United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make an investigation and study of the condition and adequacy of farm to market roads, railroad beds, and availability of operational rail lines serving rural areas in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1973
Family Nutrition Act - Extends eligibility, under the Food Stamp Act, to specified households whether or not they occupy an entire dwelling unit. Establishes uniform national standards of eligibility for participation by households in the food stamp program and the program of distribution of federally donated foods, including: (1) the income eligibility criteria shall not be less than the equivalent of the product of the face value of the coupon allotment issued to a household; (2) the resource eligibility criteria, for liquid and nonliquid assets, shall not be less than $3,000 for each individual sixty years of age or over; and (3) households in which members are included in a federally aided public assistance program under the Social Security Act shall be eligible to participate in the food stamp program if they satisfy the eligibility criteria. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish standards of eligibility for (1) households that are victims of a natural disaster, and (2) for Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands, to reflect the cost of obtaining a nutritionally adequate diet in those areas. Grants the Secretary the power to investigate complaints made by participating households into the pricing policies of retail food stores. Provides that the face value of the coupon allotment be updated twice a year and incorporate the rise in the cost of food through March 31st of this year. Provides an extra allotment for a pregnant woman, a $12 bonus per month for each child under one year of age, and an allotment bonus to persons medically certified as requiring a special diet of such an amount as the Secretary determines is necessary to provide that person with a nutritionally adequate diet. Reduces from 30 percent to 25 percent of the household's income the maximum charge that can be made for coupon allotment. Requires households desiring to participate in the food stamp program to be certified for eligibility or denied within fifteen days. States that when certification or denial is not made within fifteen days temporary certification of eligibility shall be provided to such household until a final decision on the merits can be made. Provides that State agencies desiring to participate in the food stamp program shall submit a plan including provisions on: (1) the use of the eligibility standards and certification procedures; (2) safeguards restricting the use or disclosure of information obtained from applicant households; (3) granting a fair hearing, and prompt determination thereafter, to any household aggrieved by any action of a State agency under any provision of its plan; (4) issuance of coupon allotments no less often than two times per month; (5) the institution of procedures by which any household may elect to have the charges for its coupon allotment deducted from any grant under the Social Security Act. Provides that failure of a State agency to comply with this Act allows the Secretary to pursue one or more of the following sanctions: (1) request the Attorney General to petition a district court to enjoin such State to comply with this Act; (2) disallow administrative funds expended by the State agency not in compliance with this Act; (3) require the State agency to reimburse any households affected by the agency's failure to comply with this Act; or (4) directly administer such program as the Secretary deems appropriate. Provides that members of an eligible household who are sixty or over are allowed to use food stamps to purchase meals prepared especially for elderly persons. Raises to 80 percent the amount the Secretary is authorized to pay State agencies for the cost of administering the Food Stamp Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1974, 1975 and 1976 as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1973
Federal Appropriations Reform Act - Title I: Change of Fiscal Year - Provides that beginning June 30, 1974, the fiscal year shall coincide with the calendar year. Sets April 15 as the date for the submission to Congress of the President's budget and economic messages and economic reports. Title II: Separate Consideration of Appropriations Measures - Provides that the legislative period of Congress shall open on January 3 for exclusive consideration of legislative matters, August 15, and set a specific date by which all authorizations bills must be enacted. Provides that the fiscal period of Congress shall convene thereafter, at a date set by joint resolution upon the adjournment of the legislative period, for the exclusive consideration of appropriation bills. Provides that the fiscal period can last no longer than December 1. Directs that during both periods, all committees, legislative and appropriation, shall meet to consider matters under their jurisdiction. Allows them to hold hearings and conduct studies, but states only legislative committees can report bills or resolutions to the floor during a legislative period, while only appropriations committees can report bills to the floor during the fiscal period. Provides the following exceptions: (1) Congress can make supplemental or deficiency appropriations during a legislative period; (2) the president of the United States or the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, acting jointly, may notify Congress that the consideration of specific bills is necessary because of a national emergency; and (3) during either the legislative or fiscal period, the Congress may consider overriding a veto by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1973
Directs the President, after public hearing, to provide for the establishment of priorities of use and for systematic allocation of supplies of petroleum products including crude oil in order to meet the essential needs of various sections of the Nation and to prevent anticompetitive effects resulting from shortages of such products. Creates in the Executive Office of the President an Emergency Fuels Allocation Board, composed of five members, to expedite the implementation of directives by the President, as authorized by this resolution. Grants the Board necessary powers to carry out the functions of this joint resolution. Requires the Board to implement specific programs to promote the expansion of domestic refinery capacity consistent with reasonable requirements of environmental protection, and public awareness of the dimensions of the fuel shortage crisis in the United States, and voluntary action to curtail nonessential use of private transportation and of living conveniences requiring electric power. Directs the Attorney General to take such steps as may be necessary to assure that during the existing fuel shortage emergency, marketing practices by major refiners and fuel allocation polices by the Government of the United States are not detrimental to the maintenance of a viable competitive domestic petroleum industry and do not result in a foreclosure to independent marketers of supplies from major oil companies. Provides that the authorities provided for in this resolution shall be effective through the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1973
States that notwithstanding any other provision of law, the payment rate for corn to producers participating in the 1973 feed grain program under the so-called option B part of the program under the Agricultural Act of 1970 (for partial compliance) shall be increased to such rate as, together with the national average market price received by farmers for corn during the first five months of the marketing year for the crop, the Secretary determines will be equal to: (A) $1.35 per bushel, or (B) 70 percent of the parity price of corn as of the beginning of the marketing year, whichever is the greater. Provides that the payment rates for grain sorghums and barley shall be such rates, respectively, as the Secretary determines fair and reasonable in relation to the rate at which payments are made available for corn. availabe for corn. Provides that such payments shall be made available on 50 percent of the feed grain base for the farm as provided in the Agricultural Act. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 1441nt).
