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United States · United States Congress · 22 November 1989
Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 with regard to surplus commodity food assistance for older persons to require that assistance be provided for two meals served daily per person if such meals have a specified nutritional content.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Grain Quality Incentives Act of 1989 - Title I: Coordination and Implementation of Grain Quality Improvements - Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to designate a Grain Quality Coordinator to monitor domestic grain quality and related programs related to the competitive position of the United States in world grain markets. Directs the Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) to standardize and develop national grain inspection guidelines. Expresses the sense of the Congress with regard to cooperative enforcement of Federal grain quality and safety standards. Title II: Improving the Cleanliness of Grain Exports - Provides for a phased-in period of export grain quality improvements. Title III: Improving the Physical Soundness and Purity of Export Grain - Directs FGIS to take specified actions to improve the physical soundness and purity of export grain, including an evaluation of existing grade determining factors and limits, and the establishment of new criteria. Title IV: Export Requirements and Standards - States that officially inspected and weighed export grain shall be cargo loaded in a way that favors neither the buyer nor the seller with regard to the delivery contract's requirements. Title V: Classification, Grades and Standards Design Criteria - Directs FGIS to develop for grain an economic value-based classification, grades and standards design framework. Requires a separate designation for grain that includes damage levels, impurities, or other conditions that make it unsuitable for normal use. Title VI: Grain Quality Research and Testing - Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding: (1) end-use performance research; (2) cooperation in objective testing; and (3) grain purity testing. Title VII: Variety Performance Information - Amends the Federal Seed Act to require specification of agronomic and end-use performance to be provided on seed labels of grain. Requires the National Agricultural Statistics Service to compile U.S. grain variety data. Title VIII: Price Support Loan Incentives for Clean Grain - Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding price support loan incentives for clean grain. Title IX: Farmer-Owned Reserve Quality Requirements - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to: (1) require grain forfeited to the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) under the producer storage program to be at least equal in quality to the original storage collateral; and (2) require the Secretary to establish grain quality standards for such program. Title X: Quality Requirements for Commodity Credit Corporation Owned Grain - Directs the Secretary to establish quality standards for CCC-owned grain. Requires CCC to monitor the condition of stored grain. Title XI: Export Enhancement Program - Amends the Food Security Act to incorporate grain quality incentives in the export enhancement program. Title XII: Crop Insurance Coverage for Loss of Quality - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to provide grain producers with crop insurance coverage based on loss of quality. Title XIII: Disaster Payments for Loss of Quality - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to provide grain producers with disaster payments based on loss of quality. Title XIV: Assistance for Improvements in Grain Quality - Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and technical assistance to grain producers and elevator operators for installations or improvement of grain cleaning, driving, or storage equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Consumer Seafood Safety Act of 1989 - Prohibits: (1) processing or selling any fish or fish product deemed adulterated under this Act; (2) refusal to permit inspection of a vessel or establishment, or otherwise interfering with any person in carrying out duties under this Act; (3) unauthorized reproduction, alteration, or destruction of any official stamp or certificate; (4) keeping false records or destruction of required records; (5) processing fish without a certificate issued by the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary); and (6) importing fish or fish products which fail to comply with all the inspection, good processing practices, and other provisions of this Act. Prescribes fines for the commission of such prohibited acts. Authorizes the Secretary to refuse to provide inspection services to protect the public health, curb persistent violations or enforce the other provisions of this Act. Makes any person who intentionally adulterates fish or fish products guilty of a felony and sets forth imprisonment requirements. Deems fish or fish products adulterated if they: (1) contain any substance hazardous to human health; (2) have not been processed in accordance with provisions of this Act; (3) are made from shellfish harvested in a growing area determined to contain substances that will cause each shellfish to be injurious to health; or (4) are imported from a country that does not use a fish safety program approved by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to identify the chemical and microbiological contaminants, parasites, and toxins which are most likely to be found in fish and fish products and cause fish or fish products to be unsafe for human consumption. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prescribe standards of sanitation and other good processing, storage, and handling for each stage of the processing of fish and fish products; (2) issue a certificate which requires proof of sanitation and storage facilities on an establishment or vessel and implementation of a quality assurance program approved by the Secretary; and (3) prescribe standards for identifying and marking fish or fish products with an official stamp available only for fish and fish products processed at all stages by certified establishments or vessels. Sets forth the circumstances in which a certificate may be suspended. Allows a holder of a suspended certificate to submit a new certification application at any time. Provides for inspection of each establishment or vessel where fish or fish products are processed for interstate commerce. Authorizes the Secretary to direct that any labeling or packaging of fish or fish products which the Secretary has reason to believe is false or misleading be withheld and that any otherwise authorized official mark not be used. Directs the Secretary to publish regulations regarding records describing all activities relevant to food safety and sanitation, with the records available for public inspection. Allows the Secretary, when the Secretary determines that the inspection system of any foreign country is at least equal to the provisions of this Act, to accept certain certificates as compliance with the requirements of this Act. Prohibits any employer from discriminating against any employee because the employee has assisted in the carrying out of this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish priorities for fish and fish products safety research; and (2) design and implement a national program for fish and fish products safety education. Directs the Secretary to encourage States to establish inspection programs at least equal to the program established by this Act. Directs the Secretary, upon request, to determine whether a State program is at least equal to the program established by this Act and, if so, to: (1) designate the State as one in which the Federal program does not apply to shipments of fish and fish product in commerce within that State; and (2) annually grant each such State 50 percent of the operating cost of the State program. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act with regard to farmland held by the Farmers Home Administration to: (1) prohibit giving preference to a purchaser who has been convicted of defrauding the Government; and (2) prohibit, except in certain circumstances, the resale of land by a preference-purchaser within two years after purchase. Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 with regard to farmland held by the Farm Credit System to: (1) provide for the forfeiture of the right of first refusal by a previous owner who has been convicted of defrauding the Government or the Farm Credit System; and (2) prohibit, except in certain circumstances, the resale of land by a preference-purchaser within two years after purchase.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to authorize FY 1991 through 1995 appropriations for the targeted export assistance program. Requires the Foreign Agricultural Service to document program funding allocation and assistance eligibility decisions. Requires the General Accounting Office to provide specified congressional committees with a program oversight report.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Conservation Reserve Program Enhancement Act of 1989 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the conservation reserve program (CRP) through the 1995 crop year. Shortens contract length to five years (reduced from ten) for conservation priority areas. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire 50-year easements for conservation, water quality, recreational, and wildlife purposes on property enrolled in the conservation reserve upon termination of contracts. Allows designation of watershed areas of special environmental sensitivity as conservation priority areas. Authorizes program participation incentives to farmers, including one-time bonuses, higher rental premiums, narrower filter strips, allowing CRP acreage to count toward set-aside land, and paying up to 90 percent of conservation costs. Encourages tree planting.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, to study and assess forest resources, physiographic boundaries, historical land ownership patterns, and alternative conservation strategies of the New York-New Jersey Highlands (in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania), including the Sterling Forest.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to make permanent the prohibition on the payment of farm program benefits to foreigners.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Grain Quality Incentives Act of 1990 - Title I: Coordination and Implementation of Grain Quality Improvements - Amends the United States Grain Standards Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to designate a Grain Quality Coordinator to monitor domestic grain quality and related programs related to the competitive position of the United States in world grain markets. Directs the Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) to standardize and develop national grain inspection guidelines. Expresses the sense of the Congress with regard to cooperative enforcement of Federal grain quality and safety standards. Title II: Improving the Cleanliness of Grain Exports - Provides for a phased in period of export grain quality improvements. Title III: Improving the Physical Soundness and Purity of Export Grain - Directs FGIS to take specified actions to improve the physical soundness and purity of export grain, including an evaluation of existing grade determining factors and limits, and the establishment of new criteria. Title IV: Export Requirements and Standards - States that officially inspected and weighted export grain shall be cargo loaded in a way that favors neither the buyer nor the seller with regard to the delivery contract's requirements. Title V: Classification, Grades and Standards Design Criteria - Directs FGIS to develop for grain an economic value-based classification, grades and standards design framework. Requires a separate designation for grain that includes damage levels, impurities, or other conditions that make it unsuitable for normal use. Title VI: Grain Quality Research and Testing - Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding: (1) end-use performance research; (2) cooperation in objective testing; and (3) grain purity testing. Title VII: Variety Performance Information - Amends the Federal Seed Act to require specification of agronomic and end-use performance to be provided on seed labels of grain. Requires the National Agricultural Statistics Service to compile U.S. grain variety data. Title VIII: Price Support Loan Incentives for Clean Grain - Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding price support loan incentives for clean grain. Title IX: Farmer-Owned Reserve Quality Requirements - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to: (1) require grain forfeited to the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) under the producer storage program to be at least equal in quality to the original storage collateral; and (2) require the Secretary to establish grain quality standards for such program. Title X: Quality Requirements for Commodity Credit Corporation Owned Grain - Directs the Secretary to establish quality standards for CCC owned grain. Requires CCC to monitor the condition of stored grain. Title XI: Export Enhancement Program - Amends the Food Security Act to incorporate grain quality incentives in the export enhancement program. Title XII: Crop Insurance Coverage for Loss of Quality - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to provide grain producers with crop insurance coverage based on loss of quality. Title XIII: Disaster Payments for Loss of Quality - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to provide grain producers with disaster payments based on loss of quality. Title XIV: Assistance for Improvements in Grain Quality - Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and technical assistance to grain producers and elevator operators for installations or improvement of grain cleaning, driving, or storage equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1989
Competitive Agricultural Research Grant Act of 1990 - Amends Federal law to provide for expanded competitive grants for agricultural, food, and environmental research, including research facilities improvement. Authorizes appropriations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that funds for such purposes should not be derived by reducing farm support programs, unless changing market conditions warrant such reductions.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to settle and pay claims for loss of, or damage to, property resulting from certain forest fires which were originally classified as prescribed fires but which subsequently became wildfires. Sets forth procedures for making claims.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1989
Makes supplemental appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for nonrecourse loans on basic agricultural commodities, including soybeans, for FY 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1989
Agricultural Competitiveness and Planting Flexibility Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with regard to the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, extra long staple cotton, and rice to establish a farm's normal crop acreage base as the average acreage for such crops and for soybeans, oilseeds, and industrial crops during the previous five years. Bases crop payment bases on the 1990 crop acreage base. Permits a producer to mix crop plantings as long as the total plantings do not exceed the farm's normal crop acreage base. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the successor law to the Food Security Act of 1985 should embody principles of agricultural competitiveness, flexibility, and rural development.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Conservation Reserve Program Tree Planting Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to reduce to discretionary authority the Secretary of Agriculture's current mandate to enroll specified numbers of acres for specified years into the conservation reserve program (CRP). Waives the three-year CRP change of ownership prohibitions for land planted to trees. Permits the CRP enrollment of land that has been cropped in two of the years between 1981 and 1988 if such land is planted to trees. Directs the Secretary to offer 15-year CRP contracts for land planted to trees. Permits participants to extend existing contracts. Authorizes the Secretary to offer to convert acreage planted to grass to trees and to pay 50 percent of the cost. Authorizes the Secretary to permit participants who agree to plant CRP acreage to trees to continue to grow crops for a specified period of time. Reduces or eliminates rental payments during such period. Requires a participant who fails to properly maintain CRP trees to repay all cost-sharing assistance and forfeit any rental payments. Authorizes the Secretary to provide two additional lump-sum payments to producers who plant trees on CRP acreage.
