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Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 388 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1990
Waives provisions of Federal law with respect to the printing (on parchment or otherwise) of the enrollment of S. 2830 (the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990). Requires the Secretary of the Senate to certify the enrollment of the bill as a true enrollment. Sets forth procedures for subsequent preparation and certification of a printed enrollment of the bill if it is enacted.
Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 687 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1990
Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1991 appropriations, funds, or other authority as provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Department of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (2) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1991; (3) the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1991; (4) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991; (5) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991; (6) the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (7) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (8) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991; (9) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1991; (10) the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (11) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (12) the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991; and (13) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991. Sets forth limitations on the use of such funds. Suspends any order on sequestration for FY 1991 issued pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) until November 5, 1990. Extends the temporary increase in the public debt through November 5, 1990.
Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 681 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1990
Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1991 projects or activities as provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (2) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1991; (3) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991; (4) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991; (5) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (6) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1991; (7) the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (8) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (9) the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991; and (10) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991. Sets forth limitations on the use of such funds. Suspends any order on sequestration for FY 1991 issued pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) until October 27, 1990. Extends the temporary increase in the public debt through October 27, 1990.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 678 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1990
Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1991 programs, projects, or activities as provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (2) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1990; (3) the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1991; (4) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991; (5) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991; (6) the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (7) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (8) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991; (9) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1991; (10) the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (11) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 1991; (12) the Treasury, Postal Services, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991; and (13) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991. Sets forth limitations on the use of such funds. Suspends any order on sequestration for FY 1991 issued pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) until February 15, 1991, or the enactment of the applicable appropriations Act, if sooner.
Law· HRH.R. 5871 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1990
Farm Poundage Quota Revisions Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to permit the sale of a farm's burley tobacco (burley) quota to another active burley tobacco producer in the same county under specified conditions. Postpones the effective date of the loss of quota for underplanting provisions until the 1994 marketing year. (Current law makes such provisions effective as of the 1976 marketing year.) Bases such determination on two of the three previous years' plantings. (Current law is determined on the previous five years' plantings.) States that when a farm is divided through reconstitution (other than through probate or among family members) the burley tobacco poundage quota which transfers with the divided land shall be at least 1000 pounds. Increases lease limitations from 15,000 pounds to 30,000 pounds. Authorizes the lease and transfer of burley quotas between any two farms within Tennessee or Virginia if a majority of active burley producers within the respective State so approves in a statewide referendum.
Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 677 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1990
Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1991 projects or activities as provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (2) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1991; (3) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991; (4) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991, notwithstanding certain sections of specified law; (5) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (6) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1991; (7) the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (8) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (9) the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991; and (10) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991. Sets forth limitations on the use of such funds. Suspends any order on sequestration for FY 1991 issued pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) until October 24, 1990. Extends the temporary increase in the public debt through October 24, 1990.
Bill· SS. 3213 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1990
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require that meat being imported be subject to the same inspection, sanitary, quality, species verification, and residue standards applied to products produced in the United States. Requires that inspections of imports be carried out by U.S. inspectors. Amends the Poultry Products Inspection Act to require that inspections of imports be done by U.S. inspectors.
Bill· HRH.R. 5854 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1990
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require that meat being imported be subject to the same inspection, sanitary, quality, species verification, and residue standards applied to products produced in the United States. Requires that inspections of imports be done by U.S. inspectors. Amends the Poultry Products Inspection Act to require that inspections of imports be done by U.S. inspectors.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 670 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1990
Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1991 projects or activities as provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (2) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1991; (3) the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1991; (4) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991; (5) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991; (6) the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (7) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (8) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1991; (9) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1991; (10) the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (11) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (12) the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991; and (13) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991. Sets forth limitations on the use of such funds. Suspends any order on sequestration for FY 1991 issued pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) October 27, 1990. Extends the temporary increase in the public debt through October 27, 1990.
Bill· SS. 3170 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1990
Directs the President to liquidate sufficient blocked Iraqi assets to repay debts owed by Iraq to the U.S. Government and to U.S. nationals, with priority given to Commodity Credit Corporation obligations.
Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 666 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1990
Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1991 programs, projects, or activities as provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (2) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1991; (3) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991; (4) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991, notwithstanding certain sections of specified laws; (5) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (6) the Military Construction Appropriations Act; (7) the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (8) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (9) the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991; and (10) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991. Sets forth limitations on the use of such funds. Suspends any order on sequestration for FY 1991 issued before, on, or after the date of enactment of this joint resolution. Declares that such suspension ceases to be effective on October 20, 1990. Extends the temporary increase in the public debt to October 20, 1990.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 665 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1990
Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1991 programs, projects, or activities as provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (2) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1991; (3) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991; (4) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991, notwithstanding certain sections of specified laws; (5) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (6) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1991; (7) the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (8) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (9) the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991; and (10) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991. Sets forth limitations on the use of such funds. Modifies the order on sequestration for FY 1991 by reducing the across-the-board percentage reduction reflected in such order from 32.4 percent for nondefense programs and 35.3 percent for defense programs to 14.4 percent for nondefense programs and 16.6 percent for defense programs. Extends a temporary increase in the public debt limit from October 6, 1990, until October 12, 1990.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 664 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1990
Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1991 programs, projects, or activities as provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (2) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1991; (3) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991; (4) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991, notwithstanding certain sections of specified laws; (5) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (6) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1991; (7) the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (8) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (9) the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991; and (10) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991. Sets forth limitations on the use of such funds. Suspends any order on sequestration for FY 1991 issued before, on, or after the date of enactment of this joint resolution.