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1973
Extends insurance coverage under the Federal Crop Insurance Act to all areas of the United States and to all agricultural commodities. Removes the appropriations limit on amounts that may be authorized under the Act. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 1508(a),1516(a))
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
North Slope Energy Resources Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, to grant, issue, or renew rights-of-way over, upon, or through the Federal lands for any purpose authorized by said Act except for those purposes prohibited by this Act, in such widths as he may deem necessary and proper, after complying with all existing applicable statutes, regulations, and proceedings pertaining to granting, issuance, or renewal of such permits, for a period of two years from the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to submit to Congress a catalog of existing rights-of-way laws; a description of the extent to which Federal lands are now dedicated to private rights-of-way; a comprehensive Federal plan for the granting of rights-of-way across the Federal lands; and the required environmental impact statements thereon, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Requests the President of the United States, utilizing the services of the Secretary of State, to enter into negotiations with the appropriate officials of the Government of Canada to ascertain within one hundred and eighty days of the date of enactment of this Act the feasibility of construction, operation, and maintenance of a transportation corridor for the North Slope oil and gas. Directs the Director of the National Science Foundation to undertake a study of the feasibility of alternatives for a corridor for the delivery of North Slope oil and natural gas insofar as such a corridor: (1) affects the national interest and welfare of the United States, and (2) poses environmental risks along the length of its route. Provides that the Secretary of the Interior, within three hundred and thirty days of the date of enactment of this Act, shall submit to the Committee on the Interior of the House and Senate his recommendations as to the most desirable route for transmission of North Slope Alaska oil and natural gas to the other States of the United States. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Imposes a sixty-day freeze on prices and rents at levels no higher than those prevailing on March 16, 1973. Directs the President to establish a longrun economic stabilization program for prices, rents, wages, interest rates, and corporate dividends.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Exempts specified farm vehicles from the highway use tax under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to require that evidence of payment of such tax be shown on highway motor vehicles subject to tax by affixing a windshield sticker to such vehicles. (Adss 26 U.S.C. 4483(d), 4481(f))
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Prohibits the further expenditure of funds to finance the involvement of the Armed Forces of the United States in armed hostilities in Cambodia unless specifically authorized by legislation enacted after this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Provides for an extension through June 30, 1975, of authorization for special project grants under title V of the Social Security Act (Grants to States for Maternal and Child Welfare).
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide information, utilizing computers and modern data processing methods, through a national adoption information exchange system, to assist in the placement of children, awaiting adoption and in the location of children, including cooperative efforts with any similar programs operated by or within foreign countries, and such other related activities as would futher or facilitate adoptions. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and such sums as may be necessary for succeeding fiscal years, to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973
Establishes the National Commission on Executive Security to: (1) conduct a study of all laws, and of all rules, regulations, and orders, relating to the classification and protection of information, and the practices and procedures of Federal agencies with respect to such matters for the purpose of determining what reorganization, if any, of the executive branch needs to be made to insure full disclosure of information, consistent with the security of the United States; (2) determine which such laws, rules, regulations, orders, and procedures are necessary, appropriate, and consistent with the freedom of speech, press, and assembly guaranteed by the first amendment to the Constitution, the freedom of information, and the efficient and equitable operation of Government; (3) determine what, if any, modifications of existing laws, rules, regulations, orders, and procedures are required to insure a more efficient, equitable, and uniform system for maximum possible disclosure of information, consistent with the security of the United States; (4) make recommendations for legislation or other governmental action to preserve and protect the security of the United States in a manner consistent with the right of the people of the United States to full disclosure of information relating to their Government; and (5) determine whether an independent agency should be established to insure the maximum disclosure of information. Directs the Chairman of the Commission to hold such hearings, sit and act at such times and places, administer such oaths, and require by subpena or otherwise the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memorandums, papers, and documents as the Commission may deem advisable. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1973
Provides that any executive agreement made on or after the date of enactment of this Act shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State who shall then transmit such agreement to the Congress. States that if, in the opinion of the President, the immediate disclosure of such an agreement would be prejudicial to the security of the United States the agreement shall be transmitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House under an appropriate written injuction of secrecy to be removed only upon due notice from the President. Provides that any such agreement shall come into force with respect to the United States at the end of the first period of 60 calendar days after the date on which the executive agreement is transmitted to the Congress or such committees, as the case may be unless, both Houses pass a concurrent resolution stating in substance that both Houses do not approve the executive agreement. Sets forth the procedure to be followed by the Congress in the case of concurrent resolutions described above.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1973
Rural Job and Business Development Tax Act - Allows a double investment credit under the Internal Revenue Code for property placed in service in rural areas which will assist in providing new employment opportunities. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 46(c)(5))
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1973
Provides that children's benefits received by an individual under the Social Security Act shall be disregarded in determining whether that individual is a dependent of a taxpayer under the Internal Revenue Code. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 152)
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1973
Congressional Budget Control Act - Requires the Budget of the United States Government to be organized and submitted on the basis of national needs, agency programs, and basic program steps. Sets forth the meaning of terms used in this Act, and the requirements for each Government agency.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1973
