United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1990
Social Security Work Incentives and SSI Benefits Improvement Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to increase the amount of income an individual who has attained retirement age may earn without incurring a reduction in OASDI benefits. Accelerates the increase in the OASDI delayed retirement credit so that it reaches eight percent by 1995, rather than 2004. (Currently, such credit represents a three percent increase in benefits for each year retirement is delayed.) Eliminates an option that allows workers who retire retroactively to receive the benefits they would have been entitled to had they in fact retired earlier in exchange for lower future benefits. Authorizes the collection of OASDI overpayments by the withholding of tax refunds owed to persons to whom such overpayments were made. Extends OASDI and Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) coverage to State and local employees who are not covered by a State or local retirement system. Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to increase SSI benefits. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to notify SSI and OASDI beneficiaries of the benefit changes made by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1990
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) promote maximum conservation and protection of the world's whales; (2) work to continue the International Whaling Commission moratorium on the commercial killing of whales and maintain zero catch limits for all whale stocks for at least another decade; (3) work to strengthen the Commission and encourage it to carry out long-term, nonlethal research for all whale stocks on a global basis; and (4) in promoting protection, make use of diplomatic channels, domestic and international law, and all other means.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1990
Pesticide Safety Improvement Act of 1990 - Title I: Amendments to Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) to revise specified definitions of such Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, at any time he has information with respect to the dietary risk of an active ingredient, to: (1) reassess associated tolerances and exemptions from tolerances issued under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA); (2) determine whether such tolerances or exemptions meet the requirements of such Act and whether additional tolerances or exemptions should be issued; and (3) take specified administrative actions. Deletes provisions setting forth maximum annual maintenance fees for pesticide registrants. Authorizes (currently, requires) the Administrator to cancel pesticide registrations after five years unless the registrant requests a continuance. Permits the continued sale and use of pesticides whose registrations are suspended if they will not have unreasonable adverse environmental effects. Authorizes the Administrator to issue a final order to ensure that: (1) a pesticide or other materials required to be submitted to the Administrator comply with FIFRA requirements; and (2) the pesticide will not generally cause unreasonable adverse environmental effects. Permits final orders to: (1) cancel the registration of a pesticide (or the registrations of a group of pesticides containing a common active or inert ingredient) and prohibit the future registration of such pesticide; (2) prescribe composition, packaging, labeling, and registration requirements for pesticides and provide for the cancellation or modification of pesticides not meeting requirements; and (3) classify a pesticide for restricted use or change the classification of a pesticide. Authorizes the Administrator to initiate a proceeding with respect to the cancellation or modification of a pesticide registration if there are concerns that such pesticide may cause unreasonable adverse effects to man or the environment. Directs the Administrator, prior to issuing an advance notice or proposed order to cancel, suspend, or change the classification of a pesticide, to notify the Secretary of Agriculture and, if the order is based upon potential adverse effects to human health, the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires the Administrator to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Secretaries with respect to consultation on such orders. Exempts specified proceedings and orders from certain advance notice and final action requirements. Permits the Administrator to waive advance notice requirements if issuing a suspension order. Directs the Administrator to establish an administrative record for each cancellation or modification proceeding. Provides for advance notice of such proceedings. Sets forth provisions concerning proposed order requirements, public notice and comment on orders, review by the Secretaries and the Scientific Advisory Panel, informal hearings, and final orders. Permits the Administrator to issue an order to allow the continued sale or use of existing stocks of cancelled or suspended pesticides. Permits affected registrants to: (1) apply for amendments to a registration to make it comply with an order; or (2) request voluntary cancellation of the registration. Authorizes interested persons to petition for the issuance, modification, or revocation of final orders. Sets forth judicial and public administrative review procedures. Authorizes the Administrator, if determined that a pesticide poses an imminent hazard, to issue an order suspending registration of the pesticide and forbidding or limiting the distribution, sale, or use of such pesticide. Revises provisions concerning expedited hearings and judicial review procedures with respect to such orders. Sets forth information to be considered by the Administrator in determining whether a risk is imminent. Permits any person to petition for suspension of a pesticide registration. Authorizes a State to request an exemption from a suspension order for a particular pesticide use if severe economic dislocation will result from such order. Permits such exemption only if the Administrator determines that the particular use does not pose an imminent hazard. Terminates the exemption within 36 months of the order's publication date. Requires registrants of pesticide products registered before November 1, 1984, to submit updated registration information to the Administrator by the later of: (1) 20 years after the first pesticide product was registered; or (2) 10 years after the date on which the Administrator determines that such products are eligible for reregistration. Directs registrants of pesticide products registered after October 31, 1984, to submit such information 10 years after the first product was registered and every ten years thereafter. Provides for extensions of such deadlines under specified conditions. Authorizes the Administrator to issue suspension orders for failures to comply with submission deadlines. Permits cancellations of registrations remaining suspended for more than three years. Authorizes the Administrator to assess fees from registrants for the periodic review of such registrations. Permits the Administrator to cancel registrations for failures to pay fees. Authorizes the Administrator to require pesticide importers, exporters, commercial applicators, and dealers, applicants or holders of experimental use permits, owners and operators of pesticide testing facilities, and any other pesticide holders subject to FIFRA requirements to maintain and make available specified records. Requires