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United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to make American Samoa eligible for emergency livestock feed assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to eliminate the requirement that central station service be unavailable in the case of rural electrification loans.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (CNA) and the National School Lunch Act (NSLA) to extend certain authorities. Extends the authorization of appropriations under CNA for: (1) start-up costs for school breakfast programs; (2) State administrative expenses; (3) the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC); and (4) nutrition education and training. Extends the authorization of appropriations under NSLA for: (1) the summer food service program for children; (2) a distribution program; (3) statewide demonstration projects under the child and adult care food program; (4) pilot projects; and (5) training, technical assistance, and the Food Service Management Institute.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Establishes the Jemez National Recreational Area in New Mexico. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a management plan for the Area. Requires the Secretary to: (1) protect religious and cultural sites in the Area; and (2) provide access to such sites by Indian peoples for traditional cultural and religious purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to permit timber harvesting for commercial purposes as long as it is compatible with the Area's purposes. Requires preparation of a transportation plan to provide for the most efficient use of existing roads and trails, including a system for dispersed recreation which minimizes its impact on significant archaeological and religious sites. Provides for recreational facilities within the Area and establishes a visitor center. Authorizes the Secretary to permit a utility corridor for high power electric transmission lines and scientific investigations. Prohibits the issuance of any mining location or claim patents after May 30, 1991, with respect to the area. Permits any party deprived of property rights by such prohibition to file a compensation claim against the United States in the U.S. Claims Court. Withdraws lands within the Area from U.S. mining, mineral leasing, and related laws. Directs the Secretary to expedite a program to determine the validity of all unpatented mining claims within the Area. Authorizes the Secretary to use mineral materials from within the Area for public purposes. Directs the Secretary to make recommendations to the Congress for possible inclusion in the Area of adjoining lands. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Urban Tax Enterprise Zones and Rural Development Investment Zones Subtitle A: Designation and Tax Incentives Subtitle B: Redevelopment Bonds for Tax Enterprise Zones Subtitle C: Expansion of Targeted Jobs Credit Subtitle D: Credit for Contributions to Certain Community Development Corporation Subtitle E: Report on Number of Areas Meeting Enterprise Zone Criteria Title II: Authorization for Additional Assistance to Distressed Communities Subtitle A: National Public-Private Partnership Programs Subtitle B: Block Grant Funding for Eligible Programs Subtitle C: Other Programs Enterprise Zone Community Development Act of 1993 - Title I: Urban Tax Enterprise Zones and Rural Development Investment Zones - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to establish a demonstration program of providing incentives for the creation of tax enterprise zones in order to: (1) revitalize economically and physically distressed areas; (2) promote meaningful employment for zone residents; and (3) encourage individuals to reside in the zones in which they are employed. Subtitle A: Designation and Tax Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of tax enterprise zones during calendar years after 1992 and before 1999: (1) by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in the case of an urban tax enterprise zone; and (2) by the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, in the case of a rural development investment zone. Sets forth the eligibility criteria for such designation for urban tax enterprise zones and for rural development investment zones. Allows an enterprise zone employment credit to small employers and tax-exempt organizations as a general business credit of 15 percent of the qualified zone wages. Allows such credit for the first five years of the employee's employment. Allows a deduction for the purchase of enterprise zone stock paid in cash. Excludes from gross income 50 percent of qualified capital gain recognized on the sale or exchange of a new qualified zone asset held for more than ten years. Subtitle B: Redevelopment Bonds for Tax Enterprise Zones - Sets forth special rules for tax-exempt redevelopment bonds which provide financing for tax enterprise zones for the first 60-month period after a zone is so designated. Subtitle C: Expansion of Targeted Jobs Credit - Includes economically disadvantaged zone residents as members of a targeted group. Subtitle D: Credit for Contributions to Certain Community Development Corporations - Allows a general business tax credit for contributions to selected community development corporations to provide employment of, and business opportunities for, low-income individuals who are residents of the operational area of the community. Subtitle E: Report on Number of Areas Meeting Enterprise Zone Criteria - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Congress on the number of areas which satisfy the tax enterprise zone eligibility criteria and the estimated cost to the Government if all such areas were designated as tax enterprise zones. Title II: Authorization for Additional Assistance to Distressed Communities - Subtitle A: National Public-Private Partnership Programs - Expresses the sense of the Congress that public-private partnerships between government and community-based organizations offer an opportunity to empower residents of low-income distressed communities and to forge innovative solutions to the challenges confronting these communities and that increased resources should be invested in such partnerships. Authorizes appropriations to promote certain national public-private partnerships for FY 1993 through 2002. Specifies amounts to be available only for projects or activities that directly and principally benefit the residents of tax enterprise zones. Subtitle B: Block Grant Funding for Eligible Programs - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 2002 for urban enterprise zones and rural development investment zones. Provides for the allocation and use of such amounts for