United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
Revises the National Aeronautics and Space Act by providing that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall, when so provided in an appropriation Act, enter into a contract for tracking and data relay satellite services. Sets forth required features of such contracts. Requires the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to make an annual report to the Committee on Science and Astronautics and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representative and the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate on the projected aggregate contingent liability of the Government under termination provisions of any contract authorized under this Act through the next fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1974
Social Security Administration Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to strengthen the fiscal and administrative structure of the contributory social security programs. Title I: Social Security Administration - Establishes, as an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the Government, a Social Security Administration, headed by a Board appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Declares that it shall be the duty of the Administration to administer the programs established by titles II, XVI, and XVIII of the Social Security Act, and to discharge the duties and responsibilities imposed on the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in connection with the administration of the program established by title IV of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. States that the Administration shall also have the duty of studying and making recommendations as to the most effective methods of providing economic security through social insurance, and as to legislation and matters of administrative policy. Provides for the appointment of an Executive Director and a General Counsel of the Administration. Makes the Administration responsible for administering the old age, survivors, and disability insurance program, medicare, supplemental security income, and the black lung benefit program under the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. Prohibits the mailing of announcements with Social Security and SSI checks which make reference by name, title, or signature to any officer of the United States. Transfers to the Social Security Administration: (1) all functions carried out by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, with respect to the administration of programs and activities the administration of which is vested in such Administration, by reason of this Act; and (2) all personnel, assets, liabilities, contracts, property, and records, which the Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines to be employed, held, or used by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare primarily in connection with the functions, activities, and programs which, by reason of this Act are vested in or become the responsibility of the Administration. Abolishes the position of Commissioner of Social Security. Title II: Miscellaneous and Conforming Amendments - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Social Security Act, the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, the Budget and Accounting Act, and the Executive Schedules of the United States Code.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1974
American Arts and Handcrafts Act - Provides financial assistance for the establishment and maintenance of a center for American Arts and Handcrafts in each State. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,300,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974-1977 to enable the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts to make grants under this Act. Provides for the allocation of funds and the authorization of State programs under this Act. Declares that the Federal share for any fiscal year shall be 50 percent of the cost of carrying out an application of a State with a maximum Federal contribution of $100,000 in any one year.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1974
Provides for the establishment, under the Rail Passenger Service Act, of a demonstration project providing regular scheduled rail transportation between the major metropolitan areas and the major recreation areas of the Nation for highway recreational vehicles with passengers being transported in such vehicles. Defines "highway recreational vehicle" as a self-propelled or trailer type vehicle for use on the highways to provide recreational transportation and lodging, and includes the vehicle used to tow such a trailer. Authorizes to be appropriated funds to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1974
Makes the Special Committee on Aging, a permanent, special committee of the Senate consisting of twenty-two members appointed by the President of the Senate, thirteen of whom shall be appointed from the majority party and nine of whom shall be appointed from the minority party. Requires the committee to make a continuing study and investigation of any and all matters pertaining to problems and opportunities of older people, including but not limited to, problems and opportunities of maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding employment, of engaging in productive and rewarding activity, of securing proper housing, and, when necessary, or obtaining care or assistance. Provides that no proposed legislation shall be referred to the committee, and the committee shall not have power to report by bill, or otherwise have legislative jurisdiction. Provides that the minority shall receive fair consideration in the appointment of staff personnel pursuant to this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Provides, under the Higher Education Act, that Social Security payments shall not be counted as effective income for students if the effective family income of the student is less than $9,000. States that if the effective family income of the student is: (1) between $9,000 and $15,000, one-half of the amount received by the student from Social Security would be considered as effective income; and (2) over $15,000, all Social Security payments will be considered as effective income.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Full Disclosure Act - Requires, under the Federal Election Campaign Act, that each candidate for nomination for election to Federal office (other than a candidate who holds the office of President, Vice President, or Member of Congress) shall file with the Comptroller General a financial disclosure report for the calendar year immediately preceding the year of that individual's candidacy. Requires each individual who has served at any time during any calendar year as President, Vice President, or Member of Congress to file with the Comptroller General a financial disclosure report for that year. Prescribes the deadline dates for such filings. Provides that each such report shall contain a full and complete statement of: (1) the amount and sources of all income, other than reimbursements for expenditures actually incurred, and each gift or aggregate of gifts from one source of a value of more than $100 (other than gifts received from any relative or his spouse) received by him or by him and his spouse jointly or by his spouse or by his children during the preceding calendar year, including any fee or other honorarium received; (2) the value of all assets held by him, and of each liability owed by him, or by him and his spouse jointly; (3) all dealings in securities or commodities by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf; (4) all purchases and sales of real property or any interest therein; (5) the amount of each tax paid by the candidate during the preceding calendar year. States that all reports filed under this Act shall be maintained by the Comptroller General as public records, and shall be available, under such regulations as the Comptroller General may prescribe, for inspection by the public.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress that it abhors and condemns the cruel and insensitive refusal of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam and the Lao Patriotic Front to comply with the provisions of those agreements to which they are signatories and which call for an accounting of the missing in action, and calls on those parties to respect and comply with those agreements. Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should use every effort to bring about such reciprocal actions by the parties to the peace agreements, including the Government of the Republic of Vietnam and the Royal Lao Government, as will be most likely to bring an end to the abhorrent conduct of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam and the Lao Patriotic Front regarding the missing in action. Declares the Congresses staunch support to the families and loved ones of the Americans missing in action, who have suffered such deep human anguish for so long due to the undisclosed fate of the missing in action.