United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1987
Waste Reduction Clearinghouse Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish within the Agency the Office of Waste Reduction to administer the Waste Reduction Clearinghouse. Establishes such Clearinghouse within the Agency to collect and disseminate information on: (1) waste reduction (hazardous waste) technical assistance and grant programs at the State level; and (2) technical information and research. Requires that such Clearinghouse provide on-line computer access for the public. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1987
Fast Food Ingredient Information Act of 1987 - Title I: Responsibilities of the Secretary of Health and Human Services - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require fast food restaurant packaged foods to be labeled in accordance with such Act, or to require the restaurants to display such content and nutrition information in conspicuous places in the restaurant. Title II: Responsibilities of the Secretary of Agriculture - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to require labels of packaged foods sold by fast food restaurants to comply with such Acts. Permits the restaurants to display such content information in conspicuous places in the restaurant if determined appropriate by the Secretary of Agriculture. Title III: Regulations; Effective Date - Sets regulation promulgation responsibilities and effective dates.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1987
Federal Campaign Reform Act of 1987 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit multicandidate political committees from making contributions to any candidate and the candidate's political committee, other than a national political party or a political committee maintained by a national political party. Authorizes the Federal Election Commission to conduct random audits of separate segregated funds and nonparty multicandidate political committees. Requires corporations, labor organizations, and each national committee of a political party to file a report with the Commission if such entities have engaged in any otherwise exempt activity during the period for which the report is filed. Describes "otherwise exempt activities" as those activities which are exempt from disclosure requirements and which include any act of furnishing or making available services, payments, or other benefits excluded from the definition of contribution or expenditure. Declares that any nonprofit corporation receiving reduced postal rates which uses the mails to engage in any otherwise exempt activity during the 90-day period prior to a general or special election shall be subject to a civil penalty. Establishes reporting requirements for persons making independent expenditures in U.S. Senate elections totaling more than $10,000, and thereafter each time such persons make independent expenditures totaling more than $5,000. Subjects to such reporting requirements the exempt activities of corporations and labor organizations. Sets forth disclosure requirements for independent expenditures through broadcast communications on any radio or television station. Provides that an expenditure is not an independent expenditure where the person making an expenditure is in coordination, consultation, or concert with a candidate. Requires a candidate, within 15 days of qualifying for a primary election ballot, to file with the Commission and each other qualifying candidate a declaration stating whether or not such candidate intends to expend funds and incur personal loans for the primary and general election in the aggregate of $250,000 or more from the following sources: (1) personal funds; (2) family funds; and (3) personal loans incurred in connection with the campaign for office. Allows the opponents of such candidate to accept larger contribution amounts from individuals. Requires a candidate who files a declaration of intent not to expend more than $250,000 and who subsequently does exceed such amount, to file an amended declaration within 24 hours after exceeding such amount. Allows a candidate to repay a personal loan in connection with the candidate's campaign from contributions made to such candidate or any authorized committee of such candidate. Prohibits the repayment of any interest on the principal amount of such loan. Prohibits a candidate from making expenditures from personal funds, family funds, or from incurring personal loans in connection with the election campaign at any time within 60 days before such election. Requires that solicited or accepted contributions made through a check or money order be made payable to a specific payee by the original drawer of the check or money order when such amounts will be combined and contributed to a candidate for Federal office. Requires semiannual reports by a party political committee with respect to payments to such committee to defray establishment, administration, and solicitation costs. Requires the national committee of a political party to include in specified reports all funds received and disbursements made for purposes other than to influence a Federal election (soft money). Expresses the sense of the Congress that there should be established a bipartisan commission on campaign financing to develop a means of campaign financing which: (1) promotes the availability of qualified candidates for congressional office; (2) permits candidates, irrespective of their personal financial resources, the opportunity to communicate effectively with the electorate; (3) protects the integrity of the legislative process; (4) promotes participation of political parties in the electoral and legislative process; and (5) promotes public confidence in both the electoral and legislative processes. Declares that such commission should consider and study Federal laws and regulations and public commentary relating to financing congressional election campaigns.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1987
