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United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Redesignates the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Tennessee and Kentucky, as the John Sherman Cooper National Recreation Area.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) be commended for his efforts to negotiate a multilateral agreement banning chemical weapons; and (2) propose the resumption of negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve a verifiable ban on chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983
Grants a Federal charter to the organization known as the National Academy of Public Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1983
States that the Congress: (1) holds Iran responsible for upholding the rights of the Baha'is; (2) condemns Iran's decision to destroy the Baha'i faith; and (3) calls upon the President to work with appropriate foreign governments to form an appeal to Iran concerning the Baha'is, to cooperate with the United Nations in its efforts on behalf of the Baha'is, and to provide humanitarian assistance for Baha'is who flee Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1983
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make apportionments in accordance with the interstate cost estimate for FY 1985 and 1986, and the interstate substitute cost estimate for FY 1984 and 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1983
Extends the gratitude of the Senate to America's teachers.
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1983
Missing Children's Assistance Act of 1983 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to require the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to establish and maintain a national toll-free telephone line for reporting information regarding the location of missing children. Directs the Administrator to establish a national resource center and clearinghouse to: (1) provide technical assistance to State and local governments and agencies in locating missing children; (2) coordinate public and private efforts to recover missing children; and (3) disseminate information on innovative missing childrens' programs, services, and legislation. Requires the Administrator to publish an annual summary of research on missing children and prepare a comprehensive plan for coordinating activities of all agencies and organizations responsible for missing children. Authorizes the Administrator, in consultation with the Advisory Board on Missing Children, to make grants for research or demonstration or service programs designed to: (1) educate parents and community agencies on ways to prevent the abduction of children; (2) assist in the recovery or tracking of missing children; (3) aid communities in collecting material to assist parents in the identification of their children; (4) demonstrate the psychological consequences of a child's abduction; and (5) collect data on investigative practices utilized by law enforcement agencies. Requires the Administrator to appoint an Advisory Board on Missing Children to assist the Administrator in coordinating programs and activities relating to missing children. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1983
Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Act of 1983 - Amends the Clean Water Act ("the Act") (also known as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act) to provide for a nonpoint source pollution management program. Requires each State, by itself or in combination with other States and after notice and opportunity for public comment, to submit a proposed nonpoint source pollution management program to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency within 18 months after the enactment of the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1983. Requires that such proposed State program: (1) identify waters within State boundaries which, without additional action to control nonpoint sources of pollution, cannot be reasonably expected to attain or maintain applicable water quality standards or the goals and requirements of the Act; (2) designate categories or subcategories of nonpoint sources of pollution or, where appropriate, particular nonpoint sources, that contribute significant pollution loadings to such identified waters; (3) identify best management practices which will be undertaken to reduce pollutant loadings resulting from each designated category, subcategory, or particular nonpoint source; (4) identify programs to achieve implementation of such best management practices; (5) include a schedule containing annual milestones for utilization of program implementation methods and implementation of best management practices at the earliest practicable date; (6) include a statement by the State attorney general, or attorney for the State water pollution control agency, that State laws provide adequate authority to carry out the program, or a schedule and commitment by the State to seek such authorities as expeditiously as practicable; and (7) include an indentification of Federal financial assistance programs and Federal development projects for which the State will review individual assistance applications or development projects for their effect on water quality, pursuant to specified procedures, to determine whether such applications or projects would be consistent with and further the purposes and objectives of the program. Allows the State, in developing such program to rely upon specified information and utilize appropriate elements of waste treatment management plans. Allows the State, in developing and implementing such program, to make use of local agencies or organizations. Sets forth procedures and deadlines for revisions and approval or disapproval by the Administrator of such proposed or revised State programs. