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Bill· SS. 2352 (97th)open

Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982

Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1982 - Title I: Definitions - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to make private dine-out establishments (restaurants) that offer food at concessional prices to certain elderly and disabled participants ineligible to redeem food stamps. Makes it a State agency determination on whether when one or more individuals who while living with others purchase and prepare food separately from the others constitute an eligible household. Makes house-to-house trade establishments which sell a variety of staple food items eligible as a retail food store only in rural areas. Excludes accessory, snack, or dessert food items from food sales when determining retail food store eligibility. Changes the base period for updating the thrifty food plan in October of each year. Title II: Eligible Households - Lowers the income standards of eligibility from 130 percent to 100 percent of the nonfarm income poverty guidelines for all households except those containing an elderly member receiving Social Security benefits. Includes nonrecurring lump-sum payments and energy assistance payments as household income in the months they are received. Sets forth a formula for determining the length of ineligibility for such households. Eliminates the formula for adjusting the standard deduction in computing household income. Decreases the earned income deduction from 18 percent to 15 percent. Requires the use of actually paid utility expenses when determining the excess shelter expense deduction. Eliminates the formula for indexing such expenses and dependent care expenses. Grants States the option of using the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) assets test or the assets test from the Social Security supplemental income program for households containing elderly and disabled, or both, in establishing resource limitations for an eligible household. Includes, in determining allowable financial resources, any real property (other than the dwelling owned and its lot, and in rural areas, realty of ten acres or less), savings and retirement accounts, and the cash value of any life insurance policies and pensions. Title III: Eligibility Disqualifications - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to require that applicants for food stamp assistance fulfill reasonable reporting requirements about employment at the time of application. Makes the period of ineligibility six months (currently 60 days) when the head of a household voluntarily quits any job without good cause. Makes public employee strikers subject to such provision. Requires that a second parent in a household register for work when the youngest child reaches the age of six. Eliminates students between the ages of 18 and 60 from eligibility in the food stamp program. Exempts a head of household from registering for work if such person is employed a minimum of 150 hours per month. Requires that all income (currently less a pro rata share) of an ineligible alien be counted toward the income of a household in which such person is a member. Title IV: Issuance and Use of Coupons - Eliminates authority for the issuance of cash change from food stamp coupons. Title V: Value of Allotment - Increases the benefit reduction rate of an eligible household's allotment from 30 percent to 33.3 percent of such household's income. Eliminates the minimum allotment for households of one or two persons. Prohibits allotments from being considered as income or resources for Federal, State, or local taxation. Provides for prorating benefits in the first month for which a previously ineligible household becomes recertified as eligible. Prohibits a household from receiving increased allotments as a result of being penalized for noncompliance with other public assistance programs. Title VI: Approval of Retail Food Stores - Requires retail food stores to annually apply for and obtain renewal of certificates of approval in order to continue participation in the food stamp program. Provides that a renewal fee shall be an amount equal to one percent of the value of coupons redeemed by such store in the preceding year or $100, whichever is greater. Directs the Secretary to transmit 50 percent of the fees received to the appropriate State agency, if the State is operating a workfare program. Requires the State agency to apply such monies toward incurred expenses of the workfare program. Requires the bonding of eligible retail food stores to cover the value of coupons which the store accepts and redeems in violation of this Act. Title VII: Administration - Prohibits the Secretary from requiring a State to submit administrative materials on its plan of operation under the food stamp program as part of the approval process for such plan. Eliminates the authority of the Secretary to establish standards for points and hours of certification and coupon issuance within a State. Requires States to verify income, household size, and such other factors that the State agency determines necessary, and which the Secretary may require. Restricts the representation of individuals in the certification process and in coupon issuance or food purchase to those individuals who are elderly, blind, disabled, or employed at least 150 hours per month. Permits the disclosure of the name and address of a member of a household receiving a coupon allotment and the amount of such allotment. Grants States the option of providing coupons on an expedited basis based on household income and financial resources below specified amounts. Authorizes a State agency to immediately reduce or terminate benefits in any household for which the agency has received written information from such household which requires a reduction or termination. Grants State agencies the option of providing bilingual services in the administration of their program. Requires State agencies to verify, at least on a quarterly basis, that food stamp recipients are not receiving duplicative benefits. Permits State agencies to impose liens against the excess average value of dwellings and real property owned by one or more members of an eligible household in order to recover all assistance if ownership of such property is transferred and members are no longer residing in such dwelling. Permits State agencies to implement joint application processing for households receiving various types of public assistance. Allows the Secretary to require a State agency, the Inspector General of the Department of Agriculture, or both, to request and utilize information regarding interest and dividend income of a household available under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Amends the Code to conform to such requirement. Title VIII: Civil Money Penalties and Disqualification of Retail Food Stores - Makes approved retail food stores which violate provisions of the food stamp program liable for a civil money penalty of not less than $5,000 (currently not more than $5,000) for each violation. Sets forth the disqualification periods for such food stores. Title IX: Collection and Disposition of Claims - Sets forth procedures for a State agency to intercept unemployment benefits and Federal tax refunds of food stamp recipients who have received overpayments and such overpayments are uncollected. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to conform to this title. Title X: Administrative Cost-Sharing and Quality Controls - Permits States to retain 50 percent of overissuances which are recovered other than those resulting from an ineligibility determination or State error. Directs the Secretary to institute an error liability program under which each State agency shall be liable for its payment errors. Title XI: Authorizations for Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1983. Title XII: Workfare - Directs the Secretary to promulgate guidelines which enable a political subdivision to operate a food stamp workfare program which is compatible and consistent with certain other workfare programs operated by such subdivision. Declares that a subdivision may comply with such guidelines by operating a workfare program pursuant to Aid to Families with Dependent Children under the Social Security Act. Permits a State, in lieu of operating a workfare program, to pay to the Secretary five percent of the value of coupons issued in the State each month. Allows college students to participate in the workfare program. Limits participants in a workfare program to 40 hours per week. Title XIII: State Block Grant Option - Authorizes a State to elect to operate a low-income nutritional assistance block grant program to finance expenditures for food assistance for needy persons. Directs the Secretary to provide such States with a block grant in an amount based on a percentage of the FY 1983 funds appropriated for the food stamp program. Authorizes the Secretary, at the request of an Indian tribe or tribal organization within a block grant State, to reserve a determined amount of such grant for the direct use of such tribe. Sets forth procedures for application and requirements for eligibility for block grants. Prohibits the use of such grants for construction. Sets forth procedures for the Secretary and the Comptroller General to assure compliance with this section. Title XIV: Miscellaneous - Prohibits participation in the food stamp program by residents of drug addiction and alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation programs. Removes such persons' exemption from work registration and workfare obligations. Requires the rounding down to the nearest whole dollar in calculations for the thrifty food plan and household allotments. Prohibits wholesale food concerns from participation in the food stamp program. Title XV: Effective Dates - Makes this Act effective October 1, 1982.

