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Bill· SS. 1348 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1989
Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish separate payment rates for the 1988 crops of feed barley and malting barley if advance deficiency payment refunds are made for such crops. Requires the Secretary to conduct a study and report to the appropriate congressional committees regarding the impact of establishing separate payment rates for feed barley and malting barley for deficiency payment purposes.
Bill· SS. 1331 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1989
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to States to establish revolving funds for the construction of wastewater treatment facilities and water supply projects in economically distressed counties on the United States-Mexico border. Requires States to provide 50 percent matching funds. Requires: (1) a State to establish an economically distressed area revolving loan fund in order to receive assistance under this Act; (2) Federal fund audits at least once a year; (3) annual reports to the Secretary; and (4) annual Federal oversight review.
Bill· SS. 1330 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1989
Farm Animal Facilities Protection Act of 1989 - Makes it unlawful to disrupt a farm animal facility (as defined by this Act) by removing animals, vandalizing, trespassing, or entering with intent to commit a prohibited act. Sets forth penalties for violations of this Act. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate such actions upon request. Grants U.S. district courts jurisdiction in such cases. Provides for a private right of action.
Bill· SS. 1313 (101st)reported
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1989
Cotton Research and Promotion Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Cotton Research and Promotion Act to state that it is the policy of the Congress to authorize assessments on all cotton marketed in the United States, including imports. Includes cotton importers on the Cotton Board (Board). Entitles each State to at least one Board representative. Requires importers to pay their assessments to the Board. Increases from $200,000 to $300,000 the amount that the Secretary of Agriculture may be reimbursed for referendum expenses. Authorizes reimbursement of other Government agency expenses incurred in administering related cotton import provisions. Authorizes the designation of different classes of importers. Provides that assessment rates on imported cotton shall be determined in the same manner as domestic cotton rates, except that import rates shall be reduced to reflect cotton exports that reentered the United States as cotton and cotton products. Provides for producer and importer interim and final referendums of approval or disapproval for such marketing amendments. Provides that importer assessments collected prior to such referendum shall be held in an escrow account and returned (minus an expense deduction) if the final referendum is disapproved. Authorizes cotton marketing referendums every five years upon importer and producer request. Terminates the Board's refund authority upon approval of the referendum provided for by this Act.
Bill· SS. 1314 (101st)reported
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1989
Honey Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Honey Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Act to permit one of the two current Honey Board importer seats to be filled by an exporter. Exempts from honey assessments an importer, producer, or producer-handler who handles less than 6000 pounds of honey annually all of which is used at home, donated, or distributed directly through retail outlets. Provides that: (1) patents, copyrights, inventions, publications, or product formulations developed with Board funds shall belong to the Board; and (2) any funds derived therefrom shall inure to the benefit of the Board. Provides for assessments to be deducted directly from honey price support loans.
Law· HRH.R. 2883 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1989
Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 1990 for the following programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) Office of the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; (3) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Special Services; (4) Office of Budget and Program Analysis; (5) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental and Public Affairs; (6) Office of the Inspector General; (7) Office of the General Counsel; (8) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Economics; (9) Economic Research Service; (10) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (11) World Agricultural Outlook Board; (12) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education; (13) Agricultural Research Service; (14) Cooperative State Research Service; (15) Extension Service; (16) National Agricultural Library; (17) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services; (18) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (19) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (20) Federal Grain Inspection Service; (21) Agricultural Cooperative Service; (22) Agricultural Marketing Service; (23) Office of Transportation; (24) Packers and Stockyards Administration; (25) Office of the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs; (26) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; (27) Dairy Indemnity Program; (28) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; and (29) Commodity Credit Corporation. Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for rural development assistance as follows: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development; (2) Farmers Home Administration; (3) Rural Electrification Administration; (4) Soil Conservation Service; (5) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; and (6) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment. Title III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services; (2) Food and Nutrition Service; (3) Human Nutrition Information Service; and (4) Food Stamp Program. Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) Agricultural Trade Missions; (3) Public Law 480 (financing the sale of agricultural commodities for convertible foreign currencies); (4) the Office of International Cooperation and Development; and (5) scientific activities overseas. Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Farm Credit System Financial Assistance Corporation; (3) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (4) Farm Credit Administration. Title VI: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against use of funds appropriated by this Act. Prohibits the use of funds to carry out any activity related to phasing out the Resource Conservation and Development Program. Prohibits the payment of any funds out of the Treasury to any private individual or corporation in satisfaction of a loan guarantee entered into by a Federal agency or corporation with respect to loans made and credits extended to the Polish People's Republic, unless: (1) the Republic has been declared to be in default of its debt to such individual or corporation; or (2) the President has provided a monthly written report to specified congressional leaders justifying any such payments during the previous month. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to initiate construction on not less than 14 new projects under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act and not less than five new projects under the Flood Control Act. Prohibits the use of funds under any Act to relocate the Hawaii State Office of the FmHA from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, Hawaii. Prohibits employee reductions below specified levels for the FmHA, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the Rural Electrification Administration, and the Soil Conservation Service. Prohibits the use of funds under specified conditions to pay the salaries of personnel carrying out: (1) the targeted export assistance program; and (2) the export enhancement program. Earmarks additional funds to purchase sunflower and cottonseed oil to facilitate international sales of such oil. Requires the absorption of FY 1990 pay raises within appropriated levels. Prohibits the use of funds to pay indirect costs on research grants awarded competitively by the Cooperative State Research Service that exceed 25 percent of total direct costs under each award.