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on actions taken with regard to any State which fails to submit a program which meets specified requirements. Directs the Administrator to award grants to assist States in the implementation of approved management programs. Limits such grants to 75 percent of program implementation costs in any fiscal year. Requires that non-Federal sources provide at least 25 percent of such costs. Provides that two-thirds of the funds appropriated in any fiscal year for such grants shall be allotted among States according to a specified table of percentage allotments. Provides that one-third of such appropriations shall be made available to the Administrator who shall make grants in response to applications from States if the Administrator determines such grants are necessary and appropriate to assist such States in: (1) controlling particularly difficult or serious nonpoint source pollution problems, including those resulting from mining; (2) implementing innovative methods or practices for controlling nonpoint sources of pollution, including both regulatory or nonregulatory programs where appropriate; (3) controlling interstate nonpoint sources pollution problems; or (4) providing financial assistance, limited to a specified amount, for approved management program implementation by an Indian tribe within the reservation. Sets forth provisions for reallotment of State allotments. Permits States to use such grant funds for financial assistance to persons only to the extent that such assistance is related to the cost of demonstration projects. Prohibits such a grant to any State unless the Administrator determines that the State is implementing such program satisfactorily. Authorizes the Administrator to request information, data, and reports necessary for determination of continuing eligibility for such grants. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the nonpoint source pollution management program for FY 1985 through 1987. Requires each State to report annually to the Administrator on: (1) its progress in meeting the schedule of milestones; and (2) where appropriate information is available, reductions in nonpoint source pollutant loadings and improvements in water quality resulting from implementation of the management program. Directs the Administrator to transmit to the Office of Management and Budget and the appropriate Federal departments and agencies a list of those assistance programs and development projects identified by States for which individual assistance applications and projects will be reviewed. Requires each Federal department and agency, within 60 days after receiving such notification, to: (1) modify existing regulations to allow States to conduct such review; and (2) accommodate the concerns of the State regarding the consistency of such applications or projects with the State program. Directs the Administrator to collect and make available information pertaining to management practices and implementation methods. Directs the Administrator, within 36 months of enactment of the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1983, to report on: (1) management programs being implemented by the States by types and amount of affected waters, categories and subcategories of nonpoint sources, and types of best management practices being implemented; (2) State experiences in adhering to schedules and implementing best management practices; (3) the amount and purpose of grants awarded; (4) progress in reducing pollutant loads and improving water quality in the waters of the United States; and (5) what further actions need to be taken to attain and maintain in those waters applicable water quality standards and the goals and requirements of the Act. Revises provisions relating to agreements among Federal agencies to include a reference to approved nonpoint source pollution management programs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1983
Commission on Civil Rights Resolution - Establishes within the legislative branch an eight member Commission on Civil Rights (Commission). Provides rules of procedure for Commission hearings. Requires the Commission to: (1) investigate allegations of citizens' being denied their right to vote by reason of their color, religion, sex, age, handicap or national origin; (2) study and collect information concerning discrimination or a denial of equal protection; (3) appraise Federal laws and policy with respect to discrimination and the denial of equal protection; and (4) serve as a national clearinghouse for such information. Prohibits the Commission from investigating any membership practice or internal operation of any fraternal organization, college or university fraternity or sorority, private club or religious organization. Prohibits the Commission from collecting or studying information with respect to abortion. Directs the Commission to appraise the laws and policies of the Federal Government with respect to denials of equal protection involving Americans who are members of eastern - and southern - European ethic groups.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1983
Designates the week beginning November 6, 1983, as National Meals-on-Wheels and Congregate Meal Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1983
Grants a Federal charter to the Polish Legion of American Veterans, U.S.A.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1983
Terminates the authorization for the Lake Brownwood modification project, Pecan Bayou, Texas, contained in the Flood Control Act of 1968.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1983
Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of Congress, a gold medal to Lady Bird Johnson in recognition of her humanitarian efforts and contributions to the beautification of America. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the striking of such medal and bronze duplication for sale to the public. Declares such medals to be national medals. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1983
Cigarette Safety Study Act - Establishes an interagency Cigarette Safety Task Force to conduct studies and make recommendations concerning the technical and economic feasibility of developing cigarettes and little cigars which have a reduced propensity to ignite upholstered furniture and mattresses. Requires the Task Force to appoint a Technical Advisory Group who have knowledge and expertise concerning the health consequences of smoking, the problem of fires in upholstered furniture and mattresses, and the development and manufacture of cigarettes and little cigars which have a reduced propensity to ignite such furniture. Requires the Task Force to transmit to the President and Congress such interim reports as necessary and a final report not later than two years after the date of enactment of this Act. Declares that commercial, technical, or financial information which is submitted to the Task Force or the Technical Advisory Group and which the Task Force considers to be confidential shall be considered trade secrets. Permits the use of any such information in the required reports to Congress. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates the Task Force three months after the final report is transmitted.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1983
