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United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1983
Religious Speech Protection Act of 1983 - Prohibits federally funded public secondary schools which allow students to meet during noninstructional periods from discriminating against any meeting of students on the basis of religious content. Grants Federal jurisdiction to enforce this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1983
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to replace the existing Office of Health Information, Health Promotion, and Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine (within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health of the Department of Health and Human Services) with an Office of Health Promotion, to be headed by a Director. Directs such Office to: (1) coordinate Department and private health information, promotion, and prevention services; (2) establish a national information clearinghouse; and (3) support projects, conduct research, and disseminate information relating to preventive medicine, health promotion, physical fitness and sports medicine. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986. Repeals specified provisions regarding: (1) program models; (2) physical fitness grants; and (3) sports medicine (transferred under this Act). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to academic health centers to establish Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Sets forth related operating provisions. Requires three such centers to be established in FY 1984, and five centers in each of the subsequent two fiscal years. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986. Requires an annual health promotion and preventive medicine report to the appropriate congressional committees, with the first report due by January 1, 1984. Establishes an Assistant Director for Prevention position in the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to coordinate and promote NIH health promotion and disease prevention programs. Revises full-time student enrollment requirements for schools of public health seeking capitation grants to require that enrollment equal (presently must exceed) 1976 levels.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1983
Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to maintain a biological pesticide testing facility. Requires such facility to verify pesticide application data and conduct periodic compliance tests.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1983
Solid Waste Disposal Act Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act (as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976) to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through 1987 for: (1) general administration by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to carry out such Act (including funds for Resource Recovery and Conservation Panels, hazardous waste management, and support for State, regional, local, and interstate agency solid waste plans); and (2) grants to State hazardous waste programs. Sets forth provisions for regulation and study of hazardous waste from small quantity (less than 1,000 kilograms per month) generators. Requires compliance with applicable rules promulgated by the Secretary of Transportation under the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act by each generator of hazardous waste identified on the basis of ignitability, reactivity, or corrosivity or listed under specified hazardous waste management provisions which generates such wastes during any calendar month in a total quantity less than 1,000 kilograms, when such waste is transported off the premises on which it is generated. Requires, if such rules are not applicable, that: (1) the generator notify the transporter of specified information; and (2) such wastes be placed in suitable, sound, nonleaking containers according to specified criteria. Exempts from such requirements: (1) empty containers of less than one barrel in volume; and (2) waste transported for actual reuse, rerefining, or materials recovery. Exempts generators subject to such requirements from additional manifesting, recordkeeping, or reporting requirements beyond those in regulations promulgated prior to January 1, 1983, or except as required for a study under this Act. Requires transporters of wastes subject to such small quantity generator requirements to provide the operator of any treatment, storage, or disposal facility to which such waste is delivered with a notice containing the same specified information which the generator is required to supply to the transporter. Exempts such transporters from requirements to notify governmental authorities, beyond requirements in regulations promulgated prior to January 1, 1983, or except as required for a study under this Act or as provided in State or local law. Requires, until regulations based on a study are promulgated within three years after enactment of this Act, that any small quantity generator hazardous waste, which is not delivered to a hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility with a permit, be disposed of only in a facility which meets specified criteria for sanitary landfills and solid waste management. Directs the Administrator, within 30 months after enactment of this Act, to promulgate revisions of such criteria to take into account the potential receipt by such facilities of hazardous waste in household waste and from small quantity generators, as may be necessary to protect human health and the environment. Modifies standards applicable to owners and operators of hazardous waste treatment, storage, and disposal facilities to provide for onsite storage of small quantity generator hazardous waste for up to 180 days without a permit. Declares that provisions for small quantity generator hazardous waste under this Act do not affect, modify, or render invalid any applicable requirements in regulations promulgated prior to January 1, 1983. Requires that any additional acute hazardous waste listed after such date shall be subject to all regulations applicable to acutely hazardous wastes. Directs the Administrator, in cooperation with the States, to study small quantity generator hazardous wastes. Authorizes the Administrator to require necessary information from such generators. Sets forth requirements for such study, including submission to the Congress within two years after enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator, based upon such study and other available information, to promulgate, within three years after enactment of this Act, additional regulations for small quantity generator hazardous waste as may be necessary to protect human health and the environment. Sets forth guidelines for such regulations. Sets forth land disposal limitations. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after enactment of this Act, to promulgate (and from time to time thereafter revise to add additional wastes) regulations prohibiting the disposal on or into land of specified identified or listed hazardous wastes through one or more methods of land disposal. Directs the Administrator to specify each hazardous waste for which one or more methods of land disposal may not be protective of human health and the environment, based on persistence, toxicity, mobility, and propensity to bioaccumulate. Directs the Administrator, in promulgating such regulations, to consider each hazardous waste: (1) which is prohibited from land disposal by any State; (2) which contains significant concentrations of halogenated organic compounds; or (3) on which any State or interested person petitions for such a prohibition. Makes such prohibitions effective on promulgation, unless the Administrator establishes another effective date, no later than two years after promulgation, on the basis of the earliest date on which an alternative treatment, recovery, or disposal method which protects human health and the environment will be technologically feasible. Establishes requirements with respect to liquids in landfills. Directs the Administrator, within one year after enactment of this Act, to promulgate final regulations which minimize the disposal of liquid hazardous waste in landfills. Directs the Administrator to maintain current requirements respecting landfill disposal of liquid hazardous waste and free liquids contained in hazardous waste, prior to promulgation of such regulations. Requires any new, replacement, or laterally expanded unit of a landfill or surface impoundment operating under an interim status permit to be subject to requirements respecting liners and leachate collection systems or equivalent protection applicable to facilities for which a final permit is issued. Directs the Administrator, when evaluating a petition to exclude a waste generated at a particular facility from being regulated as a hazardous waste, to consider criteria, constituents, or other related factors other than those for which the waste was listed. Requires notice and opportunity for public hearing before such a petition is granted or denied. Sets time limits on the temporary granting of such petitions prior to enactment of this Act without the opportunity for public comment and the full consideration of such comment. Requires that such petitions be accompanied by adequate information for evaluation, including information on samples of such waste determined to be representative on the basis of guidelines published by the Administrator. Requires that such information be certified by a responsible corporate official of the facility to be accurate, complete, and representative within the knowledge of employees or contractors of such facility. Directs the Administrator, within six months after the enactment date of this Act, to submit to the Congress a workplan: (1) for developing regulations identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste, including measures or indicators for toxicity; (2) identifying those particular wastes on which the Agency intends to decide whether to list as a hazardous waste within two years after such enactment date, and those to be decided upon within five years after such date; and (3) developed by the National Toxicology Program in cooperation with the Administrator, evaluating the feasibility of determining whether the presence of certain constituents (such as known carcinogens, mutagens, or teratogens) at levels substantially excess of levels commonly agreed to affect health may cause wastes to be hazardous per se. Directs the Administrator, within six months after the enactment date of this Act, to promulgate regulations listing dioxin- and dibenzofuran - containing wastes as hazardous wastes. Directs the Administrator, within two years after the enactment date of this Act, to: (1) promulgate regulations identifying additional characteristics of hazardous waste; (2) reach decisions on all wastes identified for decision within two years and for each such waste either promulgate regulations listing such particular hazardous waste or publish a statement as to why such waste should not be so listed; and (3) report to the Congress on progress in evaluating the feasibility of determining whether health-threatening levels of certain constituents may cause wastes to be hazardous per se. Directs the Administrator: (1) within six months after the enactment date of this Act, to determine the appropriateness of using the extraction procedure toxicity characteristic for evaluating such petitions; and (2) within two years of such enactment date, to make necessary improvements in the procedure to predict more accurately the leaching potential of wastes. Requires, within 12 months after enactment of this Act, notification to the Administrator by: (1) the owner or operator of any facility producing a fuel from any hazardous waste alone or with other material or from used oil alone or with other material; (2) the owner or operator of any facility (other than a single or two-family residence) burning fuel containing any hazardous waste or used oil; and (3) any person who distributes or markets fuel containing hazardous waste or used oil. Requires that such notification describe the location, the facility, the identified or listed hazardous waste involved, and the production or energy recovery activity. Exempts facilities, such as residential boilers, from such notification requirements where the Administrator determines that such notification is not necessary for obtaining sufficient information respecting current practices of facilities using hazardous waste for energy recovery. Directs the Administrator, within two years after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations