Energy

A bill to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act applicable to the construction of a hydroelectric project in the State of Oregon.

United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1993

Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend for a specified maximum period the time required for commencement of construction of a certain hydroelectric project in the State of Oregon.

Nuclear Waste Policy Reassessment Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1993

Nuclear Waste Policy Reassessment Act of 1993 - Prohibits any expenditure from the Nuclear Waste Fund during FY 1994 through 1998 for site characterization of the Yucca Mountain site (Nevada). Directs the National Academy of Sciences to study and report to the Congress on scientific means for determining a suitable repository location for the permanent deep geologic disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel. Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to change: (1) from January 31, 1998, to January 31, 2003, the deadline by which the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) must dispose of high level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel; and (2) from January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2015, the deadline by which the Secretary must report to the Congress and the President on the need for a second repository. Directs the Secretary to establish a rebate and credit procedure in order to offset the construction and operation expenses for any additional spent nuclear fuel storage capacity at a civilian nuclear power reactor which is required due to (or in anticipation of) the postponement of Federal responsibility. Terminates the rebate and/or credit program after the Secretary begins to accept spent nuclear fuel at an authorized storage or disposal facility.

Recycling Research and Development Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1993

Recycling Research and Development Act of 1993 - Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to direct the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy, to transmit comprehensive plastics, automobile, and appliance recycling plans to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to establish cooperative programs with the appropriate industries to conduct joint plastics, automobile, and appliance recycling technology research and development projects. Authorizes financial assistance for such projects. Requires the Secretary to establish three national recycling research and development centers at institutions of higher education to conduct plastics research projects. Provides for grants to such centers, subject to appropriations. Authorizes appropriations.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1993

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy Act of 1993 - Declares that, in order to end nuclear proliferation and reduce current nuclear arsenals and supplies of weapons-usable nuclear materials, it shall be U.S. policy to pursue the following objectives: (1) encourage the Ukraine to ratify the START I treaty and Ukraine and Kazakhstan to vote to accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as non-nuclear weapon states; (2) encourage Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan to remove all nuclear weapons from their territory, accept International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards over nuclear facilities, and implement effective controls on nuclear exports; (3) reach an agreement with the Russian Federation to deactivate weapons to be withdrawn under START I and II, place all fissile material from weapons under bilateral or international controls, and arrange for inspections and data exchanges; (4) prepare for the ratification of START II by seeking the exchange of information; (5) conclude a multilateral comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty by early 1995; (6) ratify START II in the United States and encourage the Russian Federation to do the same; (7) conclude multilateral agreements to reduce nuclear arsenals; (8) reach agreement with the Russian Federation to halt the production of fissile material for weapons purposes and other worldwide agreements respecting such materials and the placement of all nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards; (9) strengthen IAEA safeguards and nuclear export controls; (10) reduce incentives for countries to pursue the acquisition of nuclear weapons by seeking to reduce regional tensions; (11) support the extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at the 1995 conference; (12) adopt a U.S. policy of "no first use" of nuclear weapons, reach agreement with other nuclear weapon states to adopt such a policy, and assist any country which is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty should weapons be initiated against such country; (13) conclude an agreement with the Russian Federation to dismantle all tactical nuclear weapons; and (14) sign the appropriate protocols to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty.

Vicky A. Bailey, of Indiana, to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the term expiring June 30, 1996, vice Jerry Jay Langdon, term expired.

United States · United States Senate · 10 May 1993

Birth Defects Prevention Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1993

Birth Defects Prevention Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish birth defects prevention and research programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to provide for collection, analysis, and reporting of birth defects statistics from birth certificates, infant death certificates, hospital records, or other sources and to collect and disaggregate such statistics by gender and racial and ethnic group. Directs the Secretary to establish at least five regional birth defects monitoring and research programs to collect and analyze information on the number, incidence, correlation, and causes of birth defects. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC, to award grants or enter into cooperative agreements with specified entities to serve as Centers of Excellence for Birth Defects Prevention Research. Requires one of the Centers to focus on birth defects among ethnic minorities. Requires the CDC to establish a clearinghouse for the collection and storage of data generated from birth defects monitoring programs developed under this Act. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the CDC, to provide for the evaluation, and implementation of prevention strategies designed to reduce the incidence and effects of birth defects. Directs the Secretary to establish an Advisory Committee for Birth Defects Prevention. Requires the Secretary to report biennially to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources regarding birth defects. Authorizes appropriations.

Renewables and Energy Efficiency Incentives Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Incentives for Production and Use of Renewable Energy Sources Title II: Incentives to Promote Energy Efficiency Title III: Revenue Increases Renewables and Energy Efficiency Incentives Act of 1993 - Title I: Incentives for Production and Use of Renewable Energy Sources - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow energy tax credits to offset 25 percent of tentative minimum tax. Includes certain small wind turbine equipment as energy property for purposes of the energy credit. Makes lessees of electric facilities eligible for the credit for producing electricity from renewable resources. Title II: Incentives to Promote Energy Efficiency - Makes certain trucks, vans, and buses eligible for the deduction for clean-fuel vehicles. Denies any credit for which such deduction is allowable. Allows electric or gas utilities a deduction for energy conservation expenditures. Removes the limitation on the exclusion from gross income for nonresidential property for energy conservation subsidies provided by public utilities. Title III: Revenue Increases - Reduces the credit for ethanol blenders. Increases the Highway Trust Fund financing rate for determining the tax on gasoline mixed with alcohol at a refinery. Reduces such financing rate for methanol and ethanol fuels. Prohibits an exemption from tax for interest on any bond used to finance certain electric generating facilities. Repeals the tax-exempt status of electric companies. Imposes a security rate tax on petroleum. Limits the deduction for percentage depletion for oil and gas wells to their adjusted basis. Repeals the exception from passive loss limitations for working interests in oil and gas properties.

Electromagnetic Labeling Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1993

Electromagnetic Labeling Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish uniform labeling requirements meeting specified criteria for products that emit low-frequency electric and magnetic fields of specified strengths. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a civil penalty against a manufacturer of such products for labeling violations under this Act.

Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Training and Investment Inventives Subtitle A: Provisions Relating to Education and Training Subtitle B: Investment Incentives Subtitle C: Tax-Exempt Bond Provisions Subtitle D: Expansion and Simplification of Earned Income Tax Credit Subtitle E: Incentives for Investment in Real Estate Subtitle F: Other Changes Title II: Revenue Increase Subtitle A: Provisions Affecting Individuals Subtitle B: Provisions Affecting Businesses Subtitle C: Foreign Tax Provisions Subtitle D: Energy Tax Provisions Subtitle E: Compliance Provisions Subtitle F: Miscellaneous Provisions Title III: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Title I: Training and Investment Incentives - Subtitle A: Provisions Relating to Education and Training - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent after June 30, 1992: (1) the tax exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance; and (2) the targeted jobs credit. Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit, with limitations, for the hiring of a qualified participant in an approved school-to-work program. Subtitle B: Investment Incentives - Part I: Investment Tax Credit - Allows a small business regular tax credit for eligible small businesses of five percent of their qualified investment in depreciable property. Allows such credit to offset a percentage of the minimum tax. Increases the investment tax credit for 1993 and 1994 for qualified investments. Provides for ratably including the current year business credit in gross income. Part II: Research Credit - Makes permanent the credit for increasing research activities. Modifies the fixed base percentage of such credit for startup companies for taxable years after 1993. Part III: Incentive For Investment in Small Business Stock - Allows a taxpayer other than a corporation to exclude from gross income 50 percent of gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock held for more than five years. Sets forth rules and limitations for such exclusion. Treats one-half of such exclusion as an item of tax preference for minimum tax purposes. Part IV: Modifications to Minimum Tax Depreciation Rules - Modifies the method of determining the depreciation deduction for certain personal property placed in service after 1993. Eliminates the depreciation adjustment for computing adjusted current earnings for such property. Subtitle C: Tax-Exempt Bond Provisions - Provides a complete tax exemption (currently a 75 percent tax exemption) for bonds used to finance high-speed intercity rail facilities. Permanently extends the authority to issue qualified small issue bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property. Subtitle D: Expansion and Simplification of Earned Income Tax Credit - Repeals certain interaction rules with respect to the medical expense deduction, the deduction for health insurance, and the dependent care credit. Revises credit and phaseout percentages for 1994. Subtitle E: Incentives for Investment in Real Estate - Part I: Extension of Qualified Mortgage Bonds and Low-Income Housing Credits - Makes permanent: (1) the authority to issue qualified mortgage bonds and qualified mortgage credit certificates; and (2) the low-income housing credit. Part II: Modification of Passive Loss Rules - Provides for the treatment of rental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities. Part III: Provisions Relating to Real Estate Investments by Pension Funds - Modifies exceptions to the exclusion of real property acquired by a qualified organization from the meaning of acquisition indebtedness. Makes certain exceptions inapplicable to sales out of foreclosure by a financial institution. Repeals the special rule for publicly traded partnerships with respect to the treatment of unrelated business taxable income. Permits a tax-exempt title-holding company to receive unrelated business taxable income if the unrelated income is incidentally derived from the holding of real property. Excludes from unrelated business taxable income: (1) gains from the sale, exchange or other disposition of real property acquired from financial institutions that are in conservatorship or receivership; and (2) loan commitment fees and certain option premiums. Part IV: Increase in Recovery Period for Nonresidential Real Property - Increases the depreciation recovery period for nonresidential real property. Subtitle F: Other Changes - Repeals the tax preference for the appreciated property charitable deduction. Disallows an adjustment related to the earnings and profits effects of any charitable contribution from being made in computing adjusted current earnings. Amends the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to make permanent the treatment of certain railroad retirement benefits as received under employer plans. Provides for the temporary extension of the deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Title II: Revenue Increases - Subtitle A: Provisions Affecting Individuals - Part I: Rate Increases - Lowers the tax rates for certain taxpayers and increases the tax rate for certain higher incomes. Imposes a surtax on certain higher incomes. Increases the tentative minimum tax for taxpayers other than corporations. Makes permanent the overall limitation on itemized deductions and the phaseout of personal exemptions for high-income taxpayers. Sets forth provisions to prevent the conversion of ordinary income to capital gain in certain financial transactions. Repeals certain exceptions to market discount rules. Provides for the treatment of purchases of stripped preferred stock after April 30, 1993. Revises the methods of: (1) computing the limitation on the deductibility of investment interest; and (2) determining substantial appreciation of partnership inventory items. Part II: Other Provisions - Repeals the limitation on the amount of wages and subject to the health insurance employment tax. Increases and makes permanent the highest estate and gift tax rate. Reduces the deduction for business meals and entertainment expenses. Disallows a tax deduction for social club membership dues, except for employee recreational expenses. Disallows a deduction as a trade or business expense remuneration to certain employees in excess of $1 million. Reduces the compensation taken into account in determining contributions and benefits under qualified retirement plans. Removes qualified residence sales, purchases, or leases and meals from the deduction for moving expenses. Subtitle B: Provisions Affecting Businesses - Increases the tax rate for corporate income in excess of $10 million and the tax rate on personal service corporations. Denies a tax deduction for lobbying expenses. Subjects lobbying organizations to special reporting requirements. Requires any security which is inventory in the hands of the dealer to be included in inventory at its fair market value. Requires any dealer in securities that holds any security which is not in inventory at the close of any taxable year to: (1) recognize gain or loss as if the security were sold on the last business day of the taxable year; and (2) take into account any such gain or loss for such year (the mark-to-market requirement). Requires taking into account, for certain tax purposes: (1) certain Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) assistance as compensation for loss; and (2) any FSLIC assistance for any debt for determining whether such debt is worthless and in determining the amount of any addition to a reserve for bad debts arising from such worthlessness or partial worthlessness. Increases the required annual payment for corporations that fail to pay estimated income tax. Limits the Puerto Rico and possession tax credit to 60 percent of the possession corporation's qualified possession wages. Modifies the limitation on corporate deductions for interest paid to related persons to take into account disqualified guarantees of indebtedness and the imposition of a gross basis tax. Subtitle C: Foreign Tax Provisions - Part I: Current Taxation of Certain Earnings of Controlled Foreign Corporations - Requires U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations to include in gross income a pro rata share of the corporations' excess passive assets. Sets forth rules for determining such amounts. Modifies the rule on taxation of investment in United States property and takes into account excessive passive assets. Excepts from foreign personal holding income dividends attributable to earnings and profits of the distributing corporation accumulated during any period during which the person receiving such dividend did not hold such stock. Requires the establishment of an excess limitation account by taxpayers who receive foreign tax credits in a year they receive previously taxed earnings and profits. Part II: Allocation of Research and Experimental Expenditures; Treatment of Certain Royalties - Requires a complete allocation and apportionment of research and experimental expenditures from sources within the United States and bases such expenditures attributable to activities conducted outside the United States on gross sales. Treats royalties as passive income for purposes of the foreign tax credit. Part III: Other Provisions - Excludes passive dividends or interest income from foreign oil and gas income. Modifies accuracy-related penalties for tax underpayments. Denies the inclusion of certain contingent interest in the exemption for portfolio interest for nonresident aliens. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations recharacterizing any multiple-party financing transaction as a transaction directly among any two or more of such parties where appropriate to prevent any tax avoidance. Subtitle D: Energy Tax Provision - Imposes an excise tax on the following energy products: (1) taxable refined petroleum products removed from a U.S. refinery or entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing; (2) natural gas removed in the United States from any pipeline (not part of a local distribution system) for transmission to ultimate users through a local distribution system or for use prior to entry into a local distribution system; (3) coal received at any facility for use as a fuel at such facility; and (4) certain electricity generated in or outside the U.S. Bases the rate of tax on such products on the applicable Btu factor. Declares that no tax is imposed on any taxable energy source which is exported by the person otherwise liable for such tax. Provides for refunds to: (1) ultimate vendors of home heating oil and international commercial transportation; (2) ultimate users in cases of exempt petroleum products; and (3) certain users of methane recovered from biomass or coal mining. Imposes a tax on the use of any fossil fuel (other than coal): (1) in the manufacture or production of a fuel other than at a U.S. refinery; or (2) as a fuel. Specifies the application of such tax and exceptions. Imposes a tax on floor stock of taxable fuels held on the date of the tax increase. Allows a credit against such tax. Provides for such tax increases to begin July 1, 1994. Increases the tax on gasoline and diesel fuels for purposes of the Highway Trust Fund financing rate. Increases the amount to be transferred to the Mass Transit Account from such Fund. Subtitle E: Compliance Provisions - Requires information reporting on payments to corporations for services. Modifies provisions concerning substantial understatement and return-preparer penalties to allow reasonable cause exceptions. Subtitle F: Miscellaneous Provisions - Establishes substantiation requirements for charitable contributions of $750 or more. Sets forth disclosure requirements for an organization that receives a quid pro quo contribution (payment made partly as a contribution and partly in consideration for goods or services provided to the payor by the donee organization). Imposes a penalty for failure to make such disclosure. Expands the 45-day interest-free period for refunding tax overpayments to all returns, as well as to amended returns and claims for refunds. Provides that if interest is not refunded within 45 days after the taxpayer files an amended return or claim for refund, interest will be paid only for periods after the date on which the return or claim is filed. Denies the business travel expense deduction for spouses, dependents, or others. Increases the withholding rate for supplemental wage payments. Title III: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities - Provides for the designation of 100 tax enterprise communities and ten empowerment zones during calendar years after 1993 and before 1996: (1) by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in the case of an urban area; (2) by the Secretary of Agriculture in the case of a rural area; and (3) the Secretary of the Interior for an Indian reservation. Sets forth the eligibility criteria for such designations. Allows a zone resident empowerment savings credit to employers as a general business credit of 50 percent of the qualified savings contributions made to a defined contribution plan on behalf of an employee. Limits the amounts of such contributions. Makes buildings in such communities or zones eligible for the low-income housing credit applicable to buildings in high-cost areas. Provides for the issuance of enterprise zone facility bonds in enterprise communities and empowerment zones in a manner similar to exempt facility bonds. Excludes enterprise zone facility bonds from the interest deduction limitations on financial institutions. Allows an empowerment zone employment credit to employers for a percentage of qualified zone wages paid during calendar years 1994 through 2004. Limits the amount of such credit. Increases the limitation on expensing certain depreciable business assets. Increases the volume cap applicable to enterprise zone facility bonds if the business owners meet specified ownership requirements with regard to abiding in such zones. Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit for hiring empowerment zone residents.

Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Training and Investment Incentives Subtitle A: Provisions Relating to Education and Training Subtitle B: Investment Incentives Subtitle C: Tax-Exempt Bond Provisions Subtitle D: Expansion and Simplification of Earned Income Tax Credit Subtitle E: Incentives for Investment in Real Estate Subtitle F: Other Changes Title II: Revenue Increases Subtitle A: Provisions Affecting Individuals Subtitle B: Provisions Affecting Businesses Subtitle C: Foreign Tax Provisions Subtitle D: Energy Tax Provisions Subtitle E: Compliance Provisions Subtitle F: Miscellaneous Provisions Title III: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 - Title I: Training and Investment Incentives - Subtitle A: Provisions Relating to Education and Training - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent after June 30, 1992: (1) the tax exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance; and (2) the targeted jobs credit. Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit, with limitations, for the hiring of a qualified participant in an approved school-to-work program. Subtitle B: Investment Incentives - Part I: Investment Tax Credit - Allows a small business regular tax credit for eligible small businesses of five percent of their qualified investment in depreciable property. Allows such credit to offset a percentage of the minimum tax. Increases the investment tax credit for 1993 and 1994 for qualified investments. Provides for ratably including the current year business credit in gross income. Part II: Research Credit - Makes permanent the credit for increasing research activities. Modifies the fixed base percentage of such credit for startup companies for taxable years after 1993. Part III: Incentive For Investment in Small Business Stock - Allows a taxpayer other than a corporation to exclude from gross income 50 percent of gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock held for more than five years. Sets forth rules and limitations for such exclusion. Treats one-half of such exclusion as an item of tax preference for minimum tax purposes. Part IV: Modifications to Minimum Tax Depreciation Rules - Modifies the method of determining the depreciation deduction for certain personal property placed in service after 1993. Eliminates the depreciation adjustment for computing adjusted current earnings for such property. Subtitle C: Tax-Exempt Bond Provisions - Provides a complete tax exemption (currently a 75 percent tax exemption) for bonds used to finance high-speed intercity rail facilities. Permanently extends the authority to issue qualified small issue bonds to finance manufacturing facilities and farm property. Subtitle D: Expansion and Simplification of Earned Income Tax Credit - Repeals certain interaction rules with respect to the medical expense deduction, the deduction for health insurance, and the dependent care credit. Revises credit and phaseout percentages for 1994. Subtitle E: Incentives for Investment in Real Estate - Part I: Extension of Qualified Mortgage Bonds and Low-Income Housing Credits - Makes permanent: (1) the authority to issue qualified mortgage bonds and qualified mortgage credit certificates; and (2) the low-income housing credit. Part II: Modification of Passive Loss Rules - Provides for the treatment of rental real estate activities under the limitations on losses from passive activities. Part III: Provisions Relating to Real Estate Investments by Pension Funds - Modifies exceptions to the exclusion of real property acquired by a qualified organization from the meaning of acquisition indebtedness. Makes certain exceptions inapplicable to sales out of foreclosure by a financial institution. Repeals the special rule for publicly traded partnerships with respect to the treatment of unrelated business taxable income. Permits a tax-exempt title-holding company to receive unrelated business taxable income if the unrelated income is incidentally derived from the holding of real property. Excludes from unrelated business taxable income: (1) gains from the sale, exchange or other disposition of real property acquired from financial institutions that are in conservatorship or receivership; and (2) loan commitment fees and certain option premiums. Part IV: Increase in Recovery Period for Nonresidential Real Property - Increases the depreciation recovery period for nonresidential real property. Subtitle F: Other Changes - Repeals the tax preference for the appreciated property charitable deduction. Disallows an adjustment related to the earnings and profits effects of any charitable contribution from being made in computing adjusted current earnings. Amends the Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983 to make permanent the treatment of certain railroad retirement benefits as received under employer plans. Provides for the temporary extension of the deduction of health insurance costs of self-employed individuals. Title II: Revenue Increases - Subtitle A: Provisions Affecting Individuals - Part I: Rate Increases - Lowers the tax rates for certain taxpayers and increases the tax rate for certain higher incomes. Imposes a surtax on certain higher incomes. Increases the tentative minimum tax for taxpayers other than corporations. Makes permanent the overall limitation on itemized deductions and the phaseout of personal exemptions for high-income taxpayers. Sets forth provisions to prevent the conversion of ordinary income to capital gain in certain financial transactions. Repeals certain exceptions to market discount rules. Provides for the treatment of purchases of stripped preferred stock after April 30, 1993. Revises the methods of: (1) computing the limitation on the deductibility of investment interest; and (2) determining substantial appreciation of partnership inventory items. Part II: Other Provisions - Repeals the limitation on the amount of wages and subject to the health insurance employment tax. Increases and makes permanent the highest estate and gift tax rate. Reduces the deduction for business meals and entertainment expenses. Disallows a tax deduction for social club membership dues, except for employee recreational expenses. Disallows a deduction as a trade or business expense remuneration to certain employees in excess of $1 million. Reduces the compensation taken into account in determining contributions and benefits under qualified retirement plans. Removes qualified residence sales, purchases, or leases and meals from the deduction for moving expenses. Subtitle B: Provisions Affecting Businesses - Increases the tax rate for corporate income in excess of $10 million and the tax rate on personal service corporations. Denies a tax deduction for lobbying expenses. Subjects lobbying organizations to special reporting requirements. Requires any security which is inventory in the hands of the dealer to be included in inventory at its fair market value. Requires any dealer in securities that holds any security which is not in inventory at the close of any taxable year to: (1) recognize gain or loss as if the security were sold on the last business day of the taxable year; and (2) take into account any such gain or loss for such year (the mark-to-market requirement). Requires taking into account, for certain tax purposes: (1) certain Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) assistance as compensation for loss; and (2) any FSLIC assistance for any debt for determining whether such debt is worthless and in determining the amount of any addition to a reserve for bad debts arising from such worthlessness or partial worthlessness. Increases the required annual payment for corporations that fail to pay estimated income tax. Limits the Puerto Rico and possession tax credit to 60 percent of the possession corporation's qualified possession wages. Modifies the limitation on corporate deductions for interest paid to related persons to take into account disqualified guarantees of indebtedness and the imposition of a gross basis tax. Subtitle C: Foreign Tax Provisions - Part I: Current Taxation of Certain Earnings of Controlled Foreign Corporations - Requires U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations to include in gross income a pro rata share of the corporations' excess passive assets. Sets forth rules for determining such amounts. Modifies the rule on taxation of investment in United States property and takes into account excessive passive assets. Excepts from foreign personal holding income dividends attributable to earnings and profits of the distributing corporation accumulated during any period during which the person receiving such dividend did not hold such stock. Requires the establishment of an excess limitation account by taxpayers who receive foreign tax credits in a year they receive previously taxed earnings and profits. Part II: Allocation of Research and Experimental Expenditures; Treatment of Certain Royalties - Requires a complete allocation and apportionment of research and experimental expenditures from sources within the United States and bases such expenditures attributable to activities conducted outside the United States on gross sales. Treats royalties as passive income for purposes of the foreign tax credit. Part III: Other Provisions - Excludes passive dividends or interest income from foreign oil and gas income. Modifies accuracy-related penalties for tax underpayments. Denies the inclusion of certain contingent interest in the exemption for portfolio interest for nonresident aliens. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations recharacterizing any multiple-party financing transaction as a transaction directly among any two or more of such parties where appropriate to prevent any tax avoidance. Subtitle D: Energy Tax Provision - Imposes an excise tax on the following energy products: (1) taxable refined petroleum products removed from a U.S. refinery or entered into the United States for consumption, use, or warehousing; (2) natural gas removed in the United States from any pipeline (not part of a local distribution system) for transmission to ultimate users through a local distribution system or for use prior to entry into a local distribution system; (3) coal received at any facility for use as a fuel at such facility; and (4) certain electricity generated in or outside the U.S. Bases the rate of tax on such products on the applicable Btu factor. Declares that no tax is imposed on any taxable energy source which is exported by the person otherwise liable for such tax. Provides for refunds to: (1) ultimate vendors of home heating oil and international commercial transportation; (2) ultimate users in cases of exempt petroleum products; and (3) certain users of methane recovered from biomass or coal mining. Imposes a tax on the use of any fossil fuel (other than coal): (1) in the manufacture or production of a fuel other than at a U.S. refinery; or (2) as a fuel. Specifies the application of such tax and exceptions. Imposes a tax on floor stock of taxable fuels held on the date of the tax increase. Allows a credit against such tax. Provides for such tax increases to begin July 1, 1994. Increases the tax on gasoline and diesel fuels for purposes of the Highway Trust Fund financing rate. Increases the amount to be transferred to the Mass Transit Account from such Fund. Subtitle E: Compliance Provisions - Requires information reporting on payments to corporations for services. Modifies provisions concerning substantial understatement and return-preparer penalties to allow reasonable cause exceptions. Subtitle F: Miscellaneous Provisions - Establishes substantiation requirements for charitable contributions of $750 or more. Sets forth disclosure requirements for an organization that receives a quid pro quo contribution (payment made partly as a contribution and partly in consideration for goods or services provided to the payor by the donee organization). Imposes a penalty for failure to make such disclosure. Expands the 45-day interest-free period for refunding tax overpayments to all returns, as well as to amended returns and claims for refunds. Provides that if interest is not refunded within 45 days after the taxpayer files an amended return or claim for refund, interest will be paid only for periods after the date on which the return or claim is filed. Denies the business travel expense deduction for spouses, dependents, or others. Increases the withholding rate for supplemental wage payments. Title III: Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities - Provides for the designation of 100 tax enterprise communities and ten empowerment zones during calendar years after 1993 and before 1996: (1) by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in the case of an urban area; (2) by the Secretary of Agriculture in the case of a rural area; and (3) the Secretary of the Interior for an Indian reservation. Sets forth the eligibility criteria for such designations. Allows a zone resident empowerment savings credit to employers as a general business credit of 50 percent of the qualified savings contributions made to a defined contribution plan on behalf of an employee. Limits the amounts of such contributions. Makes buildings in such communities or zones eligible for the low-income housing credit applicable to buildings in high-cost areas. Provides for the issuance of enterprise zone facility bonds in enterprise communities and empowerment zones in a manner similar to exempt facility bonds. Excludes enterprise zone facility bonds from the interest deduction limitations on financial institutions. Allows an empowerment zone employment credit to employers for a percentage of qualified zone wages paid during calendar years 1994 through 2004. Limits the amount of such credit. Increases the limitation on expensing certain depreciable business assets. Increases the volume cap applicable to enterprise zone facility bonds if the business owners meet specified ownership requirements with regard to abiding in such zones. Allows the use of the targeted jobs credit for hiring empowerment zone residents.

Former Soviet Union Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1993

Former Soviet Union Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1993 - Directs the President to establish a program to reduce the environmental and national security threats from nuclear facilities in the former Soviet Union. Requires the President to establish multilateral technical working groups with the appropriate independent states of the former Soviet Union and other nations capable of producing nuclear weapons to examine monitoring and inspection arrangements that could be applied to verification. Authorizes the President to provide assistance under this Act only upon certification to the Congress that the country: (1) has ratified the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START I); (2) has acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; (3) is eligible for specified demilitarization and nonproliferation and disarmament assistance under other Acts; and (4) will not use assistance to support the continued operation or enhancement of plants for chemical separation of plutonium from fission products in spent nuclear fuel. Sets forth reporting requirements. Transfers funds from amounts appropriated to the Department of Energy for prior years for programs under this Act.