Bill· HRH.R. 5783 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1990
Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Extends assistance under this Act only to producers in a county substantially affected during the 1988, 1989, and 1990 crop years by a natural disaster or by a major disaster or emergency. Title I: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1990 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1990 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1990 farm yield for forage-use-crops. Limits to $100,000 assistance received under this Act or in combination with emergency livestock assistance under the Agricultural Act of 1949. Authorizes the substitution of crop insurance program yields for assigned farm yields for 1990 disaster assistance eligibility purposes. Title II: Orchards - Extends disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to commercial orchardists who suffered 1990 weather-caused tree losses in excess of 45 percent. Title III: Forest Crops - Extends disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to commercial tree farmers who suffered 1990 weather-caused losses in excess of 45 percent. Title IV: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1990 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Title V: Administrative Provisions - Requires assistance applications to be made by April 30, 1991, or such later date as the Secretary may prescribe. Title VI: Advance Deficiency Payments - Directs the Secretary, with regard to advance deficiency payments paid in 1988 or 1989 to producers who suffered 1988 through 1990 losses in disaster-affected counties, to permit a three-year repayment of such amounts.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 660 (101st)passed
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1990
Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1991 programs, projects, or activities as provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (2) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1991; (3) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991; (4) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991, notwithstanding certain sections of specified laws; (5) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (6) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1991; (7) the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (8) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (9) the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991; and (10) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991. Sets forth limitations on the use of such funds. Suspends any order on sequestration for FY 1991 issued before, on, or after the date of enactment of this joint resolution.
Bill· SS. 3143 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1990
Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Extends assistance under this Act only to producers in a county substantially affected during the 1988, 1989, and 1990 crop years by a natural disaster or by a major disaster or emergency. Title I: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1990 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1990 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1990 farm yield for forage-use-crops. Limits to $100,000 assistance received under this Act or in combination with emergency livestock assistance under the Agricultural Act of 1949. Authorizes the substitution of crop insurance program yields for assigned farm yields for 1990 disaster assistance eligibility purposes. Title II: Orchards - Extends disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to commercial orchardists who suffered 1990 weather-caused tree losses in excess of 45 percent. Title III: Forest Crops - Extends disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to commercial tree farmers who suffered 1990 weather-caused losses in excess of 45 percent. Title IV: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1990 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Title V: Administrative Provisions - Requires assistance applications to be made by April 30, 1991, or such later date as the Secretary may prescribe. Title VI: Advance Deficiency Payments - Directs the Secretary, with regard to advance deficiency payments paid in 1988 or 1989 to producers who suffered 1988 through 1990 losses in disaster-affected counties, to permit a three-year repayment of such amounts.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 659 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1990
Designates October 1990 as National Seafood Month.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 329 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1990
Expresses the sense of the Senate that any sequestration order issued under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) should not affect any conservation reserve contract under the Food Security Act of 1985.
Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 655 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1990
Title I: Continuing Appropriations - Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1991 for projects or activities provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (2) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1991; (3) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1991; (4) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991; (5) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (6) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1991; (7) the Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (8) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991; (9) the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1991; and (10) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991. Provides for the continuation of projects or activities when the House of Representatives and the Senate differ in amounts or authority. Makes appropriations as necessary for: (1) projects or activities under the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990; (2) projects or activities under the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1990; (3) projects or activities under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1990; and (4) the Aerostat Program of the U.S. Customs Service. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under the Defense Appropriations Act, 1990 for: (1) new production of items not funded in FY 1990 or prior fiscal years; (2) the increase in production rates above those sustained with FY 1990 funds; (3) other specified activities not funded or authorized during FY 1990 (except for activities related to Operation Desert Shield); (4) the initiation of multi-year procurements utilizing advance procurement funding for economic order quantity procurement unless specifically appropriated later; and (5) procurement and research, development, test, and evaluation in excess of the current rate or the estimate for FY 1991, whichever is lower, except for activities related to Operation Desert Shield. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to initiate or resume any activity for which funds were not available during FY 1990. Makes funds available under this Act until the earliest of: (1) October 20, 1990; (2) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this Act; or (3) enactment of the applicable appropriations without any provision for such project or activity. Suspends any order on sequestration for FY 1991. Makes certain prohibitions of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 inapplicable with respect to assistance to Egypt. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for purposes of determining the amount of Medicare payments made to a hospital for the costs of inpatient hospital services for discharges occurring between October 1 and October 20, 1990, to apply the area wage index applicable to such hospital as of September 30, 1990. Amends the Social Security Act to extend the period through which certain discharges occur to October 20, 1990, for purposes of calculating inpatient hospital service payments on the basis of prospective rates. Title II: Supplemental Appropriations for Operation Desert Shield - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 1990 for specified branches of the armed forces for: (1) military and reserve personnel; (2) operation and maintenance; (3) other procurement; (4) research, development, test, and evaluation; and (5) the Defense Stock Fund. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to accept gifts for use by the Department of Defense to finance operations in and around the Arabian Peninsula relating to Operation Desert Shield. Provides for the deposit of any proceeds from such gifts in the National Defense Gift Fund. Permits the President, when exercising the authority to order the Selected Reserve to active duty, to extend the period of such order an additional 180 days (currently, 90 days) in the case of operations in and around the Arabian Peninsula and Operation Desert Shield. Makes supplemental appropriations for the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund.
Bill· SS. 3098 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1990
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to permit wheat producers to store up to 15,000 bushels per farm of their 1990 crop in the producer reserve program.
Bill· HRH.R. 5617 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1990
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to utilize export incentives and export credits or guarantees to assist U.S. exports of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, or rice under acreage reductions against similar competing foreign commodities not subject to reductions in their home country.
Bill· SS. 3030 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1990
Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Annual Crops - Extends disaster crop loss assistance through the 1990 crop year for wheat, feed grains, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, tobacco, soybeans, and other nonprogram crops. Extends crop quality reduction disaster assistance through the 1990 crop year. Reduces disaster assistance payments in relation to Federal crop insurance payments. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce within a specified time the conditions for establishing a 1990 farm yield for forage-use crops. Limits to $100,000 assistance received under this Act or in combination with emergency livestock assistance under the Agriculture Act of 1949. Authorizes the substitution of crop insurance program yields for assigned farm yields for 1990 disaster assistance eligibility purposes. Title II: Orchards - Extends disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to commercial orchardists who suffered 1990 weather-caused tree losses in excess of 45 percent. Title III: Forest Crops - Extends disaster assistance (up to $25,000 or an equivalent value in seedlings) to commercial tree farmers who suffered 1990 weather-caused losses in excess of 45 percent. Title IV: Additional Assistance - Prohibits the Secretary from reducing rental payments to an owner or operator who hays or grazes livestock during the 1989 crop year on land subject to a conservation reserve program contract to the extent that such owner or operator carries out and pays for specified additional conservation practices. Title V: Administrative Provisions - Requires assistance applications to be made by April 30, 1991, or such later date as the Secretary may prescribe. Title VI: Crop Insurance - Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to exclude a 1990 crop's yield from the calculation of Federal crop insurance yields if such crop is eligible for assistance under this Act.
