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Law· SS. 2917 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1992
Amends the National School Lunch Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance to the University of Mississippi in cooperation with the University of Southern Mississippi, to establish and maintain a food service management institute.
Law· HRH.R. 5503 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1992
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 - Title I: Department of the Interior - Makes appropriations for FY 1993 within the Department of the Interior for: (1) the Bureau of Land Management; (2) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; (3) the National Park Service; (4) the Geological Survey; (5) the Minerals Management Service; (6) the Bureau of Mines; (7) the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement; (8) the Bureau of Indian Affairs; (9) the Office of Territorial and International Affairs; (10) Departmental offices, including the Office of the Secretary, the Office of the Solicitor, the Office of Construction Management, the Office of the Inspector General, and the National Indian Gaming Commission. Authorizes the use of appropriations for the emergency reconstruction, replacement, or repair of facilities or equipment damaged or destroyed by fire, flood, storm, or other unavoidable causes. Allows the Secretary of the Interior to authorize the expenditure or transfer of any no-year appropriations, in addition to the amounts included in the budget programs of agencies, for: (1) the suppression or emergency prevention of forest or range fires on or threatening land under the jurisdiction of the Department; (2) emergency actions related to earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, storms, or other unavoidable causes; (3) activities related to oil spills; (4) grasshopper and Mormon cricket outbreaks; (5) emergency reclamation projects; and (6) the assumption of regulatory authority where necessary. Prohibits the use of funds for preleasing and leasing activities for Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 137 or 151 in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Prohibits the use of funds for the preparation for, or conduct of, pre-leasing and leasing activities of lands within a certain area of the Outer Continental Shelf off the Atlantic coastline of Rhode Island south into Florida. Prohibits the use of funds for the financing of agreements or arrangements for the management of lands, waters, and interests on Matagorda Island, Texas, which were purchased with amounts from the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Requires recordation and processing of certain claimed rights-of-way to be undertaken in accordance with H.R. 1096, as passed the House on July 23, 1991 (Bureau of Land Management authorizations). Prohibits the use of funds to process permits necessary for the construction of jetties at Oregon Inlet, North Carolina, until an environmental impact statement has been completed. Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1993 for the Department of Agriculture for the Forest Service. Prohibits the use of funds for timber sale preparation using clearcutting in hardwood stands in excess of 25 percent of FY 1989 harvested volume in the Wayne National Forest, Ohio. Prohibits the use of funds to issue a special use authorization permitting land use and occupancy and surface disturbing activities for any project to be constructed on Rock Creek, Madera County, California. Sets conditions on the funding of special use authorization for such activities for any project on a specified portion of Lewis Fork Creek in the same county. Makes funds available to the Chief of the Forest Service for official reception and representation expenses. Prohibits the use of funds for the preparation of timber sales on the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to negotiate sales of Pacific yew to parties manufacturing taxol in the United States for use in humans. Requires the Forest Service to establish an office in Ohio to represent and administer the Wayne National Forest on a forest-wide basis. Allows the Forest Service to offer for sale certain salvageable timber in FY 1993, unless it can be demonstrated that the offering will cause detriment to a species listed as threatened or endangered. Provides for funding to establish a National Forest Foundation. Makes appropriations for the Department of Energy for, among other things, fossil energy research and development, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and the SPR Account. Makes appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services for the Indian Health Service for Indian health services and facilities. Appropriates funds to: (1) the Department of Education for the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for Indian education; (2) the Office of Navajo and Hopi Relocation; (3) the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development; (4) the Smithsonian Institution; (5) construction and improvements at the National Zoological Park; (6) restoration and repair of buildings owned or occupied by the Smithsonian Institution; (7) the National Gallery of Art (NGA); (8) repair, restoration, and renovation of buildings of the NGA; and (9) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Makes appropriations for: (1) the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities; (2) the Institute of Museum Services; (3) the Commission of Fine Arts; (4) National Capital arts and cultural affairs; (5) the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; (6) the National Capital Planning Commission; (7) the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission; (8) the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation; and (9) the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Sets forth uses and prohibitions on uses of such funds. Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth uses and limitations or prohibitions on uses of funds appropriated by this Act. Prohibits the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from using such funds for leasing of oil and natural gas by noncompetitive bidding on public lands within the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois. Prohibits the use of funds in this Act to evaluate, consider, process, or award oil, gas, or geothermal leases on Federal lands in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, State of Washington. Prohibits the use of funds for deer hunting in the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. Prohibits the use of funds in this Act for the sale of timber from giant sequoia trees which are located on National Forest System or Bureau of Land Management lands. Prohibits the use of funds to ensure that hardwood saw timber harvested from Federal lands east of the 100th meridian is marked in a manner to make it readily identifiable at all times before its manufacture. Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to direct the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to establish annual fees for domestic livestock grazing on the public rangelands. Abolishes grazing advisory boards established pursuant to Secretarial action. Provides for the use of grazing fees for: (1) restoration and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat; (2) restoration and improved management of riparian areas; and (3) implementation and enforcement of applicable land management plans, allotment plans, and regulations regarding the use of such lands for domestic livestock grazing. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer the Pine Hill School Health Center in Pine Hill, New Mexico, to the Department of Health and Human Services for Indian health purposes. Waives compensation for such transfer. Prohibits the use of funds by the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management to increase fees charged for communication site use of lands by more than a specified percentage. Specifies required percentage payments to be made by the U.S. Government to States affected by decisions relating to the Northern Spotted Owl from FY 1993 receipts collected during the five-year baseline period of FY 1986 through 1990. Makes funds available to the Forest Service for interactions with and providing technical assistance to rural communities for sustainable rural development outside the boundaries of National Forest System lands. Authorizes the use of funds to reimburse employees for the cost of State licenses and certification fees pursuant to their employment. Prohibits the use of funds for the sale of unprocessed timber from Federal lands in Texas which will be exported by the purchaser, except certain surplus lumber and plywood manufacturing needs.
Bill· SS. 2895 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1992
Rural Development and Ancient Forest Ecosystem Conservation Act - Title I: Rural Development in Rural Communities - Subtitle A: Rural Development for Communities and Businesses - Establishes the Community Rural Development Investment Fund and individual Community Rural Development Commissions for Oregon, Washington, and California. Requires each Commission to distribute Fund monies, in the form of low-interest rural developemnt business loans, to communities associated with employment in wood products, log harvesting, or log hauling or transportation. Subtitle B: Dislocated Forest-Worker Assistance - Establishes the Dislocated Forest-Worker Assistance Account, funded with monies from timber sales from federally owned forests, to provide income supplements, vocational retraining stipends, job search allowances, relocation allowances, and other benefits to dislocated timber-harvesting and wood products industries employees who have exhausted State unemployment benefits. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - Requires employment of persons to perform forest ecosystem management practices on Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management Lands. Allows withholding of sums from timber harvest contracts to fund such employment. Requires the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture (the Secretaries), for each timber sale contract, to retain a cash deposit as security to ensure contract compliance. Expresses the sense of the Congress that annual Forest Service appropriations should not be less than those during the preceding ten years. Allows States west of the 100th meridian from which unprocessed logs are exported to establish export restrictions because of temporary shortages in the supply of timber. Provides special rules for exports to Canada and for a presidential suspension on restrictions if U.S. trade obligations are violated. States that western red cedar unprocessed logs from the Tongass National Forest may not be exported unless they are surplus to domestic processor needs. Provides special policies for conservation and management of the Pacific yew (used in the manufacture of taxol for the treatment of cancer). Amends the Wood Residue Utilization Act of 1980 to authorize appropriations for a pilot wood residue utilization project to demonstrate the commercial viability of cement fiber board products for use in the construction industry. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Forest Ecosystem Conservation - Subtitle A: Westside Forests - Directs the Secretaries to manage late-successional/old-growth Westside forests in the ecoregions of Pacific Forest and Willamette-Puget Forest in a manner to maintain viable vertebrate species and restore biological diversity. Requires consistency with the Watershed and Fish Habitat Emphasis Option. Requires management of key Westside watersheds to restore ecological forest elements and protect habitats of potentially threatened and endangered fish species and stocks of anadromous salmonoids. Subtitle B: Eastside Forests - Requires a study of Federal forests in the ecoregion provinces of the Columbia Forest, Rocky Mountain Forest, Palouse Grassland, Intermoutain Sagebrush, Sierran Forest, and California Chaparral (Eastside forests) to determine ecosystem management strategies that will restore and protect the health of forests and their ecological elements. Provides for interim protection of Eastside watersheds and late-succession/old-growth forests. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - Establishes Forest Ecosystem Advisory Committees to recommend ecosystem management objectives for all BLM and Forest Service forests. Requires Inspectors General of the Department of Agriculture and the Interior to conduct audits of standards used by the Secretaries in the development of land and resource management plans. Requires development of a definition for a "dead and dying" tree. Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 to require the establishment of a program of studies to facilitate implementation of an ecosystem-based approach to the management of federally owned forests. Authorizes appropriations.
Law· HRH.R. 5487 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1992
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 1993 for the following programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) Office of the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; (3) Office of Budget and Program Analysis; (4) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (5) Departmental Administration; (6) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations; (7) Office of Public Affairs; (8) Office of the Inspector General; (9) Office of the General Counsel; (10) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Economics; (11) Economic Research Service; (12) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (13) World Agricultural Outlook Board; (14) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education; (15) Agricultural Research Service; (16) Cooperative State Research Service; (17) Extension Service; (18) National Agricultural Library; (19) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services; (20) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (21) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (22) Federal Grain Inspection Service; (23) Agricultural Cooperative Service; (24) Agricultural Marketing Service; (25) Packers and Stockyards Administration; (26) Office of the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs; (27) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; (28) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; and (29) Commodity Credit Corporation Fund. Title II: Conservation Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment; (2) Soil Conservation Service; and (3) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Title III: Farmers Home and Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development; (2) Farmers Home Administration; (3) Rural Electrification Administration; and (4) Rural Development Administration. Title IV: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services; (2) Food and Nutrition Service, including the Food Stamp Program; and (3) Human Nutrition Information Service. Title V: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) Public Law 480 Program Account; and (3) Office of International Cooperation and Development. Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration - Appropriates funds for: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Farm Credit System Financial Assistance Corporation; (3) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (4) Farm Credit Administration. Title VII: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to carry out: (1) a Market Promotion Program in excess of specified limits; or (2) the Agricultural Resource Conservation Demonstration Program. Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to enroll additional Wetlands Reserve Program or Conservation Reserve Program acres.
Bill· HRH.R. 5490 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1992
Universal Student Nutrition Act of 1992 - Amends the National School Lunch Act to establish an optional universal school lunch and breakfast program. Requires that the Secretary of Agriculture's minimum nutritional requirements for the current school lunch and school breakfast programs be prescribed in accordance with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans developed by the Department of Agriculture. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to require that grants to States for nutrition education and information be based on a rate of 50 cents for each child enrolled in schools or institutions in the State.
Bill· HRH.R. 5494 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1992
Rural Electrification Administration Management Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to repeal the borrower authority to determine the term of telephone loans. Directs the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration and the Governor of the Rural Telephone Bank to issue regulations regarding borrower use of excess funds. Revises provisions regarding: (1) direct or insured loan prepayment provisions; and (2) retirement of class A stock.
Bill· HRH.R. 5473 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1992
Cleveland National Forest Land Exchange Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land in the Cleveland National Forest, California, to the Orange County Council of the Boy Scouts of America in exchange for specified land in San Diego County, California, which shall become part of such Forest.
Bill· HRH.R. 5480 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1992
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer certain sewage facilities in the Wenatchee National Forest to Public Utility District No. 1 of Chelan County, Washington, in exchange for equal value in sewer charges from such facilities to the Secretary.
Bill· HRH.R. 5477 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1992
Requires that the population characteristics reflected in interim data collected by the Secretary of Commerce between decennial censuses include data relating to urban, rural, below-poverty, and farming populations.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 514 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1992
Declares that U.S. policy should be consistent with the preservation of the availability of credit, under safe and sound lending practices, for commercially prudent business purposes in order to create jobs and promote a speedy and robust economic recovery. Provides that the Department of the Treasury, including the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve Board, should: (1) undertake measures to ensure that their policies, bank examination practices, and regulations identify those which may adversely affect the availability of credit with respect to the needs of farmers, agriculture, and small businesses; and (2) modify those which have been determined to threaten or adversely affect the availability of commercial credit in order to stimulate speedy and robust economic recovery. Directs such entities to: (1) establish internal mechanisms by which adversely affected lenders and potential borrowers may administratively appeal certain decisions of bank examiners or local regulatory officials; and (2) report to the Congress on legislative recommendations to assure the availability of commercial credit to promote economic recovery.