Permits, under the Labor Management Relations Act, employer contributions to jointly administered trust funds established by labor organizations to defray costs of legal services.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1973
National Institute of Justice Act - Establishes an agency to be known as the National Institute of Justice to be headed by a Director who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Sets forth the functions of the Institute, including: (1) undertake surveys, and collect, analyze, and disseminate information relating to the operation of the judicial system in the United States at all levels, with particular emphasis upon information with respect to improvements and innovations in the operation of that system, and (2) conduct, either directly or through contracts, grants, or other arrangements, an evaluation of the principal sources of delay in the administration of justice, criminal and civil, designed to identify existing problems and to provide a diagnosis of new anticipated problems in the timely and efficient disposition of civil and criminal cases. Sets forth the administrative functions and duties of the Director and of the Institute. Provides that no officer or employee of the Institute shall take any active part in political management or in political campaigns and no such officer or employee shall use his official position or influence for the purpose of interfering with any election or affecting the result of any election. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1973
Grants the Interstate Commerce Commission under the Interstate Commerce Act certain authority over railroad car service when an emergency is or may be imminent.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Budget Control Act - Title I - Ceiling on Fiscal Year 1974 Expenditures - Expenditure Control Act - States that the net lending during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, under the budget of the United States Government shall not exceed $255,300,000,000. Provides that if the estimates of revenues which will be received in the Treasury during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, exceed $255,300,000,000, such limitation shall be increased by an amount equal to such excess. Directs the President to propose reservations from expenditures and net lending of such amounts as may be necessary to keep expenditures and net lending during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, within the limitation specified in this Act. Provides that the President shall propose reservations of expenditures under this Act by one or more special messages to the Congress and that any proposed reservation shall become effective on the date on which a concurrent resolution approving such reservation is agreed to by the Senate and the House of Representatives. Prescribes procedures for the consideration of such concurrent resolution. Title II - Requirement of Congressional Approval of Impoundments - Provides that whenever the President impounds any funds appropriated or otherwise obligated for a specific purpose or project, or approves the impounding of such funds by any officer or employee of the United States, he shall, within ten days thereafter, transmit to the Senate and the House of Representatives a special message announcing the impoundment of such funds. Requires the President to cease the impounding of funds set forth in each special message within sixty days of continuous session after the message is received by the Congress unless the specific impoundment shall have been ratified by the Congress by passage of a resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Animal Health Research Act - Sets forth the purpose of this Act and authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with the several States for the purpose of encouraging and assisting them in carrying out programs of animal health research at eligible institutions. Authorizes the Congress to appropriate such funds as it may determine to be necessary to support such research programs. Specifies the formula by which funds appropriated under this Act shall be apportioned. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as may be necessary to support research on specific national or regional animal health problems. Provides that in developing plans for the use of such funds the Secretary shall consult the Advisory Board created by this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to support costs of providing veterinary medical science research facilities. Provides that such funds shall be apportioned in accordance with the formula set forth in this Act. States that each dean or director of an eligible institution shall submit a brief annual report of research accomplishments on a project-by-project basis. Directs the Secretary to appoint a Veterinary Medical Science Research Advisory Board which shall consist of not less than nine nor more than twelve members. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1973
Makes it the sense of the Congress that no amendments to titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act be enacted for which the amount of expenditures allocated for the above programs for fiscal year 1975 is predicated upon the enactment into law of amendments to titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Hemophilia Act - Provides that any individual suffering from hemophilia may file a claim for benefits under this part with the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in such form and containing such information as he may reasonably require. States that benefits under this part shall be paid to, or on behalf of a claimant, in an amount equal to 100 percent of the actual cost of providing blood, blood products, and services associated with the treatment of hemophilia, less: (1) amounts payable by third parties (including governmental agencies), and (2) amounts determined by the Secretary (in accordance with this Act) to be payable by the individual suffering from hemophilia. Authorizes to be appropriated for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 1973, and ending June 30, 1976, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary to provide for the establishment of no less than fifteen new centers for the diagnosis and treatment of individuals suffering from hemophilia. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this section $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976. Provides that the Secretary shall establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for diagnosis, treatment, and counseling of individuals suffering from hemophilia. States that such program shall be made available through the facilities of the Public Health Service to any individual requesting diagnosis, treatment, or counseling for hemophilia. Permits the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities, and to enter into contracts with public and private entities and individuals to establish blood fractionation centers, for the purpose of fractionating and making available for distribution blood and blood products, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary to hemophilia treatment and diagnostic centers. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976 for this purpose. Establishes in the National Institutes of Health a National Hemophilia Advisory Board to be composed of twenty members. States that it shall be the function of the Board to: (1) establish guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of persons suffering from hemophilia; and (2) submit a report to the President for transmittal to the Congress not later than January 31 of each year on the scope of activities conducted under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Congressional Free Speech Act - Provides that no court or grand jury shall inquire of a Member or an aide either directly or indirectly into the protected legislative activities of a Member in a criminal proceeding without the Member's consent. Requires the Attorney General of the United States to personally approve the issuance of any subpena to a Member who is at that time serving in Congress, and to notify in writing that Member, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in the case of a Representative, and the President pro tempore of the Senate, in the case of a Senator, not less than forty-eight hours in advance of the issuance of the subpena. Provides that when an aide is served with a subpena which he has reason to believe may require his testimony on the protected legislative activity of a Member, the aide shall immediately inform that Member. Permits any Member to move in United States district court to quash any subpena issued by a court or grand jury in a criminal proceeding requiring him or an aide to appear to give testimony where the Member believes that the subpena seeks testimony about protected legislative activity. Sets forth the procedure for such a motion.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Allows any Senator, or former Senator, to refuse to testify before any court or grant jury in a criminal proceeding concerning his legislative activity while a Member of the Senate. Prohibits an aide or former aide to a Senator or to a former Senator from testifying before a court or grand jury in a criminal prosecution in the performance of legislative activity by that Senator while he was a member of the Senate, unless otherwise instructed by that Senator. Provides that no memorial or other paper presented to the Senate, except original treaties, finally acted upon, shall be withdrawn from its files except by order of the Senate, except that when an act may pass for the settlement of any private claim, the Secretary is authorized to transmit to the officer charged with the settlement the papers on file relating to the claim, (contained in House Rule XXX). Provides that no memorial or other paper upon which an adverse report has been made shall be withdrawn from the files of the Senate unless copies thereof shall be left in the Office of the Secretary (presently contained in House Rule XXX). Requires a Senator to immediately notify the President Pro Tempore of any demands for testimony or documents made upon him or an aide which might fall within the provisions of this rule.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Grand Canyon National Park Enlargement Act - Provides for the recognition of the entire Grand Canyon as a natural feature of national and international significance. Prohibits the transfer of any lands held in trust for any Indian Tribe. Establishes the Grand Canyon Zone of Influence which gives the Secretary of the Interior the authority to coordinate a protective management program for those lands adjacent to the Grand Canyon or affecting the environment of the Grand Canyon. Institutes programs for the recreational, historical and cultural development of the area, and authorizes cooperative agreements between the States, Indian Tribes, and the Federal Government for the regulation of the area. Provides for the Administration of wilderness land under the Wilderness Act. Authorizes those sums as are necessary for the carrying out of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
National Energy Research and Development Policy Act - Title I: Coordination and Augmentation of Federal Support for Research and Development of Fuels and Energy - Declares it to be the policy of the Congress to establish and maintain a national program of research and development in fuels and energy adequate to meet specified objectives. Establishes an Energy Research Management Project which shall have a Chairman appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Sets forth the duties of the Project, initiating: (1) to review the full range of Federal activities in and financial support for fuels and energy research and development, giving consideration to research and development being conducted by industry and other non-Federal entities, to determine the capability of ongoing research efforts to carry out the policies established by this Act and other relevant Federal policies, particulary the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; and (2) to formulate a comprehensive energy research and development strategy for the Federal Government which will expeditiously advance the policies established by this Act. Provides that in evaluating proposed opportunities for particular research and development undertakings pursuant to this title, the Management Project shall assign priority to types of projects listed in this title. Requires the President not later than five years from the date of this Act, if the authorities and duties of the Management Project are not reassigned to a permanent agency in the interim, to report to the Congress on his evaluation of the progress of fuels and energy research and development and his recommendation for further management of the Federal research and development programs. Provides that the Chairman shall keep the Congress fully and currently informed of all of the Management Project's activities and shall submit to the Congress an annual report. States that neither the Chairman nor any other member of the Management Project or his employees may refuse to testify before the Congress or to submit information to the legislative or appropriations committees of either House of the Congress. Authorizes to be appropriated $10,000,000 annually for the administrative expenses of the Management Project. Authorizes to be appropriated not to exceed $800,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and, subject to annual congressional authorizations, $800,000,000 for each of the four following fiscal years to carry out the provisions of this title with respect to energy research and development. Title II: Establishment of a Coal Gasification Corporation - Establishes the Coal Gasification Development Corporation. States that it shall be the function of the Corporation to select, on the basis of the best engineering information available, the two or more most technically, environmentally, and economically feasible methods for manufacturing substitute natural gas from coal. Authorizes the Corporation to design construct, operate, and maintain a demonstration-type facility for each such method selected in order to determine the technical, environmental, and economical feasibility thereof and to design, construct, operate, and maintain, for each such method demonstrated, which is technically and economically feasible, a fullscale, commercial-size facility to manufacture substitute natural gas from coal by such method. Provides that the Corporation shall transmit to the President of the United States and the Congress, annually, commencing one year from the date of the enactment of this Act, and at such other times as it deems desirable, a comprehensive and detailed report of its operations, activities, and accomplishments under this title. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Corporation, for fiscal year 1974, the sum of $6,000,000, and for each of the next nine succeeding fiscal years such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. Title III: Establishment of a Shale Oil Development Corporation - States that it is the policy of the Federal Government to bring into being the technology for commercial development of shale oil as quickly as possible by establishing a Government-industry program jointly managed and funded to demonstrate commercial methods of producing environmentally acceptable fuels from shale oil. Establishes the Shale Oil Development Corporation which shall have a Board of nine Directors consisting of individuals who are citizens of the United States, of whom one shall be elected annually by the Board to serve as Chairman. States that it shall be the function of the Corporation to select on the basis of the best engineering information available, the two or more technically, environmentally, and economically feasible methods for producing a syncrude from shale oil. Authorizes the Corporation to design, construct, operate, and maintain a demonstration-type facility for each such method selected in order to determine the technical, environmental, and economical feasibility thereof and to design, construct, operate, and maintain, for each such method demonstrated, which is technically and economically feasible, a full-scale, commercial-size facility to produce a syncrude from shale oil by such method. Requires the Corporation to transmit an annual report to the President and the Congress and at such time to submit such legislative recommendations as it deems desirable. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Corporation, for fiscal year 1974, the sum of $5,000,000 and for each of the next seven succeeding fiscal years such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. Title IV: Establishment of an Advanced Power Cycle Development Corporation - Establishes the Advanced Power Cycle Development Corporation which shall have a Board of nine Directors consisting of individuals who are citizens of the United States, of whom one shall be elected annually by the Board to serve as Chairman. States that it shall be the function of the Corporation to select, on the basis of the best engineering information available, the two or more most technically, environmentally, and economically feasible methods for producing electricity at high efficiencies using advanced power cycles with minimum adverse environmental impacts using coal. Authorizes the Corporation to design, construct, operate, and maintain a demonstration-type facility for each such method selected in order to determine the technical and economical feasibility thereof and to design, construct, operate, and maintain, for each such method demonstrated, which is technically and economically feasible a full-scale commercial-size facility to produce electricity from coal by such mehtod. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Corporation for fiscal year 1974, the sum of $6,500,000, and for each of the next nine succeeding fiscal years, such sums as may be necessary. Title V: Establishment of a Geothermal Energy Development Corporation - Establishes the Geothermal Energy Development Corporation which shall have a Board of nine Directors consisting of individuals who are citizens of the United States, of whom one shall be elected annually by the Board to serve as Chairman. States that it shall be the function of the Corporation, on the basis of the best geologic information and after field exploration, to select suitable sites for the construction of two or more demonstration installations to develop technologies for the generation of steam and electric power from geothermal resources. Authorizes the Corporation to operate a full scale commercial-size facility to produce electricity from geothermal energy. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Corporation, for fiscal year 1974, the sum of $8,000,000, and for each of the next fourteen succeeding fiscal years such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. Title VI: States that it is the policy of the Federal Government to bring into being the technology for commercial development of coal liquefaction processes as quickly as possible by establishing a Government-industry program jointly managed and funded to demonstrate commercial methods of producing synthetic liquid petroleum products from coal. Establishes the Coal Liquefaction Corporation which shall have a Board of nine Directors consisting of individuals who are citizens of the United States, of whom one shall be elected annually by the Board to serve as Chairman. States that it shall be the function of the Corporation to select, on the basis of the best engineering information available, the two or more technically, environmentally, and economically feasible methods for producing synthetic liquid petroleum products from coal. Authorizes the Corporation to design, construct, operate, and maintain a demonstration-type facility for each such method selected in order to determine the technical, environmental, and economical feasiblity thereof and to design, construct, operate, and maintain, for each such method demonstrated, which is technically and economically feasible, a full-scale, commercial-size facility to produce synthetic fuel from coal by such method. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Corporation, fiscal year 1974, the sum of $7,500,000, and for each of the next eleven succeeding fiscal years, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
Prohibits the inspection of farmers' income tax returns by the Department of Agriculture for the purpose of gathering data for statistical purposes. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 6103)
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Interns for Political Leadership Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, under title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1965, to enter into a contract or other arrangement with a private nonprofit agency (to be known as the "National Coordinating Agency") under which such Agency will plan, develop and carry out an internship program under which third-and fourth-year students at institutions of higher education will be provided practical political involvement with elected officials in the performance of their duties at all levels of government through internships in their offices. Provides that such internship program shall be carried out through arrangements with institutions of higher education and State and local governments under which students will serve as interns in offices of State and local elected officials. Provides that the students who have participated in the internship programs at State and local levels may become interns in the offices of Members of Congress for up to three months during the first year following the receipt of their bachelor's degree. Stipulates that students shall be chosen by the Agency from among those whose names are proposed by participating institutions. Limits the Federal contribution to the Program to one-half its cost. Authorizes the Agency to prescribe and administer the terms and conditions of internships, including stipends therefor. Authorizes an appropriation of $3 million in each of the three fiscal years 1974-1976, for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973
Authorizes common carriers, engaged in interstate or foreign communications by wire or radio and subject to the Communications Act to provide free or reduced rate service for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. (Amends 47 U.S.C. 210)
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973
Limits the authority of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to impose, by regulations, restrictions upon the availability and use of Federal funds authorized for social services under the public assistance programs established by the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect two Senators and the number of Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled by apportionment if it were a State. Requires each Senator or Representative so elected to be an inhabitant of the District and to possess the same qualifications as to age and citiizenship and have the same rights, privileges, and obligations as a Senator or Representative from a State. Provides that this article shall have no effect on the provision made in the twenty-third article of amendment to the Constitution for determining the number of electors for President and Vice President to be appointed for the District. Entitles each Representative or Senator from the District to participate in the choosing of the President or Vice President in the House of Representatives or Senate under the twelfth article of amendment as if the District were a State. Grants Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1973