Bill· SS. 1296 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1989
Rural Water Supply Assistance Act of 1989 - (The section preceding Title II contains findings, purposes, and definitions but is not called Title I.) Title II: Administration - Provides that the Secretary of the Army shall administer the program created under this Act. Establishes in the Directorate of Civil Works of the Office of the Chief of Engineers an Office of Water Supply to implement such program. Title III: Capitalization of Revolving Funds Grants to the States for the Establishment of Revolving Funds - Directs the Secretary to make State capitalization grants to establish rural water supply assistance revolving funds. Requires: (1) at least 30 percent State matching funds; and (2) annual reports to the Secretary. Title IV: Water Supply Assistance Revolving Funds - Limits fund use: (1) to rural water system improvements; and (2) for water facility construction projects to those projects on State priority lists. Permits revolving funds to be used to make loans at or below market rates, including interest free loans, except that loans made to for-profit water suppliers must be at market rates. Requires loan recipients to establish loan repayment sources. Title V: Allotment of Funds - States that sums authorized to be appropriated under this Act shall be allocated in accordance with a specified Environmental Protection Agency grant formula. Title VI: Audits and Reports - Provides for audits and reports. Title VII: Technical Assistance - Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to provide projects with technical assistance on a reimbursable basis. Title VIII: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for the five fiscal years beginning after the date of enactment of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2869 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1989
Commodity Futures Improvements Act of 1989 - Title I: Limitations on Certain Trading Practices - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to prohibit dual trading by a floor broker in any contract market in which the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has determined the average daily trading volume to equal or exceed a threshold trading level. Exempts a board of trade from such prohibition if it can show adequate trading violation surveillance (audit trails). Limits trading among members of broker associations. Title II: Enhancement of Regulatory and Enforcement Activities - Sets forth audit trail requirements, including one-minute transaction recording. Prohibits a person who has solicited a new account by telephone from entering any orders for such account for three days after the customer has signed any contract and a risk disclosure statement. Continues CFTC authority to conduct undercover enforcement operations. Establishes CFTC contract market disciplinary committees. Provides for public representation on contract market governing boards. Requires floor trader registration. Revises provisions regarding: (1) registration; and (2) enforcement of money penalties. Requires ethics training for new registrants. Provides for nationwide service of process and venue in U.S. district courts. Title III: Assistance to Foreign Futures Authorities - Provides for cooperation with foreign futures authorities (as defined by this Act) with regard to: (1) subpoena authority; (2) investigative assistance; and (3) information disclosure and receipt. Title IV: Authorization of Appropriations; Effective Date - Authorizes FY 1990 and 1991 appropriations. Makes the provisions of this Act effective upon enactment.
Bill· SS. 1283 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1989
Disaster Assistance Extension Act of 1989 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Subtitle A: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1989 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1989 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires producers to obtain Federal crop insurance for 1990 in order to be eligible for disaster payments and other specified assistance for 1989 crop losses. Sets forth exempted circumstances. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1989 farm yield for forage-use-crops. Limits assistance under this Act to $100,000. Authorizes the Secretary to determine a de minimis yield for each crop eligible for reduced yield disaster payments under this Act. Declares that, if the actual yield for a crop on a farm is at or below the de minimis yield, neither the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation nor companies reinsured by it may require destruction of any portion of that crop as a condition for making a full crop loss indemnity payment to a producer under a valid crop insurance contract. Subtitle B: Forest Crops - Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to tree farmers who lost seedlings in 1989 as a result of drought conditions. Limits assistance to any one person to $25,000. Subtitle C: Administrative Provisions - Makes a person with qualifying annual gross income (as defined by this Act) in excess of $2,000,000 ineligible for assistance under this Act. Requires assistance applications to be made by March 31, 1990, or such later date as the Secretary may prescribe. Title II: Emergency Livestock Assistance - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to make funds available for: (1) emergency livestock transportation (1989) and water assistance (1988 and 1989); and (2) construction or deepening of livestock ponds. Title III: Commodity Stock Adjustment - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend alternate crop authority through 1990. Title IV: Disaster Credit and Forbearance - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make a person eligible for emergency loan assistance regardless of Federal crop insurance availability if such eligibility is based on 1989 crop damage. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary and Farm Credit System institutions should, with regard to outstanding agricultural loans, exercise collection forbearance and expedite credit restructuring. Title V: Conservation Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1989 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Authorizes FY 1990 and 1991 appropriations for repairing drought damage to the National Grasslands. Title VI: Rural Businesses - Directs the Secretary to provide loan guarantees through the Rural Development Insurance Fund to rural business enterprises (including Indian tribes) which have suffered disaster damage in 1988 or 1989. Limits: (1) individual guarantees to the lesser of 90 percent of principal and interest or $500,000; and (2) aggregate guarantees to $200,000,000. Title VII: Water-Related Assistance - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary to establish an emergency water assistance grant program for rural and small communities (less than 5,000 population, median household income below State nonmetropolitan level) with significant water shortages, or to enable such communities to comply with the requirements of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or the Safe Drinking Water Act. Obligates at least 75 percent of program funds for rural communities of less than 3,000 persons. Limits grants to: (1) $75,000 for existing system repairs; and (2) $500,000 for water shortage areas. Authorizes FY 1990 and 1991 appropriations.