United States · United States Congress · 17 November 1989
Delays the repayment of advance deficiency payments for 1988 producers of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice who qualified for specified disaster assistance relief.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Organic Foods Act of 1989 - Title I: National Standards Governing the Organic Production of Agricultural Products - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish: (1) national organic production certification standards; and (2) a label for organically produced and handled agricultural products. Provides for State organic certification programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: National Promotion Board - Directs the Secretary to establish a National Organic Promotion, Research, and Consumer Education Program. Provides for the establishment of a National Organic Board. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Low Input Label Demonstration Program - Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a National Low Input Label Demonstration Program; and (2) a label for low input agricultural products. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to require borrowers to act in good faith with regard to restructuring loans made under such Act. Sets forth provisions concerning a determination by the Secretary of Agriculture of failure to act in good faith. Increases from 45 days to 90 days the period for borrower repayment of certain loan obligations to the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Requires L-Tryptophan to be considered an adulterated food under specified provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and barred from sale under the Act until the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines that it does not cause eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome and is not otherwise injurious to health.
United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1989
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from making or enforcing any rule that would impose uniform borrower positive cash flow requirements without accounting for individual borrower characteristics.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1989
Omnibus Agricultural Commodity Promotion and Research Act of 1989 - Title I: Pecan Promotion - Pecan Promotion and Research Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue orders to pecan growers, handlers, and importers with respect to pecan promotion and research. Requires any such order to establish a Pecan Marketing Board to carry out a coordinated program of research and promotion to strengthen the pecan industry's domestic and foreign market position. Funds such program through assessments: (1) on all pecans produced in, or imported into, the United States; and (2) deducted from the first payment made to a grower for all pecans sold to a first handler. Provides for a pecan producer referendum of program approval. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Mushrooms - Mushroom Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Act - Directs the Secretary to issue orders to mushroom producers, importers, and first handlers with respect to mushroom promotion, research, and consumer information. Requires such an order to establish a Mushroom Council to administer the orders and support mushroom promotion, research, and consumer information projects. Funds such activities through assessments on producers and importers. Provides for a mushroom producer referenda for approval of such orders. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Potatoes - Potato Research and Promotion Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Potato Research and Promotion Act to extend coverage to all domestic and foreign potatoes. Directs the Secretary to propose and implement an alternative potato research and promotion plan, if requested by a potato producer or producer organization subject to approval by a producer referendum. Requires such alternative plan to establish a National Potato Promotion Board including importer representatives as well as producer and consumer representatives. Provides for producer and importer assessments. Title IV: Limes - Lime Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Act - Directs the Secretary to issue orders to lime producers, handlers, and importers with respect to lime promotion, research, and consumer information. Requires such an order to establish a Lime Board to administer such orders. Funds such activities through assessments on producers and importers. Provides for lime producer referenda for approval of such orders. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1989
Further Continuing Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 1990 - Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1990 programs, projects, or activities as provided for in the following Acts as passed by the House of Representatives: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990; (2) the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1990; (3) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1990; (4) the Foreign Operations and Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990; (5) the Departments of Labor, Health, and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990; (6) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1990; (7) the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990; and (8) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990. Sets forth limitations on the use of such funds.
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1989
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985, effective for the 1989 and 1990 crops, to consider a cash tenant leasing tribal land separate from the tribal landlord for purposes of certain agricultural payment limitations if: (1) the land was leased pursuant to a Federal law governing the leasing of Indian reservation land; (2) the lease was approved by the Secretary of the Interior; and (3) the tenant has a farming operation approved by the Secretary of Agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 9 November 1989
Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989, as amended, to apply disaster payment reduction and replacement crop provisions for 1988 or 1989 weather damaged crops without regard to whether the replacement crop was the same or similar to the first crop. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to operate a program for the removal and disposition of sprout-damaged wheat and feed grains.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1989
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985, effective for the 1989 and 1990 crops, to consider a cash tenant leasing tribal land separate from the tribal landlord for purposes of certain agricultural payment limitations if: (1) the land was leased pursuant to a Federal law governing the leasing of Indian reservation land; (2) the lease was approved by the Secretary of the Interior; and (3) the tenant has a farming operation approved by the Secretary of Agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1989
Elects Representative Glen Browder and Representative Gene Taylor to the Committee on Armed Services. Elects Representative Jim McDermott to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Elects Representative Edolphus Towns to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Elects Representative Mel Levine to the Committee on the Judiciary. Elects Representative Gene Taylor to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Elects Representative George E. Sangmeister to the Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Elects Representative Pete Geren to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Specifies the ranking order of: (1) Representative Charles A. Hayes on the Post Office and Civil Service Committee; and (2) Representative Gary Condit on the Agriculture Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1989
Amends the Bankruptcy Code to prohibit a bankruptcy court from issuing any order, process, or judgment that would negate exemptions to the Code's automatic stay provisions (as amended by this Act). Declares that the filing of a bankruptcy petition will not act as an automatic stay of specified actions taken by either the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or the Secretary of Agriculture to protect their financial positions with respect to certain multifamily housing units whose mortgagors are in default. Exempts from the automatic stay a hospital or nursing home that is subject to a lien insured or held by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to the National Housing Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1989