pesticide dealers to maintain records for at least three years after the distribution or sale of a pesticide. Exempts the following records from such requirement: (1) financial, pricing, or sales data other than shipment data; (2) personnel data, except for data concerning pesticide exposure effects; or (3) specified research or test data. Revises provisions concerning inspections and warrants to conduct such inspections. Requires the Administrator, upon the request of a State, to disclose any information acquired under FIFRA to the State if the State ensures that: (1) the submitter of the information will receive no less protection with respect to the disclosure or use of the information by the State than is provided by FIFRA; and (2) the State's law allows the submitter to recover just compensation against the State for losses resulting from the disclosure or use of such information by the State. Deletes a provision exempting private pesticide applicators from recordkeeping and reporting requirements. Makes it a violation of FIFRA for any person to use a pesticide as a commercial applicator unless such person is a certified commercial applicator or a registered commercial applicator under the supervision of a certified applicator. Sets forth requirements for certified and commercial applicators. Requires a restricted use pesticide to be considered to have been applied by, or under the direct supervision of, a certified private applicator only if the pesticide is applied by a person who is a certified private applicator or a private applicator under the supervision of a certified applicator. Sets forth requirements for certified and supervised applicators. Requires certified and registered commercial applicators to undergo refresher training and to be recertified or reregistered at least every five years. Sets forth minimum recertification and reregistration requirements. Directs the Administrator to develop training material for the application of pesticides, including material concerning the detection of pesticide poisoning, emergency medical treatment, hazards posed by pesticides to public health and the environment, and the requirements of laws, regulations, and labeling. Provides for periodic updates of such material. Requires the Administrator to establish minimum standards for trainers and training programs with respect to commercial and private applicators. Directs the Administrator to prescribe programs for States whose programs fail to comply with such standards. Provides that privately-administered programs shall be at least as stringent as Federal or State programs. Requires Federal and State field personnel responsible for on-site inspections of pesticide use to have training which, at a minimum, includes the required training material subjects issued by the Administrator. Revises provisions concerning unlawful acts. Increases and expands the scope of civil and criminal penalties for FIFRA violations. Prescribes penalties for violations involving knowing endangerment. Authorizes the Administrator to issue regulations requiring persons exporting pesticides from the United States to comply with international pesticide notification and control provisions that are: (1) adopted by an international agency, if the United States is a member of such agency and has consented to, or has not officially disapproved, the adoption of the provisions; or (2) reached through an international agreement to which the United States is a signatory or under which the United States has not officially disapproved such provisions. Exempts exporters from a requirement that they obtain a statement from a foreign purchaser acknowledging the purchase of an unregistered pesticide if the Administrator determines that such provisions provide equivalent information. Requires the Administrator to make the following information available to the public: (1) specified export notices; (2) the active ingredients in an exported pesticide; (3) the name of an exported pesticide; and (4) the countries to which a pesticide is exported. Authorizes the Administrator to issue an order prohibiting persons from exporting a pesticide to a foreign country that has indicated to the Administrator or to an international agency of which the United States is a member that the country does not wish to import the pesticide. Permits the Administrator to prohibit such exports only if: (1) the country has indicated that it does not wish to import the pesticide pursuant to an international system of pesticide controls adopted by an international agency (if the United States is a member and has consented to the system) or reached through an agreement to which the United States is a signatory; (2) all registrations of the pesticide or registrations for a significant number of the pesticide's uses have been suspended, cancelled, or denied based on environmental or health effect concerns; and (3) the country has certified that it will not produce the pesticide for use in the country and will not import the pesticide from any other country. Establishes a Pesticide Advisory Board to advise the Administrator or the Scientific Advisory Panel on FIFRA matters involving special expertise. Directs the Administrator, working with the Secretary of Agriculture, to identify those pests that must be brought under control and the chemical, biological, and alternative control measures available to control such pests. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Administrator on: (1) the pests and measures and the areas where a number of registered pesticides and other pest control alternatives is small enough to pose a risk to effective pest control or where pest resistance to current pest control measures has been detected; and (2) research and extension efforts to develop pest control methods for such areas. Directs the Secretary to furnish to the Administrator on an ongoing basis information on the use of pesticides in commercial-scale agricultural production and in the storage, transportation, and processing of food. Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to furnish to the Administrator on an ongoing basis information on the representative actual levels of pesticide residues on food items. Provides that such information shall ensure that information on the approximate actual level of human dietary exposure to pesticides is readily available to the Administrator. Directs the Administrator to establish a program for the storage, management, retrieval, and utilization of such information and to use such information in making decisions under FIFRA and FDCA. Requires the Administrator to assume, if information regarding actual use and residue levels has not been made available, that a pesticide results in dietary residues on food at the highest level permitted under a FDCA tolerance or exemption. Authorizes appropriations. Makes technical amendments to administrative provisions concerning registrations and judicial review. Title II: Amendments to Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act - Amends the FDCA to provide that pesticide residues in or on a raw agricultural commodity or processed food do not make the food adulterated. Revises provisions concerning adulterated food. Deems pesticide chemical residues in or on a food to be unsafe unless a tolerance, or exemption to a tolerance, is in effect with respect to the chemical residue and the concentration of the residue is in the limits of the tolerance. Provides that: (1) pesticide chemical residues in or on processed foods without separate tolerances