United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1990
Fair Trade in Financial Services Act of 1990 - Amends the International Banking Act of 1978 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to authorize Federal banking agencies and the Securities and Exchange Commission respectively to deny applications filed by foreign persons to conduct banking or securities activities in the United States if the Secretary of the Treasury has published a determination in the Federal Register that the relevant foreign country does not offer U.S. bankers and securities dealers and brokers the same competitive opportunities, including effective market access, as are available to its domestic counterparts. Directs the Secretary to: (1) initiate negotiations with foreign countries to ensure that they offer U.S. banking and securities interests such opportunities; and (2) submit annual status reports to the Congress regarding foreign treatment of such U.S. business interests.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Prohibits funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) from being used to commence production of B-2 aircraft. Limits the use of funds already appropriated to DOD for the B-2 to the following purposes: (1) completion of the production of such aircraft which began prior to the enactment of this Act; (2) research and development in connection with the B-2 program; and (3) flight testing of such aircraft.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 to apply the same honoraria provisions to Senators and officers and employees of the Senate as apply to Members of the House of Representatives and other officers and employees of the Government. Amends the Ethics Reform Act of 1989 to repeal provisions providing for annual cost-of-living salary increases for Senators and concurrent reductions in the limit on honoraria.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Amends the Rail Passenger Service Act to repeal an exemption from specified communicable disease control requirements of the Public Health Service Act for waste disposal from railroads operating in intercity rail passenger service.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
National Commemorative Events Advisory Act - Establishes the President's Advisory Commission on National Commemorative Events to: (1) establish criteria for recommending to the President that a proposed commemorative event be approved or disapproved; (2) review proposals for national commemorative events submitted in accordance with procedures published by the Commission; and (3) issue recommendations to the President concerning each proposal reviewed.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as amended by the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, to prohibit Senate Members, officers, and employees from accepting honoraria effective January 1, 1991. Allows donations of honoraria on behalf of Members, officers, or employees to charitable organizations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Department of the Environment Act of 1990 - Title I: General Findings - Sets forth findings with respect to Federal environmental policy. Title II: Elevation of the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet Level - Department of the Environment Act - Redesignates the Environmental Protection Agency as the Department of the Environment, an executive agency to be administered by a Secretary of the Environment. Establishes: (1) a Bureau of Environmental Statistics within the Department; and (2) an Advisory Council on Environmental Statistics to advise the Bureau on statistics and analyses. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Establishment of the Interagency Committee on Global Environmental Change - Establishes within the Executive Office of the President the Interagency Committee on Global Environmental Change to assist the President in coordinating all Federal programs and annual policy plans related to global environmental change. Title IV: Environmental Role of the United States in International Organizations to Which It Belongs - Urges: (1) the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of the multilateral development banks to promote energy conservation and environmental protection efforts of borrowing countries when voting to issue financial or technical assistance; and (2) the Secretary of State to convene international conferences to encourage the exchange of information on energy efficiency and environmentally acceptable renewable energy sources and the adoption of a multilateral global climate protection convention. Requires the President to encourage the establishment of an international office to monitor annual generation and removal of carbon dioxide and trace gases on a country-by-country basis. Title V: Establishment of the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection - Establishes the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection to make recommendations on integrating Federal environmental law and other authorities to improve U.S. environmental protection activities. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1990
Urges the President to seek the consent of the Senate to the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations on November 20, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Nuclear Facilities Occupational Safety Improvement Act of 1989 - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to apply it to certain Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear facilities (including specified defense, production, utilization, and waste storage or disposal facilities). Directs the Secretary of Labor to promulgate specific regulations and standards to govern the application of OSHA to such facilities. Requires the Secretary of Energy and each contractor operating such a facility to: (1) cooperate with the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the conduct of an inspection or investigation under OSHA at such facility; (2) grant access to it to enable the conduct of such inspection or investigation; and (3) provide all information necessary for such inspection or investigation. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy, to protect the confidentiality of information, to deny access to any person who has not been granted a security clearance or access authorization. Provides for transfer and allocation of appropriations and personnel, and authorizes an increase in the number of OSHA compliance officers. Directs the Secretary of Labor, by specified deadlines, to promulgate interim regulations and propose and promulgate final regulations to provide for specified types of health and safety training of employees at such DOE nuclear facilities. Requires the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and its Director to: (1) perform functions authorized by OSHA at such facilities; (2) review and make recommendations on DOE research and training programs, contracts, and grants to ensure health and safety adequacy of newly implemented technologies; and (3) conduct health hazard evaluations, including ionizing radiation evaluations, at such facilities. Requires medical examinations of employees at such DOE nuclear facilities. Requires all such employees to be given baseline medical examinations in accordance with guidelines developed by the Health Advisory Committee, and subsequent examinations, as recommended by the Committee, for their lifetime. Requires, where appropriate, such examinations for family members determined to be at high risk of disease because of an employee's exposure at the workplace. Requires that all former employees at such facilities and their families be offered participation in a medical surveillance program designed to focus on work-related exposure to toxic substances and radiation, including treatment for occupationally related illness. Requires all contractors with such facilities to maintain a full-time occupational health physician and supporting medical staff, in accordance with Committee guidelines. Establishes a Health Advisory Committee to: (1) review existing medical studies relating to the administration of such medical examination program; and (2) issue the aforementioned guidelines and standards for such program. Requires that all information from such medical examinations be available to individual employees and their representatives and that aggregate information from such examinations be available to the public. Requires that program costs be borne by DOE. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in coordination with the Secretary of Energy, to promulgate necessary regulations. Requires each such DOE nuclear facility to establish a labor-management health and safety committee in accordance with specified guidelines. Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to provide whistleblower protection for employees of DOE nuclear facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Condemns the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) for initiating a military offensive on November 11, 1989. Deplores the armed seizure of a San Salvador hotel. Deplores the murder of six Jesuit priests and two women. Demands that those responsible for their murder, as well as for the bombing of the headquarters of a local labor union, be brought to justice. Deplores the continuing violence in El Salvador. Calls for a disengagement of military forces to allow international humanitarian organizations to provide medical attention and supplies to the civilian casualties. Urges the United Nations and the Organization of American States to encourage the FMLN and the Salvadoran Government to enter into a ceasefire and withdrawal of FMLN forces from urban areas. Urges the Government of El Salvador and the FMLN to resume a peaceful dialogue. Commends President Cristiani for sending representatives to the meeting scheduled in Caracas, Venezuela, to seek a political settlement of the conflict. Declares that if the Salvadoran Government fails to make every good faith effort to prosecute and punish those responsible for the November 16 murder of six Jesuit priests and two women, the Congress will review the question of aid to El Salvador. Requests the Administration to report to the Congress by February 20, 1990, on the status of the investigation of such murders. Urges the administration to provide emergency assistance to the innocent victims of the war through the International Red Cross and other appropriate channels.