Bill· SS. 3024 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1990
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce a 15 percent acreage limitation program for the 1991 wheat crop.
Bill· SS. 3023 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1990
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to target Export Enhancement Program funds on the basis of whether or not the countries the United States competes with have reduced commodity plantings in an amount equal to such reductions in the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 5583 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1990
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, if marketing quotas are not in effect, to announce a minimum 15 percent acreage reduction production for the 1991 wheat crop. Requires the Secretary to implement a paid land diversion program for 1991 wheat producers who make certain acreage reductions and conservation plantings. Provides for a portion of such payments to be paid in advance.
Bill· SS. 3018 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1990
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to announce a 15 percent acreage limitation program for the 1991 wheat crop.
Bill· HRH.R. 5488 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, notwithstanding certain other provisions, to reserve a specified amount from sums appropriated to carry out the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC Program) to be allocated to State agencies that experience funding emergencies. Declares that a funding emergency occurs when a State agency uses all the funds allocated to the agency before the end of a fiscal year because unanticipated inflation causes increases in the costs of the foods. Replaces provisions requiring certain steps relating to cost containment with provisions requiring a State to implement a competitive bidding system for each product distributed under the program. Requires that the formula for the division of funds ensure that a State with a level of program participation, as a percentage of its eligible population, that exceeds the national average not receive amounts greater than it received the preceeding fiscal year, adjusted for inflation. Directs the Secretary, in determining the level of program participation, to adjust for any non-Federal funds that are expended to provide supplemental foods under the program.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 637 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1990
Designates September 1991 as National Rice Month.
Law· HRH.R. 5433 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1990
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to release the public purpose use condition on certain lands to be exchanged by the State of West Virginia with the Sun Lumber Company for Company lands which will be added to Holly River State Park.
Bill· HRH.R. 5447 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1990
Public Disclosure of Religious Dietary Certification Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a food to be misbranded if its label bears a religious dietary certification symbol and there is not on file with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, available for public inspection, a copy of: (1) a certification letter, signed by a certifying authority, declaring that in his or her opinion the food conforms to religious dietary standards; and (2) a public disclosure statement providing specified information concerning the food, its manufacturer or processor, and the certifying authority. Makes Federal law penalizing those who knowingly and willfully make or use false or fraudulent statements applicable to the materials required to be filed pursuant to this Act.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 633 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1990
Designates September 1991 as National Rice Month.
Bill· HRH.R. 5404 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1990
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to alter the repayment requirements for certain producers who received 1988 or 1989 advance deficiency payments.
Bill· HRH.R. 5398 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1990
Orchard Disaster Assistance Act of 1990 - Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1989 to: (1) extend disaster assistance to orchardists who suffered tree losses in 1990; and (2) authorize 1990 assistance for apple and cherry crop losses under specified circumstances.
Bill· SS. 2924 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1990
Fish Safety Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to create a new title setting forth a fish inspection program. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary) to exempt from specific provisions of the title: (1) fish processing by an individual for use in that individual's household; (2) custom processing for use in the household of the product owner; (3) processing of products not intended for nor capable of use as human food; (4) warehousing of up to 50 pounds or of product caught for other than commercial purposes in waters outside the United States; and (5) operations of types traditionally and usually conducted at retail stores or restaurants. Excludes from the application of the title recreational vessels, commercial fishing vessels, or fish tender vessels except where such vessels process fish. Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with the appropriate agency in any State that has enacted a mandatory State fish product inspection law with requirements at least equal to those in the title. Prohibits State programs from permitting products to bear any official marks or certificates applicable to products in interstate commerce. Requires that fish products processed for intrastate commerce under a State program that are sold, transported, delivered, or offered for sale in interstate commerce be considered adulterated. Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with State agencies concerning the State administration of the inspection and sampling components of the fish inspection program established under the title on behalf of the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to provide State agencies with advisory assistance, technical and laboratory assistance and training, and financial and other assistance for up to 50 percent of the cost of the cooperative program. Requires State program participants to submit operation plans to the Secretary annually. Directs the Secretary to establish standards for the efficient and effective administration of the sampling and inspection program by each approved State. Authorizes the Secretary to deputize specific State employees in approved States. Authorizes the Secretary to appoint advisory committees. Requires the appropriate State agency with which the Secretary may cooperate to be a single agency that is primarily responsible for the coordination of the State programs having objectives the same as the title. Directs the Secretary to develop and administer a comprehensive and efficient health-based inspection program for fish products designed to protect the consuming public from fish products that may be adulterated or misbranded. Sets forth program requirements. Directs the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to establish tolerances, except where tolerances are established by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, that shall be applicable to poisonous or deleterious substances that may adulterate fish products. Requires the tolerances to be: (1) established at levels so that fish products are not injurious to health; and (2) based on a scientific analysis of health risks. Directs the Commissioner to establish tolerances, except where tolerances are established by the Administrator under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, for harmful chemicals, toxins, parasites, pathogenic microorganisms, viruses, bacteria, and other harmful agents that may render fish products adulterated. Allows the tolerances to include the use of indicators, including indicator organisms. Directs the Secretary of Commerce and appropriate State authorities, for waters under their jurisdiction, to establish a system for the identification and classification of growing and harvesting areas for fish in coastal areas and the Great Lakes. Directs the Secretary to sample and test fish products regarding any instance or trend that may pose a significant threat to consumers' health and safety. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and other assistance to States to prevent the entry of adulterated fish products into establishments, including annual grants to each State that is a member of the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, with regard to waters under the exclusive jurisdiction of that Secretary, to close waters or restrict harvesting of a species if fish of that species within the identified harvesting or growing areas are likely to be adulterated. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) periodically review the closure or restriction; and (2) establish procedures for review on petitions by affected persons. Requires reasonable public notice prior to closure or restriction, except in public health emergencies. Requires inspectors authorized by the Secretary to take actions as necessary to implement the title, including: (1) inspection of establishments, products, packages, equipment, procedures, and records; (2) sampling and testing of fish products; (3) detention and condemnation of adulterated or misbranded products; and (4) inspection, sampling, and testing of imports of fish products. Provides for: (1) segregation, seizure, condemnation, and destruction of adulterated or misbranded fish products; (2) processing of products to the extent necessary to prevent spoilage pending hearing and review; and (3) deferral of condemnation pending bringing of a product into compliance by relabeling or other action. Requires establishments to maintain premises, facilities, equipment, and operations in accordance with sanitation regulations set by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to establish regulations for the storage or handling of fish products by any person in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, transporting, or importing fish products. Authorizes the Secretary to establish guidelines for training persons employed by establishments involved in fish product sanitation and quality control. Authorizes the Secretary to exempt products from inspection requirements until a specified date if appropriated funds are insufficient or if the exemption will aid in the effective transition to the programs implemented under the title. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for the annual certification of establishments and persons engaged in importing of fish and fish products. Prohibits importers from processing or handling any fish product for commercial purposes unless the establishment is certified. Authorizes the Secretary to refuse to certify or to decertify establishments or importers unfit to engage in any business as a result of Federal or State convictions for: (1) acquiring, handling, or distributing adulterated, mislabeled, or deceptively packaged food, or fraud in food transactions; or (2) any felony involving a lack of the integrity needed for the conduct of operations affecting the public health. Requires all products processed at any certified establishment to bear on their shipping containers and immediate containers information as the Secretary requires. Authorizes the Secretary to permit such products to bear a seal stating that the product was processed in accordance with Federal standards or similar language. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe: (1) labeling requirements to avoid false or misleading labeling; (2) definitions and standards of identity or composition and fill; and (3) procedures that permit statements on labels that indicate the State or location of the product's origin. Directs the Secretary to: (1) require that each package of fish product bears the appropriate identification, issued under the title, and an official mark; and (2) ensure that the official mark shall be available only on products processed in certified establishments. Prohibits articles from being sold or offered for sale under any name, marking, or labeling that is false or misleading, or in any container of a misleading form or size. Permits established trade names and other marking and labeling that are not false or misleading and that are approved by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary, if any marking, labeling, size, or form of any container is false or misleading, to require that use be withheld unless modified as prescribed by the Secretary so that it will not be false or misleading. Prohibits a fish product from being entered, or withdrawn from warehouses, for consumption in the United States, unless the product: (1) is not adulterated or misbranded; (2) complies with all requirements of the title; and (3) is marked and labeled as required for imports. Treats all such products as domestic fish products under the title, except that its labeling must identify the country of origin. Directs the Secretary to enforce these provisions through inspections, sampling, and any other necessary procedures. Requires products refused entry or entered, or withdrawn from warehouses, in violation of these provisions to be destroyed unless exported or brought into compliance. Requires storage, cartage, labor, and other costs from denial of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse to be paid by the owner or consignee. Declares that nonpayment constitutes a lien against the product and any other fish product thereafter entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in the United States by such owner or consignee. Directs the Secretary, on request of a country desiring to export fish products to the United States, to review the inspection program of products offered for importation to determine whether the requirements and tolerances for the products are at least equal to those under the title and, if so, and if the country will permit the enforcement measures the Secretary determines necessary, to issue a certificate stating that the country meets the requirements. Requires all fish products imported from an uncertified country to be inspected by the Secretary to ensure compliance with these provisions. Directs the Secretary to enforce these provisions through inspections, sampling, testing, or other actions in the foreign country, during importation, or which otherwise as necessary. Declares that products intended for export shall not be considered adulterated or misbranded if they are consistent with the laws of the importing country and meet other requirements. Directs the Secretary to inspect products intended for export as necessary. Directs the Secretary, on request of the exporter, to provide a certificate for export stating the condition of fish products inspected under these provisions. Authorizes the Secretary to require any person who owns or operates an establishment or is in the business of importing fish products to recall any fish product that is adulterated or misbranded if it could cause serious health consequences. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish, through the Centers for Disease Control, an active surveillance system, based on a representative portion of the U.S. population, to provide an estimate of the frequency of human disease in the United States associated with the consumption of food, including a comparison of each major food category. Sets forth a list of prohibited acts in connection with the processing, handling, selling, transporting, offering for sale or transportation, possessing, misbranding, or importation of fish products or in connection with inspections under the title. Provides civil monetary penalties and criminal penalties for violations. Prohibits a common or contract carrier, including carriers that are fish tender vessels, from being subject to penalties under the title unless the carrier: (1) had knowledge, or possessed facts that would cause a reasonable person to believe, that the products were adulterated or misbranded; or (2) refuses to furnish certain information and documents. Sets forth: (1) felony penalties for giving or receiving bribes; and (2) criminal penalties for forcibly assaulting, resisting, intimidating, or interfering with any inspector or other person while engaged in official duties under the title. Requires each establishment or import business subject to inspection under the title to be operated in accordance with such sanitary and other procedures and practices as the Secretary requires. Directs the Secretary to prescribe standards for marking fish or fish products handled or processed in accordance with the title, or their packages, with an official stamp. Directs the Secretary to establish priorities for fish and fish products safety research. Requires the appropriate Federal agencies to conduct research regarding the priorities. Directs the Secretary, through the Extension Service, to provide a specified sum each fiscal year out of funds appropriated for the title to award grants for demonstration projects by States with regard to providing food safety information and instruction regarding the proper handling, storage, and preparation of fish and fish products for human consumption. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish through grants and administer, for a five-year period, a shellfish indicator research program to develop a system of classification of shellfish harvesting areas. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory panel to assist in the development and implementation of the research programs under these provisions. Prohibits: (1) copying of any official mark; and (2) processing fish products except in compliance with the title. Authorizes the Secretary to limit the entry of fish products and other materials into any establishment consistent with the purposes of the title. Provides for administrative detention of any fish product meeting certain requirements if there is reason to believe the product is adulterated or misbranded. Makes any fish product capable of use as human food and adulterated or misbranded, or which otherwise is or has been in violation of the title, liable to be proceeded against and seized and condemned at any time, on a libel of information. Provides for disposal of a condemned product and for the delivery of the product to the owner on delivery of bond. Applies specified provisions of Federal law to the administration and enforcement of the title. Exempts the inspection, sampling, regulation, handling, processing, storage, or transportation of fish products from the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to the extent such matters are covered by the title. Requires that the cost of inspections be borne by the United States, except for overtime or holiday work required in an establishment, which must be borne by the establishment. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the title, earmarking: (1) certain sums for the research programs under the title; (2) certain percentage for the Food and Drug Administration; and (3) other percentages for the Department of Commerce. Amends Federal law to add a reference to food safety to provisions specifying the matters to be included in cooperative agricultural extension work. Authorizes appropriations for programs administered by the Secretary of Agriculture through the Extension Service to disseminate food safety information and instruction to consumers, restaurant food handlers, schools, and other persons. Requires the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to: (1) develop and implement a program to carry out and administer the title; and (2) enter into contracts with the National Academy of Sciences to identify chemical and microbiological contaminants, parasites, toxins, and other harmful substances that are most likely to be found in fish and fish products and that are most likely to cause fish and fish products to be adulterated. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to develop and implement a program to carry out the requirements of the title.