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Weather Modification Regulation Act - Title I: Weather Modification Licenses and Permits, Reporting Requirements, and Penalties - Requires any State which establishes a system to regulate any weather modification activity to license any person engaged in such activity and enumerates qualifications for such licenses. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to assist any State in its regulation of weather modification activity and in the dissemination of information concerning such activity. Requires a Federal permit for any person engaged in any weather modification activity, and enumerates qualifications for such permit. States that no permit shall be issued unless the applicant has first obtained a license. Outlines conditions whereby a permit may be revoked or suspended by the Secretary after an opportunity of hearing. Requires any holder of a permit to make daily reports covering any weather modification which are to be transmitted to the Secretary by certified mail daily. Outlines what information shall be included in each report. Requires additional weather reports if the Secretary requests them. Allows the Secretary to require records to be maintained by each holder of a permit which can be inspected under prescribed conditions by the Secretary. Requires any agency, military department, local government or State conducting weather modification activities to prepare daily reports, and to submit such reports to the Secretary by certified mail daily. Prescribes penalties for the violation of requirements for a Federal permit of fines between $10,000 and $50,000, and fines of not more than $25,000 for failure to make weather reports to the Secretary. Gives the U.S. district courts power to enjoin any violation concerning Federal permits reporting requirements, or other regulations promulgated by the Secretary. Title II: Weather Modification Information System - Authorizes the Secretary to establish within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a weather modification information system to monitor daily weather conditions, and to record and evaluate weather modification. Permits the Secretary to use the system to assist in determining whether: (1) to issue, revoke or suspend permits; (2) to obtain data from the Weather Bureau on a timely basis; and (3) to use such system to maintain records of any weather modification and such activity conducted in any State. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a computerized data processing system to facilitate the operation of the weather modification information system. Title III: International Weather Modification Control - Allows the President to enter into agreements with other nations and international organizations to establish, monitor, and regulate weather modification activities. Requires any U.S. citizen who has primary supervisory responsibility for carrying out weather modification activities in any foreign nation to submit reports to the Secretary at lease 10 days prior to such activity. Outlines what information is to be included in these reports. Requires the Secretary to establish and maintain a register of persons engaged in weather modification activities in the U.S. and other nations whom he deems properly qualified. Allows the Secretary to distribute copies of such register upon request to any foreign nation. Requires approval by the Secretary of State, unless the President determines it unnecessary in a particular case, for any agency or military department before engaging in any weather modification activity in any foreign nation. Prescribes penalties of fines up to $25,000 for failure of a U.S. citizen to make reports or register while engaging in weather modification activities in any foreign country. Title IV: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to make such regulations as are necessary to carry out this Act. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out this Act. Repeals the former provisions of law regulating weather modification activities. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 330 et seq.)
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1974
Fiscal Note Act - Provides that a bill or joint resolution which has been introduced in the Senate or received by the Senate from the House of Representatives shall be printed only when there appears at the bottom of the first page, in bold-face type, a fiscal note prepared by the department or agency which will carry out such bill or joint resolution. Provides that such fiscal note shall state the amounts estimated, in constant dollars, to be the direct and indirect costs likely to be incurred or the direct and indirect savings likely to be achieved: (1) by the United States Government in carrying out such bill or joint resolution in the fiscal year in which it is introduced or received in the Senate and in each of the five fiscal years following such fiscal year (or for the authorized duration of any program, if less than five years), except for measures affecting the revenues; and (2) if sufficient information is already in the possession of such department or agency or is readily available, by State and local governments.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1974
Provides that there be printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce one thousand additional copies of its report to the Senate on S. 354, the National No-Fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act (S. Rept. 93-382).
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Provides for advancing to not later than February 15, 1974, the effective date of the final order of the Interstate Commerce Commission in Docket No. MC 43 (Sub-No.2), which requires carriers to reimburse their owner-operators for all increases in the price of fuel over the base period May 15, 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research and development, construction of facilities, and research and program management.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Indian Health Care Improvement Act - Declares that it is the policy of this Nation, in fulfillment of its special responsibilities and legal obligation to the American Indian people, to meet the national goal of providing the highest possible health status to Indians and to provide existing Indian health services with all resources necessary to effect that policy. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title I: Indian Health Manpower - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make scholarship grants to individuals: (1) who are enrolled in medical schools; schools of optometry, osteophathy, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatry, public health, or nursing, or schools licensed by a State to train persons in the allied health professions, and (2) who agree to provide their professional services to Indians after completion of their professional training. Establishes a priority according to which the Secretary shall award scholarship grants under this Act. States that any scholarship grant awarded to any individual under this Act shall be awarded under the condition that such individual will, after the completion of his professional training, provide his professional services to Indians for a reasonable period of time as prescribed by the Secretary. Sets forth a formula by which the United States shall be entitled to recover scholarship grants from individuals who fail to comply with such condition for the full period. Authorizes to be appropriated for this program: $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $16,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $22,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $30.000,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $34,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, and for each succeeding fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary to continue to make such grants to individuals who (prior to July 1, 1979) have received such grants and who are eligible for such grants under this Act during such succeeding fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make scholarship grants for a period not to exceed two academic years to Indians who: (1) have successfully completed their high school education; and (2) have demonstrated an aptitude for being capable of successfully completing a premedical, predental, or preosteopathy course of study. Authorizes to be appropriated for the above program: $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $3,000,000 for each of the next three fiscal years. Permits the Secretary to provide continuing education allowances to Indian Health Service physicians. Authorizes to be appropriated for such programs: $350,000 each year for fiscal years 1975 and 1976; $375,000 for fiscal year 1977, $390,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $410,000 for fiscal year 1979. Title II: Health Services - Authorizes the Secretary to expend over a five-fiscal-year period $123,500,000, in addition to the annual appropriations required to continue the health service program to the Indian people, and to employ additional personnel for the purpose of eliminating backlogs in Indian health care services and to supply known, unmet medical, surgical, dental and other Indian health needs. Title III: Health Facilities - Authorizes the Secretary to expend $400,000,000 over a five-fiscal-year period for the purpose of eliminating inadequate, outdated, and otherwise unsatisfactory Service hospitals, health centers, health stations, and other Service facilities. Enables the Secretary to expend $470,000,000 within a five-fiscal-year period to supply unmet needs for safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities in existing and new Indian homes and communities. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan, together with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to assure that the five-year schedule provided for in this Act will be met. Title IV: Access to Health Services - States that the Service facilities used to provide health care and services to Indians are hereby deemed to be accredited facilities for the purposes of title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. Title V: Access to Health Services for Urban Indians - Defines "Urban Indian", "urban Indian organization" and "urban center" as used in this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall enter into contracts with urban Indian organizations to provide Federal assistance to such organizations for the purpose of establishing and administering outreach programs to make urban Indians in the urban centers in which such organizations are situated knowledgeable of the health service resources available within such centers and the means of gaining access to those resources. Directs the Secretary to prescribe the criteria for selecting urban Indian organizations with which to contract pursuant to this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for this program: $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides that, within six months after the end of fiscal year 1976, the Secretary shall review the above program and shall submit to the Congress his assessment of it and recommendations for any further legislation. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Requires the Secretary to report annually to the President and the Congress on progress made in effecting the purposes of this Act. States that within three months after the end of fiscal year 1978, the Secretary shall review the programs established or assisted under this Act and shall submit to the Congress his assessment and recommendations of additional programs or additional assistance necessary to, at a minimum provide health services to Indians, and insure a health status for Indians, which is at a parity with the health services available to, and the health status of, the general population. Provides that the funds appropriated pursuant to this Act shall remain available until expended.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, for coverage under medicare for routine Papanicolaou tests for the diagnosis of uterine cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Consumer Controversies Resolution Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to assure all consumer controversy resolution mechanism which is effective, fair, inexpensive, and expeditious, and to facilitate better representation of consumer interests. Defines the terms used in this Act. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to establish a Bureau of Consumer Redress. Directs the Commission to perform enumerated duties, including: (1) allocate and pay to the States funds appropriated for financial assistance to States under cooperative agreements; (2) review the operation of each State plan for the resolution of controversies involving consumers which has been approved under this Act; and (3) articulate and evaluate the goals for a model State system of consumer controversy resolution. Provides for the allocation to States of monies appropriated for financial assistance pursuant to this Act. Specifies purposes for which such funds may be used, including public education and publicity relating to the availability and proper use of consumer controversy resolution mechanisms and settlement procedures. States that, by the end of six months after the date of enactment of this Act, a State may submit a plan in accordance with this Act for the resolution of controversies involving consumers. Calls for the review of such plans periodically, but not less than once every two years, by the Bureau. Provides that a consumer controversy resolution mechanism is responsive to national goals if: (1) procedures are easy and inexpensive for the citizens and free from technicalities; (2) it is designed so that appropriate personnel can be provided consumers in pursuing claims and collecting judgments; (3) it is open or available for the adjudication or resolution of controversies during hours and on days that consumers and other citizens can easily utilize it; (4) it has a reasonable jurisdictional limit; and (5) it is governed by procedures which are published and approved by the Administrator. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary, not to exceed $500,000 for fiscal year 1974; $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; and $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Provides that whenever the Bureau submits any legislative recommendations, proposed testimony, or comments on legislation to the President or the Office of Management and Budget, it shall concurrently transmit a copy thereof to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Extends the life of the Special Committee on Aging, established by Senate Resolution 33, 87th Congress, and makes it a permanent, special committee of the Senate. Provides that the committee shall continue to consist of twenty-two members appointed by the President of the Senate, thirteen of whom shall be appointed from the majority party and nine of whom shall be appointed from the minority party. Directs the committee to make a continuing study and investigation of any and all matters pertaining to problems and opportunities of older people, including but not limited to, problems and opportunities, of maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding employment, of engaging in productive and rewarding activity, of securing proper housing, and, when necessary, of obtaining care or assistance. Provides that the minority shall receive fair consideration in the appointment of staff personnel pursuant to this resolution. Grants the Committee specified powers to carry out its functions. Limits the expenses of the committee under this resolution for the period from March 1, 1974, through February 28, 1975, to $415,000. Requires the committee to report the results of its study and investigation, together with such recommendations as it may deem advisable, to the Senate at the earliest practicable date, but not later than February 28, 1975. Makes this resolution effective March 1, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to require, under the Social Security Act, that skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities adopt and make public a statement of the rights and responsibilities of the patients who are receiving treatment in such facilities and treat their patients in accordance with the provisions of such public statement. Provides that the Secretary shall require that the statement include specified items including: (1) a guarantee that the patient's civil and religious liberties will not be infringed; (2) a guarantee of the patient's right to have private and unrestricted communications with his physician, attorney, and any other person; (3) a guarantee of the patient's rights to present grievances on behalf of himself or others; (4) a guarantee of the patient's right to manage his own financial affairs, or have a monthly accounting of any financial transactions in his behalf; (5) a guarantee of the patient's right to receive at least adequate and appropriate medical care, to be fully informed of his medical condition and proposed treatment, and to participate in the planning of all medical treatment; (6) a guarantee of the patient's right to have privacy in treatment for personal needs, confidentiality in the treatment of records, and security in storing personal possessions.; (7) a guarantee of the patient's right to receive courteous, fair, and equal treatment and services and a written statement of the services provided by the facility; (8) a guarantee of the patients's right to be free from mental and physical abuse and from physical and chemical restraints; (9) a statement of the facility's regulations and an explanation of the patient's responsibility to obey all reasonable regulations; the patient be adjudicated incompetent in accordance with State law and not be restored to legal capacity, the above rights and responsibilities shall devolve upon a sponsor or guardian.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