Designates August 1, 1987, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Requests the President to: (1) reassert the American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania; (3) convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; (4) convey to U.S. allies the necessity of unity regarding such Accords; (5) continue his efforts to achieve the release of political prisoners of the Soviet Union, an increase in Soviet emigration, resolution of family reunification cases, and cessation of radio transmission jamming; (6) seek the inclusion, in any concluding document agreed to in Vienna, of a mechanism to sustain human rights progress after the Vienna Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; and (7) convey to signatory states the desire of the United States for a result at Vienna that will not favor military security at the expense of human rights.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates the week beginning October 18, 1987, as Financial Independence Week. Urges all citizens to pursue financial independence through sound planning and management of their individual resources.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1987
Renewable Resources Extension Act Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978 to extend the authorization of appropriations through FY 1998.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1987
Fair Trade in Auto Parts Act of 1987 - Requires the Secretary of Commerce to establish an initiative to increase the sale of U.S.-made auto parts to Japanese markets in Japan, in the United States, and in third markets. Sets forth specified actions the Secretary should take to achieve such increase in sales. Directs the Secretary to establish a Special Industry Advisory Committee on Auto Parts Sales in Japan. Sets forth the functions of the Committee, including to: (1) report to the Secretary on Japanese barriers to sales of U.S. auto parts in Japanese markets; (2) advise the Secretary during consultation with Japan on issues concerning such sales; and (3) report annually to the Congress on the progress of such U.S. sales to Japan.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987
Declares that the United States should continue to aggressively pursue an agreement on international conflicts in agricultural trade policies. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should make a resolution of agricultural issues a primary priority during the seven nation economic summit in June. States that the seven nations participating should work together to reduce global grain and other agricultural products supplies and eliminate agricultural export subsidies.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987
States that the Environmental Protection Agency should encourage States to mandate the use of fuel alcohol and other oxygenate/gasoline blends in CO nonattainment areas, and neat alcohols or other clean burning alternative transportation fuels in commercial fleets in ozone nonattainment areas as optional pollution control strategies in their State Implementation Plan under the Clean Air Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that each Senate committee that reports legislation requiring employers to provide new employee benefits should include in such report an analysis of the impact of the legislation on employers (especially small businesses), the economy (in terms of international competitiveness), and employees (in terms of lost jobs).
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1987
Farm Credit Borrower Stock Protection and System Restoration Act of 1987 - Title I: Capitalization; Stock Protection - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to require Farm Credit System (FCS) institutions to incorporate provisions for capitalization in their bylaws. Sets forth required contents with respect to such provisions. Describes criteria to govern any capitalization plan adopted by an FCS institution, including a requirement that the plan enable the institution to meet permanent capital adequacy standards in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Directs the Farm Credit Administration (FCA) to issue regulations that establish minimum permanent capital adequacy standards, to be phased in over a seven-year period. Prohibits the FCA, during this seven-year period, from initiating regulatory or supervisory actions, such as receivership or liquidation, against institutions failing to meet minimum permanent capital adequacy standards unless the action is sanctioned by the board of directors of the Federal Farm Credit Assistance Board. Provides that failure of any FCS institution to adopt and administer an appropriate capitalization plan will be grounds for an enforcement action by the FCA. Permits the board of directors of an FCS institution, upon stockholder approval, to adopt bylaws providing for stockholder voting rights on other than a one-person-one-vote basis. Directs the FCA to issue regulations for the implementation of these capitalization requirements not later than 180 days after this Act's enactment. Requires, during the seven-year period following this Act's enactment, that any borrower stock and certain other ownership interests in FCS institutions be retired at par value. Directs the Federal Farm Credit Assistance