Child Abuse Prevention Act - Establishes a National Center of Child Abuse and Neglect to monitor research, maintain a clearinghouse on child abuse programs, and compile and publish training materials for persons working in the field. Establishes a program of demonstration grants to be used in training personnel in the fields of medicine, law and social work and to support innovative projects aimed at preventing or treating child abuse or neglect. Creates a National Commission on Child Abuse and Neglect to examine some of the issues relating to child abuse including the effectiveness of existing laws and the proper role of the Federal Government in the area of child abuse. Modifies existing legislation authorizing child welfare programs to require a State plan outlining the system used to deal with child abuse. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1973
Provides that nothing in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 shall be construed to prevent any State from regulating concurrently with the Atomic Energy Commission the discharge or disposal of radioactive effluents from the site of a utilization or production facility in such State if: (1) the requirements or standards imposed by such State are for the protection of the public health and safety; and (2) action permitted or tolerated by such State with respect to the discharge or disposal of such effluents is not specifically prohibited by the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Rolling Stock Utilization and Financing Act - Title I: National Rolling Stock Information Service and Federal Railroad Equipment Obligation Insurance Fund - States that the purposes of this Act is: (1) to improve the utilization and distribution of rolling stock to meet the needs of commerce, users, shippers, the national defense, and the consuming public; (2) to assist railroads in acquiring additional rolling stock to provide fast and expeditious service to meet the increasing demands of the Nation's economy; and (3) to assist in achieving full employment by insuring adequate equipment necessary to transport the products of American industry. Defines the terms used in this Act. Creates a Federal Railroad Equipment Obligation Insurance Fund to be used to insure the interest on, and the unpaid principal balance of, any equipment obligation determined eligible for insurance. Establishes a Board to administer this Fund. Requires the Board before insuring any equipment obligation to determine in writing that specified limitations and conditions are met, including: (1) that the equipment obligation is secured by rolling stock to be financed or refinanced thereby; (2) that the terms of the equipment obligation require full payment within fifteen years from the date thereof; and (3) that the financing or refinancing of the rolling stock is justified by the present and future demand for transportation services to be rendered by the railroad or car-pooling company for which the rolling stock is procured. Authorizes the Board to issue notes or other obligations to the Secretary of the Treasury if at any time the moneys in the fund are not sufficient to pay any amount under an agreement entered into under this section. Allows the Board to consent to the modification of the provisions of an equipment obligation as to rate of interest, time of payment of interest or principal, security, or the terms and conditions or any contract of insurance entered into pursuant to this Act. Requires the transactions of the Board to be audited by the Comptroller General in accordance with such rules and regulations as he may prescribe and requires a report to be made to the Congress. Title II: To Improve Utilization - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to design and assist railroads in establishing a national rolling stock information system. Provides that such system shall facilitate equitable distribution and economic utilization of rolling stock by furnishing information to railroads, shippers, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the public about rolling stock with respect to physical characteristics, origin, destination, location, availability for future loadings, and such other information as determined useful. Requires a semiannual report to Congress on progress under this title. Relieves persons contracting for the design of a national information system or the use of such information from the antitrust laws with respect to such contract. Authorizes an appropriation of $10,000,000 for purposes of this provision. Requires the Secretary to develop an index measuring the degree of utilization of freight cars, and to publish such index at least quarterly together with a report setting forth the changes in such utilization and the causes thereof. Requires the Interstate Commerce Commission to publish a report on utilization of freight cars thirty days after each report by the Secretary. Provides for a study by the Secretary, with legislative recommendations, on the utilization of freight cars and means to improve such utilization. Provides for a study on the use of abandoned railroad trackage and rights-of-way as recreational trails and camp sites. Title III: Rolling Stock Authority - Authorizes the establishment of a corporation known as the Rolling Stock Authority if substantial progress in freight car supply and utilization has not been made within three and one-half years of enactment of this Act. States that the purposes of the Authority shall be to acquire, maintain, and provide rolling stock, to manage a pool of such rolling stock, and to employ innovative concepts for equitable distribution and efficient use of such rolling stock to meet the needs of the national economy. Provides that the Authority shall have a Board of eleven Directors, consisting of the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of the Treasury, and nine members, to be appointed by the President upon the recommendation of specified railroad, labor, shipping, and consumer organizations. Empowers the Authority to adopt rules and regulations for the conduct of its business; sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of its property and assets; build, own, and maintain rolling stock to be operated for the purpose of providing modern, efficient freight transportation of goods; and conduct research and development related to the purposes of this Act. Provides that every railroad shall pay to the Authority a per diem surcharge of fifty cents per car day on each general service freight car for each day that such a railroad incurs a car-hire charge for the use of such car. States that the levy shall continue until the Board of Directors determines that such sum as may be necessary for this Act but not less than $10,000,000 nor more than $30,000,000 will be due or will have been paid as of a certain date, whereupon the levy will cease. Requires the Authority to issue a negotiable interest-bearing debenture to each railroad in the amount of the per diem surcharge paid by such railroad. Empowers the Authority to incur debts for capital purposes. Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase the obligations of the Authority guaranteed by the United States in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000,000. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 to acquire capital stock of the Authority; and such sums as may be necessary for the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the principal and interest on notes or obligations issued as guarantees under this section. Provides for the audit of expenditures under the Government Corporation Control Act. Requires a plan for the public sale of stock in the Authority, including a program to require refinancing, and to assure that the sale of the stock will result in a wide dispersion in the ownership of the stock. Requires the Authority to establish a national rolling stock information system within one year of enactment if such system is not in operation at the date of incorporation. Provides that the Authority shall establish charges for the use of rolling stock supplied by it, and shall establish terms and conditions governing the use of its equipment. States that the Authority shall be subject to the car service provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act, and the orders of the Commission thereunder to the extent applicable. Provides that the Authority may enforce compliance with any obligation owing to it under this Act by an appropriate civil action. Prohibits a railroad from refusing to transport general service freight cars owned by the Authority. Requires an annual report to the President and the Congress by the Authority on its activities under this Act. Title IV: General Provisions - Requires the Authority, in contracts under this Act: (1) to include equitable arrangements to protect the interests of individual employees affected in their employment by any such contract; (2) to conform to prevailing practices of the railroads and nonrailroads with rolling stock building and rebuilding facilities; and (3) to insure provailing wages for construction work.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act Amendments - Title I: Coordination, and Personnel - Provides that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, acting through the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, shall coordinate efforts, in carrying out the purposes of all other Federal health, welfare, rehabilitation, highway safety, law enforcement and economic opportunity legislation, to deal with alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Provides that the Director of the Institute may employ and prescribe the functions of such officers and employees, including attorneys, as are necessary to administer the programs and authorities under the Act. Title II: Federal Assistance for State and Local Programs - Authorizes further appro- priations for grants to States under the Act of $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Provides that State plans for assistance under the Act must set forth standards for construction and licensing of public and private treatment facilities, as well as standards for other community services or resources available to assist individuals to meet problems resulting from alcohol abuse. Provides that the Secretary acting through the Institute is authorized to make grants to the states for the implementation of the Uniform Alcoholism and Intoxication Treatment Act. Transfers all authorities pertaining to alcohol abuse and alcoholism under the Community Mental Health Centers Act to the authority authorized under the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act. Provides that grants under the Community Mental Health Centers Act for the construction of facilities for the prevention and treatment of alcoholism shall be approved in accordance with plans setting forth: (1) a description of the site of the project; (2) plans and specifications therefor in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the Secretary for general standards of construction and equipment for facilities of different classes and different types of locations; and (3) reasonable assurance that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors of the project will be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act. Removes the requirement under the Act that grants for specialized facilities may be made only to facilities which are a part of or affiliated with a Community Mental Health Center providing at least those essential elements of comprehensive community mental health services which are prescribed by the Secretary. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out part B of the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, 120,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and 120,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1974, and each of the next nine fiscal years such sums as may be necessary to continue to make grants for staffing with respect to sections under such part for which a staffing grant was made from appropriations under the above for any fiscal year ending before July 1, 1976. Removes the compulsory suspension of Federal financial assistance, under the Act, to private and public hospitals for refusing to admit or treat alcoholics.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Public Health Service Act Extension - Extends authorizations through fiscal year 1974 for the following programs under the Public Health Service Act: (1) research and demonstrations relating to health facilities and services; (2) systems analysis of national health care plans; (3) national health surveys and studies; (4) traineeships for professional public health personnel; (5) project grants for graduate training in public health; (6) health services for domestic agricultural migrants; (7) grants to States for comprehensive State health planning; (8) project grants for areawide health planning; (9) project grants for training, studies, and demonstrations related to comprehensive national health planning; (10) grants for comprehensive public health services; (11) project grants for health services development; (12) assistance for construction of medical library facilities; (13) grants for training in medical library sciences; (14) grants for establishing, expanding, and improving the basic resources of medical libraries and related instrumentalities; (15) grants for establishment of regional medical libraries; (16) financial support of biomedical scientific publication; (17) grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit long-term care, outpatient, and rehabilitation facilities; (18) grants for the construction of public or other nonprofit hospitals and public health centers; (19) grants for the modernization of long term care, outpatient, and rehabilitation facilities, and of hospitals and public health centers; (20) loan guarantees and loans for modernization and construction of hospitals and other medical facilities; (21) construction or modernization of emergency rooms; (22) grants for construction of teaching facilities for allied health professions personnel; (23) basic and special grants to improve the quality of training for allied health professions; (24) special projects for experimentation, demonstration, and institutional improvements related to training allied health personnel; (25) traineeships for advanced training of allied health professions personnel; (26) scholarship grants for allied health professions personnel; (27) grants to encourage full utilization of educational talent for allied health professions; (28) work-study programs for personnel in the allied health professions; (29) loans for students of the allied health professions; and (30) grants for education, research, training and demonstrations in the fields of heart disease, cancer, stroke, kidney disease and other related diseases. Extends authorizations through fiscal year 1974 for the following programs under the Community Mental Health Centers Act: (1) grants for construction of public and other nonprofit community mental health centers; (2) grants for initial costs of professional and technical personnel of community mental health centers; (3) grants for developing specialized training programs, training personnel, conducting surveys and and programs of special significance related to community mental health centers; (4) grants for facilities for alcoholic rehabilitation; (5) grants for training programs, personnel, and studies related to drug abuse and rehabilitation; (6) grants for drug abuse education; (7) project grants for construction and staffing of facilities for the prevention and treatment of alochol and drug abuse; (8) grants for consultation services for alcohol and drug abuse; and (9) grants for treatment facilities to provide mental health services for children.