Authorizes the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, or any subcommittee thereof, from March 1, 1974, through February 28, 1975, in its discretion: (1) to make expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate, (2) to employ personnel, and (3) with the prior consent of the Government department or agency concerned and the Committee on Rules and Administration, to use on a reimbursable basis the services of personnel of any such department or agency. Limits the expenses of the committee under this resolution to $52,000. Requires the committee to report its findings, together with such recommendations for legislation as it deems advisable, to the Senate at the earliest practicable date, but not later than February 28, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act - States that, within two years after the date of enactment of this Act, each county shall elect whether it wishes to proceed under the terms of this Act to receive payments from the Federal Government equal to the real property taxes otherwise due from public lands within such county, or to continue to receive whatever payments such county is entitled to receive under any existing applicable Federal law providing for Federal payments for such county similar to those available under this Act for payment to such county of part of the revenue derived from such public land. Establishes procedures for the appraisal of public lands. Provides that when any county within a State has elected to proceed under the terms of this Act, there shall be established for that State a State board of appraisal appeal. Provides that each board shall consider and decide any appeal from a county within the State relating to the appraisal of public land within such county. States that decisions of the board shall not be subject to judicial review unless arbitrary or capricious. States that, begining in the first complete fiscal year after the acceptance of such appraisal by both the county involved and the Administrator, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay annually to the State in which such county is located an amount equivalent to the State, county, and local real property taxes on public lands within such county, based on the tax rate applicable to similar private lands at the value arrived at under the appraisal conducted under this Act. Stipulates that nothing in this Act shall interfere with the right of State or local governments to levy possessory interests taxes on private owners of improvements made by private users on public lands. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to administer this Act and to make the payments authorized by it.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1974
Allows an individual, under the Internal Revenue Code, a credit against tax of $200 multiplied by the number of personal exemptions he is entitled to for the taxable year. Provides that such election to take a credit in lieu of a deduction for exemptions shall apply with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress that: (1) world without war is possible; and (2) in such a world nations will rely for their external protection on a world institution strong enough to stop any nation from making war, capable of assuring peaceful and just settlements of international disputes and reliable enough to be entrusted with such powers. Declares it to be the policy of the United States to initiate and to implement with other nations practical steps consistent with our commitment to the United Nations for the expeditious realization of such institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Meetinghouse Preservation Act - States that the purpose of this Act is: (1) to celebrate the Bicentennial of this country through the preservation within each of the several States of a historic site that might otherwise be lost; (2) to provide a meetingplace in each of the several States for those citizens interested in retaining their tangible, indigenous heritage, whether historic, cultural, or natural, and in planning for future changes and developments, and (3) to give existing State programs involved with preserving historic and architecturally important structures an illustration of the best possible techniques used in the preservation of such historic sites and structures, and the multiple, significant ways in which such sites and structures can be used. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to each of the several States for the purpose of enabling each State to acquire and restore an historic site within each State for use as a meetinghouse in accordance with the provisions of this Act, except that no grant to any one State shall exceed $1,000,000. Provides that any application for a grant under this Act shall contain an estimated budget of various acquisition, restoration, and maintenance expenses. Sets forth provisions governing the approval of any application. Establishes a Meetinghouse Coordination Board to review each application made in accordance with the provisions of this Act for the purpose of making recommendations to the Secretary as to which of the historic site or sites contained in such application should be approved by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Older Americans Tax Counseling Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into agreements with private or public nonprofit agencies or organizations for the purpose of providing training and technical assistance to prepare volunteers to provide tax counseling assistance for elderly individuals in the preparation of their Federal income tax returns. Directs the Secretary to utilize the services of volunteers and to establish the qualifications required and the terms and conditions of service as a volunteer. States that service as a volunteer under this Act shall not be considered service as an employee of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to direct the attention of elderly individuals to pertinent provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1973
National Arthritis Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to expand the authority of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Disgestive Diseases in order to advance a national attack on arthritis. Establishes a National Task Force on Arthritis to formulate a long-range plan to combat arthritis and related musculoskeletal and other related diseases. Provides that the Arthritis Plan shall include recommendations for the utilization and organizations of national resources for the campaign against arthritis, and a program for the National Institute of Arthritis Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases as a major participant in the campaign against arthritis specifies the composition of the Task Force membership. Authorizes to be appropriated $500,000 for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 to carry out the purposes of the national arthritis program. Establishes within the Institute the position of Associate Director for Arthritis, responsible for programs regarding arthritis within such Institute. Provides that the Director of the National Institutes of Health shall establish an Inter-Institute Arthritis Coordinating Committee to be composed of representatives who can make policy commitments for each of the Institutes and divisions involved in arthritis-related research. Creates within the Federal Government an Interagency Technical Committee on Arthritis which shall be responsible for promoting the coordination of those aspects of all Federal health programs and activities relating to arthritis to assure the adequacy and technical soundness of such programs and activities and to provide for the full communication and exchange of information necessary to maintain adequate coordination of such programs and activities. States that the Director of the Institute shall establish programs for cooperation with other health agencies in the screening, detection, prevention, and control of arthritis which emphasize the development of new diagnostic and treatment methods for arthritis, and the dissemination of the knowledge about these methods to the health professions. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out these provisions $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides that the Director of the Institute, shall provide for the development of centers for basic and clinical research into, training, in, and demonstration of, advanced diagnostic, prevention, control, and treatment methods for arthritis. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out these provisions $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Requires the Director of the Institute after the end of each calendar year, to submit to the President and Congress a report including: (1) a proposal for the Institute's activities during the next five years; and (2) a program evaluation section.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1973