establishing health and environmental standards applicable to owners or operators of facilities producing fuel from hazardous wastes or burning hazardous wastes for energy recovery and to distributors or marketers of such fuels. Exempts from such requirements, and from labeling and other specified requirements, petroleum refinery wastes containing oil which are converted into petroleum coke at the same facility at which such wastes were generated, unless the resulting coke product would exceed one or more characteristic by which a substance would be identified as a hazardous waste. Prohibits producers, distributors, or marketers of fuels containing hazardous wastes to distribute or market such fuels unless the invoice or bill of sale bears a conspicuous warning and lists the hazardous wastes contained in such fuel. Directs the Administrator, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, to promulgate regulations requiring that any person who is required to file a notification in accordance with provisions for burning and blending hazardous wastes must maintain such records regarding fuel blending, distribution, or use as may be necessary to protect human health and the environment. Sets forth provisions for mandatory inspections at least every two years, beginning 12 months after enactment of this Act, at every facility for the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste for which a permit is required. Directs the Administrator, after notice and opportunity for public comment, promulgate the minimum frequency and manner of such inspections and maintenance of inspection records. Authorizes the Administrator to distinguish between classes and categories of facilities commensurate with the risks posed. Directs the Administrator, within six months after enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on the potential for such inspections by nongovernmental officers as a supplement to EPA or State inspections. Directs the Administrator to report at least biennially to the Congress and the President on the quantities and types of hazardous wastes generated, stored, treated, and disposed of. Requires compilation and updating of such information. Requires States with authorized programs to make available annual reports they have received to assist in preparation of such biennial report. Requires the first such report to cover calendar year 1983 and be transmitted to the Congress by September 30, 1984. Makes specified inspection authority available to implement such report provisions. Revises provisions for citizen suits to provide that only the prevailing or substantially prevailing party may be awarded litigation costs. Revises provisions for judicial review of final regulations and certain petitions and of the Administrator's actions with regard to specified permits and authorizations. Declares the intention that adequate provision be given to the present and future needs of the recycling and resource recovery interest, within the area encompassed by the comprehensive planning process, in determining the size of waste-to-energy facilities. Exempts from specified standards and permit requirements for treating, storing, or disposing of hazardous wastes any resource recovery facility recovering energy from the mass burning of municipal solid waste which: (1) receives and burns only household waste and solid waste from commercial or industrial sources that does not contain identified or listed hazardous waste; and (2) does not accept identified or listed hazardous wastes; and (3) whose owner or operator has established contractual requirements or other appropriate notification or inspection procedures to assure that hazardous wastes are not received or burned there. Makes technical corrections.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1983
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to declare congressional policy with respect to the marketing and sale of passenger air transportation. Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to vacate Order 82-12-85, adopted on December 16, 1982, and to adopt as its final decision in docket numbered 36595 the recommended order of an administrative law judge dated June 1, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1983
Acidic Deposition Study and Sulfur Emission Limitation Act of 1983 - Amends title I (Air Pollution Prevention and Control) of the Clean Air Act to establish a program of acid deposition analysis and mitigation. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, within the five-fiscal-year period following the submission of the final comprehensive National Acid Precipitation Plan under the Energy Security Act, to report on acid deposition to specified congressional committees. Sets forth requirements relating to such report. Directs the Administrator to solicit data, views, and comments from State and other Federal agencies which are carrying out studies and research relating to acid deposition. Prohibits the Administrator from approving State implementation plan revisions, during the five-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act until a date six months after submission of the Administrator's report under this Act, which would increase the annual allowable emissions of sulfur dioxide for any existing major stationary source. Sets forth exemptions from such prohibition under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to any State or interstate agency, to develop, refine, demonstrate, and implement methods of: (1) neutralizing or restoring the buffering capacity of bodies of water that have become so acidic as to endanger game fish species; (2) removing from bodies of water toxic metals or other toxic substances mobilized by increased acidity; and (3) reducing or neutralizing acidity which can be shown to be harmful to valuable forest ecosystems. Prohibits such grants being made for any project in an amount exceeding 75 percent of costs. Encourages State Governors to: (1) establish and designate appropriate regional acid deposition corridors comprising several States; and (2) negotiate appropriate measures to reduce emissions of acid deposition pollutants, taking into consideration actions taken and planned by the various States and Canada to control sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, future economic growth in the corridors, employment impact, public health and welfare, consumer costs, and equity among the States. Directs the Administrator to cooperate with and to provide technical assistance for such State efforts. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator for the five fiscal years following the date of enactment of this Act, to prepare the report on acid deposition and to make grants to State or interstate agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 25, 1983, as Missing Children Day.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1983
Designates the week of April 3 through April 9, 1983, as National Drug Abuse Education Week.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1983
Designates the month of August 1983 as National Child Support Enforcement Week.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1983
Fair Practices in Automotive Products Act - Sets forth for all motor vehicle manufacturers which produce over 100,000 motor vehicles for ultimate retail sale in the United States "minimum domestic content ratios" (the domestic value, including labor and parts, of the manufacturer's production costs of all automotive products sold in the United States). Requires all vehicle manufacturers producing more than 100,000 motor vehicles for sale in the United States to provide information to the Secretary of Transportation for the purpose of administering this requirement. Establishes penalties for a vehicle manufacturer who fails to meet the minimum domestic content ratio. Directs the Secretary of Transportation and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and prepare a written report regarding policies and practices of vehicle manufacturers used to persuade U.S. motor vehicle dealers to favor foreign made parts rather than domestically produced parts.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1983
Public Investment/Jobs Act of 1983 - Title I: Public Capital Investment - Public Capital Investment Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to make grants to any State for the purpose of the construction or rehabilitation of public capital investment projects. Authorizes any State to submit to the Secretary an application for a public investment grant under this Act. Sets forth the requirements for such applications. Requires the Secretary to approve such applications upon finding that the State has met the necessary requirements. Directs that such States shall receive annual grants under this Act, provided that the Secretary does not find that such State has failed to maintain its program substantially as originally proposed. Requires the Secretary to withdraw approval of the grant where the Secretary finds such a failure in maintaining its original program. Authorizes the use of grant funds by a State for use as loans to local governments for the purpose of public capital investment. Authorizes the use of grant funds by two or more States for the construction and rehabilitation of public capital investments of a regional character. Sets forth the method for allocating funds under this Act to the individual States. States the procedures for the return of grant funds if either an application is not received or an application is not approved. Requires Federal agencies to expeditiously review and act on any permit necessary for the repair or rehabilitation of any public capital investment undertaken by a non- Federal public body. Requires the Secretary to develop and publish criteria and information on techniques for establishing inventories of existing and needed capital improvements. Requires the Secretary to allocate a specified amount to support research and development activities to augment the cost-effectiveness of national public capital investments. Requires the Secretary to report annually to Congress concerning the disbursement of funds under this title and the use of those funds by participating States. Amends the Clean Water Act to authorize States to use certain funds allotted to them for revolving loans or grants for the construction of waste water treatment works. Requires repayments of such loans to be paid to the States. Authorizes appropriations for this title for FY 1985 through 1994. Declares that the authorities for this title shall terminate on October 1, 1994. Title II: Economic Stabilization and Job Creation - Economic Stabilization and Job Creation Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to make a grant for a portion of the cost of a project for public capital investment or development facility usage, upon a determination that the project: (1) will improve the opportunities in the project area for the location of job creation facilities; (2) will assist in creating long-term employment opportunities; (3) will fulfill a pressing need of the area for which the grant is being sought; and (4) is part of a local investment strategy on file with the Secretary for the area. Allows such grants to be given to States, economic districts, local governments, and Indian tribes. Establishes the Federal share for such projects. Authorizes appropriations for such projects for FY 1984 through 1988. States the eligibility requirements for a grant under this title. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to alleviate or prevent excessive unemployment or underemployment in certain areas. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 to allow the Secretary to provide such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to certain governmental entities (including Indian tribes), paying up to 80 per cent of the cost for economic development planning. Describes the planning assisted under this section. Requires such development plans to be submitted to the Secretary and updated periodically. Authorizes appropriations for such planning for FY 1984 through 1988. Title III: Standby Public Investment - Standby Public Investment Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to provide technical and planning assistance to States, local government, and Indian tribes for the development of long-range plans and programs for the construction, rehabilitation, and repair of public capital investment projects. Authorizes such entities to submit an application for a grant and to receive assistance upon a satisfactory showing of the deterioration of its public capital investment. Requires such grants to be used to develop an investment plan coordinating future investment with economic development and the creation of jobs (as well as the activities under titles I and II of this Act). Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary to carry out such grants for FY 1984 through 1988. Establishes in the Treasury a Counter-Cyclical Trust Fund, with a balance not to exceed $2,000,000,000. Authorizes appropriations for immediate transfer to the Fund. Requires the Secretary to use Fund moneys to fulfill the purposes of this title. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for the repair, rehabilitation, or construction of public capital investments upon the application of any State, local government, or Indian tribe. Prohibits any such grants from exceeding 75 percent of the cost of projects under this section. Lists eligible public investment projects under this title. Requires eligible projects to be contained in a State developed investment plan and to have designs, specifications, and engineering acceptable to the Secretary. States eligibility requirements for such projects, including certain economic and unemployment problems. Authorizes the Secretary to accept applications for such projects upon a determination that the Index of Total Industrial Production has declined for three consecutive months. Makes funds available under this title when the Secretary makes a certain determination concerning high civilian unemployment. Title IV: Historic Sites - Historic Sites Development and Jobs Act of 1983 - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior to be allocated among the States in a specified manner for historic preservation. Lists projects eligible for funding under this title. States certain eligibility requirements. Requires States to give priority to certain types of projects under this title. Sets forth authorized uses for funds provided under this title. Requires State Historical Preservation Officers to have sole discretion to select eligible projects under this section. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for transfer, with certain restrictions, to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Requires the Secretary to allocate funds authorized under this title within 30 days of their receipt and to monitor implementation of this program. Requires the Secretary to study, monitor, and review this program and to make recommendations to the President and the Congress as to the future authorization for this program. Sets forth conditions for any State to be eligible to receive funds under this title. Requires participating States to encourage review and comment from elected public officials in the area of a proposed project under this title. Requires the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to provide for an expedited comment process for such projects. Title V: Youth Employment - Establishes a community conservation and improvement program and a Young Adult Conservation Corps. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to allocate funds among the States in a specified manner. Requires a certain percentage of such funds to be available for projects: (1) within States, Guam, Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; and (2) for Native American and migrant and seasonal farm worker families. Part A: Youth Conservation and Improvement Projects - Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with eligible applicants to pay the costs of youth employment for community improvement projects. Requires the Secretary to approve agreements with eligible project applicants to pay the costs of youth employment and appropriate supervisory personnel. Requires the Secretary to approve agreements with eligible project applicants, giving priority to summer months projects. Requires project applicants to submit funding applications according to specified procedures and requirements. Requires eligible applicants to submit a proposed agreement, together with an application, to the Secretary describing specified aspects of the proposed project. Authorizes the Secretary to individually approve or deny such applications. Prohibits making funds available to any project applicant except pursuant to an agreement between the Secretary and the applicant providing certain assurances. Sets forth the required wage rates for projects under this program. Part B: Young Adult Conservation Corp - Establishes a Young Adult Conservation Corps to be administered by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior. Authorizes the Secretaries to enter into interagency agreements with the Secretaries of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services under which the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior shall have responsibility for the management of each Corps center. Requires the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior to select enrollees of the Corps. States the membership requirements of the Corps. Requires the Secretaries to obtain referrals of candidates for the Corps from certain entities. Requires preference to be given to youths residing in areas having substantial unemployment. States the maximum term of enrollment in the Corps as 24 months. Requires the Secretaries to encourage summer enrollment in the Corps whenever practical. Requires the Secretaries to determine the location of Corps centers. Requires the Corps to perform certain work projects. Requires the Secretaries to assure that Corps projects are performed in a manner consistent with Federal law. Requires the Secretaries to place Corps members into jobs which will diminish the backlog of relatively labor intensive projects. Sets forth certain guidelines for the work projects to be performed. Authorizes the Secretaries to provide transportation, lodging, subsistence, medical treatment, and other necessary services, supplies, equipment, and facilities. Requires the use of unoccupied or underused Federal, State, and local government facilities and equipment (with the approval of the entity involved), whenever economically feasible. Requires the Secretaries (pursuant to an agreement with the Secretary of Education) to make arrangements with educational institutions and agencies for awarding academic credit for work experience. Sets forth the conditions of employment in the Corps. Requires the Secretary of Labor to establish standards for: (1) rates of pay; (2) hours and conditions of employment; and (3) working and living conditions. Prohibits Corps members from performing work involving possible pesticide or herbicide exposure as determined by the Secretary of Labor. Authorizes the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior to make grants or enter into agreements with States, local governments, public agencies or organizations, or certain private nonprofit agencies or organizations for the conduct of any State or local component of the Corps or for any lands or waters project. Sets forth eligibility requirements for such grants or agreements. Requires that the Corps be open to youths from all parts of the country of both sexes and of all social, economic, and racial classifications. Part C - General Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and thereafter. Directs that earnings received by Corps members be disregarded in determining the eligibility of youth's family for, and the amount of, any benefits based on need under any Federal or federally assisted programs. Sets forth administrative provisions for this title. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to submit an annual report to Congress on the activities assisted or conducted under the Youth Employment program. Requires the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior to submit an annual report to Congress concerning the activities assisted or conducted under the Young Adult Conservation Corps program. Title VI: General Provisions - Sets forth certain definitions. Lists the authorized powers of the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, in carrying out titles I, II, and III of this Act. Requires the Secretary to make a comprehensive annual report to Congress of the operations under this Act. Requires recipients of grants under such titles to keep certain records and to transmit biannual reports to the Secretary. Requires that the Secretary and Comptroller General have access to all books and records of any recipient, subrecipient, contractor, or subcontractor that are pertinent to assistance under such titles.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1983
Recognizes the pause for the Pledge of Allegiance as part of the celebration of National Flag Day.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the national security policy should reflect a national strategy of peace through strength. Sets forth the principles and goals of such a policy.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1983
Domestic Violence Prevention and Services Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States, local public agencies, and nonprofit organizations for projects designed to prevent domestic violence and to provide immediate shelter and other assistance for victims and dependents of victims of domestic violence. Sets forth conditions for receiving the formula grants, including that the State: (1) distribute funds to local public agencies and private nonprofit organizations for domestic violence programs and services; (2) distribute at least 70 percent of such funds to private nonprofit organizations and give special emphasis to supporting community-based projects; (3) set forth procedures to assure an equitable distribution of grants within the State; (4) designate a State agency to administer the domestic violence program and coordinate all such programs within the State; (5) set forth procedures to assure active citizen participation within the State; (6) provide assurances that any project funded will coordinate its activities with other State programs and be administered by appropriately trained personnel; and (7) comply with reporting requirements. Declares that the Secretary shall not disapprove any application except after notice of and opportunity for a hearing. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to Indian tribes and intertribal organizations. Provides that such funds may not be used for direct payment to any victim of domestic violence or to a dependent of such victim, and that no income eligibility standard may be imposed for anyone seeking services under this Act. Limits the total amount of grants to any local program to $150,000 for not more than a three-year period. Limits the grant for any fiscal year to $50,000. Requires local public agencies and private organizations to provide the following shares of Federal funding: (1) 25 percent in the first year; (2) 33.33 percent the second year; and (3) 50 percent the third year. Requires that at least 75 percent of grants be distributed to entities providing immediate shelter and related assistance to victims. Authorizes the Secretary to make supplemental grants to States for: (1) administrative costs; (2) developing and implementing programs; (3) assuring active citizen participation; and (4) developing a media campaign. Provides that each State will be allotted at least $45,000 in formula grants and $7,500 in supplemental grants. Requires each State receiving assistance to submit detailed annual reports to the Secretary on the implementation of programs. Directs the Secretary to: (1) designate a director of programs carried out under this title; (2) establish a national information clearinghouse on domestic violence, in coordination with the child abuse clearinghouse; (3) make recommendations to Congress regarding domestic violence programs; and (4) obtain information on research relating to domestic violence. Directs the Secretary to make annual reports to Congress and to evaluate and report on the effectiveness of the programs no later than two years after funds are obligated. Sets forth confidentiality requirements with respect to records of persons assisted under this title. Establishes the Federal Interagency Council on Domestic Violence to assist the Secretary in coordinating Federal programs. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to report to the President and Congress within 18 months of enactment on the nature and incidence of abuse of elderly individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Dam Safety Act of 1983 - Amends Federal law to revise the national dam inspection program. Exempts dams located in States with an approved dam safety program from the Secretary of the Army's national inspection program. Authorizes the Secretary to enter and inspect a damsite at reasonable times. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such Act through FY 1987. Sets forth the formula for distributing such funds among the States. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide assistance to States maintaining approved dam safety programs; and (2) review periodically the implementation and effectiveness of such programs. Specifies the standards such programs must meet. Directs the Secretary to provide guarantees to insurers in order to enable dam owners, in States with approved dam safety programs, to obtain liability insurance at reasonable rates. Authorizes appropriations to provide such guarantees. Requires the Secretary, with the Secretary of the Treasury, to report to Congress with an analysis of the effects of such guarantees, together with any recommendations for a more comprehensive dam safety insurance program. Authorizes appropriations for a revolving fund to be used for loans to dam owners making repairs or other safety improvements on such dams. Establishes a Federal Dam Safety Review Board to be responsible for reviewing dam safety procedures and monitoring State implementation of this Act. Requires the head of any U.S. agency that owns or operates a dam, when requested, to consult with the State in which the dam is located on the design and safety of such dam and to allow such State officials to participate with agency officials in dam safety inspections. Directs the Secretary to: (1) provide training for the State dam safety inspectors; and (2) develop, with the National Bureau of Standards, improved dam inspection techniques. Requires that dam construction proposals submitted to specified congressional committees contain information concerning dam failures and preventive measures that may be taken.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Amends the Federal Supplemental Compensation Act of 1982 to increase the amount established in a Federal supplemental unemployment compensation account with respect to an individual's benefit year. Increases the number of weeks, during specified types of unemployment periods in a State, for which benefits are payable to an individual under the Federal supplemental unemployment compensation program. Extends such program payments through weeks beginning on or before September 30, 1983. Makes conforming changes in the period of eligibility for such program payments and in provisions for agreements with States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Amends title 31 of the United States Code to add a new Chapter 74 - Capital Assistance to State and Local Governments. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, for each entitlement period, to pay out of the State and Local Government Capital Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund (as established by this Act): (1) to each State government a total amount equal to its entitlement for such period; and (2) to each unit of local government a total amount equal to its entitlement. Requires such payments to be made in quarterly installments paid no later than five days after the close of the quarter. Limits the use of such funds by State and local governments to capital expenditures. Establishes the State and Local Government Capital Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund. Makes appropriations for such Trust Fund. Sets forth the procedure for determining the amounts which are to be allocated to each State for each entitlement period. Declares that the State government shall be entitled to receive 33 1/3 percent of the amount allocated to a State for each entitlement period and that the remaining portion shall be allocated among the units of local government of that State. Makes all units of local government eligible to receive such payments except: (1) any municipality, township, Indian tribe, or Alaskan Native Village which has a population of less than 35,000; (2) any county government with a population of less than 10,000; and (3) any unit of local government which is allocated less than $10,000 for such entitlement period. Establishes the Discretionary Capital Assistance Trust Fund for payments to local governments which are not eligible to receive a payment out of the State and Local Government Capital Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund. Requires reports to the Secretary on the use of funds by each State and local government which receives funds under this Act after the close of each entitlement period. Sets forth miscellaneous provisions concerning qualifications of State and local governments to receive funds. Terminates all authorities granted under this Act on September 30, 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of April 10 to 16, 1983, as A Week of Remembrance for the Fortieth Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of April 10 through April 16, 1983, as National Mental Health Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals Act - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to revise the humane standards for animals transported in commerce. Requires each research facility to establish an institutional animal studies committee with sufficient expertise to assess the appropriateness of animal care and treatment in experimental research. Requires the committee at each facility to: (1) meet regularly, with a quorum needed for all formal actions; (2) make inspections at least semiannually of animal study areas and facilities; (3) review and evaluate the research methods involving direct use of conscious animals and the condition of research animals in order to ensure compliance with humane standards and to minimize pain and distress; and (4) file with the Secretary of Agriculture and the appropriate Federal agency a certification that such inspections have occurred (includes in such certification a report of any violations of standards). Requires the committee to notify, in writing, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture and any appropriate Federal agency of unacceptable conditions of animal care, treatment, or methodology not included in the certification. Directs the committee to provide for annual sessions for scientists, animal technicians, and other qualified personnel to provide instruction or training in humane standards for laboratory animals. Prohibits discrimination against research facility employees for reporting violations of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain standards under exceptional circumstances. Directs the Secretary to establish an information service at the National Agricultural Library to provide information on improved methods of animal experimentation, including: (1) reducing or replacing animal use; (2) minimizing pain and distress; and (3) preventing unnecessary duplication of animal experimentation. Requires a research facility to provide a statement of assurance of compliance with humane standards to the Secretary and the appropriate Federal agency before requesting a Federal award for animal research, experimentation, or testing. Sets forth terms and conditions under which the agency may approve or suspend such award.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Fair Trade Act of 1983 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to direct the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to submit a report to the President on certain trade practices of countries designated as major trading countries. Requires the report to be completed within six months after enactment of this Act. Requires the report to contain a study on any major practice of each major trading country that: (1) is inconsistent with a trade agreement; (2) is unjustifiable and restricts U.S. commerce; or (3) denies to competitive U.S. products commercial opportunities that are substantially equivalent to those offered by the United States. Directs the President to publish and submit to the appropriate congressional committees: (1) such study; (2) an estimate of the trade distorting impact of the practices identified in the study; (3) all feasible courses of action which would redress imbalances caused by such practices if efforts to obtain their elimination fail; and (4) a proposed joint resolution which requires the President to take a specific course of action which the President has determined to be the most appropriate. Authorizes other Federal agencies to help the USTR to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Provides for expedited consideration of the proposed joint resolution which the President is required to submit to the appropriate congressional committees. Directs the President, upon enactment of such resolution, to inform the countries involved that the President will undertake the course of action specified in the joint resolution unless the countries eliminate the offensive practices within 60 days. Adds to the list of unfair trade practices that require Presidential action under the Trade Act of 1974 those foreign trade practices that deny to the United States commercial opportunities substantially equivalent to those offered by the United States. Directs the President to take appropriate action to redress any imbalance resulting from such foreign trade practices. Provides that such action need not be limited to the equivalent product or service sector or the offending act, policy, or practice.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week beginning March 11, 1984, as National Surveyors Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of November 20 through November 26, 1983, as National Family Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1983
Veterans Administration Adjudication Procedure and Judicial Review Act - Title I: Adjudication Procedures - Codifies, for Veterans Administration (VA) adjudication purposes, the burden of proof and reasonable doubt standards currently provided for by VA regulation. States that a claimant has the burden of submitting sufficient evidence to justify his or her claim, and that if an approximate balance of positive and negative evidence exists regarding the merits of a claim, the VA is to resolve such doubt in favor of the claimant. States that VA subpoenas may be served either by personal delivery or by registered or certified mail. Increases the maximum size of the Board of Veterans' Appeals from 50 to 65 members. Requires the chairman of such Board to submit an annual report to the appropriate congressional committees concerning the Board's current handling of cases and projections for the subsequent fiscal year. Requires the Board to: (1) provide notice to a claimant and an opportunity for a hearing before a decision may be based on "additional official information" received after a Board decision has previously been made; and (2) make its decision exclusively on evidence and material of record in the proceeding. Removes the requirement that new material sufficient to allow the Board to reopen a previously disallowed claim be in the form of official reports. Provides that the Board's discretionary authority to reopen a claim will not be diminished by a judicial decision following an appeal as provided for by this Act. Requires the Board to mail to the claimant notice of its decision and the reasons for such decision. Provides that, upon the request of a claimant, the Board shall provide an independent advisory medical opinion when there exists substantial medical disagreement with respect to a material issue in a veteran's appeal. Sets forth new procedural rules for adjudication hearings regarding: (1) oaths, affirmations, and witness examination; (2) admissibility of evidence; (3) procedural rights of claimants; (4) disqualification of a hearing officer; (5) the record of the proceedings and the claimants' right to examine and obtain a copy of such record; and (6) the exclusiveness of veterans' adjudication procedures and rights prescribed by the Administrator. Requires the Administrator to provide at each stage of the appeal proceedings written notice to a claimant of procedural rights and procedures. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study of two alternative claims resolution methods, one a new intermediate-level adjudication process, the other an enhanced schedule of formal Appeals Board hearings. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress on such studies. Title II: Veterans' Administration Rule Making - Includes the VA's rulemaking procedures under the relevant provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. Title III: Judicial Review - Provides for judicial review of VA decisions in the Federal court system. States with regard to jurisdiction: (1) the definition of final decision; (2) that judicial review of a final decision in a claim for benefits may be obtained in a civil action brought within 180 days of the Board's mailing of notice of its decision, and that such action shall be brought in Federal district court; (3) that the VA shall file the various materials constituting the record in a case together with its answer to the claimant's complaint; (4) that the court may render a decision on the pleadings; and (5) that the judicial review procedures established under this Act shall not apply to insurance and home loans. States, with regard to the reviewing court's scope of review, that such court: (1) decide questions of law and interpret constitutional, statutory, and regulatory provisions, but that questions of fact (unless unsupported by substantial evidence) will not be subject to a trial de novo; and (2) in reviewing a final decision of the VA which is adverse to a party solely because such party failed to comply with VA procedures, such court may only review questions concerning such procedures. Sets out provisions regarding remand, survival of actions, and appellate review. Title IV: Attorneys' Fees - Authorizes the Administrator to allow attorneys' fees above the present $10 maximum if the appealing party's claim is allowed by the VA after an initial denial. States that such fee shall be the lesser of: (1) the fee agreed upon by the party and attorney; (2) $500, unless the Administrator approves a greater amount; or (3) if the party and attorney have entered into a contingent-fee agreement, not more than 25 percent of the total of any past-due benefits awarded on the basis of such party's claim. Provides for the approval of attorneys' fees, in successful veterans' claims brought before a court, as provided for under this Act. States that such fees shall be determined by such court, and in contingent-fee agreements such fees shall not exceed 25 percent of the total of any past-due benefits awarded on the basis of such claim. Authorizes attorneys' fees of up to $750 in certain unsuccessful veterans' claims. Prohibits the VA from authorizing payment to a claimant's attorney based on past-due benefits unless such benefits are owed as of the date of the VA's or a court's award. States that such provisions regarding attorneys' fees shall only apply to claims for benefits under the laws administered by the VA and shall not apply in cases in which the VA is the plaintiff or in which other attorneys' fees statutes are otherwise controlling. Title V: Effective Dates - Sets forth the effective dates for this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1983
Increases the per diem rate payable by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to States providing domiciliary, nursing home, and hospital care to veterans in State homes.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1983
High Technology Morrill Act - Establishes the Technology Education Trust Fund in the Treasury. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to be the trustee of the Fund and to report to the Congress annually on the Fund's operation. Directs the Secretary to transfer from the Treasury's general fund to the Fund, for FY 1984 through 1988, three percent of the rents, royalties, and other sums paid to the United States under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, and any other Federal statute authorizing payments for mineral resource development designated by the Secretary for the purpose of this Act. Limits the amount of such transfers to $500,000,000 in any one fiscal year. Provides that amounts in the Fund shall be available for making payments in accordance with this Act as provided in advance by appropriation Acts, and without fiscal year limitation on availability unless specifically enacted. Prohibits the Secretary from making transfers to the Fund after September 30, 1988. Directs the Secretary to pay into the Treasury's general fund any amounts remaining in the Fund after September 30, 1990. Authorizes the Director of the National Science Foundation to make grants to education institutions, private for-profit business concerns, and State agencies making application jointly to pay the Federal share of the cost of technology education programs. Allows private nonprofit organizations and State agencies to submit applications jointly if the nonprofit private organization represents an educational institution and a for-profit business concern, or a group of such institutions and concerns. Requires that such applications be consistent with State economic development and educational policies and with private sector priorities and educational institution needs. Requires that State and local public sources pay 30 percent, and for-profit businesses pay 20 percent, of total program costs. Sets forth other application requirements. Allows grants made under this Act to be used for: (1) laboratory equipment and facilities in educational institutions; (2) improving science and mathematics education and computer literacy in elementary and secondary schools through teacher training, equipment improvement, and curricula development; (3) research/education centers for training new scientific, engineering, and technical employees while carrying out applied research or stimulating innovation, technology transfer, and the application of new technologies; (4) mathematics, science, and engineering faculty development through support for graduate students who enter teaching, faculty exchange with industry, teaching retraining, and other faculty retention programs; (5) lifelong learning and cooperative education activities for the scientific, engineering, and technical work force; (6) development of new educational methods and equipment such as computer based educational aids and telecommunication instructional technologies; (7) research and training in the management of technological innovation; (8) improving the access of women, minorities, and handicapped to technical, engineering, and scientific fields; and (9) cooperative programs between the humanities and the sciences. Sets forth provisions for grant payments, distribution of funds, withholding, administration, and audit. Authorizes the Director to establish advisory committees for purposes of this Act. Directs the Director to consult with the Secretary of Defense to coordinate technical training programs supported by the Department of Defense and activities assisted under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer Department of Defense funds for technical training programs to the Director to carry out programs under this Act. Directs the Director to consult with the Secretaries of Commerce, Labor, Education, and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies in carrying out this Act. Directs the Director to report annually to the Congress on activities assisted by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1983
Columbia River Gorge Act of 1983 - Establishes the Columbia River Gorge Scenic Area as a unit of the national forest system. Extends the boundaries of the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon and of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington State to include all the lands in their respective States lying within the Area which are not within their boundaries on the enactment of this Act. Provides that national forest system lands in Oregon which are within the Area shall be treated as components of the Mount Hood National Forest and national forest system lands in Washington which are within the Area shall be treated as components of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest for purposes of providing forest system revenues to a State or local government. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to administer the Area and to provide all interested parties with an opportunity to participate in plans and programs for the management of the Area. Establishes in the Department of Agriculture the Columbia River Gorge Scenic Area Regional Commission, which shall be composed of members from both Oregon and Washington as well as the Chief of the Forest Service. Makes the Commission responsible for: (1) assisting the Chief of the Forest Service in the establishment of a management plan for the Area; (2) facilitating communication and coordination among the Federal, State, and local governmental agencies with jurisdiction within the Area and with residents and landowners within the Area; (3) reviewing and monitoring the implementation of the management plan by such governmental agencies; (4) reviewing all land acquisition proposals submitted by the Secretary in cases involving the potential use of eminent domain; (5) reviewing all Federal development projects within the Area for consistency with the management plan; and (6) preparing an annual report for the Secretary, Congress, and the Governors of Oregon and Washington on the status and implementation of the management plan. Requires the Chief of the Forest Service to prepare a management plan for the Area. Requires the Chief of the Forest Service to consult with the Commission and with State and local government authorities within the Area during preparation of the management plan. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and technical assistance to such authorities to carry out land use management activities. Directs the Secretary to incorporate State and local policies, management plans, standards, and requirements into the management plan and resolve any conflicts with the State and local authorities concerned. Requires that the management plan be submitted to the Commission for approval. Authorizes the Secretary to modify and resubmit any plan disapproved by the Commission. Authorizes the Secretary to adopt a resubmitted management plan without the Commission's approval. Permits requests for amendments to or variances from the management plan to be submitted to the Secretary. Prohibits the construction or modification of any facility in the critical portions of the Area before the Secretary's adoption of interim guidelines which shall govern all land use activities within the Area until the management plan is adopted. Requires that Federal activities within the Area be consistent with the interim guidelines and the management plan. Sets forth the procedure for the Secretary's approval of any such activities. Requires the Secretary to permit hunting and fishing on lands and waters under his or her jurisdiction within the Area. Directs the Secretary to monitor all land use activities within the Area prior to the adoption of the management plan to prevent violations of the interim land use guidelines. Requires local governments which have land use planning authority under State law and wish to enforce the management plan within the Area to submit to the Secretary and the Commission a land use plan consistent with the management plan. Requires the Secretary to approve or disapprove such a local plan within six months after its submission. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual grants to local governments to assist them in establishing such land use plans. Directs the Secretary to enforce the management plan if no approved local land use plan is in effect. Imposes criminal penalties for violations of regulations or orders issued pursuant to this Act. Authorizes the Attorney General, at the Secretary's request, to institute a civil action for an injunction or other order to prevent the use of lands in the Area in violation of the management plan. Provides for administrative and judicial review of such violations. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands classified as critical lands under the management plan without the owner's consent, unless, as of July 1, 1981, such lands were used primarily for single family residential purposes, farming, or grazing. Requires the Secretary to consider sale offers made by Area landowners. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire non-Federal lands within the Area by exchange. Provides that State lands may be acquired only by donation or exchange. Permits the transfer of Federal property within the Area to the Secretary without consideration. Requires that property thus acquired be: (1) transferred to the jurisdiction of the National Forest Service for inclusion in the national forest system; or (2) sold on terms to assure the use of such property in a manner consistent with the management plan. Authorizes appropriations. Makes appropriations from the Land and Water Conservation Fund available for land acquisition within the Area. Establishes an acquisition fund for land acquisition within the Area. Authorizes appropriations for the initial capital of the fund. Authorizes the Secretary to accept contributions which shall be credited to the fund. Authorizes the Secretary to make payments to local governments to mitigate property tax revenue losses resulting from Federal acquisition of real property within the Area. Limits the authority under this Act to enter into contracts or to make payments to the extent and the amounts provided in advance in appropriation Acts. Makes provisions of this Act which authorize new budget authority effective only for FY 1983 and thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement procedures for identifying social security benefit checks issued under title II which have not been negotiated within 12 months and to credit the appropriate social security trust fund, on a monthly basis, for the amount of all unnegotiated benefit checks drawn on such trust fund. Requires the Secretary to pay a benefit check presented for payment after they have been credited to one of the trust funds, and to recharge such trust fund, if such check is otherwise proper. Requires the reimbursement of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund from the Treasury for the total amount of unnegotiated benefit checks.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983