Amends the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to increase Federal school meal (lunch and breakfast) reimbursement. Amends the National School Lunch Act to provide funds to the States for donated commodity storage and transportation. Eliminates the tie between eligibility for such program and for the food stamp program. Delays the requirement that local school authorities verify application information until the completion of an Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 pilot study. Excludes certain medical expenses from household income for program eligibility purposes. Lowers the student cost of reduced-price lunches. Increases the number of reimbursable meals and snacks under the child care food program. Amends such Acts to eliminate private school tuition eligibility limits. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to permit all kindergarten children in nonprofit schools to participate in the special milk program. Increases reimbursement amounts for breakfast nutrition improvement. Lowers the student cost of reduced-price breakfasts. Makes the existing nutrition education authorization permanent.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1983
Designates October 16 through October 22, 1983, as National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1983
Challenge Grant Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish a program to provide matching endowment grants to institutions of higher education which are eligible for assistance under the challenge grant program (part C of title III of HEA). Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award such matching endowment grants from sums available under the challenge grant program. Limits the endowment grant period to not more than 20 years, during which time the institution may not withdraw or expend the endowment fund corpus (the amount of the grant plus the matching amount deposited by the institution). Permits the institution, after grant period termination, to use the endowment fund corpus plus any endowment fund income for any educational purpose. Provides that institutions may receive more than one such grant, but may only receive such a grant for two fiscal years out of any period of five consecutive fiscal years. Limits the amount of an endowment grant to an institution to: (1) not less than $50,000 for any fiscal year; and (2) not more than $250,000 for FY 1984 or $500,000 for FY 1985 or any succeeding fiscal year. Permits an eligible institution to designate a foundation, which was established to raise money for the institution, as the recipient of the endowment grant. Sets forth requirements which the foundation and the institution must meet for such an award. Sets forth requirements for investment of the endowment fund corpus and income. Permits an institution to withdraw and expend the endowment fund income to defray any expenses necessary to the operation of the college. Prohibits an institution from spending more than 50 percent of the total aggregate endowment fund income earned prior to the time of expenditure. Authorizes the Secretary to permit an institution to spend more than the 50-percent limit under specified emergency circumstances. Provides for repayment by an institution of funds withdrawn prematurely from the endowment fund corpus or improperly expended from endowment fund income. Set forth auditing requirements. Directs the Secretary, in selecting eligible institutions for endowment grants, to: (1) give priority to an applicant which is a recipient of an institutional aid (title III) grant under provisions for strengthening institutions (part A) or for aid to institutions with special needs (part B), during the academic year in which the endowment grant is applied for; (2) give priority to an applicant with a greater need for such grant, based on the current market value of the applicant's existing endowment in relation to the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled at such institution; and (3) consider the effort made by the applicant to build or maintain its existing endowment fund and the degree to which an applicant proposes to match the grant with nongovernmental funds. Sets forth provisions for endowment grant applications and approval. Authorizes the Secretary to terminate and recover an endowment grant, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, if the grantee institution fails to properly expend, invest, or account for endowment funds. Provides that, of the amounts appropriated for the challenge grant program (part C), the following amounts shall be available for endowment grants: (1) 20 percent in FY 1984; and (2) 100 percent in FY 1985. Authorizes the Secretary, for each fiscal year, to: (1) reserve from the appropriation for aid to institutions with special needs (part B) not more than an amount equal to the aggregate amount grantees receiving part B grants would contribute to the cost of such grants, assuming the grant amounts remain the same as those received in the prior fiscal year; and (2) use those funds to award endowment grants to eligible institutions. Directs the Secretary, in reserving and awarding such funds, to continue to set aside funds in specified amounts for junior and community colleges, institutions planning to award a bachelor's degree, and institutions with special needs that historically serve substantial numbers of black students. Amends the Omnibus Education Reconciliation Act of 1981 "Omnibus Act" to increase the total amount which may be appropriated for FY 1984 to carry out title III (Institutional Aid) of HEA. Increases the total amount which may be appropriated for FY 1984 to carry out a specified Federal law relating to Howard University. Authorizes appropriations, notwithstanding specified provisions of the Omnibus Act, of sums necessary to carry out provisions for grants for the construction, reconstruction, and renovation of academic facilities under parts A (undergraduate) and B (graduate) of title VII of HEA. Sets forth provisions for the use and distribution of funds appropriated by Public Law 98-63 for part B of title VII of HEA (grants for construction, reconstruction, and renovation of graduate academic facilities).