Authorizes the Committee on Commerce to make an investigation of national oceans policy for the purpose of: (1) determining national capabilities in the oceans, (2) determining the adequacy of current Federal programs relating to the oceans and recommending improvements; (3) establishing policies to achieve the goal of full utilization and conservation of living resources for the oceans; (4) assessing the needs for new policies for the development and utilization of the nonliving resources of the oceans; (5) encouraging implementation of coastal zone management; (6) establishing a comprehensive national policy for understanding and protecting the global ocean environment through education, exploration, research, and international cooperation; and (7) making an assessment of proposals for national and international jurisdiction over the oceans. Authorizes, for the purpose of this resolution, the Committee on Commerce to expend, through February 28, 1975, from the contingent fund of the Senate, a sum not to exceed $200,000.
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1973
Food Supplement Amendment - Defines the term "food supplement" for purposes of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act to mean food for special dietary uses, and defines the meaning of "special dietary uses" as particular uses of food for man which meets specified requirements. Provides that in administering such Act the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall not limit the potency, number, combination, amount, or variety of any synthetic or natural vitamin, mineral, or other nutritional substance, or ingredient of any food for special dietary uses if the amount recommended to be consumed does not ordinarily render it injurious to health.
United States · United States Congress · 7 December 1973
Increases the rates of educational assistance allowances to eligible veterans. Provides, in addition to such allowances, for the payment of tuition, the extension of educational assistance entitlement, acceleration of educational assistance allowances, and expansion of the work-study program. Establishes a Vietnam Era Veterans Communication Center to: (1) evaluate the effectiveness of veterans outreach services programs; (2) make recommendations to the President and Congress for establishing new, and improving existing, procedures for informing Vietnam era veterans of all benefits and services to which they may be entitled; (3) coordinate all Federal programs pertaining to veterans of the Vietnam era; and (4) promote efforts for job employment opportunities for veterans. Creates the Vietnam Era Veterans Advisory Committee to consult with the Communication Center regarding all matters pertaining to the duties of the Center.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1973
Increases from thirty-six to forty-eight months the maximum period of educational assistance to which an eligible veteran may become entitled. Extends from eight to fifteen years the period within which an eligible veteran must complete his program of education under such chapter after his discharge from military service. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1661, 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1973
Energy Information Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and the purposes of this Act. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Title I: Bureau of Energy Information - Establishes as an agency within the Department of Commerce a Bureau of Energy Information, to be a main line component of the Social and Economic Statistics Administration, coequal with the Bureau of the Census. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to perform the duties conferred upon the Bureau by this title or delegate any of them. Provides that the Bureau shall be headed by a Director of Energy Information to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. States that the principal function of the Bureau shall be to operate, maintain, and improve the National Energy Information System established by title II of this Act. Enumerates the work priorities of the Bureau. Title II: National Energy Information System - Establishes a National Energy Information System, to be operated and maintained by the Bureau. Directs that the components of the System shall be: (1) a public library of energy information; (2) a confidential library of energy information for restricted governmental use; and (3) a secret library of energy information for use only in preparing anonymous statistics. Specifies the characteristics of the system. States that the purpose of the public library is to make available to the general public promptly and conveniently as much of the information in the System as can be released consistently with national security and reasonable competitive equities. States that the purpose of the secret library is to serve the Nation's need for accurate statistical information on mineral fuel reserves, natural energy resources, and energy industries. Directs the Director to place in the secret library information obtained under authority of this Act for which either the national security or reasonable competitive equities require that the information be wholly suppressed or be published only in statistical aggregations of a size and type sufficient to prevent any person from learning or inferring the data furnished by any particular establishment or individual. Prescribes the priorities for entry of information into the system. Enumerates the standards for entry of information into the public, confidential, and secret libraries. Imposes penalties on any employee of the Bureau or other employee who, having taken and subscribed the oath of office, publishes or communicates, without the written authority of the Secretary or the Director, any information coming into his possession by reason of his employment from or for entry in the confidential library or the secret library of the System. Penalizes refused or neglect to provide information, and the providing of false information, under this Act. Title III: Energy Resources Inventories and Inspections by the Department of the Interior - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to compile, maintain, and keep current on not less than an annual basis an inventory of all mineral fuel reserves and natural energy resources in the public lands of the United States, including the Outer Continental Shelf. Specifies the content of such compilation. Title IV: Information on Mineral Fuel Reserves and Natural Energy Resources - Makes it the duty of every substantial energy resources company, foreign or domestic, engaged in commerce to report annually to the Director full and complete details of all mineral fuel reserves and natural energy resources which it, together with its affiliates, owns or controls anywhere in the world. Provides that all reports required by this title and title V shall be entered by the Director, immediately upon receipt, into one of the three libraries of the System. Title V: Information on the Energy Industries - Makes it the duty of every major energy company, foreign or domestic, engaged in commerce, to report annually to the Director on its assets and operations, worldwide, on an establishment basis. Specifies the content of such reports. Authorizes the requiring of additional reports, at the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce or the Director. Title VI: General Accounting Office Oversight - Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to review and evaluate the procedures and activities of the Bureau. Title VII: Conformance of and with Other Statutes - Provides that whenever any of the information obtained from any major energy company under this Act is contained in any other report of such company, such report having been filed prior to the effective date of this Act, the Director may excuse such company from filing a report with him, containing the same information. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Reports Act. Title VIII: Miscellaneous - Provides that if any provision of this Act or the applicability thereof is held invalid the remainder of this Act shall not be affected thereby. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Interior such amounts as may be requisite to full and efficient performance of the duties imposed upon such Departments by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct such drainage works for the Vernal Unit of the Central Utah project and the Emergy County project as he deems are necessary for the sustained crop production on the irrigable lands of such projects.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1973
Authorizes the administrator of any direct Federal loan program or any federally guaranteed loan program to renegotiate or reschedule repayment by any person or business suffering severe economic harm as a result of the energy crisis on a loan under any such program.