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain lands in Routt County, Colorado, in exchange for certain lands in Pennington County, South Dakota, which shall become part of the Black Hills National Forest. Provides that if the values of such lands are not equal, they shall be equalized by the payment of cash as provided in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, without regard to the provision in such Act which limits such payments to 25 percent of the total value of the lands transferred out of Federal ownership. Provides that lands conveyed into private ownership or transferred to the Secretary of the Interior under this Act shall be subject to certain conservation easements already in effect by prior agreement in Routt County. Provides that lands conveyed into private ownership pursuant to this Act shall be subject to administrative and emergency ingress and egress easements in lieu of other easements previously granted. Requires all such easements conferred to permit the United States to maintain, improve, repair, or relocate existing roads and trails to accomodate appropriate uses of such easements.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Freedom of Choice Act of 1989 - Provides that a State may not restrict the right of a woman to choose to terminate a pregnancy: (1) before fetal viability; or (2) at any time, if such termination is necessary to protect the life or health of the woman. Allows a State to impose requirements medically necessary to protect the life or health of such women.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Young Americans Act of 1989 - Title I: The Administration on Children, Youth, and Families - Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services an Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (the Administration) which shall be headed by a Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families. Directs the Commissioner to cooperate with the head of each Federal agency or department proposing or administering programs or services substantially related to the purpose of this Act. Establishes a Federal Council on Children, Youth, and Families. Directs the Council to report annually to the President in FY 1992 and thereafter. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993. Directs the Commissioner to report annually to the President and the Congress on the activities carried out under this Act and other activities delegated by the Secretary to the Commissioner. Title II: Grants for State and Community Programs for Children, Youth, and Families - Directs the Commissioner to: (1) enter into new cooperative agreements in each State for the planning and advocacy of services to ensure young individuals the availability of developmental, preventive, and remedial services to promote specified factors; and (2) administer programs under this title through the Administration. Sets forth requirements for a State to be eligible to participate in grant programs under this title. Requires designation of an independent State body to: (1) serve as an effective and visible advocate for children and youth by reviewing and commenting on all State plans, budgets, and priorities which affect children, youth, and their families and by providing technical assistance to those representing the needs of the young; (2) develop and administer the State plan; (3) coordinate all pertinent State activities; and (4) divide the State into district planning and service areas and designate area agencies for children, youth, and families. Directs the Commissioner to make grants to States under approved State plans to demonstrate successful program approaches to service gaps identified through State and area planning and advocacy efforts. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993 for grants under this title. Title III: White House Conference on Young Americans - White House Conference on Young Americans Act of 1989 - Directs the President to call a White House Conference on Young Americans in 1990. Provides that the Conference shall be planned and conducted under the direction of the Secretary of Health and Human Services in cooperation with the Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies. Requires a final report of the Conference to the President. Directs the Secretary to send the President and the Congress recommendations for administrative action and legislation necessary to implement the report's recommendations. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to the Conference and such other committees as may be necessary to assist in planning, conducting, and reviewing the Conference. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 to carry out this title.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Anaconda Mines Drainage Treatment Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to construct and maintain a water treatment plant to ensure that water flowing from Anaconda Mine sites near Butte, Montana, meet water quality standards. Provides that such plant shall be designed to treat the quantity and quality of effluent historically discharged from the Anaconda Mines. Authorizes the Secretary to operate and maintain the plant and perform sludge disposal directly or through contract with public or private entities. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Eliminates post-1968 service in the National Guard as a prerequisite to civil service retirement credit for former National Guard technicians. Amends the National Guard Technicians Act of 1968 to eliminate post-1968 service as a prerequisite for National Guard technicians for receipt of credit in the determination of length of Federal civil service for purposes of leave, Federal employees' death and disability compensation, group life and health insurance, severance pay, tenure, and status. Sets forth rules for applying provisions of this Act to affected individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1989
Tobacco Product Education and Health Protection Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to add a new title establishing, at the Centers for Disease Control, a Center for Tobacco Products to coordinate Federal education and research with regard to tobacco products. Directs the Center to conduct certain activities, including to study tobacco product additives and disclose their health risks to consumers and to establish ten model State programs to enforce laws concerning the sale of tobacco products to minors. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1993. Transfers functions of the Federal Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health to the Center. Amends the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act to require the establishment of an outreach program to youth about the health consequences of smoking. Directs the Center to make grants: (1) for public information campaigns concerning the use of tobacco products; (2) to States for anti-tobacco use programs and programs to limit youth access to tobacco products; and (3) to unions and others to attempt to reduce the incidence of smoking among workers. Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to add coverage of tobacco under such Acts. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Education to make grants, distributed in accordance with the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988, to establish smoke-free schools. Requires the establishment of a program, with an Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, to inform the public of any dangers to human health presented by cigarette smoking and by smokeless tobacco products. Requires related reports to the Congress. Details administrative requirements of grants. Imposes criminal penalties for adulteration and misbranding of tobacco products, allowing seizure of such products, and penalties against retailers engaged in a pattern of sale to minors. Declares tobacco products to be misbranded for not disclosing to the public information on additives and harmful constituents. Describes conditions which constitute adulteration of tobacco products, including if the product contains any filthy, putrid, or decomposed substance. Makes it unlawful to manufacture, import, or package any tobacco product unless the person has provided the Center: (1) a complete list of tobacco additives and the quantity of each; and (2) a complete list of all brands that includes the levels of tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, and other constituents for each brand. Repeals the Federal preemption of State regulation of local tobacco advertising, allowing the enactment by States and local governments of additional restrictions on the sale of tobacco products to minors and on the placement of tobacco advertising displayed solely within the applicable geographic area. Makes conforming amendments to the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act and the Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco Health Education Act of 1986. Changes the warning label on cigarettes.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1989
Welcomes the opening of the Berlin Wall as symbolic of the beginning of the process of reform taking place in the German Democratic Republic and throughout Eastern Europe. Commends the people of Berlin for their desire for freedom, their courage and dignity, and their role in bringing about the opening of the Wall. Urges the East German Government to make permanent the freedom to travel, to permit the formation of political parties, and to hold free elections. Calls upon the Soviet Union and East German authorities to remove and destroy the Berlin Wall.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1989
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to require sequestration for a fiscal year if the deficit for the preceding fiscal year exceeds the maximum deficit amount target by more than $10,000,000,000. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any concurrent resolution on the budget that sets forth amounts and levels that are not determined based upon the economic and technical assumptions of the Congressional Budget Office.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1989
Authorizes the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a gold medal to Laurance Spelman Rockefeller in recognition of his leadership on behalf of natural resource conservation and historic preservation. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1989