carrying out selected programs within such zones. Specifies the eligible programs in the areas of: (1) crime and criminal justice; (2) job training; (3) education; (4) health and nutrition; and (5) housing and community development. Sets forth requirements for applying for funding. Establishes an interagency council to provide administrative assistance for functions under this title. Requires the council, one year after enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on: (1) any alternative methods or systems for allocation of amounts made available for enterprise zones; and (2) any problems experienced in the implementation and administration of this subtitle. Subtitle C: Other Programs - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to waive the cap on assistance under the community development block grant program for units of general local government located within or containing an urban tax enterprize zone. Authorizes the Secretary of (HUD) to make loan guarantees for such units of local government for development activities. Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to establish the youth adult employment demonstration program to assist young adults with education, job training, and employment services in tax enterprise zones. National Community Economic Partnership Act of 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide nonrefundable lines of credit to community development corporations for the establishment, maintenance, or expansion of revolving loan funds to be utilized to finance projects intended to provide business and employment opportunities for low-income, unemployed, or underemployed individuals and to improve the quality of life in urban and rural areas. Provides assistance to community development corporations to upgrade the management and operating capacity of such corporations and to enhance the resources available to enable such corporations to increase their community economic development activities. Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to emerging community development corporations to enable them to establish, maintain or expand revolving loan funds, to make capital or guarantee loans, or to make investments in new or expanding businesses. Requires the Secretary to award grants to organizations to enable them to undertake programs involving research, testing, studies or demonstrations related to community economic development. Directs the Secretary to develop and promulgate joint community development activity programs with other agencies. Authorizes appropriations. Enterprise Capital Access Fund Demonstration Program - Establishes a demonstration program to provide loans and technical assistance grants to nonprofit financial intermediaries in order to finance business and employment opportunities, low-income housing opportunities, and neighborhood revitalization projects. Establishes within HUD an Office of Community Banking to carry out this section. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, to establish a Reverse Commuting Demonstration Program to test the effects of assisting residents of poor inner-city areas to commute to job sites in other areas of the city or surrounding suburbs. Directs the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on an assessment of the market availability of insurance for businesses and residences located in central cities and distressed urban areas and the impact of the availability of such insurance on the economic development or redevelopment of such areas.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Spring Mountains National Recreation Area Act - Establishes the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area in Nevada. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a general management plan for the Area as an amendment to the Toiyabe National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan. Requires inclusion in the plan of any Bureau of Land Management recommendations as to the suitability or nonsuitability of specified wilderness study areas for preservation as wilderness. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to manage the lands and waters within the wilderness study areas to maintain their potential for inclusion within the National Wilderness Preservation System, pending submission of such recommendation and until otherwise directed by an Act of the Congress. Withdraws all Federal lands within the Area and lands, waters, and interests in such Area acquired by the United States after the enactment of this Act from public land and mining laws (including mineral and geothermal leasing). Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Universal Student Nutrition Act of 1993 - 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.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Designates minority party membership on the following standing committees of the House of Representatives: (1) Agriculture; (2) Appropriations; (3) Armed Services; (4) Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; (5) Budget; (6) District of Columbia; (7) Education and Labor; (8) Energy and Commerce; (9) Foreign Affairs; (10) Government Operations; (11) House Administration; (12) Natural Resources; (13) Judiciary; (14) Merchant Marine and Fisheries; (15) Post Office and Civil Service; (16) Public Works and Transportation; (17) Rules; (18) Science, Space, and Technology; (19) Small Business; (20) Standards of Official Conduct; (21) Veterans' Affairs; and (22) Ways and Means.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Designates majority party membership on the following standing committees of the House of Representatives: (1) Agriculture; (2) Appropriations; (3) Armed Services; (4) Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; (5) Budget; (6) Education and Labor; (7) Energy and Commerce; (8) Foreign Affairs; (9) Government Operations; (10) Interior and Insular Affairs; (11) Judiciary; (12) Merchant Marine and Fisheries; (13) Public Works and Transportation; (14) Rules; (15) Science, Space, and Technology; (16) Small Business; (17) Veterans' Affairs; and (18) Ways and Means.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Declares that the Congress opposes any attempt to lower the estate tax exemption or raise the effective rate of taxes on estates because such measures contradict the fundamental goal of the United States Government of encouraging long-term private saving through which productive investment that promotes economic growth can be realized.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Expresses the sense of the Congress that federally funded school lunch programs should provide nutritious non-meat meals for students who conscientiously believe such meals to be best for themselves.