shall not be considered unsafe so long as the residue level is within the tolerance limit for the raw agricultural commodity from which the food was made; and (2) residues in or on processed foods made from raw agricultural commodities for which a residue exemption is in effect shall not be considered unsafe. Provides that residues of degradation products of precursor substances that are pesticide chemicals shall not be considered unsafe if: (1) the combined residues of the precursor substance and the degradation products are within the level of the tolerance for the precursor substance; or (2) an exemption is in effect for the precursor substance and the tolerance or exemption does not state that it applies solely to the precursor chemical. Authorizes the Administrator to establish, modify, or revoke a tolerance or exemption from a tolerance for a pesticide chemical residue. Prohibits a tolerance from being established at a level higher than a level that the Administrator determines will protect public health. Requires the Administrator to modify or revoke such higher tolerances. Provides that a tolerance will protect the public health if the dietary risk posed to food consumers is not greater than negligible. Establishes thresholds for negligible risks with respect to adverse health and carcinogenic risks. Authorizes the Administrator to establish a tolerance for a residue that results in a greater than negligible risk if: (1) use of the pesticide producing the residue protects humans or the environment from adverse effects that would result in greater risks than the dietary risk from the chemical; (2) use of the chemical avoids risks to the public or the environment that would result from the use of another pesticide chemical on the same food and that are greater than the dietary exposure risk from the residue; or (3) the unavailability of the chemical would reduce the availability to food consumers of an adequate and economical domestic supply of the food and the adverse economic or health effects to consumers would outweigh the dietary risk from the residue. Prohibits such tolerances from being issued, or revocations of such tolerances from being denied, unless: (1) the Administrator has assessed the extent to which efforts are being made to develop alternative methods of pest control or alternative pesticide chemicals for use on the food or commodity that would meet risk exposure requirements; (2) the tolerance is limited to a period of five years; and (3) the Administrator has proposed the issuance or denial in accordance with specified administrative requirements. Prohibits a tolerance from being established unless there is a practical method for detecting and measuring the levels of the pesticide residue in or on the food. Permits exemptions to tolerances to be made only if the Administrator determines that a tolerance is not needed to protect the public health. Permits persons to petition for the establishment, modification, or revocation of a tolerance or exemption. Sets forth petitioning procedures and judicial review provisions. Entitles tolerance or exemption information submitted to the Administrator under FDCA and registration information submitted under FIFRA to confidential treatment, with specified exceptions. Requires the Administrator to revoke or suspend tolerances consistent with, and following, the cancellation or suspension of a pesticide's registration under FIFRA. Permits delays of the effective dates of a modification or revocation of a tolerance, subject to certain conditions. Requires the Administrator to collect fees for functions regarding the establishment, modification, or revocation of tolerances and exemptions. Prohibits States or political subdivisions from enforcing any limit on a pesticide residue unless the limit is identical to the Federal tolerance or exemption for the residue. Authorizes the Administrator to grant States the authority to establish more stringent residue limits if such limits are warranted by special local circumstances. Permits the Administrator to treat such authority as a petition to modify or revoke a tolerance. Authorizes appropriations for increased monitoring by the Secretary of Health and Human Services of pesticide residues in imported and domestic foods. Title III: Amendments to Poultry Products Inspection Act - Amends the Poultry Products Inspection Act to make a conforming amendment to provide that pesticide residues in or on raw agricultural commodities or processed foods do not make the food adulterated. Deems commodities or processed foods containing residues that are unsafe under FDCA standards to be adulterated. Title IV: Amendments to Federal Meat Inspection Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to make amendments parallel to those made to the Poultry Products Inspection Act. Title V: Amendments to Egg Products Inspection Act - Amends the Egg Products Inspection Act to make amendments parallel to those made to the Poultry Products Inspection Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1990
Designates the week of July 22 to 28, 1990, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes and requests the President to urge that the American flag be flown at half staff on July 27, 1990, in honor of those Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
National Tree Trust Act of 1990 - Title I: National Tree Trust - Authorizes the President to designate a private nonprofit organization meeting certain criteria the National Tree Trust Foundation, which shall promote tree planting. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make a grant to the Foundation in FY 1991. Title II: Assistance for Tree Planting and Forest Improvement - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish rural and community tree planting and forest improvement programs as special components of the Rural and Urban Forestry Assistance Programs under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act. Provides for financial, technical, and related assistance to State foresters in order to assist nonindustrial private landowners, local governments, civic organizations, and individuals to plant, maintain, and improve trees and forests. Authorizes the Secretary to develop a cost-sharing program (with a Federal share of up to 75 percent) to encourage tree planting and management on nonindustrial private lands. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Food Stamp Trafficking Prevention and Penalty Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require retail and wholesale food concerns participating in the food stamp program to provide the Secretary of Agriculture with their Internal Revenue Service taxpayer identifying numbers. Makes it unlawful to launder funds obtained from food stamp coupon trafficking. Provides for civil and criminal forfeiture and property disposition for violating this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1990
Forest Stewardship Act of 1990 - Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary to expand forestry educational and technical assistance programs. Directs the Secretary to establish a Forest Stewardship Management Program to encourage the voluntary long-term management of private forest lands. Provides cost-sharing assistance for approved forest management activities, including: (1) timber management; (2) shelterbelts and windbreaks; (3) wildlife habitats; (4) forest wetlands; and (5) recreation. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a Forest Reserve Program to acquire lands, water, or easements to preserve environmentally sensitive land from conversion to nonforest uses. Requires the Secretary to establish four pilot projects. Provides cost-sharing assistance. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a Forest Resource Coordinating Committee to coordinate intra-departmental forestry activities; and (2) State Forest Stewardship Advisory Committees.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1990