Amends the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 to authorize the Secretary of Education to award grants to local education agencies, in consortia with entities which meet specified requirements, to provide drug abuse resistance education to students in kindergarten through grade six. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1989
Urges the President to use the upcoming meeting of environmental ministers in the Netherlands to: (1) announce the U.S. support for, and intention to host, an international meeting to begin negotiations on a framework convention on climate change in 1990; (2) set a target date for the completion of such convention by March 1991; and (3) announce a U.S. commitment to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in conjunction with other industrialized countries.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1989
Social Security Preservation Act - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to exclude, beginning with FY 1990, Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund receipts and outlays from Federal deficit determinations for purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Increases the permissible maximum deficit amounts for FY 1990 through 1992. Establishes allowable maximum deficits for FY 1993 and 1994, to reach zero with respect to FY 1995. Amends the Social Security Act to require the Board of Trustees of the Trust Funds to review methods of maximizing the investment return on the social security trust funds.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1989
Low Income Treatment Assistance Program Act of 1989 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to make allotments to States, based on the number of cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in each State, for FY 1990 through 1992, to provide assistance in the provision of therapeutics determined to prolong life or prevent the serious deterioration of health arising from AIDS or Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) disease in eligible individuals. Describes eligible individuals as those having AIDS or related conditions and low incomes. Requires an initial report to the Congress and a follow-up efficacy report assessing the program established under this Act. Requires the National Commission on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome to recommend program improvements for long-term solutions to providing care of AIDS patients.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1989
Sports Service Mark Protection Act of 1989 - Amends the Lanham Trademark Act to prohibit States from using a service mark owned by a professional sports organization in any lottery, sweepstakes, or other betting or gambling scheme. Declares that any lottery or other scheme based on games of a professional sports organization shall be deemed to exploit the service mark owned by the organization.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1989
Newsprint Recycling Incentives Act of 1989 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require producers or importers of newsprint to recycle, through methods specified under this Act, an amount of newsprint equal to at least the amount determined by multiplying the amount of newsprint produced or imported annually by such individuals by the recycling percentage established by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Authorizes such individuals to comply with this Act by: (1) recycling (through deinking) newsprint; (2) purchasing recycled newsprint to combine with shipments of virgin newsprint; or (3) purchasing recycling credits under this Act. Directs the Administrator to establish a recycling percentage that is two points higher than the existing recycling rate for newsprint. Provides for increases in such percentage of two points annually until 1999. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations to allow newsprint producers or importers to create or purchase recycling credits. Provides that such regulations shall require: (1) producers and importers to keep specified records; (2) producers of recycled newsprint to notify EPA of capacity to recycle old newsprint; (3) importers of recycled newsprint to have certifications from the trade representative of the country shipping such newsprint to the United States; and (4) producers and importers to report to EPA on the amount of recycled newsprint produced or imported annually and the number of credits purchased from, or sold to, other producers or importers. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress on such regulations and to include: (1) a discussion of the effects of such regulations on the newsprint and newspaper industry and the environment; and (2) an evaluation of the level of the recycling percentage and whether such percentage should be increased in future years. Requires an updated report to be submitted within ten years of this Act's enactment. Applies recycling requirements to persons who produce or import more than ten tons of newsprint annually. Sets the recycling percentage at 20 percent if the Administrator fails to promulgate such regulations. Prescribes civil penalties for violations of this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1989
Declares that the Congress acknowledges and appreciates the commitment, devotion, and sacrifices of present and former military families. Designates November 20, 1989, as National Military Families Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1989
Designates the week of October 22 through October 29, 1989, as National Red Ribbon Week for a Drug-Free America. Recognizes and commends the hard work and dedication of certain individuals and organizations and urges activities that support community and alcohol education during such week. Encourages Americans to wear or display red ribbons during such Week to present and symbolize their commitment to a healthy, drug-free lifestyle, and to develop an attitude of intolerance to the use of drugs.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1989
Excellence in Teaching Act - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994 to carry out this Act. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to seek cost-sharing by State and local entities, higher education institutions, and nonprofit organizations for any program assisted under this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) evaluate the teacher corps and senior teacher corps programs; and (2) report on it to the appropriate congressional committees within three years after enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to designate an office within the Department of Education (the Department) to coordinate activities under this Act. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on teachers and the teaching profession. Title I: Teacher Corps - Teacher Corps Recruitment and Induction Act of 1989 - Part A: Teacher Corps - Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make grants to State educational agencies (SEAs) to conduct teacher corps activities; and (2) award scholarships to teacher corps members. Bases the amounts of such grants to SEAs on school-age population. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish teacher corps selection criteria for States to use; (2) disseminate information about availability of teacher corps scholarships; (3) award such scholarships to individuals recommended by SEAs; (4) review and approve SEA applications for grants; (5) make awards to SEAs; (6) designate an office within the Department for liaison and coordination with participating SEAs; (7) foster communication among teacher corps members; and (8) collect scholarship repayments. Specifies authorized uses of grant money by SEAs. Allows LEAs to use grant funds to carry out induction programs for new teacher corps members (and other new teachers), ensuring that teacher corps members participate in one for at least one year, including work with a designated mentor teacher. Requires the SEA, in cooperation with the State higher education agency, to select teacher corps members according to the Secretary's criteria, subject to the Secretary's review. Requires special consideration for those who intend to teach handicapped, limited English proficient, or preschool age students, or in an inner city school. Sets forth individual application requirements. Sets forth SEA grant application requirements. Provides that an SEA shall be disqualified from any future financial assistance under this title: (1) if it fails to maintain accurate records on teacher corps members to ensure compliance with scholarship conditions; or (2) if it fails to notify the Secretary upon a change of status rendering a member in violation of such conditions. Sets forth LEA grant application requirements. Makes individuals eligible to receive such scholarships for up to two years during enrollment in any of the following programs of study: (1) the last two years of a baccalaureate degree; (2) one or two years of a masters or other postbaccalaureate specialist degree; or (3) two years of an associate's degree in early childhood education or development, or one year of a child development associate credential program. Makes individuals in other associate degree programs eligible for the third and fourth year for a baccalaureate degree. Makes individuals with a bachelor's degree who wish to enter teaching from another profession eligible for such a scholarship for the instruction necessary to enter the teaching profession in the State where they wish to teach. Allows such instruction to be provided while the individual is employed as a provisional teacher, at the discretion of the SEA and LEA. Limits the amount of such a scholarship to an individual to the lesser of $8,000 or the cost of attendance per year for a maximum of two years. States that such scholarship shall be considered in determining eligibility for student assistance under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Directs the Secretary, in addition to such scholarship amounts, to award teacher corps members without a masters degree a scholarship of up to $2,000 during any of the first three years of employment as a teacher, to defray the costs of pursuing post-baccalaureate instruction. Allows the SEA in any State experiencing a shortage of mathematics and science teachers to recommend that the Secretary give special consideration for teacher corps scholarships to individuals committed to teaching mathematics or science in elementary or secondary schools. Prescribes eligibility requirements. Requires scholarship agreements to include assurances of