Board, upon notification by an FCS institution that it is unable to retire borrower stock at par value because of its financial condition, to: (1) pay to the institution enough funds to retire the stock at par value; or (2) ensure that holders of borrower stock in an institution that is in liquidation, receivership, conservatorship, or similar status will receive par value for their holdings. Title II: Financial Assistance Through the Federal Farm Credit Assistance Board - Establishes the Federal Farm Credit Assistance Board (Board), an independent agency whose purposes are to: (1) obtain funds from the Secretary of the Treasury for use to protect the stock of FCS institution borrowers and to assist in restoring such institutions to economic viability, thus permitting them to continue to provide credit to farmers and ranchers at reasonable rates; and (2) receive funds from FCS institutions in repayment of Federal assistance. Sets forth criteria to govern Board membership, procedures, and leadership. Enumerates both general and specific corporate powers of the Board. Rescinds required purchases or assessments made by the Farm Credit System Capital Corporation and directs refunds of monies obtained through such purchases or assessments. Reverses or repays, as appropriate, all contributions made by FCS banks under loss-sharing agreements since December 23, 1985. Directs each FCS bank to pay to the Board an amount determined in accordance with this Act, to a maximum equal to the amount that the bank contributed under FCS capital preservation agreements. Sets forth a timetable to govern the activities described in this paragraph. Directs the Board to assist FCS institutions whose financial condition would not permit them to carry out their responsibilities without such assistance. Lists possible Board actions, including: (1) paying amounts necessary to bring the institution's stock out of an impaired condition; and (2) taking prescribed actions with respect to non-accrual loans and acquired property and with respect to high-cost debt. Directs the Board to pay to an FCS institution the amount necessary to permit the institution to retire borrower stock at par value if other assistance has not been adequate for this purpose. Requires that each FCS bank pay the Board an amount equal to two-tenths of one percent of the average annual volume of accruing loans outstanding until all amounts received by the Board from the Secretary of the Treasury for financial assistance to the institutions are repaid. Authorizes an institution to pay more than its required amount if it wishes to do so. Directs the Board to obtain from the Secretary, by sale of its obligations or otherwise, funds sufficient to carry out its responsibilities. Directs the Secretary to make such funds available. Describes the authority of the Secretary with respect to the obligations of the Board. Prohibits the Board from making assistance available to FCS institutions if the costs of the assistance would exceed those of liquidation of the institution. Permits the Board to terminate capital preservation agreements. Sets forth additional limitations on the Board. Declares that the Board shall not be subject to supervision or regulation by the Farm Credit Administration. Requires annual audits of Board records by the Comptroller General. Directs the Board to report annually to specified congressional committees on: (1) its activities and their effect on the financial condition of FCS institutions; and (2) the progress made by the institutions in achieving restoration of their financial viability. Terminates the powers of the Board upon fulfillment of its responsibilities under this Act. Caps at $6,000,000,000 the fiscal authority of the Secretary to purchase Board obligations or otherwise make funds available to the Board. Describes conditions, procedures, and transactions to occur during the period of transition as the Farm Credit System Capital Corporation progressively relinquishes its authority. Fixes December 31, 1988, as the date by which the Farm Credit System Capital Corporation must be terminated. Title III: Stockholder Authority to Reorganize System Institutions to Improve Operating Efficiency - Adds a new title to the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to govern mergers of various FCS institutions, as well as the structure and operation of the resulting entities. Provides for the merger of banks within a district into a merged bank. Describes criteria and procedures relating to the board of directors, powers, capital stock, earnings, reserves, and distributions for the resulting entity. Includes corresponding provisions with respect to the merger of like banks in different districts. Permits mergers of, and transfers of assets and powers by or to, associations within a district and describes the relevant transactions associated with such activity. Includes specific provisions for: (1) transfers by production credit associations to banks; (2) transfers by Federal land banks to Federal land bank associations; (3) mergers of associations into banks; (4) mergers of like and unlike associations (such as a merger of one or more production credit associations with one or more Federal land bank associations); and (5) mergers of service organizations. Requires prior approval by the FCA of information disclosed in the context of plans of merger or plans for the transfer of lending authority. Describes procedures and timetables to govern the approval process, including provisions for the remedy of any deficiencies identified by the FCA. Accords tax-exempt status to any entity resulting from the merger of currently tax-exempt