United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1982
Synthetic Fuels Corporation Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Energy Security Act to authorize the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation to make loans, loan and price guarantees, and purchase agreements and to enter into joint ventures for district heating or cooling projects. Authorizes the Corporation to make price support loans for municipal waste energy projects which produce and sell biomass energy. Requires the Corporation to solicit proposals and provide financial assistance for district heating or cooling projects and municipal waste energy projects. Requires that the synthetic fuel production strategy established by the Corporation address the types of district heating or cooling projects and municipal waste energy projects the Corporation intends to assist. Makes a minimum of 25 percent of the amount of financial assistance available for obligation during any fiscal year by the Corporation available for such projects. Requires the Corporation's Board of Directors to assure that the Corporation is organized to evaluate, process, and review proposed and funded district heating or cooling projects and municipal waste energy projects.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) decide when and how to achieve a mutual and verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further development of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) give special attention to destabilizing weapons; and (4) negotiate to redress the current imbalance of conventional forces. States that the United States and the Soviet Union, proceeding from this freeze and from negotiations, should pursue major, mutual, and verifiable reductions in nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982
Amends the Federal Power Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve public utility rate increases for electric energy based on costs of proposed or ongoing construction in regard to: (1) pollution control facilities; or (2) conversion of oil or gas-fired facilities to use of other fuels. Directs the Commission to order rate increases to cover construction costs for facilities other than those above only after an evidentiary proceeding. Sets forth requirements concerning such proceedings.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should maintain a strong commitment to the proper handling and storage of hazardous wastes; and (2) the Administrator of the EPA should maintain and enforce existing regulations regarding the management of containerized liquid hazardous wastes until new or revised regulations become effective.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1982
Community Air Service Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to continue Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) authority to require air carriers to establish just and reasonable joint fares. Transfers the authority of the CAB over joint rates, fares, and charges to the Department of Transportation. Sets forth procedures concerning the establishment and division of such joint fares. Terminates the authority of the CAB and the Secretary in regard to such joint rates six years after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the energy investment tax credit for equipment used aboard or installed on fishing vessels which reduces fuel consumption.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Civil Rights Act of 1982 - Title I: Equal Opportunity Provisions - Establishes uniform procedures for the enforcement by the Federal Government of civil rights laws, including title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and numerous other discrimination laws and provisions. Continues to authorize individual Federal agencies to investigate, attempt to resolve, and monitor compliance with regard to discrimination complaints, but otherwise centralizes enforcement authority in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Attorney General. Permits an individual to bring a civil action directly in Federal court for an alleged act of discrimination. Requires an investigative agency to seek to develop a voluntary compliance agreement by informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring civil actions in court for patterns or practices of unlawful discrimination. Prohibits a Federal agency from issuing any regulation with regard to employment discrimination without the prior approval of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Prohibits any Federal agency and the Commission from issuing any regulation without the approval of the Attorney General. Establishes a one-House congressional veto procedure for regulations under this Act issued by any Federal agency, the Commission, and the Attorney General. Makes any such regulation effective 45 days after its transmittal to Congress if it is not disapproved. Continues generally an "effects" standard for proving discrimination, but requires the effect to be "reasonably foreseeable" with regard to certain discriminatory acts, including denial of Federal benefits. Title II: Administrative Provisions - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to determine which personnel employed in connection with functions affected by this Act shall be transferred to the Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that funding for community service employment programs for senior citizens under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 for FY 1983 and subsequent fiscal years should be provided at levels sufficient to maintain or increase the number of employment positions provided under such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should take no action to accelerate the decontrol of wellhead natural gas prices.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the executive branch should begin to coordinate and improve its projections and analysis of world population, resources, and environmental trends as outlined in the Global 2000 study.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1982
Clean Air Act Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Clean Air Act ("the Act") to revise stationary source, mobile source, and other provisions of the Act. Title I: Amendments Relating Primarily to Stationary Sources - Fine and Inhalable Particulates - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue air quality criteria and information for inhalable particulates (less than 10 to 15 microns in diameter) within one year of enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to propose and promulgate a national primary ambient air quality standard ("a primary NAAQS") for inhalable particulates, unless there is no significant evidence that this is requisite to protect public health. Directs the Administrator to determine whether or not fine particulates (less than 3 microns in diameter) should be listed among those air pollutants for which the issuance of air quality criteria is planned. Provides that State implementation plan (SIP) provisions which related to a prior NAAQS and were in effect immediately before the revision or elimination of such NAAQS shall remain in effect until the Administrator determines that an SIP revision has been implemented which takes account of such NAAQS change. Hazardous Air Pollutants - Revises provisions for national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAPs). Directs the Administrator to determine, after notice and opportunity for public hearing, whether or not each of 37 substances (listed in a specified publication of congressional oversight hearings) is a hazardous air pollutant. Requires that each of the 37 substances be included on the NESHAPs list (of substances for which NESHAPs are to be established), unless the Administrator has determined that any of the 37 substances is not a hazardous air pollutant. Requires that the NESHAPs listing determinations for these 37 substances be made within one year of the enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator, in the case of substances other than those 37 substances, to make determinations within 180 days after receipt of information which indicates that a substance may be a hazardous air pollutant, after notice and opportunity for public hearing. Permits (currently, the Administrator is required) the Administrator to make a new determination in the case of any substance which the Administrator has previously determined not to be a hazardous air pollutant. Requires that any substance which the Administrator determines to be a hazardous air pollutant be included on the NESHAPs list. Directs the Administrator to publish a list of each category of stationary sources which emit in any significant amounts any hazardous air pollutant included on the NESHAPs list. Requires that specified categories be included in the source categories list, and that such list be published 15 months after enactment of this Act for certain categories and 18 months after such enactment for other categories. Directs the Administrator to publish a revised source categories list within one year after any revision in the NESHAPs list. Authorizes the Administrator to revise the source categories list at such other times as may be necessary. Directs the Administrator to publish proposed emission standards for new stationary sources in each source category listed within 30 months of enactment of this Act for certain categories and within 42 months of such enactment for other categories. Directs the Administrator to promulgate such standards within six months after such publication. Directs the Administrator to revise such standards where appropriate following periodic review. Requires such periodic review to be completed within ten years of the date of promulgation of such standards. Provides that such standards shall apply to each hazardous air pollutant on the NESHAPs list which is emitted in significant amounts from sources in such category. Requires that such emission standards (for new stationary sources in each source category listed for NESHAPs purposes) be established at the more stringent of: (1) the greatest degree of emission reduction achievable through application of the best system of continuous emission reduction which the Administrator determines is available, taking account of costs, health and environmental impacts, and energy requirements; or (2) the most stringent emission limitation achieved in practice by other sources in the same, or a similar, category. Authorizes the Administrator to distinguish among classes, types, and sizes within categories of sources for purposes of establishing such standards. Sets forth a schedule for completion of specified actions required after enactment of this Act: (1) one year for making the NESHAPs listing determination for the 37 substances; (2) 15 months for publishing the source categories list for certain categories, and 18 months for other categories; (3) 30 months for proposing emission standards for certain source categories, and 42 months for other categories; and (4) six months after such proposal for promulgation of such standards. Provides that no time period under such schedule may be delayed or modified by any petition to the Administrator or by any action brought in any court. Declares that completion of such actions according to such schedule is a nondiscretionary duty of the Administrator. Permits citizen suits against the Administrator in cases of failure or refusal to comply with such schedule. Allows such suits to commence ten days after the plaintiff has given notice of the violation to the Administrator. Prohibits any construction of any new source or modification of any existing source of any hazardous air pollutant on the NESHAPs list if such construction or modification will increase (after the application of federally enforceable emission limitations) the emission of such hazardous air pollutant by a significant amount unless such source is required to comply with an emission standard established on a case-by-case basis by the Administrator (or a State, if delegated). Directs the Administrator to establish a standard for each source at the level which provides an ample margin of safety to protect public health from the hazardous air pollutant, unless the Administrator makes and publishes a detailed finding that such a standard is not economically or technologically practicable. Requires, where such a finding is made, that an individual new or modified source case-by-case standard: (1) be established according to the same criteria as source category standards; and (2) be no less stringent than any applicable source category standard. Provides for the delegation to States of the implementation and enforcement of emission standards for hazardous air pollutants for new or modified stationary sources. Directs the Administrator to establish a procedure, similar to that for State implementation plans (SIPs), under which each State shall submit a plan which: (1) establishes emissions standards for each hazardous air pollutant on the NESHAPs list for each existing source to which a NESHAPs emissions standard would apply if such existing source were a new source; and (2) provides for implementation and enforcement of each such standard as expeditiously as practicable, but not later than three years after establishment of such standard. Permits States to consider the remaining useful life of the existing source in applying such a standard. Authorizes the Administrator to prescribe or enforce provisions of such plans where a State fails to do so. Makes it unlawful for any owner or operator of any stationary source to operate such source in violation of any applicable standard under these revised NESHAPs provisions. Eliminates that part of the definition of "hazardous air pollutant" which requires that no NAAQS be applicable to such pollutant (but retains consideration of increased mortality or morbidity in such definition). New Source Immunity - Sets forth "new source immunity" provisions establishing a ten-year "grandfather" period beginning with the commencement of construction of any new stationary source or modification of a major stationary source. Provides that, for such period, such sources shall not be required to comply with any emission limitation or standard under the Act which is more stringent than construction or modification permit requirements. Conditions such immunity upon: (1) issuance of a permit, on or after enactment of this Act, under a permit program of an applicable SIP approved by the Administrator; (2) compliance with permit requirements and with all applicable new source performance standards (NSPS); and (3) no subsequent physical change in the source, or change in its method of operation, which increases air pollutant emissions or results in emissions of any air pollutant not previously emitted. Excludes from such immunity any emission limitation or standard imposed on any stationary source with respect to: (1) hazardous air pollutants regulated under NESHAPs provisions; (2) pollutants with no NAAQS in effect at commencement of construction or modification, but for which a primary NAAQS is later promulgated; or (3) any other air pollutant, if the Administrator judges that the public health or welfare may be endangered. Provides that such immunity shall not prevent the imposition of any emission limitation on any individual piece of process equipment not subject to a permit emission limitation based upon the best available control technology (BACT). Acid Rain - Establishes a new program entitled "Interstate Transport and Acid Precursor Reduction." Establishes an "acid deposition region" consisting of 31 States (east of or bordering the Mississippi River) and the District of Columbia. Directs the Administrator to: (1) study air pollution problems associated with long-range transport of pollutants in the portions of the continental United States not included in the acid deposition region; and (2) report the results to Congress within two years. Establishes an acid deposition regional target providing for a ten-year phased schedule of reductions to achieve an annual average emission level that is 10,000,000 tons of sulfur dioxide below the 1980 baseline level. Directs the Administrator, within six months, to compute and publish a target and a schedule for each affected State. Permits two or more States to agree to change their share of the sulfur dioxide emissions reduction ("reduction"). Requires that State reduction schedules begin within five years, be substantially complete within eight years, and reach the State target within ten years of enactment of this Act. Sets forth formulas for: (1) State reduction fractions (based on 1980 emissions from electric utility steam generating units); and (2) the 1980 baseline level for the region or any State within the region. Requires States within the region to prepare, publish, and submit to the Administrator, within two years of enactment of this Act, State programs of reduction