase the access of the neediest individuals of such country to available food supplies and to increase the productivity of the small farmer of such country; and (2) the overall level of the economic development of each country. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, not later than March 31, 1976, to announce an annual volume of food commodities to be made available for humanitarian food assistance under such Act for each of the five fiscal years following the fiscal year in which the announcement is made. Stipulates that the volume for each such fiscal year shall be not less than 60 percent of the average annual volume of food assistance made available under such Act for the previous five years. Prohibits a commodity from being made available under the Food for Peace Program if such disposition would reduce the domestic supply of such commodity below that needed to meet domestic requirements, adequate carryover, and anticipated exports for dollars as determined by tthe Secretary of Agriculture at the time of exportation of such commodity, except that if the President determines that any part of the exportable supply should be used to carry out the humanitarian objectives of such program, he may allocate any such portion of such supply for distribution. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to submit annual reports to the Congress on estimated grain shortages around the world and a projection of the value and type of commodities to be provided under the Food for Peace Program in order to meet such shortages. Establishes a Food Assistance Advisory Group. Adds a new title to the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act. Establishes under this title a Foreign Emergency and Disaster Relief Reserve to be composed of at least one million metric tons of cereals equivalent. Directs that dispersal of stocks from such reserve shall be made only when the Secretary of Agriculture determines that a catastrophe reduces the availability of food supplies in a country to a level insufficient to meet the minimal requirements necessary to avoid widespread starvation and human suffering.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
Provides under the Internal Revenue Code that no interest is payable on income tax deficiencies in the case of returns prepared by the Internal Revenue Service until the expiration of thirty days after notice to the taxpayer of such deficiency.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect two Senators and the number of Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. States that each Senator or Representative so elected shall be an inhabitant of the District and shall possess the same qualifications as to age and citizenship and have the same rights, privileges, and obligations as a Senator or Representative from a State.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1975
Changes the Immigration and Nationaltiy Act to eliminate the legal custody requirement of residence and physical presence in the United States for the naturalization of children adopted by United States citizens.