United States · United States Congress · 28 November 1973
Resource Conservation and Recycling Incentives Act - Title I: Formal Provisions - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to: (1) eliminate discriminatory transportation rates charged by regulated carriers for the movement in commerce of recovered wastes; (2) mandate environmentally protective purchasing policies for all agencies of the Federal Government; and (3) protect public health, living organisms, and the environment through guidelines, standards, and regulations with respect to the treatment and disposal of waste. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Title II: Transportation Policy - Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission, to effect changes in the rate structure of the country to promote the freedom of movement by common carriers of recovered materials at the lowest possible lawful rates compatible with the maintenance of adequate transportation service. Directs the Commission to undertake studies of the feasibility of establishing a transportation rate policy for all recovered materials based only on the type, size, and kind of transportation equipment used, the characteristics of movement, services, and facilities provided and the weight and/or volume of the shipment. Makes it unlawful for any railroad, common carrier by water, or motor carrier in interstate or foreign commerce to demand, charge, or collect any rate or charge for the transportation of recovered materials which are unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory when compared with the charge demanded for the transportation of virgin natural resources. Penalizes violations of this provision. Title III: Federal Procurement and Measurement - Provides that with respect to each purchase and contract for property, which exceeds $5,000, no procurement shall be made of any procurement item which is not composed of the greatest percentage, or to the maximum extent feasible, of recovered materials. Title IV: Product Standards and Regulation - Provides for the enforcement, with criminal and civil penalties, of the provisions of this title. Directs the Administrator to promulgate standards regulating the manufacture and distribution of products in commerce as he determines necessary to protect health or the environment against unreasonable burdens and risks associated with the disposal of such products. States that any product condemned under this title shall, be disposed of by destruction or by sale. Provides that no product and no sale of a product shall be deemed in violation of this title if it is intended solely for export to any foreign nation except that no product may be exported if the Administrator by regulation finds that the product as exported and disposed of will, directly or indirectly, pose an unreasonable threat to the health of persons within the United States or the environment of the United States. Directs the Administrator to conduct a sutdy of possible methods of regulating the design, use, reuse, and recycling of products to reduce the generation of solid waste, reduce the consumption of virgin materials resources, or to reduce burdens on the environment associated with the manufacture, utilization, or disposal of such products. Title V: Unsafe Disposal Practices - Directs the Administrator to issue regulations: (1) identifying unsafe disposal practices; (2) identifying hazardous wastes; and (3) establishing standards for the control of unsafe disposal practices. Requires that within 18 months after promulgation of final regulations, each State shall establish an implementation plan to regulate disposal practices and submit such plan to the Administrator for approval. Provides for Federal enforcement of violations of requirements and standards under this title. Provides for inspections by the Environmental Protection Agency or State or political subdivision, of the records of any person who stores, treats, transports, disposes of, or otherwise handles hazardous wastes. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to appropriate States, agencies and local governments, not to exceed 60 percent, to assist them in the administration, enforcement, training, public information, or analytical services relating to: collection, and disposal of hazardous waste, control of disposal practices and recovery of energy resources. Directs the Administrator to conduct studies relating to enumerated areas of waste management. Title VI: Energy Recovery - Directs the Administrator, alone or in conjunction with the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to conduct research, into the means of increasing the recovery of energy in usable forms. Authorizes the Administrator to make loans and guarantee loans under this title. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Administrator an amount not to exceed $50,000,000 to pay interest on, and the principal balance of, any obligation guaranteed by the Administrator as to which the obligor has defaulted. Establishes an independent agency to be known as the Council on Environmental Representation to provide support for legal representation and assistance in proceedings, for matters relating to the quality of the environment as described in this title. Enumerates the functions of the Council, including: the establishment of programs to provide legal assistance to and grants to eligible clients for the purpose of securing adequate representation to such clients before Federal, State, and local legislative bodies, administrative agencies and courts in matters dealing with the environment of such clients. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the activities of the Council under this title, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; and $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Title VII: National Commission On Environmental Costs - Establishes a National Commission on Environmental Costs. Enumerates the duties of the Commission, including to conduct studies on: (1) the feasibility, practicality, and value of the establishment of a system of national disposal cost charges on all products, other than consumables; (2) the means of reducing the wasteful use of materials in the production of goods; and (3) the means of mitigating damage done by sources of pollution and internalizing the costs of such pollution. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Commission such sums as may be necessary not to exceed $1,500,000. Title VIII: General Provisions - Prescribes jurisdictional provisions for civil actions by citizens under this Act. Sets forth the record, reporting and informational requirements to be met by each manufacturer of a product under title IV of this Act. Provides that in addition to specific authorizations for appropriations in this Act, there are authorized to be appropriated for purposes of carrying out this Act such sums as are necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1973
Energy Reorganization Act - Title I: Energy Research and Development Administration - Establishes the Energy Research and Development Administration headed by an Administrator appointed by the President. Describes the functions of the Administrator as including: (1) exercising central responsibility for policy planning, coordination, support, and management of research and development programs respecting all energy sources; (2) undertaking research and development in the extraction, conversion, transmission, and utilization phases related to the development and use of energy from fossil, nuclear, solar, geothermal, and other energy sources; (3) participating in and supporting cooperative research and development projects which may involve contributions by public or private persons or agencies, of financial or other resources to the performance of the work; (4) developing, collecting, distributing, and making available for distributing, scientific and technical information concerning the manufacture or development of energy and its efficient extraction, conversion, transmission, and utilization. Transfers to the Administrator all functions of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Chairman and members of the Commission, and the officers and components of the Commission, except as otherwise provided in this Act. Transfers to the Administrator such functions of the Secretary of the Interior, the Department of Interior, and officers and components of such department: (1) as relate to or are utilized by the Office of Coal Research; and (2) as relate to or are utilized in connection with fossil fuel energy research and development programs and related activities conducted by the Bureau of Mines. Transfers to the Administrator such functions of the National Science Foundations as relate to or are utilized in connection with: (1) solar heating and cooling development; and (2) geothermal power development. Transfers to the Administrator such functions of the Environmental Protection Agency and the officers and components thereof as relate to or are utilized in connection with the development and demonstration of alternative automotive power systems. Title II: Nuclear Energy Commission - Provides that the Atomic Energy Commission is renamed the Nuclear Energy Commission and shall continue to perform the licensing and related regulatory functions of the Chairman and members of the Commission, the general counsel, and other officers and components of the Commission, which functions, officers, components, and personnel are excepted from the transfer to the Administrator by this Act. Grants the Nuclear Energy Commission licensing authority as to the following facilities of the Administration: (1) demonstration liquid metal fast breeder reactors when operated as part of the power generation facilities of an electric utility system; (2) other demonstration nuclear reactors when operated as part of the power generation facilities of an electric utility system, except those in existence, under construction or authorized or appropriated for by the Congress on the date this part becomes effective; or (3) facilities used primarily for the receipt and storage of high level radioactive wastes resulting from activities licensed under such Act. Allows the Nuclear Energy Commission to engage in or contract for research which the Commission deems necessary for the discharge of its licensing and regulatory functions. Title III: Miscellaneous and Transitional Provisions - Provides that except as otherwise provided in this Act, whenever all of the functions or programs of an agency, or other body, or any component thereof, affected by this Act, have been transferred from that agency, or other body, or component, the agency, or other body, or component shall lapse.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1973
Designates the room located in the United States Capitol and designed as number S-120 as the "Alben W. Barkley Room". Directs the committee on Rules and Administration to place an appropriate marker or inscription at any suitable location with respect to such room to commemorate and designate such room as provided in this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1973
Increases the authorization, for fiscal year 1974 and succeeding fiscal years, for the Committee for Purchase of Products and Services of the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped. Defines "direct labor" for purposes of the Wagner-O'Day Act relating to the handicapped, as work required for the preparation, processing, and packing of a commodity or work directly related to the performance of a service, but not supervision, administration, inspection or shipping.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1973
Broadens the conditions under which post-hospital home health services and home health services may be provided under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare).