Bill· SS. 2884 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1992
Fish Safety Act of 1992 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to create a new title setting forth a fish inspection program. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to exempt from specific provisions of the title: (1) fish processing by an individual for use in that individual's household; (2) custom processing for use in the household of the product owner; (3) processing of products not intended for nor capable of use as human food; (4) warehousing of up to 50 pounds or of product caught for other than commercial purposes in waters outside the United States; and (5) operations of types traditionally and usually conducted at retail stores or restaurants. Excludes from the application of the title recreational vessels, commercial fishing vessels, or fish tender vessels except where such vessels process fish. Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with the appropriate agency in any State that has enacted a mandatory State fish product inspection law with requirements at least equal to those in the title. Prohibits State programs from permitting products to bear any official marks or certificates applicable to products in interstate commerce. Requires that fish products processed for intrastate commerce under a State program that are sold, transported, delivered, or offered for sale in interstate commerce be considered adulterated. Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with State agencies concerning the State administration of the inspection and sampling components of the fish inspection program established under the title on behalf of the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to provide State agencies with advisory assistance, technical and laboratory assistance and training, and financial and other assistance for up to 50 percent of the cost of the cooperative program. Requires State program participants to submit operation plans to the Secretary annually. Directs the Secretary to establish standards for the efficient and effective administration of the sampling and inspection program by each approved State. Authorizes the Secretary to deputize specific State employees in approved States. Authorizes the Secretary to appoint advisory committees. Requires the appropriate State agency with which the Secretary may cooperate to be a single agency that is primarily responsible for the coordination of the State programs having objectives the same as the title. Directs the Secretary to develop and administer a comprehensive and efficient health-based inspection program for fish products designed to protect the consuming public from fish products that may be adulterated or misbranded. Sets forth program requirements. Directs the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to establish tolerances, except where tolerances are established by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, that shall be applicable to poisonous or deleterious substances that may adulterate fish products. Requires the tolerances to be: (1) established at levels so that fish products are not injurious to health; and (2) based on a scientific analysis of health risks. Directs the Commissioner to establish tolerances, except where tolerances are established by the Administrator under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, for harmful chemicals, toxins, parasites, pathogenic microorganisms, viruses, bacteria, and other harmful agents that may render fish products adulterated. Allows the tolerances to include the use of indicators, including indicator organisms. Directs the Secretary of Commerce and appropriate State authorities, for waters under their jurisdiction, to establish a system for the identification and classification of growing and harvesting areas for fish in coastal areas and the Great Lakes. Directs the Secretary to sample and test fish products regarding any instance or trend that may pose a significant threat to consumers' health and safety. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and other assistance to States to prevent the entry of adulterated fish products into establishments, including annual grants to each State that is a member of the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, with regard to waters under the exclusive jurisdiction of that Secretary, to close waters or restrict harvesting of a species if fish of that species within the identified harvesting or growing areas are likely to be adulterated. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) periodically review the closure or restriction; and (2) establish procedures for review on petitions by affected persons. Requires reasonable public notice prior to closure or restriction, except in public health emergencies. Requires inspectors authorized by the Secretary to take actions as necessary to implement the title, including: (1) inspection of establishments, products, packages, equipment, procedures, and records; (2) sampling and testing of fish products; (3) detention and condemnation of adulterated or misbranded products; and (4) inspection, sampling, and testing of imports of fish products. Provides for: (1) segregation, seizure, condemnation, and destruction of adulterated or misbranded fish products; (2) processing of products to the extent necessary to prevent spoilage pending hearing and review; and (3) deferral of condemnation pending bringing of a product into compliance by relabeling or other action. Requires establishments to maintain premises, facilities, equipment, and operations in accordance with sanitation regulations set by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to establish regulations for the storage or handling of fish products by any person in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, transporting, or importing fish products. Authorizes the Secretary to establish guidelines for training persons employed by establishments involved in fish product sanitation and quality control. Authorizes the Secretary to exempt products from inspection requirements until a specified date if appropriated funds are insufficient or if the exemption will aid in the effective transition to the programs implemented under the title. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for the annual certification of establishments and persons engaged in importing of fish and fish products. Prohibits importers from processing or handling any fish product for commercial purposes unless the establishment is certified. Authorizes the Secretary to refuse to certify or to decertify establishments or importers unfit to engage in any business as a result of Federal or State convictions for: (1) acquiring, handling, or distributing adulterated, mislabeled, or deceptively packaged food, or fraud in food transactions; or (2) any felony involving a lack of the integrity needed for the conduct of operations affecting the public health. Requires all products processed at any certified establishment to bear on their shipping containers and immediate containers information as the Secretary requires. Authorizes the Secretary to permit such products to bear a seal stating that the product was processed in accordance with Federal standards or similar language. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe: (1) labeling requirements to avoid false or misleading labeling; (2) definitions and standards of identity or composition and fill; and (3) procedures that permit statements on labels that indicate the State or location of the product's origin. Directs the Secretary to: (1) require that each package of fish product bears the appropriate identification, issued under the title, and an official mark; and (2) ensure that the official mark shall be available only on products processed in certified establishments. Prohibits articles from being sold or offered for sale under any name, marking, or labeling that is false or misleading, or in any container of a misleading form or size. Permits established trade names and other marking and labeling that are not false or misleading and that are approved by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary, if any marking, labeling, size, or form of any container is false or misleading, to require that use be withheld unless modified as prescribed by the Secretary so that it will not be false or misleading. Prohibits a fish product from being entered, or withdrawn from warehouses, for consumption in the United States, unless the product: (1) is not adulterated or misbranded; (2) complies with all requirements of the title; and (3) is marked and labeled as required for imports. Treats all such products as domestic fish products under the title, except that its labeling must identify the country of origin. Directs the Secretary to enforce these provisions through inspections, sampling, and any other necessary procedures. Requires products refused entry or entered, or withdrawn from warehouses, in violation of these provisions to be destroyed unless exported or brought into compliance. Requires storage, cartage, labor, and other costs from denial of entry or withdrawal from warehouse to be paid by the owner or consignee. Declares that nonpayment constitutes a lien against the product and any other fish product thereafter entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in the United States by such owner or consignee. Directs the Secretary, on request of a country desiring to export fish products to the United States, to review the inspection program of products offered for importation to determine whether the requirements and tolerances for the products are at least equal to those under the title and, if so, and if the country will permit the enforcement measures the Secretary determines necessary, to issue a certificate stating that the country meets the requirements. Requires all fish products imported from an uncertified country to be inspected by the Secretary to ensure compliance with these provisions. Directs the Secretary to enforce these provisions through inspections, sampling, testing, or other actions in the foreign country, during importation, or otherwise as necessary. Declares that products intended for export shall not be considered adulterated or misbranded if they are consistent with the laws of the importing country and meet other requirements. Directs the Secretary to inspect products intended for export as necessary. Directs the Secretary, on request of the exporter, to provide a certificate for export stating the condition of fish products inspected under these provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to require any person who owns or operates an establishment or is in the business of importing fish products to recall any fish product that is adulterated or misbranded if it could cause serious health consequences. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish, through the Centers for Disease Control, an active surveillance system, based on a representative portion of the U.S. population, to provide an estimate of the frequency of human disease in the United States associated with the consumption of food, including a comparison of each major food category. Sets forth a list of prohibited acts in connection with the processing, handling, selling, transporting, offering for sale or transportation, possessing, misbranding, or importation of fish products or in connection with inspections under the title. Provides civil monetary penalties and criminal penalties for violations. Prohibits a common or contract carrier, including carriers that are fish tender vessels, from being subject to penalties under the title unless the carrier: (1) had knowledge, or possessed facts that would cause a reasonable person to believe, that the products were adulterated or misbranded; or (2) refuses to furnish certain information and documents. Sets forth: (1) felony penalties for giving or receiving bribes; and (2) criminal penalties for forcibly assaulting, resisting, intimidating, or interfering with any inspector or other person while engaged in official duties under the title. Requires each establishment or import business subject to inspection under the title to be operated in accordance with such sanitary and other procedures and practices as the Secretary requires. Directs the Secretary to prescribe standards for marking fish or fish products handled or processed in accordance with the title, or their packages, with an official stamp. Directs the Secretary to establish priorities for fish and fish products safety research. Requires the appropriate Federal agencies to conduct research regarding the priorities. Directs the Secretary, through the Extension Service, to provide a specified sum each fiscal year out of funds appropriated for the title to award grants for demonstration projects by States with regard to providing food safety information and instruction regarding the proper handling, storage, and preparation of fish and fish products for human consumption. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish through grants and administer, for a five-year period, a shellfish indicator research program to develop a system of classification of shellfish harvesting areas. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory panel to assist in the development and implementation of the research programs under these provisions. Prohibits: (1) copying of any official mark; and (2) processing fish products except in compliance with the title. Authorizes the Secretary to limit the entry of fish products and other materials into any establishment consistent with the purposes of the title. Provides for administrative detention of any fish product meeting certain requirements if there is reason to believe the product is adulterated or misbranded. Makes any fish product capable of use as human food and adulterated or misbranded, or which otherwise is or has been in violation of the title, liable to be proceeded against and seized and condemned at any time, on a libel of information. Provides for disposal of a condemned product and for the delivery of the product to the owner on delivery of bond. Applies specified provisions of Federal law to the administration and enforcement of the title. Exempts the inspection, sampling, regulation, handling, processing, storage, or transportation of fish products from the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to the extent such matters are covered by the title. Requires that the cost of inspections be borne by the United States, except for overtime or holiday work required in an establishment, which must be borne by the establishment. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the title, earmarking: (1) certain sums for the research programs under the title; (2) certain percentages for the Food and Drug Administration; and (3) other percentages for the Department of Commerce. Amends Federal law to add a reference to food safety to provisions specifying the matters to be included in cooperative agricultural extension work. Authorizes appropriations for programs administered by the Secretary of Agriculture through the Extension Service to disseminate food safety information and instruction to consumers, restaurant food handlers, schools, and other persons. Requires the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to: (1) develop and implement a program to carry out and administer the title; and (2) enter into contracts with the National Academy of Sciences to identify chemical and microbiological contaminants, parasites, toxins, and other harmful substances that are most likely to be found in fish and fish products and that are most likely to cause fish and fish products to be adulterated. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to develop and implement a program to carry out the requirements of the title.
Bill· SS. 2879 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1992
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from spending or obligating any appropriated funds to purchase, procure, or upgrade computers used by certain farmer service agencies of the Department of Agriculture prior to the implementation by the Secretary of reforms of the field structure and organization of the farmer service agencies.
Bill· HRH.R. 5458 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1992
Wood Products Export Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to five international forest products trade development centers located at universities in specified regions of the United States to: (1) assist them in increasing the international competitiveness of U.S. forest products; and (2) establish a network among them. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 5455 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1992
Public Lands Protection Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal criminal code to set penalties for the dumping of solid waste on specified Federal lands. Increases the fine for illegally cutting, destroying, or transporting timber on such lands. Directs the Secretary of: (1) the Interior to establish a program to decrease the dumping of solid waste on Federal lands; and (2) Agriculture to establish such a program with respect to lands administered by such Secretary through the Forest Service. Sets forth: (1) provisions regarding cooperation by the Secretary concerned with appropriate State and local agencies to disseminate information to the public to discourage such dumping; and (2) reporting requirements. Directs such Secretaries to establish programs to recycle solid waste on Federal lands. Sets forth reporting requirements.
Law· SS. 2875 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
WIC Infant Formula Procurement Act for 1992 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to revise the methods of procurement of infant formula for the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to solicit bids annually for a cost-containment contract to be entered into by infant formula manufacturers and those State agencies that elect to have the Secretary perform the bid solicitation and selection process on their behalf. Prescribes guidelines for the solicitation and selection process. Sets a deadline for the Secretary to report to the Congress on the decisions made by State agencies and the Secretary regarding bid solicitations, including any recommendations to increase competition by encouraging the participation of additional infant formula manufacturers. Prescribes guidelines for the Secretary to follow in order to reduce the costs of any supplemental foods. Requires each State agency to describe, in its plan submitted to the Secretary of FY 1994, the procedures it will use to reduce the purchase of low-iron infant formula for infants for whom such formula has not been prescribed by an appropriate health professional. Directs the Secretary to allocate to each State agency for specified fiscal years an amount for costs of nutrition services and administration on the basis of a formula which shall be designated to provide funds to help defray reasonable anticipated expenses associated with specified aspects of joint purchasing of infant formula by two or more State agencies and cost containment efforts.
Bill· HRH.R. 5439 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1992
Food Stamp Quality Control System Amendments of 1992 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to revise the formula (and related provisions) for determining a State's liability for excessive food stamp payment errors. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the State food stamp agencies to conduct a joint study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on measurement error and uniformity in the food stamp program quality control error-rate estimation system.
Bill· SS. 2861 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1992
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing a rule that would allow the importation of papayas into the continental United States, Alaska, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of the United States from Costa Rica until certain conditions are met.
Bill· HRH.R. 5414 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1992
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army (Secretary) to: (1) carry out a project for flood control and recreation, Sacramento and American Rivers, California, subject to specified requirements; and (2) exercise authority under the Water Supply Act of 1958, for such project, for water storage and conservation only upon supplemental authorization by the Congress and in compliance with all applicable laws. Requires: (1) the flood control dam constructed as part of the project to be designed so as not to preclude future expansion for water, power, and other beneficial purposes; and (2) the Secretary to cooperate with the State of California to establish an independent consulting board (composed of recognized dam engineering experts) to review the design and construction effort, provide technical confirmation that such dam will create no significantly greater economic, procedural, or other impediments to expansion of the project than construction of a multipurpose dam, and ensure that the design is technically consistent with soil conservation and fish and wildlife mitigation requirements under this Act. Specifies that: (1) this Act shall not constitute a congressional determination that expansion of the project in the future would be justified from either an environmental or economic perspective; (2) expansion shall require separate congressional authorization and compliance with all applicable laws; and (3) if such authorization is granted, the costs of the project shall be reallocated and an appropriate proportion of the costs assigned to those benefiting from the water and power features of the expanded project. Directs: (1) the Secretary to consider any planning and construction work of the non-Federal sponsors to protect the Natomas area which is commenced prior to the Army Corps of Engineers receiving appropriations to initiate construction of the project; (2) the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to cooperate with the Corps and make available any lands under their respective control for the purposes of the project; and (3) the Secretary of Transportation to participate in, and provide appropriate Federal financial assistance for, feasibility and environmental studies on alternative alignments for the relocation of that portion of California Route 49 which will be affected by the project, subject to specified requirements. Sets forth additional requirements with respect to cost sharing. Requires that: (1) the flood control structure authorized by this Act be designed and operated to minimize the frequency of inundation of the canyons upstream of the flood control dam and adverse effects of the project on canyon soils and vegetation resulting from inundation and release of flood waters; (2) the project include such measures as the Secretary deems appropriate to mitigate any unavoidable adverse effects of the project on aquatic, riparian, and upland habitat and on the fish and wildlife resources dependent thereon, including post-flood revegetation and rehabilitation of the canyons; and (3) mitigation for impacts on the elderberry longhorn beetle be accomplished, to the extent practicable, on lands in Federal ownership on the date of enactment. Directs the Secretary to: (1) ensure that Federal lands in the canyons in the vicinity of the project are actively managed to provide additional river-based and other recreation under the auspices of the Auburn State Recreation Area, California; and (2) identify necessary funding sources and assist as needed with development of an appropriate management plan adopted with due regard to potential future uses of the canyon lands. Authorizes the Secretary to expend specified sums on appropriate capital expenditures and on operation and maintenance of facilities and a program to implement any management plan prepared and adopted for the Auburn State Recreation Area, California. Requires the Secretary to direct that the Folsom Dam and Reservoir be operated to provide adequate protection against a flood event of 100-year frequency, as determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, uuntil such time as the construction of the project is completed.