Agricultural Promotion Programs Act of 1989 - Title I: Soybeans - Soybean Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to issue an order (subject to producer referendum) creating a soybean promotion, research, and consumer education program. Requires any such order to provide for the establishment of: (1) a United Soybean Board; (2) State soybean boards; and (3) a Soybean Program Coordinating Committee. Funds such program through producer assessments. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Cotton - Cotton Research and Promotion Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Cotton Research and Promotion Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to propose and implement alternative cotton handler orders upon request by a cotton producer or producer organization, subject to producer referenda of approval. Requires each alternative order to establish a Cotton Board to administer the order. Title III: Pecans - Pecan Promotion and Research Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary to issue orders to pecan growers, handlers, and importers with respect to pecan promotion and research. Requires any such order to establish a Pecan Marketing Board to carry out a coordinated program of research and promotion to strengthen the pecan industry's domestic and foreign market position. Funds such program through assessments: (1) on all pecans produced in, or imported into, the United States; and (2) deducted from the first payment made to a grower for all pecans sold to a first handler. Provides for a pecan producer referendum of program approval. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Mushrooms - Mushroom Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Act - Directs the Secretary to issue orders to mushroom producers, importers, and first handlers with respect to mushroom promotion, research, and consumer information. Requires such an order to establish a Mushroom Council to administer the orders and support mushroom promotion, research, and consumer information projects. Funds such activities through assessments on producers and importers. Provides for a mushroom producer referenda for approval of such orders. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Limes - Lime Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Act - Directs the Secretary to issue orders to lime producers, handlers, and importers with respect to lime promotion, research, and consumer information. Requires such an order to establish a Lime Board to administer such orders. Funds such activities through assessments on producers and importers. Provides for lime producer referenda for approval of such orders. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Potatoes - Potato Research and Promotion Act Amendments of 1989- Amends the Potato Research and Promotion Act to extend coverage to all domestic and foreign potatoes. Directs the Secretary to propose and implement an alternative potato research and promotion plan, if requested by a potato producer or producer organization, subject to approval by a producer referendum. Requires such alternative plan to establish a National Potato Promotion Board including importer representatives as well as producer and consumer representatives. Provides for producer and importer assessments. Title VII: Honey - Honey Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Act Amendments of 1989 - Amends the Honey Research, Promotion, and Consumer Information Act to permit one of the two current Honey Board importer seats to be filled by an exporter. Exempts from honey assessments an importer, producer, or producer-handler who handles less than 6000 pounds of honey annually all of which is used at home, donated, or distributed directly through retail outlets. Provides that: (1) patents, copyrights, inventions, publications, or product formulations developed with Board funds shall belong to the Board; and (2) any funds derived therefrom shall inure to the benefit of the Board. Provides for assessments to be deducted directly from honey price support loans. Title VIII: Vidalia Onions - Prohibits the labeling of any onions as Vidalia onions unless they meet specified standards. Title IX: Prohibition on Duty Drawback - Conditions eligibility for certain agricultural export benefits on the U.S. exporter's certifying that none of such domestic commodity exports shall be used as the basis for import drawbacks (reimbursement) under the Tariff Act of 1930. Requires U.S. vegetable oil or vegetable oil products exporters to comply with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1989
Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to make earthquake losses in orchards, forest crops, and rural business enterprises eligible for disaster assistance under such Act. Makes ornamentals eligible for such assistance. Increases rural business enterprise assistance limits from $200,000,000 to $300,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1989
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the Old Taos Ranger District Office and Warehouse to the town of Taos, New Mexico.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1989
Rural Economic Development Act of 1989 - Title I: Reorganization of the Department of Agriculture - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish in the Department of Agriculture the Rural Development Administration. Title II: Local Prioritization of Project Funding - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to set out the framework for certain rural development programs, which shall include: (1) an area plan for long range rural development; and (2) State rural economic development review panels. Authorizes grants for State revolving funds for loans to very small businesses. Title III: Enhancement of Existing Rural Development Programs - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to establish in the Rural Electrification Administration a technical assistance unit. Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to authorize banks for cooperatives to make loans for water or waste disposal systems. Title VII: Rural Electrification Provisions - Rural Telecommunications Improvements Act of 1989 - Subtitle A: Amendments Relating to Title I of the 1936 Act - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (the Act) to include the balance of all rescinded loans and obligations among the unexpended or unobligated funds which may be carried over for loans by the Administrator (the Administrator) of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA). Prohibits the Administrator and the Governor of the Rural Telephone Bank (the Governor) from: (1) denying or reducing any loan based on a borrower's fund level; or (2) making any loan, guarantee, or grant, unless the borrower has obtained the consent of the State regulatory authority and the loan or grant will not duplicate existing facilities or systems. Subtitle B: Amendments Relating to Title II of the 1936 Act - Prohibits the Administrator and the Governor from making or guaranteeing a telephone grant or a loan which would result in facilities or service duplication. Prohibits the Administrator and the Governor from requiring a telephone loan applicant to increase: (1) rates charged to customers or subscribers; or (2) the ratio of net income or margins before interest to the interest requirements on all the applicant's outstanding and proposed loans. Prohibits the Administrator from treating certain rural development investments as dividends or capital distributions. Requires the Administrator and the Governor to: (1) publish telephone policy standards; (2) use only specified depreciation rates in loan evaluations; and (3) make loans for all authorized purposes. Prohibits the Administrator and the Governor from: (1) rescinding certain telephone loans without the borrower's consent; (2) regulating the order or sequence of advances of funds to any borrower under any combination of approved telephone loans from specified entities; or (3) denying a loan or taking adverse action against a borrower for any reason not based on a published policy standard. Subtitle C: Amendments Relating to Title III of the 1936 Act - Directs the Administrator to maintain separate electric and telephone accounts within the Rural Electric and Telephone Revolving Fund. Sets forth a tier requirement for the interest rates of insured telephone loans. Provides for full use of REA insured loan authority. Prohibits the Administrator from providing guarantee assistance unless the borrower specifically applies for it. Subtitle D: Amendments Relating to Title IV of the 1936 Act - Revises provisions for the Rural Telephone Bank (RTB) Board of Directors. Revises (RTB) provisions relating to: (1) capitalization; (2) pro rata stock purchases by RTB borrowers; (3) authority to set loan levels; and (4) the overcharge on RTB loans made before FY 1988. Provides for full use of RTB loan authority. Title VIII: Miscellaneous - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish local income-based loan rates for health care and related facilities. Increases assistance for communities dependent on natural resources. Directs the Secretary to establish a loan restructuring and servicing program for distressed community facility program borrowers. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to direct the Secretary to provide water and waste facility loans and grants to alleviate health risks.