satisfactory academic progress and participation in teaching-related activities during the course of study, and of teaching for: (1) five years in a geographic area, or substantial field of expertise, of shortage, as determined by the SEA; (2) four years in an inner city school; or (3) four years if the student received a mathematics and science scholarship under special consideration provisions. Allows members to transfer to another LEA or to another State with a program, upon approval of the sending or receiving LEA or State. Prescribes additional assurances such agreements must include. Provides for repayment of scholarships and for cancellation of such obligation under specified conditions. Provides for publication of, and recruitment for, the teacher corps scholarship program, particularly for minority students. Part B: Senior Teacher Corps - Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make grants to SEAs to conduct senior teacher corps activities; and (2) award scholarships to senior teacher corps members. Authorizes the Secretary to use funds to: (1) establish senior teacher corps selection criteria for States to use; (2) disseminate information about availability of such scholarships nationally, and especially to LEAs with high minority enrollment; (3) award such scholarships to individuals recommended by SEAs; (4) review and approve SEA applications for grants; (5) make awards to SEAs (6) foster communication among teacher corps members; and (7) collect scholarship repayments. Specifies authorized uses of grant money by SEAs. Makes individuals who have been employed as teachers for eight or more years with full professional State certification eligible to apply for membership in the senior teacher corps. Sets forth requirements for individual applications, selection by SEAs, and review by the Secretary. Directs the SEA to give special consideration to individuals who intend to: (1) use a sabbatical period to improve or acquire skills in science or mathematics or in order to teach or provide related services to handicapped, limited English proficient, or preschool age students; or (2) teach students in inner city schools, following the sabbatical period. Sets forth SEA grant application requirements. Requires that an SEA be disqualified from any future financial assistance under this title: (1) if it fails to maintain accurate records on senior teacher corps members to ensure compliance with scholarship conditions; or (2) if it fails to notify the Secretary upon a change of status rendering such member in violation of such conditions. Directs the Secretary to award members a scholarship equal to one-half of their usual annual salary to enable them to participate in specified programs and activities during a sabbatical period. Requires such scholarship agreements to include assurances that members will: (1) spend a half-year sabbatical to participate in certain approved programs or activities; (2) work as a teacher, following the sabbatical, for five years in the State through which the award was made, or for four years in an inner city school in that State (except that they may transfer upon approval of both the sending and receiving State); (3) during the period of such work, upon LEA approval, participate as a mentor in an induction program for new teachers or otherwise contribute to the teacher corps programs; (4) during the period of such work, help in developing in-service training programs; and (5) participate in activities fostering communication among senior teacher corps members. Provides for repayment of scholarships by members violating such agreements, and for cancellation of such obligation under specified conditions. Provides for publicity of and recruitment for the senior teacher corps scholarship program, particularly for minority teachers and in LEAs with above-average minority enrollments. Title II: Professional Development Academies - Professional Development Academy Establishment Act of 1989 - Provides for establishment of professional development academies which: (1) are operated by partnerships including one or more LEAs and one or more higher education institutions offering teacher training programs; and (2) provide in-service training and other activities to teachers and administrators. Directs the Secretary to provide funds for such academies through allotments to SEAs in States with approved applications or grants to LEAs or LEA consortia in States not receiving such allotments. Bases such allotments and grants on school-age population. Provides for State and local applications for and uses of such funds. Sets the Federal share at 50 percent of the cost of planning, establishing, and operating such academies. Requires States receiving such assistance to pay 80 percent of the non-Federal share from non-Federal sources. Title III: Minority Teacher Recruitment - Minority Teacher Recruitment Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to carry out programs and activities to: (1) improve recruitment and training opportunities for ethnic minority members in education; and (2) increase the number of minority teachers in elementary and secondary schools. Sets forth application requirements and authorized uses of such funds by LEAs, higher education institutions, SEAs, and State higher education agencies. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to authorize historically Black colleges and universities to use certain grants to establish or enhance a teacher education and certification preparation program to qualify students for public elementary or secondary school teaching in the State. Amends HEA provisions for Student Assistance Special Programs for Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds to authorize the Secretary to make grants for Summer Institutes for Future Teachers (SIFT). Makes eligible to receive such SIFT grants higher education institutions, LEAs, SEAs, State higher education agencies, public or private nonprofit organizations, or professional associations representing teachers, counselors, or administrators. Sets forth application requirements, selection criteria, and authorized uses of funds. Sets limits on the maximum SIFT stipends for students. Limits the maximum amount of funds which may be used for such SIFT grants and conditions any such funding upon a specified minimum appropriation level for all such Special Programs. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to revise provisions for magnet schools assistance to include components for interesting students in, and educating them for, teaching careers. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of alternative ways to increase minority participation in the teaching profession; and (2) report on study results to the appropriate congressional committees within two years. Title IV: Bilingual Teacher Enhancement Act - Bilingual Teacher Enhancement Act of 1989 - Amends title VII (the Bilingual Education Act) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary to make grants for bilingual teacher enhancement through activities to: (1) increase the number of teachers trained to teach limited English proficient students; (2) provide in-service training for teachers of limited English proficient students; and (3) train all teachers in techniques for educating language minority students. Sets forth application requirements and authorized uses of such funds by higher education institutions with existing teacher education programs, by SEAs, and by LEAs. Requires grant recipients to coordinate such programs with other Federal, State, and local programs which train teachers of limited English proficient students. Requires linkage or coordination whenever a recipient under this title also receives a professional development academy grant. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993 for such bilingual teacher enhancement grants. Title V: Early Childhood Development Teacher Enhancement Act - Early Childhood Development Teacher Enhancement Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for activities and programs to increase the number of teachers trained to teach preschool age children in early childhood education and development programs. Makes eligible to receive such grants higher education institutions, SEAs, LEAs, or private nonprofit institutions. Requires recipients to include in their programs curricula regarding young children with special needs. Requires linkage or coordination whenever a recipient under this title also receives a professional development academy grant. Sets forth application requirements and authorized uses of funds in post-baccalaureate, undergraduate, and associate degree or credential programs. Amends the Child Development Associate Scholarship Assistance Act of 1985 to include part of the costs of training among those costs which must be covered by scholarship assistance under such Act. Increases the amount authorized to be appropriated to carry out such Act for FY 1990, and extends its authorization of appropriations through FY 1994. Title VI: Teachers of Children with Handicaps Enhancement - Teachers of Children with Handicaps Enhancement Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for activities and programs to increase, through preservice and in-service training, the preparedness of mainstream classroom teachers for the participation of children with handicaps in their classrooms. Make eligible to receive such grants higher education institutions with teacher training programs, SEAs, and LEAs. Sets forth application requirements and authorized uses of funds. Requires that such grants be awarded on a competitive basis. Requires linkage or coordination whenever a recipient under this title also receives a professional development academy grant. Title VII: Mathematics and Science Teacher Enhancement - Mathematics and Science Teacher Enhancement Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Director of the National Science Foundation to make grants to SEAs, LEAs, higher education institutions, or private nonprofit organizations, or consortia, to: (1) establish or upgrade teacher in-service training in substance and skills for elementary, middle, and secondary school teachers of mathematics and science; and (2) engage in other projects to improve student learning in mathematics and science. Bases grant awards on quality of application and degree to which the applicant will meet the needs of the school population to be served, with special consideration for applicants which will serve populations including members of minority groups