Bill· SS. 2851 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1992
Pacific Yew Act - Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to pursue a conservation-management policy with respect to National Forest System and other public lands containing Pacific yew that will combine long-term conservation with sustainable yew harvests for the manufacture of taxol (a cancer treatment drug derived from the yew.) Requires timber sales to be conducted in accord with such policy. Directs the Secretaries to: (1) inventory Pacific yew on lands under their jurisdiction; (2) encourage and assist in research regarding the ecology of the Pacific yew, development of alternative methods of procuring taxol, and propagation of Pacific yew and other yew species in agricultural or commercial settings; and (3) ensure collection of Pacific yew resources in a fashion that minimizes illegal harvests and maintains the yew's taxol properties. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to sell Pacific yew to qualifying persons for manufacturing of taxol in the United States. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to determine and notify the appropriate Secretaries when sufficient medical quantities of taxol are available from sources other than Pacific yew harvested from Federal lands. Terminates the requirements of this Act upon such notification.
Bill· HRH.R. 5401 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1992
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a food misbranded if it is derived from a plant developed by genetic modification unless it is so labeled.
Bill· HRH.R. 5402 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1992
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to eliminate certain "useful life" easement requirements under the conservation reserve program.
Bill· SS. 2847 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1992
Cleveland National Forest Land Exchange Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land in the Cleveland National Forest, California, to the Orange County Council of the Boy Scouts of America in exchange for specified land in San Diego County, California, which shall become part of such Forest.
Bill· HRH.R. 5395 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1992
Utah Federal Lands Exchange Equity Act of 1992 - Declares certain lands in Utah to be part of the Navajo Indian Reservation upon the completion of the conveyance and acceptance of title by the United States and the State of Utah pursuant to this Act. Authorizes and directs the Secretary (Secretary) of the Interior to: (1) acquire such lands through exchange of Federal lands; and (2) convey certain lands to San Juan County, Utah. Declares certain lands in Utah to be part of the Goshute Indian Reservation. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to acquire such lands through exchange of Federal lands. Transfers such lands without cost to the Goshute Tribe or Utah. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire certain school trust lands owned by Utah within units of the National Forest System in exchange for Federal mineral interests or certain Federal land in units of the National Forest System in which State land is located. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire all school and institutional trust lands within established units of the National Park System in Utah. Provides that trust lands located within the boundaries of the Glen Canyon Recreation Area shall be administered as a part of such recreation area. Expresses the intent of the Congress that whenever Utah transfers to the United States any State lands within a county without receiving in exchange Federal lands of equal value in such county, the State should establish a funding mechanism to assure that the county will receive equal revenue. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 2835 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1992
Health Freedom Act of 1992 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to define "dietary supplement" as an article that: (1) includes, and is intended to supplement the diet with, a vitamin, mineral, herb, or another similar nutritional substance; or (2) is intended for ingestion in tablet, capsule, or liquid form, or another similar form. Provides that a dietary supplement shall not be considered to be a drug solely because: (1) of the potency of a substance in such supplement; and (2) the labeling or advertising for the supplement contains a claim, or provides information, concerning the potency of a substance in the supplement, or contains a health claim of the type permitted under this Act. Specifies that: (1) a substance in a dietary supplement is not a food additive if the substance is identified in the labeling of the dietary supplement as a substance provided by the product to supplement the diet; and (2) an article that is a dietary supplement may be described as a dietary supplement in labeling or advertising. Permits labeling or advertising for such a supplement to include a claim or other information that characterizes the relationship of the supplement, or the presence or absence of one or more of the substances provided by the supplement, to a disease or health-related condition, if: (1) such claim or other information is truthful and not misleading; and (2) there is scientific evidence, whether published or unpublished, that provides a reasonable basis for such claim or other information. Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from establishing any requirement that such a claim or other information that meets the requirements of this Act be approved by or conform to a regulation issued by the Secretary before the claim or information may be used. Provides that, if the Secretary asserts that labeling or advertising for a dietary supplement includes a claim or other information that fails to comply with the Act, the manufacturer (or other specified parties) may bring an action to secure a declaratory judgment regarding the validity of the assertion and obtain any other means of judicial relief authorized by law.
Bill· HRH.R. 5345 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1992
Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to extend eligibility to junior and community colleges for grants and fellowships for food and agricultural sciences education.
Law· HRH.R. 5334 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1992
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 - Title I: Housing Assistance - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 with respect to: (1) low-income housing authorization; (2) extension of ceiling rents; (3) exclusions from income under Indian housing programs; (4) public and section 8 housing tenant preference rules; and (5) family self-sufficiency program. Subtitle B: Public and Indian Housing - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937, the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983, the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 with respect to: (1) major reconstruction of obsolete projects; (2) public housing tenant preferences, operating subsidies, resident management, homeownership, family investment centers, and early childhood development services; (3) vacancy reduction; (4) Indian housing childhood development services; (5) exemption of Indian housing program from any new construction limitation; (6) public housing one-stop perinatal services demonstration; (7) the National Commission on Distressed Public Housing; (8) the National Commission on American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Housing; and (9) the sale of certain scattered-site housing. Subtitle C: Section 8 Assistance - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise the section 8 rental assistance program. Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to issue regulations to implement certain amendments to the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to: (1) the project-based certificate program; and (2) income eligibility for new construction units. Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration program to provide tenant-based assistance to very low-income families with children who reside in public housing to move out of areas of high concentrations of persons living in poverty to areas with low concentrations of such persons. Subtitle D: Other Programs - Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 and the Public and Assisted Housing Drug Elimination Act of 1990 with respect to elimination of drug abuse in public housing. Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 with respect to the flexible subsidy program. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 with respect to housing counseling. Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 with respect to the use of funds recaptured from refinancing State and local finance projects. Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act to authorize the Secretary to make planning and implementation grants for the development of Youthbuild education and job training programs for youth in rental housing projects occupied by low- and very low-income families, especially school drop-outs. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Homeownership Programs - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 and the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to: (1) HOPE homeownership programs; (2) the National Homeownership Trust demonstration; (3) Nehemiah housing opportunity grants; and (4) assistance under section 8 for homeownership. Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee up to 100 percent of housing construction, acquisition, or rehabilitation loans made to an Indian family or Indian housing authority. Title II: Home Investment Partnerships - Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to the home investment partnerships program to: (1) extend the authorization of appropriations; (2) eliminate certain restrictions on new construction; (3) allow the use of tenant-based rental assistance amounts for security deposits; (4) revise per unit cost limits; (5) make payment of certain administrative costs an eligible use of investment funds; (6) qualify as affordable rental housing certain housing not currently assisted by the low-income housing tax credit; (7) require repayment of certain housing assistance to the participating jurisdiction from the proceeds of any resale of affordable homeownership housing; and (8) revise matching requirements. Provides for: (1) assistance to insular areas; (2) establishment of community housing development organizations; (3) housing education and organizational support for community land trusts; and (4) eligibility as a first-time homebuyer of an owner of a manufactured home. Directs the Secretary to make available a model program to use cost-saving innovative building technologies and construction techniques for purposes of providing homeownership and rental opportunities. Requires State and local housing strategies to follow residential displacement and relocation assistance plans. Title III: Preservation of Low-income Housing - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to extend the authorization of appropriations. Revises provisions with respect to: (1) submission of information to tenants; (2) approval of a plan for action; (3) receipt of incentives to extend low-income use; (4) unit rent criteria for approval of a plan of action; (5) the resident homeownership program; (6) incentives under the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act; (7) insurance for second mortgage financing; and (8) supplemental loans. Eliminates the windfall profits test. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on housing projects assisted under flexible subsidy program. Title IV: Multifamily Housing Planning and Investment Strategies - Requires the owner of each covered multifamily housing property to submit to the Secretary a comprehensive needs assessment of the property, which shall first be reviewed for comment by property residents and, if the property is financed or assisted it, a State housing finance agency. Title V: Mortgage Insurance and Secondary Mortgage Market - Subtitle A: FHA Mortgage Insurance Programs - Amends the National Housing Act with respect to FHA mortgage insurance programs to revise: (1) limitations on the Secretary's insurance authority; (2) (and postpone) the termination of the Federal Housing Administration Advisory Board; (3) the maximum mortgage amount; (4) the maximum principal obligation of mortgages for veterans; (5) authority to decrease insurance premium charges; (6) the statute of limitations for distributive shares; (7) mortgage limits for multifamily projects; (8) provisions for insurance of loans for operating losses of multifamily projects; (9) expedited procedures for insurance for acquisition of Resolution Trust Corporation property; and (10) manufactured home loan insurance limits. Repeals the warranty requirement. Prohibits the Secretary from limiting the amount of closing costs financed in a mortgage. Directs the Secretary to establish an energy efficient mortgage pilot program in five States, which shall promote the purchase of new and existing energy efficient residential buildings and the installation of cost-effective improvements in existing residential buildings. Subtitle B: Secondary Mortgage Market Programs - Amends the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act to revise the limitation on Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) guarantees of mortgage-backed securities. Title VI: Housing for Elderly Persons, Handicapped Persons, and Persons With Disabilities - Subtitle A: In General - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 and the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to: (1) supportive housing for the elderly and for persons with disabilities; (2) the congregate housing services program; (3) the HOPE for elderly independence program; and (4) housing opportunities for persons with AIDS. Subtitle B: Authority to Provide Designated Public Housing - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise a public housing agency's basic authority to provide designated public housing. Requires a public housing agency to set-aside a portion of section 8 assistance for handicapped and disabled families. Directs the Secretary to reserve funds for the development and reconstruction of housing for handicapped and disabled families. Subtitle C: Standards and Obligations of Residency and Service Coordination in Federally Assisted Housing - Directs the Secretary to require owners of federally assisted housing, as a condition of receiving housing assistance, to comply with this subtitle. Directs the Secretary to establish a task force to review HUD policy and recommend criteria for occupancy in federally assisted housing. Requires the Secretary, subsequently, to issue regulations to establish such criteria, and owners to accept only occupants who meet them. Directs the Secretary to require owners of federally assisted housing projects to provide for one or more individuals ("service coordinators") to coordinate supportive services for older or disabled residents. Subtitle D: Applicability - Sets forth the effective date of these subtitles. Title VII: Rural Housing - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend: (1) the authorization of appropriations and loan insurance and guarantee authority of the rural housing program; (2) the rural housing voucher demonstration program; (3) the rental housing loan program; and (4) authority for mutual and self-help housing grants and loans. Revises eligibility requirements for loans for housing and buildings on adequate farms to authorize such loans for homes on leased land owned by community land trusts. Revises requirements for: (1) maximum income of borrowers under guaranteed loans; (2) designation of underserved areas and reservation of assistance; (3) rental housing loans; and (4) housing preservation grants for replacement of housing. Designates Plainview, Texas, a rural area under the rural housing program. Title VIII: Community Development - Subtitle A: Community Development Block Grants - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to extend the authorization of appropriations for community development block grants, special purpose grants, and the authority for loan guarantees. Revises requirements with respect to: (1) units of general local government; (2) grants to nonentitlement areas; (3) State community development plans and reports; and (4) eligible activities. Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to assistance for colonias. Subtitle B: Other Community Development Programs - Directs the Secretary to establish a program to assist State and local governments to develop computerized databases of community development needs, including grants for installation and use of integrated database systems and computer mapping tools. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the neighborhood development demonstration program. Title IX: Regulatory and Miscellaneous Programs - Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the HUD research and development program. Makes technical amendments to the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and the National Housing Act with respect to the National Institute of Building Sciences. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to extend the authorization of appropriations for the fair housing initiatives program. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act with respect to: (1) use of negotiated rulemaking procedures; and (2) extended authorization of HUD program monitoring and evaluation activities. Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the National Commission on Manufactured Housing. Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 with respect to its applicability to second mortgages and refinancings. Amends the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 with respect to mortgage loans insured through private mortgage insurance. Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 with respect to credit given majority-owned financial institutions for cooperative ventures with nonminority-owned and nonwomen-owned financial institutions and low-income credit unions. Declares that specified certification requirements of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 shall not apply to assistance for multifamily projects during a certain period of time. Directs the Secretary to reestablish the Solar Bank. Amends the Housing Act of 1959, as amended by the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act, with respect to labor wage rates under construction programs for supportive housing for the elderly and for persons with disabilities. Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act with respect to energy efficient mortgages. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 to direct the Secretary to require public housing agencies and Indian housing authorities, and their contractors and subcontractors, to make their best efforts (including contract awards) to give low- and very low-income persons the training and employment opportunities generated by Federal housing and community development assistance. Requires a study and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of this program. Authorizes appropriations to the National American Indian Housing Council for training and assistance to Indian housing authorities. Title X: Housing Programs Under Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act - Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the: (1) emergency shelter grants program; (2) supportive housing demonstration program; (3) supplemental assistance for facilities to assist the homeless; (4) shelter plus care program; and (5) section 8 assistance for single room occupancy dwellings. Requires such programs to: (1) use, to the maximum extent practicable, homeless individuals and families in constructing or rehabilitating housing assisted under them and in providing specified services; and (2) require each assistance recipient to provide for the participation of at least one homeless or former homeless individual on its board of directors or equivalent policy making entity, or otherwise provide for the consultation and participation of such individual in policy- and decision-making. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance for a safe havens for homeless individuals demonstration program, especially for eligible persons unable to participate in mental health treatment programs or to receive other supportive services. Prohibits the Secretary from making available for lease any single family properties once acquired for use by the homeless before listing and making them generally available for sale for at least 30 days. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make eligible properties available for acquisition by qualified applicants for use only to provide rural housing for homeless individuals and families. Requires employment of the homeless in construction and rehabilitation of such properties, as well as participation in policy- and decision-making. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a rural homelessness program of grants to eligible organizations to pay for the Federal share (75 percent) of the cost of direct emergency assistance to the homeless, as well as homelessness prevention assistance and assistance in finding permanent housing and supportive services. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act to require evaluations of programs by the homeless. Specifies restrictions on the allocation formula for revised homeless housing assistance. Directs the Secretary of HUD to consult with the chief executive officers of the States and the Department of Defense and report to the Congress on the availability of National Guard facilities as overnight shelters for homeless individuals.