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 353 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1990
Designates September 1991 as National Rice Month.
Bill· SS. 2881 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1990
Minority Farmers Rights Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development, to establish policies, and programs and allocate resources necessary to address the needs of minority farmers. Amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to direct the Secretary to provide outreach education, technical assistance, and legal assistance to assist minority farmers in registering with the National Minority Farmer and Land Registry (established under this Act) and in taking advantage of the goals for Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs. Authorizes the Secretary and the Director of the Office of Advocacy and Enterprise (Office) to enter into grants, contracts, and other agreements with community-based organizations and institutions of post-secondary education (especially certain minority-oriented institutions) with respect to such outreach education. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to develop a computerized national registry of the names of all minority farmers in the United States as well as a legal description of the acreage comprising the minority agricultural land base (the National Minority Farmer and Land Registry). Requires the Secretary to take steps to ensure that the variety, quantity, and distribution of land in such landbase is not reduced from the level existing in the initial publication of the Registry. Specifies methods of preserving such landbase (including creation of minority land banks), and the use of Federal and State land inventories. Directs the Secretary to target a specific percentage of agricultural research funds to certain colleges and research institutions with minority enrollment exceeding 25 percent, or to projects specifically aimed at increasing minority farmer participation. Requires the Secretary to assign Agricultural Extension Service staff according to specified target participation rates for socially disadvantaged groups. Requires the Secretary to: (1) allocate significant portions of Extension Service resources to increase the number of minority farmers and help them develop efficient and profitable farming operations; and (2) review and report on minority participation in crop programs under the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Requires a report to specified congressional committees. Directs the Secretary to establish a comprehensive program administered by the Office to attract, assist, and encourage minority first-time farmers and minority youth to participate in careers in production agriculture and related industries. Requires the Secretary, in addition, to support demonstration programs that do the same. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) an affirmative action program for each USDA agency to enhance opportunities for minority employees; and (2) a program requiring each USDA agency to set aside a percentage of all purchases and other contracting for minority-owned businesses and organizations. Sets forth goals for the latter program. Requires an annual report to the Congress on such programs. Makes the Office a clearinghouse for all complaints of discrimination brought by minority farmers against USDA employees or agencies. Provides for the filing of complaints and appeals and for corrective action. Requires an annual report to the Congress on the number and handling of such complaints. Requires the Secretary to report to the appropriate congressional committees on actions taken to carry out this Act.
Bill· SS. 2859 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1990
Farm Injury Prevention and Treatment Act of 1990 - Title I: Coordination - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture a Farm Safety Task Force. Directs the Task Force to: (1) coordinate and serve as a clearinghouse for Federal farm safety outreach and education programs; (2) prioritize research and grant programs; and (3) conduct a nationwide farm accident prevention study. Authorizes appropriations for such study. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to include farm safety questions in the 1992 Census of Agriculture. Title II: Farm Machinery - Directs the Task Force to conduct a study of protective tractor roll-over devices. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to implement through rulemaking the Task Force's recommendations if the Congress does not pass tractor roll-over legislation within a specified time. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Task Force to establish a Farm Safety Fund and to authorize grants for farm machinery engineering research. Sets forth grant amount limits. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Public Health - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Disease Control, to make grants to improve the identification, treatment, and rehabilitation of farm injuries and illnesses. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to veto disbursement of such a grant. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the National Institutes of Health, to make grants for farm injury and rehabilitation research and development projects. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to increase the availability and qualifications of clinical staff and researchers in farm occupational health. Authorizes appropriations for grants under this title. Title IV: Public Education - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants for farm safety education programs. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Termination - Repeals this Act, and abolishes all its programs, effective September 30, 1995.
Bill· HRH.R. 5291 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1990
Organic Food Standards Development Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to hold public hearings and conduct a study enabling the Secretary to make recommendations to the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry within two years of this Act's enactment concerning: (1) national standards as to what shall constitute organic production of food; (2) the costs and impact of an organic food labeling program; (3) the need for a producer-financed national program of organic food research, promotion, and consumer education; and (4) the most appropriate organic food regulatory mechanisms.
Bill· HRH.R. 5292 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1990
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing the below-cost commercial timber sales test proposed by the President's FY 1991 budget.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 623 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1990
Designates the period of September 15 through 23, 1990, as American Mushroom Week.