Agricultural Products Development Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to expand the program to develop agricultural product-based industrial products and processes. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1990
Agricultural Development and Trade Act of 1990 - Title I: The Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 - Revises title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 with regard to food and development assistance. Provides agricultural commodity grants to least developed countries and concessional credit sales to developing countries. Prohibits assistance to countries that violate human rights. Provides for: (1) direct uses or sales of donated commodities within recipient countries; (2) creation of local currency accounts; (3) multiyear development agreements; (4) use of payments for trade development, agribusiness and facilities loans, and research; and (5) value-added food assistance, including the partial waiver of repayment for such assistance. Revises title II of such Act with regard to emergency and private assistance programs. Authorizes the President, through the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, to provide commodities to foreign countries for reasons of famine, malnutrition, and economic and environmental development. Authorizes multiyear agreements for nonemergency assistance. Authorizes participating private voluntary organizations to barter or sell the commodities in the recipient country. Sets forth specified minimum assistance levels and requires specified assistance amounts to be in the form of value-added commodities. Establishes a Food Aid Consultative Group. Sets forth maximum expenditure levels. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a farmer-to-farmer assistance program. Obligates specified minimum funding for developing countries. Revises title III of such Act to establish the Food for Freedom Program in order to support governmental democratization and individual and economic freedoms. Makes commodity assistance available on grant or credit basis. Authorizes multiyear agreements. Authorizes a private market enhancement program. Revises title IV of such Act to authorize debt forgiveness of an eligible developing country. Prohibits agreements to finance sales or to provide other assistance under such Act after December 31, 1995. Provides for General Accounting Office audits of grant, concessional credit sale, and title II programs. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to the disposition of commodities to prevent waste, limiting the authority involved to carrying out programs under titles II and III of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. Title II: The Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 - Revises title I of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to set forth U.S. agricultural trade policy and long-term trade strategies and goals. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a list of foreign country priority growth markets and individualized market plans; and (2) review U.S. trade performance against such long-term agricultural goals. Revises title II of such Act to authorize a direct credit short-term (less than three years) export assistance program. Prohibits the resale or transshipment of intermediate-term program commodities. Authorizes short-term and intermediate-term credit guarantees. Prohibits commodity resale or transshipment. Requires at least 90 percent domestic content for commodity eligibility. Sets forth financial institution requirements. Authorizes: (1) deferred payment sales; (2) marketing assistance; and (3) barter of agricultural commodities or exchanges for strategic or critical materials (including a specified amount of commodities to acquire petroleum for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve). Terminates the Agricultural Credit Revolving Fund effective October 1, 1995. Sets forth funding levels for: (1) direct credit programs; (2) export credit guarantee programs; and (3) marketing assistance programs. Authorizes appropriations for activities under this title. Revises title III of such Act to authorize an export enhancement program to combat unfair trade practices. Sets forth program funding levels. Authorizes appropriations. Revises title IV of such Act to provide for agricultural embargo protection, including the development of contingency plans to alleviate an embargo's adverse effects. Authorizes contracting authority for services abroad to expand export markets. Requires specified agency consultations before removing or relaxing any agricultural import restrictions. Revises title V of such Act to establish in the Department of Agriculture the position of Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service. Establishes a specified minimum number of Foreign Agricultural Service (Service) personnel. Grants the diplomatic title of Minister-Counselor to the senior Service officer in a foreign mission. Authorizes appropriations to permit the Service to carry out this Act. Revises title VI of such Act to require the Secretary to prepare (every three years) a Long-Term Agricultural Trade Strategy Report. Sets forth other reporting requirements under such Act and under the Agricultural Act of 1954. Establishes a Service attache educational program. Title III: General Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1980 to extend the food security wheat reserve. Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 to extend certain cottonseed and sunflower seed oil export assistance. Directs the Secretary to establish an agricultural fellowship program for middle income countries and emerging democracies (Cochran Fellowship Program). Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Conforming Provisions and Technical Changes - Makes specified conforming and technical amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1990
Designates September 16 through 22, 1990, as National Rehabilitation Week. Urges each State Governor and local government chief executive to issue proclamations calling upon their citizens to observe such week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1990