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1983
Requests the President to proclaim the month of September 1983 National Sickle-Cell Anemia Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1983
Calls for special recognition during 1987, the bicentennial year of the United States Constitution, of the constitutional foundation for patent and copyright laws.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1983
Extends from FY 1983 to 1984 the authority of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to contract for hospital care or medical services in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands without reference to patient loads or incidence of provision of medical services for veterans treated by the Veterans Administration in the contiguous 48 States.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1983
Lebanon Peacekeeping Resolution - Authorizes the President to maintain U.S. armed forces in Lebanon as part of a multinational peacekeeping force for 120 days from the expiration of the 60 day period authorized under the War Powers Resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Designates the week beginning November 6, 1983, as National Disabled Veterans Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Designates November 14, 1983, as National Retired Teachers Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should seek to: (1) urge other governments to conduct their own investigations of suspected chemical warfare; (2) help the United Nations gain access for U.N. investigators to areas where chemical and toxin weapons use is suspected; and (3) negotiate with the Soviet Union on strengthening existing agreements on chemical, biological, and toxin weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Designates May 6 through May 13, 1984, as National Tuberous Sclerosis Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Designates the week of September 25 through October 1, 1983 as National Rehabilitation Facilities Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1983
National Task Force on Organ Procurement and Transplant Reimbursement Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish within 60 days a National Task Force on Organ Procurement and Transplant Reimbursement to develop a plan for a comprehensive organ donor network and organ procurement system. Sets forth membership and operating provisions. Authorizes the Task Force to submit interim reports to the President and each House of Congress, and a final report within six months after its establishment. Terminates such Task Force three months after submitting such final report.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States shall call upon El Salvador to: (1) appoint a special prosecuting attorney to investigate those responsbile for the murders of four American churchwomen; and (2) bring the accused to trial by December 2, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1983
Authorizes three additional Assistant Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1983
Voting Rights for the Handicapped and the Elderly Act - Directs the Attorney General to promulgate guidelines to assure that registration and polling place facilities used for Federal elections are readily accessible to handicapped and elderly individuals. Sets forth minimum requirements for these guidelines. Requires States to make available registration and voting aids for handicapped and elderly individuals in Federal elections. Authorizes the Attorney General and aggrieved persons to bring actions in Federal court to enforce this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1983
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to States which adopt and implement effective child passenger safety programs. Sets forth eligibility requirements for States to receive such grants and a limitation on apportionments. Requires the Secretary to establish, by regulation, standards for such programs. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1984 through 1986. Directs the Secretary to conduct an annual evaluation of each eligible State's child passenger safety program to measure its effectiveness on child safety seat usage.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1983
Designates the week in November which includes Thanksgiving Day as National Family Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1983
Universal Telephone Service Preservation Act of 1983 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission to establish a system of exchange access charges in order to: (1) achieve equal treatment among all inter-local access and transport area (LATA) carriers and other customers using the services of exchange companies through direct or indirect connection; (2) assure that payments and assignments of costs relating to exchange access are carried out in a manner which is open for public examination; (3) achieve flexibility in accommodating changes in market conditions and technology; (4) establish incentives for efficient investment decisions and technological choices; and (5) ensure that exchange carriers are compensated for their costs of providing exchange access. Directs the Universal Telephone Service Joint Board (established by this Act) to establish a universal service charge schedule to insure that basic telephone service will be available at reasonable rates throughout the United States. Requires such schedule to designate universal service costs to be allocated to a Federal jurisdiction and to provide for their collection by means of a universal service charge that is payable by any interLATA carrier or any provider of interLATA services or any private system that connects directly or indirectly to any exchange carrier or any local exchange switched network used to provide basic telephone service. Entitles each exchange company qualifying for payments to 90 percent of its reasonably incurred universal service costs which are directly related to the efficient and economic provision of such service. States that universal service costs shall consist of an exchange company's costs for basic intraLATA telephone service to any points within a LATA which exceed 110 percent of the average cost of providing comparable basic intraLATA telephone service throughout the United States. Provides that, notwithstanding the above provisions, any company which qualifies for payments and whose costs for basic intraLATA telephone service