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1973
House Health Services Act - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, for the establishment and initial operation of public and nonprofit private agencies which will provide home health services in areas in which such services are not otherwise available. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants: (1) to meet the initial and expanding costs of such agencies; and (2) for programs for the training of professional and paraprofessional personnel to provide home health services. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1973
Legal Services Corporation Act - Establishes in the District of Columbia a private nonmembership nonprofit corporation to be known as the "Legal Services Corporation," for the purpose of providing financial support for legal assistance in noncriminal matters to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance. States that the corporation shall have a board of directors consisting of eleven voting members appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, no more than six of whom shall be of the same political party. Provides that within six months following the first meeting of the board, the board shall request the Governor of each State to appoint a nine-member advisory council for his State. Sets forth the corporation's powers, duties and limitations. Authorizes the corporation to make grants to, and to contract with, individuals, partnerships, firms, organizations, corporations, State and local governments for the purpose of providing legal assistance to eligible clients. Establishes a National Advisory Council to consult with the Board and the president of the Corporation regarding the activities of the Corporation. Sets forth the conditions for the eligibility of an individual to receive legal assistance under this Act. States that no funds made available by the corporation under this Act, either by grant or contract may be used: (1) to provide legal assistance under this Act with respect to a criminal proceeding; (2) for any political activities; (3) to make grants or contracts with any public interest law firm which expends 50 percent or more of its resources and time litigating issues in the broad interests of a majority of the public; (4) to provide legal assistance to any unemancipated person of less than eighteen years of age, except in enumerated instances; (5) to support or conduct training programs for the purpose of advocating, as distinguished from the dissemination of information about, particular public policies or encouraging political activities, labor or antilabor activities, illegal boycotts, picketing, strikes, or demonstrations; (6) to organize or to encourage to organize, the creation or structuring of, any organization except for the rendering of legal advice and representation by an attorney as an attorney for any eligible client with respect to such client's legal rights and responsibilities. States that the corporation shall provide for a study of the existing staff-attorney program under this Act and of alternative methods of delivery of legal services to eligible clients, including judicare, vouchers, prepaid legal insurance, and contracts with law firms; and shall make recommendations to the President and the Congress within two years concerning improvements, changes, or alternative methods for delivery of such systems. Authorizes the corporation to require such reports as it deems necessary from recipients of grants or contracts. States that the accounts of the corporation shall be audited annually. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the activities of the Corporation, $71,500,000 for fiscal year 1974, $90,000,000 for the fiscal year 1975, and $100,000,000 for the fiscal year 1976, and for each subsequent fiscal year. Provides that nothing contained in this title shall be deemed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States or of the District of Columbia to exercise any direction, supervision, or control with respect to the Corporation, any grantee, contractor, or person or entity receiving financial assistance under this title.
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1973
National Homestead Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to transfer without payment to a local public agency any real property: (1) which is improved by a single family dwelling; (2) to which the Secretary holds title; (3) which is not occupied; (4) which is suitable for use by such agency in an urban homestead program which meets the requirements of this Act; and (5) which is requested by such agency for use in such an urban homestead program. Enumerates the criteria under which the Secretary may approve an urban homestead program carried out by a local public agency, including the conditional conveyance of abandoned residential property by a local housing agency to an individual or a family without any substantial consideration. Requires the Secretary to conduct a continuing evaluation of programs carried out pursuant to this Act and, beginning with the third year, transmit an annual report to the Congress. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1973
Makes it the sense of the Senate that other nations should not construe domestic events as adversely affecting our resolve to uphold our vital interests, nor be tempted to seize upon them as an opportunity to undermine the security of the United States. Expresses the sense of the Senate that other nations should not construe domestic events as impairing the full commitment of our Government to achieve a just and durable peace in the Middle East. Calls upon all friendly nations to join with the United States in pursuance of these vital common objectives, which have as their goal respect for law and a stable and secure peace throughout the world.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1973
Authorizes the United States Governor to pay to the International Development Association $1,500,000,000 as the United States contribution to the Fourth Replenishment of the Resources of the Association. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,500,000,000 for payment by the Secretary of the Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1973
Designates the Miners' Hospital in Raton, New Mexico, as a Public Health Service hospital, to be known as the "Miners' Rehabilitation and Medical Hospital," and to be controlled, managed, and operated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Provides that any person who is or has been engaged in the removal of ores, precious stones, or other materials from pits or excavations, and whose disease, injury, or disability was incurred while so engaged or is related thereto, shall be entitled without charge at the Miners' Hospital. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1973
Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act - Declares it to be the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to provide for the demonstration within a three-year period of the practical use of solar heating technology. Defines the terms used in this Act. Directs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to initiate, support and carry out basic and applied research and development in solar heating and cooling technologies. Provides for the installation of solar heating systems in residential dwellings under the monitoring of the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the National Bureau of Standards and in consultation with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Defense. Provides that such residential dwellings shall be located in a sufficient number of different geographic areas (not less than three) in the United States to assure a realistic and effective demonstration of the solar heating and cooling systems involved. Directs the Director of the National Science Foundation to initiate, support and fund basic and applied research activities relating to solar energy in support of the objectives of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $50,000,000 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1973
Public Safety Officers Memorial Scholarship Act - Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Authorizes the United States Commissioner of Education to award a scholarship to any eligible applicant for full-time undergraduate study at an eligible institution. Requires applicants to submit an application and a certification from the head of the agency which employed the public safety officer upon whom the applicant was dependent, stating that such officer was the victim of a homicide while engaged in the performance of his official duties. Sets the maximum scholarship amount at $3,500. Prescribes additional requirements that the student be full-time and maintain good standing. Authorizes the Commissioner to enter into agreements with eligible institutions in which any student receiving a scholarship award under this Act has enrolled or is accepted for enrollment. Specifies the content of such agreements. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1973
Provides that the District Court for the District of Columbia shall have original jurisdiction, without regard to the sum or value of the matter in controversy, over any civil action brought by either House of Congress, any committee of such House, or any joint committee of Congress, to enforce or secure a declaration concerning the validity of any subpoena or order issued by such House or committee, or by any subcommittee of such committee, to any officer, including the President and Vice President, or any employee of the executive branch of the United States Government to secure the production of information, documents, or other materials. States that either House of Congress, or any committee of such House authorized by such House to bring suit, or any joint committee of Congress authorized by Congress to bring suit, in addition to any other available remedies, may commence and prosecute a civil action under this Act in its own name or in the name of the United States in the District Court for the District of Columbia to enforce or secure a declaration concerning the validity of any subpoena or order issued by such House or committee, or by any subcommittee of such committee, against any officer, including the President and Vice President, or any employee of the executive branch of the United States Government to secure the production of information, documents, or other materials. Provides that any House or committee commencing or prosecuting an action pursuant to this section may be represented in such action by such attorneys as it may designate.
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