in accordance with the State schedules. Directs the Administrator to approve State programs, within four months of submission, if such programs: (1) were adopted after public notice, opportunity for hearing, and submission to Governors of the other States in the region; and (2) contain enforceable reduction measures, including emission limitations, monitoring requirements, and compliance schedules. Requires State programs to include enforceable continuous emission reduction measures. Lists some measures that State programs may include. Permits a State or any person subject to State program requirements to substitute a reduction of twice as many units of nitrogen oxide emissions for each unit of required reductions of sulfur dioxide emissions. Provides for an EPA alternative program if a State program: (1) has not been adopted by a State within two years; or (2) has not been approved by the Administrator within two years and four months. Requires, in such cases, that any owner or operator of an electric utility steam generating unit in such State submit, within three years of enactment of this Act, a unit plan and schedule for reductions. Requires unit plans and schedules only from units which: (1) are major stationary sources; (2) are not subject to new source performance standards; and (3) actually emitted, or were permitted to emit, sulfur dioxide during 1980 in excess of a specified rate. Requires that unit plans and schedules provide for a reduction to a specified rate of emissions, according to a phased schedule (beginning within five years, substantially complete within eight years, and finally complete within ten years of the enactment of this Act). Sets forth provisions for approval of unit plans and schedules. Provides that any unit for which a plan has not been submitted and approved must comply with the specified emission limitation within five years of the enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to establish a program of purchase and sale of emission reduction credits among stationary sources of sulfur dioxide in five emission reduction credit regions within the acid deposition region. Provides that specified requirements under this Act shall be treated as emission limitation requirements of applicable SIPs. Sets forth procedures for petitions for determination that programs or plans will not meet deadlines and for petitions for review of such determinations or denials. Interstate Air Pollution - Requires that an SIP contain provisions for the establishment of emission limitations to prevent stationary sources within the State from interfering with the ambient air quality of other States. Requires that such SIP provisions conform to the interstate pollution abatement provisions of the Act. Revises interstate pollution abatement provisions to require prior notice to all affected nearby States from each major proposed new (or modified) source which, by itself or in combination with other sources, may interfere with the ambient air quality of another State in a specified manner. Allows any person to petition the Administrator to make a finding that emissions from stationary sources in any State are interfering with the ambient air quality of another State by contributing: (1) concentrations of a pollutant in a nonattainment area; (2) concentrations consuming any part of any maximum allowable concentration or increase over baseline concentrations of a pollutant (under prevention of significant deterioration of air quality (PSD) provisions), in any area which is not a nonattainment area for that pollutant; or (3) to air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare in such other State. Allows petitions relating to such interference with another State's air quality also to be submitted to the Administrator prior to approval of a SIP or of a construction or modification permit. Prohibits approval in such cases unless the Administrator determines that such interference will not result. Directs the Administrator, within 60 days of receipt of such petition, to make a finding or denial. Directs the Administrator, if such finding is made, to: (1) determine the degree to which sources in each State concerned (including the State adversely affect) contribute to the pollution concentration; and (2) require the SIPs concerned to contain emission limitations and compliance schedules for stationary sources in each State which contribute significantly to such concentrations. Requires that such limitations and schedules reduce such concentrations as promptly as practicable and, in the case of nonattainment areas, not later than the required attainment date for the adversely affected State. Requires that SIPs be revised accordingly within four months of the Administrator's order. Sets forth factors to be taken into account in setting interstate emission limitations at an equitable amount of emission reduction by each source. Allows the establishment of alternative emission limitations for existing sources in accordance with a specified policy. Requires, where appropriate, that construction or modification permits contain interstate emissions limitations established by the Administrator. Sets forth factors which may be taken into account in determining the effect of emissions from sources in any State on air pollution concentrations in any other State. New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) - Directs the Administrator to promulgate (or revise) "new source performance standards" (NSPS) for specified categories of stationary sources. Requires that such NSPS promulgation (or revision) be completed by the end of: (1) FY 1982 for one list of source categories; (2) FY 1983 for a second list; and (3) FY 1984 for a third list. Expedited SIP Revision Process - Directs the Administrator to approve or disapprove any SIP revision within four months of receipt. Qualifies a SIP revision for a special fast-track review (approval after a 30-day public comment period during which no objections are made) if the revision relates only to one or more of specified items. Prevention of Significant Deterioration - Revises provisions (in Part C of title I of the Act) for Prevention of Significant Deterioration of Air Quality (PSD). (PSD provisions currently specify allowable short-term and long-term "increments" of emissions of sulfur oxide and particulate matter - regulations for other pollutants are not yet final in areas with cleaner air than that required by NAAQS. Currently the smallest increments are allowed in "class I" areas, which include "statutorily designated" large national parks and wilderness areas, with larger increments in "class II" areas, and the largest increments in "class III" areas.) Repeals the "increment" limitations (specified "maximum allowable increases over baseline concentrations") for class III areas. Eliminates provisions for PSD area redesignations as class III areas. Refers, instead, to redesignation as PSD areas other than class I or II areas. Requires States to consult with local governments prior to a PSD area redesignation. Revises PSD preconstruction requirements to replace references to class III areas with references to PSD areas other than class I or II areas. Allows the permitting authority to determine in its discretion the extent to which continuous air quality monitoring data must be included in air quality analyses for preconstruction review purposes. Applies PSD preconstruction requirements only to increases of 100 tons per year of any air pollutant for which there are NAAQS regulations. Eliminates the requirement that each State provide notice to the Administrator of every action related to the consideration of PSD preconstruction permits. Requires PSD preconstruction permit applications to be made available to the public. Requires PSD preconstruction permit programs to: (1) notify applicants within two months after receipt as to whether or not the application is complete and in what respects an incomplete application should be modified; and (2) issue or deny the permit within seven months after a completed application is received. Authorizes any officer or employee of a permitting agency to communicate and meet with any applicant, prior to submission of an application, to clarify PSD preconstruction permit requirements. Directs the Administrator to establish maximum allowable increases ("increment" requirements) for inhalable particulates in class I and II areas whenever the Administrator promulgates a primary NAAQS for such pollutant. Authorizes the Administrator to determine whether such increment requirements shall be in addition to, or in lieu of, the increment requirements established for sulfur dioxide and particulate matter. Requires that inhalable particulates increment requirements bear the same ratio to the primary NAAQS for fine particulates as the particulate matter increment requirements bear to the primary NAAQS for total suspended particulate matter in effect on December 31, 1981, using the reference method in effect on such day. Visibility - Revises provisions for visibility protection for mandatory class I Federal areas ("statutorily designated" large national parks and wilderness areas, which must not be designated as other than class I). Adds synthetic fuel facilities and surface mining operations to the types of "major stationary sources" covered by the visibility protection regulations (if such sources have the potential to emit 250 tons or more of any pollutant). Authorizes the Administrator to establish the "best available retrofit technology" (BART), for visibility protection program purposes, in terms of a design, equipment, work practice, or operational standard, or combination thereof, where it is not feasible to enforce a numerical emission limitation representing BART. Requires that the EPA regulations for visibility protection in effect on December 31, 1981, remain in force and effect until new or amended regulations are promulgated which meet the requirements of the visibility protection program. Prohibits any stay or other modification of such regulations issued after December 31, 1981, from having any force and effect. Nonattainment Areas; Extension of Attainment Dates - Sets forth new provisions for nonattainment areas for which SIPs are not approved. Directs the Administrator to prohibit the construction or modification of any major stationary source in such area if such construction or modification would result in emissions of any air pollutant: (1) in increased amounts of 100 tons or more per year; (2) for which the primary NAAQS is not attained in such area; and (3) with respect to which SIP provisions meeting requirements for nonattainment areas are not in effect. Authorizes the Administrator to waive such prohibition where the source owner or operator demonstrates that, for such air pollutant: (1) emissions offsets will meet specified requirements; (2) the source will comply with emissions limitations representing the best available control technology (BACT); and (3) all major stationary sources owned or operated by that owner or operator in the State are in (or on a schedule of) compliance with the Act. Provides that the emissions offsets required by such waivers: (1) be contemporaneous emission reductions of that air pollutant from existing stationary sources in the area; (2) be significantly greater, in the aggregate, than the increase (or new emissions) resulting from the construction or modification; and (3) provide a positive net air quality benefit. Sets forth a required baseline for measuring such emission reductions. Sets forth provisions for transfer of alternative emission reductions in nonattainment areas. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate regulations under which such emission reductions may be: (1) sold, exchanged, or otherwise transferred; (2) registered on a public emission reduction credit register; and (3) held ("banked") by the owner for future use by any person for future compliance with nonattainment area provisions. Requires that any such transfer program comply with a specified policy. Makes technical and conforming amendments. Directs the Administrator, not later than March 1, 1983, to: (1) complete a review of all available data relating to the ambient air quality of the various air quality control regions; (2) determine which of such regions, or portions thereof, do not meet a primary NAAQS; and (3) revise the list of nonattainment areas accordingly. Allows six months for SIP revisions required as a result of such inclusions on the nonattainment area list. Authorizes the Administrator, where an SIP meets specified requirements, to extend the 1982 deadline for attainment of primary NAAQS for: (1) up to three years for particulate matter, hydrocarbons, and sulfur dioxide; and (2) up to five years for nitrogen oxide (retains the current five-year extension for carbon monoxide and photochemical oxidants, with automobile inspection and maintenance program requirements). Replaces the standard "lowest achievable emission rate" (LAER) with that of "best available control technology" for purposes of nonattainment area construction or modification permit requirements and guidance documents. Adds new definitions for purposes of nonattainment area requirements. Includes the reconstruction of a stationary source as defined by specified regulations in effect on December 31, 1980, in the definition of "new stationary source." Temporary Variances - Revises provisions for temporary emergency variances of any SIP requirement applicable to a stationary source. Permits a State to apply to the Administrator for a variance of up to six months in any one set of circumstances. Directs the Administrator to approve or disapprove such application in the same manner as the special fast-track review for SIP revisions. Operations and Maintenace - Requires that SIPs include a program for periodic audits of major stationary sources to insure the proper operation and maintenance of pollution control equipment used to comply with emission limitations. Requires that the results of such audits be available to the public. Sets a deadline, six months after enactment of this Act, for submission of SIP revisions taking account of such requirements. Title II: Provisions Relating Primarily to Mobile Sources - Emissions Standards for Vehicles and Engines - Sets forth tables of emissions standards for light-duty vehicles and trucks and engines manufactured during and after model year 1983 and for heavy-duty trucks and truck engines manufactured during and after model year 1984, in terms of emissions in grams per mile (gpm) or in grams per brake horsepower-hour (gpbhh) of hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), oxides of nitrogen (NOx), and particulate matter (TSP: total suspended particulates). Retains the current (1982 model year) standards for gasoline-fueled light-duty vehicles and engines for model year 1983 and thereafter (0.41 gpm HC; 3.4 gpm CO; and 1.0 gpm NOx). Sets model year 1983 and thereafter standards for diesel-fueled light-duty vehicles and engines (0.41 gpm HC; 3.4 gpm CO; 1.5 gpm NOx, but 1.0 gpm NOx in 1986 and thereafter; and 0.6 gpm TSP--but 0.2 gpm TSP in 1986 and thereafter). Retains the scheduled EPA standards for light-duty trucks and truck engines (HC: 1.7 gpm for 1983 and 0.8 gpm for 1984; CO: 18 gpm for 1983 and 10 gpm for 1984; and NOx: 2.3 gpm for 1983 and 1984). Sets the NOx standard for 1985 and thereafter at 2.3 gpm for 1985 and 1.2 gpm (for light-duty trucks under 6,000 pounds) or 1.7 gpm (for light-duty trucks between 6,000 and 8,500 pounds) for 1986 and thereafter. Sets a TSP standard for light-duty trucks of 0.6 for 1983 through 1985 and 2.6 for 1986 and thereafter. Retains the scheduled EPA standards for heavy-duty trucks and truck engines for model year 1984 and thereafter (1.3 gpbhh HC; 15.5 gpbhh CO; and 10.7 gpbhh NOx). Sets the heavy-duty truck NOx standard for 1986 and thereafter at 4.0 gpbhh. Sets a heavy-duty truck TSP standard of 0.25 gpbhh for 1986 and thereafter, with specified exceptions. Authorizes the Administrator to prescribe different standards for emissions of reactive and nonreactive hydrocarbons from any class of vehicles and engines. Requires that any standard for reactive hydrocarbons emissions not permit a greater amount of such emissions than that which the Administrator determines would have been emitted by a light-duty vehicle conforming to model year 1981 standards. Requires that regulations for emissions of particulate matter (TSP) from heavy-duty diesel-fueled trucks and truck engines manufactured during or after model year 1986 contain emissions limits of 0.25 gpbhh unless, within 180 days after enactment of this Act, the Administrator promulgates a final rule establishing a different emissions standard. Extends, to model year 1983, the requirement that EPA regulations for CO, HC, and NOx emissions from classes or categories of heavy-duty vehicles and engines reflect the greatest degree of emission reduction achievable through