United States · United States Congress · 1 November 1989
Agriculture and Ground Water Policy Coordination Act - Title I: Ground Water Policy in the Department of Agriculture - Sets forth the groundwater policy of the Department of Agriculture (the Department) with respect to agrichemicals. Establishes the Office of Ground Water Policy Coordination (the Office) in the Department. Sets forth the duties of the Director of the Office (the Director). Establishes an interagency committee on groundwater policy in the Department. Requires the Director to establish technical advisory committees, as necessary. Requires the Director to formalize the existence of certain technical integration groups. Authorizes the Director to establish interagency technical support committees. Provides for the development and implementation of agricultural groundwater policy within the Department, including an agency-specific groundwater policy statement and implementation plan, a national agricultural groundwater plan, and an annual groundwater activities report. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Coordination with State Programs - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to require the establishment of State groundwater coordinator committees (the committees) within the food and agricultural councils. Directs the Secretary to establish, through the Extension Service, a groundwater supply quality coordinator (the coordinator) in each State extension service. Directs each State committee and coordinator to work with Federal, State, and other appropriate entities to: (1) evaluate the State's groundwater plan's adequacy in addressing agricultural sources of nonpoint source pollutants; (2) review the relevance of certain water quality protection projects to groundwater protection programs; (3) assess the identification and mapping of hydrologic units; and (4) assess the adequacy of the State's programs for addressing agricultural sources of groundwater contamination. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Extension and Education - Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to establish in or through the Extension Service national education programs on: (1) pesticides; (2) the use of plant nutrient materials; and (3) the management of water resources. Directs the Secretary, through the Extension Service and the Office, to establish a national training program for: (1) the groundwater quality coordinators; and (2) appropriate field office and Department personnel on groundwater protection. Directs the Secretary to establish in the Extension Service a national well water testing program. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Soil Conservation Service - Requires the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) to protect and improve groundwater quality through specified activities. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Research - Directs the Secretary, through Department agencies and the Director, to conduct or assist research on specified topics relating to agriculture and groundwater. Requires each State coordinator to request representative Federal, State, and university scientists to work with the State committee and coordinator to establish a prioritized agriculture and groundwater research agenda for the State. Provides for coordination of such State agendas in establishing a prioritized research agenda for regional projects. Requires the Director to use regional reports in establishing a national agricultural groundwater plan, developing funding priorities in Department water quality research programs, and requesting certain research proposals. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: National Agricultural and Ground Water Clearinghouse - Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Agricultural Library (the Library), to establish at the Library a repository of reports developed under this Act. Requires the Secretary, through the Director of the Library and in consultation with the Tennessee Valley Authority, to establish at the Library a data base on State programs and State laws relating to groundwater quality and agriculture. Requires the Director of the Library to collaborate with the Director of the Office, State coordinators, and Department agency administrators to develop a standardized format for the entry and description of State programs, activities, and results. Requires the Director of the Office to report to the Congress on measures necessary to develop a national data base on agricultural practices and groundwater resources to be located at the Library. Directs the Secretary, after the submission of such report to initiate the development of such data base. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1989
Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1989 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) to deem a food misbranded unless its label states: (1) the serving size or other unit of measure customarily used; (2) the number of servings or other units per container; (3) the number of calories per serving and derived from total fat and saturated fat; and (4) the amount of total fat, saturated fat, unsaturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrates, complex carbohydrates, sugars, total protein, and dietary fiber per serving or other unit. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, if there is a significant scientific basis, to: (1) require additional nutrients to be included in the labeling; or (2) exempt nutrients from the labeling requirement. Requires, for raw agricultural commodities or raw fish or shellfish, that the nutritional information be provided in a single location in the areas in which such items are offered for sale. Directs the Secretary to exempt types of such items which are infrequently consumed. Exempts from the labeling requirements food: (1) sold for immediate consumption in restaurants, or sold to restaurants for sale or use in restaurants; (2) processed and prepared in a retail establishment and not for immediate consumption in the establishment; (3) including certain infant formulas; (4) which is a medical food; (5) which is customarily processed, labeled, or repacked in substantial quantities at establishments other than those where it was originally processed or packed; (6) in packages so small that the information would be illegible; (7) which contains insignificant amounts of all the nutrients and does not make any claim with respect to the nutritional value of the food; and (8) sold by certain small businesses. Requires certain vitamins and minerals to include nutrient information in their labeling as appropriate and as specified