United States Olympic Checkoff Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to designate on their income tax returns a contribution of one dollar of their income tax refunds or any cash amount voluntarily forwarded with their returns to support the U.S. Olympic Trust Fund. Establishes in the Treasury a U.S. Olympic Trust Fund (trust fund). Appropriates to such trust fund an amount equal to the amount designated on tax returns. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay amounts so transferred to the U.S. Olympic Committee. Allows specified administrative expenses to be paid from such trust fund.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983
Designates January 3, 1984, to be known as Alaska Statehood Day.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week April 10 through April 16, 1983, as National Education for Business Week.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
United States Academy of Peace Act - Establishes the United States Academy of Peace as an independent nonprofit corporation. Permits the Academy to use "United States" or "U.S." or any other reference to the United States Government or Nation in its title, corporate seal, emblem, or other mark of recognition in any fiscal year only if there is an authorization of appropriations for the Academy for such fiscal year provided by law. Sets forth the powers and the duties of the Academy, including establishment of an Endowment of the United States Academy of Peace. Authorizes the Academy to establish: (1) a Center for International Peace; and (2) a United States Medal of Peace and other medals or honors. Authorizes the Academy to refuse research requests of Federal agencies for reason of cost or of inappropriateness to the Agency's purpose or independence. Prohibits the Academy from undertaking to influence the passage or defeat of any Federal, State, local, or United Nations legislation, but permits Academy personnel to testify or make other appropriate communication when formally requested to do so by a legislative body, committee, or member thereof. Provides for appointment of members of the Academy's Board of Directors. Sets forth grounds for removal of Board members. Permits Board meetings to be closed only in exceptional circumstances. Sets forth provisions for Academy officers, employees, procedures, and records. Provides that, with certain exceptions, the Academy shall not be considered a department, agency, or instrumentality of the Government. Prohibits the use of any political test or political qualification with respect to personnel actions of the Academy or financial assistance by the Academy. Authorizes appropriations in a specified amount for an Academy principal office capitalization fund. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for FY 1984 and 1985 for Academy programs and administration. Requires that Academy expenses in connection with the United States Medal of Peace or the accompanying cash award be paid out of the private funds of the Endowment. Restricts contract-making authority under this Act to the extent and amounts provided in appropriation Acts. Directs the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Academy to report to the Congress and the President, beginning two years after the enactment of this Act and at two-year intervals thereafter. Directs the President to transmit to the Congress the recommendations of the appropriate Federal agencies with respect to such report and to any legislation concerning the Academy. Requires the appropriate congressional committees to hold hearings to review such report and recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Veterans' Health Care and Programs Improvement Amendments of 1983 - Title I: Adult Day Health Care Services Program - Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to conduct a pilot program furnishing adult day care health services at Veterans Administration (VA) medical facilities to eligible veterans. Terminates such program after FY 1987. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1987. Directs the Administrator to include a comprehensive report on this program in his annual report to Congress. Title II: Community Residential Care - Authorizes the Administrator to refer veterans eligible for hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, and medical care through the Veterans Administration to community residential facilities. Makes each veteran responsible for the cost of care and services provided by such facilities. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations regarding such facilities to ensure the health and safety of placed veterans. Requires the Administrator's approval of a facility before placement assistance is provided. Title III: Presumption Concerning Dysthymic Disorder - Creates a presumption of service-connection for disability purposes for dysthymic disorder (or depressive neurosis) manifest to a degree of ten percent or more in a veteran who is a former prisoner of war. Title IV: Beneficiary Travel - Permits the Administrator to pay the total travel costs of certain veterans receiving medical care at VA facilities. Title V: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date for this Act
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement procedures for identifying social security benefit checks issued under title II which have not been negotiated within 12 months and to credit the appropriate social security trust fund, on a monthly basis, for the amount of all unnegotiated benefit checks drawn on such trust fund. Requires the Secretary to pay a benefit check presented for payment after they have been credited to one of the trust funds, and to recharge such trust fund, if such check is otherwise proper. Requires the reimbursement of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund from the Treasury for the total amount of unnegotiated benefit checks.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the effective date for the implementation of withholding of taxes on interest and dividends should be delayed until October 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Act of 1983 - Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to establish a National Institute (Institute) of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases in the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Redesignates the existing National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases as the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. States that the Institute shall conduct research and related activities concerning arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases, including sports-related disorders and skin diseases. Requires the Director of the Institute, with the advice of the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Advisory Council, to establish within 180 days a national plan to coordinate such activities. Requires an annual evaluation of the skin diseases programs. Establishes within the Institute: (1) the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Data System; and (2) the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Information Clearinghouse. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986. Establishes within the Institute: (1) an Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Interagency Coordinating Committee; and (2) a Skin Diseases Interagency Coordinating Committee. Requires annual reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and to the Director of NIH. Establishes within the Institute a National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Advisory Council. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986 for arthritis and musculoskeletal demonstration projects and multipurpose disease centers. Requires the Institute to submit a biennial report. Transfers arthritis-related functions (including data system, advisory functions, coordinating functions, demonstration project, and multipurpose center), funds, personnel, and assets to the Institute from the existing National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees and to the Comptroller General within 60 days regarding such transfers. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the appropriate congressional committees within 80 days regarding such transfers. Terminates the National Arthritis Advisory Board. Makes conforming amendments. Requires the Secretary, through NIH, to conduct a study of the existing combinations of disease research programs within the institutes and of the standards to be followed in establishing new or realigning existing institutes. Requires a report to the appropriate congressional committees within 18 months. Prohibits the establishment of any new institutes within six months of such report's submission. Directs the Secretary to conduct and complete within 60 days a review of the disease research programs of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (as redesignated by this Act) to determine if any of these programs could be more effectively managed by other national research institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983
Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act of 1983 - Establishes criminal penalties applicable to licensees under the Gun Control Act of 1968 who import, manufacture, or sell a "restricted handgun bullet," except as authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury. Establishes additional criminal penalties, including a mandatory minimum sentence of one year imprisonment, for: (1) using a restricted handgun bullet to commit a Federal felony; or (2) carrying a restricted handgun bullet unlawfully during commission of a Federal felony.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983
American Defense Education Act - Authorizes a national program to provide incentives to local educational agencies to improve: (1) instruction in mathematics, science, and communication skills, foreign languages, and technology; and (2) guidance and counseling. Title I: Elementary and Secondary Education Programs - Requires local education agencies which desire to participate in such national program to develop and carry out a program of improvement of instruction and student achievement. Sets forth requirements for such programs. Entitles participating local educational agencies to receive basic payments for each fiscal year equal to two percent of an established payment rate multiplied by the average daily attendance. Entitles agencies which show substantial evidence of meeting program goals to an incentive payment equal to an additional two percent of the established payment rate multiplied by the average daily attendance. Sets forth formulae for establishing such payment rate. Sets forth requirements for applications for payments. Directs the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary") to approve applications which meet such requirements. Title II: Teacher Training and Postsecondary Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program of grants to institutions of higher education for coordination between such institutions and local educational agencies in improving science and mathematics education, through precollege teacher training, development, and recruitment programs. Sets forth requirements for grant proposals and priorities in grant selection. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 for such grants. Title III: Research to Improve Instruction - Directs the Secretary to administer, through the National Institute of Education (NIE) in consultation with appropriate Federal agencies, a program to support research and development into effective education in mathematics, the sciences, foreign languages, and technology. Authorizes appropriations in the Department of Education to be made available to NIE to carry out such educational research program for FY 1985 through 1987. Title IV: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to administer the program and to pay each local educational agency with an approved application the amount to which it is entitled for each fiscal year under title I provisions. Provides for a joint survey and report to Congress by the Secretaries of Defense and Education, for each year from 1984 through 1987, on the academic achievement levels of U.S. 18-year-olds and the personnel training and educational needs of the armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1983
