United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1974
Presidential Recordings Preservation Act - Directs the Administrator of General Services to obtain, or, as the case may be, retain complete possession and control of all tape recordings of conversations which: (1) involve former President Richard M. Nixon and/or other individuals who, at the time of the conversation, were employed by the Federal Government; (2) were recorded in the White House or the Executive Office Building located in Washington, District of Columbia; and (3) were recorded between January 20, 1969, and August 9, 1974, inclusive. Requires that none of the tape recordings covered by this Act shall be destroyed except as may be provided by Congress. Provides that if a Federal court of competent jurisdiction should decide that the provisions of this Act have deprived any individual of private property without just compensation, the Administrator is authorized to provide such compensation, from funds in the Federal treasury, as may be adjudged just by a Federal court of competent jurisdiction. Directs the Administrator to issue such reasonable regulations as may be necessary to assure the protection of such tape recordings above from loss, destruction, or access to unauthorized persons. Directs the Administrator to issue reasonable regulations governing public access to such tape recordings. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
National Emergencies Act - Title I: Terminating Existing Declared Emergencies - States that all powers and authorities conferred by law upon the President, any other officer or employee of the Federal Government, or upon any department, agency, independent establishment, or any other body of the Federal Government, and all powers and authorities conferred by any Executive Order pursuant to law as a result of the existence of any national emergency in effect immediately prior to the two hundred and seventy-first day after the date of enactment of this Act, are terminated on such two hundred and seventy-first day. Title II: Future National Emergencies - Provides that in the event the President finds that the proclamation of a national emergency is essential to the preservation, protection, and defense of the Constitution, and is essential to the common defense, safety, or well-being of the territory and people of the United States, the President is authorized to proclaim the existence of a national emergency. Title III: Declarations of War by Congress - Stipulates that whenever Congress declares war, any provisions of law conferring powers and authorities to be exercised during time of war or a national emergency shall be effective from the date of such declaration and remain in effect only in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Title IV: Future National Emergencies - Provides that when the President declares a national emergency, or Congress declares war, any provisions of law conferring powers and authorities to be exercised during such a national emergency or during a war declared by the Congress shall be effective and remain in effect with respect to such emergency or war only in accordance with this Act. States that when the President declares a national emergency, no powers made available by statute for use in the event of an emergency shall become operative unless and until the President specifies by Executive Order the specific provisions of law under which he proposed that he, or other officers of the executive branch, will act. Provides that any national emergency declared by the President in accordance with this title shall terminate 180 days after the date the national emergency was declared unless Congress, by concurrent resolution, provides otherwise. Title V: Miscellaneous - Provides that when the President declares a national emergency, or Congress declares war, the President shall be responsible for maintaining a file, and an index thereof, of all Executive Orders issued by the President. Directs the President to transmit to the House of Representatives and the Senate and to the appropriate committees of the Congress the texts of each order, rule, or regulation, by whatever name called, promulgated by any executive department, administration, independent establishment, board, commission, official, group of officials, or other rulemaking authority. Title VI: Repeal of Certain Emergency Power Statutes - Provides for the repeal of specified provisions of law dealing with emergency powers.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
Cost of Living Act - States that the President shall: (1) focus public attention on causes of inflation; (2) monitor the economy as a whole; (3) work with labor, management, and governmental agencies to encourage price and wage restraint and increase productivity; (4) improve wage and price data bases to improve collective bargaining and encourage price restraint; (5) conduct public hearings as appropriate to provide public scrutiny of inflationary problems; (6) make recommendations for such changes in the Federal Government and private sectors as will increase supply and restrain prices; (7) recommend legislation and take other appropriate action to reduce the inflationary impact of economic concentration and anticompetitive practices; (8) evaluate the reasonableness of wage and price increases which may have a material effect on inflation, taking into consideration cost of living, costs of production, productivity, and the resource needs of any sector of the economy; and (9) delay the implementation, for up to 45 days, of any price or wage increase which the President finds is likely to have a serious inflationary impact, and extend such delay for up to an additional 45 days if the President finds that significant injury to the economy as a whole would otherwise result. Authorizes the President to establish, within the Executive Office of the President, a Cost of Living Task Force to which he may delegate his authority under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 to carry out the purposes of this Act. Terminates the authority under this Act at midnight, October 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1974
National Institutions Act Title I: Executive Accountability: - Directs the President, at the beginning of each regular session of Congress, to report to the Congress on the Steps taken to faithfully execute the laws passed by Congress and enacted into law during its preceding session in accordance with the provisions of this section. Provides that, not later than thirty days after the report of the President is received by the Congress, the Committee on Rules and Administration of each House after consultation with the appropriate standing committee shall report to its House a joint resolution on the report of the President which approves or disapproves such report. States that any joint resolution of disapproval shall also specify in detail the steps to be taken by the President in order to execute any such laws in accordance with the intent of the congress. Specifies that each standing committee of the Senate shall: (1) review and study, on a continuing basis, the application, administration, and execution of the laws within its jurisdiction; (2) assign employees to carry out the above requirement; and (3) report, not less often than annually, on its studies and reviews including such comments and recommendations as may be appropriate. Title II: Congressional State of the Union: - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to report to the Congress at the beginning of each regular session of the Congress on the State of the Union. Stipulates that such report shall include a statement of congressional legislative priorities and recommendations to the executive branch for action which may be required to implement those priorities. Title III: Financial Disclosure: - Requires the President, Vice President, each Member of Congress, and other specified Government employees to file annually, with the Comptroller General, a report containing a full and complete statement of: (1) amount of gross and taxable income, total deductions and tax liabilities, as well as tax paid reflected on his Federal income tax return for the preceding calender year, and for purposes of this paragraph; (2) the amount and source of income, each item of reimbursement for any expenditure, and each gift or aggregate of gifts from one source (other than gifts received from his spouse or any member of his immediate family) received by him or by him and his spouse jointly during the preceding