Bill· HRH.R. 6062 (97th)open

Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products Inspection Amendments of 1981

United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982

Meat, Poultry, and Egg Products Inspection Amendments of 1981 - Title I: To Amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct examinations and inspections as frequently as deemed necessary in meat processing establishments and to label meat products which pass inspection as "prepared in a USDA-inspected establishment." Title II: To Amend the Poultry Products Inspection Act - Amends the Poultry Products Inspection Act to authorize the Secretary to conduct examinations and inspections as frequently as deemed necessary in poultry processing establishments. Title III: To Amend the Egg Products Inspection Act - Amends the Egg Products Inspection Act to authorize the Secretary to conduct inspections of egg processing establishments as frequently as deemed necessary, with the exception of egg-breaking operations which shall be subject to continuous inspection. Changes the inspection schedule for shell egg packers, packing eggs for the ultimate consumer, from at least once each quarter to at least once each year. Title IV: Effective Date - States the effective date of this Act.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 423 (97th)open

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico should amend its plan submitted under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide assurance that any assistance provided under such plan will be used only to purchase food.

United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico should amend its plan submitted under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to insure that food assistance provided under such Act will be used by recipients only to purchase food.

Bill· SS. 2314 (97th)open

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act Amendments of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1982

Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to eliminate the low-income farm ownership loan program. Establishes FY 1983-1985 lending limits under the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund for real estate loans, farm ownership loans, water development and conservation loans, operating loans, and emergency loans. Allocates specified amounts for insured and guaranteed loans (but not for emergency loans). Authorizes fund transfers. Establishes FY 1983-1985 lending limits under the Rural Development Insurance Fund for water and waste disposal loans and for community facility loans.

Bill· HRH.R. 5992 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to exempt nonquota tobacco from quota restrictions in effect for any marketing year in any State in which not more than 20 acres of quota tobacco is planted for harvest in such marketing year.

United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1982

Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to exempt nonquota tobacco from quota restrictions for any marketing year in any State in which not more than 20 acres of quota tobacco is planted for harvest in such marketing year.