by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to undertake to contract with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to prepare a report making recommendations regarding the manner of the labeling. Directs the Secretary to determine whether any of the nutrients required to be placed on labels before enactment of this Act shall be required under provisions of this Act. Directs the Secretary to carry out consumer education regarding nutrition labeling. Sets forth the circumstances under which nutrition and health claims may and may not be made for foods. Allows proceedings for the enforcement, or to restrain violations, of the amendments made by this Act to be brought in the name of a State in which the food that is the subject of the proceedings is located (in addition to the existing authorization to bring such actions to enforce the FDCA in the name of the United States). Declares that a food which makes a claim which characterizes the relationship of its constituents to a disease or a condition in accordance with the requirements of this Act is not, solely because of such claim, a drug under specified provisions of FDCA. Prohibits a State or its subdivision from establishing or continuing in effect any: (1) nutrition labeling requirement that differs from the requirements of this Act; or (2) prohibition respecting any label health claim which differs from the requirements of this Act. Provides for exemption petitions by States if a State or local requirement would not unduly burden interstate commerce, and if other conditions are met.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1989
Rural Telecommunications Improvements Act of 1989 - Title I: Amendments Relating to Title I of the 1936 Act - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (the Act) to include the balance of all rescinded loans and obligations among the unexpended or unobligated funds which may be carried over for loans by the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) (the Administrator). Prohibits the Administrator and the Governor of the Rural Telephone Bank (the Governor) from: (1) denying or reducing any loan or loan advance based on a borrower's level of general funds; or (2) making any loan or grant, or providing any guarantee, for electric service to any borrower of a telephone loan, or for telephone service to any borrower of an electric loan, unless the borrower has obtained the consent of the State regulatory authority and the loan or grant will not be used to duplicate any lines, facilities, or systems. Title II: Amendments Relating to Title II of the 1936 Act - Prohibits the Administrator or the Governor from making or guaranteeing a loan, or making a grant, for telephone purposes, if this would result in the duplication of lines, facilities, or systems that provide reasonably adequate service. Prohibits the Administrator and the Governor from requiring an applicant, as a condition of a telephone loan, to increase: (1) rates charged to customers or subscribers; or (2) the ratio of net income or margins before interest to the interest requirements on all the applicant's outstanding and proposed loans. Prohibits the Administrator from treating as dividends or distributions of capital certain rural development investments by qualified telephone borrowers. Requires the Administrator and the Governor to: (1) publish policy standards for the telephone loan programs; (2) use only depreciation rates authorized by the State regulatory body in evaluating loan feasibility; and (3) make loans for all authorized purposes. Prohibits the Administrator and the Governor from: (1) rescinding certain telephone loans without the borrower's consent; (2) regulating the order or sequence of advances of funds to any borrower under any combination of approved telephone loans from specified entities; or (3) denying a loan or advance to, or taking adverse action against, a telephone loan borrower for any reason not based on a published policy standard. Requires the Administrator to report to specified congressional committees on why certain loan applications have not been processed promptly. Title III: Amendments Relating to Title III of the 1936 Act - Directs the Administrator to maintain separate electric and telephone accounts within the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund (the Fund). Provides that borrowers are to determine the amortization period for insured telephone loans. Sets forth a tier requirement for the interest rates of insured telephone loans. Provides for full use of REA insured loan authority. Prohibits the Administrator from providing guarantee assistance to any borrower of a telephone loan unless the borrower specifically applies for guarantee assistance. Title IV: Amendments Relating to Title IV of the 1936 Act - Revises provisions for the Rural Telephone Bank (RTB) Board of Directors. Revises provisions relating to: (1) RTB capitalization; (2) pro rata purchase of RTB stock by RTB borrowers; (3) authority to set RTB loan levels; and (4) the overcharge on RTB loans made before FY 1988. Provides for determination of the amortization period for RTB loans by borrowers, within certain maximum limits. Provides for full use of RTB loan authority. Title V: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1989
Sustainable Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1989 - Title I: General Provisions - Sets forth sustainable agricultural reporting requirements of the Secretary of Agriculture. Title II: Farm Program Flexibility Option - Directs the Secretary to establish a program (program) to assist farmers in adopting sustainable agricultural production systems aimed at: (1) enhancing profitability and productivity; (2) conservation; (3) protecting human and animal welfare; (4) minimizing chemical use; and (5) promoting diversification. Prohibits farm program payment yield reductions for program participants. Title III: Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension Program - Establishes within the Extension Service a Sustainable Agriculture Extension Program. Title IV: Technical and Financial Assistance - Subtitle A: Technical Assistance and Training - Directs the Secretary to: (1) revise the Soil Conservation Service field office technical guides to incorporate sustainable agricultural practices; and (2) establish grants for such purpose. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to provide related in-service training for the Extension Service and the Soil Conservation Service. Subtitle B: Financial Assistance - Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cost-sharing agreements with producers who implement farm management plans.