Bill· SS. 1282 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1989
Disaster Assistance Extension Act of 1989 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Subtitle A: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1989 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1989 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires producers to obtain Federal crop insurance for 1990 and 1991 in order to be eligible for disaster payments and other specified assistance for 1989 crop losses. Sets forth exempted circumstances. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1989 farm yield for forage-use crops. Limits assistance under this Act at $100,000. Authorizes the Secretary to determine a de minimis yield for each crop eligible for reduced yield disaster payments under this Act. Declares that, if the actual yield for a crop on a farm is at or below the de minimis yield, neither the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation nor companies reinsured by it may require destruction of any portion of that crop as a condition for making a full crop loss indemnity payment to a producer under a valid crop insurance contract. Subtitle B: Forest Crops - Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to tree farmers who lost seedlings in 1989 as a result of drought conditions. Limits assistance to any one person to $25,000. Subtitle C: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1989 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for special assistance that would reimburse up to half the cost of constructing or deepening ponds for livestock water. Subtitle D: Administrative Provisions - Makes a person with qualifying annual gross income (as defined by this Act) in excess of $2,000,000 ineligible for assistance under this Act. Requires assistance applications to be made by March 31, 1990, or such later date as the Secretary may prescribe. Title II: Emergency Livestock Assistance - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to make funds available for emergency livestock transportation (1989) and water assistance (1988 and 1989). Title III: Commodity Stock Adjustment - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend alternate crop authority through 1990. Title IV: Rural Businesses - Directs the Secretary to provide loan guarantees through the Rural Development Insurance Fund to rural business enterprises (including Indian tribes) which have suffered disaster damage in 1988 or 1989. Limits: (1) individual guarantees to the lesser of 90 percent of principal and interest or $500,000; and (2) aggregate guarantees to $200,000,000. Title V: Water - Related Assistance - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary to establish an emergency water assistance grant program for rural and small communities (less than 5,000 population, median household income below State nonmetropolitan level) with significant water shortages, or to enable such communities to comply with the requirements of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or the Safe Drinking Water Act. Obligates at least 75 percent of program funds for rural communities of less than 3,000 persons. Limits grants to: (1) $75,000 for existing system repairs; and (2) $500,000 for water shortage areas. Authorizes appropriations.
Law· HRH.R. 2799 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1989
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, with respect to the 1990 crop year, to permit up to 20 percent of program acreage to be planted with alternative crops if: (1) such acreage is planted with canola, rapeseed, sunflower, safflower, flaxseed, kenaf, crambe, guayule, milkweed, or meadowfoam; (2) at least 50 percent of a farm's permitted acreage is planted with the program crop; and (3) no payments are received under the 0/92 wheat and feed grain or the 50/92 cotton and rice deficiency payment programs.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 341 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1989
Designates November 1989 as An End to Hunger Education Month.
Bill· HRH.R. 2756 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1989
Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 with regard to surplus commodity food assistance for older persons to require that assistance be provided for two meals served daily per person if such meals have a specified nutritional content.
Bill· SS. 1266 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1989
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to vest authority to promulgate regulations for food products with cheese and meat exclusively in the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Deems a food misbranded if it contains imitation or substitute cheese unless it is so labeled, prominently and contiguously to the product name, on the principal display panel.