Bill· SS. 2287 (97th)open

A bill to amend the Poultry Products Inspection Act to increase the number of turkeys which may be slaughtered and processed without inspection under such act, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1982

Amends the Poultry Products Inspection Act to increase the number of turkeys which may be slaughtered and processed without inspection under such Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to grant an exemption beyond such increase if such exemption will not impede the purposes of such Act.

Bill· SS. 2288 (97th)open

A bill entitled "The Emergency Agriculture Act of 1982".

United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1982

Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, to increase loan levels for the 1982-1985 wheat (from $3.55 to $4.20 per bushel) and corn crops (from $2.55 to $2.90 per bushel). Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make authorized economic emergency loans available immediately to farmers and ranchers. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (P.L. 480) to increase the food assistance available for nonprofit and voluntary agency distribution. Declares that Department of Agriculture soil and water conservation programs should emphasize prevention of soil degradation. States that the Secretary shall determine that sufficient soil erosion technical and financial assistance is available nationally before providing such assistance to specially targeted erosion areas.

Bill· HRH.R. 5970 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide that the interest rates payable for loans made under such Act for essential community facilities for providing firefighting, emergency transportation, or rescue services may not exceed 5 percent per annum.

United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1982

Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to limit interest rates to a maximum of five percent on essential community facilities loans for firefighting, emergency transportation, or rescue services.

Bill· SS. 2259 (97th)open

A bill to amend the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, to improve the administration of such Act with respect to the disposition of certain violations under such Act.

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1982

Amends the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, to require all foreign traders (complainants), regardless of whether acting through a U.S. assignee, to furnish the necessary cost and fee bond. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to publicize and suspend a trader's license for up to 90 days for packaging misrepresentations. Permits the Secretary to revoke the license for flagrant or repeated violations. Requires the Secretary to consider business volume and other relevant circumstances before revoking a license. Permits an offender, with the Secretary's consent, to pay a fine in lieu of a formal suspension or revocation proceeding.

Bill· HRH.R. 5935 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1982

Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to eliminate the low-income farm ownership loan program. Establishes FY 1983 through 1985 lending limits under the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund for real estate loans, farm ownership loans, water development and conservation loans, operating loans, and emergency loans. Allocates specified amounts for insured and guaranteed loans (but not for emergency loans). Authorizes fund transfers. Establishes FY 1983 through 1985 lending limits under the Rural Development Insurance Fund for water and waste disposal loans and for community facility loans.

Bill· HRH.R. 5936 (97th)referred

A bill to provide that certain Federal land in the Black Hills National Forest be withdrawn for a period of 10 years for use as an Indian cultural and religious resource area, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish special management guidelines for units of the National Forest system which include municipal or agricultural watersheds and to carry out intergrated pest management in all units of such system, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1982

Title I: Withdrawal of Land in Black Hills National Forest for Use as Indian Religious Cultural Resource Area - Withdraws certain Federal lands in the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota from public use for a period of ten years. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue a ten-year permit to the Yellow Thunder Camp community established by the Lakota-Dakota (Sioux) Nation to use such lands as a cultural and religious resource area. Prohibits any lease, permit, or contract with respect to such lands without Yellow Thunder Camp's consent. Requires that the Secretary assure that any land and resource management plan for lands in the Black Hills National Forest: (1) prohibits activities harmful to religious or cultural sites of the Lakota-Dakota Nation; (2) prohibits excavation of archeological resources on such lands without the Lakota-Dakota Nation's consent; and (3) guarantees to the Lakota-Dakota Nation and their allies and members of other Indian nations the free exercise of their religion on such lands. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to consult and negotiate with the leaders of the Lakota-Dakota Nation to resolve conflicts with respect to their religious freedom, activities harmful to their religious and cultural sites, and the excavation of archeological resources on such lands. Directs the Secretaries to report to the President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President of the Senate on such consultations and negotiations. Title II: Special Protection For Units of National Forest System with Municipal or Agricultural Watersheds : Integrated Pest Management in National Forest System - Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations specifying guidelines for land management plans which: (1) protect the water quality and quantity of municipal and agricultural watersheds in the national forest system; and (2) provide for a program of integrated pest management for the national forest system.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 346 (97th)open

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that emergency action should be taken by the President and the Secretary of Agriculture to stabilize the farm economy.

United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1982

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) work with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to reduce the interest rates for farmers; (2) take specified emergency actions to stabilize commodity prices and provide credit assistance to farmers; and (3) nominate persons for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System who will insure that agricultural interests are fairly represented.