entities (Federal land banks, Federal land bank associations, and Federal intermediate credit banks). Grants a limited tax exemption to entities resulting from a merger in which at least one constitutent was a production credit association or a bank for cooperatives. Title IV: Secondary Market for Agricultural Loans - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to add a new title, the Federal Farm Credit Mortgage Corporation Act of 1987, in the interest of: (1) increasing the availability of agricultural credit; (2) stimulating the flow of investment capital into the agricultural sector; and (3) increasing the liquidity and lending capacity of agricultural lenders. Establishes the Federal Farm Credit Mortgage Corporation as an institution of the Farm Credit System. Describes the general corporate powers and the investment powers of the Corporation. Accords the Corporation tax-exempt status with respect to all taxation except State and local real property taxes. Provides for a Board of Directors to govern the Corporation and sets forth criteria relating to Board operations and membership. Describes requirements with respect to common stock and preferred stock of the Corporation, including a requirement that there be at least one class of common stock issued to and held by only the FCS banks. Authorizes the Corporation to purchase, service, sell, lend on the security of, or otherwise deal in, agricultural loans (defined in the Act). Confines such operations to those loans deemed to be of such quality, type, and class as to meet generally the purchase standards imposed by private institutional agricultural loan investors. Permits the Corporation to establish reasonable requirements and to impose fees in connection with its services. Permits classifications of sellers or servicers to the extent distinctions bear a rational relationship to this Act's purposes or provisions. Disallows distinctions based solely on whether an entity is an FCS bank. Authorizes the Corporation to borrow, to give security, to pay interest or other return, and to issue notes, debentures, bonds, and other securities. Requires FCS banks to guarantee the Corporation's performance with respect to any agricultural loan or security, including loans and instruments subject to guarantees issued by the Corporation. Authorizes FCS members to lend money to the Corporation. Permits the Corporation to guarantee the timely payment of principal and notice payments on certain notes, bonds, trust certificates or other obligations, or other securities. Requires the Corporation to collect a reasonable fee for such guarantees and to charge other fees as appropriate with respect to such activities. Details procedures and powers to be implemented when an issuer is unable to make payments on any security guaranteed by the Corporation, including the power of the Corporation to enter into contracts under which the issuer relinquishes interest in the agricultural loans serving as security for the loan. Preempts State, local, and other preexisting Federal law with respect to such contracts. Declares that all securities issued or guaranteed by the Corporation shall be deemed to be exempt securities within the meaning of U.S. securities law. Exempts such agricultural loans, obligations, or other securities that have been issued, sold, or guaranteed by the Corporation from State laws requiring registration or qualification, but permits any State, within five years of this Act's enactment, to enact a statute specifically requiring the Corporation to register. Describes the regulatory authority of the Farm Credit Administration with respect to the Corporation. Limits such authority to providing for the examination of, and the general regulation of, the safe and sound performance of the powers, functions, and duties of the Corporation. Provides for FCA audit of the fundamental transactions of the Corporation. Directs: (1) the FCA to make an annual report to the Congress on the Corporation's condition; and (2) the Corporation to publish an annual report of condition in accordance with requirements prescribed by the FCA. Empowers the FCA to issue a cease and desist order, after notice and a hearing in accordance with the framework provided in this Act, when a person participating in the affairs of the Corporation engages in or is about to engage in unsafe or unsound practices with respect to the Corporation's business. Provides for enforcement of such orders by specified district courts. Provides for the removal (after proper notice and hearing) of any officer or director of the Corporation who has violated a cease and desist order, engaged in unsafe or unsound practices in connection with the Corporation, or breached a fiduciary duty. Permits judicial review in specified district courts of orders suspending such persons from office. Permits subsequent review upon petition to the appropriate court of appeals. Immunizes all rights and remedies of the Corporation from impairment, limitation, or restriction by or under any law or administrative or other action that becomes effective after the Corporation's acquisition of the property in question. Exempts agricultural loans purchased by or guaranteed by the Corporation from State constitutional or statutory limits on interest, discount points, and finance charges. Amends the Home Owner's Loan Act of 1933, the Federal Credit Union Act, and other Federal law to reflect the changes made by this Act. Title V: Clarification of Certain System Authorities - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to remove the sunset provision applicable to the authorities for: (1) certain export financing