Bill· HRH.R. 5336 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1992
Arkansas-Idaho Land Exchange Act of 1992 - Provides for the exchange of lands of approximately equal value in Arkansas and Idaho between the Federal Government and the Potlatch Corporation. Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to add specified lands acquired through the exchange to the Cache River and White River National Wildlife Refuges. Directs that lands within the Grandmother Mountain Wilderness Study Area transferred to the Forest Service under this Act shall be managed so as not to impair their wilderness suitability until completion of a specified land and resource plan revision. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare a specified environmental analysis.
Bill· HRH.R. 5288 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1992
Job Training 2000 Act - Establishes, as part of the Federal system of funding for vocational training programs: (1) a network of local skill centers to provide a common point of entry; (2) a certification system; and (3) a voucher system. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Education for allocations to States and private industry councils to assist in carrying out title III of this Act, relating to certification of vocational training programs. Title I: General Provisions - Part A: Federal Responsibilities - Establishes the Federal Vocational Training Council (Federal Council), composed of the Secretaries of Labor, Education, Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs (or their designees) and such other agency heads as the President may designate. Includes among Federal Council functions: (1) advice and guidance on implementation of this Act to affected Federal, State, and local agencies and organizations; (2) ensuring application of consistent policies, practices, and procedures in Federal vocational training programs (including, through waiver authority, requiring common terms and performance standards, collection of common data, coordination and consolidation of timing and sequence, of State and local plans and reports); (3) serving as an information clearinghouse among Federal, State, and local officials; (4) evaluation of the this Act's effect on individuals, institutions, agencies, and labor markets; and (5) oversight of implementation and administration of this Act. Grants each member of the Federal Council limited waiver authority over regulations or provisions of law in their jurisdiction that would prevent application of consistent practices and procedures to the specified items. Terminates such authority three years after the effective date of this Act. Requires certain reports to the President by the Federal Council. Establishes a National Private Sector, Advisory Board on Vocational Training (Advisory Board), composed of 15 members appointed by the President. Allows the President to consider including: (1) representatives of the private sector, who shall be private sector owners or executives with substantial management or policy responsibility, to constitute a majority of the membership; (2) representatives of educational agencies, welfare and social service agencies, labor organizations, or community-based organizations; and (3) participants in vocational training programs and other individuals who have special knowledge and qualifications with respect to vocational training. Directs the Advisory Board to advise the Federal Council on carrying out its responsibilities, increasing private sector involvement in vocational training programs, and ways of ensuring that the Federal vocational training system meets labor market needs. Part B: State Human Resource Investment Council - Requires establishment of a single State human resource investment council (State Council) by each State that receives assistance under an applicable program (i.e. one under the Adult Education Act, Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Wagner-Peyser Act, the JOBS program under AFDC provisions of the Social Security Act, specified employment and training provisions under the Food Stamp Act of 1977, specified student aid provisions for Pell Grants, Supplemental Grants, Stafford Guaranteed Loans, Work-Study Programs, and Perkins Direct Loans under the Higher Education Act of 1965, Veterans Vocational Training programs, and other programs designated by the Federal Council). Requires the State Council to advise the Governor on: (1) coordination methods, after reviewing provision of services and use of funds under applicable programs; and (2) developing, implementing, and coordinating State and local standards and measures relating to applicable programs. Requires each State Council to consist of members appointed by the Governor who are representatives of: (1) business and industry (including agriculture, where appropriate), who shall constitute a majority of the membership; (2) organized labor and community-based organizations; (3) the chief administrative office from each State agency primarily responsible for administering an applicable program; (4) the State legislature and appropriate State agencies and organizations; (5) local governments; (6) local educational agencies and postsecondary institutions; (7) local welfare and public housing agencies; and (8) individuals with special knowledge and qualifications with respect to education and career development needs of members of special populations, women, and minorities, including one individual representative of special education. Requires each State to certify to the Federal Council the establishment and membership of the State Council at least 90 days before the beginning of each period of two program years for which a Job Training 2000 plan is submitted. Part C: Additional State Responsibilities - Requires each Governor to biennially issue a statement of goals and objectives for the Job Training 2000 system established in the State pursuant to this Act, in order to assist the private industry councils prepare the Job Training 2000 Plan. Requires dissemination of such statement to private industry councils and other interested agencies, organizations, and individuals. Requires each Governor to report annually to the Federal Council on activities undertaken in the State pursuant to this Act, including specified information and additional imports as requested. Includes among each Governor's oversight responsibilities with respect to private industry councils: (1) monitoring compliance; (2) providing technical assistance; and (3) applying sanctions, including revocation of plan approval or imposition of a reorganization plan (which may be appealed to the Secretary of Labor). Part D: Local Plan and Report - Requires each private industry council (PIC) to submit to the Governor a Job Training 2000 plan for two-year periods. Requires PICs to prepare such plans in a specified manner, and in consultation with representatives of: (1) Federal vocational training programs and local public and private providers of service to such programs, including programs authorized under specified Federal laws and provisions; and (2) local business, labor, educational, and community-based organization and other interested individuals and organizations. Sets forth required contents of such plans, including provisions relating to the certification system and the voucher system under this Act. Sets forth provisions for review and approval of such plans by the Governor (with State Council advice), with opportunities for PIC plan modifications and appeals to the Secretary of Labor, and final review by such Secretary. Requires annual PIC reports to the Governor and State Council. Title II: Skill Centers - Requires each PIC, in accordance with specified consultation procedures, to designate a network of skill centers in each service delivery area (SDA) to: (1) improve individuals' access to vocational training by designating common entry points to programs; (2) better inform individuals to employment opportunities, local labor market conditions, and local vocational training programs' performance; (3) facilitate matching local employers with potential employees who meet hiring qualifications and workforce skill needs; and (4) encourage greater coordination and minimize duplication of services between federally funded vocational training programs. Allows any entity or consortium located in the SDA to apply to be designated as a skill center (including Employment Service offices, community colleges, community-based organizations, administrative entities under JTPA, and other interested organizations and entities). Sets forth skill center functions, including providing specified services in the following categories: (1) core services which each center is required to make available; (2) enhanced services which each center may make available; and (3) specialized employer services which each center may provide to employers on a fee-for-service basis (income from which must be used to expand or enhance the services such center provides). Requires that programs authorized under specified Federal provisions (under certain of the Federal laws listed as applicable programs under title I part B), participate in the operation of the skill centers. Allows other programs providing basic skills, literacy, or vocational training to participate in such center operation as a party to an agreement if the PIC and other participating programs approve. Sets forth requirements for skill center: (1) designation procedures (including publication of notice, consultation, selection criteria, and charter issuance); (2) participating programs agreements with PIC (including exceptions where a participating program may be allowed to provide specified core services in addition to center provision of such services); (3) performance standards (prescribed by the Secretary of Labor in consultation with the Federal Council, with adjustments and additions by each Governor, and with sanctions for noncompliance); and (4) incentive grants, to be awarded to skill centers by Governors from funds available under specified provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act (Employment Service) and the JTPA. Title III: Certification System for Federal Vocational Training - Directs the Secretary of Education to allocate funds (appropriated pursuant to the authorization under this Act) to the States and PICs to assist in carrying out a certification system to: (1) ensure that only high quality vocational training programs are eligible to receive Federal funds; (2) establish performance standards to increase effectiveness of vocational training programs; and (3) promote the availability of information on the local level regarding performance of vocational training programs. Provides that such allocations shall be based on factors deemed appropriate by such Secretary, in consultation with the Federal Council. Requires a vocational training program provided by an institution or other service provider (except an on-the-job training program) to be certified in order to be eligible to receive Federal funds under specified covered programs (including those under certain of Federal laws and provisions listed as applicable programs under title I part B and mandatory participating programs under title II). Directs the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the Federal Council, to prescribe performance standards for vocational training programs provided by an institution or other service provider. Prohibits such standards from being revised more frequently than once every two years. Requires such standards to address: (1) the institution's financial responsibility; (2) program costs; (3) student withdrawal rates; (4) student loan default rate at the institution; (5) graduate licensure rates; and (6) graduate employment placement, retention, and earnings. Authorizes additional standards based on other measures of program effectiveness in meeting special needs of disadvantaged students and in preparing students for employment, including meeting relevant industry skill standards. Allows PICs to modify levels of successful performance under each such standard, if local conditions so justify and if State and Federal approval is given. Sets forth certification procedures, including: (1) designation of a single State agency to certify programs, collect data, issue guidelines, and determine information to be included in applications; (2) role of the PIC (in the SDA in which the program is located) in certifying, upon notification of the application, whether the program meets performance standards (in which role a PIC may use staff of skill centers or other entities or may establish a consortium with other PICs in the State); (4) State agency approval of applications (with requirements for recertification under specified conditions, and authority to suspend program certification on an emergency basis); (5) appeal procedures at State and Federal levels; (6) conflict-of-interest prohibitions; and (7) PIC dissemination of information on program performance to the skill centers. Title IV: Vocational Training Voucher System - Establishes a vocational training voucher system. Requires that vocational training and related services provided to individuals from funds under the following covered programs shall only be provided through such voucher system: (1) title II (Training Services for the the Disadvantaged) and title III (Employment and Training Assistance for Dislocated Workers) of JTPA; (2) specified employment and training provisions under the Food Stamp Act of 1977; and (3) the new Postsecondary Vocational Training program which this Act adds as part D of title II of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act. Defines related services as those provided by a single service provider as part of a package of services which includes vocational training. Allows the covered program to provide, in addition to vocational training and related services, other services (which must be identified in the agreement) through such voucher system. Allows other Federal programs, in addition to the listed covered programs, to participate in the voucher system if such participation is consistent with the laws governing such programs and the PIC approves. Makes the PIC responsible for overseeing the establishment and operation of the voucher system. Directs the PIC, after consultation with local providers of vocational training, to enter into an agreement with the skill centers and the local agencies responsible for administering the covered programs and the additional programs. Requires such written agreement to specify: (1) common procedures for voucher issuance; (2) financial and management information systems to be used to administer the voucher system; (3) payment schedules relating to vouchers, including those for courses not completed by participants; and (4) conditions to ensure compliance with covered program requirements. Requires such vouchers to contain specified information and conditions, including an expiration date and the limitation that the voucher is only redeemable for certified programs. Requires at least 20 percent of the total payment to be withheld from the service provider until the participant has: (1) successfully completed the training; and (2) been employed and retained employment for a period of at least 90 days. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Federal Council, to issue regulations implementing such withholding requirements. Limits the total dollar amount of outstanding vouchers issued in an SDA by a covered program to not more than the amount of funds available to such program in such SDA. Sets forth special rules for vouchers issued for on-the-job training, including: (1) specification of a particular occupational area; (2) redemption only by employers with available positions approved by the covered program in that occupational area; and (3) inapplicability of the withholding requirement. Allows a contract for direct services, in lieu of a voucher, to be used for provision of vocational training and related services under a covered program if the PIC approves the program's request based on a finding of: (1) an insufficient number of providers in an SDA for a voucher system; or (2) programs in the SDA are unable to provide effective services to special participant populations, such as individuals with severe disabilities and substance abusers. Authorizes the Governor to direct a PIC to rescind such a contract upon determining that there was an insufficient basis for such findings. Title V: Conforming Amendments to Other Acts - Amends the Adult Education Act, Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act, Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Wagner-Peyser Act, Social Security Act, and Food Stamp Act of 1977 to add requirements relating to duties of State human resources councils (as required by this Act) with respect to applicable programs under such Acts. Amends JTPA to add various program requirements (conforming to this Act) for certification of vocational training programs, participation in operation of skill centers, and vouchered services under JTPA title II (disadvantaged adults and youth programs) and title III (dislocated worker program). Revises JTPA provisions for the Job Corps to include specified arrangements with the skill centers, transfer of specified resources to skill centers, certification requirements for vocational training providers to be eligible for contracts with Job Corps Centers. Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act to include the skill centers under provisions for incentive grants. Requires the employment service to: (1) participate in operation of the skill centers; (2) ensure that core services and agreed-upon enhanced services are provided only through skill centers; and (3) transfer sufficient resources to the skill centers to provide such services to individuals who are authorized to receive services under the Wagner-Peyser Act and who are not participants in other participating programs under the agreement. Allows local employment service offices to apply to be designated as skill centers. Amends Federal law relating to Veterans Vocational Training programs to include references to skill centers. Requires participation in the operation of skill centers and transfer of sufficient resources to such centers to provide the core services and agreed-upon enhanced services to individuals participating under provisions for Veterans Vocational Training. Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act to require certain grants for postsecondary and adult vocational education programs under title II of such Act to be used only to provide assistance to vocational training programs certified under this Act. Requires a vocational training program to be certified under this Act before it may provide secondary level training to students under the Tech-Prep Education program (part E of title III fo the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act). Amends the JOBS program under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) provisions of the Social Security Act to require State agency participation in the operation of skill centers and transfers of sufficient resources to such centers to provide core services and agreed-upon enhanced services. Requires a vocational training program to be certified under this Act before it may receive funds under the JOBS program. Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require a vocational training program to be certified under this Act before it may receive funds under certain employment and training project provisions of such Act. Requires vocational training under such Act to be provided only through the voucher system established under this Act. Allows other additional services to be provided through such system. Requires State agencies to enter into agreements relating to administration of the voucher system. Requires State agencies to: (1) participate in operation of skill centers and transfer sufficient resources to such centers to enable them to be the sole providers of core services and agreed-upon enhanced services to food stamp program participants determined to need vocational training. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require certification for certain institutions that offer vocational education, for purposes of eligibility for certain student aid programs (including specified grant, loan, and work-study programs). Requires such institutions to provide for skill center referrals, prior to enrollment, for students receiving such aid. Amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Refugee Assistance Act program under specified Federal law, and the Trade Adjustment Assistance program under the Trade Act of 1974 to require certification of vocational training programs under this Act as a condition of eligibility for funding under such Acts. Title VI: Effective Date and Transition - Allows each member of the Federal Council, in consultation with such Council, to establish transition rules and procedures for programs under their jurisdiction, for purposes of this Act.