Bill· HRH.R. 5869 (97th)referred

Milk Marketing and Promotion Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982

Milk Marketing and Promotion Act of 1982 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to base milk price supports on either a supply management price or a price that would ensure that pooled stocks are used to meet milk demands. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture: (1) to determine a national milk supply marketing base (supply and commercial need); and (2) when without a supply management program projected supplies exceed demand by 5,000,000,000 pounds, to conduct a referendum among milk producers to determine whether they favor a supply management and related price support program. Sets forth supply management program provisions including: (1) State, county, and individual producer marketing bases; (2) assessments for overproduction; and (3) fines for nonpayment of assessments or other fees (with judicial review in U.S. district courts). Establishes in the Treasury a Milk and Milk Products Promotion Fund. Establishes in the Department of Agriculture a Federal Milk Board to: (1) expand foreign markets; (2) investigate matters relating to the production, processing, or marketing of milk; and (3) recommend legislation as necessary. Sets forth membership and operating provisions of the Board. Amends the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 to penalize handlers who make payments to milk producers in excess of applicable marketing orders. Amends Federal law to set aside specified amounts from funds appropriated for agricultural exports for milk and milk product exports.

Bill· HRH.R. 5864 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to prohibit private insurance agents and brokers from selling Federal crop insurance unless they are licensed under applicable State law.

United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1982

Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to prohibit private insurance agents and brokers from selling Federal crop insurance unless they are licensed under applicable State law or are otherwise permitted by the Secretary of Agriculture.

Bill· SS. 2208 (97th)referred

A bill to recover costs incurred by the Department of Agriculture in the administration of the promotion program for wool and the research and promotion program for potatoes, including costs incurred for the conduct of the wool and potato referendums.

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1982

Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 and the Potato Research and Promotion Act to provide for the recovery of Department of Agriculture promotional and referendum expenses.

Bill· HRH.R. 5831 (97th)open

A bill to provide lending limits for fiscal years 1983, 1984, and 1985 for programs under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.

United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1982

Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish FY 1983 through 1985 lending limits for real estate loans, operating loans, and emergency loans under the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund. States that at least 25 percent of farm ownership and operating loans shall be for low-income, limited-resource borrowers. Establishes FY 1983 through 1985 lending limits for water and sewer facility loans, industrial development loans, and community facility loans under the Rural Development Insurance Fund.

Bill· HRH.R. 5813 (97th)referred

A bill entitled: "the Land Value Protection Act".

United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1982

Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize farm loan interest and principal deferrals and the foregoing of foreclosures during periods of economic distress. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make loan rescheduling procedures available.

Bill· HRH.R. 5765 (97th)referred

Livestock Fraud Protection Act

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1982

Livestock Fraud Protection Act - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it a Federal offense to obtain or use unlawfully the property of another which has a value of at least $10,000 in connection with the marketing of livestock in interstate or foreign commerce. Redefines the current offenses prohibiting the transportation or sale of stolen cattle in commerce to substitute the word "livestock" for "cattle".

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 424 (97th)referred

A joint resolution providing that the Secretary of Agriculture shall not adopt as final rules proposed rules issued on December 29, 1981, which would change the standards for grading carcass beef and slaughter cattle or issue proposed rules or adopt final rules identical in substance to such rules.

United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1982

Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture (in an exercise of congressional veto) from: (1) adopting specified proposed rules regarding the standards for grading carcass beef and slaughter cattle; or (2) issuing proposed rules or adopting final ones identical in substance to such proposed rules.

Bill· HRH.R. 5711 (97th)referred

A bill to require, for 1 year, that the Secretary of Agriculture permit the deferral of the payment of principal and interest on, and forego the foreclosure of, outstanding loans made under laws administered by the Farmers Home Administration to farmers who experience temporary economic hardships.

United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1982

Provides for a one-year moratorium on farm loan payments and foreclosures for borrowers suffering economic hardships.

Law· SS. 2154 (97th)enacted

An act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release a reversionary interest held by the United States in certain lands located in Christian County, Kentucky, so that such lands may be used for cemetery purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land to Shy Flat Tabernacle Cemetery, Incorporated, Christian County, Kentucky, with the condition that such land be used for cemetery purposes. Reserves the mineral interests in the land to the United States.

Bill· HRH.R. 5680 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Emergency Agricultural Credit Adjustment Act of 1978 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to insure or guarantee loans having an aggregate principal balance equal to the maximum amount authorized in such Act.