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Provides for the repayment of specified sums advanced to providers of services under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Health Insurance For The Aged) by June 30, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Provides, under the Freedom of Information Act, that each Federal agency, upon a request under the Act that records be made available to the public, shall: (1) determine within ten days after the receipt of any such request whether to comply with such request and immediately notify the person making such request that such person has a period of twenty days within which to appeal such determination to such agency; and (3) make a determination with respect to such appeal within twenty days after the receipt of such appeal. Provides that in the case of an action in the United States district courts to enjoin an agency from withholding agency records and to order the production of any agency records improperly withheld the United States or an officer or agency thereof shall serve an answer to any complaint made in such action within twenty days after the service upon the United States attorney of the pleading in which such complaint is made. Provides that the court may assess against the United States reasonble attorney fees and other litigation costs reasonably incurred in such action in which the United States or an officer or agency thereof has not prevailed. Provides that such disclosures under the Act may be obtained in the case of investigatory records for law enforcement purposes to the extent that such records are scientific tests, reports, or data, inspection reports of any agency which relates to health or safety, or records which serve as a basis for any public policy statement made by any agency or officer or employee of the United States or which serves as a bisis for rulemaking by any agency. Provides that each agency shall submit an annual report to the Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Government Operations of the Senate which shall include statistics on the request and appeal procedures of the Act. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 552)
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Criminal Justice Reform Act - Authorizes the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to make grants to and to enter into contracts with States and, where appropriate, with localities for the conduct of demonstration projects designed to test the effectiveness of comprehensive criminal justice reforms. States that a demonstration project assisted under this Act may involve the testing of the following comprehensive criminal justice reforms: (1) programs related to the standards, training, education and compensation of law enforcement personnel (2) programs related to assuring a speedy trial, (3) programs related to the standards, equipment, treatment, and other aspects of correctional instructions, (4) programs relating to studies for the consolidation of law enforcement agencies, and (5) programs related to studies on the application of the criminal laws in specified areas. Provides guidelines for the submission of State plans. Provides that the Federal share shall be 75 percent of the cost of the project. Authorizes such appropriations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act Amendments - Provides that statements of accounts filed in accordance with the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act shall be filed with the Comptroller General of the United States. Provides that such statements shall be preserved by the Comptroller General for a period of five years. Sets forth the powers and duties of the Comptroller General as the agent of Congress with respect to the administration of this Act. Expands the coverage of the Act to include those persons or organizations having as a substantial purpose the influence of legislation. Includes within the coverage of the Act persons or organizations who expend money or any other thing of value exceeding $1,000 for each endeavor which has as its purpose the passage or defeat of legislation before the Congress by direct communication with the Congress. Requires full disclosure of contingent fee arrangements. Exempts the broadcast media from the registration requirement of the Act. Repeals the section of the Act which prohibits an individual from engaging in lobbying activities within three years of his conviction under the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Provides that the designation of payments to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund be made on the front page of the taxpayer's income tax return form. (Amend 26 U.S.C. 6096 (c) )
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Farm Property Estate Tax Valuation Act - Provides that the value of real property used in farming by the decedent, included in the gross estate for estate tax purposes under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, shall be the value of such property for farming purposes, if the executor agrees to the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Environmental Protection Act - Declares that each person is entitled to the protection, preservation and enhancement of his environment. Establishes the right of any person to maintain a judicial action for declaratory or equitable relief, either individually or in behalf of a class of persons, without regard to the amount in controversy, to protect the environment or public trust from pollution, impairment or destruction which results from or reasonably may result from any activity and such action for relief constitutes a case or controversy. Provides that complaints in such actions shall be supported by affidavits of at least two technically qualified persons affirming that the defendant's activities damage or reasonably may damage the environment. Prescribes various judicial procedures and standards which are to govern the administration of this Act by the courts. Grants the courts authority to provide declaratory relief, temporary and permanent equitable relief, or to impose conditions on the defendant's operations which are required for the protection of the air, water, and land from unreasonable pollution impairment or destruction. Provides that the Act shall be supplementary to existing administrative and regulatory procedures provided by law and grants the court authority to remand the parties to such procedures. Provides that nothing in this Act shall prevent the granting of appropriate interim equitable relief to protect the rights recognized under this Act for as long as is necessary. Provides that any person entitled to maintain an action under the Act may intervene as a party in all such administrative and regulatory procedures. Provides that nothing in this Act shall prevent the maintenance of an action to protect rights recognized in the Act where the court finds existing administrative or regulatory procedures to be inadequate for the protection of such rights. Provides that at the initiation of any person entitled to maintain an action under this Act, such procedures shall be reviewable in a court of competent jurisdiction to the extent necessary to protect the rights recognized in the Act.
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