Bill· SS. 1245 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1989
Federal Fish Inspection Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to add a new title relating to fish inspection. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an inspection program designed to ensure the safety and wholesomeness of fish and fish products. Requires the program to: (1) cover processing, storage, and handling; (2) include imported and domestic fish products; (3) provide for registration and inspection of fish processing facilities and vessels; and (4) identify geographic areas producing products that exceed the safety standards developed under the title added by this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish standards governing: (1) sanitary conditions and processing, storage, and handling practices; (2) the safety and wholesomeness of fish products; and (3) packaging and labeling. Directs the Secretary to carry out monitoring and surveillance to assure compliance with such standards. Requires the compliance system to: (1) be in accordance with the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point method; (2) provide for the appointment and training of inspection officers; (3) contain reporting and recordkeeping requirements; and (4) provide for enforcement, including civil and criminal penalties. Directs the Secretary to conduct and support research with respect to: (1) testing the methodology for biological and chemical contaminants; (2) inspection techniques and procedures; and (3) sanitation practices for processing, transportation, and storage. Directs the Secretary to conduct and support public education programs in furtherance of the title added by this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) avoid duplication of Federal and State efforts; (2) minimize disruption in the fish industry; (3) consult with other Federal agencies; (4) provide technical, advisory, and financial assistance to States to encourage State programs consistent with the title added by this Act; and (5) ensure establishment of arrangements with foreign nations to ensure mutual acceptance of standards and inspection programs. Makes title I through IV of the Federal Meat Inspection Act inapplicable to the title added by this Act. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year.
Bill· SS. 1237 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1989
Degradable Commodity Plastics Procurement and Standards Act of 1989 - Directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration to encourage the development and use of degradable agricultural commodity-based plastics through a system of preferential Government procurement. Authorizes FY 1991 through 1995 appropriations to carry out this Act. Directs the Administrator to establish an Interagency Council to coordinate activities under this Act and to develop uniform definitions, standards, and testing methods for degradable plastic products. Requires the Council to report on its activities to specified congressional committees. Directs the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration to assess the safety of indirect food additives intended to increase the degradability of plastic food-packaging materials. Directs the Commissioner to report annually to the Congress on such assessment.
Bill· SS. 1246 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1989
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to take specified actions to increase 1990 oat production, including: (1) adjusting payment rates; and (2) increasing permitted oats acreage, including the use of certain conservation-held land.
Bill· HRH.R. 2735 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1989
Rural Electrification Amendment Act of 1989 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to permit loan prepayments under specified conditions by an electrical organization borrower which resulted from a merger or consolidation.
Bill· SS. 1220 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1989
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to waive the principal due on agricultural regular or producer reserve loans in order to avoid loan collateral forfeiture.
Bill· HRH.R. 2706 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1989
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to waive the principal due on agricultural regular or producer reserve loans in order to avoid loan collateral forfeiture.
Bill· SS. 1205 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1989
Foreign Currency Agricultural Research Competitiveness Act of 1989 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (PL 480) to include agricultural, forestry, and aquacultural research within the scope of foreign currency use programs. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to consult with land grant and State colleges in carrying out research projects.
Bill· HRH.R. 2691 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1989
National Agricultural Product Technology Development Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for the establishment of a National Agricultural Product Technology Institute as an independent entity within the Department of Agriculture. Creates the National Agricultural Product Technology Board to head the Institute. Establishes in the Treasury the Agricultural Product Technology Fund to carry out Institute programs. Establishes an agricultural product technology research and development program to: (1) provide matching grants to private or public research or educational organizations, government agencies, and commercial entities, or any combination of such groups, for new product or cost reduction projects; and (2) establish and maintain programs of information collection and dissemination. Requires entities receiving new product funds to agree to engage in commercial production and sale of any project-developed products. Authorizes appropriations. Terminates project authority under this Act on June 30, 2000.
Bill· SS. 1194 (101st)reported
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1989
Fresh Lime Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue lime research, promotion, and consumer information orders, including orders for the creation of a Lime Board and orders imposing assessments with regard to the production and importation of fresh limes. Provides for administrative and judicial review of an order and judicial enforcement of an order. Provides for referenda among lime producers, handlers, and importers regarding orders.
Bill· HRH.R. 2641 (101st)passed
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1989
Aflatoxin Food Safety Act of 1989 - Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to provide for aflatoxin contamination testing of all corn shipped in foreign commerce. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) indemnify corn producers for aflatoxin contamination losses due to 1988 or 1989 weather or related conditions; (2) establish standardized testing equipment and procedures; and (3) conduct related research.
Bill· SS. 1159 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1989
Federal Noxious Weed Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to publish an annual list of noxious weeds. Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service a Center for Noxious Weed Management and Data Collection; (2) establish a coordinated management plan for noxious weed control in the United States; and (3) report annually to the appropriate congressional committees regarding such plan and Federal, State, and local agency compliance. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1994 appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2565 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1989
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to exclude the malting barley price from 1989 barley deficiency payment rate determinations. Requires the 1990 barley target price to be based on all feed and food uses, with a minimum price of $2.93 per bushel.