Law· HRH.R. 5268 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1990
Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 1991 for the following programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) Office of the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; (3) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (4) Office of Budget and Program Analysis; (5) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations; (6) Office of the Inspector General; (7) Office of the General Counsel; (8) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Economics; (9) Economic Research Service; (10) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (11) World Agricultural Outlook Board; (12) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education; (13) Agricultural Research Service; (14) Cooperative State Research Service; (15) Extension Service; (16) National Agricultural Library; (17) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services; (18) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (19) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (20) Federal Grain Inspection Service; (21) Agricultural Cooperative Service; (22) Agricultural Marketing Service; (23) Office of Transportation; (24) Packers and Stockyards Administration; (25) Office of the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs; (26) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; (27) Dairy Indemnity Program; (28) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; and (29) Commodity Credit Corporation. Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for rural development assistance as follows: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development; (2) Farmers Home Administration; (3) Rural Electrification Administration; (4) Soil Conservation Service; (5) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; and (6) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment. Title III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services; (2) Food and Nutrition Service; (3) Human Nutrition Information Service; and (4) Food Stamp Program. Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Foreign Agricultural Service; (2) the Ameri Flora '92 Exposition, the first international horticulture and environment exposition to be held in the United States; (3) Public Law 480 (financing the sale of agricultural commodities for convertible foreign currencies); (4) the Office of International Cooperation and Development; and (5) scientific activities overseas. Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Farm Credit System Financial Assistance Corporation; (3) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (4) Farm Credit Administration. Title VI: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against use of funds appropriated by this Act. Prohibits the use of funds to carry out any activity related to phasing out the Resource Conservation and Development Program. Prohibits the payment of any funds out of the Treasury to any private individual or corporation in satisfaction of a loan guarantee entered into by a Federal agency or corporation with respect to loans made and credits extended to the Polish People's Republic, unless: (1) the Republic has been declared to be in default of its debt to such individual or corporation; or (2) the President has provided a monthly written report to specified congressional leaders justifying any such payments during the previous month. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to initiate construction on not less than 14 new projects under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act and not less than five new projects under the Flood Control Act. Prohibits the use of funds under any Act to relocate the Hawaii State Office of the FmHA from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, Hawaii. Prohibits employee reductions below specified levels for the FmHA, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the Rural Electrification Administration, and the Soil Conservation Service. Prohibits the use of funds under specified conditions to pay the salaries of personnel carrying out: (1) the targeted export assistance program; and (2) the export enhancement program. Earmarks additional funds to purchase sunflower and cottonseed oil to facilitate international sales of such oil. Requires the absorption of FY 1991 pay raises within appropriated levels. Prohibits the use of funds to pay indirect costs on research grants awarded competitively by the Cooperative State Research Service that exceed 14 percent of total direct costs under each award.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 351 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that American workers, farmers, and businesses should not finance the savings and loan bailout through tax increases.
Bill· SS. 2849 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1990
Value-Added Agricultural Trade Act of 1990 - States that U.S. policy shall provide for increased emphasis on overseas sales of value-added agricultural products. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to take appropriate steps to implement such goal. Directs the President in determining Department of Agriculture budgets to provide special consideration for export enhancement funding based on such products' additions to Treasury revenues and the U.S. balance of payments. States that United States representatives at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) negotiations should continue to work for the elimination of agricultural trade barriers and other obstacles to U.S. sales abroad of value-added agricultural products. Directs the Secretary to provide U.S. agricultural exporters with assistance to overcome unfair foreign trade practices. Amends the Agricultural Trade and Development Assistance Act of 1954 to require that at least 75 percent of all famine relief and other donations be in the form of processed or fortified products or bagged commodities. (Currently, such requirement applies only to nonemergency programs.) Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 and the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to make short-term export credit guarantees for wood and processed wood products available under conditions comparable to other agricultural products. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 2848 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1990
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) identify certain conservation reserve program (CRP) land which is likely to incur a crop pest infestation that adversely affects surrounding farm land; and (2) offer to renegotiate a CRP contract so that the operator shall be responsible for pest control and be permitted to rebid, or may terminate such contract subject to a specified penalty.
Bill· SS. 2833 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1990
Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to prohibit the importation of Maui onions that do not comply with marketing order grade, size, quality, and maturity requirements.
Law· SS. 2830 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 6 July 1990
Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 - Title I: Dairy - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth the dairy program for 1991 through 1995, including milk price supports. Fluid Milk Promotion Act of 1990 - Provides for establishment of a processor-funded milk promotion program under certain circumstances, including a National Processor Advertising and Promotion Board. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Wool and Mohair - Amends the National Wool Act of 1954 to extend the wool and mohair price support program through 1995. Title III: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth the price support and acreage reduction programs for the 1991 through 1995 crops of wheat. Title IV: Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth the price support and acreage reduction programs for the 1991 through 1995 crops of feed grains. Title V: Cotton - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth the price support and acreage reduction programs for the 1991 through 1995 crops of upland cotton. Title VI: Rice - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth the price support and acreage reduction programs for the 1991 through 1995 crops of rice. Title VII: Peanuts - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to set forth the program for the 1991 through 1995 crops of peanuts, including price supports. Title VIII: Oilseeds - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth the price support program for oilseeds for the 1991 through 1995 marketing years. Title IX: Sugar - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set forth the price support program for the 1991 through 1995 crops of sugar beets and sugarcane. Title X: General Commodity Provisions - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to the acreage base and yield system and the 1991 through 1995 honey price support program. Amends various specified Acts with respect to commodity programs. Title XI: Trade - Agricultural Development and Trade Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 with respect to food and development assistance, emergency and price assistance programs, Food for Freedom, and general authorities and requirements. Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 with respect to agricultural trade policy, agricultural export programs, response to unfair trade practices, the Foreign Agricultural Service, and related matters. Amends the Disaster Assistance Act of 1988 with respect to cottonseed oil and sunflower oil exports. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a fellowship program ("Cochran Fellowship Program") for individuals from middle-income countries and emerging democracies who specialize in agriculture for study in the United States. Sets U.S. goals for the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations. Title XII: Conservation - Conservation Stewardship Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary to establish a conservation stewardship program. Amends the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act to authorize the Secretary to provide cost-share assistance to enable project sponsors to acquire perpetual wetland or flood plain conservation easements for certain purposes. Farms for the Future Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Farmers Home Administration, to establish an Agricultural Resource Conservation Demonstration Program to provide Federal guarantees and interest rate assistance for loans by lending institutions to State trust funds to finance farmland protection and preservation activities. Directs the Secretary to establish a voluntary Integrated Crop Management Program Option to assist commodity producers in adopting site-specific integrated crop management plans. Title XIII: Credit - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act with respect to specified Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) loans. Declares the sense of the Congress regarding: (1) assistance for qualified beginning farmers or ranchers; and (2) FmHA loan application review and loan servicing. Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 with respect to specified Farm Credit System activities. Title XIV: Research - National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1990 - Amends the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 with respect to specified research, extension, and teaching programs. Agriculture and Ground Water Policy Research and Education Coordination Act - Sets forth groundwater policy of the Department of Agriculture, including creation of an Office of Ground Water Policy Coordination and a Committee on Ground Water Policy. Provides for coordination of Federal and State groundwater programs. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Extension Service: (1) a National Chemical Education Program; (2) a National Education Program for the Management of Household Chemicals, Pesticides, and Fertilizers; and (3) a National Education Program for the Management of Water Resources. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act with respect to groundwater policy activities of the Soil Conservation Service. Directs the Secretary to conduct research of issues addressed by this title. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Agricultural Library, to establish at the Library an agriculture and groundwater quality planning information repository or clearinghouse. Authorizes appropriations. Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Act of 1990 - Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to provide for a low-input sustainable agriculture research and education program. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) a National Sustainable Agriculture Advisory Council; and (2) four Regional Administrative Councils. Provides for matching grants to States to assist in the creation or enhancement of State programs. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Training Program in Sustainable Agriculture for Extension Service agents and other professionals, including two National Training Centers. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes an Extension Service pesticide application advisory program. Requires the Secretary to establish a grant program within the Cooperative State Research Service and the Agricultural Research Service to provide assistance for environmental assessment research concerning the introduction of genetically engineered organisms into the environment. Authorizes appropriations. Pet Theft Act of 1990 - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to make it unlawful for class B licensees (dealers) to obtain live random source dogs and cats except from specified sources. Requires the dealers to have valid certification to do so. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) reservation extension agents to provide extension services to Indian Reservations and tribal jurisdictions; and (2) a National Community Development Award for land grant complexes that demonstrate outstanding commitment to mission-based integrated research and extension programs that interact with and contribute to local communities. Declares the sense of the Congress that a specified competitive grant program should not derive its funding from a reduction in formula funding of agricultural research and extension programs. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of technical and financial assistance to eligible institutions that participate in a telecommunications network distributing information consistent with certain objectives. Directs the Secretary to establish an Agriculture Research Facilities Planning and Closure Study Commission to study and recommend the closure, modification, or modernization of currently operating and planned agricultural research facilities. Directs the Secretary to study and recommend the closure, modification, or modernization of currently operating and planned agricultural research facilities. Rural Health and Safety Education Act of 1990 - Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to authorize the Secretary to make grants for the establishment of individual and family health and farm safety education programs. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to make demonstration grants to enable private nonprofit disability organizations to initiate or expand community-based direct service programs that provide on-site rural rehabilitation and assistive technology for individuals with physical disabilities (and their families) who are engaged in farming or farm-related occupations. Requires the Secretary to award a grant to a national organization of the same sort to enable it to provide technical assistance, training, information dissemination, and other activities to support such community-based direct service programs. Title XV: Forestry - Forest Stewardship Act of 1990 - Amends the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary, acting through Federal, State, and local agencies and the private sector, to establish and expand programs providing educational and technical assistance to meet the goals of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to assist State foresters to develop and distribute tree seeds and trees to reforest or afforest non-Federal land suitable for timber production. Requires the Secretary to establish a Forest Stewardship Program to assist landowners to manage more actively their nonindustrial private forest and related resources. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Forest Service a Forest Stewardship Incentives Program which shall provide cost-share assistance to private landowners for certain activities. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a Forest Legacy Program to protect environmentally sensitive forest lands threatened by conversion to an alternative use. Permits the Secretary to purchase interests in land and water or to use conservation easements to implement such program. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to protect trees, forests, and related resources and products in the National Forest System or on non-Federal lands in order to prevent, retard, control, or suppress insects and diseases affecting them. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations for forest fire fighting activities. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Extension Service and the Cooperative Extension System, to establish education programs and provide technical assistance for an economic development and global marketing program. Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) an interdepartmental Forest Resource Coordinating Committee; and (2) State Forest Stewardship Advisory Committees. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress to reaffirm the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act. Directs the Secretary to establish a competitive forestry, natural resources, and environmental grant program to award grants for specified branches of forest research. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to make a grant to a State to establish a Southern Forest Regeneration Center to study forest regeneration problems and forest productivity in the southern United States. Requires a report to specified congressional committees. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a competitive grant program within the Southern Forest Productivity Program to make grants for research focused on protecting and increasing the productivity of southern forest lands. Amends the Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978 to require the Secretary, acting through the Extension Service and the State Cooperative Extension Services, to expand forestry and natural resources education programs for private forest owners and managers, public officials, youth, and the general public, including guidelines for the transfer of technology. Amends the Forest Rangeland and Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary to establish a Forestry Student Grant Program to provide assistance to expand the professional education of forestry, natural resources, and environmental scientists. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a Center for Semiarid Agroforestry Research, Development, and Demonstration in Lincoln, Nebraska. Specifies topics for Center research. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on the promotion and participation of wood and wood products in programs conducted under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. Authorizes the Secretary to develop within the Forest Service an emergency reforestation program to encourage (through cost-sharing assistance) the development, management, and protection of timber lands damaged by natural disasters. Authorizes appropriations. Title XVI: Organic Certification Program - Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary to establish an organic certification program for producers and handlers of organically grown agricultural products. Requires the Secretary to permit States to set up similar programs. Directs the Secretary to establish a label for agricultural products from organically certified farms and handlers. Specifies crop production practices and materials prohibited on organically certified farms. Sets forth requirements for livestock, poultry, and wild or domestic game raised and slaughtered under this title. Requires producers and handlers seeking certification to submit organic plans for approval. Provides for accreditation and peer review of certifying agents. Establishes minimum standards for organic production. Requires the Secretary to publish a National List of approved and prohibited substances as part of such standards. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Organic Standards Board to assist in the development of standards for organic production. Requires the Board: (1) to convene advisory panels to help it; and (2) to review all botanical pesticides used in agricultural production to consider whether any of them belong on the prohibited list. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of this title. Requires the Secretary to establish an expedited administrative appeals procedure for persons adversely affected by administrative actions under this title. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Organic Promotion Advisory Committee. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Transition Label Demonstration Program which shall make grants to at least four States to explore the ramifications of setting up a transition label for agricultural products. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of research on the production and marketing of organic agricultural products. Authorizes appropriations. Title XVII: Fruits and Vegetables - Fruits and Vegetables Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary to study: (1) the state of the fruit and vegetable industry; and (2) Federal programs that provide market enhancement assistance to producers of fruits and vegetables. Grown in the United States Food Labeling Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary to establish a Grown in the United States Food Labeling Program for prescribing conditions under which food producers, processors, and sellers may label food products as grown in the United States. Declares the sense of Congress about the use of U.S. grown fruits and vegetable in Federal programs. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to require imported kiwifruit, nectarines, plums, or pistachios to meet all standards and requirements which apply to their domestically produced counterparts. Agricultural Marketing Reform Act of 1990 - Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1937, with respect to grading standards and marketing orders, to increase emphasis on organically grown commodities and reduce emphasis on cosmetic quality. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Laboratory Accreditation Program for laboratories that test chemical residue in agricultural products. Authorizes appropriations. Pesticide Export Reform Act of 1990 - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act with respect to pesticide exports and imports. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to tolerances for pesticide residues in agricultural products. Title XVIII: Grain Quality - Grain Quality Incentives Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary to establish a Department of Agriculture Committee on Grain Quality, chaired by a Grain Quality Coordinator. Amends the United States Grain Standards Act with respect to grain cleanliness, soundness, and purity. Prohibits the export of grain without aflatoxin testing. Declares the sense of Congress with respect to: (1) mycotoxin and pesticide residue testing; and (2) enforcement of grain standards by Federal agencies together with the Federal Grain Inspection Service. Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to quality incentives in Commodity Credit Corporation programs and activities. Declares the sense of Congress with respect to: (1) grain variety evaluation and the development of objective tests for the end-use properties of grains; and (2) cooperation in such testing by the Federal Grain Inspection Service, the Agricultural Research Service, and land-grant universities. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) give technical assistance to grain producers and elevator operators with respect to grain cleaning, drying, or storage equipment; and (2) work with specified entities in establishing commercial performance criteria for grain inspection instruments. Requires the Secretary to develop cost-effective procedures for conducting commercial grain inspections at the first point of delivery where the inspections result in price adjustments related to premiums and discounts for grain quality factors. Title XIX: Related and Miscellaneous Matters - Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Act of 1990 - Establishes within the Department of Agriculture the Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Corporation to fund projects for research into development of new industrial products. Requires the Corporation to set up between four and nine Regional Centers in the United States to promote new nonfood, nonfeed uses of agricultural and forestry products. Authorizes the Corporation to provide financial assistance to projects for the commercialization of such new uses. Establishes a revolving fund for such purposes. Authorizes appropriations. Global Climate Change Prevention Act of 1990 - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture an Office of Climate Change to provide competitive grants for climate research. Directs the Secretary to study and report to appropriate congressional committees on the implications of global climate change for agriculture and forestry. Domestic Research on Global Warming, Forests, and Agriculture Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on: (1) the effects of global warming on rice production; (2) the effects of global warming on major U.S. crop production; (3) methane emissions from U.S. and Asian irrigated rice production; and (4) emissions from nitrogen intensive crops. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a Methane Emissions Program to evaluate: (1) methane emissions from agriculture-related activities around the world; and (2) the feasibility and costs of options to reduce such emissions from animal management activities. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on emissions of methane, nitrous oxide, and hydrocarbons from tropical and temperate forests, the manner in which global change may affect them, and the manner in which they may be reduced through management practices. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Secretary to set up a technical advisory committee with respect to major study areas under this Act. International Forestry Cooperation Act of 1990 - Authorizes the Secretary to engage in specified international forestry activities, especially with respect to certain industrializing, middle- and low-income countries where forestry policy and resource conservation and development could have a substantial impact on emissions of greenhouse gases related to global warming. Authorizes the Secretary to take certain actions supporting the Tropical Forestry Action Plan of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, especially with respect to tropical deforestation and degradation. Specifies activities the Secretary may engage in to support tropical forestry training within and outside the United States. Directs the Secretary to expand the capabilities and facilities of the Caribbean National Forest and Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico. Requires the Secretary to submit to specified congressional committees a tropical forestry plan for the expansion and construction of additional facilities at the Institute. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish an urban forestry energy conservation program. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out biomass energy demonstration projects. Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act of 1978 with respect to forestry research and global warming. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreement with the Secretary of Defense to: (1) study reforestation and improved management of Department of Defense military installations and lands; and (2) develop a program to manage such forests and lands so as to maximize their potential for biomass growth and sequestering carbon dioxide. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· SS. 2821 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
WIC Emergency Food Act - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to permit a State agency to use up to five percent of FY 1991 supplemental food allocations for FY 1990 supplemental food expenses under the special supplemental food program for women, infants, and children (WIC).
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 342 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Designates October 1990 as Ending Hunger Month.
Bill· HRH.R. 5198 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Minority Farmers Rights Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Under Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development, to implement policies and programs to assist minority farmers, including programs to increase ownership, prevent discrimination, and prevent the contraction of the minority agricultural landbase. Directs the Secretary, with regard to the minority landbase, to: (1) provide for the use of Federal and State land inventories to maintain such landbase; and (2) assist in the creation of minority land banks. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to extend allocation authority for specified agricultural real estate and operating loans. Sets forth specified targeted participation rates and other minority farmer assistance provisions for the Department of Agriculture. Amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to direct the Secretary to provide outreach education and technical and legal assistance to assist minority farmers. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish for each agency within the Department: (1) affirmative action programs; and (2) minority contracting goals. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to encourage and assist minority youth and minority first-time farmers to participate in farming and rural development careers. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit, under specified conditions, a previous owner, a beginning farmer, and a socially disadvantaged farmer to buy Farmers Home Administration inventory land at the land's productive value rather than its higher market value. Sets forth a Department appeals process for discrimination complaints.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 350 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Expresses the sense of the Congress that American workers, farmers, and businesses should not finance the savings and loan bailout through tax increases.