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1989
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to deduct or exclude from household income for purposes of food stamp program eligibility and benefits: (1) certain costs associated with seeing eye dogs and hearing dogs; and (2) certain children's clothing allowances.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1989
Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to base disaster payments for nonprogram crops damaged by Hurricane Hugo on normal acreage fields, except that subsequent crops shall not be planted on the same acreage as the first crop.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1989
Rural Assistance and Revitalization Act of 1989 - Title I: Rural Business and Job Creation - Subtitle A: Rural Partnerships Investment Board - Establishes a Rural Partnerships Investment Board to provide lines of credit to enable eligible entities to develop rural business development revolving funds. Establishes in the Treasury a Rural Business Investment Fund. Subtitle B: Rural Capital Access Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a rural capital access program to encourage lending institutions to provide rural business loans. Subtitle C: Rural Economic Development Administered by the Secretary and the Rural Electrification Administration - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to establish a position of Assistant Administrator for Economic Development in the Rural Electrification Administration (REA). Establishes within REA a technical assistance unit to advise borrowers with regard to economic and community development activities. Provides for deferred payment on economic development loans. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize water and waste facility loans for certain REA borrowers. Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to establish in the Treasury a Rural Business Incubator Fund to fund REA borrowers in order to create or operate rural business incubators. Title II: Administration - Renames the Department of Agriculture and the Secretary of Agriculture the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (Department) and the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, respectively. Establishes in the Department the Rural Electrification and Development Administration (Administration) to be headed by an Assistant Secretary for Electrification and Rural Development. Transfers to the Administration: (1) the REA; (2) the community facilities, water and waste disposal, and business and industry loan programs administered by the Farmers Home Administration; and (3) other development programs as the Secretary may assign to the Administration. Establishes in the Rural Development Administration (sic) an Office of Rural Policy. Title III: Information - Directs the Census Bureau to expand its data collection efforts with regard to changing rural economic conditions. Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to establish a rural development research grant program. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a National Center for Cooperative Research, Education, Training, and Development; and (2) similar regional centers. Title IV: Human Capacity - Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to direct the Secretary to establish an Extension Service rural economic and business development program. Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to authorize Farm Credit System (System) institutions to provide technical assistance to rural communities. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to increase the authorization of appropriations for technical assistance. Title V: Rural Infrastructure - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to: (1) establish local income-based loan rates for health care and related facilities; (2) increase the ceiling for water and waste facility grants; and (3) establish an emergency community water assistance grant program. Title VI: Provisions Relating to Institutions of the Farm Credit System - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to authorize System institutions to participate in specified agricultural real estate and operating loan guarantee programs. Increases the scope of System institution credit. Title VII: Regulations - Requires final implementing regulations to be issued within six months of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1989
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a percentage reduction of less than five percent for the 1990 oat crop. Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to make funds available to promote U.S. meat exports to military commissaries in the European Community. Amends the Egg Research and Consumer Information Act to set forth "aggregate number of hens" provisions for individual, general partnership, and corporation producers for purposes of specified exemptions under such Act. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to require the quality inspection of all peanuts if a marketing agreement is in effect (regardless of whether the particular handler is participating in the agreement). Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to authorize research into new commercial products from natural plant materials.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1989
Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to specify that the "net value" rather than the "value" of a replacement crop shall be considered when making specified disaster payment reductions. Applies such reductions only to replanted acreage. Requires separate consideration of planted and replanted acreage in determining emergency crop loss assistance under such Act. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture in determining replacement crop value to: (1) consider only the amount of replacement crop production that is in excess of 50 percent of the county average yield for such crop; (2) base the value of the excess replacement crop production on average market prices for such crop over a representative period; (3) reduce such crop's value by 25 percent; and (4) consider historical cropping patterns. Authorizes the Secretary to make crop acreage base adjustments to reflect crop rotation practices due to natural disasters. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to: (1) revise the formula for determining farm poundage quotas for dark air-cured tobacco and fire-cured tobacco; and (2) revise the definition of "preliminary farm yield" for other than flue-cured tobacco. Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to permit the Secretary to waive the principal due on agricultural regular or producer reserve loans in order to avoid loan collateral forfeiture.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1989
Rural Economic Sustainability Act of 1989 - Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to provide assistance to rural counties to develop rural economic sustainability plans.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1989
Integrated Pest Management Research Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education, to establish an Office of Integrated Pest Management. Directs the Secretary to submit an integrated pest management report to the Congress. Authorizes FY 1991 through 1995 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1989
Federal Inspection for Seafood Healthfulness Act of 1989 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to develop an inspection program for seafood and seafood products to protect the public from adulterated and misbranded products. Prohibits any establishment or vessel from processing seafood (any aquatic plant or animal capable of use as human food) unless registered under the program. Requires all seafood labeling to be approved by the Secretary prior to use. Provides for the inspection of establishments and vessels registered under the program and for condemnation of adulterated or misbranded seafood. Requires the Secretary, with the Secretary of Commerce, to establish a system to sample and test seafood and seafood products to identify geographical areas having significant quantities of products not in compliance with this Act. Imposes standards, inspection requirements, and sampling requirements on imported seafood and seafood products. Requires the Secretary to review, upon request, the seafood inspection program of countries desiring to export products to the United States. Sets U.S. seafood export standards. Directs the Secretary to encourage States to establish seafood inspection programs, providing Federal assistance for such programs. Prescribes prohibited acts relating to seafood processing, sale, and transport, imposing civil and criminal penalties for violations. Exempts carriers from penalties for delivery of adulterated or misbranded seafood and products unless certain knowledge and other requirements are met. Exempts from this Act establishments and vessels processing seafood not intended for use as human food, intended for personal use, for certain restaurant processing, and vessels that do not process seafood by certain methods. Directs the implementation of a national program for seafood safety education. Authorizes appropriations. Requires reports to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1989