calendar year which exceeds $100 in amount or value, including any fee or other honorarium received by him for or in connection with the preparation or delivery of any speech or address, attendance at any convention or other assembly of individuals, or the preparation of any article or other composition for publication, and the monetary value of subsistence, entertainment, travel, and other facilities received by him in kind; (3) the value of each asset held by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, which has a value in excess of $1,000, and the amount of each liability owed by him or by him and his spouse jointly, which is in excess of $1,000 as of the close of the preceding calendar year; (4) any transactions in securities of any business entity by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf or pursuant to his direction, during the preceding calendar year if the aggregate amount involved in transactions in the securities of such business entity exceeds $1,000 during such year; (5) all transactions in commodities by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf or pursuant to his direction, during the preceding calendar year if the aggregate amount involved in such transactions exceeds $1,000; and (6) any purchase or sale, other than the purchase or sale of his personal residence, of real property or any interest therein by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf or pursuant to his direction, during the preceding calendar year if the value of property involved in such purchase or sale exceeds $1,000. Title IV: Office of Legal Counsel to the Congress: - Establishes in the legislative branch the Office of Legal Counsel to the Congress, which shall be under the direction and control of the Legal Counsel. Stipulates that any appointment as Legal Counsel shall be with the approval of the House of Representatives and the Senate, without regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the office. States that it shall be the duty of the Legal Counsel, subject to professional standards: (1) to render to committees, Members, and other officers of the Congress legal opinions upon questions arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States; (2) to render, upon request, to committees and Members of Congress advice with respect to the purpose and effect of provisions contained in existing or proposed laws; (3) to perform such other duties with respect to legislative review of executive actions as shall be prescribed by the Congress; (4) (A) upon the request of any Member and subject to the direction and control of that Member's House, to intervene or appear as amicus curiae in any action pending in any court of the United States, or of a State or political subdivision thereof, in which there is placed in issue the constitutional validity or interpretation of any law or regulation of the United States, or the validity of any official proceeding of, or official action taken by, either House of Congress, any committee of either House of the Congress, any joint commitee, Member, officer, employee, office, or agency of the Congress; and (B) to represent Congress, committees, Members, and employees of Congress. Title V: Miscellaneous: - States that specified provisions of this Act are enacted by the Congress: (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, or of that House to which they specifically apply, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Economic Opportunity and Community Partnership Act - Extends the authorization for appropriations of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, for an additional three year period through fiscal year 1977. Extends such Act for an additional three year period, through fiscal year 1978. Authorizes an aggregate of $1,548,000 for fiscal year 1975, $1,761,500 for fiscal year 1976, and $1,983,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides for automatic extension of the authorizations beyond fiscal year 1977, unless the Congress passes or formally rejects extension of authorizations, or by concurrent resolution, provides that the automatic extension shall no longer apply. Establishes an independent "Community Services and Community Economic Development Administration," headed by an Administrator appointed by the President, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. States that "Community Services" would include continued direct funding for community action "local initiative" programs, "Community Partnership Agreements", and national emphasis anti-poverty activities such as Emergency Food and Medical Services, Senior Opportunities and Services, and other projects such as evaluation and demonstration activities. Provides for the continuation of the current legal services program. Stipulates that "local-initiative" programs would be continued under current authority. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes of $330,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, 330,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and such sums as may be necessary in succeeding fiscal years. States that the Federal share for such activities would be 80 percent. Provides that demonstration community partnership agreements would be funded by the Agency upon approval of an agreement entered into by a community action agency or similar public or private non-profit agency, and the public agency of a State or political subdivision of a State, or any combination, for local initiative type programs. Sets forth requirements concerning the use of funds. Stipulates that funds should not be used in substitution of local-initiative or other antipoverty programs. Establishes a National Intergovernmental Review Board on the Financing of Community Services to review community partnership agreements, as well as sources for funding of antipoverty efforts. States that the Board, appointed by the President, and subject to Senate confirmation, would consist of nine members, including three representives of State and local government, three of community action and similar agencies and the remainder from the private sector. Stipulates that community economic development programs would include "special impact" programs through community development corporations in rural and urban areas; special rural programs, including funding of rural cooperatives; developmental loans for community economic development programs including establishment of a model domestic development enterprise corporation; and training and technical assistance. Establishes an Interagency Community Economic Development Resource Committee to insure the maximum application of reasources of other agencies, such as the Small Business Administration, the Department of Houasing and Urban Development, and the Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Administration. Provides for a Joint Congressional study during the fiscal year ending June 30,1975, to provide for an appropriate administering agency to conduct the community economic development program in the future, including consideration of an independent community economic development agency.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the leadership of the Nation responsible for our economic wellbeing meet together immediately in a spirit of unity to design a set of policy actions to achieve the common goal of restoring stability and growth to the American economy and confidence and prosperity to the American people. Directs that this domestic summit be convened forthwith comprised of the President, the majority and minority leadership of both Houses of the Congress, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Appropriations Committees of both Houses, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, together with leaders of labor and business, and such other participants as they may agree upon. Provides that they shall meet and devote such time as necessary until a plan of action is decided upon which, by its demonstration of renewed unity, direction, and purpose, will gain the public support and confidence necessary to be effective in overcoming these difficulties.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1974
Requires, under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Congressional Office of the Budget to prepare fiscal notes for bills and joint resolutions. States that such fiscal note shall contain an estimate of the costs which would be incurred, or the savings which would be realized in carrying out such bill, resolution, or amendment in the fiscal year in which it is to become effective and in the four fiscal years following such fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1974