Bill· SS. 1115 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1989
Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to permit Rural Electrification Administration borrowers to prepay Federal Financing Bank loans without penalties if: (1) private capital is used to replace or prepay such loans; and (2) any savings will be used to mitigate future rate increases, passed on to customers, or used to improve the borrower's financial strength. Permits such borrowers to refinance outstanding long-term Federal Financing Bank loans for a specified fee. Requires the borrower to obtain a change in the interest rate on such loan from its present level to the rate then in effect for new Federal Financing Bank loans.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 140 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1989
States that the appropriate congressional committees shall give due consideration at the earliest possible date to the formulation and advancement of a rural economic development legislative package.
Bill· SS. 1087 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1989
Orchard Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 to provide emergency disaster assistance to orchard owners or operators who suffered losses due to drought, excessive moisture, freeze damage, or related condition in 1988 or 1989. Extends: (1) such assistance to cover tree farmers with 1989 losses; and (2) the scope of such assistance from seedlings to trees. Extends rural business disaster assistance to cover 1989 losses. Makes tree farmers eligible for Federal crop insurance.
Bill· HRH.R. 2511 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1989
Consumer Seafood Safety Act of 1989 - Directs the President to establish a seafood program for all fish products sold in interstate commerce. Requires the program to include mandatory inspection, Federal standards, enforcement, research priorities, and national education programs. Requires the program to be consistent with existing Federal and State programs. Declares that nothing in this Act preempts or supersedes any program relating to fish product promotion under existing Federal or State law. Directs the President to encourage technical arrangements with foreign nations to ensure mutual acceptance of standards and inspection services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 through 1993.
Bill· HRH.R. 2509 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1989
Crop Quality Reduction Disaster Payments Act - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 to extend additional disaster assistance through 1989 for crop quality reductions. Includes dry edible beans under such coverage.
Bill· HRH.R. 2469 (101st)passed
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1989
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act with regard to farmland held by the Farmers Home Administration to: (1) prohibit giving preference to a purchaser who has been convicted of defrauding the Government; and (2) prohibit, except in certain circumstances, the resale of land by a preference-purchaser within two years after purchase. Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 with regard to farmland held by the Farm Credit System to: (1) provide for the forfeiture of the right of first refusal by a previous owner who has been convicted of defrauding the Government or the Farm Credit System; and (2) prohibit, except in certain circumstances, the resale of land by a preference-purchaser within two years after purchase.
Law· HRH.R. 2467 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1989
Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance for Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1989 crop year for wheat, feed grains, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1989 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires producers to obtain Federal crop insurance for 1990 in order to be eligible for disaster payments and other specified assistance for 1989 crop losses. Sets forth exempted circumstances. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1989 farm yield for forage-use crops. Limits assistance under this Act at $100,000. Authorizes the Secretary to determine a de minimis yield for each crop eligible for reduced yield disaster payments under this Act. Title II: Forest Crops and Conservation Measures - Directs the Secretary to provide assistance to tree farmers who lost seedlings in 1989 as a result of drought conditions. Limits assistance to any one person to $25,000. Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who harvests 1989 hay on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Title III: Administrative Provisions - Makes a person with qualifying annual gross income (as defined by this Act) in excess of $2,000,000 ineligible for assistance under this Act.
Bill· SS. 1036 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Rural Partnerships Act of 1989 - Title I: Rural Business and Job Creation - Subtitle A: Rural Partnerships Investment Board - Establishes a Rural Partnerships Investment Board to provide lines of credit through local revolving funds for rural business expansion. Terminates the Board five years after enactment of this Act. Establishes in the Treasury the Rural Business Investment Fund to provide funds for such purpose. Limits an entity's credit line to $750,000. Stipulates that a State agency may receive up to $1,250,000. Requires a participating entity to: (1) provide matching funds at least equal to the line of credit; and (2) demonstrate financial institution participation. Requires only 50 percent matching funds in areas with per capita income levels below specified levels. Limits the maximum amount of Federal contributions to each State's revolving funds to $100,000. Obligates a specified amount of appropriated funds for businesses serving very distressed rural areas or providing specified rural services, including health care, elderly and handicapped services, educational services, or transportation. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations. Requires each participating entity to establish a local revolving fund to: (1) make loans, investments, or loan guarantees; and (2) pay for various training and related programs. Requires local revolving funds to enter into 50 percent matching loan or investment partnerships with banks and other financial institutions. Limits a fund's annual investments in any one business to $250,000. Sets forth compliance and enforcement provisions, including: (1) grounds for revocation of a line of credit; (2) investigatory authority of the Board; (3) unlawful acts of officers, directors, employees, or agents; (4) penalties; and (5) Board authority to bring an action in district court. Subtitle B: Rural Economic Development Promoted by the Rural Electrification Administration - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to direct the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) to appoint an Assistant Administrator for Economic Development to carry out REA programs concerning the involvement of rural electric and telephone systems in community and economic development. Directs the Administrator to establish a technical assistance unit to assist