To amend the Rules of the House of Representatives and the Standing Rules of the Senate to abolish the requirement that appropriations be authorized by laws, and to eliminate unnecessary duplication in the functions of the standing committees of the House and Senate, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Jurisdictions of Standing Committees of the House of Representatives Title II: Jurisdictions of Standing Committees of the Senate Title III: Effective Date Title I: Jurisdictions of Standing Committees of the House of Representatives - Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to revise the standing committees of the House and their jurisdictions. Lists the standing committees as: (1) Agriculture; (2) Armed Services; (3) Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; (4) Budget; (5) Commerce, Science, and Transportation; (6) Education and Labor; (7) Energy and Natural Resources; (8) Environment and Public Works; (9) Foreign Affairs; (10) Governmental Affairs; (11) House Administration; (12) Intelligence (currently, a permanent select committee); (13) Judiciary; (14) Rules; (15) Small Business; (16) Standards of Official Conduct; (17) Veterans' Affairs; and (18) Ways and Means. Abolishes the following standing committees of the House: (1) Appropriations; (2) District of Columbia; (3) Government Operations; (4) Interior and Insular Affairs; (5) Merchant Marine and Fisheries; (6) Post Office and Civil Service; (7) Public Works and Transportation; and (8) Science, Space, and Technology. Amends rule XXI to repeal the prohibitions against: (1) reporting or considering appropriations for expenditures not previously authorized; and (2) receiving or considering an appropriation bill or amendment containing a provision reappropriating unexpended balances. Title II: Jurisdictions of Standing Committees of the Senate - Amends rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate to repeal provisions establishing the Senate Committee on Appropriations. Makes conforming amendments to the Standing Rules of the Senate (language to be supplied at a later date). Title III: Effective Date - Makes this Act effective at noon on January 3, 1995.

Defense Workers Economic Reinvestment Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Defense Procurement Specifications Title II: Retraining Defense Workers for New Employment Title III: Commercialization and Dual-Use Research Opportunities for Defense Contractors and Small Business Title IV: Fast Response State Technological Competitiveness Grants Defense Workers Economic Reinvestment Act of 1993 - Title I: Defense Procurement Specifications - Directs the Secretary of Defense to examine and report to the Congress on all existing Department of Defense (DOD) procurement contracts to determine whether those which apply to dual-use technologies (having both military and commercial applications) contain overly restrictive specifications on systems, supplies, and services that are also available commercially. Requires defense procurement specifications to encourage the use of commercially available systems, supplies, and services. Title II: Retraining Defense Workers for New Employment - Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Training Oversight and Administration to coordinate and oversee retraining, placement, and other transition assistance for former employees of qualified defense contractors or former civilian DOD employees. Directs the Office to disseminate retraining and placement assistance information. Authorizes the Office to: (1) carry out a skills development program for retraining eligible defense workers in skills determined to be in short supply; and (2) award one- and two-year scholarships to assist such eligible defense workers to attend educational institutions. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Commercialization and Dual-Use Research Opportunities for Defense Contractors and Small Business - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a program to assist qualified defense contractors to participate in the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and other appropriate programs of the Department of Commerce to commercialize significant new scientific discoveries and technologies. Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to encourage research proposals involving dual-use applications and proposals involving military to civilian conversion. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make loans to qualified defense contractors to carry out commercialization projects. Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) encourage the creation of industrial parks or technology incubator centers to transfer technology from defense contractors to small businesses; and (2) create and administer an awards program for redirection efforts by qualified defense contractors in the area of commercialization. Title IV: Fast Response State Technological Competitiveness Grants - Provides Federal grants to States for defense reinvestment programs which stress economic development, quality job growth, education and retraining, technology transfer and infrastructure, and enhanced competitiveness. Authorizes appropriations.

To repeal the Helium Act, to require the Secretary of the Interior to sell Federal real and personal property held in connection with activities carried out under the Helium Act, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1993

Repeals the Helium Act (an Act concerned mainly with the extraction and recovery of helium for national defense purposes). Directs the Secretary of the Interior to sell or otherwise dispose of: (1) all facilities, equipment, and real or personal property held for activities under such Act; and (2) all helium reserves held by the United States other than those required for specific immediate needs. Requires sale proceeds to be used solely to reduce outstanding Federal debt.

Superconducting Super Collider Immediate Termination Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1993

Superconducting Super Collider Immediate Termination Act of 1993 - Prohibits the use or obligation of Federal funds for the Superconducting Super Collider Project, except as necessary for Project termination.

Federal Resource Efficient Building Materials Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1993

Federal Resource Efficient Building Materials Act of 1993 - Requires the Administrator of General Services to establish a three-year pilot program to demonstrate the acquisition and use of resource efficient building materials in Federal facilities and buildings. Directs the Administrator, in the selection of such materials, to use the criteria of: (1) maximizing the conservation and preservation of natural resources; (2) ensuring that such materials are similar in quality and durability and are cost competitive to comparable, more conventional materials; (3) meeting appropriate environmental, public health, and safety standards; and (4) meeting appropriate energy efficiency standards. Establishes the Resource Efficient Building Material Advisory Board to advise and make recommendations to the Administrator concerning developments and uses of resource efficient building materials in Federal construction and the minimization of solid waste generation in such construction. Authorizes appropriations.

A bill to require the Secretary of Energy to raise rates for Federal hydroelectric power to speed debt repayment for power projects, to increase domestic livestock grazing fees, to require a royalty for the production of locatable minerals from Federal lands, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1993

Amends the Flood Control Act to mandate that all moneys received from the sale of electric power and energy generated at Federal hydroelectric power projects be deposited in the Treasury through uniform annual payments that consist of equal amounts of principal and interest and that reflect a commencement of payments for each project with the first year in which electric power and energy is delivered to the Secretary of Energy from the project. Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act to direct the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to establish an annual domestic livestock grazing fee according to a prescribed formula for certain lands under their respective jurisdictions. Subjects certain locatable minerals and mineral concentrates to a minimum royalty of at least 12.5 percent of the gross income from production.

A bill to prohibit any increase in the tax on the sale of certain aviation fuel, and to prohibit any tax on such fuel or on the energy content of petroleum or petroleum products used in the production of such fuel.

United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1993

Prohibits an increase in the excise tax on the sale of non-jet aviation fuel and jet aviation fuel that is sold to a registered commercial aircraft operator for use in transporting passengers or cargo. Prohibits any direct or indirect tax on such fuels or the energy content of petroleum or petroleum products in the production of such fuels. Allows such aircraft operators to reclaim taxes attributable to aviation fuel used to transport passengers or cargo.

To amend the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to provide consumers with additional information concerning octane ratings and requirements, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1993

Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to require automotive fuel retailers to display a conspicuous warning to consumers at the point of sale that most cars are designed to operate on low-octane gasoline.

Investment Tax Credit Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1993

Investment Tax Credit Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate the ten-percent investment tax credit for property used as an integral part of manufacturing, production, or extraction or of furnishing transportation, communications, electrical energy, gas, water, waste disposal, or pollution control services. Allows such tax to offset 100 percent of a C corporation's minimum tax.

To require a temporary moratorium on leasing, exploration, and development on lands of the Outer Continental Shelf off the State of California, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1993

Sets forth a moratorium period for the Planning Areas of Southern, Central, and Northern California, during which the Secretary of the Interior may neither conduct oil or gas preleasing or leasing activities under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, nor approve oil or gas exploration or development activities. Requires certain studies to be submitted to the Congress during the moratorium period.

Electromagnetic Labeling Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1993

Electromagnetic Labeling Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish uniform labeling requirements meeting specified criteria for products that emit low-frequency electric and magnetic fields of specified strengths. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a civil penalty against a manufacturer of such products for labeling violations under this Act.

Susan Fallows Tierney, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Domestic and International Energy Policy), vice John J. Easton, Jr., resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 1 April 1993

To repeal the Helium Act, to require the Secretary of the Interior to sell Federal real and personal property held in connection with activities carried out under the Helium Act, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1993

Repeals the Helium Act (an Act concerned mainly with the extraction and recovery of helium for national defense purposes). Directs the Secretary of the Interior to sell or otherwise dispose of: (1) all facilities, equipment, and real or personal property held for activities under such Act; and (2) all helium reserves held by the United States other than those required for specific immediate needs. Requires sale proceeds to be used solely to reduce outstanding Federal debt.

Petroleum Marketing Practices Act Amendments of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1993

Petroleum Marketing Practices Act Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to allow as grounds for nonrenewal of a franchise relationship the failure of the parties to agree to changes to the franchise provisions as long as such failure is not the result of the franchisor's insistence for the purpose of converting a franchisee operation into one operated by the franchisor's employees or agents (that is, turning the franchise into a company-owned station). Prohibits a State or any political subdivision from implementing any law or regulation which requires payment for a franchisee's goodwill upon either termination or nonrenewal of a franchise. Permits State law to specify the terms and conditions under which a franchise or franchise relationship may be transferred to a franchisee's designated successor upon the franchisee's death. Requires a franchisor that does not wish to exercise its underlying lease options to lease or purchase the marketing premises, to offer to assign them to the franchisee as a prerequisite to termination or nonrenewal of the franchise relationship. Bars a franchisor from requiring, as a condition of the franchise relationship, that the franchisee waive or release its rights under Federal or State law. Declares invalid and unenforceable any franchise provision which specifies that franchise interpretation or enforcement shall be governed by the law of any State other than the one in which the franchisee has its principal place of business.

To amend the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish the position of Assistant Secretary for Natural Gas, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1993

Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish the position of Assistant Secretary for Natural Gas, whose functions shall include coordination of: (1) research and development; (2) Federal policy respecting natural gas imports; and (3) Federal policy regarding natural gas exploration, production, transmission, and use.

Hydrogen Future Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1993

Hydrogen Future Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to support industrial hydrogen energy production research and development, including specified power source technical demonstrations (such as motor vehicles and electricity generation).

Expressing the sense of the Congress that the energy tax proposed by the President will harm the economy and should not be approved.

United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1993

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the energy excise tax proposed by the President will seriously harm middle income citizens, rural residents, and the economy and should not be approved.