Provides that 2,000 additional copies of the compilation entitled "Confidence and Concern: Citizens View American Government-a Survey of Public Attitudes," prepared by the Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations of the Senate Committee on Government Operations be printed for the use of that committee.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1974
Emergency Petroleum Allocation Extension Act - Provides for the extension of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 from February 28, 1975, to June 30, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1974
Authorizes the Senate Committee on Commerce to make a full and complete investigation and study for the purpose of determining a policy and role for the Federal Government on tourism in the United States which will most effectively enable the industry to realize fully its potential to contribute to the social well-being, the cultural understanding, and the economic prosperity of the United States. Provides that the chairman and ranking minority member of each of the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Agriculture and Forestry, Interior and Insular Affairs, Public Works, Foreign Relations, Government Operations, Labor and Public Welfare, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Judiciary, and the Select Committee on Small Business, or a member of such committees designated by each such chairman or ranking minority member to serve in his place, shall serve as ex officio members of the Committee on Commerce for purposes of this study. Directs the Committee on Commerce to report its findings, together with its recommendations for such legislation as it deems advisable, to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Commissioner of the United States Customs Service should desist immediately from any actions furthering the transfer of any responsibilities legally vested in the United States Customs Service to any other agency, and, specifically, should desist from actions furthering the transfer of responsibility for interdiction of contraband along the Mexican border from the United States Customs Service to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1974
Provides up to $300,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977 under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. Authorizes up to $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977 for grants for operation of any health or educational project under such Act. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to designate as redevelopment areas under the Act those areas determined by the Secretary of Labor to be areas of substantial unemployment during the preceding calendar year. Extends the authorizations for loans and loan guarantees under the Act for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977. Provides for the guaranteeing of rental payments of leases up to 90 percent of the remaining rental payments required by the lease. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make direct grants to cities or other political subdivisions to pay up to 100 percent of the cost of economic development planning under the Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the States to provide special economic development and adjustment assistance programs to help State and local areas meet special needs arising from actual or threatened severe unemployment arising from economic dislocation, including unemployment arising from actions of the Federal Government and from compliance with environmental requirements that remove economic activities from a locality. Authorizes up to $100,000,000 per fiscal year for the fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Energy Recovery and Resource Conservation Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct and render financial, technical, and other assistance to appropriate public (whether Federal, State, interstate, or local) and private agencies and institutions, and individuals in the conduct of research, investigations, experiments, training and demonstrations relating to: (1) any adverse health and welfare effects of the release into the environment of material present in solid waste, and methods to eliminate such effects; (2) the operation and financing of solid waste disposal programs; and (3) measures necessary to aid the cleanup of inner city areas and other places which face particularly severe public health problems or other dangers because of accumulations of solid waste. States that in carrying out such provisions the Administrator is authorized to: (1) collect and make available, through publications and other appropriate means, the results of, and other information pertaining to, such research and other activities; (2) recommend model codes, ordinances, and statutes which are designed to implement the purposes of this Act; and (3) make grants-in-aid to public or private agencies, and institutions and to individuals for research, training projects, surveys, and demonstrations. Requires the Administrator to carry out an investigation and study to determine means of recovering energy and materials from solid waste, recommended uses of such materials and energy for national or international welfare, including identification of potential markets for such recovered resources. Allows the Administrator to make grants to States for the purpose of establishing statewide solid waste management and resource recovery programs. Provides that after January 1, 1977, no State shall be eligible for such a grant unless that State has developed a statewide solid waste management and resource recovery plan submitted to and approved by the Administrator consistent with the intent and requirements of this Act. Provides that in the event that a State does not submit a plan by January 1, 1977, the Administrator may receive areawide solid waste management and resource recovery plans from multijurisdictional organizations representating general units of local government. Authorizes an appropriation to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out such grants for State plans, not to exceed $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, not to exceed $75,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and not to exceed $100,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants pursuant to this Act to any State, municipal, or interstate or intermunicipal agency for the demonstration of energy resource recovery systems or for the construction of new or improved solid waste disposal facilities. States that a grant for the construction of a new or improved solid waste disposal facility may be made only if a State or interstate plan for solid waste disposal has been adopted which applies to the area involved, and the facility to be constructed is consistent with such plan, is included in a comprehensive plan for the area involved which is satisfactory to the Administrator for the purposes of this Act, and is consistent with any guidelines recommended under this Act. Authorizes an appropriation to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out such provisions not to exceed $75,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and not to exceed $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and not to exceed $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977 Authorizes the Administrator to make loans to any State, municipal, or intermunicipal agency for the implementation of resource recovery systems in those areas where resource recovery systems in private industry are unable to assure the energy and materials recovery or disposal of all materials generated in collection activities. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator for repayment of such loans. Authorizes grants or contracts to be made to pay all or a part of the costs, as may be determined by the Administrator, of any project designed to develop, expand, or carry out a program for training persons for occupations involving the management, supervision, design, operation, or maintenance of solid waste disposal and resource recovery equipment and facilities. Requires that, not later than one hundred and twenty days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall, after consultation with other appropriate Federal agencies, publish in the Federal Register proposed regulations recommending effective resource recovery and solid waste management practices for use by Federal agencies. Requires the President to prescribe regulations to carry out this Act which shall insure that each executive agency shall insure compliance of its own activities with the regulations recommended under this Act and the purposes of this Act. Permits the President to exempt any single activity or facility of any department, agency, or instrumentality in the executive branch from compliance with any regulations recommended under this Act if he determines it to be in the paramount interest of the United States to do so. Requires the Administrator to publish proposed regulations for the manufacture, distribution, reuse, and recycling of products, containers, or packaging. Directs the Administrator to require that any major item of solid waste for which standards have been promulgated pursuant to this Act and which is manufactured after the date on which such standards become effective shall include a label which specifies the conditions set out in the standard for that major item of solid waste for its reuse, recycling, or disposal and shall include information as to any reimbursable fees payable to the holder of that major item of solid waste at such time as the item is returned for reuse, recycling, or disposal as indicated on the label. Provides that any product offered for entry into the United States for which a standard has become effective pursuant to this Act, which is not accompanied by a certificate of compliance in the form prescribed by the Administrator, shall be refused entry into the United States. Prohibits the following acts: (1) at any time later than one year after publication of final regulations for products, packaging, and containers under this Act, the manufacture, distribution, sale, or offering for sale of any product packaging, or container not in compliance with such regulations; and (2) the manufacture, distribution, sale, or offering for sale of any major item of solid waste in violation of conditions or procedures established by standards promulgated and in effect for such major items of solid waste in accordance with this Act. Establishes penalties of a $5,000 fine per violation and/or one year imprisonment for violations of this Act. Allows citizen suits for alleged violations under this Act. Requires any manufacturer, distributor, or other seller of a product, package, or container of any major item of solid waste for which any certification, standard, or regulation has been promulgated pursuant to this Act to establish and maintain such records, make such reports, and provide such information as the Administrator may reasonably require to enable him to determine whether such manufacturer, distributor, or other seller has acted or is acting in compliance with this Act. Provides that any communication from a person or any Federal agency to the Administrator or any other employee of the Agency concerning a matter under consideration in a rulemaking or adjudicatory proceeding in the Agency shall be made a part of the public file. Provides that no person shall fire, or in any other way discriminate against, or cause to be fired or discriminated against, any employee or any authorized representative of employees by reason of the fact that such employee or representative has filed, instituted, or caused to be filed or instituted, any proceeding under this Act, or has testified or is about to testify in any proceedings related to or resulting from the administration or enforcement of the provisions of this Act. Authorizes additional appropriations for provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is especially appropriate to honor former President Harry S. Truman through the creation of a perpetual educational scholarship program to develop increased opportunities for young Americans to prepare and pursue careers in public service. Establishes, as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the United States Government, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, to be subject to the supervision and direction of the Board of Trustees. Authorizes the Foundation to award fifty-one scholarships in any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1973, for undergraduate study for persons who plan to pursue a career in public service. States that each recipient shall be known as a Truman scholar. Sets forth provisions governing: (1) the scholarship requirements; (2) the procedure for selection of Truman scholars; (3) stipends and institutional allowances; and (4) the scholarship conditions. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund. Prescribes the procedure for expenditures from the fund. Directs that there shall be an Executive Secretary of the Foundation, appointed by the Board, who shall be the chief executive officer and shall carry out the functions of the Foundation subject to the supervision and direction of the Board. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 to the fund. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for administrative expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that: (1) the contribution by the United States to the growing economic and human crisis in the developing world should be primarily in the form of food and the means and technology to produce it; (2) the President, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Agriculture and their advisors should give the highest priority to the immediate expansion of American food assistance and take such additional steps as might be necessary to expedite the transfer of American food commodities on concessional and donation terms to those nations most severely affected; (3) the United States should increase its matching pledge to the World Food Program for 1975-1976 and encourage other nations to do so; (4) the President and the Secretary of State should negotiate with other major food exporting nations to seek to obtain their participation in this emergency effort proportionate to their share of world food exports, and should strongly encourage oil exporting nations to contribute a fair share to these efforts to assist the most severely affected nations; (5) the United States should announce its desire to work with the oil exporting and other nations in a major effort to increase world fertilizer production with the possibility of including the offer of American technology and capital; and (6) the President should encourage the American people to reduce the non-critical, non-food-producing uses of fertilizer which now total nearly three million tons of nutrient a year, to make available increased fertilizer supplies for raising food production at home and in the developing world. Declares the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States and the Secretaries of State and Agriculture should, and are hereby urged and requested to: (1) maintain regular and full consultation with the appropriate committees of the Congress and (2) report to the Congress and the Nation at regular intervals on the progress toward formulating an American response in a cooperative framework to the world food crisis and the needs of the most severely affected developing countries.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1974
Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act - Declares the purposes of this Act to be: (1) to characterize Federal/non-Federal relationships in the acquisition of property and services and in the furnishing of assistance by the Federal Government; and (2) to establish Government-wide standards for selection of appropriate legal instruments to achieve uniformity in the use by the executive agencies of such instruments, a clear definition of the relationships they reflect, and a better understanding of the responsibilities of the parties. Requires each executive agency to use a procurement contract as the legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the Federal Government and a State or local government or other recipient whenever the principal purpose of the agreement is the acquisition, by purchase, lease, or barter, of property or services for the direct benefit or use of the Federal Government. Requires each executive agency to use a grant agreement as the legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the Federal Government and a State or local government or other recipient whenever the principal purpose of the relationship is the transfer of money, property, services, or anything of value to the State or local government; and whenever no substantial involvement is anticipated between the executive agency, acting for the Federal Government, and the State or local government or other recipient during performances of the contemplated activity. Requires each executive agency to use a cooperative agreement as the legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the Federal Government and a State or local government or other recipient whenever the principal purpose of the relationship is the transfer of money, property, services, or anything of value to the State or local government; and whenever substantial involvement is anticipated between the executive agency, acting for the Federal Government, and the State or local government or other recipient during performance of the contemplated activity. Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in cooperation with the executive agencies, to undertake a study to develop a better understanding of alternative means of implementing Federal assistance programs, and to determine the feasibility of developing a comprehensive system of guidance for Federal assistance programs.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism; and that the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to call upon all governments to condemn inhuman acts of violence against innocent victims and to strongly urge the countries where these groups and individuals are found to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terroism and senseless violence.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
Title I: Federal Privacy Board - Establishes the Federal Privacy Board in the executive branch of the Government and specifies the composition of the Board. Enumerates the functions of the Board, including to publish a Data Base Directory of the United States containing the name and characteristics of each personal information system. Specifies the powers of the Board, including the power to conduct inspections of information systems at reasonable times, and to order an organization to desist from acts in violation of rules or orders promulgated under this Act. Title II: Standards and Management Systems For Handling Information Related To Individuals - Establishes requirements for the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination by Federal agencies, or State or local governments, or any other organization maintaining an information system, of personal information collected for administrative, statistical-reporting, and research purposes. Requires any organization maintaining or proposing to establish an information system for personal information to give notice of the existence and character of each existing system once a year to the Federal Privacy Board. Specifies the elements of public notice required under this Act to be contained in such notice. States that organizations maintaining personal information shall inform individuals asked to supply personal information of consequences of providing or not providing such information, shall request permission of a data subject to disseminate such information, and grant such individual the right to inspect and to know all personal information about the individual, the nature and sources of the information, and the recipients of personal information about such individual. Provides methods for the challenging, correction, and explanation of personal information by the subject of such information. Requires each such organization maintaining a personal information system to inform all data subjects of the fact within two years of enactment of this Act by notice containing specified elements. Exempts information determined to be vital to the national defense, contained in active criminal investigatory files compiled by Federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies, and that maintained by the news media (except information relating to the employees of such organizations) from the provisions of this Act. States that it shall be unlawful for any organization to require an individual to disclose or furnish his social security account number for any activity, unless the disclosure is required by law. Title III: Miscellaneous - Defines the terms used in this Act. States that any revelation of trade secrets required under this Act shall be treated as confidential by those to whom they are made. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1974
Government Secrecy Control Act - States that it is the policy of the United States Government to permit information relating to the national defense or foreign policy of the United States to be kept secret only when the disclosure of such information would harm the national defense or foreign policy or when such information has been provided to the Government of the United States by a foreign government or international organization pursuant to an agreement which conforms to the policy of this Act and which precludes the release of such information without the consent of that foreign government or international organization. States that it is also the policy of the United States Government not to permit information to be kept secret in order to impede access by Congress to such information or to conceal incompetence, inefficiency, wrongdoing, or administrative error, to avoid embarrassment to any officer or agency, or to restrain competition or independent initiative. Establishes a Joint Committee on Government Secrecy to carry out the policies of this Act, and upon determination that the practices of Government departments and agencies fail to conform to such policies, to direct their revision. Specifies the composition, duties, and powers of the Joint Committee. Establishes the Office of National Defense and Foreign Policy Information within the Executive Office of the President to be headed by a Registrar of National Defense and Foreign Policy Information. States that it shall be the function of the Registrar to compile and transmit to the Joint Committee a Register of National Defense and Foreign Policy Information, and to review and recommend the procedures relating to the disclosure of information by the President, and Federal departments and agencies. Abolishes the Interagency Classification Review Committee. Requires that any document or matter kept secret pursuant to this Act shall be entered on the Register of National Defense and Foreign Policy Information. Specifies the information to be contained in each entry required to be made in the Register. Specifies special procedures for the entry of certain classes of matter into the Register.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Cost of Living Act - Specifies the techniques and methods to be used by the President to monitor public and private economic activity in order to constrain domestic inflation. States that the President may, for the purpose of carrying out this Act, require the keeping of records, the making of reports and inspections, and the taking of sworn testimony as may be necessary or appropriate to obtain information crucial to achieving the purposes of this Act. Specifies information which the President shall not be entitled to request. Provides that the President may establish a board or commission of specified composition, along with advisory committees, to carry out the purposes of this Act. States that experts and consultants may be employed for the performance of functions under this Act. Requires the President, in carrying out his authority under this Act, to study and evaluate the relationship between excess profits, the stabilization of the economy, and the creation of new jobs. Authorizes the appropriation of funds to carry out the provisions of this Act. States that this Act shall become effective on May 1, 1974, and expire on April 30, 1975. Stipulates that nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1974