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1982

Amends the Emergency Agriculture Credit Adjustment Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to insure or guarantee loans having an aggregate principal balance equal to the maximum amount authorized in such Act. (Currently, such authority is discretionary.)

Bill· SS. 2149 (97th)open

A bill to provide for deferrals on repayment, and a moratorium on foreclosures, of Farmers Home Administration farm loans for borrowers temporarily unable to make payments due to circumstances beyond their control.

United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1982

Provides for deferrals on repayment of specified farm loans and a moratorium on foreclosures through FY 1983 for borrowers suffering economic hardship. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make loan rescheduling procedures available.

Bill· SS. 2145 (97th)open

A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to change the conditions of eligibility for, and the amount of, financial assistance made with respect to agricultural production losses caused by disaster.

United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1982

Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act regarding the Farmers Home Administration disaster loan program to: (1) lower the minimum loss requirement; (2) eliminate the "area" eligibility test; and (3) increase the percentage of covered losses.

Bill· HRH.R. 5628 (97th)referred

A bill to make Federal crop insurance and Farmers Home Administration loans unavailable to producers of of the 1982 crops of wheat, feed grains, rice, and cotton who do not participate in or comply with acreage limitations and set-asides imposed under the price support programs applicable to such crops under the Agricultural Act of 1949.

United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1982

Makes Federal crop insurance and Farmers Home Administration loans unavailable to producers of the 1982 crops of wheat, feed grains, rice, and cotton who do not participate in or comply with applicable acreage limitations and set-asides under the Agricultural Act of 1949 price support programs.

Bill· HRH.R. 5618 (97th)failed

Organic Farming Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1982

Organic Farming Act of 1982 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program of volunteer-experts to provide advice and information on organic agriculture to family farmers and other producers. Directs the Secretary to establish six regional organic farming pilot projects. Sets forth the Secretary's duties with regard to organic farming. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1988.

Bill· HRH.R. 5570 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to issue and enforce, with respect to mushrooms, marketing orders that include terms providing for any form of marketing promotion, including paid advertising, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1982

Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to provide for marketing orders applicable to mushrooms.

Bill· HRH.R. 5508 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Energy Security Act to consolidate in the Department of Agriculture authority to provide financial assistance for energy projects which use wood and wood wastes and residues as feedstocks, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1982

Amends the Energy Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance for biomass energy projects which use wood or wood wastes and residues as feedstock.

Bill· HRH.R. 5489 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Commodity Credit Corporation Act to promote the exchange of materials produced abroad and needed in the United States for agricultural commodities produced in and exported from the United States through normal commercial trade channels.

United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1982

Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to authorize the Corporation to buy strategic and critical materials and petroleum products produced abroad in exchange for U.S. farm commodity exports. Requires the purchase program to be conducted so that it: (1) safeguards existing export markets for farm commodities; (2) encourages development of new export markets for U.S. farm commodities; and (3) provides exporters of farm products with firm commitments on items the Corporation will buy in order to facilitate the negotiation of commercial barter contracts. Requires strategic and critical materials purchased by the Corporation by commercial barter to be transferred to the stockpile established by the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. Requires petroleum products purchased by the Corporation by commercial barter to be transferred to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Directs the Administrator of General Services and the Secretary of Energy to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Corporation in implementing the barter program. Authorizes the Corporation to promote barter agreements between persons involved in commerce which exchange approved materials produced abroad for U.S. farm commodity exports. Sets forth within the general powers of the Corporation the power to accept petroleum products produced abroad in exchange for farm commodities.

Bill· HRH.R. 5491 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise the provisions for regulation of food additives and other food constituents, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1982

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to exclude basic or traditional foods from the definition of food additives. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prescribe regulations to permit the continued use of certain food substances for a specified period upon finding that such continued use will not be harmful to public health. Sets forth factors for consideration by the Secretary in determining the continued use of such substances. Revises determination factors for the Secretary in issuing regulations with respect to the use of food additives, including the risks of cancer associated with such additives. Directs the Secretary to request the National Academy of Sciences, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, or another independent entity having scientific expertise to establish a committee to study and report on the safety of food substances. Directs the Secretary to establish such committee if the scientific entities decline.

Bill· HRH.R. 5501 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to change the conditions of eligibility for, and the amount of, financial assistance made with respect to agricultural production losses caused by disaster.

United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1982

Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act regarding the Farmers Home Administration disaster loan program to: (1) lower the minimum loss requirement; (2) eliminate the "area" eligibility test; and (3) increase the percentage of covered losses.

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