historically underrepresented in mathematics and science. Requires linkage or coordination whenever recipients under this title also receive professional development academy grants. Sets forth application requirements and authorized uses of funds. Includes among program requirements: (1) in-service training for elementary school teachers; (2) cultural and gender sensitivity training; (3) in-service training program dissemination through the Star School telecommunications network, for those recipients who also receive Star Schools Assistance; (4) coordination with activities and services funded under the Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Act, and with other mathematics and science teacher training programs in the State; and (5) cost-sharing. Requires the Director to: (1) conduct an independent evaluation of the effectiveness of curricular reforms in mathematics and science education; and (2) report evaluation results to the appropriate congressional committees within four years. Amends the National Science Foundation Assistance Act of 1988 to increase the amounts of various authorizations of appropriations. Title VIII: School Based Management/Shared Decisionmaking Incentive - School Based Management/Shared Decisionmaking Incentive Act - Amends the Fund for the Improvement and Reform of School and Teaching Act to authorize the Secretary to make grants to LEAs to provide incentives to test school based management/shared decisionmaking programs at school sites, and to evaluate and disseminate results. Requires linkage or coordination whenever a recipient under this title also receives a professional development academy grant. Describes, and delineates responsibilities under, the process of school based management/shared decisionmaking. Sets forth application requirements and authorized uses of funds. Requires recipients to submit annually specifed information on such programs to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to: (1) within one year, compile and analyze such information and submit the analysis to the appropriate congressional committees; and (2) within two years, evaluate programs funded under this title and other such programs to determine their effectiveness in improving school performance. Increases the authorization of appropriations under such Act, and limits to the amount of such increase the amount which may be reserved for such program grants. Title IX: Teacher Recognition - Teacher of the Year Recognition Act - Directs the Secretary to design and implement a recognition program for teachers designated by the Council of Chief State School Officers as teachers of the year and the national teacher of the year. Includes among program requirements: (1) ceremonies and informational briefings in Washington, D.C., including at least one major event sponsored by the Congress; (2) program design consultation with educational organizations; (3) payment of expenses of teacher participants; and (4) authorization to accept gifts and contributions. Directs the Secretary to designate and procure medals to be presented to such teachers by the President or a designee. Authorizes the Secretary to work with State, local, and other organizations to encourage State and local recognition programs to honor outstanding teachers and other educators.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1989
Hispanic-Serving Institutions of Higher Education Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Education to provide financial and related assistance to Hispanic-serving institutions of higher education for the following types of programs for Hispanic students: (1) student financial aid; (2) recruitment and retention; (3) academic tutoring and counseling; (4) special educational initiatives, such as pre-freshman orientation in study skills and instruction in core curricula, and academic support for those in traditionally underrepresented fields such as mathematics, science, and engineering; and (5) collaboration with local educational agencies for dropout prevention and reentry. Defines Hispanic-serving institution of higher education as a public or private accredited institution with a four-year baccalaureate or a two-year associate degree program and with a student enrollment that is at least 25 percent Hispanic. Directs the Secretary to grant program awards for up to five years, subject to annual review. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1989
Declares that: (1) Antarctica is a global ecological commons and should be managed under a new agreement among the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties or a protocol to the Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities which should for an indefinite period establish Antarctica as a region closed to commercial minerals development and related activities; (2) under such new agreement, information about minerals or other resources in Antarctica should be obtained under strictly controlled arrangements and should be openly shared in the international scientific community; (3) the Convention is not adequate to protect the environment of Antarctica and could stimulate commercial exploitation; (4) pending the negotiations and entry into force of a new agreement or protocol ensuring the full protection of Antarctica as a global ecological commons, the President should not present the Convention to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification; (5) the United States should support the interim measures presently in force among nations signatory to the Convention; and (6) the negotiation of such a new agreement or protocol should be a major item on the agenda of the pending XV Antarctic Treaty Consultative meeting opening on October 9, 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1989
Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to present a bronze medal to individuals who: (1) were members of the armed forces and were present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941; and (2) participated in combat operations that day against Japanese military forces attacking Hawaii. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike such medals. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the medal. Authorizes appropriations which are to be reimbursed out of the proceeds from sales of the medals.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1989
United Services Organization's 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue not more than a specified number of five dollar gold coins, one dollar silver coins, and half dollar clad coins to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the United Services Organizations (USO). Requires such coins to be emblematic of USO Services to military service personnel and families. Sets forth certain features of such coins and provides for their design, issuance, and sale. Terminates the minting of such coins after February 4, 1991. Requires surcharges from the sale of such coins to be deposited in a coinage profit fund and used for USO programs and to reduce the national debt. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress semiannually through December 31, 1992, on activities under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1989
Clean Air Restoration and Standards Attainment Act of 1989 - Title I: Provisions for Attainment and Maintenance of Ambient Air Quality Standards - Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, upon promulgation of a new or revised national ambient air quality standard, to designate areas subject to such Act as attainment, nonattainment, or unclassifiable, with regard to such standard. Designates: (1) areas not meeting standards for ozone or carbon monoxide averaged over an eight hour period as nonattainment areas; (2) areas identified in 52 Federal Register 29383 as Group I areas or areas containing a site showing violations of particulate matter 10 (PM-10) standards as PM-10 nonattainment areas; and (3) areas not fitting such descriptions for PM-10 as unclassifiable for PM-10. Revises the boundaries of ozone nonattainment areas located within metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) or consolidated metropolitan statistical areas (CMSAs) to include the MSA or CMSA. Authorizes the Administrator to modify the boundaries of carbon monoxide nonattainment areas to include the MSA or CMSA if such modification is necessary to attain the air quality standard. Directs the Administrator to publish guidelines for enhanced State and local monitoring of emissions of pollutants for which there are national air quality standards and for improved inventories of emissions from mobile and stationary sources of such pollutants. Requires the Administrator to update periodically the June 1978 Transportation-Air Quality Planning Guidelines and to publish guidance on other measures necessary to demonstrate and attain air quality standard. Directs States to submit air quality standard implementation plans within 24 (currently, nine) months of the promulgation of a new or revised standard. Authorizes and directs the Administrator to require States containing attainment or unclassifiable areas with MSAs or CMSAs to submit implementation plans which provide for the maintenance of the standard for at least 20 years. Requires the updating of such plans every ten years. Extends the date by which the Administrator must approve or disapprove a State implementation plan to 12 (currently, four) months after the submission of such plan. Authorizes (currently, requires) the Administrator to set forth implementation plans for States which fail to submit or implement approved plans. Revises plan requirements. Requires permits issued for stationary sources to provide for: (1) terms not to exceed five years and compliance with applicable emission limitations and monitoring; (2) quarterly reports to the permitting authority on monitoring measures; (3) reports on any violations of the permit or other requirements and corrective measures; and (4) inspection and entry requirements. Provides for permit application fees to offset the costs of the permit program. Makes permit records available to the public. Prohibits the issuance of any permit unless the permitting authority has conducted an on-site inspection of the source. Directs the Administrator to publish guidelines for permit programs. Allows new or modified major stationary sources to comply with any offset requirement for increased air pollutant emissions reductions of such pollutant from other sources in the same nonattainment area. Requires such