Energy and Resources Recovery Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish within the Agency an Office of Energy and Resources Recovery to achieve the purposes and administer the provisions of this Act. Directs the Administrator, within one year of the date of enactment of this Act, after consultation with appropriate Federal, State interstate, regional, and local agencies and after opportunity for public hearings, to promulgate standards for collection, handling, disposal, and recovery of all hazardous and other solid waste which may, if improperly disposed of, cause air or water pollution or other environmental damage. States that the Administrator, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, may require the operator of any disposal system for hazardous or other solid waste to: (1) establish and maintain such records; (2) make such reports; and (3) install, use, and maintain such monitoring equipment or methods as he may require. Establishes a $25,000 per day fine for violations of this Act. Requires the Administrator, within one year following enactment of this section and each year thereafter, to publish guidelines specifying the percentages of energy and resources that can be recovered from solid waste by use of the best recovery management practices and technology that are reasonably available. Provides that as a part of such guidelines, the Administrator shall publish thorough descriptions of existing technology and practices which can be implemented by agricultural producers, industries, municipalities, consumers, and others to achieve the percentages of energy or resource recovery from each category of solid waste that the Administrator finds reasonable. Requires the Administrator, within one year following enactment of this section to make a complete assessment of the use of natural resources and recycled materials in product packaging; and establish guidelines for the packaging of products to encourage efficient use of such resources and materials with a consequential reduction in solid waste. Directs the Administrator to grant to each State 80 percent of the cost of a comprehensive solid waste management and energy and resource recovery program. Authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 to carry out this Act for fiscal years 1975-1977. Authorizes grants to States to establish an energy and resources recovery research institute at one college in each State. Authorizes appropriations of $40,000,000 for fiscal years 1975-1977 for additional purposes of this Act. Empowers the Administration to make loans (either directly or in cooperation with banks or other lenders) to assist any small business concern in affecting additions to or alterations in the equipment, facilities, or methods of operation of such concern to recover energy and resources from solid waste.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974
Standby Energy Emergency Authorities Act - Title I: Standby Energy Emergency Authorities - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to grant specific, temporary standby authority to impose end-use rationing and to reduce demand by regulating public and private consumption of energy, subject to congressional review and approval, and to authorize other specific, temporary emergency actions. Defines the terms used in this Act. Empowers the President to establish a program for the rationing and ordering of priorities among classes of end-users of crude oil, residual fuel oil, or any refined petroleum product. Authorizes the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration to promulgate energy conservation plans to result in reduction of energy consumption. Prescribes the procedures for making amendments to an energy conservation plan. Directs the Administrator to prohibit the burning of natural gas or petroleum products by any major fuel-burning installation which has the capability to burn coal. Empowers the Administrator to prescribe a system of coal allocation for such purposes. Authorizes the Administrator, after making required findings, to require the allocation of, or the performance under contracts or orders relating to, supplies of materials and equipment in the marketplace. Provides for Federal actions to increase available domestic petroleum supplies, including the production of existing oil fields at rates in excess of their currently assigned maximum efficient rates. Provides for the protection of franchised dealers by setting up franchise-termination notification requirements. Prescribes prohibitions on unreasonable actions taken under authority of this Act. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to adopt rules to eliminate restrictions on motor common carriers which require excessive travel. States that, with specified exceptions, no provision of this Act shall be deemed to convey any immunity under the antitrust laws. Empowers the Administrator to establish advisory committees to achieve the purposes of this Act. Provides for the making of voluntary agreements by persons in the oil and refined petroleum products business to carry out the objectives of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973. Authorizes the Administrator to restrict exports of coal, natural gas, petroleum products, and petrochemical feedstocks and supplies which he determines are necessary within the United States. Provides for unemployment assistance necessitated by the adverse impact of actions taken pursuant to this Act. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to encourage the use of carpools and to establish an Office of Carpool Promotion. Enumerates the responsibilities of such Office. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the conduct of programs to achieve the carpooling objectives. Sets forth the procedures for administrative and judicial review of rules and orders promulgated under this title. Imposes civil and criminal penalties for violations of this title. Directs the Small Business Administration to provide small business enterprises with information concerning the programs provided for in this Act. States that the Administrator may delegate any of his functions under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act or this Act to any officer or agency employee as he deems appropriate. Sets forth the effect of this Act on State laws or programs. Empowers the Administrator to collect energy information necessary to assist in the formulation of energy policy or to carry out the purposes of this Act. States that the authority under this title to prescribe rules, take other action, and enforce rules shall expire June 30, 1975. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out the purposes of this Act. Provides for the development of contingency plans, in the nature of descriptive analyses, to fully inform Congress and the public of the exercise of authorities under this Act. Directs the President, within 30 days, to specify ceiling prices for all first sales or exchanges of crude oil, natural gas liquids, and condensate produced or imported into the United States. Title II: Coordination with Environmental Protection Requirements - Empowers the Administrator, under the Clean Air Act, to temporarily suspend, until November 1, 1974, any stationary source fuel or emission as it applies to any person, if he finds that such person will be unable to comply with such limitation because of unavailability of types or amounts of fuels. Prescribes the procedures for the making of such suspensions and defines the terms used. States that the Administrator may establish priorities under which manufacturers of continuous emission reduction systems shall provide such systems to users. Requires the Administrator to report to Congress within six months on the results of the programs promulgated under this title. Provides for implementation of plan revisions under the Clean Air Act. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study on the necessity of parking surcharges, management of parking supplies, and preferential bus/carpool lanes to achieve national primary ambient air quality standards. Extends the period for application of motor vehicle emission standards from 1975 to 1977. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Clean Air Act. Provides that any allocation provided for in title I of this Act or in the Emergency Petroleum Act of 1973 shall include measures to assure that available low sulfur fuel will be distributed on a priority basis to those areas designated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency as requiring low sulfur to avoid or minimize adverse impact on public health. Sets forth additional provisions providing for the protection of public health and the environment. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study on potential methods of energy conservation and submit a report to Congress. Details the contents of such report. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a study on high-speed ground transportation systems between California, Mexico, and Canada. Calls for the filing of a report on the practicability of establishing a fuel economy improvement standard of 20 percent for new motor vehicles manufactured from 1980 onward. Title III: Studies and Reports - Requires the conduct and submission to the Congress of reports in specified energy areas, including the production of energy supplies, conservation programs, price-elasticity of gasoline demands, and public transportation.