Bill· SS. 2762 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Northern Spotted Owl Preservation and Northwest Economic Stabilization Act of 1992 - States that it is the purpose of this Act to set forth a plan to preserve the northern spotted owl (owl) while minimizing to the greatest extent possible the related loss of jobs and revenues. Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to: (1) adopt amendments to land and resource management plans to implement such purpose; (2) conduct timber sales and harvesting, prior to such amendments' completion, in accordance with a certain northern spotted owl preservation plan; and (3) amend such plans with regard to certain National Forest timber harvest rotations, silviculture systems, and land withdrawals. Establishes owl protection zones of between ten and 100 acres around each nesting tree. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Interior to implement the Northern Spotted Owl Preservation Plan-Draft, not withstanding any other provision of law. Directs the Secretaries to manage certain lands under their respective jurisdictions in Washington, Oregon, and California in accordance with such Plan. Subjects any person who hunts, injures, or collects an owl to specified civil and criminal penalties under the Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Sets forth congressional reporting requirements.
Law· SS. 2780 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to eliminate certain "useful life" easement requirements under the conservation reserve program.
Bill· SS. 2771 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Clear Creek County, Colorado, Public Lands Transfer Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to transfer, under specified conditions, certain public lands in Clear Creek County, Colorado, to the Secretary of Agriculture, the State of Colorado, and certain local governments (Clear Creek County and the towns of Silver Plume and Georgetown). Requires the consent of the Secretary before the grantee or its successor can transfer the title of such conveyed lands. Reverts such transferred title to the United States in specified circumstances. Gives an individual with an existing valid mining claim or location, and who has met specified U.S. mining requirements, on certain public lands transferred by this Act: (1) protection in possessory rights for a seven-year period; and (2) an opportunity to patent such lands. Deems an abandonment of such claim or location by the individual if certain conditions are not met within the designated period. Withdraws specified public lands from U.S. mining and mineral leasing laws.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 311 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Designates February 21 through February 27, 1993, as American Wine Appreciation Week. Commends the winegrape and fruit growers and vintners of the United States for the production of high quality agricultural products.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 303 (102nd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should study options for implementing universal-type school lunch and breakfast programs.
Law· HRH.R. 5237 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Rural Electrification Administration Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to provide that if a borrower of a loan made or guaranteed by the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) applies for an electric or telephone service loan from a private lender, REA shall grant the private lender a lien accommodation on the total assets securing the unpaid balance on an equal and pro rata basis with the Government lien, except if such private loan will adversely affect the borrower's ability to repay the Government. Subordinates the REA lien to a lien made by a private lender on a non-electric or non-telephone rural development loan if the borrower's revenues will be sufficient to meet all loan obligations. Revises discounted loan prepayment provisions to permit prepayment or sale of a loan that was advanced before a certain date or has been fully advanced for not less than two years. Limits future loan eligibility for prepaying borrowers. Repeals provisions regarding: (1) borrower net worth; and (2) the prepayment privatization demonstration program.
Bill· HRH.R. 5230 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
American Technology and Competitiveness Act - Title I: General Provisions - Sets forth the purposes and goals of this Act. Title II: Manufacturing - Manufacturing Technology and Extension Act of 1992 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to designate the Department of Commerce as the lead civilian Federal agency to work with U.S. industry, State and local governments, and private entities to enhance U.S. manufacturing capabilities. Establishes the Nationwide Network of Manufacturing Outreach Centers to assist U.S. manufacturers, especially small and medium-sized firms, to expand the use of technology and modern manufacturing processes. Provides for a related communications infrastructure and information clearinghouse. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes the Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Networking Projects program to create technology development programs to create advanced computer-integrated, electronically-networked manufacturing technologies and associated applications. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to expand the Engineering Research Centers program with emphasis on advanced manufacturing. Authorizes the establishment of up to five new Centers for such purpose. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Critical Technologies - Subtitle A: Miscellaneous - Requires the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees regarding any executive branch international trade negotiations which might affect Federal research and development programs. Subtitle B: Council on Technology and Competitiveness - Establishes within the Executive Office of the President a Council on Technology and Competitiveness. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Advanced Technology Program - Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress an expansion plan for the Advanced Technology program. Requires the establishment of at least two new critical technologies consortia. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Technology Commercialization Loans - Authorizes the Secretary to make technology commercialization loans. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Critical Technologies Development-Part I: General Provisions - Critical Technologies Development Act of 1992 - Directs the Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology (Under Secretary) to establish a critical technologies development advisory committee. Part II: Program Structure and Operation - Establishes a program of financing qualified business concerns through federally assisted licensees. Part III: Enforcement - Provides for licensee enforcement. Part IV: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Under Secretary to issue and guarantee trust certificates for licensee preferred securities. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: International Standardization - Amends the American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991 to expand the standards pilot program to promote the dissemination of U.S. technical standards abroad. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress with regard to the appropriate Federal role in developing and promulgating domestic and global product and quality standards. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for: (1) the Office of the Under Secretary; (2) technology policy; (3) Japanese technical literature; (4) National Technical Information Service modernization, including a facilities study; and (5) specified activities within the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Prohibits the fraudulent use of "Made in America" labels. Provides for compliance with the Buy American Act. Prohibits the making of a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award within a category or subcategory if there are no qualifying enterprises in that category or subcategory. Title VI: Competitiveness Research, Data Collection, and Evaluation - Directs the Secretary to conduct a competitiveness research program. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Education and Workforce Training - Subtitle A: American Industrial Quality and Training - American Industrial Quality and Training Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for workforce quality training partnerships. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants for youth technical apprenticeship programs. Directs such Secretary to establish a program information clearinghouse. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants for statewide systems of technical training. Authorizes appropriations. Requires reports on U.S. industry worker training and on the applicability of total quality management to education. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Scientific and Technical Education - Scientific and Technical Education Act of 1992 - Requires NSF to: (1) carry out a program to assist associate-degree-granting colleges to provide education in advanced technology fields, with emphasis on the needs of nontraditional students; (2) establish up to ten scientific and technical education centers of excellence; (3) make grants to eligible college partnerships to assist associate students in mathematics, science, engineering, or technology make the transition to bachelor-degree-granting institutions; and (4) make grants to strengthen the relationships between associate-degree-colleges and secondary schools. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes NSF to make grants for technology education teacher training. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to require the Secretary to report to the Congress on establishment of a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for educational institutions. Directs the Secretary to establish in the Technology Administration the American Industrial Quality Foundation to further U.S. industrial competitiveness in the international marketplace. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Academic Research Facilities Modernization Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations for the Academic Research Facilities Modernization program. Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture, of Defense, and of Energy, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Director of the National Institutes of Aeronautics and Space Health to each establish academic research facilities awards programs. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes NASA, NSF, and the Department of Energy to establish a joint awards program in support of science and technology instructional equipment and facilities. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to authorize NSF to foster the development of high performance computing. Amends the Excellence in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering Act of 1990 to authorize appropriations for grants to educational agencies for systematic reform of mathematics and science education. Title VIII: Tax and Investment Incentives - Investment Incentives Act of 1992 - Subtitle A: Tax and Investment Incentives - Part I: Research and Experimentation Tax Credit Made Permanent - Amends the Internal Revenue Service Code to make the research tax credit permanent. Part II: Capital Gain Provisions - Provides for: (1) the indexing of certain assets acquired on or after February 1, 1992, for purposes of determining gain; and (2) a 50 percent exclusion for gain of individuals from certain small business stock. Part III: Temporary Investment Incentives - Provides for: (1) a temporary expensing increase for small businesses; and (2) a special depreciation allowance for certain equipment acquired in 1992. Subtitle B: Revenue Provisions - Makes the high-income personal exemption phaseout permanent. Disallows the deduction for: (1) certain employee remuneration in excess of $1 million; and (2) club membership dues. Requires specified identifying information with regard to certain seller-provided financing. Extends temporarily the overall limitation on high-income taxpayer itemized deductions. Sets forth a mark-to-market accounting method for securities dealers. Increases the base tax rate on ozone-depleting chemicals. Title IX: National Security Reinvestment - Subtitle A: Advanced Manufacturing Equipment Leasing Corporations - Provides for the establishment of a pilot Advanced Manufacturing Equipment Leasing Corporation which shall: (1) expand the commercial market for advanced manufacturing equipment produced by eligible Department of Defense (DOD) contractors; and (2) provide such equipment through lease or sale to small and medium commercial businesses at less than market rates. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Science and Mathematics Educational Reinstatement - Directs NSF to establish and administer a fellowship program for teaching certification in science and mathematics for qualifying displaced or retiring military and defense support personnel. Funds the program through DOD. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle C: National Security Retraining Fellowships - Directs NSF to establish and administer a fellowship program for retraining qualifying displaced or nonretiring military and defense support personnel with specialized defense-related expertise in science or engineering. Funds the program through DOD. Provides for the establishment of a related Engineer Reinvestment Panel. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle D: Multiprogram Laboratory Conversion - Requires that within five years of enactment of this Act, ten percent of all Federal funding for research and development at (the Department of Energy) multiprogram laboratories shall be used for joint projects with private industry, including specified priority projects. Subtitle E: Research and Development Spending - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) any budget reductions in DOD research and development should be balanced by equal increases in civilian research and development spending; and (2) defense and civilian research and development spending should be made approximately equal as soon as practicable. Subtitle F: Manufacturing Extension and Critical Technologies - Authorizes DOD appropriations for: (1) manufacturing extension programs; and (2) critical technology application centers.
Bill· HRH.R. 5256 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Northern Spotted Owl Preservation and Northwest Economic Stabilization Act of 1992 - States that it is the purpose of this Act to set forth a plan to preserve the northern spotted owl (owl) while minimizing to the greatest extent possible the related loss of jobs and revenues. Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to: (1) adopt amendments to land and resource management plans to implement such purpose; (2) conduct timber sales and harvesting, prior to such amendments' completion, in accordance with a certain northern spotted owl preservation plan; and (3) amend such plans with regard to certain National Forest timber harvest rotations, silviculture systems, and land withdrawals. Establishes owl protection zones of between ten and 100 acres around each nesting tree. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Interior to implement the Northern Spotted Owl Preservation Plan-Draft, not withstanding any other provision of law. Directs the Secretaries to manage certain lands under their respective jurisdictions in Washington, Oregon, and California in accordance with such Plan. Subjects any person who hunts, injures, or collects an owl to specified civil and criminal penalties under the Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Sets forth congressional reporting requirements.
Bill· HRH.R. 5238 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Revitalization of Health and Education in Rural America Act of 1992 - Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to direct the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration to establish a program for providing grants to qualified consortia to assist them in obtaining access to modern interactive telecommunications systems through the public switched network. Sets forth: (1) application requirements; (2) review and comment procedures (by a State agency); (3) criteria for selection of grantees (giving priority to applications demonstrating the greatest likelihood of successfully and efficiently carrying out specified activities, the participation of the local telephone exchange carrier in providing and operating the telecommunications transmission facilities required by a State plan for upgrading rural telecommunications infrastructure, and unconditional financial support from the local community, and ensuring (to the extent possible) that various regions of the United States benefit from the use of the grants); and (4) limits on the maximum grant amount and the period of disbursement of grants. Specifies that grants under this Act may be used to support the costs of activities involving the sending and receiving of information to improve health care or educational services in rural areas. Sets limitations with respect to: (1) the use of grant funds for the acquisition of interactive telecommunications equipment; (2) the use of such funds to employ consultants; and (3) the authorization of appropriations. Bars the use of funds under this Act to establish or operate a telecommunications network or telecommuncations service for hire. Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (REA) to: (1) provide for a reduction in the interest rate on insured telephone loans for borrowers from States with plans for upgrading rural telecommunications infrastructure; and (2) eliminate a preference for rural telephone bank loans for borrowers located in such States. Modifies the definition of "rural area" for purposes of telephone loans to mean specified areas not included within the boundaries of an area having a population in excess of 10,000 (currently, 1,500) inhabitants. Expresses the sense of the Congress that persons eligible for telephone loans under the REA who are interested in upgrading telecommunications in rural areas should obtain financial assistance under such Act through a subsidiary in order to limit the assets subject to the lien requirements of such Act. Directs the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration and the Governor of the Rural Telephone Bank to prescribe such regulations as necessary to carry out this Act.
Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 489 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1992
Designates February 21 through 27, 1993, as American Wine Appreciation Week. Commends the winegrape and fruit growers and vintners of the United States for the production of high quality agricultural products.
Law· SS. 2759 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1992
Homeless Children Nutrition Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the National School Lunch Act to revise provisions for demonstration projects for food service for homeless children under the age of six in emergency shelters. Includes State, city, local, or county governments, and other public bodies (as well as private nonprofit organizations) among the entities which may participate in such projects. Provides that such projects shall receive reimbursement payments for meals and supplements served on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays (in addition to payments for weekdays) at the request of the project sponsor. Allows specified meal pattern requirements to be modified as necessary by the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to take into account the needs of infants. Increases the minimum amounts which the Secretary is required to expend for such projects in FY 1993 and 1994. Directs the Secretary to advise each State of: (1) the availability of such projects for States, cities, counties, local governments, and other public bodies; and (2) application procedures for project participation. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct other demonstration projects to identify other effective means of providing food assistance to homeless children residing in temporary shelters.
Bill· SS. 2752 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1992
REFORM Commission Act of 1992 - Establishes a Reorganization for Efficient Field Office Reduction and Management Commission to review the Department of Agriculture's field structure.
Bill· SS. 2760 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1992
Child Nutrition Improvements Act of 1992 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, from amounts received in the form of gifts, bequests, and devises, to establish a program to promote breastfeeding as the best method of infant nutrition. Amends the National School Lunch Act to: (1) revise the definition of the term "institution"; and (2) extend two pilot projects under which for-profit organizations providing day care qualify under a child care and adult food program.
Bill· SS. 2761 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1992
WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition Act of 1992 - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to revise and extend the authorization of appropriations through FY 1994 for the special supplemental food (WIC) farmers' market program. Makes funds available for additional State participation.
Bill· SS. 2754 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1992
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to permit specified tracts of land on or near National Forest ski areas to be used for construction of employee housing.
Bill· SS. 2735 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1992
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Agricultural Research Service, to make sweet potato research grants to land-grant colleges and universities. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 2734 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1992
Water Resources Development Act of 1992 - Title I: Project Authorization - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army (the Secretary) to carry out public works projects in the following locations for improvements to navigation, flood control, and ecosystem restoration: (1) Southeast Alaska Harbors of Refuge, Alaska; (2) Whiteman's Creek, Arkansas; (3) American River Watershed, California; (4) Morro Bay Harbor, California; (5) Sacramento Metro Area, California; (6) Rio Grande Alamosa, Colorado; (7) Delaware River Mainstem and Channel Deepening, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; (8) Canaveral Harbor, Florida; (9) Kissimee River, Florida; (10) Port Everglades Harbor, Florida; (11) Savannah Harbor, Georgia and South Carolina; (12) Kentucky Lock Addition, Kentucky; (13) Amite River and Tributaries, Louisiana; (14) Saugus River and Tributaries, Massachusetts; (15) Las Vegas Wash and Tributaries, Nevada; (16) Morehead City Harbor, North Carolina; (17) West Onslow and New River Inlet, North Carolina; (18) Lackawanna River at Scranton, Pennsylvania; (19) Locks and Dams 2, 3, and 4 Monongahela River, Pennsylvania; (20) Rio Grande De Loiza, Puerto Rico; (21) Sargent Beach, Texas; and (22) Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas. Modifies projects at the following locations with respect to coastal storm protection, storm water collection, flood control beach erosion control and hurricane protection, navigation, and water quality improvement: (1) Virginia Beach, Virginia; (2) South Fork of the Zumbro River, Rochester, Minnesota; (3) Moorefield and Petersburg, West Virginia; (4) Buena Vista, Virginia; (5) Westhampton Beach, New York; (6) Jones inlet, New York; (7) Buffomville Lake, Massachusetts; (8) French River, Connecticut and Massachusetts; and (9) Clear Creek, Texas. Reauthorizes the project for flood control at: (1) Perry Creek, Sioux City, Iowa; and (2) Green Bay Levee District, Iowa. Title II: Project Related Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to develop and implement a plan for modifying the channel bypass element of the Levisa Fork, Kentucky, project for water quality improvement in and restoration of Pikeville Lake, Kentucky. Authorizes appropriations. Bars the Secretary from proceeding with the divestiture of locks and dams five through 14 on the Kentucky River, Kentucky, until the Secretary has complied with the terms of a specified Memorandum of Understanding. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to: (1) develop a comprehensive five-year and 20-year sediment management strategy for the Toledo River (and authorizes the Secretary to conduct the engineering and construction activities necessary to implement the five-year strategy); and (2) establish the William B. Hoyt II Visitor Center at Mount Morris Dam, Mount Morris, New York. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to proceed with the project for the Richmond, Virginia, Filtration Plant. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) maintain navigation access to, and berthing areas at, all currently operating public and private commercial dock facilities associated with or having access to the Federal navigation project on the Columbia, Snake, and Clearwater Rivers from Bonneville Dam to and including Lewiston, Idaho, at a depth commensurate with the Federal navigation project; (2) complete the shore protection measures on Cliff Walk, Newport, Rhode Island; and (3) reconstruct the Allendale Dam in North Providence, Rhode Island. Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 to make specified modifications with respect to the effective date of the local cooperation agreement with the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia and reimbursement for the Federal share of beach nourishment at the Virginia Beach periodic nourishment project. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to correct the design deficiency associated with the project for flood control at Ellenville, New York. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) undertake an environmental restoration project along the banks of the White River in Indianapolis, Indiana; and (2) design and construct projects for combined sewer overflow (CSO) prevention for specified areas across the country. Sets forth provisions regarding project design and costs for the latter. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to maintain the authorized Federal navigation channel at Port Orford, Oregon. Title III: General Provisions - Amends the Water Resources Development Act of: (1) 1986 to authorize appropriations for dam safety; and (2) 1974 to provide that up to half the non-Federal contribution for the cost-sharing program may be made by the provision of in-kind services, and to define "State" to include Indian tribes. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) develop and implement a program to share the cost of managing recreation facilities and natural resources at water resource development projects under the Secretary's jurisdiction; (2) enter into cooperative agreements with non-Federal public and private entities to provide for operation and management of recreation facilities and natural resources at civil works projects under the Secretary's jurisdiction where such facilities and resources are being maintained at complete Federal expense; and (3) accept contributions of funds, materials, and services from such entities for purposes of this provision. Amends the Flood Control Act of 1968 to authorize the Secretary to charge fees (to be deposited into the special Treasury account for the Corps of Engineers) for the use of developed recreation sites and facilities, but not for the use or provision of drinking water, way side exhibits, general purpose roads, overlook sites, toilet facilities, or general visitor information. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to repeal a provision barring a Federal agency, at each lake or reservoir under the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers where camping is permitted, from charging a user fee for providing at least one primitive campground containing designated campsites, sanitary facilities, and vehicular access. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out projects for the protection, restoration, and creation of aquatic and ecologically-related habitats, including wetlands, in connection with dredging for construction, operation, or maintenance of an authorized navigation project. Specifies that such projects shall be undertaken, subject to appropriations and Federal cost-sharing limitations, in any case where the Secretary finds that: (1) the environmental, economic, and social benefits of the project justify the cost; and (2) such project will not result in any further environmental degradation. Specifies that any such project shall be initiated only after non-Federal interests have entered into a cooperative agreement, according to specified provisions of the Flood Control Act of 1970, under which such interests agree to: (1) provide 25 percent of the cost associated with the project, including provision of all lands, easements, rights-of-way, and necessary relocations; and (2) pay 100 percent of the cost of operation, maintenance, replacement, and rehabilitation costs associated with the project. Authorizes appropriations. Sets limits on the Federal share of the cost of each project. Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to revise provisions with respect to cost-sharing for disposal of dredged sand on beaches. Requires the Secretary to give consideration to the schedule of the State or political subdivision in providing its share of funds for the placing of such sand on the beaches of such State or subdivision and, to the maximum extent practicable, to accommodate such schedule. Makes the political subdivision responsible for providing payments required under such Act in lieu of the State. Specifies that amounts recovered under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 for any response action taken by the Secretary in support of the Army Civil Works Program shall be credited to the principal appropriation from which the costs of such action has been paid or will be charged. Authorizes the Secretary, in accomplishing the maintenance, rehabilitation, and modernization of hydroelectric power generating facilities at water resources projects under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Army, to increase the efficiency of energy production or the capacity of these facilities if, after consulting with other appropriate Federal agencies, the Secretary determines that such uprating: (1) is economically justified and financially feasible; (2) will not result in significant adverse environmental impacts or effects on the purposes for which the project is authorized; and (3) will not involve major structural or operational changes in the project. Authorizes the Secretary, at a water resources project where the non-Federal interest is responsible for performing the operation, maintenance, replacement, and rehabilitation of the project and the Government is responsible for paying a portion of such costs, to: (1) provide a payment of the estimated total Federal share of such costs (based on a specified formula) to the non-Federal interest after completion of project construction; and (2) make a payment only if the non-Federal interest has entered into a binding agreement with the Secretary to perform the operation, maintenance, replacement, and rehabilitation of the project, subject to specified requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to accept contributions of cash, funds, materials, and services from nonprofit private and non-Federal public entities for environmental protection and restoration. Extends the jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission to include Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Authorizes the Secretary to remove a sunken barge from waters off the shore of the Narragansett Town Beach in Narragansett, Rhode Island, subject to specified requirements. Authorizes the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide financial assistance to: (1) pay the costs of construction and equipment for an Upper Mississippi River Environmental Education Center to be located in Winona, Minnesota; and (2) share the costs of planning, engineering design, construction, and equipment for the North American Wildlife and Prairie Wetlands Interpretive Center to be constructed near Medina, North Dakota. Sets forth additional requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the use of flood emergency funds to repair and restore protective beaches damaged or destroyed by wind, wave, or water action other than of an ordinary nature when such repair and restoration is necessary to provide a level of protection equivalent to that provided prior to such damage or destruction and when requested by the Governor. Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 to require that credits for project lands, easements, relocations, and rights-of-way include full value of foregone royalties on subsurface minerals, such as sand, where State royalty schedules have been established on the commercial mining of such resources. Limits design and construction costs assigned to projects under such Act for purposes of cost-sharing by non-Federal interests to the direct costs of such projects (and excludes any departmental overhead or general and administrative overhead costs). Makes this provision applicable to projects authorized in this or subsequent Acts and to cost-sharing agreements for projects not specifically authorized by the Congress entered into after the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary and the Assistant Administrator for Research and Development at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to coordinate an annual review of the environmental research activities conducted at their respective research facilities. Extends the time of transfer of lands and management responsibilities with respect to specified portions of the Cross Florida Barge Canal project. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to investigate and carry out saltmarsh restoration projects along the coastline of the State of Connecticut, subject to specified cost-sharing requirements. Directs the Secretary, for purposes of formulating, evaluating, and displaying the benefits and costs of any water resources project that involves beach renourishment, or that involves inlet dredging or other navigation improvements that are likely to affect erosion patterns on beaches adjacent to such project, to address: (1) economic costs to the State of not placing beach-quality sand on eroded or eroding beaches; and (2) cost savings, if any, that may be achieved by restoring or renourishing eroded or eroding beaches during a dredging or other navigation project as compared to performing such restoration or renourishment at a later date as a separate project. Specifies that the Secretary shall consider the protection of coastal resources through placement of beach quality sand on beaches as being in the public interest whenever such sand would otherwise be disposed of offshore. Requires the Secretary to establish by regulation a process for development of long-range plans for financing and execution of projects for beach nourishment and inlet management within each affected State. Sets forth minimum requirements with respect to such process and the amendment or termination of such plans. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Infrastructure Technology, Research and Development - Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) engage in research, development, and technology transfer activities with respect to water and related land resources and water transportation, and test, develop, or assist non-Federal entities in development of new technology; (2) engage in activities to inform the U.S. Maritime Industry and Port Authorities of technological innovations abroad that could significantly improve waterborne transportation in the United States, both inland and deep draft; and (3) coordinate water resources-related research efforts with those national centers and institutes focused on the development of new technology and solutions to the problems associated with the nation's infrastructure. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a cooperative agreement with the National Center for Infrastructure Studies, Columbia University, New York City, and its consortium of universities, to accelerate the development of new technology in infrastructure; and (2) contract with the National Center for implementation of such a cooperative agreement. Specifies that: (1) such cooperation between the National Center, the Army Corps of Engineers, and its research facilities shall focus on the development of solutions to national water and waterway related infrastructure problems, including the disposal of dredged material; and (2) cooperative activities shall include an assessment of high-speed commercial water transportation, vessels, and infrastructure needs, and that in addition to general cargo carriers, high-speed water passenger transport at and in the vicinity of congested coastal urban areas shall be included. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct such studies as necessary to provide a report to the Congress on the state of the National Ports and Harbors system of the United States. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator of the EPA and the Secretary: (1) based upon a review of specified decontamination technologies, to jointly select removal, pre- and post-treatment and decontamination technologies for contaminated marine sediments for a decontamination project in the New York/New Jersey Harbor; and (2) upon selection, to jointly implement a four-year program of selected technologies to assess their effectiveness in rendering sediments acceptable for unrestricted ocean disposal, beneficial reuse, or both. Provides for continuous review and evaluation of selected technologies, the joint development of an outyear management program, and reevaluation and updating of the program each year in light of the findings of the Administrator and Secretary and the comments of an advisory panel (established pursuant to this Act). Requires the Administrator and the Secretary to jointly recommend three additional sites and select appropriate technologies for marine sediment decontamination projects to be implemented on the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes, and the West Coasts during FY 1995 through 1997. Provides for the establishment of an advisory panel (comprised of academic and agency scientists) for each decontamination project to advise the Administrator and the Secretary on technology review, technology selection, and decontamination program implementation. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Environmental Infrastructure Facilities for Economically Distressed Areas - Environmental Infrastructure Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Community Environmental Infrastructure Assistance (the Office) within the Directorate of Civil Works of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, to: (1) manage projects pursuant to this title; and (2) provide information and guidance to communities in economically distressed areas with respect to financial analysis and planning, assessment of feasibility of eligible projects under this title, and such economic and organizational issues as regionalization of environmental infrastructure facilities, reform of existing rate structures, and operation of special management districts (and, in cooperation with the Administrator, provide information and guidance to communities on issues related to construction, operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation of environmental infrastructure facilities). Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an environmental infrastructure assistance program administered through the Office; (2) use funds under this title for the construction of wastewater treatment works, public water systems, and solid waste management facilities; and (3) use funds under this title for an eligible project only if the project is publicly owned. Specifies that funds provided for the implementation of this title shall be available only for environmental infrastructure projects located in an economically distressed area serving a population of less than 25,000. Authorizes the Governor of any State to submit to the Secretary a State priority project plan, which shall include a list of: (1) economically distressed areas in the State, other than a Federal Indian reservation, including such information qualifying such areas as the Secretary deems necessary and appropriate; (2) specific projects eligible for financial assistance and information concerning the nature, benefits, costs, and expected long-term operations of the projects; and (3) eligible projects ranked in priority order for the fiscal year with respect to which assistance is sought. Requires: (1) the Administrator to submit to the Secretary a priority project plan for eligible projects on Federal Indian reservations; and (2) the Secretary to establish by regulation such additional requirements for a State priority project plan as appropriate. Directs the Secretary to develop and submit to the Congress a national economically distressed area environmental infrastructure assistance plan, which shall include: (1) for any plan that is not an initial plan, a description of the efforts of the Secretary to implement the provisions of this title in the preceding year; (2) a list of all State environmental infrastructure priority projects; (3) such list, ranked in an order which, in the judgment of the Secretary, gives highest priority to projects with the greatest public health and environmental benefits, serving communities facing the greatest financial hardships associated with the project, and ranked highest by the Governor; and (4) a status report of any projects in progress or under construction. Bars the Secretary from listing such a project if, in the judgment of the Secretary, the project does not meet the eligibility requirements of this title. Requires the Secretary, subject to the availability of funds, to enter into local cooperation agreements with appropriate local governments for the planning, design, and construction of such environmental infrastructure projects. Sets forth requirements with respect to such agreements, project priorities, project management, and consistency with planning requirements. Directs the Administrator to publish guidelines for the design of wastewater treatment works, public water systems, and solid waste disposal facilities which: (1) describe the basic design standards to be applied in the planning of environmental infrastructure facilities; (2) identify appropriate engineering specifications for construction of environmental infrastructure facilities based on an expected operational life of 20 years; (3) establish such minimum standards of planning, engineering, design, and construction as are considered appropriate by the Administrator; and (4) assure that any facility constructed will comply with all applicable Federal and State environmental laws. Requires the Administrator to periodically review and revise the guidelines. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Contaminated Sediment and Ocean Dumping - National Contaminated Sediment Assessment and Management Act - Establishes a National Contaminated Sediment Task Force. Directs the Administrator to conduct: (1) a comprehensive national survey of data regarding aquatic sediment quality in the United States, including compilation of all existing information on the quantity, chemical and physical composition, and geographic location of pollutants in aquatic sediment; and (2) a comprehensive and continuing program to assess aquatic sediment quality. Sets forth reporting requirements. Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA) to: (1) include a declaration by the Congress that it is the goal of the United States to eliminate the dumping of dredged materials containing contaminants in excess of marine water or sediment standards under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) into ocean waters; and (2) specify that no permit or dumping authorization shall be issued for a dumping of material that, in the case of a dump site located in the territorial sea, will violate water quality standards or contains contaminants in quantities in excess of sediment quality standards adopted pursuant to the FWPCA, or, in the case of any other dump site, will violate water quality criteria or contains contaminants in quantities in excess of sediment quality criteria published pursuant to the FWPCA. (Current law states that no permit shall be issued for a dumping of material which will violate applicable water quality standards.) Specifies that: (1) in any case in which the Administrator disagrees with the Secretary's determination as to compliance with the criteria or restrictions (currently, criteria) established pursuant to the MPRSA relating to the effects of the dumping or specified restrictions relating to critical areas and site management plans (currently, critical areas), the determination of the Administrator shall prevail; and (2) if the Secretary finds that, in the disposition of dredged material, there is no economically feasible method or site available other than a dumping site the utilization of which would result in noncompliance with such criteria or restrictions (currently, criteria), he shall so certify and request a special permit from the Administrator (currently, a waiver of the specific requirements involved). Requires the Administrator: (1) within 90 (currently, 30) days of the receipt of the special permit (currently, waiver) request, to grant such permit (currently, waiver), subject to specified conditions; and (2) in reviewing a request for such a permit, to provide for public notice and comment. Authorizes States to adopt only such criteria, standards, rules, or regulations (to be transmitted to the Administrator and Secretary, who shall assure compliance) relating to the dumping of materials into ocean waters within the jurisdiction of the State which are more stringent and protective of such waters and sediment than those adopted under the MPRSA. (Under current law, no State shall adopt or enforce any rule or regulation relating to such activity, but may propose to the Administrator criteria related to ocean dumping, which the Administrator may adopt if not inconsistent with such Act, subject to specified requirements.) Directs the Administrator: (1) to designate sites or time periods for dumping that will mitigate the adverse impact on the environment to the greatest extent practicable (current law authorizes the Secretary to designate recommended sites or times); and (2) in any case where the Administrator determines that, with respect to certain materials, it is necessary to prohibit dumping at a site or during a time period, to prohibit the dumping during such time period (under current law, when necessary to protect critical areas, sites or times within which certain materials may not be dumped). Specifies that this prohibition shall apply to any dumping at the site or during such time period. Requires the Administrator to develop and implement a site management plan for each site designated, including: (1) baseline assessment of environmental conditions at the site and in adjacent areas that may be affected by the dumping activity as if dumping had never occurred; (2) special management conditions or practices to be implemented at each site that are necessary for the protection of the environment; (3) a program of monitoring for each site; (4) the anticipated use and management of the site over the 20-year period following the date of preparation of the plan; (5) a schedule of review and revision of the plan; and (6) such other requirements and conditions as the Administrator considers necessary. Specifies that: (1) after January 1, 1993, no site shall receive a final designation unless a management plan has been developed pursuant to the MPRSA; and (2) beginning on January 1, 1995, no permit or authorization for dumping shall be issued for a site designated pursuant to such Act unless a site management plan has been adopted for such site. Directs the Administrator to: (1) develop a site management plan for any site designated prior to January 1, 1993, as expeditiously as practicable, giving consideration to development plans for designated sites that are considered to have the greatest impact on the environment; and (2) provide for public review and comment on site designation actions, and hold a public hearing on any proposed designation or management plan development, revision, or redesignation in the region in which the site that is the subject of the management plan is located. Requires that permits issued with respect to the dumping permit program for dredged material: (1) designate and include such requirements, limitations, or conditions as necessary to assure consistency with any site management plan approved pursuant to the MPRSA (currently, the length of time for which the permits are valid and their expiration date), and special provisions that the Administrator or the Secretary determines to be reasonable and necessary to control and prevent pollution of waters and sediment in the area of the dredging project from on-shore and related facilities subject to the control of the entity seeking a permit; and (2) be issued for a period of up to three years. Specifies that any person who: (1) knowingly violates any provision of, or regulation promulgated or permit issued under, this title shall be fined under the Federal criminal code, imprisoned for not more than five years, or both (currently, fined up to $50,000, imprisoned for up to one year, or both); and (2) is convicted of such a violation shall forfeit to the United States any property constituting or derived from any proceeds that the person obtained as a result of such violation, and any of the property of the person which was used, or intended to be used, to commit or facilitate the commission of the violation. Provides that any vessel used to commit an act for which such a penalty is imposed under the MPRSA shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture to the United States under procedures established for seizure and forfeiture of conveyances under the Controlled Substances Act, with exceptions. Authorizes appropriations. Title VII: Studies - Authorizes and directs the Secretary to review the report of the Chief of Engineers on the Ohio River and Tributaries and other pertinent reports to determine whether modifications of the recommendations contained therein are advisable at the present time, with particular reference to improvements for water and related land resource needs. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the economic benefits of Federal and significant non-Federal shore protection activities in the Mid-Atlantic region from New York to Virginia, assessing: (1) the public investment in such activities; (2) damage incurred by such shore protection activities by the coastal storms of October 1991 and January 1992; (3) the prevention of damage by such storms to coastal and upland resources as a result of such shore protection activities; and (4) the extent to which the prevention of damage to coastal and upland resources is considered in benefit-cost ratios for shore protection activities. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Secretary of Agriculture to study problems associated with flooding in Harrison County, Mississippi. Specifies that such Secretaries shall jointly conduct a reconnaissance study of such county and specified bodies of water and associated watersheds. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to study the need for navigation improvements in Reynolds Channel and the connecting State Boat Channel between Captree Island and Oak Beach. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to review the reports of the Chief of Engineers and other pertinent documents pertaining to Orchard Beach, Bronx, New York, and to make recommendations concerning storm damage prevention, recreation, environmental restoration, and other purposes. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to study the need for erosion protection along the East River, New York, in the vicinity of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, with a view toward mitigating the deleterious effects of drift removal on protecting the adjacent shoreline from erosion. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a reconnaissance and feasibility study of remediation of contaminated sediments in Lake Champlain and the Narrows of Lake Champlain. Specifies that: (1) such activities shall be coordinated with the State of Vermont and the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Vermont; and (2) funds previously expended by such State and the Water Resources Research Institute in investigating sediment contamination shall be considered toward any joint funding requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a reconnaissance and feasibility study of providing additional: (1) boat access points on Lake Champlain; and (2) flood protection for Montpelier, Vermont. Directs the Board of Engineers to conduct an evaluation of long-term coastal dredged material disposal needs along the Maine and New Hampshire coasts. Specifies that, beginning in 1995, any dredged material resulting from a project proposed as a result of this study shall be disposed of at a site permanently designated by the EPA pursuant to the MPRSA. Authorizes funds to conduct this study. Authorizes and directs the Secretary, in studying the feasibility of Federal improvements to the St. John's River Channel, to: (1) examine the commercial and military uses of the Channel in those areas traversed by both military and commercial vessels; and (2) coordinate their efforts with the Department of the Navy to utilize available studies and resources which project future military dredging needs in the Channel. Requests the Chief of Engineers to review his report on central and southern Florida and other pertinent reports, with a view to determining whether modifications to the existing project are advisable at the present time due to significantly changed physical, biological, demographic, or economic conditions.