borrowers with respect to community and economic development activities. Permits a borrower to defer loan repayments (five or ten years, depending on the project) for amounts invested in community or economic development projects. Limits such deferment to 50 percent of a project's cost. Authorizes and limits water and waste facility loans to the lesser of $40,000,000 or ten percent of fiscal year REA insured loan authority. Sets forth loan priority provisions. Requires private sector assistance under specified circumstances. Targets electrification borrower investments in: (1) the Incubation Fund established by this Act or other business incubators; and (2) community, business, or economic development projects. Expands the scope of REA rural economic development functions. Establishes in the Treasury a Rural Business Incubation Fund to make grants and reduced interest loans to electric and telephone borrowers in order to promote business incubation programs or to create rural business incubators. Requires such incubators to: (1) be operated on a not-for-profit basis; and (2) assist businesses to become viable business entities. Provides for funding of such incubators by assisted businesses, REA borrowers, and the Treasury. Deems investments by REA telephone borrowers in rural telecommunication or other rural development projects not to be dividends or capital distributions. Title II: Enhancing Human Resources - Establishes a grant program to increase rural educational opportunities through the use of telecommunications and related technologies. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1994 appropriations. Requires grantee partnerships to consist of: (1) REA borrowers; (2) specified national telecommunication organizations; and (3) educational institutions. Establishes the Rural Educational Opportunities Board to advise grant recipients, evaluate programs and technology, serve as a liaison with REA and the Secretary of Education, and review and make grant application recommendations. Requires REA and the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual program report to the appropriate congressional committees. Provides for expedited REA telephone loans. Establishes: (1) a rural medical link telecommunications grant program; and (2) a rural business link telecommunications grant program. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1994 appropriations for such programs. Title III: Focus on Rural America by the Department of Agriculture - Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to direct the Secretary to establish an Extension Service rural economic and business program to permit State or county extension services to hire business development and related telecommunications specialists. Authorizes appropriations beginning with FY 1990. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to study economically distressed rural counties; (2) evaluate the nature and availability of assistance needed by such counties; and (3) report to the appropriate congressional committees in each of FY 1990 through 1993. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a rural development assistance information program. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees by September 1, 1989, concerning the coordination of Department of Agriculture rural development activities. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study and report to the appropriate congressional committees with respect to the Department's data processing functions and whether they can be performed more economically in rural areas. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Rural Business and Employment Assistance - Directs the Secretary to make technical assistance grants for rural business development, including business support centers. Prohibits the use of such funds for political activity or business relocation. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary to make grants for rural technology assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to make rural emergency assistance loans to communities of less than 20,000 persons. Limits such loans to two-year periods, with a maximum of $50,000 to any one borrower. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: National Rural Information Center Clearinghouse - Directs the Secretary to establish within the National Agricultural Library a National Rural Information Center Clearinghouse. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1994 appropriations. Title VI: Water and Sewer Assistance - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase the authorization of appropriations for small community water and waste facility grants. Directs the Secretary to establish an emergency water assistance grant program for rural and small communities (less than 3000 population, median household income below State nonmetropolitan level) with significant water shortages, or to enable such communities to comply with the requirements of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or the Safe Drinking Water Act. Limits grants to: (1) $75,000 for existing system repairs; and (2) $500,000 for water shortage areas. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to base loan rates for health care and related facilities solely on the income of the area to be served. Directs the Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration to establish a national rural waste water circuit rider program modeled after the existing National Rural Water Association rural water circuit rider program. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Miscellaneous - Directs the Census Bureau to: (1) expand data collection efforts to gather data on the changing economic conditions of rural America, including employment, poverty and income, and the labor force; and (2) employ rural residents for such efforts in FY 1990. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish regulations regarding projects funded under this Act with respect to the preservation of historic properties and historical and archaeological data. Authorizes certain Farm Credit System banks to make small community water and waste system loans. Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to permit a State to designate State areas where the food stamp program (program) employment and training requirements shall be voluntary. Includes self-employment within the scope of such requirements. Increases rural program accessibility for people engaged in certain employment and training programs. Exempts from household financial resources for purposes of program eligibility the value of a vehicle used in rural areas to haul fuel or water. Amends Federal law to increase the amount of annual funds available to the Reforestation Trust Fund. Authorizes Fund use for economic diversification assistance to communities that are economically dependent upon the Forest Service. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of loan restructuring for distressed rural hospitals and health care facilities. Title VIII: Effective Date and Implementation - Makes this Act effective as of October 1, 1989, unless otherwise provided for. Sets forth the effective dates for specified implementing regulations under such Act.