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 · 21 February 1974
Impoundment Prohibition Act - Provides that in apportioning any appropriation, reserves may be established solely to provide for contingencies, or to effect savings whenever savings are made possible by or through changes in requirements or greater efficiency of operations. States that reserves shall not be established for fiscal policy purposes or to achieve less than the full objectives and scope of programs enacted and funded by Congress. Authorizes the Comptroller General to bring a civil action in the United States Court for the District of Columbia to enforce the provisions of this Act. Provides that nothing contained in this Act shall be interpreted as constituting a ratification or approval of any reservation of budget authority by the President or any other Federal employee, in the past or in the future, unless done pursuant to statutory authority in effect at the time of such reservation. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 665)
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the Senate that: (1) all agencies of the Federal Government, which have any responsibility for establishing priorities for the allocation of materials and facilities utilized in the production or distribution of fertilizer, give the highest priority to the fertilizer industry regarding the allocation of such materials and facilities; (2) the Federal Power Commission and appropriate State regulatory agencies do everything within their power, in the establishment of priorities for the allocation of natural gas (including gas sold under interruptible contracts), to insure producers of nitrogen with supplies of natural gas sufficient to maintain maximum production levels; (3) the Federal Energy Office include all of the energy and fuel requirements of the fertilizer industry, including local dealer requirements, in its highest priority category regarding allocation of gasoline, middle-distillates, and other liquid fuels utilized by this industry in the production, distribution, and application of fertilizer supplies; (4) the Cost of Living Council and the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce continue their monitoring and reporting of fertilizer supply availabilities, wholesale and retail prices, and export shipments; and (5) the Cost of Living Council establish an investigatory program through the field offices of the Internal Revenue Service to monitor and analyze any reports of fertilizer price gouging at either wholesale or retail levels, and any changes in manufacturer marketing operations or relationships between manufacturers and local dealers and between local dealers and their customers which may affect continued availability or pricing of fertilizer supplies to farmers.
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 · 24 January 1974
Directs the President, immediately upon the enactment of this Act, to issue an order to establish a ceiling on prices of crude oil and petroleum products at levels not greater than the highest levels during the fourteen-day period ending January 19, 1974, for like or similar commodities. Provides that, as soon as practicable, but not later than thirty days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall by written order roll back prices for crude oil and petroleum products to levels no higher than those prevailing in the seven-day period ending November 1, 1973, in order to reduce inflation. Requires the President to issue rules to insure that all corporations or other entities engaging in sales of crude petroleum at the refinery level or petroleum products at the wholesale level reflect, in sales to any purchaser, the average costs of its foreign and domestic crude oil and petroleum products.
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 January 1974
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to designate an extension of the Basic National Rail Passenger System, established pursuant to the Rail Passenger Service Act, to provide adequate intercity rail passenger service to the major population area of each of the contiguous forty-eight states which did not have any large population area previously provided with intercity rail passenger service.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress: (1) that new efforts should be made by the Government of the United States through appropriate diplomatic and international channels to persuade the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam, and the Lao Patriotic Front to comply with their obligations with respect to personnel captured or killed during the Vietnam conflict and with respect to personnel still in a missing status; (2) that every effort should be made to obtain the cooperation of the various Cambodian authorities in providing information with respect to personnel missing in Cambodia; and (3) that further efforts should be made to obtain necessary cooperation for search teams to inspect crash sites and other locations where personnel may have been lost.
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 · 14 December 1973
Provides that there be printed for the use of the Senate Committee on Government Operations 2000 additional copies of Part I of its committee print entitled "Confidence and Concern: Citizens View American Government - A Survey of Public Attitudes," dates December 3, 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1973
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should determine and take immediate steps to reduce Federal Government consumption of fuels by a third; (2) the President should initiate a program within the Federal Government to immediately reduce nonessential uses of all Government vehicles and equipment, and commercial and mass transportation should be utilized whenever practical in the conduct of government business; (3) the President should allot Federal Government departments and agencies a fixed quantity of fuel for a fixed period for essential purposes only, and critical national security activities and other vital services may be exempted on a case-by-case basis; (4) the Secretary of Defense should immediately initiate innovative measures to reduce the amount of fuels used for defense activities; and (5) the President should immediately urge State, local, and other public authorities to adopt similar measures.