International Fusion Energy Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1993

International Fusion Energy Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to redirect and refocus the Department of Energy (DOE) magnetic fusion program towards implementation of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) and a fusion demonstration reactor. Outlines ITER program requirements and management plan. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into international agreements regarding ITER implementation and cost sharing. Authorizes appropriations.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit to businesses which mine metallurgical coal and are required to make contributions to the UMWA Combined Benefit Fund created by the Energy Policy Act of 1992.

United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1993

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business credit for metallurgical coal mining. Declares such credit to consist of: (1) the lesser of a percentage of coal industry health benefit premiums; or (2) a percentage of the sale of metallurgical coal. Allows such credit to offset a percentage of the minimum tax.

Multistate Utility Company Consumer Protection Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1993

Multistate Utility Company Consumer Protection Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Power Act to transfer from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), for purposes of determining a just and reasonable rate for consumers, the power to review and disallow the costs associated with transactions of a public utility holding company with an affiliated company. Transfers to FERC all functions of the SEC under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA). Amends the PUHCA to require that contracts with associates, entered into by holding company subsidiaries or mutual service companies, be performed for the benefit of such associate companies at a price not to exceed cost (currently, at cost). Conditions FERC approval of a mutual service company upon finding that it is organized to reasonably insure performance of contracts for member companies at such a price. (Thus allowing prices below cost.)

A concurrent resolution condemning North Korea's decision to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1993

Supports the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) right to conduct inspections of any site in a nonnuclear weapon state party to the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Condemns North Korea's decision to withdraw from the Treaty. Urges: (1) the United Nations Security Council to insist that North Korea provide the IAEA with full access before its official withdrawal from the Treaty and to impose sanctions on North Korea should it continue to refuse to provide such access; and (2) the President of the United States and the international community to take steps to strengthen the international nuclear nonproliferation regime.

Department of Energy Laboratory Technology Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1993

Department of Energy Laboratory Technology Act of 1993 - Authorizes the Department of Energy (DOE) to maintain departmental laboratories to pursue specified statutory missions. Prohibits commitment of more than ten percent of a departmental laboratory's annual budget to technology transfer activities that do not directly support such missions. Requires the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) to submit a plan to the Congress for the phased consolidation of nuclear weapons-related activities conducted by DOE laboratories. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish: (1) the offices of Under Secretary of Energy, General Counsel, and Under Secretary for Science and Technology; (2) the Technology Development Advisory Board; and (3) the Office of Technology Development. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to reduce the time required for review and or/approval of a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) pertaining to federally-owned contractor-operated laboratories. Mandates that any CRADA involving a Federal commitment of $500,000 or more contain technical milestones, goals, and criteria annually reviewed by the sponsoring Federal agency. Authorizes a Federal agency to permit the director of its Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories to enter into a CRADA agreement without its specific approval if it involves a Federal commitment of $5 million or less. Establishes: (1) a National Technology Partnership Award; and (2) a Federal Laboratory Mission Evaluation and Coordination Committee to implement certain evaluation and coordination functions related to activities of the Federal laboratories.

Thomas P. Grumbly, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Environmental Restoration and Management), vice Leo P. Duffy, resigned.

United States · United States Senate · 22 March 1993

Spending Priority Reform Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Agriculture Appropriations Title II: Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subtitle A: Department of Commerce Subtitle B: Related Agencies Subtitle C: Department of State Title III: Defense Appropriations Subtitle A: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Subtitle B: Other Department of Defense Programs Subtitle C: Operations and Maintenance Title IV: Energy and Water Appropriations Subtitle A: Corps of Engineers Subtitle B: Department of Energy Title V: Interior Appropriations Title VI: Transportation Appropriations Title VII: Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Title VIII: Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Subtitle A: Department of Veterans Affairs Subtitle B: Independent Agencies Subtitle C: Department of Housing and Urban Development Title IX: Blue Smoke and Mirrors Spending Priority Reform Act of 1993 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that any money returned to the Treasury as a result of this Act should be deposited in the General Fund to be applied against the Federal budget deficit. Title I: Agriculture Appropriations - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for certain special research grants and for the construction of buildings and facilities of the Cooperative State Research Service which were not authorized, not awarded on a competitive basis, or not subjected to congressional hearings ("unauthorized"). Title II: Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations - Subtitle A: Department of Commerce - Rescinds FY 1993 specified appropriations to: (1) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and (2) the International Trade Administration. Subtitle B: Related Agencies - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Small Business Administration for unauthorized grants for specified miscellaneous projects. Subtitle C: Department of State - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Department of State for an unauthorized grant for the North/South Center at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida, and certain educational and cultural exchange programs. Title III: Defense Appropriations - Subtitle A: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation - Rescinds unauthorized FY 1993 appropriations made to the Department of Defense for: (1) university grants; (2) electrical vehicle demonstration projects; (3) Army industrial preparedness and manufacturing technology development programs; (4) medical research; (5) naval research, development, testing, and evaluation; and (5) the Space Surveillance Network Improvement Program. Subtitle B: Other Department of Defense Programs - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations for efforts to prevent brown tree snakes from entering Hawaii from Guam. Subtitle C: Operations and Maintenance - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations for the following projects: (1) self-powered locks; (2) grants for World University and 1996 Summer Olympics games and World Cup 1994; (3) Army procurement of extended cold weather clothing systems; (4) study of nuclear disposal by the former Soviet Union and for Project Peace; and (5) the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Title IV: Energy and Water Appropriations - Subtitle A: Corps of Engineers - Rescinds unauthorized FY 1993 appropriations for funding of surveys and planning activities and construction of water resource projects. Subtitle B: Department of Energy - Rescinds unauthorized FY 1993 appropriations made under the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1993, for funding certain energy supply, research, and development activities. Title V: Interior Appropriations - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations for unauthorized funding of: (1) certain National Park System projects; (2) certain construction projects of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and (3) certain National Forest Service projects. Title VI: Transportation Appropriations - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Department of Transportation for unauthorized funding of: (1) certain airway science programs; (2) a certain highway research, development, and technology project; (3) certain construction and maintenance projects; (4) certain Federal Highway Administration demonstration projects; and (5) transit planning and research. Title VII: Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the General Services Administration for certain unauthorized grants for projects funded through the Federal Buildings Fund. Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Office of Personnel Management for the establishment of health promotion and disease prevention programs. Title VIII: Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations - Subtitle A: Department of Veterans Affairs - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to be Department of Veterans Affairs for unauthorized construction projects. Subtitle B: Independent Agencies - Rescinds 1993 appropriations to: (1) the Environmental Protection Agency for certain unauthorized projects; (2) the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network; and (3) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for certain unauthorized research and development projects and construction projects. Subtitle C: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Rescinds FY 1993 appropriations to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for unauthorized funding of certain housing projects and assistance programs. Title IX: Blue Smoke and Mirrors - Expresses the sense of the Congress that, with regard to the appropriations process, "forward funding" tactics should no longer be utilized and Congress should operate within the funding limits prescribed for each fiscal year.

Condemning North Korea's decision to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1993

Supports the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) right to conduct inspections of any site in a nonnuclear weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Condemns North Korea's decision to withdraw from the Treaty. Urges the United Nations Security Council to: (1) insist that North Korea provide the IAEA with full access before its official withdrawal from the Treaty; and (2) impose sanctions on North Korea should it continue to refuse to provide such access. Calls on the President and the international community to strengthen the international nuclear nonproliferation regime.

Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Title II: General Provisions Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1993 - Makes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 1993. Title I: Emergency Supplemental Appropriations - Makes additional appropriations available to the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and related agencies for: (1) the Agricultural Research Service; (2) the Food Safety and Inspection Service; (3) the Soil Conservation Service; (4) the Farmers Home Administration; (5) the Rural Development Administration; and (6) the Food and Nutrition Service. Makes additional funds available to the Department of Commerce for the Economic Development Administration, the Minority Business Development Agency, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Makes additional funds available for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Small Business Administration. Makes additional funds available for the Federal payment to the District of Columbia. Makes additional funds available to the Army Corps of Engineers-Civil for general construction, flood control for the Mississippi River and tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee, and general operation and maintenance. Makes additional funds available to the Department of Energy for energy supply, research, and development activities. Makes additional appropriations available to the Department of the Interior for the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Makes additional funds available to the Department of Agriculture for the National Forest System and the Department of Energy for energy conservation. Makes additional funds available to: (1) the Department of Labor for the Employment and Training Administration; (2) the Department of Health and Human Services for the Health Resources and Services Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Social Security Administration, and the Administration for Children and Families; and (3) the Department of Education. Makes additional funds available to the Department of Transportation for the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, and the Federal Transit Administration. Makes supplemental funds available to: (1) the Department of the Treasury for the Internal Revenue Service; and (2) the General Services Administration for the Federal Buildings Fund. Makes additional amounts available to: (1) Department of Veterans Affairs for the Veterans Health Administration and departmental administration; (2) the Department of Housing and Urban Development; and (3) the Commission on National and Community Service; (4) the Environmental Protection Agency; (5) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and (6) the National Science Foundation. Title II: General Provisions - Designates funds under this Act as emergency requirements for all purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).

Comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Safety and Health Programs Title II: Safety and Health Committees and Employee Safety and Health Representatives Title III: Coverage Title IV: Occupational Safety and Health Standards Title V: Enforcement Title VI: Protection of Employees from Discrimination Title VII: OSHA Training and Education Title VIII: Recordkeeping and Reporting Title IX: NIOSH Title X: State Plans Title XI: Victims' Rights Title XII: Construction Safety Title XIII: Administration Title XIV: Effective Date Comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) with respect to occupational safety and health programs, committees, employee representatives, coverage, standards, enforcement, antidiscrimination, training and education, hazard and illness evaluation, State plans, and victims' rights. Title I: Safety and Health Programs - (Sec. 101) Amends OSHA to establish requirements for each employer to set up and carry out a written occupational safety and health program that includes specified methods and procedures. Title II: Safety and Health Committees and Employee Safety and Health Representatives - (Sec. 201) Amends OSHA to require each employer of 11 or more employees (each for 20 or more hours per week) to provide for: (1) health committees; and (2) employee safety and health representatives. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary), upon the employer's application, to approve establishment of an alternative method of employee participation in worksite health and safety activities in a manner at least as effective as committee participation, if such alternative mechanism meets specified conditions. (Sec. 202) Provides for employee participation in the Secretary's inspections of workplaces. Title III: Coverage - (Sec. 301) Revises the OSHA definition of employer to extend OSHA coverage to States and local government employees. (Sec. 302) Directs the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives to establish a comprehensive occupational safety and health program meeting specified OSHA and other requirements. (Sec. 303) Applies OSHA to employment performed in Federal nuclear facilities under the control or jurisdiction of the Department of Energy. (Sec. 304) Extends an employer's duties under OSHA to all employees working at the place of employment (even if they are not the employer's employees). Title IV: Occupational Safety and Health Standards - (Sec. 401) Specifies timeframes and procedures for setting OSHA standards. (Sec. 403) Requires each OSHA standard to prescribe requirements for recording or reporting work-related adverse medical conditions determined as a result of medical examinations or test. (Sec. 404) Requires public disclosure of all communications on OSHA standards with parties outside the Department of Labor, including those with executive branch officials (except the President). (Sec. 405) Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) acting through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to modify and establish exposure limits for toxic materials and harmful physical agents on a regular basis in a specified manner. (Secs. 406 and 407) Directs the Secretary to promulgate final standards: (1) on exposure monitoring and medical surveillance programs; and (2) on ergonomic hazards to protect employees from work-related musculoskeletal disorders. (Sec. 408) Requires that emergency temporary standards: (1) be issued based on the best available evidence; and (2) remain in effect for no more than 18 months (currently six months). (Sec. 409) Directs the Secretary to issue, within 60 days, an interim final regulation reducing permissible exposure limits to toxic substances, including a specified final rule on air contaminants and a proposed rule on air contaminants for construction, agriculture, and maritime. Title V: Enforcement - (Sec. 501) Provides that time spent by an employee in accompanying the Secretary's representative on an OSHA inspection shall be deemed hours worked, with no loss of wages, benefits, or other terms and conditions of employent. (Sec. 502) Requires the Secretary to notify employees or their representatives, within 30 days after receipt of their request for inspection, of the Secretary's determination that there no reasonable grounds to believe a violation or danger exists. (Sec. 503) Requires the Secretary to make a special inspection upon notification by any Federal or State agency of reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of OSHA or specified safety and health standards exists that threatens physical harm. (Sec. 504) Directs the Secretary to carry out a special emphasis inspection program for conducting inspections of industries or operations where existing hazards or newly recognized or new hazards introduced into work sites warrant more intensive than normal inspections. (Sec. 505) Requires the Secretary to investigate any work-related death or serious incident resulting in hospitalization of two or more employees. Requires the employer to: (1) notify the Secretary of any death or serious incident occurring in a place of employment covered by OSHA; and (2) prevent the destruction or alteration of evidence that would assist in an investigation. (Sec. 506) Revises provisions for abatement of serious hazards during employer contests to a citation. (Sec. 507) Grants employees the right to contest a citation's designation of the character of a violation or any proposed penalties as inadequate. (Sec. 508) Grants employee representatives the right to participate in other proceedings (as well as hearings) conducted under specified OSHA enforcement procedures. (Sec. 509) Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission's rules of procedure to provide for prompt notice to affected employees or their representatives if the Secretary intends to withdraw or modify a citation as a result of any agreement with the employer. Grants employees or their representative, regardless of whether they have previously elected to participate in the proceedings, the right to object to modifications or withdrawals of citations. (Sec. 510) Revises OSHA provisions for restraining imminent dangers. Grants employees the right to refuse to perform a duty identified as the source of an imminent danger, and prohibits discrimination against them for such refusal. Specifies a civil penalty against an employer for each day during which an employee continues to be exposed. (Sec. 511) Authorizes the Secretary to issue citations and assess penalties for violations of specified OSHA provisions relating to: (1) inspections, investigations, and recordkeeping; (2) safety and health programs; (3) safety and health committees; and (4) construction plans and programs. (Sec. 512) Revises OSHA criminal penalties to subject to them not only the employer but also certain officers, management officials, and supervisiors. Increases the maximum amount of fines and length of prison terms for specified violations. Establishes criminal penalties for a willful violation that causes serious bodily injury (currently, death only). Prohibits a penalty or fine imposed on a director, officer, or agent of an employer from being paid out of the employer's assets. Provides that nothing in OSHA shall preclude State and local law enforcement agencies from conducting criminal prosecutions. (Sec. 514) Directs the Secretary to establish an effective system for targeting inspections of worksites, with priority given to those with a high potential for death, serious injury, or exposures to toxic materials or harmful physical agents. (Sec. 515) Provides for the vacating of specified citations for violations if the employer demonstrates that certain conditions involving adequate employee training and work rule enforcement have been met. Title VI: Protection of Employees from Discrimination - (Sec. 601) Extends OSHA antidiscrimination coverage to employees: (1) reporting any injury, illness, or unsafe condition to the employer, employer's agent, safety and health committee, or employee safety and health representative; and (2) refusing to perform duties when reasonably apprehensive that doing so would result in serious injury to themselves or other employees, after having sought and been unable to obtain from the employer corrections of the circumstances causing such refusal. Revises procedures for consideration of discrimination complaints. Revises remedies. (Sec. 602) Requires the Secretary's regulations to include provisions requiring employers to post employee rights protections under such OSHA antidiscrimination provisions. Title VII: OSHA Training and Assistance - (Sec. 701) Requires the Secretary to develop and disseminate curricula, model programs, and other information and materials to assist employers in complying with OSHA standards and requirements for safety and health programs, employee training and education, and safety and health committees. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide technical assistance and consultative services concerning worksite safety and health to employers and employees. Requires targeting of such assistance and consultation at small employers, high hazard worksites, and high hazard industries. Directs the Secretary to award: (1) grants for regional or State safety resource councils or centers; and (2) excellence awards to employees and other organizations. (Sec. 702) Establishes in the Treasury a revolving fund, the OSHA Assistance Fund, to pay for such programs. Directs the Secretary to impose fees to offset program costs. Title VIII: Recordkeeping and Reporting - (Sec. 801) Requires the Secretary to collect information and conduct analyses identifying: (1) industries, employers, processes, operations, and occupations, with a high rate of injury or illness; (2) factors that cause or contribute to injuries and illnesses; (3) workers' compensation costs associated with injuries and illnesses; and (4) employee exposure to toxic substances and harmful physical agents. Directs the Secretary to require each employer covered by OSHA to report: (1) each work-related death of an employee immediately upon knowledge; and (2) each serious incident resulting in hospitalization of two or more employees within 24 hours of the incident. (Sec. 802) Revises OSHA requirements for employer records and reports to include work-related illnesses reported by an employee or an employee's physician, unless the employer makes a reasonable determination that the illness is not work-related. (Sec. 803) Requires all such employer records and reports to be made available to the Secretary, the Secretary of HHS, employees, and employee representatives. Title IX: NIOSH - (Sec. 901) Requires NIOSH hazard to evaluation reports to evaluate whether any potentially hazardous condition or harmful physical agent found in the place of employment poses a risk to exposed employees. (Sec. 902) Directs the Secretary of HHS to identify major factors contributing to occupational injuries and deaths through accident investigations and epidemiological research. (Sec. 903) Extends the authority of the Secretary of HHS, and of NIOSH, to inspect records to the Secretary's designees and contractors. (Sec. 904) Directs the Secretary of HHS to establish a national surveillance program to identify cases of occupational illnesses, deaths, and serious injuries. (Sec. 905) Establishes NIOSH as a separate agency within the U.S. Public Health Service in the Department of HHS. (Sec. 906) Includes education programs for employees and members of safety and health committees under NIOSH training provisions. Title X: State Plans - (Secs. 1001 and 1002) Revises OSHA requirements for State plans to provide for: (1) development of safety and health programs and safety and health committees and training programs that are at least as effective as those under the new OSHA requirements; and (2) reporting requirements, protection of employee rights, and access to information that are at least as effective as those under OSHA or other Federal laws governing access to information related to OSHA. (Sec. 1003) Requires a State to enforce a Federal OSHA standard until a State standard at least as effective is in effect, if a State fails to adopt or promulgate such a standard within six months after the Federal standard is promulgated. (Secs. 1004 and 1005) Sets forth requirements and procedures for the Secretary of Labor to: (1) investigate complaints against a State's compliance with and enforcement of the State plan; and (2) take corrective action against such State noncompliance. (Sec. 1006) Requires States operating State safety and health plans to conform them to this Act. Title XI: Victims' Rights - (Sec. 1101) Provides for victims' rights under OSHA, including family members as well as the injured employee. Title XII: Construction Safety - Construction Safety, Health, and Education Improvement Act of 1993 - (Sec. 1203) Amends OSHA to establish in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (the Administration) an Office of Construction Safety, Health, and Education (the Office). Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to: (1) identify construction employers with high rates of fatalities or lost workday injuries or illnesses or with patterns of noncompliance with health and safety requirements; (2) develop a system for notifying such employers; (3) establish courses and curricula for training OSHA inspectors an other OSHA employees with construction safety and health duties; (4) establish model compliance programs and assist employers, employees, and their representative organizations in setting up their training programs; and (5) establish a toll-free line on which reports, complaints, and notifications required under OSHA may be made. Establishes within the Administration the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Construction. (Sec. 1203) Establishes requirements for construction safety and health plans and programs, involving construction employers and designated project constructors and coordinators. (Sec. 1204) Directs the Secretary to establish an effective targeting system for general schedule construction inspections. Directs the Secretary to require constructors to report promptly any incident involving construction work that results in a fatality, an injury or illness causing two or more hospitalizations, or a structural failure or fire or explosion which caused or could have caused serious bodily injury to employees. (Sec. 1206) Expands the advisory jurisdiction of the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (the Committee). (Sec. 1207) Requires any State construction safety and health plan to contain requirements at least as effective as those imposed by the Act and the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act. (Sec. 1208) Establishes in OSHA a Construction Safety and Health Academy to train OSHA employees who conduct construction worksite inspections, and others the Secretary considers appropriate. (Sec. 1209) Considers a project constructor an employer for specified OSHA enforcement purposes. (Sec. 1210) Directs the Secretary to report to the President and the Congress annually on the construction industry and after three years on whether the office should be continued or a Construction Industry Safety and Health Administration should be established in the Department of Labor. (Sec. 1211) Directs the Secretary to recommend to specified congressional committees any legislative changes required to make safety records (including records of compliance with Federal safety and health laws and regulations) one criterion considered in the awarding of Federal construction contracts. Title XIII: Administration - (Sec. 1301) Establishes an Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the Department of Labor, to be headed by an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health. Title XIV: Effective Date - (Sec. 1401) Sets forth the effective date of this Act.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that ethanol and mass fuels other than ethanol not be subject to any new energy tax.