reductions to be in effect by the time such sources commence operation and to insure that the total tonnage of increased emissions is offset by a greater reduction in the actual emissions from other area sources. Requires States containing ozone, carbon monoxide, or PM-10 nonattainment areas, together with local officials of such areas, to review and update, as necessary, planning procedures for such areas. Directs the Administrator to consult with, and make recommendations to, the Secretary of Transportation on changes in Department of Transportation policies that will assist planning procedures under this Act. Authorizes States, in the case of areas included in more than one State, to implement jointly such procedures. Authorizes the imposition of the following sanctions on States which fail to comply with requirements for nonattainment areas: (1) a prohibition on the construction or modification of major stationary sources of the relevant pollutant in such areas; (2) a prohibition on the approval of highway projects or awarding of highway funds, with specified exceptions; and (3) the withholding of grants for air pollution planning and control programs. Makes Federal funds for highway projects exempt from such prohibition available without limitation. Limits the State share of such projects to ten percent of the total cost. Requires Federal transportation programs to implement all relevant transportation provisions of implementation plans. Prohibits Federal agencies from funding or approving any transportation program unless it conforms to this Act. Requires States to submit implementation plan revisions which provide for procedures for assessing the conformity of such programs. Outlines requirements for maintenance plans required for redesignations of areas. Requires such plans to: (1) provide for the maintenance of air quality standards for 20 years after the date of attainment; and (2) be updated every ten years and submitted to the Administrator for approval. Classifies ozone nonattainment areas as Moderate, Serious, Severe, or Extreme, based upon the percentage by which the air quality standard is exceeded in the area. Sets forth attainment dates of five, ten, fifteen, and twenty years from this Act's enactment, respectively, for Moderate, Serious, Severe, and Extreme areas. Requires States containing such areas to submit to the Administrator a current inventory of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides emissions of area sources. Provides that State implementation plans for such areas shall require annual emissions statements from owners or operators of such sources, source operating permits, and vehicle registration fees. Waives emissions statements requirements for sources which emit less than 25 tons annually of VOCs or nitrogen oxides if the State provides an emissions inventory for such sources. Sets forth specified ratios for emissions reductions to increased emissions in Serious, Severe, and Extreme ozone nonattainment areas, Serious carbon monoxide nonattainment areas, and PM-10 nonattainment areas, for purposes of satisfying excess emissions offset requirements. Requires State implementation plans for Moderate areas to provide for: (1) an enhanced vehicle emissions control inspection and maintenance program to achieve reductions in VOC emissions of at least 4,700 tons per million vehicles or the use of fill nozzles by persons transferring gasoline to vehicle fuel tanks for facilities selling more than 20,000 gallons of gasoline per month; and (2) annual emissions fees, based on tonnage of VOCs and nitrogen oxides emitted by major stationary sources. Waives requirements for vehicle inspection, maintenance, and refueling programs for ozone nonattainment areas with specified design values unless compliance is needed to bring the area into attainment by the applicable deadline. Designates as major stationary sources, for purposes of Serious and Severe areas, facilities having the potential to produce at least 25 tons annually of VOCs. Requires State implementation plans for Serious areas to provide for: (1) emissions inventories for such areas and the 25-mile radius around such areas; (2) VOC emissions reductions of 12 percent from actual emissions in the year of classification to be averaged over three year periods until attainment is met; (3) annual reports; (4) transportation control measures in certain areas with emissions exceeding projected levels; (5) vehicle inspection, maintenance, and vapor recovery programs; (6) permit programs; (7) annual emissions fees; and (8) the implementation of reasonably available control technology by stationary sources of VOCs that are not covered by control technique guidelines and have the potential to emit at least 25 tons annually and stationary sources of nitrogen oxides that have the potential to emit at least 100 tons annually. Requires Severe areas to comply with requirements for Moderate and Serious areas. Increases annual emissions fees for Severe areas. Provides that implementation plans for such areas shall require: (1) employer programs to reduce employee work-related vehicle trips; and (2) employers of 100 persons or more to increase average passenger occupancy per vehicle in commutes during peak travel periods. Makes employers who fail to achieve such increase liable for fees of $50 per employee parking space provided by such employers. Defines the boundaries of an Extreme area as the entire MSA or CMSA and the area within a 25-mile radius of such areas. Designates as major stationary sources, for purposes of Extreme areas, facilities having the potential to produce at least ten tons annually of VOCs. Requires Extreme areas to comply with requirements for Moderate, Serious, and Severe areas. Increases annual emissions fees for Extreme areas. Requires States containing non-self-generating ozone nonattainment areas that do not include or are not adjacent to MSAs or CMSAs to be treated as satisfying the requirements of this Act if in compliance with regulations promulgated by the Administrator. Permits the Administrator to treat such areas as non-self-generating if found that VOC and nitrogen oxides emissions within such areas do not contribute significantly to ozone concentrations in such areas or other areas. Authorizes the Administrator, in the case of Serious nonattainment areas which fail to meet required emissions reductions, to: (1) lower the quantity of emissions of VOCs and nitrogen oxides that define a source as a major stationary source; and (2) require that Serious and Severe areas comply with requirements of Severe and Extreme areas, respectively. Provides for reclassifications to the next, more stringent, category of areas which fail to meet air quality standards by the applicable attainment date. Requires the Administrator to publish a list of 12 categories of stationary sources for which control technique guidelines have not been published and which contribute significantly to the formation of ozone air pollution. Provides for the review and updating, as necessary, of such guidelines every four years. Directs the Administrator to publish a control technique guideline regarding control of VOC emissions from the loading or unloading of petroleum products on or from vessels. Considers such emissions to be direct emissions from the onshore terminal. Requires the Administrator to: (1) report to the Congress on emissions of ozone precursors from consumer products and include recommendations for the control of such emissions; and (2) promulgate regulations to achieve emissions reductions from such products of at least three percent below the level of such emissions on the date of this Act's enactment. Exempts from such regulations health-use products for which there are no suitable substitutes. Authorizes the Administrator to delegate the enforcement of such regulations to States. Establishes an ozone transport region comprised of States on the east coast between Maine and Virginia and the CMSA including the District of Columbia. Authorizes the Administrator to add States to such region or to establish new regions if the interstate transport of pollutants from such States contributes to ozone concentrations in Serious, Severe, or Extreme ozone nonattainment areas in another State. Requires the Administrator to establish ozone transport commissions for such regions. Directs States within such regions to submit implementation plans or revisions requiring: (1) areas which are not nonattainment areas that are located in such regions and that are part of an MSA or have populations of at least 100,000 to comply with vehicle inspection and maintenance programs; and (2) major stationary sources of VOCs to comply with reasonably available control technology requirements. Authorizes interstate commissions to require additional emissions control measures, as necessary. Exempts from such requirements areas which do not contribute significantly to ozone concentrations in Serious, Severe, or Extreme areas. Permits States or political subdivisions to petition the Administrator for the inclusion of another State or portion of such State within an ozone transport region. Requires the Administrator to promulgate criteria for determining the contribution of sources in one area to concentrations of ozone in another nonattainment area. Classifies carbon monoxide areas as Moderate or Serious. Sets forth attainment dates of five and ten years from this Act's enactment, respectively, for Moderate and Serious areas. Requires State implementation plans for carbon monoxide nonattainment areas to provide for: (1) triennial emissions inventories from stationary and mobile sources; (2) mobile monitoring devices; (3) vehicle registration fees; (4) annual emissions fees from stationary sources; (5) operating permits and continuous monitoring; (6) attainment demonstrations with qualitative milestones; (7) vehicle inspection and maintenance programs; and (8) oxygenated fuels programs. Directs the Administrator to audit such plans to ensure adequate implementation and enforcement by States. Designates as major stationary sources, for purposes of such areas, sources having the potential to produce at least 50 tons annually of carbon monoxide. Requires plans for Serious areas to provide for: (1) transportation control measures; and (2) the same employer ridership program required for Severe ozone nonattainment areas. Provides for reclassification of Moderate carbon monoxide areas, as necessary. Authorizes up to two one-year attainment extensions for such areas. Requires the submission