the application of available technology and taking into consideration cost, noise, energy, and safety factors. Postpones, until model year 1984 (current law requires 1983), a provision that such HC and CO emissions standards require a reduction of at least 90 percent from the average of actually measured emissions from heavy-duty gasoline-fueled vehicles or engines, or any class or category thereof, manufactured during a specified baseline model year, except as otherwise provided in the emission standards tables added by this Act. Directs the Administrator to prescribe regulations applicable to emissions from heavy-duty vehicles and engines manufactured after model year 1983 for sale in high altitude areas. Prohibits such regulations from requiring percentage reductions or numerical standards more stringent than those applicable to vehicles or engines certified under nonhigh altitude conditions. Makes technical and conforming amendments. Warranties - Requires new motor vehicle and engine manufacturer warranties of the "emission control device or system," meaning a catalytic converter, electronic control units, oxygen sensors, and exhaust recirculation valves. (Currently warranties of the vehicle or engine are required with respect to emission control performance.) Requires manufacturers to provide replacement or replacement costs of such emission control devices or systems of light-duty vehicles under certain circumstances. (Currently such replacement or costs are required with respect to parts, devices, or components designed for emission control.) Useful Life - Requires that EPA regulations provide that the useful life of: (1) light-duty trucks and truck engines be five years or 50,000 miles (the same as for light-duty vehicles and vehicle engines); and (2) heavy-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicle engines be a period which the Administrator determines is the actual average life of the vehicle or engine. High Altitude Waiver - Authorizes the Administrator to waive a requirement that all light-duty vehicles and engines manufactured during or after model year 1984 comply with emission standards regardless of the altitude at which they are sold. Permits such waiver through model year 1985 for not more than 15 percent of the numbers of vehicles and of engines of a model year manufactured by a manufacturer for sale in high altitude areas, if the manufacturer demonstrates that such marketing would otherwise be prevented by the requirement's effect on cost, driveability, and fuel economy at high altitudes. Directs the Administrator to prescribe emissions standards for vehicles and engines granted such waiver which require a percentage of reduction in emissions at least equal to that otherwise required for the model year involved. Effective Date - Makes the amendments made by this title applicable to vehicles and engines manufactured during or after model year 1983, except as otherwise provided. Title III: Other Amendments - Administrative Procedures - Provides that no rule, regulation, guideline, policy statement, or other action of the Administrator in effect on the date of enactment of this Act may be altered in any manner except: (1) in accordance with specified administrative procedures; (2) as may be otherwise required pursuant to a court order; or (3) for those aspects of a rule or regulation which are invalidated by this Act. Visibility Study - Directs the Administrator, in conjunction with the Secretary of the Interior, to study means to objectively quantify visibility impairment and its causes. Specifies items to be included in such study. Directs the Administrator within two years of enactment of this Act to report study results and recommend a uniform procedure for visibility quality trend monitoring and reduction measurement. Diesel Study - Directs the Administrator, within six months of the enactment of this Act and in consultation with specified Federal agencies, to develop and implement a program to monitor and document the relationship between health effects and the introduction of diesel automobiles into the domestic fleet. Requires that the program be made in appropriate regions or areas to determine any different results. Requires that the results of such program be reported to the appropriate congressional committees as soon as practicable. Methanol Study - Directs the Administrator to: (1) accelerate ongoing studies of performance of methanol and other low-emission fueled vehicles; (2) evaluate and monitor ongoing experiments by other entities; (3) assess the cost effectiveness of such alternatives to gasoline; and (4) determine emission characteristics in methanol and other low-emission fueled engines. Directs the Administrator, if such study results are favorable, to develop a policy to encourage conversion of commercial and governmental vehicle fleets to low-emission fuels. Synfuels and Health Effects - Directs the Administrator, in consultation with specified Federal agencies, to study the adverse health effects associated with the development of a full-scale synthetic fuels industry. Indoor Air Pollution - Directs the Administrator, within one year of the enactment of this Act, to report to Congress on indoor air pollution. Requires: (1) inclusion of specified items; (2) utilization of certain findings and studies; (3) consultation with specified Federal agencies; and (4) accompaniment by recommendations for indoor air pollution control. Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator for FY 1982 through FY 1986. Provides for sums necessary for: (1) the Administrator and the States to effectively carry out the Act's provisions, including training of State and local personnel, enforcement, abatement, and control, consideration of SIPs and revisions, and audits; and (2) sufficient funding for personnel for the Administrator to carry out the Act, particularly its regulatory functions, without undue reliance on contractors. Requires that such authorization not be less than the appropriations authorized in fiscal year 1981 to carry out the Act, plus percentage increases for each fiscal year equal to Consumer Price Index percentage increases during the preceding calendar year. Prohibits the Administrator from using any funds appropriated under the Act for any payment for a reduction-in-force in any fiscal year. Directs the Administrator to inform the appropriate committees of the Congress of the reasons for such reduction, its impact on carrying out the Act, and other detailed or pertinent information, at least 30 days prior to issuing any general notice of such reduction. Declares that nothing in this title shall authorize appropriations for any research and development activities under the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that a Law of the Sea Treaty is of strategic importance to the United States. Urges the U.S. delegation to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea to: (1) seek changes in the draft treaty that would protect U.S. interests while recognizing the other interests represented at the conference; and (2) conclude a treaty as soon as possible.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
Amends the Energy Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for biomass energy projects which use wood or wood wastes and residues as feedstock.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982
Limits amounts provided in House Committee expense resolutions for the second session of the Ninety-seventh Congress to the total amounts expended under such resolutions for the first session.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit to $9,000 the amount of living expenses which Members of Congress may deduct from their incomes. Repeals the provision allowing such tax deduction without substantiation.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1982
Productivity and Human Investment Act - Declares the purposes of this Act: (1) preparation of youth for entry into the labor market; (2) provision of job skill training, education, and remedial services for unemployed and underemployed adults and young adults; (3) maintenance of an effective labor exchange and provision of job placement, search assistance, assessment, and counseling; (4) reorganization of the use of resources previously authorized under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA), the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933 (Federal Employment Service), the National Apprenticeship Act of 1937, and part C (Work Incentive-WIN- Program) of title IV of the Social Security Act; and (5) coordination of activities authorized under the Trade Adjustment Assistance Act of 1962, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, and the Revenue Act of 1978. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 to carry out the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and the Wagner-Peyser Act (Federal Employment Service). Permits the Secretary of Labor to use discretionary funds thus appropriated for specified transition activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 to carry out transition activities, such as planning and preparation for implementation of this Act, by delivery institutions, labor market areas (LMAs) and State and Federal agencies. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for allocation of such funds among States and local governments. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act for FY 1984 and thereafter. Provides for a transition to the advance funding method of timing appropriation action for appropriations under this Act. Repeals the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), as of October 1, 1983. Distributes sums available for carrying out this Act as follows: (1) 50 percent for title I, labor market area investment activities; (2) 15 percent for title II, State responsibilities; and (3) 35 percent for title III, Federal responsibilities. Title I: Labor Market Area Investment Activities - Part A: General Provisions - Distributes resources available under this title as follows: (1) 30 percent for part B, youth preparatory programs; (2) 30 percent for part C, remediation and training; (3) 30 percent for part D, labor-exchange activities; and (4) 10 percent to local boards for management, oversight, and planning for investment activities. Directs each State Governor to divide each State into labor market areas (LMAs), with the approval of the State labor force investment board ("State investment board") and in accordance with specified provisions. Makes the local governments for jurisdictions constituting the LMAs subgrantees of the States under this Act. Requires the establishment of an independent labor force investment board ("LMA investment board") in each LMA. Directs the chief elected officials of local governments in each LMA to appoint LMA investment board members from representatives of business, labor organizations, community-based organizations, veterans' and handicapped organizations, the eligible population, secondary, postsecondary, and national education institutions, and public assistance agencies. Requires that industry and business representatives constitute a majority of each boards' members. Requires that industry, business, and labor representatives of each board be designated as a private sector committee whose approval is necessary for board plan adoption of competency standards and procedures for contracting, management, and employer-related activities such as job placement and development. Makes the LMA investment board responsible for planning for the use of all resources provided to the LMA under formula grants, State incentive grants, and Federal performance supplements. Directs each board to decide on target group priorities, allowable services mix, and most appropriate service providers. Requires boards to: (1) serve the purposes of specified entities under CETA, the WIN program, and the Wagner-Peyser Act; (2) coordinate apprenticeship activities and occupational information within the LMA; (3) where designated by the State, serve as LMA advisory councils for vocational education and rehabilitation; and (4) where designated by the State and local elected officials, coordinate economic development planning and enterprise zone planning with labor force investment activities. Requires each LMA investment board to establish a contracting, monitoring, and reporting system. Authorizes each board to hire professional, technical, and clerical personnel. Authorizes each Board, subject to local government approval, to: (1) be constituted as a nonprofit corporation, hiring administrative and planning staff; (2) use local government employees as such staff; or (3) contract with a managing agent. Prohibits boards and their administrative units from providing services to eligible participants, except as permitted by the State investment board. Authorizes boards to contract with local and State agencies, various nonprofit institutions, and for-profit providers. Requires that delivery agents be selected on ability to provide most effective and efficient services. Requires consideration of use of public vocational education and local education agency facilities and programs in providing investment activities. Requires performance-based contracting. Permits a board to support establishment of special-purpose nonprofit groups in certain circumstances. Permits ten percent of LMA funds to be used for planning, contract management, monitoring, and reporting. Requires submittal of a labor market area labor force investment plan to the State every two years. Sets forth required inclusions in such plans. Requires approval of local officials before plan submission to the Governor. Provides that the State shall determine, in cases of disagreement, whether the plan recommendations of the LMA investment board or the local officials best meet the purposes and requirements of this title. Requires the State investment board to review each local investment plan and to require the LMA investment board to conform plans to this Act and improve any deficient performance of LMA investment activities. Provides for appeals to the Secretary from State disapproval of local plans. Requires appropriate modifications where specified factors result in substantial deviations from an approved plan. Sets forth provisions to assure maximum feasible flexibility to LMAs for investment activities. Requires that Federal grants to each State be suballocated to LMAs upon approval of investment plans and have separate allocation components and performance criteria for: (1) youth preparatory programs; (2) labor exchange functions; and (3) adult and young adult remediation and training. Permits LMAs to shift up to 15 percent of funds for any one component for use in either or both of the other components. Permits the LMA investment board to determine types and mix of services and allowable activities within each component. Directs the State investment board to establish rules for reasonable deviation from investment plans. Makes LMA acceptance of a State incentive grant imply acceptance of State terms and conditions for its use. Requires that the LMA be provided with a needs based allocation of training opportunities in Job Corps, as well as State and Federal business/labor advanced career training programs. Authorizes the Governor to assure recruitment of eligible residents of the LMA for such opportunities, if the LMA investment board does not use its quota of opportunities. Requires that the effectiveness of screening and referral for such opportunities be considered in determining the LMA's qualification for Federal performance supplements. Sets forth provisions for wages and allowances under LMA programs. Makes all participants in LMA preemployment skills training education for employment and first- and second-tier remediation and training programs eligible for subsistence, participation cost, and incentive stipends. Sets forth needs-based formulas and other rules for such stipends. Requires that all participants in LMA program work activities be paid wages consistent with the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Declares that youth participants in entry employment experience shall be considered student learners under such Act. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for wage rates to be paid by employers to participants in on-the-job training (with various factors taken into account, but in no event less than the higher of Federal, State, or local minimum wage rates). Part B: Youth Preparatory Programs - Allocates funds appropriated for this part to the States to be suballocated to designated LMAs as follows: (1) one- third according to each State's and each LMA's share of the youth population age 14 to 19; and (2) two-thirds according to each State's and each LMA's share of the Nation's average annual nonemployed population age 14 to 19. Provides for an LMA "education for employment" program for youth below age 20 who have not attained a high school diploma or who have educational deficiencies despite diploma attainment. Gives first priority to high school dropouts and second priority to high school students not meeting established achievement levels and at risk of dropping out. Authorizes the LMA to maintain a network of learning centers offering individualized, competency-based instruction, including remedial reading and mathematics, preparation for a general education development (GED) test, and training for individuals with limited English language proficiency, as well as preparatory materials for applicants to the Armed Forces. Declares that program activities are to supplement, and not substitute for, local school and other Federal, State, and local programs. Provides for an LMA "preemployment skills training" program for youth age 14 through 19, with priority given to those planning to enter the full-time labor market upon leaving school and with first priority among these given to those who do not meet established academic achievement levels and to those from families with income below the lower living standard. Requires that, insofar as possible, preemployment skills training be concentrated on youth age 14 to 16. Requires that eligible youth be provided with up to 200 hours of instruction and activities. Requires that, to the extent possible, such instruction be individualized and competency-based. Directs each LMA to establish an employability skills certification for participants who successfully meet program performance standards, within State competency guidelines approved by the Secretary. Requires that individual records be kept to provide youth with resumes. Sets forth some allowable types of program instruction and activities. Provides for an LMA "entry employment experience" program for youth age 16 through 19 who: (1) have completed the preemployment skills component or its equivalent; (2) have not held a regular part-time or summer job for more than 250 hours of paid employment (except if this requirement is waived in accordance with plan criteria); (3) have searched for but have not secured unsubsidized employment; and (4) are enrolled in a secondary school or a certified high school equivalency program and are meeting or have met current or most recent term minimum academic and attendance requirements. Gives priority to those not planning to continue on to postsecondary education, with first priority among these to those from families with income below 100 percent of the lower living standard. Permits entry employment to be up to 20 hours weekly during the school year or full time during the summer and holidays, for an individual total up to 500 hours. Requires supervision, including attendance and worksite performance standards. Provides for "tryout employment" in private for-profit worksites, with wages paid by the youth preparatory programs delivery system. Limits tryout employment to: (1) 250 hours per participant; and (2) assignments for which the participant would not usually be hired. Prohibits refilling tryout positions where a previously successful participant was not hired. Permits assignments to entry employment jobs in the public and nonprofit sector: (1) only when private sector tryout employment cannot be arranged; and (2) for community improvement services complementing specified types of LMA expenditures. Mandates participation in the education for employment program for dropout youth not enrolled in other certified education activities who wish to qualify for the entry employment program (and permits such a requirement for summer month entry employment for any youth). Requires that all entry employment participants be paid the minimum wage student learners differential. Requires each participant to: (1) secure entry employment through competitive labor market application procedures; (2) meet performance and attendance standards; and (3) be evaluated (and, if necessary, terminated) on the basis of such standards. Provides for an LMA "school-to-work transition assistance" program for: (1) high school seniors planning to enter the full-time labor market upon graduation, with first priority to those in high schools which have a predominance of students from families below 100 percent of the lower living standard and to those from such families in other high schools; and (2) dropouts, with immediate followup after leaving school. Sets forth some allowable types of transition services. Requires that all seniors and dropouts eligible for and in need of labor force investment activities be provided information and, where appropriate, be referred to specified types of employment and training programs. Part C: Remediation and Training Activities - Allocates funds appropriated for this part among States and by States to LMAs on the basis of numbers of individuals who: (1) had annual earnings less than the amount which a minimum wage for all hours of availability for work would have provided; and (2) reside in a family with combined earnings less than 70 percent of the lower living standards. Makes eligible for programs under this part individuals who are beyond normal school leaving age in the LMA and who, for the last six months, have had such a low earnings rate and have resided in such a low-income family. Makes also eligible for such programs any handicapped individual living at home. Permits the State investment board, under certain circumstances, to authorize an LMA to substitute an individual eligibility standard based on family income which is 100 percent of the lower living standard rather than 70 percent. Requires that participants in first-tier training and remediation activities be referred from youth preparatory programs and from the labor exchange system, with first priority to applicants for or recipients of income transfers and in-kind aid. Requires that each referral have received a comprehensive employability assessment and participated in job placement and search assistance activities. Requires that second-tier participants be selected first from successful completers of first-tier or youth preparatory activities. Sets forth some allowable first-tier training and remediation activities which are intended to be completed in 1,000 hours or less of participation. Includes among these: (1) classroom occupational training; (2) employability skills training; (3) education, including remedial, GED preparation, English language, and military enlistment test preparation; (4) on-the-job training; and (5) work and training combinations. Limits subsidized work or sheltered workshop employment to 500 hours per participant. Requires that subsidized work experience be combined with classroom or employability skills training or education. Requires that each participant receive an agreement containing program objectives and other items. Requires that each participant be assessed at termination according to such objectives. Sets forth second-tier activities which require over 1,000 hours for completion, but no more than a maximum of two years of participation. Includes among these: (1) classroom occupational training, including vocationally-oriented postsecondary instruction; and (2) postsecondary educational vouchers, if no other financial assistance is available, as part of an employment plan for which higher education is most appropriate. Permits the LMA to contract with private for-profit corporations and business associations to support on-the-job and institutional training combinations plus subsidized internships as career employment preparation for economically disadvantaged adults and young adults. Requires such contracts to contain specified items, including a presumptive guarantee of employment for all completers. Requires that such advanced career training: (1) be for jobs in expanding employment occupations with entry wages at least double the Federal minimum wage; (2) not result in displacement or forestall advancement of current workers; (3) receive advance comment from labor organizations representing corporation employees engaged in the same work; and (4) refill positions only if three of every four completors of such positions have been suitably placed and completion rates are reasonable. Provides each LMA with a quota of such business/labor advanced training opportunities supported by the State and the Federal Government, as well as a quota of Job Corps training opportunities. Permits the LMA investment board to use its allocated remediation and training funds to purchase additional training opportunities in State and Federal programs. Requires the LMA to monitor the progress of residents in such programs and assist those who terminate unsuccessfully or complete without finding employment. Provides for job access and placement assistance for individuals who have participated in remediation and training activities. Permits one of these forms of assistance: (1) tryout employment for up to 250 hours at minimum wages paid by the LMA investment board for an unsubsidized permanent job in the private for-profit, nonprofit, or public sectors (with no assignment refilled more than twice without an offer of permanent employment to at least one participant); (2) employment bonuses to private for-profit, nonprofit, and public agencies for one-half of the wages paid a participant for the first six months of employment; and (3) targeted jobs tax credit or WIN tax credit, under specified circumstances. Part D: Labor Exchange Activities - Allocates funds appropriated for this part among States and by States among LMAs on the basis of the relative number of unemployed individuals within States and LMAs. Requires that LMAs maintain a network of local labor-exchange offices to provide comprehensive labor-exchange services. Directs the Secretary to provide States and LMAs a comprehensive guide to assure nationwide consistency of labor-exchange operations. Sets forth required uses of the federally specified management information system. Permits the LMA to contract with several different delivery agents for labor exchange activities. Permits States to: (1) continue to maintain State labor-exchange agencies; and (2) use State incentive grants to match LMA expenditures where the LMA uses the State agency. Prohibits States from invalidating an LMA investment plan for not using the State agency as long as alternate deliverers can provide the same services as effectively and efficiently. Sets forth requirements for labor force services. Requires that placement services be available to any applicant. Authorizes counseling, assessment, and testing services to be provided, with first priority given to individuals with the most severe unemployment problems. Requires that specified information be gathered. Requires that job search assistance be provided for those whose lack of job-seeking and job applicant skills has prevented placement. Requires that: (1) referral services to LMA remediation and training and to Job Corps be integrated with other labor force services; and (2) all referrals be counseled about the full-range of available training and remediation. Requires LMAs and States to assure that: (1) veterans and the handicapped are given priority in the provision of labor force services; and (2) comprehensive services are available for persons with limited English-speaking ability and for migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Sets forth requirements for employer services. Requires each LMA to: (1) maintain labor-exchange services for agricultural and related industry employers and workers, including cooperation with Federal efforts for intrastate recruitment and transfer of migrant and foreign labor; (2) cooperate with work force recruitment, development, utilization, and stabilization by employers, education and training institutions, labor organizations, and other government agencies; (3) provide information to local employers on labor market conditions and employment-related legislation; (4) coordinate all publicly funded job development activities and employer-incentive information; and (5) provide temporary and permanent foreign labor certificates where requested by LMA employers. Sets forth requirements for labor market and occupational information. Requires that the federally specified management information system include detailed reporting items, specified forms, and due dates. Requires each LMA to: (1) cooperate with studies by the Governor or the Secretary; (2) issue information on current labor market developments, employment trends, and opportunities; (3) collect and disseminate job matching information; and (4) compile and furnish to the Secretary and to the public current information on wages and worker supply and demand in the LMA. Title II: State Responsibilities - Part A: General Provisions - Allocates to each State for this title an amount equal to 26.3 percent of an amount equal to the sum of funds allocated to LMAs by the title I needs-based formula plus Federal performance supplements received by LMAs in the State. Distributes such allocation as follows: (1) 25 percent for part B, State oversight and support of LMA activities; (2) 50 percent for part C, incentive grants to LMAs; and (3) 25 percent for part D, State-operated investment activities. Requires each State receiving funds under this Act to establish a State labor force investment board ("State investment board") to implement, with the Governor, State responsibilities under this Act. Directs the Governor to appoint board members representative of labor organizations, industry, commerce, education, community-based organizations, veterans and handicapped organizations, and the eligible population. Requires that a majority of the board be industry and business representatives and that such representatives, with those of labor, be designated as a private sector committee with approval power over certain State plan elements. Requires that the chairpersons of: (1) the State advisory councils on vocational education and on apprenticeship be appointed board members, unless such councils are consolidated with the board; and (2) the LMAs serve as ex officio board members. Requires that the State investment board: (1) assume all responsibilities of specified entities under CETA, the Vocational Education Act, and the WIN program; and (2) coordinate (or consolidate if the Governor so specifies) the functions of State advisory councils on vocational education, apprenticeship, and adult education. Directs the State to establish an administrative unit under State investment board direction. Grants the board and its administrative unit administrative and planning options similar to those granted to LMA investment boards. Prohibits the State investment board from providing services to eligible participants. Provides, if a State is designated as the LMA, that the State investment board serve as the LMA investment board. Subjects State investment board plans and decisions to approval of the Governor, with appeals to the Secretary in disputed matters. Directs the State investment board to prepare and submit to the Secretary every two years a State investment plan detailing use of resources provided to the State and its LMAs under this Act, evaluating the previous two years' experience, setting policy and program goals for the next two years and subsuming all approved LMA investment plans. Directs the Secretary to specify minimum requirements for State plans, review State plans, identify violations and suggest modifications, and investigate where necessary. Requires State plan modifications detailing major changes in State and LMA investment activities. Part B: Oversight and Support of Labor Market Area Activities - Directs the Governor, with State investment board approval and in consultation with elected local officials, to assign all jurisdictions to a designated LMA. Provides that each local government with a population of 200,000 or more will be designated as an LMA, with specified exceptions. Provides for local government appeals of LMA assignments to the Governor and subsequently to the Secretary. Provides for realignments of LMA designations at the end of any two-year program cycle. Sets forth requirements relating to State investment board approval of biannual LMA investment plans. Sets forth provisions for State auditing and monitoring of funds under this Act. Requires State annual reports to the Department of Labor on the statistical performance of all investment activities within the State under this Act. Authorizes States to establish: (1) uniform competency standards consistent with Federal guidelines; and (2) statewide certifications of preemployment skills, basic education achievement, and vocational competency. Prohibits State requirements of specific curricula by LMAs, except for State incentive grants. Sets forth provisions for State labor market information programs. Requires each State to: (1) designate an organizational unit to manage a statewide comprehensive labor market/occupational supply and demand information system; (2) design such