United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1993

Expresses the sense of the Congress that ethanol fuels and biomass fuels other than ethanol should be exempt from any new energy tax enacted during the 103d Congress.

Multistate Utility Consumer Protection Act of 1994

United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1993

Multistate Utility Company Consumer Protection Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Power Act to transfer from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) the power to review and disallow the costs associated with transactions of a public utility holding company and an affiliated company, for purposes of determining a just and reasonable rate for consumers.

Comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Safety and Health Programs Title II: Safety and Health Committees and Employee Safety and Health Representatives Title III: Coverage Title IV: Occupational Safety and Health Standards Title V: Enforcement Title VI: Protection of Employees from Discrimination Title VII: Technical Assistance and Training Title VIII: Recordkeeping and Reporting Title IX: NIOSH Title X: State Plans Title XI: Victim's Rights Title XII: Construction Safety Title XIII: Worker's Compensation Study Title XIV: Administration Title XV: Effective Date Comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health Reform Act - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) with respect to occupational safety and health programs, committees, employee representatives, coverage, standards, enforcement, antidiscrimination, training and education, hazard and illness evaluation, State plans, and victims' rights. Title I: Safety and Health Programs - (Sec. 101) Amends requirements for each employer to set up and carry out a written occupational safety and health program that includes specified methods and procedures. Title II: Safety and Health Committees and Employee Safety and Health Representatives - (Sec. 201) Amends OSHA to require each employer of 11 or more employees (each for 20 or more hours per week) to provide for: (1) health committees; and (2) employee safety and health representatives. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary), upon the employer's application, to approve establishment of an alternative method of employee participation in worksite health and safety activities in a manner at least as effective as committee participation, if such alternative mechanism meets specified conditions. Provides for employee participation in the Secretary's inspections of workplaces. Title III: Coverage - (Sec. 301) Revises the OSHA definition of employer to extend OSHA coverage to States and local government employees. (Sec. 302) Directs the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives to establish a comprehensive occupational safety and health program meeting specified OSHA and other requirements. (Sec. 303) Applies OSHA to employment performed in Federal nuclear facilities under the control or jurisdiction of the Department of Energy. (Sec. 304) Extends an employer's duties under OSHA to all employees working at the place of employment (even if they are not the employer's employees). Title IV: Occupational Safety and Health Standards - (Sec. 401) Specifies timeframes and procedures for setting OSHA standards. (Sec. 403) Requires each OSHA standard to prescribe requirements for recording or reporting work-related adverse medical conditions determined as a result of medical examinations or test. (Sec. 404) Requires public disclosure of all communications on OSHA standards with parties outside the Department of Labor, including those with executive branch officials (except the President). (Sec. 405) Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) acting through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to modify and establish exposure limits for toxic materials and harmful physical agents on a regular basis in a specified manner. (Sec. 406 and 407) Directs the Secretary to promulgate final standards: (1) on exposure monitoring and medical surveillance programs; and (2) on ergonomic hazards to protect employees from work-related musculoskeletal disorders. (Sec. 408) Requires that emergency temporary standards: (1) be issued based on the best available evidence; and (2) remain in effect for no more than 18 months (currently six months). (Sec. 409) Directs the Secretary to issue, within 60 days, an interim final regulation reducing permissible exposure limits to toxic substances, including a specified final rule on air contaminants and a proposed rule on air contaminants for construction, agriculture, and maritime. Title V: Enforcement - (Sec. 501) Provides that time spent by an employee in accompanying the Secretary's representative on an OSHA inspection shall be deemed hours worked, with no loss of wages, benefits, or other terms and conditions of employent. (Sec. 502) Requires the Secretary to notify employees or their representatives, within 30 days after receipt of their request for inspection, of the Secretary's determination that there are no reasonable grounds to believe a violation or danger exists. (Sec. 503) Requires the Secretary to make a special inspection upon notification by any Federal or State agency of reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of OSHA or specified safety and health standards exists that threatens physical harm. (Sec. 504) Directs the Secretary to carry out a special emphasis inspection program for conducting inspections of industries or operations where existing hazards or newly recognized or new hazards introduced into work sites warrant more intensive than normal inspections. (Sec. 505) Requires the Secretary to investigate any work-related death or serious incident resulting in hospitalization of two or more employees. Requires the employer to: (1) notify the Secretary of any death or serious incident occurring in a place of employment covered by OSHA; and (2) prevent the destruction or alteration of evidence that would assist in an investigation. (Sec. 506) Revises provisions for abatement of serious hazards during employer contests to a citation. (Sec. 507) Grants employees the right to contest a citation's designation of the character of a violation or any proposed penalties as inadequate. (Sec. 508) Grants employee representatives the right to participate in other proceedings (as well as hearings) conducted under specified OSHA enforcement procedures. (Sec. 509) Requires the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission's rules of procedure to provide for prompt notice to affected employees or their representatives if the Secretary intends to withdraw or modify a citation as a result of any agreement with the employer. Grants employees or their representative, regardless of whether they have previously elected to participate in the proceedings, the right to object to modifications or withdrawals of citations. (Sec. 510) Revises OSHA provisions for restraining imminent dangers. Grants employees the right to refuse to perform a duty identified as the source of an imminent danger, and prohibits discrimination against them for such refusal. Specifies a civil penalty against an employer for each day during which an employee continues to be exposed. (Sec. 511) Authorizes the Secretary to issue citations and assess penalties for violations of specified OSHA provisions relating to: (1) inspections, investigations, and recordkeeping; (2) safety and health programs; (3) safety and health committees; and (4) construction plans and programs. (Sec. 512) Revises OSHA criminal penalties to subject to them not only the employer but also certain officers, management officials, and supervisiors. Increases the maximum amount of fines and length of prison terms for specified violations. Establishes criminal penalties for a willful violation that causes serious bodily injury (currently, death only). Prohibits a penalty or fine imposed on a director, officer, or agent of an employer from being paid out of the employer's assets. Provides that nothing in OSHA shall preclude State and local law enforcement agencies from conducting criminal prosecutions. (Sec. 514) Directs the Secretary to establish an effective system for targeting inspections of worksites, with priority given to those with a high potential for death, serious injury, or exposures to toxic materials or harmful physical agents. (Sec. 515) Provides for the vacating of specified citations for violations if the employer demonstrates that certain conditions involving adequate employee training and work rule enforcement have been met. (Sec. 516) Increases the minimum penalty for specified types of serious offenses. Title VI: Protection of Employees from Discrimination - (Sec. 601) Extends OSHA antidiscrimination coverage to employees: (1) reporting any injury, illness, or unsafe condition to the employer, employer's agent, safety and health committee, or employee safety and health representative; and (2) refusing to perform duties when reasonably apprehensive that doing so would result in serious injury to themselves or other employees, after having sought and been unable to obtain from the employer corrections of the circumstances causing such refusal. Revises procedures for consideration of discrimination complaints. Revises remedies. (Sec. 602) Requires the Secretary's regulations to include provisions requiring employers to post employee rights protections under such OSHA antidiscrimination provisions. Title VII: Technical Assistance and Training - (Section 701) Requires the Secretary to develop and disseminate curricula, model programs, and other information and materials to assist employers in complying with OSHA standards and requirements for safety and health programs, employee training and education, and safety and health committees. Directs the Secrtary to establish a program to provide technical assistance and consultative services concerning worksite safety and health to employers and employees. Requires targeting of such assistance and consultation at small employers, high hazard worksites, and high hazard industries. Establishes in the Treasury a revolving fund, the OSHA Assistance Fund, to pay for such programs. Directs the Secretary to impose fees to offset program costs. Title VIII: Recordkeeping and Reporting - (Sec. 801) Requires the Secretary to collect information and conduct analyses identifying: (1) industries, employers, processes, operations, and occupations, with a high rate of injury or illness; (2) factors that cause or contribute to injuries and illnesses; (3) workers' compensation costs associated with injuries and illnesses; and (4) employee exposure to toxic substances and harmful physical agents. Directs the Secretary to require each employer covered by OSHA to report: (1) each work-related death of an employee immediately upon knowledge; and (2) each serious incident resulting in hospitalization of two or more employees within 24 hours of the incident. (Sec. 802) Revises OSHA requirements for employer records and reports to include work-related illnesses reported by an employee or an employee's physician, unless the employer determines the illness is not work-related. (Sec. 803) Requires all such employer records and reports to be made available to the Secretary, the Secretary of HHS, employees, and employee representatives. Title IX: NIOSH - (Sec. 901) Requires NIOSH hazard to evaluation reports to evaluate whether any potentially hazardous condition or harmful physical agent found in the place of employment poses a risk to exposed employees. (Sec. 902) Directs the Secretary of HHS to identify major factors contributing to occupational injuries and deaths through accident investigations and epidemiological research. (Sec. 903) Extends the authority of the Secretary of HHS, and of NIOSH, to inspect records to the Secretary's designees and contractors. (Sec. 904) Directs the Secretary of HHS, to establish a national surveillance program to identify cases of occupational illnesses, deaths, and serious injuries. (Sec. 905) Establishes NIOSH as a separate agency within the U.S. Public Health Service in the Department of HHS. (Sec. 907) Includes education programs for employees and members of safety and health committees under NIOSH training provisions. Title X: State Plans - (Sec. 1001 and Sec. 1002) Revises OSHA requirements for State plans to provide for: (1) development of safety and health programs and safety and health committees and training programs that are at least as effective as those under the new OSHA requirements; and (2) reporting requirements, protection of employee rights, and access to information that are at least as effective as those under OSHA or other Federal laws governing access to information related to OSHA. (Sec. 1003) Requires a State to enforce a Federal OSHA standard until a State standard at least as effective is in effect, if a State fails to adopt or promulgate such a standard within six months after the Federal standard is promulgated. (Sec. 1004 and Sec. 1005) Sets forth requirements and procedures for the Secretary of Labor to: (1) investigate complaints against a State's compliance with and enforcement of the State plan; and (2) take corrective action against such State noncompliance. (Sec. 1006) Requires States operating State safety and health plans to conform them to this Act. Title XI: Victim's Rights - (Sec. 1101) Provides for victims' rights under OSHA, including family members as well as the injured employee. Title XII: Construction Safety - (Sec. 1202) Amends OSHA to establish in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (the Administration) an Office of Construction Safety, Health, and Education (the Office). Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) to: (1) identify construction employers with high rates of fatalities or lost workday injuries or illnesses or with patterns of noncompliance with health and safety requirements; (2) develop a system for notifying such employers; (3) establish courses and curricula for training OSHA inspectors an other OSHA employees with construction safety and health duties; (4) establish model compliance programs and assist employers, employees, and their representative organizations in setting up their training programs; and (5) establish a toll-free line on which reports, complaints, and notifications required under OSHA may be made. Establishes within the Administration the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Construction. (Sec. 1203) Establishes requirements for construction safety and health plans and programs, involving construction employers and designated project constructors and coordinators. (Sec. 1204) Directs the Secretary to establish an effective targeting system for general schedule construction inspections. Directs the Secretary to require constructors to report promptly any incident involving construction work that results in a fatality, an injury or illness causing two or more hospitalizations, or a structural failure or fire or explosion which caused or could have caused serious bodily injury to employees. (Sec. 1205) Expands the advisory jurisdiction of the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (the Committee). (Sec. 1206) Requires any State construction safety and health plan to contain requirements at least as effective as those imposed by the Act and the Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act. (Sec. 1207) Establishes in OSHA a Construction Safety and Health Academy to train OSHA employees who conduct construction worksite inspections and others the Secretary considers appropriate. (Sec. 1208) Considers a project constructor an employer for specified OSHA enforcement purposes. (Sec. 1209) Directs the Secretary to report to the President and the Congress annually on the construction industry and after three years on whether the office should be continued or a Construction Industry Safety and Health Administration should be established in the Department of Labor. (Sec. 1210) Directs the Secretary to recommend to specified congressional committees any legislative changes required to make safety records (including records of compliance with Federal safety and health laws and regulations) one criterion considered in the awarding of Federal construction contracts. Title XIII: Worker's Compensation Study - (Sec. 1301) Establishes the Federal Workers' Compensation Commission. Directs the Commission to study and report on workers' compensation laws and system with respect to specified issues. Title XIV: Administration - Establishes an Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the Department of Labor, to be headed by an Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health. Title XV: Effective Date - (Sec. 1501) Sets forth the effective date of this Act.