Agricultural Conservation Reserve and Enhancement Act of 1990 - Title I: Conservation Reserve Program - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the conservation reserve program (CRP) through crop year 1995. Establishes ten-year minimum contracts for soil salinity or off-farm environmentally threatened land placed in the CRP. Permits the Secretary of Agriculture to pay up to 75 percent of CRP wetlands restoration costs. Extends CRP tree acreage through crop year 1995. Directs the Secretary to offer a 15-year CRP contract for acreage devoted to hardwood trees, shelterbelts, or windbreaks. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) offer owners the opportunity to convert CRP acreage planted to grass to hardwood trees; (2) pay up to 75 perent of conversion costs; and (3) permit alley cropping (and related rental reductions) on such converted land and on land on which the owner implements appropriate conservation measures. Authorizes a bid-back program to remove the least highly erodible cropland from the CRP. Provides for specified buffer strip CRP eligibility. Exempts CRP contracts from sequestration orders. Title II: Integrated Farm Plans - Directs the Secretary to establish a cost-sharing program to assist producers in establishing integrated farm plans. Authorizes FY 1992 through 2002 appropriations. Title III: Wetland Provisions - Directs the Secretary to determine the extent to which penalties for minor infractions of the wetland program have not been commensurate with the violation. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to permit the production of native wetland crops under such program. Extends through the 1995 crop year and makes mandatory multiyear set-asides.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, to make grants to States, with regard to breast and cervical cancer, for screening, referrals and follow-up services, public information and education programs, education and training for health professionals, quality monitoring of screening, and evaluations of such activities. Sets forth preferences in making the grants and requires equitable geographical distribution. Requires matching non-Federal funds in a specified ratio. Requires that States agree to: (1) provide all of certain services by a specified date; (2) switch to any improved screening procedures which become available; and (3) assure the quality of any screening procedures used. Directs the Secretary to establish guidelines for assuring the quality of mammography and cytological screening conducted under these provisions. Requires that low-income women be given priority in the provision of services. Requires that a charge for services, if any: (1) be made according to a public schedule; (2) be adjusted for income of the woman involved; and (3) not be imposed on any woman with incomes below the poverty line. Requires services to be provided throughout a State, including to members of any Indian tribe or tribal organization. Authorizes the Secretary to provide training and technical assistance. Directs the Secretary to provide for annual evaluations of programs carried out under this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Limits the number of grants made to seven in FY 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1990
Food Security Act of 1990 - Title I: Dairy - Subtitle A: Milk Price Support Program - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish the milk price support program for 1991 through 1995. Provides for adjustment of the support price based on expected milk surpluses. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for a reduction in the milk price received for all U.S.-produced milk marketed for commercial use as the sole means of achieving any reduction in budget outlays under the price support program. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous - Extends through 1995 the dairy indemnity program and the program for transfer of dairy products to the military and veterans hospitals. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to establish the wool and mohair price support program for the 1991 through 1995 marketing years. Title III: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish the price support program for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat. Limits deficiency payments to acreage planted to wheat. Considers acreage planted to other program crops, oilseeds, conserving or certain experimental crops acreage planted to wheat. Provides for acreage reduction and land diversion programs. Title IV: Feed Grains - Establishes the price support program for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of corn and feed grains. Limits deficiency payments to acreage planted to feed grains. Considers acreage planted to other program crops, oilseeds, conserving or certain experimental crops acreage planted to feed grains. Provides for acreage reduction and land diversion programs. Title V: Cotton - Subtitle A: Upland Cotton - Establishes the price support program for the 1991 through 1995 crops of upland cotton. Limits deficiency payments to acreage planted to upland cotton. Considers acreage planted to other program crops, oilseeds, conserving or certain experimental crops acreage planted to upland cotton. Provides for acreage reduction and land diversion programs. Subtitle B: Extra Long Staple Cotton - Establishes the price support program for the 1991 through 1995 crops of extra long staple cotton. Limits deficiency payments to acreage planted to extra long staple cotton. Considers acreage planted to other program crops, oilseeds, conserving or certain experimental crops acreage planted to extra long staple cotton. Provides for acreage reduction and land diversion programs. Title VI: Rice - Establishes the price support program for the 1991 through 1995 crops of rice. Limits deficiency payments to acreage planted to rice. Considers acreage planted to other program crops, oilseeds, conserving or certain experimental crops acreage planted to rice. Provides for acreage reduction, land diversion, and marketing certificate programs. Title VII: Peanuts - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to establish the national poundage quota for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of peanuts. Provides for marketing penalties and the disposition of additional peanuts. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth the price support program for the 1991 through 1995 crops of peanuts. Title VIII: Soybeans - Establishes the price support program for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of soybeans. Title IX: General Commodity Provisions - Subtitle A: Acreage Base and Yield System - Revises the program for the determination of crop acreage bases (featuring a new Normal Crop Acreage computation) and farm program payment yields. Subtitle B: Payment Limitations - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to revise and extend through 1995 provisions for payment limitations. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Commodity Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to revise: (1) Commodity Credit Corporation sales price restrictions; (2) the producer reserve program for wheat and feed grains; and (3) acreage limitation and set-aside programs to rename them acreage reduction programs. Subtitle D: Honey - Establishes a price support program for each of the 1991 through 1995 crops of honey. Subtitle E: Technical and Conforming Amendments - Makes technical and conforming amendments to various Acts. Subtitle F: Effective Date - Sets forth effective dates for the first nine titles of this Act. Title X: Conservation and Environment - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to: (1) extend the conservation reserve program through 1995 and include shelterbelts and windbreaks; (2) place in the reserve any land posing an on-farm or off-farm threat to water quality; (3) provide for protection of wetlands; (4) establish penalties for producers of price-supported non-basic agricultural commodities or beneficiaries of such price supports (sodbusters and swampbusters) who violate conservation requirements; (5) prohibit the use of certain loans to manipulate a wetland, especially to impair waterflow; and (6) provide tree planting incentives. Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to extend the Great Plains conservation program. Title XI: International Programs - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to: (1) continue the targeted export assistance program at the current authorization level; and (2) extend the short-term export credit and export enhancement programs through 1995. Extends through 1995: (1) the intermediate export credit program under the Food for Peace Act of 1966; and (2) the food security wheat reserve under the Food Security Wheat Reserve Act of 1980. Title XII: Crop Disaster Assistance - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal the marketing quota program for rice beginning with the 1991 crop. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make disaster payments available to producers of crops previously covered by Federal crop insurance in counties where the average yield is less than 65 percent of the normal harvested yield. Limits payments to losses exceeding 40 percent of the normal harvested yield. Title XIII: Food and Consumer Services - Subtitle A: Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program - Extends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 through 1995. Subtitle B: Food Stamp Act of 1977 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to: (1) the authorization of retail food stores; (2) an alternative method of coupon issuance; (3) civil and criminal penalties, including computer fraud penalties; and (4) recipient disqualification. Revises provisions regarding: (1) child support enforcement and assistance to the homeless; and (2) demonstration waiver authority. Revises the household declaration procedure. Establishes a permanent authorization of appropriations. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act of 1973 to reauthorize the commodity distribution and supplemental food programs through 1995. Requires commodity recipients on Indian reservations to furnish Social Security numbers. Provides for advance funding for State option contracts. Amends the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to repeal the requirement of an annual displacement report. Title XIV: Farm Credit - Subtitle A: Farmers Home Administration - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to limit direct Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) operating loans to seven years and to existing borrowers and beginning farmers. Revises provisions for direct and guaranteed farm ownership loans. Restricts eligibility for debt write-downs to loans made in 1987. Requires borrowers to deal in good faith with FmHA to receive buy-outs. Subtitle B: Miscellaneous Credit Provisions - Revises provisions for: (1) limited resource interest rates; (2) disaster loans to entity applicants; (3) debt settlement; (4) certification of loan eligibility; (5) the deadline for the Secretary's approval or disapproval of community and business program applications; and (6) the leaseback or buyback of nonfarm collateral. Title XV: Science and Education - Subtitle A: Amendments to the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to: (1) extend through 1995 the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences, the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users Advisory Board, and the Animal Health Science Research Advisory Board; (2) revise the food and agricultural sciences education grant and fellowship program, including creation of National Food and Agricultural Sciences Teaching Awards; and (3) authorize appropriations. Declares the policy of the United States regarding water quality, food safety, and global change. Directs the Secretary to take an active research role in such areas, and to conduct comprehensive and integrated programs in environment and natural resources education. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to develop industrial products for agricultural materials. Establishes the National Agricultural Library. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Amendments to Other Laws - Amends Federal law to revise: (1) the competitive, special, and facilities research grants program; and (2) the sustainable agricultural research and education program. Subtitle C: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this title. Title XVI: Marketing and Inspection - Subtitle A: Marketing Order Assessment Violations - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 to subject handlers to specified administrative penalties for violating any provision of a handling order which calls for payment of a pro rata share of expenses. Subtitle B: Aflatoxin Testing - Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to prohibit the export of any corn which has not been tested for aflatoxin. Subtitle C: Federal Milk Orders - Amends various specified Federal laws with respect to milk orders. Title XVII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Subtitle A: Investment of Certain Fees - Amends various specified Federal laws with respect to the investment in public debt securities of certain collected fees. Subtitle B: Animal Health Protection - Animal Health Protection Act - Authorizes the Secretary to prohibit or restrict the importation or entry of any animal, article, or means of conveyance where necessary to prevent the introduction or dissemination of any communicable disease or pest of livestock or birds into or within the United States. Makes special conditions in the case of rinderpest or foot-and-mouth disease. Authorizes the Secretary to make similar prohibitions or restrictions relating to the export or interstate transportation of such commodities. Provides for seizures, quarantines, disposals, and extraordinary emergencies. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out measures to detect, control, and eradicate any communicable animal disease or pest. Provides for cooperation with other Federal, State, local, and foreign agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe and collect fees for carrying out this Act. Provides for enforcement of its provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to establish technical and scientific review groups to advise on animal health and quarantine issues. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Plant Health Protection - Plant Protection Act - Authorizes the Secretary to require issuance of a permit establishing conditions for transport into the United States of any plant, plant product, or article if necessary to prevent introduction of a plant pest. Prohibits the transportation of plant pests without a permit. Requires notification of the Secretary by the Secretary of the Treasury of the arrival and inspection before transport of any plant, plant product, or plant pest. Provides for restrictions on the movement of such commodities, remedial measures, disposals, and extraordinary emergencies. Provides for inspections, seizures, quarantines, and warrants. Provides for cooperation with other Federal, State, local, and foreign agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to provide phytosanitary certificates for the export of plants or plant products. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe and collect fees for services performed under this Act. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for violation of this Act and provides for enforcement of its provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to establish technical and scientific review groups to advise on plant health and quarantine issues. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1990
Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Act of 1990 - Title I: United States Coast Guard Regulations - Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, through the Commandant of the Coast Guard, to promulgate regulations to prevent and control the transportation into U.S. waters of viable biological materials in ship ballast waters. Mandates the use of a high sea ballast water exchange or alternative methods developed and recommended by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations to prevent the unintentional transfer or introduction of nonindigenous species by ships operating exclusively within U.S. territorial waters or contiguous coastal waters of North America. Exempts such ships from the high seas exchange requirement of this Act. Exempts from the high seas exchange requirement a ship that is subject to requirements regarding the treatment of ballast water for the removal of chemical contaminants. Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil monetary penalties for violation of the regulations. Makes civil penalties available, as provided by appropriation Acts, to endow research on the control of nonindigenous species. Title II: Zebra Mussel and Aquatic Nuisance Species Research, Control, and Educational Program - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Secretary of Commerce, through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (National Cooperative Action Group - NCAG), to jointly coordinate national research, control, and educational efforts associated with the infestation of the zebra mussel and other aquatic nuisance species in U.S. waters. Authorizes the NCAG to establish and coordinate regional commissions as necessary and to facilitate information transfer among the commissions. Authorizes Federal agency heads, on request of the chairman of any commission, to detail personnel to the commission. Requires the NCAG to provide advice to the Secretary of State concerning aquatic nuisance species that infest water resources shared with other countries. Requires the NCAG to establish a regional commission for the Great Lakes region and to request that the Great Lakes Fishery Commission: (1) designate a representative to serve on it; (2) advise, coordinate, and provide secretarial services on matters related to Great Lakes fisheries, related environmental concerns, and interactions with the Government of Canada; and (3) provide technical services for any technical committee established by the NCAG. Requires that the NCAG request that the Great Lakes Commission (established under the Great Lakes Basin Compact): (1) designate a representative to serve on the regional commission; (2) advise, coordinate, and provide secretarial services on matters related to the economic impacts of the zebra mussel on the geographic area of the Great Lakes; and (3) provide technical services for any technical committee established by the NCAG. Requires that research activities under this Act be carried out only in drainage basins infested with an aquatic nuisance species, with research funds allocated, to the extent possible, to existing facilities within infested areas. Sets forth research priorities. Directs the Secretary of State to initiate negotiations with foreign governments concerning prevention, research, education, and control programs for shared water resources. Requires compliance with specified treaties relating to the Great Lakes. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to declare the zebra mussel an injurious species. Requires the appropriate lead agency to allocate funds authorized under this Act for competitive university research grants to be administered through the Sea Grant College program to study aquatic nuisance species. Authorizes the program to conduct education and assistance services related to the prevention and control of such species. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1990
Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act of 1990 - Title I: HIV Emergency Relief Grant Program - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award emergency relief grants to any metropolitan statistical area (eligible area) as specified by the Secretary that has reported more than 2000 AIDS cases and that meets other requirements. Requires that the grants be directed to the chief elected official of the city or county that administers the public health agency serving the greatest proportion of individuals with AIDS in the eligible area. Requires the administering local political subdivision (ALPS) to establish a mechanism to allocate funds based on the proportion of AIDS cases and the severity of need of the local political subdivisions. Provides for the establishment of an HIV health services planning council, by each ALPS and its chief elected official, to establish fund allocation priorities and assess fund allocation efficiency. Provides, at specified times, that one-half of funds appropriated for the grants be used for regular grants and one-half be used for supplemental grants. Allows the grants to be used by the grantee to provide assistance to any public or nonprofit hospital, clinic, nursing home, sub-acute care facility, or health center that is providing services to a disproportionate share of low-income individuals and families with HIV disease and is expending resources that exceed reimbursement. Allows a recipient institution to use the amounts to: (1) enhance the quality of services to low income individuals and families with HIV disease; and (2) deliver outpatient and ambulatory care services, including case management, to such individuals and families, including comprehensive treatment and support services. Allows grant amounts to be used to provide direct financial assistance to any public or nonprofit agency, clinic, community based organization, or community health center that has the capacity to provide case managed outpatient health and support services to individuals and families with HIV disease that are critical to prevent unnecessary inpatient hospitalization and to expedite the discharge of the individual to the most medically appropriate level of service. Allows grant amounts to be used to renovate or rehabilitate congregate care housing units, long-term care facilities, and sub-acute care facilities, provided certain conditions, including a requirement of matching local or State funds, are met. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: HIV Care Grants - Directs the Secretary to make grants to States to improve the quality, availability, and organization of care, treatment, and support services for individuals and families with HIV disease. Allows grant funds to be used, with regard to HIV disease, to: (1) establish and operate care consortia; (2) provide home- and community-based care; (3) assist mechanisms that assure the continuity of health insurance; (4) provide therapeutic treatments to low income individuals; and (5) integrate early intervention services with care and support services provided in existing public health and medical care settings. Requires a State, subject to waiver in certain circumstances, to use at least 15 percent of the funds allocated to provide health and support services to infants, children, women, and families with HIV disease. Requires that, to the extent practicable, services under these provisions be provided without regard to the ability of the individual to pay, and that: (1) any charges be pursuant to a public schedule; (2) no charges be imposed on an individual with an income of 200 percent of the poverty line or less; and (3) charges imposed on individuals above such income level be adjusted to reflect their income. Requires the Secretary to use ten percent of the funds appropriated