to any points exceed 250 percent of the average cost of providing comparable basic intraLATA telephone service throughout the United States shall be entitled to receive 100 percent of its reasonably incurred universal service costs over 250 percent of the national average. Defines: (1) "basic telephone service" as residential service; (2) "basic intraLATA telephone service" as that portion of basic telephone service provided within a local access and transport area, including access to such service; and (3) "exchange company" as a company that offers basic telephone service and other services within one or more service areas recognized by any State regulatory commission. Authorizes the Commission to assert jurisdiction over all nontraffic sensitive subscriber loop costs to a Federal jurisdiction, in order to achieve consistency and uniformity of policy in regard to interstate and intrastate access charges. Authorizes the Commission to delegate to a State commission some or all of the Commission's authority with respect to: (1) intrastate interLATA toll service; and (2) access charges for the interconnection of exchange communications service with interstate or intrastate interLATA toll service upon a finding that such delegation would promote the purposes of this Act. Directs the Universal Telephone Service Joint Board to establish guidelines binding a State commission in the exercise of any delegated authority. Directs the Commission to establish the Universal Telephone Service Joint Board which shall be composed of five commissioners of the Commission and four commissioners nominated by the national organization of State commissions. Directs the Commission to adopt as final any decisions of the Board. Establishes a fine applicable to anyone who, with the intent to deprive any exchange company of any revenue in connection with access charges, transmits telecommunications so as to avoid accessing a local exchange in order to avoid such charges. Directs the Commission and each State regulatory authority to take action to ensure access to basic telephone lifeline service.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Authorizes the printing as a Senate document of the annual report of the Secretary of Transportation entitled, "Fourth Annual Report to Congress-Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program." Authorizes the printing of additional copies for the use of the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1983
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to establish a system of charges to compensate exchange common carriers for exchange access and to change the system of jurisdictional separation of property and expenses in force on the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the FCC to ascertain and apportion, by regulation, the costs incurred by exchange carriers to provide exchange access. Requires such regulation to provide for the ascertainment and apportionment of the costs of exchange access between exchange (local) service and interexchange (long distance) service in a manner that ensures the universal availability of basic communications service at reasonable rates. Requires the FCC to ensure that the costs of nontraffic-sensitive facilities used to provide exchange access are allocated to interexchange service in a specified ratio. Directs the FCC to establish uniform practices that ensure that the costs allocated to interexchange service are recovered from interexchange carriers and customers of interexchange services. Requires that an exchange carrier retain any terminal equipment which it provided on December 31, 1982, and continue to make the equipment available to customers under tariffs in force as of such date until the equipment is fully depreciated except that: (1) State commissions shall permit increases in such tariffs to reflect any reasonable increases in the costs of providing such equipment; and (2) the customer may purchase such equipment for a price fixed by the State commission. Authorizes exchange carriers to offer other terminal equipment to the public at any time after January 1, 1984, if the equipment: (1) is manufactured by unaffiliated persons; and (2) is offered through a separate subsidiary which meets specified requirements. Directs the FCC to require all telecommunications services provided by an interexchange carrier certified by the FCC to originate and terminate over the facilities of a local exchange common carrier. Prohibits the FCC from having any jurisdiction over State regulation of depreciation rates for telephone equipment used for intrastate telephone service. Grants the States exclusive jurisdiction over the provision of intrastate telecommunication service.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Urges the President to seek an agreement with the Soviet Union to: (1) declare a verifiable and limited moratorium on the testing in space of antisatellite weapons; (2) resume negotiations on a verifiable ban on the testing, production, deployment, and use of any antisatellite weapon; and (3) seek a verifiable treaty prohibiting any space-directed or space-based weapons system which is designed to cause damage on earth, in the atmosphere, or on objects placed in space. Declares that such agreements should not restrict non-weapons operations in space, such as the U.S. space shuttle program.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Designates the week of September 18-24, 1983, as Cystic Fibrosis Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce to continue to use diplomatic and legal means to achieve worldwide compliance with the International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial whaling.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the States should: (1) adopt the International Symbol of Access to identify vehicles carrying the physically handicapped and grant only to such vehicles access to special parking privileges; and (2) enter into agreements of reciprocity relating to special parking privileges granted to handicapped persons.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1983