Bill· HRH.R. 5165 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1992
Flexibility for Educational Effectiveness Act of 1992 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish a Flexibility Demonstration Program (Program), as a new title VIII, in order to demonstrate the effectiveness, in several States and schools, of granting waivers of Federal and State laws and regulations so that services can be more effectively provided to disadvantaged children. Establishes a Committee on Services to Children (the Committee), composed of the Secretaries of Education, of Agriculture, of Labor, and of Health and Human Services, to coordinate certain activities of their departments to facilitate demonstration projects that waive specified requirements of Federal laws and regulations they administer. Requires the Committee, within 60 days after its establishment, to publish a notice and description of programs providing health, mental health, social services, or substance abuse prevention and treatment for which waivers of requirements are available under other Federal laws, in order to encourage coordination of such programs with programs included under this Act. Directs the Committee to: (1) review applications from States for demonstration projects; and (2) approve applications of up to 15 States involving not more than 20 schools in each State. Prohibits the Committee from exercising authority over the development of or specific provisions of a State application. Authorizes the Committee to carry out the Program by waiving certain requirements in up to 15 States involving not more than 20 schools in each State for demonstration purposes to find more flexible ways to provide education and services to disadvantaged students. Allows the demonstration projects to include simplification, coordination, and combination of some of the requirements in the categories of: (1) related Federal and State preschool and early childhood development for disadvantaged children; (2) related Federal and State programs for disadvantaged students in elementary and secondary schools; (3) Federal and State educational programs for disadvantaged children and social, health, and nutrition programs targeted at such children; and (4) the administration of Federal and State School lunch and school breakfast programs. Sets forth program eligibility and application requirements and priorities for State and local educational agencies. Requires local application development to involve a local reform committee. Allows a State educational agency (SEA) to request waivers of Federal requirements relating to uses of funds for programs serving disadvantaged students in the regular classroom. Requires such programs to include those under chapter 1 of title I ESEA for education of disadvantaged children at preschool, elementary, and secondary levels. Allows such programs also to include those under specified Federal laws relating to such levels. Allows an SEA also to request waivers of Federal requirements for operation of: (1) programs to improve the social, health, and nutritional condition of disadvantaged children; and (2) school lunch and school breakfast programs (but with certain restrictions on the scope of such waivers). Sets forth restrictions on all such waivers with respect to Federal requirements involving civil rights and discrimination, private usage of funds, maintenance of effort or comparability of services, supplementation of non-Federal funds, equitable participation of private school students, certain General Education Provisions Act requirements, fund distribution, and prohibitions against use of funds for construction, renovation, or repair of facilities. Provides for early termination of a waiver granted to a State or school when: (1) the school has not demonstrated adequate progress toward meeting the goals outlined in the local educational agency application; or (2) a State or school has been found to have violated any restriction on the waiver authority. Terminates the Committee's authority to grant waivers on September 30, 1997. Allows a school to decline, at any time, to participate in a project under this Act. Requires annual reports to the Committee by any SEA selected for a demonstration project, and annual reports by the Committee to specified congressional committee on the progress of each participating school in meeting application goals. Directs the Secretary of Education to contract with the National Academy of Education to evaluate and report to specified congressional committees on the demonstration projects with respect to: (1) accuracy of information received under State reporting requirements; (2) effectiveness in raising disadvantaged student achievement levels and improving efficiency at each school; and (3) effectiveness of coordinated service agreements at State and local levels in delivering comprehensive services to disadvantaged children. Suspends, until July 1, 1993, the effectiveness of a specified final rule issued to carry out a unified compliance system under the National School Lunch Act, as well as that of any subsequent rule issued by the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out such system (but does not suspend further planning and development activities for implementation of such system, or any other requirements for local food service authorities under such Act). Authorizes appropriations for SEA and Committee reports.
Bill· HRH.R. 5184 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1992
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to equalize the adjustment price for fluid milk in all marketing areas. (Establishes a $2.50 per hundredweight minimum.) Establishes marketing order milk solid percentages for whole, lowfat, and skim milk. Authorizes Federal retail milk testing. Requires State marketing order compliance. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish minimum manufacturing allowances for milk manufactured into: (1) butter and nonfat dry milk; and (2) cheese.
Law· SS. 2679 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1992
Hawaii Tropical Forest Recovery Act - Amends the International Forestry Cooperation Act of 1990 to establish the Hawaii Tropical Forest Recovery Task Force. Directs the Task Force to submit to specified congressional committees and to the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) a plan for rejuvenating Hawaii's tropical forests. Terminates the Task Force 180 days after submission of a report required by this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) expand facilities at the Institute of Pacific islands Forestry and at tropical forests in Hawaii; and (2) submit to the appropriate congressional committees a tropical forestry plan for such expansion, which shall provide for establishment of a model research and demonstration center, facilities for the study and recovery of endangered plant and animal species, and the establishment of demonstration tropical forests. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to: (1) State foresters or their equivalents for tropical forest health assessments; (2) State and private tropical forest programs for habitat and species preservation; (3) Hawaii and to private groups or individuals for agroforestry and silviculture of hardwoods, including koa wood and sandalwood; and (4) State foresters or their equivalents for alien species control. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make Tropical Forest Stewardship Excellence Awards; and (2) report annually to the appropriate congressional committees regarding the Institutes of Tropical Forestry. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into cooperative agreements with State and private entities to carry out such Act; and (2) carry out international forestry and scientific exchange activities at the Institutes of Tropical Forestry.
Bill· HRH.R. 5099 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1992
Central Valley Project Improvement Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from entering into any new short-term, temporary, or long-term contracts or agreements for water supply from the Central Valley Project (CVP), California (a Bureau of Reclamation facility) for any purpose other than fish and wildlife before certain requirements have been met. Provides an exception to such prohibition for long-term contracts for the sale of the CVP water to California water agencies for municipal and industrial purposes. Requires the revenues from such long-term contracts to be covered into the Restoration Fund established by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to renew any existing long-term repayment or water service contract for the delivery of CVP water for up to 20 years, provided that the Secretary has analyzed such contract's impact pursuant to Federal environmental laws and complied with applicable State environmental laws. Requires the Secretary to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement on CVP water contract renewals. Establishes the terms and conditions for all new and newly renewed or amended CVP water contracts for agricultural, municipal, or industrial purposes. Places restrictions on the transfer of water under contract to users in California. Requires contractors to: (1) meter ground and surface water; (2) ensure that drainage discharges meet all applicable State and Federal water quality standards; and (3) make all CVP water subject to contract available pursuant to a specified system of tiered water pricing. Directs the Secretary: (1) to establish and administer an office on CVP water conservation best management practices that develops criteria for evaluating the adequacy of all water conservation plans developed by CVP contractors; (2) to periodically review and evaluate all existing conservation plans submitted by contractors to determine whether they meet conservation and efficiency criteria; and (3) in developing criteria, to grant substantial deference to the recommendations of the Final Report of the San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program. Provides that all increased revenues received by the Secretary as a result of increased water prices established under this Act shall be covered to the Restoration Fund (and, to the extent that such funds are actually expended, credited toward the reimbursable fish, wildlife, and habitat restoration costs established under this Act). Authorizes and directs the Secretary to operate CVP so as to: (1) protect, restore, and enhance affected fish, wildlife, and related habitat; and (2) permit the use of CVP water for fish and wildlife purposes. Directs that mitigation for fish and wildlife losses incurred as a result of construction, operation, or maintenance of the CVP be concurrent with or prior to such activity and be based on the replacement of ecologically equivalent habitat. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to: (1) develop and implement a program to ensure that, by the year 2002, natural production of anadromous fish in Central Valley rivers and streams will be sustained, on a long-term basis, at levels not less than twice the average levels attained during the period of 1981-1990; (2) assign to 1.5 million acre-feet of project yield, upon enactment of this Act, the primary purpose of implementing the fish, wildlife, and habitat restoration purposes and measures authorized by this Act, subject to specified requirements; (3) develop and implement a program to mitigate fully for fishery impacts associated with operations of the Tracy Pumping Plant; (4) develop and implement a program to mitigate fully for fishery impacts resulting from operations of the Contra Costa Canal Pumping Plant No. 1; (5) install and operate a structural temperature control device at Shasta Dam to control water temperatures in the Upper Sacramento River; (6) meet flow standards and objectives and diversion limits set forth in all existing State regulatory and judicial decisions which apply to CVP facilities; (7) investigate the feasibility of using short pulses of increased water flows to increase the survival of migrating juvenile anadromous fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Central Valley rivers and streams; (8) develop and implement a program which, to the extent possible, will eliminate losses of anadromous fish due to flow fluctuations caused by the operation of any CVP storage facility; (9) develop and implement measures to correct fish passage problems for adult and juvenile anadromous fish at the Red Bluff Diversion Dam; (10) rehabilitate and expand the Coleman National Fish Hatchery by implementing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Coleman National Fish Hatchery Development Plan, and modify the Keswick Dam Fish Trap to provide for its efficient operation at all project flow release levels; (11) develop and implement a program to restore the natural channel and habitat values of Clear Creek, construct new fish passage facilities at the McCormick-Saeltzer Dam, and provide flows in Clear Creek to provide optimum spawning, incubation, rearing, and outmigration conditions for all races of salmon and steelhead trout; (12) develop and implement a program for restoring and replenishing, as needed, spawning gravel lost due to the construction and operation of CVP dams, bank protection programs, and other actions that have reduced the availability of spawning gravel in the rivers impounded by CVP facilities; (13) develop and implement a program for closure of the Delta Cross Channel and Georgiana Slough during times when significant numbers of striped bass eggs, larvae, and juveniles approach the Sacramento River intake to the Delta Cross Channel or Georgiana Slough; (14) construct a barrier at the head of Old River to be operated on a seasonal basis to increase the survival of young outmigrating salmon that are diverted from the San Joaquin River to CVP and State Water Project pumping plants; (15) deliver firm water supplies of suitable quality, in support of the objective of the Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture, to maintain and improve wetland habitat on units of the National Wildlife Refuge System in the Central Valley of California, the Gray Lodge, Los Banos, Volta, North Grasslands, and Mendota state wildlife management areas, and the Grasslands Resource Conservation District in the Central Valley; (16) establish a comprehensive assessment program to monitor fish and wildlife resources in the Central Valley and to assess the biological results of actions implemented pursuant to this Act; (17) develop and implement a plan to resolve fishery passage problems at the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District Diversion Dam; (18) assist, if requested by the State of California (the State), in developing and implementing management measures to restore the striped bass fishery of the Bay-Delta estuary; and (19) evaluate and revise, as appropriate, existing operational criteria in order to maintain minimum carryover storage at Sacramento and Trinity River reservoirs sufficient to protect and restore the anadromous fish of the Sacramento and Trinity Rivers. Directs the Fish and Wildlife Advisory Committee to investigate and provide recommendations to specified congressional committees concerning: (1) alternative means of improving the reliability and quality of water supplies currently available to privately owned wetlands in the Central Valley and the need, if any, for additional supplies; (2) water supply and delivery requirements necessary to permit full habitat development for water dependent wildlife on 120,000 acres and feasibility means of meeting that water supply requirement; (3) measures to maintain suitable temperatures for anadromous fish survival in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and their tributaries and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta by controlling or relocating the discharge of irrigation return flows and sewage effluent, and restoring riparian forests; (4) opportunities for additional hatchery production to mitigate the impacts of water development on Central Valley fisheries where no other feasible means of mitigation is available; (5) measures to eliminate losses of juvenile anadromous fish resulting from unscreened or inadequately screened diversions on the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, their tributaries, and in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; (6) measures to eliminate barriers to upstream migration of adult salmonids in the Central Valley; and (7) construction of temperature control structures on Trinity, Lewiston, and Whiskeytown Dams to conserve cold water for fishery protection. Requires the Secretary to: (1) investigate and report to specified congressional committees on all effects of the CVP on anadromous fish populations and the fisheries, communities, tribes, businesses, and other interests and entities that have now or in the past had significant economical, social, or cultural association with those fishery resources; and (2) develop readily usable and broadly available models and supporting data to evaluate the ecologic and hydrologic effects of existing and alternative operations of public and private water facilities and systems in the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Trinity river watersheds. Directs the Secretary, commencing in the water year following the year in which this Act is enacted, to: (1) charge full cost for the delivery of CVP water (other than water delivery under a water rights or exchange contract) used in the production of any crop of an agricultural commodity for which an acreage reduction program is in effect, unless the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the domestic stocks of the program commodity are inadequate to provide for a reserve that can reasonably be expected to meet a shortage caused by foreseeable disruptions in the supply of the commodity, subject to specified requirements; and (2) allocate reductions in contract deliveries of CVP water, when hydrologic or weather conditions are deemed by the Secretary to necessitate such reductions, first to contracting districts or agencies by amounts which equal the amount of CVP water (other than water delivery under a water rights or exchange contract) used in the district or agency in the preceding water year to produce crops of an agricultural commodity for which an acreage reduction program is in effect under the provisions of the Agricultural Act of 1949. Establishes the Central Valley Project Restoration Fund for the receipt of revenues and funds provided by this Act. Provides revenues for the Restoration Fund by directing the Secretary to impose an annual operations and maintenance charge on CVP power and water sales. Specifies that the charge shall be added to the costs of CVP water and power sales in a manner that results in rate increases of equal proportion as measured against total revenues received annually from each sector. Authorizes the Secretary to provide funding to non-Federal entities to implement actions authorized by this Act and for specified purposes. Bars the Secretary from expending any funds on construction of capital facilities for which the State is required to contribute a share of total costs until the State has agreed to meet such cost-sharing requirements. Outlines additional authority granted to the Secretary by this Act with respect to the CVP. Specifies that: (1) this Act does not and shall not be interpreted to authorize construction of water storage facilities; and (2) contract modification required solely to implement the provisions of this Act shall not subject CVP contractors, including exchange and water rights contractors, to the provisions of the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to purchase: (1) from willing sellers at fair market value agricultural land and associated water rights and other property interests which receive CVP water under a contract executed with the United States; and (2) agricultural land which, in the Secretary's opinion, would, if permanently retired from irrigation, improve the quality of an irrigation district's agricultural wastewater and assist the district in implementing specified agricultural wastewater management activities, or which are no longer suitable for sustained agricultural production. Establishes: (1) the Central Valley Project Fish and Wildlife Advisory Committee (to make recommendations with respect to fish, wildlife, and environmental restoration actions identified in this Act); and (2) the Central Valley Project Transfer Advisory Committee (to report to the Congress and the President on all issues associated with the transfer of CVP facilities and assets to California). Directs the Secretary to investigate and, if feasible, develop and implement a program using dredged material to restore, protect, and expand San Francisco Bay and Delta wetlands. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 5119 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1992
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) construct the Cumberland Mountain Trail, Kentucky and Virginia (as outlined in a specified design narrative); (2) provide for restrooms and picnic areas at or adjacent to the trailhead parking areas; and (3) study the feasibility of establishing a national recreation trail encompassing the Trail and extending from Breaks Interstate Park to Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. Authorizes the Secretary to construct such trail. Specifies that both trails shall be available for horseback riding. Sets forth reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary to study the feasibility of establishing a Cumberland National Recreation Area. Sets forth reporting requirements. Requires such study to identify alternative boundaries for a national recreation area on lands within and around Jefferson National Forest. Authorizes appropriations.