of State plan revisions for Serious areas which fail to meet the attainment deadline. Requires attainment by PM-10 nonattainment areas by December 31, 1993. Authorizes the Administrator to extend such deadline for up to ten years under specified conditions. Requires State implementation plans for PM-10 nonattainment areas to provide for: (1) triennial emissions inventories from stationary and mobile sources; (2) annual emissions fees from stationary sources; (3) operating permits and monitoring; and (4) attainment demonstrations with qualitative milestones. Designates as major stationary sources, for purposes of such areas, sources having the potential to emit more than 50 tons annually of PM-10 or PM-10 precursors. Sets forth audit and attainment extension requirements parallel to those for carbon monoxide nonattainment areas. Requires the Administrator to promulgate control techniques guidelines for reasonably and best available control technology for PM-10 emissions from major stationary sources. Authorizes the Administrator to substitute maximum allowable increases in particulate matter smaller than or equal to ten micrometers (PM-10) for maximum allowable increases in such matter specified under the Clean Air Act. Requires the Administrator to establish requirements to control air pollution from outer continental shelf sources. Authorizes States adjacent to such sources to submit to the Administrator procedures for enforcing such requirements. Directs the Administrator to delegate enforcement authority to States with adequate procedures. Authorizes the Administrator to: (1) treat Indian tribes as States under the Clean Air Act, except with respect to a certain limitation on State expenditures; (2) delegate to such tribes primary responsibility for assuring air pollution control; and (3) provide such tribes with grant and contract assistance to carry out such functions. Outlines requirements for such authorization. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate other means for administering such authorities where such treatment is inappropriate. Applies program cost limitations for interstate air quality agencies to interstate transport commissions. Repeals provisions concerning indirect source programs and requirements for parking surcharges and transportation regulations. Title II: Provisions Relating to Mobile Sources - Sets standards for emissions of: (1) nonmethane hydrocarbons, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, and particulates from light duty vehicles manufactured after model year 1992; (2) carbon monoxide from light-duty vehicles manufactured after model year 2002; (3) such substances from trucks manufactured after model year 1992; (4) nitrogen oxides from heavy duty trucks manufactured after model year 1993; and (5) particulates from heavy duty trucks manufactured after model year 1990. Requires the Administrator to promulgate standards for carbon monoxide emissions from light-duty vehicles manufactured after model year 1992 when operated at 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring the installation of onboard emissions control systems on light-duty vehicles manufactured after model year 1992. Requires such systems to provide for a minimum evaporative emissions capture efficiency of 95 percent. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations applicable to evaporative emissions of hydrocarbons from all gasoline-fueled vehicles manufactured after model year 1993. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring manufacturers to install emissions malfunction diagnostic systems on all light-duty vehicles manufactured after model year 1993. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring: (1) States with implementation plans to provide for the inspection and the maintenance of such systems; and (2) manufacturers of heavy duty vehicles and engines to install such systems. Requires the Administrator to set standards for emissions of carbon dioxide from passenger cars manufactured after model year 1994. Directs the Administrator to promulgate standards for motor vehicles burning low-polluting fuel. Sets the useful life of vehicles and engines manufactured after model year 1994 at ten years of use or 100,000 miles. Provides that the warranty period for light-duty vehicles and engines shall be: (1) the useful life (five years or 50,000 miles) for vehicles and engines manufactured after model year 1993; (2) two years or 24,000 miles for vehicles and engines manufactured after model year 1994; and (3) eight years or 80,000 miles for specified major emissions control components. Requires the Administrator to publish a list of all non-road engines and vehicles and estimates of the contribution of such engines and vehicles to ozone, carbon monoxide, and particulate concentrations in nonattainment areas. Directs the Administrator to promulgate emissions standards for engines or vehicles of at least 50 horsepower. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate standards for engines or vehicles with less horsepower. Sets a schedule for the promulgation of such standards. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations that prohibit, after model year 1992, the introduction into commerce of motor vehicles and non-road engines requiring leaded gasoline. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations to add an idle test to the Federal Test Procedure for light-duty vehicles manufactured after model year 1991. Directs the Administrator to revise regulations regarding selective enforcement auditing of new light-duty vehicles manufactured after model year 1991 so that the maximum percentage of failing vehicles is ten percent. Requires the Administrator to review and revise, as necessary, regulations regarding testing of motor vehicles and engines to insure that vehicles are tested under circumstances which reflect actual driving conditions. Prohibits averaging of performance standards of various vehicles, engine families, or models manufactured by the same manufacturer for purposes of complying with emissions standards under the Clean Air Act. Directs the Administrator to consider information from any State vehicle emissions control inspection and maintenance program when making determinations of nonconformity with regulations. Authorizes States to petition the Administrator to make determinations based on such information. Permits the Administrator, if there is reason to believe that in-use vehicles and engines are not in conformance with regulations, to require manufacturers of such vehicles and engines to pay procurement and testing costs. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations to reduce evaporative emissions from motor vehicle fuels. Requires such regulations to include a gasoline volatility standard to be applied to all gasoline introduced into commerce for use during high ozone periods of the year. Sets a Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) standard for gasoline used in Class C areas. Designates the period between May 16 and September 15, or such longer period as the Administrator establishes, as the high ozone period. Provides for an increased RVP for gasoline/ethanol fuel blends. Makes it unlawful, effective October 1, 1993, to introduce into commerce motor vehicle diesel fuel which contains sulfur in excess of .05 percent (by weight) or which fails to meet a cetane index of 40. Requires manufacturers and importers of diesel fuel not used in motor vehicles to dye such fuel to segregate it from motor vehicle diesel fuel. Limits sulfur content for diesel used in heavy duty vehicles and engines manufactured after model year 1990. Prohibits, effective January 1, 1991, the introduction into commerce of any gasoline containing lead or lead additives for use in motor vehicles. Authorizes the extension of such deadline if the Administrator determines that the unavailability of such gasoline affects farm vehicles and alternative fuels are unavailable for such vehicles. Requires the Administrator to promulgate regulations for fuel quality (effective after 1993) to minimize emissions of hazardous air pollutants over the useful life of vehicles and engines certified under this title. Provides that if the Administrator fails to promulgate such regulations, it shall be unlawful to introduce into commerce any fuel which does not prevent accumulation of deposits in fuel-injected engines. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate regulations applicable to fuel refiners, distributors, or consumers which establish specifications for fuels to reduce emissions. Prohibits the introduction into commerce, effective October 1, 1991, of gasoline with less than a specified oxygen content in carbon monoxide nonattainment areas during October 1 to March 31 of each year. Requires the Administrator to promulgate guidelines to allow the exchange of marketable oxygen credits between sellers of fuels with a higher oxygen content than required and other sellers of fuels to offset the use of fuels with a lower oxygen content than required. Prohibits such exchanges between sellers in different nonattainment areas. Waives such requirements for States that demonstrate that the use of oxygenated fuels would interfere with attainment for pollutants other than carbon monoxide. Requires retailers of oxygenated fuels to label fuel dispensing systems with notices which identify such fuels and state that they reduce carbon monoxide emissions. Prohibits the introduction of leaded gasoline into vehicles which are designed for unleaded gasoline or are manufactured after model year 1989. Prohibits manufacturers from refusing to pay for procurement or testing of nonconforming vehicles. Prohibits the manufacture or sale of any part which bypasses or renders inoperative any emission control device. Increases penalties for certain violations of the Clean Air Act. Authorizes the Administrator to commence civil actions to recover such penalties, subject to certain limitations. Title III: Provisions Relating to Enforcement - Makes technical amendments to, and revises penalty provisions of, the Clean Air Act. Authorizes the Administrator to assess administrative penalties or commence civil or criminal actions for violations of such Act. Establishes fines and prison sentences for specified knowing violations of such Act. Doubles the maximum punishment for specified subsequent violations. Limits the Administrator's authority to assess certain administrative penalties. Authorizes the Administrator to implement a field citation program for