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
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 · 6 December 1973
Provides that the compilation entitled "Disclosure of Corporate Ownership", prepared by the Subcommittees on Intergovernmental Relations and Budgeting, Management and Expenditures, of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, be printed with illustrations as a Senate document; and that there be printed five thousand (5,000) additional copies of such document for the use of that Committee. Authorizes the printing of 5,000 copies of the compilation entitled "Disclosure of Corporate Ownership" as a Senate document.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1973
Federal Energy Administration - Establishes the Federal Energy Administration to assure that the nations energy needs are met for the foreseeable future. Directs the Administrator to plan, direct, and conduct programs related to the production, conservation, use, and allocation of all forms of energy. Transfers to and vests in the Administrator all functions of the Secretary of the Interior, the Department of the Interior, and officers and components of that Department: (1) as relate to or are utilized by the Office of Petroleum Allocation; (2) as relate to or are utilized by the Office of Energy Conservation; (3) as relate to or are utilized by the Office of Energy Data and Analysis; and (4) as relate to or are utilized by the Office of Oil and Gas. Transfers to and vests in the Administrator all functions of the Chairman of the Cost of Living Council, the Executive Director of the Cost of Living Counsil, and officers and components as relate to or are utilized by the Energy Division of the Cost of Living Council. Empowers the Administrator to promulgate such rules, regulations, and procedures as may be necessary to carry out the functions vested in him; and to perform such other activities as may be necessary for the effective fulfillment of his duties and functions. Provides that final orders and actions of any official or component in the performance of functions transferred by this Act shall be subject to judicial review to the same extent and in the same manner as if such orders or actions had been made or taken by the officer, department, agency, or instrumentality in the performance of such functions immediately preceding the effective date of this Act. States that nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to limit, curtail, abolish, or terminate any function of the President which he had immediately before the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1973
Provides that the standards and procedures applicable under the Clean Air Act to emissions of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and oxides of nitrogen from light duty vehicles and engines manufactured during model year 1976 shall be the standards prescribed for the 1975 model year.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1973
Provides, under the Communications Act, that if the facilities of any broadcasting station are used by the President of the United States: (1) within a period of ninety days preceding a general election of Members of the House and Senate of the United States or; (2) in a year in which a Presidential election is to be held, within a period commencing January 1 and ending on the day of such election, then the licensee of such station shall afford equal opportunities to the national committee of the major opposition political party. Provides that appearances by the President on any (1) bona fide newscast, (2) bona fide news documentary or (3) on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events shall not be deemed to be use of a broadcasting station.
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
Authorizes, under the Clean Air Act, the temporary suspension of emission requirements during the period from November 15, 1973, through May 15, 1974, as to any fuel burning stationary source which would be in violation of such requirement due to actions ordered by the President under the National Emergency Fuels Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1973
Independent Special Prosecutor Act - Directs the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to appoint a Special Prosecutor who shall have the duties and powers prescribed in this Act. Authorizes the Chief Judge to appoint a Deputy Special Prosecutor, to assist the Special Prosecutor in the performance of his duties and who, in the event of the disability of the Special Prosecutor or vacancy in the office of Special Prosecutor, shall temporarily become Special Prosecutor until the Chief Judge appoints a Special Prosecutor. Authorizes the Special Prosecutor to have exclusive jurisdiction, to investigate, as he deems appropriate, and prosecute against and in the name of the United States: (1) offenses arising out of the unauthorized entry into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate; (2) other offenses arising out of the 1972 Presidential election; (3) offenses alleged to have been committed by the President, Presidential appointees, or members of the White House staff; (4) all other matters referred to the former Special Prosecutor pursuant to regulations of the Attorney General; and (5) offenses relating to or arising out of any such matters. Empowers the Special Prosecutor with authority with respect to specified matters set forth in this Act; including (1) to determine whether or not to contest the assertion of Executive Privilege or any other testimonial privilege; and (2) to receive appropriate national security clearance and review all evidence sought to be withheld on grounds of national security and if necessary contest in court any claim of privilege or attempt to withhold evidence on grounds of national security. Provides that all investigations, prosecutions, litigation and grand jury or other proceedings initiated by the former Special Prosecutor shall be continued, as the Special Prosecutor deems appropriate, by him, and he shall become successor counsel for the United States in all such proceedings, notwithstanding any substitution of counsel made after October 20, 1973. States that the Special Prosecutor shall carry out his duties under this Act within two years, except as necessary to complete trial or appellate action on indictments then pending. Empowers the Chief Judge to dismiss the Special Prosecutor or the Deputy Special Prosecutor if he determines they have willfully violated the provisions of this Act or committed other extraordinary improprieties, and for no other reason. Provides that the Special Prosecutor solely shall exercise the powers and perform the duties specified in this Act and that neither the Chief Judge or the President of the United States, nor any other officer of the United States shall have any authority to direct, countermand, or interfere with any action taken by the Special Prosecutor pursuant to this Act. Provides that neither the President of the United States, nor any other officer of the United States, shall have any authority to remove the Special Prosecutor from office. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1973
Carpool Incentives Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to carry out demonstration projects designed to encourage the use of carpools in urban areas throughout the country while not adversely affecting bus and other mass transportation ridership in such areas. Provides that from proposals submitted by the States to the Secretary, the Secretary shall approve for funding those projects which offer the best prospects of achieving the objectives of this Act and which provide a reasonable balance among cities of various population sizes, traffic patterns, and geographical locations. States that the Federal share of the cost of such work shall be 90 per cent, except that the Federal share shall not exceed $1,000,000 for any single project. Directs the Secretary to give permits to demonstration projects proposed for cities or areas in air quality control regions after consultation with the Environment Protection Agency as to the value of such projects as a part of a transportation control plan for such region. Directs the Secretary to conduct a full investigation of the effectiveness of measures employed in the demonstration projects authorized by this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated not to exceed $10,000,000 from the Highway Trust Fund to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1973
Makes it the sense of the Senate that the announced policy of the United States Government to maintain Israel's deterrent strength be implemented by continuing to transfer to Israel, by whatsoever means necessary, Phantom aircraft and other equipment in the quantities needed by Israel to repel the aggressors.
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