under this title to: (1) provide technical assistance to States; and (2) establish and administer a Special Projects of National Significance Program to make direct grants to States, localities, or community-based organizations to fund special programs for the care and treatment of individuals with HIV disease. Sets forth: (1) award criteria; and (2) permitted goals of recipient programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: HIV Disease Health Services Research, Evaluation, and Assessment - Directs the Secretary, through the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, to establish a program to enable independent research to be conducted by individuals and organizations to develop: (1) a comparative assessment of the impact and cost-effectiveness of major models for organizing treatment and support services; (2) a review of major health services financing mechanisms; (3) an assessment of how point-of-entry procedures for obtaining treatment and services impact cost, quality, and outcome, and the extent to which quality, cost, and outcome can be related to the source of payment; (4) a comprehensive report of financial, regulatory, organizational, and social barriers that serve to limit the delivery of services; (5) a summary concerning major and continuing unmet needs in health care, treatment, early intervention, and support service delivery; and (6) a review and assessment of models for the delivery of services to infants, children, women, and families.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that payment under a life insurance contract on the life of an insured who is terminally ill be treated as a death benefit, making such payment eligible for tax exclusion from gross income. Provides that any reference to life insurance shall be treated as referring to a qualified terminal illness rider. Provides for the tax treatment of such riders. Describes such a rider as one which provides for payments to an individual upon the insured's becoming terminally ill. Provides that applicants for or recipients of assistance under the Social Security Act may not be required to elect to receive accelerated death benefits under life insurance policies.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Innovative Boot Camp Prison Act of 1990 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize grants to States to carry out projects that demonstrate innovative alternatives to the imprisonment of individuals convicted of nonviolent offenses. Includes boot camp prisons as such alternatives, in conjunction with drug treatment, literacy education, vocational education, and job training programs. Makes drug testing and treatment mandatory for drug offenders. Sets forth: (1) application procedures and requirements for grants; and (2) procedures for review of applications. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Base Conversion, Community Development, and Worker Opportunity Act of 1990 - Provides for the disposal of real property identified by the Secretary of Defense as a military installation proposed to be closed by the Department of Defense (DOD). Gives the Administrator of General Services jurisdiction over any real property 30 days after it is officially closed by DOD as a military installation. Requires the Administrator, within six months of such date, to offer title to the property first to the local community concerned. Provides that, upon refusal by the local community, such property shall be offered to the county of the former installation, then to the State, then to other departments and agencies of the Federal Government, and, finally, to the highest responsible bidder. Provides for the disposition of property located in more than one local community or county. Prohibits title from being transferred to a local community, county, or State until such entity submits and the Administrator approves a plan under which the entity agrees to: (1) train or retrain all civilian Federal employees whose employment is terminated as the result of the closing of the military installation; (2) reimburse the United States for all severance payments made to affected Federal civilian employees; (3) pay such employees an adjustment allowance; (4) pay the United States a specified amount if the property is sold by such entity within 25 years of the transfer; (5) pay the United States 25 percent of rental or leasing income realized by such entity for the first 25 years after such transfer; and (6) make certain information available to the Comptroller General. Outlines actions to be taken by the Administrator if a local community, county, or State fails to comply with its plan. Directs the Comptroller General to review actions taken by the Administrator under this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1990
Designates the week of June 24 through June 30, 1990, as National Sheriffs' Week in honor of the 50th anniversary of the National Sheriffs' Association.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1990
Calls upon the President to urge Soviet President Gorbachev to publicly condemn the emergence of popular anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and to protect Soviet Jews from harassment and violence.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1990
Welcomes the positive political changes in South Africa. Commends: (1) President de Klerk for the release of Nelson Mandela and the unbanning of the African National Congress; and (2) Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and others for their perseverance in the struggle for a nonracial democracy. Urges de Klerk to initiate the dismantling of apartheid, move rapidly to meet the conditions necessary for the opening of negotiations, and meet the terms of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 for the relaxation of sanctions. Supports: (1) the maintenance of sanctions against the South African Government until conditions under such Act for the suspension, modification, or termination of sanctions have been met; and (2) assistance to the victims of apartheid as an important and necessary complement to U.S. sanctions.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1990
International Chemical Control Act of 1990 - Requires the Attorney General to enter into negotiations with foreign countries with jurisdiction over companies that manufacture, sell, or purchase certain precursor or essential chemicals used in the production of illicit narcotics. Declares that the purposes of such negotiations shall be to: (1) establish a list of chemicals contributing to the illicit manufacture of controlled substances; (2) reach international agreements on a method of maintaining records of transactions of such chemicals; (3) establish a procedure by which such records may be made available to U.S. law enforcement authorities for conducting investigations relative to such chemicals; and (4) encourage chemical source countries to enact specified chemical control legislation. Directs the President to impose penalties or sanctions on entities refusing to maintain or make available to U.S. law enforcement authorities records on such chemicals, including prohibiting such entities from engaging in U.S. commerce.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1990
Amends Federal law to authorize and request the President to designate May as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month annually, beginning in 1990. (Current law designates a seven-day period beginning on May 4, 1979.)
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