the purpose of assessing civil penalties of up to $5,000 per day for each violation. Sets forth provisions concerning judicial review and civil actions with respect to the assessment of such penalties. Outlines criteria to be considered by the court in determining the assessment of penalties. Sets forth provisions concerning the reviewability of certain administrative orders. Authorizes the Administrator to require owners or operators of sources subject to the Clean Air Act to: (1) keep records on control equipment parameters, production variables, or other indirect data when direct emissions monitoring is impractical; and (2) submit compliance certifications. Directs the Administrator to require enhanced monitoring and submission of compliance certifications by owners or operators of major stationary sources. Authorizes the Administrator to apply such requirements to any other source. Makes such information available to the public. Removes an exemption for public disclosure of emission source records that may be trade secrets. Repeals a provision concerning penalties for violations of administrative orders. Authorizes the Administrator to extend a prohibition on Federal procurement from violators of the Clean Air Act to contracts performed at any facility owned or operated by such persons. (Current law prohibits such procurement for contracts to be performed at facilities where the violation occurred.) Requires certain penalties to be deposited in a special Treasury fund and to be available for financing air compliance and enforcement activities. Authorizes any person to petition the Administrator to issue, amend, or repeal any regulation under the Clean Air Act. Requires the Administrator to take necessary measures to prevent the operation, construction, or modification of certain major emitting facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1989
Global Climate Change Prevention Act of 1989 - Title I: Agriculture and Global Climate Change - Subtitle A: Office of Climate Change - Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture the Office of Climate Change to coordinate policy, planning, research, and response strategies relating to climate change issues. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the implications of global climate change for agriculture and forestry. Subtitle B: Research on Global Warming, Forests, and Agriculture - Domestic Research on Global Warming, Forests, and Agriculture Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary to conduct studies on: (1) the effects of global warming on rice production; (2) the effects of global warming on major U.S. crops; (3) methane emissions from irrigated rice production; (4) emissions from nitrogen intensive crops; and (5) forest emissions. Establishes in the Department of Agriculture the Methane Emissions Evaluation, Use, and Control Program and a related technical advisory committee. Title II: Forestry and Global Climate Change - Subtitle A: International Forestry Cooperation - International Forestry Cooperation Act of 1989 - Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) undertake international forestry activities; (2) undertake tropical reforestation and conservation activities; and (3) expand the capabilities and facilities of the Caribbean National Forest and Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico. Subtitle B: Forestry Planning and Global Warming - Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 to consider the effects of climate change in developing plans for units of the National Forest System. Subtitle C: Urban Forestry - Directs the Secretary to carry out an urban forestry energy conservation education and accelerated planting program. Subtitle D: Biomass Energy Demonstration Projects - Authorizes the Secretary to carry out projects that demonstrate the potential of short-rotation forestry methods to produce wood for electricity production and industrial energy needs. Subtitle E: Forestry Research and Global Warming - Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 to include the effects of weather, climate, and air pollution on forests and rangelands among the areas of research under such Act. Subtitle F: Conservation Reserve Program - Directs the Secretary to take steps to meet the conservation reserve program tree planting goal. Subtitle G: Interagency Cooperation on Forestry and Climate Change - Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Defense to manage Department of Defense forests and lands.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1989
International Climate Change Prevention Act of 1989 - Title I: Focusing Forestry and Energy Cooperation with Key Newly Industrializing, Middle-Income, and Low-Income Developing Nations - Directs the Agency for International Development (AID) to submit to the Congress a report which: (1) examines the potential contributions of developing countries to future global emissions of greenhouse gases under different economic growth scenarios; (2) estimates the relative contributions of such countries to global greenhouse gas emissions; and (3) identifies specific key industrializing, middle-income, and low-income developing countries (key countries) which stand to contribute significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions and in which actions to promote energy efficiency, reliance on renewable energy resources, and conservation of forest resources could significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Authorizes AID to use funds appropriated for the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (the Act) to reimburse U.S. agencies, State agencies, and institutions of higher learning for the full costs of employees detailed or assigned to AID for the purposes of carrying out activities relating to forestry and energy programs aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases related to global warming. Title II: Tropical Forestry Assistance - Requires AID to focus tropical forestry assistance programs on key countries. Allows funds appropriated for the Act to be used by AID to support tropical forestry programs aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases related to global warming with regard to those key countries referred to in this Act in which deforestation makes a significant contribution to global warming. Directs the President, in providing assistance relating to tropical forests, to assist countries in developing a systematic analysis of the appropriate use of their total tropical forest resources. Directs the Administrator of AID to assist the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research in its efforts to strengthen their work on tropical forestry. Directs the President, in undertaking tropical forestry-related activities with key countries, to emphasize a cooperative partnership approach. Sets forth specific items for the President to emphasize. Provides that AID's policy dialogue with key countries and other developing countries should: (1) encourage reform of economic and other policies that encourage deforestation and land misuse; and (2) encourage policies that promote sustainable forest land and resource use. States that AID should work with other bilateral and multilateral donors to increase support for assistance in conservation and sustainable use of tropical forests. Directs the Administrator and the Secretary of State to undertake initiatives to promote multilateral cooperation and stimulate actions by international institutions to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions from forests. Title III: Grassroots Involvement in Tropical Forest Ecosystem Management - Authorizes AID to undertake a program to encourage grassroots involvement in tropical forest ecosystem management. Enumerates specifically authorized activities. Title IV: Energy Assistance - Directs AID to focus energy assistance activities on key countries where such assistance would have the greatest impact on reducing emissions from greenhouse gases. Requires such assistance to be focused on improved energy efficiency, increased use of renewable energy resources, and national energy plans which include investment in end use efficiency and renewable energy resources. Allows funds appropriated for the Act to be used by AID for the purpose of supporting energy programs aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases related to global warming with regard to key countries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that AID should increase its efforts in the fields of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy planning. States that such increase should take place with respect to key countries and countries with large Economic Support Fund project assistance. Enumerates what such efforts should include. Provides that the policy dialogue undertaken by AID should encourage: (1) reform of economic and other policies that encourage construction of new energy facilities in lieu of more cost-effective conservation and energy efficiency measures or that encourage wasteful use of existing energy; (2) the adoption of policies that provide incentives for increasing the efficiency of energy use in all sectors; (3) the development of "least cost" energy-sector investment plans; (4) the reform of energy pricing regimes so that electricity tariffs more closely meet the long-run marginal cost of supply and so that fossil fuel prices more closely meet international prices; and (5) more efficient market structures for traditional biomass fuels. Directs AID to work with other bilateral and multilateral donors to increase support for assistance in energy policy, energy planning, and energy efficiency. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991. Title V: Multilateral Programs - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director to each multilateral development bank to promote the adoption by that bank of a policy to achieve a maximum impact from activities relating to energy and tropical forestry by focusing such activities on the key countries whose actions in the areas of energy and forestry could have a substantial impact on the reduction of emissions of the greenhouse gases related to global warming.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1989
Amends the Volunteers in the National Act of 1972 to authorize the Forest Service to pay the claims of Forest Service volunteers for personal property damage or loss while performing volunteer service as if such volunteers were Federal employees.
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