Bill· SS. 1063 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Conservation Enhancement and Improvement Act of 1989 - Title I: Erosion Control - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize an additional five-year period of crop base protection for conservation reserve program (CRP) land that continues to be put to conservation use after the expiration of the CRP contract. Extends multiyear conservation contract authority. States that highly erodible set aside land must not erode at rates greater than cropped land on the same farm. Requires that there be no net soil loss with respect to CRP contracts entered into after enactment of this Act. Title II: Wildlife Habitat Improvement - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize multiyear wildlife habitat improvement contracts on a Federal-State cost sharing basis. Provides incentives to producers to use idled acreage for such purposes. Title III: Alternative Agricultural Practices and New Crops - Expresses the sense of the Congress that with respect to new farm legislation, alternative agricultural practices should be explored. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to initiate a program to certify State programs for labeling retail food products as having been naturally grown. Funds such program through fees from participating States. Title IV: Water Protection and Enhancement - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to make critical groundwater contamination areas eligible for the CRP, regardless of such land's erodibility. Establishes a wetland reserve program (WRP) to restore converted wetlands and adjacent areas to their natural state. Sets a minimum amount of 1990 enrolled acreage. Limits: (1) aggregate CRP and WRP acreage; and (2) Federal cost sharing. Amends the Water Bank Act to require waterbank contracts to include permanent wetland easements prohibiting: (1) commodity production (except for authorized haying and grazing); and (2) destruction or alteration of such lands. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to prohibit the use of Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) loans for wetland drainage. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to permit cropland to enter the CRP if crop production on such land would have a direct adverse effect on groundwater. Authorizes minimum impact agricultural use of such land. Directs the Secretary to establish a voluntary well water testing program. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to apply wetland conservation provisions to idled cropland. Title V: Forest Protection and Enhancement - States that it is U.S. policy to maintain current forest levels by balancing forest destruction with forest renewal. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to make shelter-belts and windbreaks eligible for the CRP regardless of such land's erodibility. Requires producers to agree to an easement on the land for the useful life of a shelterbelt or windbreak. Provides CRP hardwood tree planting incentives, including: (1) extended contracts and planting periods; (2) cost sharing and tree maintenance assistance; and (3) waiver of county cropland limitations. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to prohibit the use of FmHA loans for forest clearing, except in cases of tree management or commercial harvesting. Directs the Secretary to upgrade urban forestry research, education, and technical assistance. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary to permit lands which are not highly erodible but which pose an on-farm or off-farm environmental threat to be enrolled in the CRP.
Bill· SS. 1037 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Food Irradiation Safety and Labeling Requirement Act of 1989 - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing pork irradiation regulations and the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing other food irradiation regulations. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to arrange for and report within two years on a study of the risks to human health and the environment presented by food irradiation. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that food for domestic use or export which has been irradiated be labeled in a prescribed fashion. Requires restaurant menus to indicate when foods have been irradiated. Requires persons irradiating food to report at least semiannually to the Secretary.
Bill· SS. 1061 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Prohibits the distribution, sale, or use of any pesticide containing daminozide that is labeled for food use. Requires: (1) the registration under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, Rodenticide Act of such a pesticide to be treated as canceled; (2) the recall, proper storage, and disposal of the pesticide; and (3) a person who holds a registration of a pesticide containing daminozide to reimburse any person who holds any quantity of the pesticide at the prevailing sale price at the time the pesticide came into the holder's possession. Requires all existing tolerances and food additive regulations for daminozide established under specified provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to be treated as revoked. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an action level to permit distribution in commerce of food that bears daminozide residue resulting from use of a pesticide before enactment of this Act or from unavoidable residual environmental contamination occurring before enactment of this Act.
Bill· SS. 1044 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 - Title I: Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 to extend disaster assistance to winter wheat and other winter crops planted in 1988 for harvest in 1989. Title II: Emergency Livestock Assistance - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to make funds available for emergency livestock transportation and water assistance in 1989. Title III: Businesses - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 to extend Federal principal and interest guarantees on rural business loans based on 1989 winter crop losses. Title IV: Planting of Alternate Crops on Permitted Acreage - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to extend alternate crop authority through 1990. Title V: Implementation - Offsets disaster payments made under this Act by deficiency payment reductions.
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 138 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Designates October 16, 1989, and October 16, 1990, as World Food Day.
Law· HRH.R. 2419 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to convey U.S. right, title, and interest to Forest Service lands in Georgia that were acquired solely for administrative purposes described in the document entitled "Chattahoochee National Forest Land Exchange-Description of Properties Conveyed," in exchange for the: (1) construction of the facilities described in the document entitled "Prospectus, Blairsville Ranger District Office and Facilities, Brasstown Ranger District, Chattahoochee National Forest"; or (2) conveyance to the Secretary of real property and construction of such facilities. Places limitations on such exchange.
Bill· HRH.R. 2405 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Food Irradiation Safety and Labeling Requirement Act of 1989 - Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing pork irradiation regulations and the Secretary of Health and Human Services from implementing other food irradiation regulations. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to arrange for and report within two years on a study of the risks to human health and the environment presented by food irradiation. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that food for domestic use or export which has been irradiated be labeled in a prescribed fashion. Requires restaurant menus to indicate when foods have been irradiated. Requires persons irradiating food to report semiannually to the Secretary.