Elementary School Guidance and Counseling Incentive Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 through 1987 for basic grant allotments to States for elementary school guidance and counseling programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for: (1) allotments to States for employment of one new or additional elementary school guidance counselor per school district, or both; (2) supplemental grants for elementary school guidance and counseling; (3) research and demonstration programs; (4) evaluation; (5) teacher and counselor centers; and (6) inservice counselor training. Provides formulas, based on the population of elementary school children, for determining allotments to States for such programs. Directs the Secretary of Education to administer State allotments and State plans through the Office of Guidance and Counseling of the Department of Education. Requires that each State, to be eligible for such allotments, submit to the Secretary a State plan for providing comprehensive elementary school guidance and counseling programs for a five-year period, with necessary annual revisions, which meets such criteria as the Secretary may by regulation prescribe. Sets forth required provisions of such plans and programs. Provides for appeal by a State of a final action of the Secretary to a circuit court of appeals. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Office of Guidance and Counseling, to make supplemental grants to States with approved plans for distribution to local educational agencies and for support of State agency leadership activities on the basis of statewide needs and priorities in elementary school guidance and counseling. Sets forth approved uses of such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a research and demonstration program relating to elementary and secondary school guidance and counseling. Directs the Secretary to make an annual evaluation report to the appropriate congressional committees. Provides for a program of in-service training for elementary school guidance counselors. Requires the designation of professionally trained counselors: (1) at the Federal level, to provide information on, and to administer, such programs; and (2) at the State, local school district, and intermediate administrative unit levels, to supervise such programs. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to include training for counselors under the teacher centers program.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to set the cap amount for hospice care at $6,500, to be increased or decreased annually according to the consumer price index.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Designates the week of May 27, 1984, as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1983
Inland Waterway Improvement and Cost Recovery Act of 1983 - Directs the Secretary of the Army to levy ton-mile fees on commercial waterway transportation on the inland waterway system. Sets forth criteria by which fees shall be established. Directs the Secretary of the Army to adjust such fees at least every five years on the basis of: (1) anticipated Tennessee Valley Authority and Army Corps of Engineers expenditures for the inland waterway system; (2) corrections for actual expenditures and amounts recovered; (3) the expected volume of commercial traffic; and (4) any other factors that the Secretary finds reasonable and equitable. Authorizes the Secretary to levy congestion fees, designed to reduce delays, on all users of specified facilities. Requires collected fees to be credited to the Inland Waterways Trust Fund and made available for making capital improvements and operation and maintenance expenditures on the inland waterway system. Permits the Secretary, for the purposes of developing fee schedules and determining violations of this Act, to require specified information from any person engaged in commercial waterway transportation. Increases to $200,000 the maximum fine for vessel owners who refuse to furnish required statements of business on navigable waters to the Secretary. Sets forth civil penalties for failure to pay user fees. Sets forth the percentages of expenditures for inland waterway project operation and maintenance and construction and rehabilitation which shall be assigned to commercial waterway transportation. Amends the Inland Waterways Revenue Act of 1978 to eliminate provisions which made amounts in the Inland Waterways Trust Fund available for expenditures for navigation construction and rehabilitation projects on inland waterways. Permits the Secretary to determine the interest rate used on any unrecovered balance of fees. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to study, plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain new improvements, rehabilitations, and modifications of existing improvements on the inland waterway system. Requires submission to Congress of a final environmental impact statement and a statement of the Secretary's compliance with certain environmental statutes, prior to initiation of any such construction. Exempts such environmental impact statements from judicial review under any law. Authorizes the Secretary to promulgate and revise regulations and guidelines to govern programs authorized by this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
Disaster Relief Act Amendments of 1983 - Amends the short title of the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 to read the "Major Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act." Amends such Act to redefine 'emergency' to include any instance for which, in the President's determination, Federal assistance is needed to supplement State and local efforts to save lives and protect property. Repeals provisions of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 concerning economic recovery for disaster areas. Amends the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (hereinafter referred to as the Disaster Relief Act) to revise procedures concerning State requests for emergency assistance. Describes the determination to be made by the President concerning the nature of an emergency prior to authorizing emergency assistance under such Act. Authorizes the President, in any emergency, to: (1) provide emergency assistance to save lives and protect property and public health; (2) direct Federal agencies to utilize their resources in support of State and local emergency assistance; and (3) coordinate all Federal agencies and voluntary relief or disaster assistance organizations providing emergency assistance and coordinate emergency assistance with State and local officials. Sets forth the manner by which Federal agencies are authorized to provide assistance on the direction of the President. Limits