activity of banks for cooperatives; and (2) Federal intermediate credit bank lending or discounting of paper for other financial institutions. Deletes the provision that limits a Federal land bank or a production credit association from making rural housing loans in an aggregate amount that exceeds 15 percent of its total loans outstanding. Authorizes Federal land banks, Federal intermediate credit banks, and production credit associations to participate in leveraged lease arrangements. Title VI: Regulatory Authorities - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to remove a number of powers of the FCA, including: (1) the authority to amend Federal land bank charters on their own initiative; and (2) to approve various institution activity (such as loss-sharing agreements and matters relating to stock) with respect to Federal land banks, Federal land bank associations, Federal intermediate credit banks, production credit associations, and banks for cooperatives. Eliminates the role of the FCA in the process by which farm credit district directors are elected, shifting this role to the district board, which is directed to delegate nomination and election responsibilities to an independent district election committee. Sets forth transition rules for FCA approvals, stating that all existing approvals remain in effect. Covers both existing approvals and those that will be replaced by regulatory oversight under the amendments made by this Act. Title VII: Conservation - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 with respect to the conservation acreage reserve program. Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from rejecting certain offers to place land under the program. Makes this provision applicable only with respect to persons who regularly make loans secured by agricultural real estate and who have acquired highly erodible cropland through foreclosure proceedings arising out of the borrower's failure to meet loan payment obligations. Directs the Secretary to adjust payments to the parties involved in the sale of such land so that the buyer is able to participate in the program. Directs that the Secretary ensure, insofar as practicable, that lenders do not enjoy an advantage over other owners and operators of highly erodible cropland. Authorizes the Secretary to take measures to achieve this objective, including the establishment of separate bidding procedures. Exempts lenders from the conservation program's three-year holding requirement. Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to affirm the authority of any FCS institution, with respect to real property it acquires through foreclosure or other proceeding, to sell an easement for conservation, recreation, wildlife, or similar purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1987
Medicare Rural Health Services Transition Act of 1987 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program providing grants to small rural hospitals to assist such hospitals in modifying the type or extent of health care services they provide so that their services more closely approximate the changing needs of rural communities and are integrated with other community health care services. Requires rural hospitals wishing to participate in the program to submit an application specifying the nature of the hospital's proposed grant project and a timetable (of no more than two years) for its completion to the State Governor, who shall transmit it to the Secretary within 30 days with his or her comments on such application. Directs the Secretary to consider such comments, each project's objectives, and each project's effect in reducing expenditures under part A (Hospital Insurance) of the Medicare program in choosing among applicants for such grants. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress commending the Department of Agriculture on its 125th anniversary. Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation commemorating such event.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1987
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to assess fees (and late penalties and accrued interest) upon users of the wholesale market development program pursuant to the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 and other Federal law. States that such amounts shall be credited to the account that incurs the cost, without fiscal year limitations. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring an action in any appropriate U.S. court to recover unpaid charges.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1987
Amends the Plant Variety Protection Act to provide that user fees, late penalties, and accrued interest shall be credited to the account that incurs the cost, without fiscal year limitations. (Currently such amounts are deposited in the Treasury.) Authorizes the Attorney General to bring an action in any appropriate U.S. court to recover unpaid charges. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1987
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to assess fees (and late penalties and accrued interest) upon users of the grading programs pursuant to the following Acts: (1) the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946; (2) the United States Cotton Standards Act; (3) the Tobacco Inspection Act; (4) the Naval Stores Act; and (5) certain Federal law relating to wool. States that such amounts shall be credited to the account that incurs the cost, without fiscal year limitations. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring an action in any appropriate U.S. court to recover unpaid charges. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax-exempt organization all of whose members primarily coach football as full-time employees of four-year colleges or universities to have a pension plan with a qualified cash or deferred arrangement, provided such organization was in existence on September 18, 1986. Requires such a plan to be treated as a multiemployer plan.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1987