Bill· HRH.R. 2409 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Emergency Community Water Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish an emergency water assistance grant program for specified communities adversely affected by drought in 1988 or 1989. Authorizes FY 1990 appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2411 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act Amendment of 1989 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish loan rates for rural health care and related facilities based solely on the income of the area to be served.
Bill· HRH.R. 2416 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to construct an outlet ditch to the Missouri River in Burt County, Nebraska. Requires the ditch to be designated to carry excess runoff rainwater directly to the river.
Bill· HRH.R. 2412 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Rural Development Data Base Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) develop and make available to the public within the Department of Agriculture a Federal rural development programs data base; and (2) submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes the Secretary to appoint a related advisory panel.
Bill· HRH.R. 2408 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Rural Development Reorganization Act of 1989 - Title I: Reorganization of the Department of Agriculture - Renames the Department of Agriculture the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development to establish and maintain a revitalized nationwide rural development program as set forth in the Rural Development Act of 1972, the Rural Development Policy Act of 1980, and this Act. Establishes in such Department a Rural Development Administration. Directs the Secretary to transfer to the Rural Development Administration those agencies, offices, or entities in the Department performing rural development functions. Authorizes the transfer of rural housing offices. Amends the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 to expand the number of designated assistance areas from 225 to 450. Establishes within the Rural Development Administration an Office of Advocacy for Rural Development. Directs the Secretary to report, by geographical areas of the United States, to the Congress: (1) within six months after enactment of this Act on the extent to which rural development offices and activities of the Federal Government were located or relocated to rural areas during FY 1981 through 1986; and (2) within six months after the end of each fiscal year beginning with FY 1989 on the extent to which Federal offices and activities were located or relocated to rural areas. Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to target specified private fund economic development investments made by Rural Electrification Administration borrowers. Title II: State Cooperative Agreements and Plans - Authorizes the Administrator, Rural Development Administration, to enter into cooperative agreements with States: (1) to delegate to any State the authority to cooperate in carrying out the provisions of this Act; and (2) to assist States in the development and administration of Federal programs that provide educational opportunities, job training, health services, business expansion, and other specified benefits to rural residents. Conditions any agreement or financial assistance under this Act upon a State's submission for approval of a comprehensive plan for a State rural development program. Permits the Secretary and other Federal agency heads to enter into agreements with State and local governments to provide educational training, job training, health services, and other benefits to rural residents. Directs the Administrator in cooperation with the Secretary to use the Cooperative State Extension Service to inform rural residents about such programs. Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee certain financial institution loans made for specified rural development purposes. Title III: Rural Technology Grants - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary to make grants to nonprofit institutions to establish rural technology development centers. Gives priority to projects that will serve depressed rural areas. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations. Title IV: Miscellaneous Amendments - Makes conforming amendments to the Community Economic Development Act of 1981 and other Federal law. Title V: Administrative Provisions - Sets forth administrative provisions.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 126 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1989
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should revoke Executive Order 12072; and (2) the Secretary of Agriculture should utilize criteria in full compliance with the Rural Development Act of 1972 when selecting Federal facility locations.
Bill· SS. 1029 (101st)reported
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1989
Rural Business Assistance Act of 1989 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to establish in the Treasury the Rural Business Incubation Fund to make grants and reduced interest loans to electric and telephone borrowers to promote rural business incubation programs. States that such programs shall serve as a common facility to share technical assistance, equipment, staff, and other related services. Funds such programs through participating businesses and borrowers and Treasury purchases of Fund certificates.
Bill· SS. 1027 (101st)reported
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1989
Rural Electrification Administration Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to create in the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) the position of Assistant Administrator for Economic Development to carry out programs concerning the involvement of rural electric and telephone systems in community and economic development. Creates a technical assistance unit within REA to advise borrowers concerning permitted community and economic development activities. Authorizes REA to make loans to borrowers to enable them to provide water and waste disposal services in their areas. Requires borrowers to obtain private sector funds to supplement such assistance if the funds are available at affordable rates. Permits REA interest rate adjustments in order to facilitate private financing. Sets fiscal year loan limits at the lesser of $40,000,000 or ten percent of the total amount of telephone and electrification loans in such year.
Bill· SS. 1023 (101st)reported
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1989
Advanced Technology and Emergency Assistance Act of 1989 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to target Rural Electrification Administration investments toward business and community development and telecommunications and infrastructure improvements. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make nonprofit private corporations eligible for rural development grants. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to States, local and regional entities, and community development corporations for rural technology assistance, including the use of telecommunications and computers. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a rural emergency assistance loan program. Limits loans to $50,000 with a maximum two-year term. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a rural hospital and health care facility loan restructuring program modeled after the delinquent farm loan program.