Milk Marketing Order Equity Act of 1989 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, reenacted with amendments by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to state that the purpose of milk orders shall be to provide an efficient milk production and distribution system that minimizes consumer cost, provides equitable milk pricing from all sources, and prohibits discriminatory pricing or other economic disincentives. Revises: (1) market area minimum aggregate adjustment levels; and (2) marketing order amendment provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1989
Dairy Equity Act of 1989 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set milk price support levels for: (1) 1990 at $10.60 per hundredweight; and (2) through 1995 adjusted by half the estimated price change during the preceding calendar year from the next preceding calendar year. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to institute a supply management program if estimated purchases exceed four percent of commercial use during a calendar year. Directs the Secretary to establish a Dairy Producer Board.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1989
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to reimburse Montana, individual cattle-owners in Montana, or both, for the costs of testing cattle for brucellosis if there is a demonstrated risk of infection from Yellowstone National Park elk and bison herds. Authorizes FY 1990 through 1992 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1989
Consumer Seafood Safety Act of 1989 - Prohibits: (1) processing or selling any fish or fishery product deemed adulterated under this Act; (2) refusal to permit inspection of a vessel or establishment, or otherwise interfering with any person in carrying out duties under this Act; (3) unauthorized reproduction, alteration, or destruction of any official stamp or certificate; (4) keeping false records or destruction of required records; (5) processing fish without a certificate issued by the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary); and (6) importing fish or fishery products which fail to comply with all the inspection, good processing practice, and other provisions of this Act. Prescribes fines for commission of any of such prohibited acts. Authorizes the Secretary to refuse to provide inspection services to protect the public health, curb persistent violations or enforce the other provisions of this Act. Makes any person who intentionally adulterates fish or fishery products guilty of a felony and sets forth imprisonment requirements. Deems fish or fishery products adulterated if they: (1) contain any substance hazardous to human health; (2) have not been processed in accordance with provisions of this Act; (3) are made from shellfish harvested in a growing area determined to contain substances that will cause each shellfish to be injurious to health; and (4) are imported from a country that does not use a fish safety program approved by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to identify the chemical and microbiological contaminants, parasites, and toxins which are most likely to be found in fish and fish products and cause fish or fish products to be unsafe for human consumption. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) prescribe standards of sanitation and other good processing, storage, and handling for each stage of the processing of fish and fishery products; (2) issue a certificate which requires proof of sanitation and storage facilities on an establishment or vessel and implementation of a quality assurance program approved by the Secretary; and (3) prescribe standards for identifying and marking fish or fishery products with an official stamp available only for fish and fishery products processed at all stages by certified establishments or vessels. Sets forth the circumstances in which a certificate may be suspended. Allows a holder of a suspended certificate to submit a new certification application at any time. Provides for inspection of each establishment or vessel where fish or fishery products are processed for interstate commerce. Authorizes the Secretary to direct that any labeling or packaging of fish or fishery products which the Secretary has reason to believe is false or misleading be withheld and that any otherwise authorized official mark not be used. Directs the Secretary to publish regulations regarding records describing all activities relevant to food safety and sanitation, with the records available for public inspection. Allows the Secretary, when the Secretary determines that the inspection system of any foreign country is at least equal to the provisions of this Act, to accept certain certificates as compliance with the requirements of this Act. Prohibits any employer from discriminating against any employee because the employee has assisted in the carrying out of this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish priorities for fish and fish products safety research; and (2) design and implement a national program for fish and fish products safety education. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1989
Elects Representative Gary Condit to the Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on Government Operations. Elects Representative Richard A. Gephardt to the Committee on the Budget. Elects Representative Thomas J. Manton to the Committee on House Administration. Elects Representative Tim Johnson to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Elects Representative Charles A. Hayes to the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Elects Representative Pete Geren to the Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Elects Representative Benjamin L. Cardin to the Committee on Ways and Means.
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1989
Rural Water and Waste Water Management Consolidation Act of 1989 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, during FY 1990 through 1994, to allocate at least 25 percent of specified rural water and waste facility grants for: (1) certain consolidated rural water and waste water cooperatives; and (2) unconsolidated cooperatives formed after the date of enactment of this Act. Sets forth the order of assistance priority.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1989
Nutrition and Health Act of 1989 - Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services the Federal Council on Nutrition and Health to: (1) assemble information on the relationship between nutrition and health; (2) identify related, ongoing research and aspects of the relationship between nutrition and health requiring additional research; (3) monitor research into the role of nutrition in health; (4) monitor the progress of nutrition education efforts; and (5) maintain an understandable and retrievable data base of information on the relationship of nutrition and health to serve as a clearinghouse. Requires annual reports to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to be distributed to the President, the Congress, and others. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1989
Food Contamination Prevention Act - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations: (1) prohibiting the transportation in commerce of hazardous, medical, recyclable, and terminal waste in any refrigerated or other vehicle designed for transporting perishable food or in any vehicle that is also used to transport any food, food additive, drug, cosmetic, or device, or any package containing such items; (2) establishing health and safety standards for the transportation in commerce of recyclable and reusable waste in vehicles that are also used to transport any food, food additive, drug, cosmetic, or device, or any package containing such items; (3) requiring any vehicle used to transport solid waste to be labeled in a manner that identifies the vehicle as a dedicated or nondedicated waste vehicle and that identifies the class of waste transported by such vehicle; (4) requiring each solid waste management facility to institute a program to ensure that all nondedicated waste vehicles that are used to transport solid waste are kept free from contaminants through the use of reasonably available current technology; and (5) establishing criteria for three classes of nonhazardous solid waste (reusable, recyclable, and terminal as defined in this Act). Prescribes criminal penalties for violation of such regulations.