Federal Employees Health Care Freedom-of-Choice Act of 1987 - Amends provisions of law relating to Federal employee health benefits to authorize direct payment or reimbursement for services performed by licensed health practitioners in the State where they practice.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate: (1) supporting an immediate cease-fire to the Iran-Iraq war; (2) supporting a withdrawal of both Iran and Iraq to internationally recognized boundaries; (3) endorsing the peaceful resolution of the conflict under the auspices of the United Nations or other international organization; (4) encouraging all governments to refrain from providing military assistance to either party refusing to participate in peace negotiations; (5) urging strict observance of international humanitarian law by both Iran and Iraq; and (6) recognizing that stability and security in the Persian Gulf will only be achieved if Iran and Iraq are at peace.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1987
Declares that the President should designate and send to Vietnam a special presidential representative to negotiate with the Government of Vietnam for: (1) an agreement for the resolution of all outstanding humanitarian issues between the two countries; and (2) an agreement for establishment of technical resolution offices in the capitals of both countries to implement the agreement on humanitarian issues.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1987
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require foods to include on their labeling the presence and amount of any palm, palm kernel, or coconut oils along with a statement that such oil(s) is a saturated fat.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Amends the Automobile Information Disclosure Act to require automobile manufacturers to indicate on the windshield label whether or not such automobile can be operated on gasohol. Makes this requirement applicable to automobiles manufactured after model year 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1987
Title I: Recognition of Injustice and Apology on Behalf of the Nation - States that the Congress accepts the findings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians and recognizes that a grave injustice was done to both citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry by the evacuation, relocation, and internment of civilians during World War II. Title II: United States Citizens of Japanese Ancestry and Resident Japanese Aliens - Requests the President to offer pardons to those convicted of violating laws during the internment period whose conduct was based on a refusal to accept racially or ethnically discriminatory treatment. Provides that Federal departments and agencies that review applications for restitution of positions, status, or entitlement lost during the internment period shall review such applications giving full consideration to the findings of the Commission. Establishes within the Treasury a Civil Liberties Public Education Fund. Authorizes appropriations for the Fund. Requires the Attorney General to pay $20,000 from the Fund in compensation to each surviving internee. Establishes a Board of Directors which shall be responsible for making disbursements from the Fund. Provides that disbursements from the Fund shall be used to: (1) sponsor research and public educational activities dealing with the internment; (2) fund studies of similar civil liberties abuses; (3) prepare and distribute hearings and findings of the Commission; and (4) promote the general welfare of the ethnic Japanese community in the United States. Title III: Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution - Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution Act - Establishes within the Treasury the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands Restitution Fund. Directs the Administrator of the Fund (the Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association) to make restitution for certain Aleut losses sustained in World War II. Requires the Administrator to establish a trust of $5,000,000 and to distribute the interest of such trust for: (1) the benefit of the elderly, disabled, or seriously ill; (2) students in need of scholarship assistance; (3) preservation of Aleut cultural heritage and historical records; (4) the improvement of community centers of affected Aleut villages; and (5) other purposes to improve Aleut life. Authorizes the Administrator to rebuild and restore churches and church property damaged or destroyed in Aleut villages during World War II. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments of $12,000 from the fund to eligible Aleuts for any uncompensated personal property losses. Provides that such payments shall not be considered income or receipts for purposes of Federal taxes or determining eligibility for Federal benefits or assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary of the Army to implement a program for the removal and disposal of live ammunition, obsolete buildings, abandoned machinery, and other hazardous debris remaining in populated areas of the lower Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. States that the authority contained in this Act shall be supplemental to the authority of the Secretary of Defense in administering the Environmental Restoration Defense Account and shall be exercised only in the event that such account is inadequate to eliminate hazardous military debris from populated areas of the Lower Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. Authorizes appropriations. Provides that bidding rights for surplus Federal property might be exercised by the Aleut Corporation in lieu of conveyance of Attu Island to the Aleut people, such island having been designated as wilderness. States that the bidding rights shall be exercised by the Aleut Corporation without any preference over any other bidder. Provides that an amount equal to $500 for each acre traditionally occupied by the Aleut people on Attu Island shall be transferred to the Corporation account established by this Act and made available to the Corporation for such bidding.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should continue to express to the U.S.S.R. and Eastern European countries the opposition of the United States to the harassment of Christians; (2) the U.S.S.R. and Eastern European countries should comply with their commitments under the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Madrid Concluding Document; and (3) the U.S.S.R. and Eastern European countries should cease persecuting Christians and should afford them their fundamental human rights of religious expression.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Alternative Agricultural Products Research Act of 1987 - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture the New Products Research Board to be administered by the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Science and Education. States that the Board shall advise the Assistant Secretary with respect to research project selection and evaluation under this Act. Authorizes a plant modification research program focusing on the development and production of new (non-food and-fiber) industrial and commercial products. Gives priority to biotechnological research projects. Sets forth project selection criteria. Authorizes FY 1988 through 2007 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Alzheimer's Disease Research Act of 1987 - Requires the Director of the National Institute on Aging to provide for the conduct of clinical trials on the efficacy of the use of tetrahydroaminoacridine to retard the progression of Alzheimer's disease and to improve the functioning of individuals with such disease. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Makes congressional findings concerning rural and urban poor in developing countries. Requires the Administrator of the agency responsible for administering the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make assistance available to financial intermediaries in developing countries to enable them to provide loans and other assistance for micro and small enterprises of the poorest people. Specifies that such assistance may be made available for use by such financial intermediaries: (1) in extending credit for micro and small enterprises; (2) in extending credit for such purposes as food processing and production of cloth and clothing; (3) for the start-up costs incurred by a nongovernmental organization in becoming a financial intermediary; (4) for expenses incurred by financial intermediaries in providing training and technical assistance for micro and small enterprises; and (5) to provide other assistance necessary to the successful functioning of micro and small enterprises. Requires the Administrator to issue guidelines for financial intermediaries providing such assistance. Requires the Administrator to place primary emphasis on the development of the capacity of and use of indigenous nongovernmental organizations (especially those representing women, tribal people, and other minorities) which will provide credit and other assistance to micro and small enterprises. Requires the Administrator to conduct a benchmark survey to determine the total amount of assistance made available during FY 1987 for credit and other assistance for micro and small enterprises under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and to report to the Congress on the results of such survey. Sets forth the total amounts of assistance to be provided for such programs for FY 1988 and 1989. Specifies that such amounts shall be made available from: (1) funds made available under provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 relating to development assistance, Africa famine recovery and development, and economic support; (2) foreign currencies generated from specified sources; and (3) amounts paid to the United States on loans made to financial intermediaries. Specifies that at least 80 percent of such amounts shall be used in support of micro enterprises. Authorizes the Administrator to use economic assistance funds to provide assistance to the governments of developing countries on a loan basis repayable in foreign currencies. Requires notification to the Congress of the reprogramming of economic assistance funds made available to financial intermediaries under this Act. Requires the Administrator to encourage economic policies which promote micro and small enterprises in policy dialogues concerning economic policies with, and efforts to reform economic policies of, countries receiving economic assistance from the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate regarding the importance of protecting the equity of Farm Credit System borrowers and of ensuring the continued availability of competitive borrower credit.
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