system to meet specified guidelines; (3) standardize specified records and data to produce an employment/economic analysis; (4) assure that paperwork burdens are kept to a minimum; (5) disseminate labor market and individualized career information; and (6) conduct research and demonstration projects to improve the statewide information system (if Federal funds are used for such projects results must remain in the public domain). Allows States to combine, consolidate, or otherwise alter Federal administrative management information reporting requirements relating to employment, productivity, or training, if the Governor notifies each responsible Federal and State agency. Directs the appropriate Federal agency to approve such alteration within 60 days after receiving notice, unless such agency can show that the essential purposes of the affected Federal law will not be met. Permits appeals of adverse decisions to the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget for final decision within 60 days. Authorizes States to: (1) provide training for LMA planning, management, and delivery staffs and State program contractors; and (2) require participation in such training and completion of specified instructional materials. Prohibits States from specifying experience and educational requirements for LMA staff or contractors, except where State-certified educational or vocational instructors are required by law. Part C: State Incentive Grants - Declares that all funds provided to a State under this part are to be added to the needs-based formula grants of LMAs within the State. Directs the State investment board, prior to each two-year LMA planning cycle and with the Governor's approval, to: (1) designate certain activities, target groups, delivery agencies, or management and delivery systems as priorities; and (2) set conditions for receipt of State incentive grants. Authorizes the State to: (1) require matching from the LMA needs-based formula grant as a condition for incentive grants; and (2) withdraw incentive grants during the two-year contract period if such conditions are violated. Requires that all LMAs in a State have equal opportunity to compete for incentive grants. Sets forth activities for which State incentive grants may be used. Part D: State-Operated Investment Activities - Authorizes States to use funds provided under this part for business/labor advanced career training, relocation assistance, and/or special needs groups programs, as determined most appropriate by the State investment board. Sets forth provisions for State-operated business/labor advanced career training which are similar to provisions for LMA advanced career training programs (but requires a "good faith commitment," rather than a "presumptive guarantee," of employment for completers). Allocates advanced career training opportunities funded by the State among LMAs on the basis of each LMA's share of the State's labor-market related economic hardship. Makes LMAs responsible for recruiting eligible candidates. Requires States to assure that LMA eligible residents are afforded opportunity to apply. Authorizes States to provide relocation assistance necessary to enable individuals to become permanently employed and self-supporting. Requires that such assistance be given only to individuals who: (1) agree to relocate; (2) have been advised of employment and investment options within the LMA; and (3) have received a bona fide job offer or are enrolled in a training activity linked to employment at the place of relocation. Limits the amount of such assistance to reasonable transportation and shipping costs, plus a reasonable allowance. Limits such assistance to individuals eligible for LMA remediation and training activities, with first priority given to completers of such activities and of LMA youth preparatory programs. Authorizes States to contract for delivery of services for incarcerated offenders who will be reentering the work force and other individuals in State-maintained facilities whose needs cannot be adequately addressed by LMA investment activities. Provides that all title I allowable activities and eligibility requirements are applicable to such special needs groups programs. Title III: Federal Responsibilities - Part A: General Provisions - Distributes funds available to carry out this title as follows: (1) 50 percent for Job Corps; (2) five percent for economic distress programs; (3) five percent for Native American programs; (4) five percent for migrant and seasonal farmworker programs; (5) five percent for business/labor advanced career training programs; (6) 20 percent for performance supplements; (7) eight percent for program improvement and supportive services; and (8) two percent for the National Labor Force Investment Board. Directs the Secretary to coordinate activities funded under this Act with other Federal policies and national needs through arrangements in agreement with: (1) the Secretary of Defense, for (A) referral of participants in programs under this Act to employment within the Armed Forces and on military bases, (B) remedial education of rejected Armed Forces applicants, and (C) advanced career training with private for-profit defense contractors; (2) appropriate Federal officials, for advanced career training in synfuel projects and Government-owned company-operated energy facilities; (3) the Office of Personnel Management, for an advanced career training programs in all Federal agencies; (4) the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, for recruitment for conservation programs on Federal lands; (5) the Corps of Engineers, for job placements and advanced career training related to large-scale Federal projects; (6) the Department of Transportation, for advanced career training in conjunction with with large-scale Federal transportation grant programs; and (7) the Secretary of Education, for (A) basic educational competencies structuring, (B) vocational education and training cooperative planning and implementation, (C) dissemination of nationally validated programs to education and training providers; and (D) joint research, development, and evaluation. Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on activities funded under this Act. Part B: Federally Operated Programs - Sets forth provisions relating to the Job Corps which are similar in part to CETA provisions. Sets Job Corps enrollee age limits of 14 through 24 (CETA provides limits of 14 through 21). Provides that Job Corps enrollees: (1) must be eligible for remediation and training activities under title I of this Act; and (2) cannot be effectively served by less comprehensive LMA and State investment activities. Requires that each State: (1) be provided with a quota of Job Corps opportunities based on its share of the eligible population; and (2) assure that such opportunities and recruitment are equitably allocated among its LMAs. Provides for exceptions from the two-year Job Corps enrollment limit in cases of advanced training program participation. Authorizes the Job Corps to arrange for advanced career training for up to two years in addition to regular center program participation. Provides that such training may be arranged in postsecondary institutions or, by contract with private for-profit business and labor unions, in company-sponsored training programs. Limits Job Corps personal allowances to no more than $75 per month for the first six months and no more than $150 per month for the remainder of Corps service and for readjustment allowances (in constant dollars using FY 1983 as a base year). Requires that the appropriate LMA be notified prior to termination of a Jobs Corps member so that training-related job placement can be arranged. Authorizes the Secretary to make other arrangements if the LMA is unable to arrange a placement. Makes Job Corps participants eligible for job access assistance under this Act. Permits Job Corps reimbursement of LMA expenditures for tryout employment and social bonuses for Job Corps terminees. Sets forth provisions for economic distress programs. Authorizes the provision of training, retraining, job search assistance, placement relocation assistance, and other aid to individuals who: (1) are affected by mass layoffs, natural disasters, Federal actions such as facilities relocations, and other exigencies; or (2) reside in high chronic unemployment areas or enterprise zones for which (A) State and LMA programs have not been planned and (B) assistance is best initiated from the Federal level. Directs the Secretary to: (1) issue regulations for such programs; (2) maintain the capacity for timely intervention in such situations, on a regional or national basis through contracts with for-profit or nonprofit intermediaries; and (3) select an intermediary at the request of the affected LMA and with the Governor's approval. Requires the intermediary, in coordination with the LMA investment board, to assess eligibility for economic distress assistance and develop an action plan which, upon LMA investment board and State approval, will be submitted to the Secretary for approval or disapproval within 30 days. Authorizes the intermediary to provide short-term assistance prior to action plan approval. Adds, upon action plan approval, funds for authorized services to the affected LMA's grant. Adds the action plan to the biannual LMA investment plan and State investment plan. Permits the LMA to contract with the intermediary for delivery of services, which may include all allowable title I LMA activities as well as relocation assistance. Authorizes the Secretary, for economic distress program purposes, to waive certain eligibility requirements with regard to family income over the previous six months, but limits services to individuals whose annualized family earnings during participation do not exceed 70 percent of the lower living standard. Sets forth provisions for a Native American labor force investment program which are similar in part to CETA provisions for administration at a national level. Directs the Secretary to designate any native American group on Federal or State reservations as an LMA eligible to establish an LMA investment board and serve as a managing agent, upon determination that such group has the demonstrated capacity to effectively administer comprehensive remediation and training, youth preparatory, and labor exchange programs (if such group cannnot effectively function as an LMA, the Secretary is to arrange with public agencies or private nonprofit organizations approved by such group to provide LMA services). Permits combinations of Native American groups with State-designated LMAs. Provides that all activities under titles I, II, and III are allowable in the Native American program. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations and performance standards, and to provide technical assistance, for such program. Sets forth provisions for a migrant and seasonal farmworker investment program which are similar in part to CETA provisions for administration at a national level. Authorizes the Secretary to contract on a competitive basis with public agencies, private nonprofit organizations, or for-profit organizations to provide comprehensive remediation and training, youth preparatory, and labor exchange programs for such farmworkers to secure full-time employment and stable incomes within or outside of agriculture. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with LMAs for such services under certain circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to establish special labor-exchange services for such farmworkers, but obligates each LMA to provide labor-exchange services to such farmworkers who are temporary or permanent LMA residents. Provides that all activities authorized in titles I and II are allowable in the farmworker program. Directs the Secretary, upon request of an LMA, to certify eligibility for importation of foreign workers in accordance with U.S. agreements or arrangements with foreign governments only if domestic migrant and seasonal farmworkers are not available. Sets forth provisions for a national business/labor advanced career training program which are similar to provisions for LMA and for State programs. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with private for-profit corporations and business associations to support combinations of on- the-job and institutional training plus internship assignments to prepare economically disadvantaged adults and young adults for career employment. Declares that such corporations and associations may include companies operating Government-owned energy facilities, defense contractors, synfuel grant recipients, and other Federal contract recipients. Allocates national advanced career training opportunities on the basis of each State's share of the Nation's labor market-related economic hardship. Makes the States responsible for recruitment from LMAs. Requires successful completion of youth preparatory or first-tier remedial and training activities for an individual to be eligible for the national advanced career training program. Directs the Secretary to reserve sums necessary to operate a Federal/State cooperative statistical labor market information program. Authorizes the heads of other Federal agencies to make specified funds available for such program. Directs the Secretary to maintain on a national, State, local, and other appropriate basis: (1) a comprehensive national system of labor market information; and (2) household budget data reflecting differences in location. Directs the Secretary to publish an annual report linking labor force status with earnings and income. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense, the Treasury, and Education, and the Director of the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB) to: (1) review and integrate national information systems; (2) maintain standardized definitions; (3) provide technical assistance to the States for occupational supply/demand information systems; and (4) assure that occupational analysis relative to specified factors is conducted for the Nation's labor force. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense, to assure that such system will provide young persons information on Armed Forces career opportunities. Directs the Secretary and the Director of OMB to assure that sufficient funds are available to provide Federal staff for coordination functions for the cooperative labor market information program. Part C: Oversight of State and Labor Market Area Investment Activities - Directs the Secretary to specify minimum standards for fiscal control and fund accounting for State and LMA investment activities funded under this Act. Sets forth required procedures for such fiscal controls. Directs the Secretary to establish a uniform management information system for use in programs funded under this Act. Sets forth reporting requirements to be included in such system. Directs the Secretary to issue guidelines covering appropriate procedures for private sector contracting under this Act. Directs the Secretary to develop a performance rating system for: (1) youth preparatory programs; (2) labor market exchange programs; and (3) remediation and training programs. Sets forth separate criteria and criteria weights for these three programs. Provides that funds available for performance supplements be given to those programs within each LMA classified as adequate performers, with double supplementation for exemplary performers, and none for inadequate performers. Provides for appeal of performance ratings to the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to distribute interim period supplements in FY 1984 and FY 1985 according to qualitative standards of effective and comprehensive implementation in each State. Part D: Program Improvement and Support - Distributes funds available for this part as follows: (1) one-half for improvement and development grants to States; (2) one-fourth for Federal research and evaluation; and (3) one-fourth for core support of national intermediaries. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for improvement and development of investment activities under this Act through specified means. Authorizes the Secretary to fund demonstration projects, research, evaluation, and curriculum development activities. Directs the Secretary to: (1) maintain an ongoing evaluation of investment activities in a stratified sample of LMAs and States; (2) contract for periodic evaluation of Job Corps and other nationally operated projects; and (3) summarize results of specified activities in the annual report to Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to provide core support grants to specified types of nationally networked organizations to maintain capacity to provide technical assistance to States and LMAs. Provides for assessment of national intermediary services. Part E: National Labor Force Investment Board - Establishes a National Labor Force Investment Board to: (1) advise the President, Congress, and the Secretary concerning national labor force investment policies, programs, and practices; (2) assist State and LMA investment boards; (3) coordinate occupational information, computer usage, competency standards, and other issues; and (4) support and coordinate industry wide labor force investment committees. Sets forth provisions for Board organization, membership, and administration. Requires that the Board: (1) assume all responsibilities authorized for the National Commission for Employment Policy (by CETA), the National Coordinating Committee (for the WIN program), and the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (under the Vocational Education Act of 1963); and (2) coordinate or consolidate, or both, the functions of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education (under the Vocational Education Act of 1963) and the National Advisory Council on Apprenticeship (under the National Apprenticeship Act of 1937). Establishes the Board as a nonprofit public corporation under contract to the Department of Labor with funds provided under this Act. Authorizes the Board to provide grants for specified purposes to business/labor labor force investment committees established on an industrywide basis. Permits the Board to provide full financing for staffing and technical support of such committees during a reasonable startup period, but requires, after such period, that private business match Board contributions in maintaining such committees.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1982