Older Americans Vocational Education Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to States to pay the costs of training, retraining, and placement programs for older Americans. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984, 1985, and 1986. Sets forth methods for making allotments to the States and for the various programs under this Act. Requires each State desiring to receive assistance under this Act to establish an older Americans job training committee to be composed of a representative from the private sector and officers from specified State agencies. Directs the Secretary to make grants under this Act to each State's committee. Directs a committee to use its allotment for: (1) employment based programs for older Americans in occupations with existing job opportunities; (2) training programs for older Americans; and (3) placement services. Requires a State in order to receive a grant to file an application which shall: (1) designate the older Americans job training committee; (2) describe the programs for which assistance is sought; (3) assure that specified categories of older Americans are given priority under the State's programs; (4) provide procedures under which providers of training and placement services may submit applications to the job training committees for distribution of payments to such providers; and (5) assure that no more than ten percent of a State's allotment will be used for administrative expenses. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts with qualified national organizations to develop and carry out demonstration projects designed to focus attention on the special vocational education needs of older individuals and to promote employment opportunities for older individuals. Directs the Secretary to establish and operate an information clearinghouse on training and retraining programs for older Americans. Amends the Vocational Education Act of 1963 to extend coverage to individuals of all ages (and specifically those individuals subject to age stereotyping and age discrimination).
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983
Environmental Programs Assistance Act of 1983 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Administrator) to develop a program, through grants or contracts, designed to assist Federal, State, and local environmental agencies in carrying out projects of pollution prevention, abatement, and control. Provides that such program may include projects such as: (1) air monitoring and emission testing; (2) pesticides inventory and control; (3) water quality and supply sampling and monitoring; (4) technical libraries and public information projects; (5) carcinogenic surveys and followup; (6) hazardous materials routing surveys; (7) health screening in rural areas and among migrant workers; and (8) noise abatement and control. Directs the Administrator to: (1) submit to Congress, within 180 days after enactment of this Act a report identifying projects which serve the purpose of the program; (2) consult with representatives of State and local environmental agencies concerning ways to implement this Act; and (3) utilize the talents of older Americans available for project participation and consult with the Secretary of Labor and the Administrator of the Administration on Aging to ensure coordination with similar projects under the Older Americans Act of 1965 or the Job Training Partnership Act. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to and cooperative agreements with, public and private institutions and individuals to carry out the program under this Act. Prohibits the Administrator from making any grants to, or agreements with, any State or local environmental agency for any activities which would take the job of any agency employee or impair any existing contract for services. Authorizes appropriations to the Administrator for FY 1983 through 1986 to carry out the administrative provisions of this Act. Provides that environmentally related programs described under this Act shall be eligible for funding made available through title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 and and title IV of the Job Training Partnership Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983
Public Investment Incentive Act of 1983 - Title I: General Provisions - Sets forth the purposes and provides definitions for this Act. Title II: Capitalization of State Infrastructure Banks - Federal-State Infrastructure Partnership Program Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, under certain conditions, to allocate specified amounts to any State for the capitalization of a State Infrastructure Bank. Requires that such amounts be used only for the establishment, expansion, and maintenance of a State capital public investment loan fund. Directs the National Infrastructure Council to determine the apportionment of such funds to such Banks or comparable financing mechanisms. Sets forth the powers of such Banks or comparable financing mechanisms. Requires a State to enter into an agreement with the Secretary in order to receive funds under this title. Sets forth the provisions of such agreements (including the requirement to establish a public capital investment revolving fund). Requires amounts contributed under this Act to be available for States to: (1) make loans to governmental units based on specified interest rates and repayment requirements; and (2) blend with other State or local units to reduce market interest rates for capital infrastructure investments. Prohibits such amounts from being used for such Bank's administrative expenses. Declares that such amounts provided to the States will be audited annually and a report will be provided to the Secretary. Amends the Clean Water Act to authorize the use of sums allotted to States for FY 1984 through 1986 for loans to municipalities for wastewater treatment works. Provides requirements for such loans. Requires a State making such loans to submit an annual summary of such loan activity to the Environmental Protection Agency. Declares that nothing in this Act shall alter the requirements of: (1) the National Environmental Policy Act; (2) the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act; (3) the Endangered Species Act; or (4) title III of the Clean Water Act. Requires municipal projects receiving loans under this Act to incorporate the best available technique for the conservation of water. Title III: National Infrastructure Council - National Infrastructure Council Act - Establishes the National Infrastructure Council. Requires that the Council be governed by a specified Board of Directors. States that the function of the Council is to administer this Act. Requires the Council to ensure that States establishing a Bank under this Act follow acceptable accounting procedures for Federal audits and reviews. Authorizes the Council to provide technical assistance, informational, and educational activities to States and local municipalities to meet public capital investment needs. Authorizes the Board of Directors to create a staff, with an Executive Director, and to request appropriations for its administration and activities. Lists the specific responsibilities of the Council. Requires the Council to transmit an annual report of its activities to Congress. Lists the requirements of such reports. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983
Education for Economic Security Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make matching grants to States to pay the Federal share of the costs of strengthening instruction in mathematics, science, computer education, foreign languages, and vocational education. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986. Directs the Secretary to allot to each State from such appropriations for each fiscal year an amount based on the relative number of children aged five through 17 in such State. Provides that no State shall receive less than one-half of one percent of the funds appropriated for any fiscal year. Provides for reallotments, based on the Secretary's estimates, of sums exceeding a State's needs. Authorizes additional appropriations for allotment to: (1) Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; (2) the Secretary of the Interior for programs in schools operated for Indian children; and (3) the Secretary of Defense for programs in overseas dependent schools. Apportions 65 percent of each State's allotment to elementary, secondary, and vocational education programs and 35 percent to higher education programs. Directs State educational agencies to distribute a specified percentage of the elementary, secondary, and vocational education apportionment to local educational agencies for mathematics and science instruction, foreign language instruction, and computer education programs, together with related instructional materials. Bases such distribution upon the relative numbers of children aged five through 17 in the schools and upon the size of the proposed programs. Bases renewals of such payments upon such criteria and upon a determination that the local program serves substantial numbers of students and involves several grade levels. Requires each State education agency to: (1) distribute a specified percentage of its apportionment for foreign language instruction; and (2) use a specified percentage for exemplary programs instructional materials, technical assistance, and information. Requires the State agency responsible for vocational education to use a specified percentage of the apportionment for vocational education employment-based programs in new and emerging technologies, including computer learning and instruction (with a specified portion to be used for programs in correctional institutions). Requires each local educational agency to to provide for special educational services and arrangements in which children enrolled in private elementary and secondary schools can participate. Requires that expenditures for such services be equal (taking into account the number and needs of children to be served) to expenditures for public school children. Requires that program funds be distributed among vocational education schools and area vocational schools. Directs the State agency for higher education to distribute the higher education programs apportionment among institutions of higher education, with specified percentages to be used for: (1) elementary and secondary school teacher training, retraining, and in service training in mathematics, science, and computer education, as well as cooperative programs with other organizations, such as museums and libraries; (2) employment-based programs equipment in new and emerging technologies, including computer learning and instruction and basic engineering instruction; and (3) foreign language instruction. Sets forth requirements for State applications for grants under this Act. Sets forth provisions for Federal matching payments of 50 percent of the costs of programs under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983
Authorizes the appropriation of funds to the Department of Energy, beginning in FY 1984, for the purpose of participating with the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and non-Federal entities in the establishment of a demonstration facility for the generation of electricity from coal using an atmospheric fluidized bed combustion process.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983
Designates April 29, 1983, as National Nursing Home Residents Day.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1983
Directs the President to designate March 18, 1983, as National Energy Education Day.