funds to a set amount for any single emergency, except when the President determines that continued emergency assistance is immediately required. Amends the Disaster Relief Act to redefine 'major disaster.' Makes other technical and conforming amendments. Amends such Act to require that facilities receiving such emergency assistance must have been covered by adequate and reasonable flood insurance in order to receive full assistance benefits. Amends provisions of such Act concerning duplication of insurance benefits to provide for repayment of duplicated benefits. Adds four new sections to the Disaster Relief Act, providing for: (1) a declaration that action taken or assistance provided pursuant to such Act that restores facilities substantially as they existed before the disaster shall not be deemed a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the environment within the meaning of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; (2) an authorization of the Attorney General to institute actions against any party whose acts or omissions may have caused or contributed to the events resulting in a Presidential declaration of emergency or disaster; and (3) audits and investigations by the President, in conjunction with the Comptroller General, to assure compliance with the Disaster Relief Act. Sets forth criminal and civil penalties for violations of such Act. Adds new provisions to the Disaster Relief Act to: (1) provide that all requests for a declaration by the President that a major disaster exists shall be made by the Governor of the State affected, who shall provide the President with certain information; (2) provide that in any case where an eligible applicant (or the State) is unable to assume its cost-sharing responsibility, the President is authorized to lend or advance a 25 percent share, such loan to be repaid with interest; (3) allow the President to provide assistance directly or through Federal agencies to assist State and local governments in performing essential services, distributing food, medicine, and supplies, coordinating disaster assistance organizations, and providing such other assistance under this Act as the President deems appropriate; and (4) authorize Federal agencies to provide assistance by utilizing resources available under any Act, distributing food, medicine, or supplies, donating equipment and supplies to State and local governments, and performing any emergency work or services essential to save lives and protect and preserve property. Amends the Disaster Relief Act to authorize the President to make contributions to State or local governments to help repair or replace public facilities which were damaged or destroyed by a major disaster. Limits such contributions to 75 percent of the net eligible cost. Authorizes the President to make the same such contributions to private nonprofit facilities, with the same contribution limit. Provides that no such contributions will be made unless the entity affected agrees that such facility shall be repaired in compliance with flood plain management and hazard mitigation criteria required by the President, in conformity with the Coastal Barriers Resources Act and other applicable Federal statutes. Limits the Federal share of disaster assistance available for repairs and reconstruction of public facilities and private nonprofit facilities and debris removal to 75 percent of eligible costs. Revises provisions concerning temporary housing assistance for those displaced by a major disaster or emergency. Provides for the installation of necessary utilities for temporary housing. Authorizes the President to contribute up to 50 percent of the cost of implementing hazard mitigation projects. Reduces the duration of unemployment assistance to individuals unemployed as a result of a major disaster. Permits a State to be reimbursed for certain expenses incurred in administering grants to individuals and families. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1986. Makes technical and conforming amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
Authorizes the President to present on behalf of Congress a gold medal to Danny Thomas in recognition of his humanitarian efforts and outstanding work as an American. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by said Secretary. Provides, effective October 1, 1983, funds not to exceed $22,000 to carry out the purposes of the Act. Provides that the Secretary may cause bronze duplicates of the medal to be coined and sold under regulations prescribed by the Secretary at a price sufficient to cover the costs of producing the gold medal. Directs that the appropriation used to carry out the provisions of the Act shall be reimbursed out of the proceeds from such coin sales. Provides that the medals are to be national medals.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1983
Provides that the United States relinquishes to the respective States all right, title, and interest of the United States with respect to historical shipwrecks and structures on the seabed or in the subsoil of lands beneath the navigable waters within the boundaries of such States. Provides that the U.S. maritime law of salvage shall not apply to such shipwrecks or structures.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1983
Designates the week of December 11-17, 1983, as National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1983
Authorizes the President to proclaim March 1984 National Social Work Month.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1983
Veterans' Disability Compensation and Survivors' Benefits Amendments of 1983 - Title I: Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of veterans' disability compensation. Permits the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to adjust the rates of disability compensation for other specified persons. Increases the rates of additional compensation for dependents. Increases the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans. Title II: Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses according to a specified table. Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for children. Increases the rates of supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for children. Title III: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date for this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1983
Designates October 15, 1983, National Poetry Day.