Futures Trading Act of 1982 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to limit the definition of "commodity trading advisor" to persons offering advice on trading in contracts executed on a contract market and on certain option and leverage transactions. Includes persons using electronic media in such definition. Authorizes the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) to include by regulation other persons within such definition. Limits the jurisdiction of the Commission with respect to securities (and grants it exclusive jurisdiction in this respect) to accounts, agreements, and transactions involving sales contracts for future delivery of a group or index of securities which meet specified criteria. Eliminates the one year post-government employment bar against appearances before the Commission by former Commissioners and senior employees. (Such appearances are also barred by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.) Authorizes the Commission to regulate the offer and sale by persons in the United States of commodity futures contracts executed on foreign markets. States that the Commission may set speculative limits by rule, regulation, or order. Authorizes the Commission to enforce speculative limits set by contract markets if such limits have been approved by the Commission. Makes it unlawful to violate such limits. States that such Act does not apply to foreign currency option transactions traded on a national securities exchange. Requires agents of a futures commission merchant to register as associated agents. Broadens the prohibition on false representation to include false representation of registration with the Commission in any capacity, not only as a futures commission merchant. Makes the duty of large traders to keep and make books and records available for inspection independent of Commission report-filing requirements. Requires such traders to make certain other trading information available for inspection. Requires any person associated with a commodity pool operator (CPO) or a commodity trading advisor (CTA) who solicits funds or property to register as an associated person of such CPO or CTA. Exempts from registration: (1) persons registered with the Commission in some other capacity; and (2) persons or classes exempted by the Commission. Provides that the registration of an associated person shall expire when the Commission so orders. Makes it unlawful for a registrant to hire an associated person if the registrant knew or should have known of facts about such person that are set forth as statutory disqualifications. States that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may regulate the commercial activities of a commodity pool. States that private rights under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are not affected by the provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act. Extends coverage of antifraud provisions to associated persons of CTAs and CPOs. Extends the Commission's authority regarding proficiency qualifications to all registered persons. Requires a contract market to enforce all rules made by it or the governing board (or committees) which have been approved by the Commission, or which must be enforced pursuant to a Commission rule. Revises arbitration procedures to remove: (1) the $15,000 claim ceiling; and (2) the compulsory awards agreement requirement. Requires contract markets to submit only rules of major economic significance for prior Commission approval. Requires other rules (except those relating to the setting of margin levels) to be submitted for Commission approval, although such rules shall become effective within ten days without specific approval if the Commission waives review. Permits a contract market to request that the Commission review a rule. Directs the Commission to approve contract market rules within 30 days, or if the Commission determines them to be of major economic significance, within 60 days. Requires review of registration denials in the circuit in which the petitioner's principal place of business is located. Authorizes the Commission to seek ex parte court orders prohibiting persons from: (1) destroying records or books; (2) refusing to permit inspections; or (3) withdrawing or disposing of assets, funds, or property. Prohibits the Commission from publicly disclosing data or information concerning an investigation of any person unless the disclosure is made in connection with a congressional proceeding, certain judicial or administrative proceedings, or certain receivership or bankruptcy proceedings. Authorizes the Commission to disclose information to any Federal agency or department (currently limited to the executive branch), including State, local, and foreign enforcement agencies. Prohibits State and local entities from disclosing any confidential information except in a legal proceeding. Authorizes the Commission to register associated persons of CTAs and CPOs. Authorizes the Commission to grant temporary (six-month maximum) licenses. Establishes a system of statutory registration disqualifications. Lists circumstances in which the Commission may refuse or condition a registration without a hearing (usually where a previous registration has been suspended or revoked, or the applicant has been denied trading privileges as the result of legal proceedings). Specifies circumstances in which the Commission may refuse or condition a registration only after granting an opportunity for a hearing (usually where the applicant has been in violation of the Commodity Exchange Act, or has been convicted of felonies or misdemeanors relating to commodities or securities transactions). Permits the Commission to disclose necessary information to a registered futures association or self- regulatory organization (as defined in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934). Permits the Commission to authorize any person to perform any portion of the registration functions subject to rules approved by the Commission. Extends the provisions pertaining to embezzlement, theft, or criminal conversion to all persons and their agents covered by the registration requirements of such Act. Prohibits Commission members and employees from engaging in leverage transactions. Exempts from such prohibition hedging and certain oil and mineral transactions entered into by trustees of trusts established by Commissioners and specified Commission employees. Authorizes Commission members and employees to invest in specified government securities and financial instruments if: (1) such instruments are not regulated by the Commission; and (2) no nonpublic information was used in the transaction. Prohibits Commission members and employees from imparting nonpublic information regarding leverage transactions. Extends authorization of appropriations under such Act. Provides for shared jurisdiction with other Federal agencies and States over transactions involving commodities, services, products, rights, or interests not subject to contract market rules or regulated by the Commission. Authorizes the Commission to refer any matter subject to other Federal or State statutes to the agency or department enforcing such statutes. Extends the aiding and abetting prohibition to all legal proceedings (currently limited to administrative proceedings) arising under such Act. Provides that any person who directly or indirectly controls any person who violates such Act shall be liable as a principal, unless he or she did not know or did not have reason to know of the facts constituting the violation. Restricts the applicability of reparations procedures to registered persons. Eliminates the reparations investigation requirement. Restricts awards to actual damages. Authorizes the Commission to promulgate necessary administrative regulations. Provides for automatic trading prohibition and suspension of registration (within 15 days) for failure to pay a reparations award. Eliminates the $15,000 ceiling on futures association arbitration claims. Amends the provision concerning Commission approval of registered futures association rules changes. Authorizes the Commission to require a registered futures association to perform Commission registration functions. Restricts, until September 30, 1984, those leverage firms that are permitted to do business to those engaged in the bullion or coin leverage business on June 1, 1978, or the non-bullion leverage business on February 2, 1979. Directs the Commission to conduct a study of leverage transactions and report to the congressional agriculture committees within two years. Provides for a system of annual user fees. Directs the Commission to create an advisory committee to report to the appropriate congressional committees regarding such fees. Terminates this advisory committee as of June 30, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1982
Amends rule VIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require a recorded vote on final passage of legislation that adjusts the pay of Members, affects limitations on outside earned income, or provides tax credits or deductions for Members as a separate or distinct class. Excludes adjustments made pursuant to the Legislative Reorganization Act from such requirement. Makes it out of order in the House to consider any bill or resolution subject to such amended rule unless: (1) it is comprised solely of the items affecting the pay or benefits of Members; and (2) it takes effect at the beginning of the subsequent Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1982
Extends congratulations from the Congress to the Italian Government and its antiterrorist police forces for the successful rescue of Brigadier General James L. Dozier. Extends to General Dozier and his family best wishes for a quick recovery and return to normal life.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States and the Soviet Union should reduce their nuclear weapons; (2) such reduction should be applied equally in both countries; and (3) such reduction should be verifiable. Declares that all countries possessing nuclear weapons should reduce their nuclear arsenals. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should seek: (1) stronger safeguards to prevent nuclear materials and technology from being used to produce nuclear weapons; and (2) broader agreement on sanctions against countries that divert such materials and technology to nonpeaceful uses.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1982
Emergency Youth Employment Tax Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an increased income tax credit under the targeted jobs tax credit program for qualified youth employed between May 17, 1982, and September 17, 1982. Increases the rate of such credit from 50 to 85 percent. Defines "qualified youth" as an individual: (1) who is between 16 and 21 years old; (2) who has not displaced any other individual from employment; (3) who performs services on substantially a full-time basis; and (4) who is certified as being a member of an economically disadvantaged family. Provides that 15 percent of the youth hired by any one employer need not be economically disadvantaged. Exempts wages paid to a qualified youth from income tax, social security tax, and unemployment tax.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should commemorate the contributions of the pilots of the United States Air Force Aerial Demonstration Squadron, known as the Thunderbirds, who have lost their lives in the course of duty. Expresses congressional support for the continuation of the Thunderbird program.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1982
Community Partnership for Employment and Training Act - Sets forth the purposes of this Act, including: (1) matching labor force skills to the economy's needs; (2) increasing the employability of the poor; (3) assisting new or dislocated workers to find permanent employment; (4) providing employment and training service to high unemployment areas; and (5) establishing a community-based employment and training system based on partnership between State and local governments and the private sector. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and thereafter to carry out titles II, III, and IV of this Act. Title I: Community Public-Private Training and Employment Assistance System - Part A: Organizational Provisions - Sets forth provisions for prime sponsors under this Act which include prime sponsors under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and which are similar to CETA provisions. Makes eligible for bonus payments any prime sponsor which: (1) is a consortium of local governments that includes a local government which was a CETA prime sponsor; and (2) serves a preponderence of a major functioning labor market area. Permits such prime sponsors to: (1) submit plans for approval for periods of more than one year; and (2) retain up to one-half of available funds for any fiscal year for use in the succeeding fiscal year. Requires each prime sponsor to establish (or provide for continuance of) a private industry council (PIC) to be jointly responsible for planning activities under this Act. Prohibits prime sponsors from using funds under this Act for any activity not approved by the PIC. Directs the prime sponsor to appoint the initial members of the council, and to fill vacancies with the advice and consent of two-thirds of the remaining members. Requires that a majority be representatives of business and industry in the area served by the prime sponsor and that the remaining members be representatives of labor, education, community-based organizations, and economic development organizations and agencies. Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish minimum national performance standards, based on such factors as unsubsidized employment placement and retention, wage increases, and income support payment reductions. Directs the Secretary to establish separate standards for youth, based on such factors as educational competencies attainment, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary school completion, and referral to other training programs, such as apprenticeships or military enlistment. Authorizes the Secretary to waive application of national performance standards for prime sponsors demonstrating exceptional local economic hardship and to approve less stringent performance goals which are the best reasonably attainable goals. Directs the Secretary, where a prime sponsor is failing to attain performance goals, to: (1) provide notice and technical assistance to the prime sponsor; and (2) in the case of ongoing failure during two consecutive years, (A) designate an alternate prime sponsor to prepare a plan for the area for the succeeding years and (B) terminate provision of funds to the unsuccessful prime sponsor. Authorizes the Secretary, upon determination that a prime sponsor has corrected the causes of a failure, to designate that prime sponsor to prepare a plan for the year after an alternate has served the area. Sets forth requirements for prime sponsor plans. Requires that such plans be developed in consultation with, and submitted with the approval of a majority of, the PIC. Authorizes the Secretary to designate the State or other alternate prime sponsor to develop a plan, with PIC consultation and majority approval, in cases where the PIC and the prime sponsor cannot concur. Requires each plan to describe activities conducted with funds under this Act, including: (1) a labor market analysis; (2) a demographic analysis of the eligible population; (3) participant selection procedures; (4) training and employment services, including duration, costs, wages, stipends, or allowances, and supportive services; (5) service provider selection methods and criteria, including consideration of community-based organizations as subgrantees or subcontractors; (6) arrangements for coordination with educational agencies; and (7) procedures for expenditure recordkeeping and for monitoring and auditing subgrantees or subcontractors. Requires each plan to include performance goals and a statement assurance of compliance with applicable requirements. Requires, as a qualification for additional administrative incentives, that a plan provide: (1) evidence of joint development in consultation with agencies administering other Federal employment-related programs; and (2) methods for coordination with such other Federal employment-related programs, including alternative reporting or recordkeeping requirements and uniform administrative forms. Permits plans thus qualifying to cover a period of more than one fiscal year. Sets forth procedures for review of prime sponsor plans by the PIC, the Governor, and appropriate local governments, as well as for availability to the public, before submittal for approval or disapproval by the Secretary. Requires the States seeking financial assistance under this Act to submit a Governor's coordination and special services plan (similar to that under CETA) to the Secretary for approval based on satisfactory implementation of: (1) coordination of all the State's employment and training, education, and related services; (2) technical assistance for prime sponsors; (3) special model training and employment programs and related services; (4) vocational education services agreed upon by prime sponsors and the State vocational education board; (5) rural area special assistance; (6) labor market and occupational information provisions without reimbursement to prime sponsors and appropriate education agencies; (7) fostering activities of the State Occupational Information Coordination Committee; (8) industrywide training; and (9) activities under title III (Employment and Training Assistance for Displaced Workers), if the State is eligible for financial assistance under title III. Requires States desiring to receive financial assistance under this Act to establish a State employment and training coordinating council. Includes among such council's duties the review of plans and programs of prime sponsors and of all appropriate State agencies, and other activities similar to those of the State employment and training council under CETA. Part B: General Requirements - Sets forth general program requirements under this Act which are similar in part to some special and general program conditions under CETA. Requires prime sponsors to provide employment and training opportunities to those most in need of such opportunities and make every effort to provide equitable services among significant segments of the eligible population. Sets program participation (30 months) and training allowances (104 weeks) limits similar to those under CETA. Sets a participant subsidized wage limit of 78 weeks in any five-year period (similar to the CETA limit on public service employment). Permits subsidized employment with a private for-profit employer, but only if the employee is an economically disadvantaged youth aged 16 through 19 and specified title II provisions are met. Permits subsidized employment of any sort only if the prime sponsor determines that unsubsidized employment is not immediately available in the area served. Prohibits (as did CETA) funding of programs involving political activities. Sets forth provisions for wages, benefits, and allowances. Sets forth labor standards. Sets forth provisions relating to allocation and availability of funds, reports, records, audits, investigations, complaints and sanctions, judicial review, interstate agreements, services and property, and the utilization of services and facilities. Title II: Employment and Training Services for the Economically Disadvantaged - Sets forth formulas for the allocation of amounts appropriated to carry out this title. Allocates 83 percent in FY 1983 and 73 percent in succeeding fiscal years among the States on the basis of relative numbers of: (1) employed persons; (2) unemployed persons in excess of four-and-one-half percent of the labor force in the State or in areas of substantial unemployment; (3) unemployed persons residing in areas of substantial unemployment; and (4) adults in low-income families. Directs the Secretary to suballocate the State allocation among prime sponsors within the State on an equitable basis based upon such relative numbers. Allocates ten percent of the amount appropriated for title II for any fiscal year, among the States in proportion to their other allocation, for the Governor's coordinating and special services and for the State employment and training council. Directs the Secretary to make available five percent of title II funds to prime sponsors: (1) in FY 1983 on a basis consistent with the purposes of this Act; and (2) in FY 1984 and thereafter to those who have met or exceeded performance goals during the preceding fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to allocate ten percent of title II funds in FY 1984 and thereafter to prime sponsors who raise, and expend for title II program purposes specified amounts of non-Federal funds. Directs the Secretary to allocate two percent of title II funds among prime sponsors eligible for bonus payments for forming consortia of local governments serving major labor market areas. Requires prime sponsors to use title II funds in accordance with their plans to provide employment and training services which they and their PICs determine to be necessary and appropriate for economically disadvantaged youth and adults. Requires that at least one-half of such funds be used for such services for youth aged 16 through 21, with proportionate reductions of this minimum requirement in areas where the ratio of economically disadvantaged youth to economically disadvantaged adults is less than the nationwide ratio. Sets forth a non-exhaustive list of permissible title II services. Permits wage subsidies for temporary employment with public or private nonprofit employers. Permits wage subsidies to private for-profit employers for part-time employment during the school year or full-time employment not to exceed eight weeks during the summer for in-school economically disadvantaged youth aged 16 through 19, provided no such subsidy exceeds the net cost to the employer of wages paid and training provided. Includes among other permissable services: (1) job search; (2) job counseling; (3) remedial and basic skills education; (4) institutional skill training; (5) on-the-job training; (6) outreach; (7) labor market information; (8) work habit development; (9) supportive services; (10) upgrading and retraining; (11) education-to-work transition; (12) literacy and bilingual training; (13) work experience and vocational exploration; (14) high school equivalency; (15) job and job-opening development and generation; (16) apprenticeship; (17) program information to employers; (18) advanced learning technology; (19) followup; and (20) coordination with related programs. Limits eligibility to participate in title II programs to economically disadvantaged individuals aged 16 or older, but allows: (1) youth aged 14 or 15 to receive specified employment assistance services; and (2) up to ten percent of title II program participants to be individuals who are not economically disadvantaged if such individuals have encountered barriers to employment (such individuals may include the physically handicapped, those with limited English-speaking ability, displaced homemakers, ex-offenders, alcoholics, or addicts). Title III: Employment and Training Assistance for Displaced Workers - Declares the purposes of this title to be: (1) alternative employment assistance to involuntarily unemployed individuals unlikely to be rehired by the same employer; (2) occupational retraining for individuals with skills in declining occupations; and (3) reduction of the impact of economic dislocation on local communities. Directs the Secretary to allocate title III funds for any fiscal year among the States on the basis of relative numbers of: (1) individuals in the labor force; (2) unemployed persons; and (3) persons unemployed for ten weeks or more. Requires each State to match its title III Federal grant by an equal expenditure of non-Federal public or private funds for title III services, including direct costs of such services and State unemployment insurance benefits to participants in title III programs. Requires States desiring title III funds to submit to the Secretary of State displaced worker plans for the use of such funds and for coordination of title III programs with other Federal, State, or local employment-related programs. Requires such plans to ensure the maximum feasible utilization of title II program facilities and services in carrying out title III programs. Requires prime sponsor and PIC approval of title III program operations in the areas they serve. Requires, for specified title III program services, affected labor organization consultation and approval. Authorizes use of title III funds to assist eligible participants to obtain unsubsidized employment through services which include, but are not limited to: (1) job search; (2) job development; (3) in-demand skills training; (4) support services; (5) relocation assistance; and (6) cooperative programs with employers or labor organizations for early intervention in the event of plant closures. Requires allowances or stipends for eligible participants during title III training or retraining periods. Permits relocation assistance if the State determines that the participant: (1) cannot obtain employment within the commuting area; and (2) has secured suitable long-duration employment or a bona fide job offer in a relocation area. Makes eligible for title III services any individual who has experienced or been notified of termination or suspension of employment as a result of any plant closure or permanent reduction in force. Makes eligible for title III training or retraining programs any unemployed individual with job skills that the State determines offer limited opportunities for employment or reemployment in the same or a similar occupation in the area of residence. Title IV: National Employment and Training Programs - Part A: Employment and Training Services for Indians and Migrants and Seasonal Farmworkers - Sets forth provisions for Native American employment and training programs which are similar to CETA provisions. Directs the Secretary to reserve for Native Americans programs from title IV funds an amount equal to not less than two and seven-tenths percent of the amount available for title II programs. Directs the Secretary to prescribe rules, regulations and performance standards necessary to meet the special circumstances under which such Native American programs operate. Sets forth provisions for migrant and seasonal farmworker employment and training programs, similar in part to CETA provisions. Directs the Secretary to establish an office of farmworker programs within the national headquarters of the Department of Labor to select, administer, monitor, and evaluate such programs. Requires that the public agencies and private nonprofit organizations carrying out program services have a previously demonstrated capability to administer effectively a diversified employability development program for migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Authorizes the Secretary to approve the designation of grantees for such programs for a period of two years. Requires that such programs, in addition to other employment and retraining activities assist in improving the well-being of farmworkers who remain as seasonal agricultural employees. Requires title IV fund recipients to establish performance goals. Directs the Secretary to reserve for farmworker programs from title IV funds an amount equal to not less than two and eight-tenths percent of the amount available for title II programs. Prohibits national farmworker programs and activities from precluding other assistance to farmworkers under this Act. Part B: Job Corps - Sets forth provisions for the Job Corps which are similar to CETA provisions. Sets participant age limits of 16 through 24 (CETA provides limits of 14 through 21), but permits appropriate nonresidential services for 14 and 15 year olds (both this Act and CETA allow waivers of the maximum age limitation in cases of handicapped individuals). Authorizes the Secretary to pay individuals and organizations for the cost of recruitment, screening, and selection of Job Corp candidates (but prohibits, as does CETA, any payment solely as compensation for referring the names of candidates. Provides for an exception from the two-year Job Corps enrollment period limit where necessary for participation in an advanced career program (as well as in special cases). Authorizes the Secretary to arrange for advanced career training programs for selected Corps members for a period of up to one additional year of Corps participation. Permits such programs to be provided by postsecondary institutions or by businesses and labor unions. Limits, in FY 1983, personal allowances to no more than $70 per month for the first six months and no more than $125 for the remainder of Corps service, for expected short-term service, or for readjustment allowances. Permits the Secretary to increase such allowances in FY 1984 and thereafter. Directs the Secretary to disseminate information from Job Corps program experience which may help related programs. Authorizes the Secretary to test at various Job Corps centers the efficacy of selected education or training activities. Directs the Secretary to establish annual orientation and training sessions for appropriate prime sponsor and Job Corps staff to be held at Job Corps centers. Authorizes the Secretary to arrange with the Secretary of Defense for pilot projects at Job Corps centers to prepare youth to qualify for military service. Permits permanent programs for such purpose if the Secretary of Defense reimburses the Job Corps for 90 percent of program costs. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake pilot projects using community-based organizations of demonstrated effectiveness for Job Corps center operation. Authorizes the Secretary to accept on behalf of the Job Corps charitable donations which would not jeopardize Job Corps integrity. Part C: National Programs and Activities - Directs the Secretary to use specified funds to provide services authorized under all titles of this Act for employment and training programs that are most appropriately administered from the national level, such as federally-assisted multistate programs sponsored by public agencies or private organizations, including programs: (1) assisting persons with particular employment-related disadvantages (such as offenders, persons with limited English proficency, handicapped, women, single parents, displaced homemakers, youth, older workers, persons lacking educational credentials, and public assistance recipients); (2) fostering employment and training linkages between public and private sectors; and (3) addressing critical skill shortages. Directs the Secretary to provide for research and demonstration programs and for training and technical assistance. Directs the Secretary to establish, in the office of the Secretary an Office of Management Assistance to provide specified services to prime sponsors. Part D: Labor Market Information - Sets forth provisions for a comprehensive system of labor market information which are similar to CETA provisions. Directs the Secretary to assure: (1) statistical reliability and national standardized definitions of employment, unemployment, and occupational definitions for purposes of such system; (2) consolidated departmental data collecting and processing systems to eliminate overlap and duplication; and (3) compliance with Federal Paperwork Reduction Act criteria. Establishes a National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee. Reserves funds from amounts available for this part to establish and maintain the Committee in the Department of Labor to assure the coordination of functions required by this part. Sets forth provisions relating to the Committee which are similar to CETA provisions. Sets forth provisions for a nationwide computerized job bank and matching program which are similar to CETA provisions. Part E: Economic Adjustment Program - Directs the Secretary to use funds available for this part to provide financial assistance to eligible prime sponsors for employment services, subsidized employment, and appropriate training and supportive services for unemployed workers. Makes prime sponsors eligible to apply for national Economic Adjustment Program (EAP) funds if the area under prime sponsor jurisdiction has an unemployment rate for the preceding three consecutive months exceeding the national average. Requires the PIC approval of prime sponsor EAP plans. Makes any Indian tribe, band, or group receiving part A assistance an eligible prime sponsor for EAP purposes. Permits EAP programs or activities to include any activity authorized under titles II or III of this Act. Makes individuals eligible for EAP participation if they: (1) have been unemployed for at least ten out of the 12 weeks immediately prior to the eligibility determination; and (2) are economically disadvantaged. Permits 20 percent of participants in a prime sponsor's EAP programs and activities to be individuals who are not economically disadvantaged. Directs the Secretary to establish priority approval criteria for EAP proposals, including such factors as: (1) severity of area unemployment; (2) potential for training leading to unsubsidized employment in occuaptions with skills shortages; and (3) involvement of subsidized employment in economic development activity (including public facility maintenance) leading to expanded private unsubsidized employment opportunities. Part F: National Commission on Employment and Productivity - Establishes a National Commission on Employment and Productivity (replaces the National Commission for Employment Policy under CETA and reconstitutes its membership without Federal officials). Sets forth provisions for Commission functions, administration, and reports which are similar to CETA provisions. Title V: Amendments to Other Laws - Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act (U.S. Employment Service) to direct the Secretary to distribute 98 percent of funds under such Act among the States on the basis of relative numbers of: (1) individuals in the civilian labor force in each State as compared to all States; and (2) unemployed individuals in each State as compared to all States. Directs the Secretary to allocate the remaining two percent of such funds among those local employment service offices which have developed joint plans with prime sponsors under this Act. Permits State allocations to be used for: (1) job search and placement services for job seekers; (2) recruitment and technical services for employees: (3) program evaluation; (4) service linkages with related government programs; (5) services for displaced workers; (6) labor market and occupational information; (7) management information and analysis; (8) work test administration for the State unemployment compensation system; and (9) job search and placement for unemployment insurance claimants. Authorizes the U.S. Employment Service to perform only such activities and such other labor market-related services as are specified in reimbursable contracts with other State or Federal agencies. Amends part C (Work Incentive Program - WIN) of title IV of the Social Security Act to make applicants for (as well as recipients of) aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) eligible for the WIN program. Deletes a requirement that a specified portion of WIN program funds be used for specified on-the-job training and public service employment programs. Directs the Secretary to assure that WIN registrants receive employment and training services under this Act. Directs the Secretary to utilize PICs of prime sponsors under this Act for advice as to availability of area jobs for WIN programs purposes (thus replacing the WIN Labor Market Advisory Councils established to serve such function). Revises provisions for WIN program operation to direct the Secretary to: (1) provide intensive job search assistance services for all WIN registrants (as a program requirement, with specified exceptions); (2) following provision of such services, refer all WIN registrants who have not been placed in unsubsidized employment to the appropriate prime sponsor for employment and training services under this Act; and (3) place WIN registrants without unsubsidized jobs who are not currently served under this Act in other employment and training activities. Requires the State agency administering WIN program activities to coordinate these with activities under this Act. Repeals the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), as of October 1, 1982. Provides for a CETA program transition period expiring at the end of June 30, 1983. Permits prime sponsors, even before the expiration of such transition period, to carry out activities authorized under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1981
Interstate Compact - Grants the consent of Congress to the cooperative agreement between the States of New Hampshire and Vermont for the construction and operation of facilities for the processing or disposal of solid waste.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1981
Low-Income Energy Assistance Trust Fund Act of 1981 - Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to make unrefunded petroleum price control overcharges available for energy assistance. Establishes in the U.S. Treasury the Energy Assistance Trust Fund which shall be available for home energy assistance, residential energy efficiency programs, and other energy programs to assist low-income energy consumers. Appropriates funds which shall be transferred at least monthly from the general fund of the Treasury to the Trust Fund. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to hold the Trust Fund and report to Congress annually, starting with fiscal year 1982, on the Trust Fund's financial condition and operations for the preceding fiscal year and for the next five fiscal years. Sets forth investment requirements pertaining to the Trust Fund. Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services the Office of Energy Special Council. Transfers the Office of Special Counsel of the Department of Energy to the Energy Special Council. Requires that the Energy Special Council transmit to the President and Congress a plan for the collection of petroleum price control overcharges made in violation of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973. Requires the Comptroller General to review periodically the Energy Special Council's activities and report quarterly to Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1981
Broadcast Licensing, Renewal, and Deregulation Act of 1981 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to establish new procedures for reviewing petitions to deny broadcast license applications. Requires the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to grant a license renewal application by a radio or television broadcast station licensee unless the actions of the licensee evidence such serious disregard for the Communications Act and for the rules and policies of the FCC that denial of the application is justified. Prohibits the FCC from considering the applications of other persons for a broadcast station's facilities when the FCC is acting upon a license renewal application by a radio or television broadcast station. Permits persons holding construction permits or station licenses to transfer the permit or license without first obtaining an FCC finding that the transfer serves the public interest. Requires the FCC to be notified of such transfer. Provides for public notice of the transfer. Provides for disposition by the FCC of objections to such transfer. Prohibits the FCC from considering whether the public interest would be served by the transfer of the permit or license involved to a different person. Repeals certain provisions relating to the application of the antitrust laws. Prohibits the FCC from imposing requirements on radio or television licensees relating to: (1) programs; (2) programming formats; (3) ascertainment; (4) commercialization; and (5) maintenance of program logs.
United States · United States Congress · 14 December 1981
Amends Federal law to extend the existing price-support level for milk until March 31, 1982. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to extend marketing quota referendum deadlines for wheat, upland cotton, and rice until March 31, 1982. Extends the food for peace program under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1981
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit an individual to elect hospice care, in lieu of certain other benefits, during two periods of 180 days each during the individual's lifetime. Provides for full reimbursement of reasonable costs to a hospice program, subject to a ceiling. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the hospice reimbursement method. Defines hospice care as including items and services furnished to the terminally ill in their homes, on an outpatient basis, and on a short term inpatient basis.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1981
Expands the membership of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to include three elected school board officials from different States.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1981
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the U.S. delegation to the February meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to tell the Commission that the Soviet Union should stop harassing Soviet Jews and should allow its citizens to practice their religion and to emigrate. Urges the Soviet Union to comply with its human rights obligations. Urges the President to: (1) express, to the Soviet Union, U.S. opposition to harassment of Soviet citizens and to restrictions on emigration; and (2) reiterate that the United States will consider the extent to which other nations honor their commitments under international law when evaluating its relations with such nations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 1981
Title I: Federal Royalties Collection - Federal Royalties and Rents Collection Act of 1981 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: establish a comprehensive system for accounts applicable to: (1) all mineral interests under the Secretary's jurisdiction; and (2) all revenues collected in connection with the sale or lease of such mineral interests. Requires the Secretary, upon promulgation of such system, to submit to Congress: (1) a report concerning such system; and (2) a report concerning the outstanding accounts due the United States from the sale or lease of U.S. mineral interests. Provides for an annual independent audit of Department of Interior accounts relating to the sale or lease of minerals. Makes individuals handling money in connection with a mineral sale or lease liable for negligent losses and requires such individuals to be bonded. Title II: State Collection of Federal Royalties - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 to direct the Secretary to collect all money due in connection with public land sales, rentals, interest, and penalties unless there is a State management program for the management of Federal leases. Requires 50 percent of all money collected to be paid to the State within which the leased lands or deposits are or were located, except that the rate shall be 90 percent for Alaska. Requires the Secretary, upon a State's request, to relinquish the administration of all contracts and leases issued by the Secretary within that State to the State, subject to stated requirements. Title III: Miscellaneous Amendments to the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920 - Authorizes the Secretary to promulgate regulations applicable to lessees of oil or gas leases requiring certain: (1) recordkeeping practices; (2) accountability to the Secretary; and (3) reports to the Secretary. Sets forth provisions relating to enforcement of this Act. Title IV: Indian Access to Certain Records - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: promulgate regulations to make certain records available for mining purposes to lessees of Indian lands.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1981
Resolves that the economic policies currently in place must now be reconsidered in order to lower interest rates rapidly enough to effect an early, complete recovery from the recession and to prevent a resurgence of high interest rates in future years. Directs the President and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to undertake immediately: (1) an aggressive campaign designed to encourage banks to cease providing loans or lines of credit for unproductive takeovers and speculative purposes; (2) efforts to ensure access to the least expensive possible credit; and (3) studies to explore and report to the Congress on innovative techniques for managing the money supply and credit resources in times of tight credit. Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to reconsider its tentative decision to reduce the targets for monetary growth for 1982. Directs the President to nominate individuals for vacancies on the Board of Governors so that this Nation's agricultural and commercial interests, including housing and small businesses, will no longer be underrepresented on the Board.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1981
United States Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution Act - Establishes the United States Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution. Sets forth the functions of the Academy. Declares that the Academy is an independent nonprofit corporation. Sets forth the powers and duties of the Academy, including establishment of an Endowment of the United States Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution. Set forth provisions for a Board of Directors and for officers and employees of the Academy. Set forth requirements for Academy program procedures and records. Requires an annual audit of Academy accounts and audit reports to the President and the Congress. Subjects the Academy to specified freedom of information provisions. Provides that, with certain exceptions, the Academy shall not be considered a department, agency, or instrumentality of of the Federal Government. Prohibits the use of any political test or political qualification with respect to personnel financial assistance under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for Academy buildings, grounds, facilities, programs, and administration. Sets forth provisions for availability of appropriations. Requires transfer of income and assets to the U.S. Treasury upon dissolution and final liquidation of the Academy or any other legal entity created pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1981
Resolves that the economic policies currently in place must now be reconsidered in order to lower interest rates rapidly enough to effect an early, complete recovery from the recession and to prevent a resurgence of high interest rates in future years. Directs the President and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to undertake immediately: (1) an aggressive campaign designed to encourage banks to cease providing loans or lines of credit for unproductive takeovers and speculative purposes; (2) efforts to ensure access to the least expensive possible credit; and (3) studies to explore and report to the Congress on innovative techniques for managing the money supply and credit resources in times of tight credit. Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to reconsider its tentative decision to reduce the targets for monetary growth for 1982. Directs the President to nominate individuals for vacancies on the Board of Governors so that this Nation's agricultural and commercial interests, including housing and small businesses, will no longer be underrepresented on the Board.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1981
Good Samaritan Act - Provides relief from State or Federal civil liability for any licensed medical personnel or air carrier employee who renders emergency medical aid on an airplane or who continues such aid until arrival at a medical facility. Extends such relief to an airplane's crew and owner or operator for providing on-board emergency medical supplies.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1981
Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to establish a National Institute on Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases. Sets forth the Institute's research and training functions and arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases program plan. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Institute, to operate multipurpose arthritis and musculoskeletal disease research centers. Requires annual evaluations of such centers. Authorizes specified appropriations for such centers for fiscal years 1983 through 1985. Directs the Secretary to establish an arthritis and musculoskeletal disease Coordinating Committee, which shall meet at least four times a year.
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