United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1983
Emergency Jobs, Training and Family Assistance Act of 1983 - Title I: Jobs for the Unemployed - Directs the Secretary of Labor ("the Secretary"), from funds authorized under this title, to transfer funds to or reserve funds for specified employment programs. Authorizes appropriations for the period from the date of enactment of this Act through September 30, 1984. Makes such funds available for obligation and expenditure for one year from the date of appropriation. Requires that such funds be in addition to any amounts authorized for such employment programs prior to the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer a specified amount of funds under this title to hire long-term unemployed individuals through the Community Development Block Grant program, authorized under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), from transfers made by the Secretary, to make grants to States and local governments in accordance with a specified allocation for housing rehabilitation and other activities described under such Act which the Secretary of HUD determines are labor intensive activities. Sets forth formulas for allocation of such funds to States and entitlement areas based on unemployment rates. Sets forth requirements for State and local applications and use of funds within a specified period. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on such program by July 1, 1984. Authorizes the Secretary to reserve a specified amount of funds under this title for youth employment and education programs authorized under part C of title II of the Job Training Partnership Act. Amends such Act to add such provisions for a youth employment and education program. Sets forth program requirements for: (1) reservation of funds; and (2) allotment and allocation to and within States. Limits program eligibility to economically disadvantaged youths between 15 and 20 years old who agree to resume or maintain attendance in a secondary school diploma or high school equivalency certificate program or participation in other educational activities to improve their employability. Permits program funds to be used for part-time employment or training operated by specified types of governmental or private nonprofit organizations or for full-time summer employment. Sets forth requirements for private industrial council (PIC) applications for such program. Sets forth program responsibilities of State and local governments, State job training coordinating councils, and PICs. Authorizes the Secretary to reserve a specified amount of funds under this title for community service employment for older Americans under the Older Americans Act of 1965. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer a specified amount of funds under this title to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for weatherization projects under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981. Amends such Act to add provisions for an emergency low income weatherization employment program. Provides for allotments to States from funds transferred under this title to be used for low-cost residential weatherization or other energy-related home repair for low-income households designed to provide employment to the unemployed in areas where such weatherization and home repair are carried out. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer a specified amount of funds under this title to the Secretary of HHS for additional amounts for social services block grants for increased provision of child day care services under the Social Security Act. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer a specified amount of funds under this title to the President of the Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Bank for activities designed to increase employment opportunities under the Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Act of 1980. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer a specified amount of funds under this title to the Secretary of HHS for development loans to rural community economic development programs to increase employment under the Community Economic Development Act of 1981. Authorizes the Secretary to make such transfers of funds authorized under this title for the above mentioned programs to the head of each Federal agency within 60 days after enactment of the appropriation Act providing such funds. Prohibits such transfers until the Secretary and the appropriate Federal agency heads have entered into cooperative agreements. Sets forth required provisions for such cooperative agreements. Requires that at least 80 percent of funds provided under this title which are expended for wage and benefits will be used for wages and benefits for workers who were unemployed: (1) at least 15 of the 26 weeks immediately preceding the date of enactment of this Act; and (2) immediately prior to program participation. Requires that all workers employed under the program assisted by this title have been referred by a U.S. Employment Service office as being currently unemployed. Makes ineligible for program employment workers who have, within six months prior to the determination, voluntarily terminated, without good cause, their last previous employment at or exceeding the Federal minimum wage. Requires that program wages be not less than the highest of the applicable minimum wage or the prevailing wage for workers in similar positions with the same employer. Limits the share of wages and benefits paid to any program participant out of funds under this title to the hourly equivalent of $10,000 per year. Requires that at least 75 percent of the program funds under this title to be used for employee wages and benefits. Prohibits displacement of current workers by program employees funded under this title. Sets forth other prohibitions for programs funded under this title. Sets forth administrative provisions. Title II: Training for New Industries - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1983 and 1984 for employment and training assistance for dislocated workers under the Job Training Partnership Act. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to disregard, in any case in which a student is determined to be a dislocated worker (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor), all equity in a single place of residence and the amount of unemployment benefits of such a student for purposes of computation of assets and income for the proposed family contribution schedule for determination of Pell Grants. Increases the total amount of appropriations authorized under Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981 for Pell Grants for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act through September 30, 1984. Makes such additional sums available for entitlements only to dislocated workers who are otherwise eligible for Pell Grant payments. Authorizes additional appropriations for the Job Corps under the Job Training Partnership Act, for the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act through September 30, 1984. Title III: Emergency Services Assistance - Emergency Food and Shelter Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services ("the Secretary") to make grants to States for emergency food, shelter, and health care assistance. Authorizes appropriations for the period from the date of enactment of this Act through September 30, 1984, to carry out the provisions of this title. Provides that such funds shall remain available for the succeeding fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make allotments to States as follows: (1) 25 percent of grant funds on the basis of relative numbers of unemployed; and (2) 75 percent on the basis of "excess numbers" of unemployed (those in excess of 4.5 percent of the civilian labor force). Directs State Governors to allocate the State allotment among local governments on the basis of relative numbers of excess numbers of unemployed and of long-term unemployed within service delivery areas. Permits such grants to be used for emergency shelter (including emergency payments for rent and utilities), food, and health care services for long-term unemployed and other needy individuals, together with crisis counseling for alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide, child abuse, and domestic violence. Sets forth requirements for State applications. Requires that: (1) between 15 to 20 percent of each local government allocation be used for health care services for long-term unemployed individuals; and (2) of such amount for health care services, two-thirds will be used for hospital care and one-third for community health center care. Limits administrative expenses to ten percent of the State allotment. Sets forth requirements for program payments, administration, withholding, and audit. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the President and the Congress on the program authorized by this title.
United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1983
Designates the week beginning March 20, 1983, as National Mental Health Counselors Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983
Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from transferring the ownership or management of any civil land remote sensing space satellite system until a comprehensive plan for such a transfer is approved by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983
Designates the week of November 7 through November 13, 1983, as National Reye's Syndrome Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 February 1983
Designates the week beginning February 20, 1983, as Clergy Appreciation Week.