Outer Continental Shelf Enhanced Exploration and Deep Water Incentives Act

United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1993

Outer Continental Shelf Enhanced Exloration and Deep Water Incentives Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to suspend any royalty or net profit share set forth in Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil or gas leases. Declares that no royalty payment shall be due on new production from leases located in depths of 200 meters or more until the capital costs directly related to such production have been recovered out of the resulting proceeds. Requires the Secretary to designate as frontier areas those portions of the OCS with respect to which the Secretary will exercise authority to modify royalty payment requirements.

Birth Defects Prevention Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1993

Birth Defects Prevention Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish birth defects prevention and research programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to provide for collection, analysis, and reporting of birth defects statistics from birth certificates, infant death certificates, hospital records, or other sources and to collect and disaggregate such statistics by gender and racial and ethnic group. Directs the Secretary to establish at least five regional birth defects monitoring and research programs to collect and analyze information on the number, incidence, correlation, and causes of birth defects. Authorizes the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC, to award grants or enter into cooperative agreements with specified entities to serve as Centers of Excellence for Birth Defects Prevention Research. Requires one of the Centers to focus on birth defects among ethnic minorities. Requires the CDC to establish a clearinghouse for the collection and storage of data generated from birth defects monitoring programs developed under this Act. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the CDC, to provide for the evaluation, and implementation of prevention strategies designed to reduce the incidence and effects of birth defects. Directs the Secretary to establish an Advisory Committee for Birth Defects Prevention. Requires the Secretary to report biennially to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources regarding birth defects. Authorizes appropriations.

National Energy Security Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1993

National Energy Security Act of 1993 - Authorizes the President to conduct a lease sale under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act for offshore oil and natural gas resources in certain eligible areas if the ratio between domestic oil production and domestic oil consumption falls below 50 percent for four consecutive months.

Department of Science, Space, Energy, and Technology Organization Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: General Provisions Title II: Establishment of the Department Title III: Transfers of Agencies and Functions Title IV: Administrative Provisions Subtitle A: Personnel Provisions Subtitle B: General Administrative Provisions Title V: Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions Department of Science, Space, Energy, and Technology Organization Act of 1993 - Title I: General Provisions - Sets forth findings of the Congress and definitions with regard to the establishment of the Department of Science, Space, Energy, and Technology. Title II: Establishment of the Department - Authorizes the establishment of the Department of Science, Space, Energy, and Technology (Department), under the direction of a Secretary of Science, Space, Energy, and Technology. Sets forth other principal officers. Title III: Transfers of Agencies and Functions - Transfers to the Department: (1) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; (2) the National Institute of Standards and Technology; (3) the National Science Foundation; (4) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; (5) the Environmental Protection Agency; (6) the National Technical Information Service; (7) all but certain facilities of the Department of Energy, renamed the National Energy Administration; and (8) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Title IV: Administrative Provisions - Subtitle A: Personnel Provisions - Sets forth personnel provisions. Subtitle B: General Administrative Provisions - Sets forth administrative provisions. Title V: Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions - Sets forth transitional, savings, and conforming provisions.

Petroleum Marketing Reform Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1993

Petroleum Marketing Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to modify the definition of "contract" to include any contract between specified parties which is economically necessary to the operation of the franchise. Provides that the termination or non-renewal of a franchise relationship, upon expiration of an underlying lease for marketing premises, is reasonable if specified conditions exist.

A joint resolution to express the sense of Congress that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should refrain from further processing of restructuring proceedings pursuant to Order No. 636 until 60 days after the submission to Congress of the study of the General Accounting Office of the economic impact of the order on residential, commercial, and other end-users of natural gas, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1993

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) should refrain from further processing of restructuring proceedings pursuant to a specified FERC order until 60 days after submission to the Congress of a study of the economic impact of the order on residential, commercial, and other end-users of natural gas.

To express the sense of Congress that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should refrain from further processing restructuring proceedings pursuant to Order No. 636 until 60 days after the submission to Congress of the General Accounting Office's study of the economic impacts of the order on residential, commercial, and other end-users of natural gas, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1993

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should refrain from further processing restructuring proceedings pursuant to a specified Order until 60 days after submission to the Congress of a General Accounting Office study of the economic impacts of such Order upon end-users of natural gas.

Department of Energy National Competitiveness Technology Partnership Act of 1993

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1993

Department of Energy National Competitiveness Technology Partnership Act of 1993 - Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to authorize the Secretary of Energy and the directors of departmental laboratories (laboratories operated by or on behalf of the Department of Energy (DOE) or facilities that would be considered to be laboratories under the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980) to enter into any partnership that will enhance the economic, scientific, or technological competitiveness of U.S. industry. Directs the Secretary to develop a multi-year critical technology strategy for each critical technology listed in the National Critical Technologies Report. Authorizes the Secretary and the directors of departmental laboratories to enter into partnerships that build on the core competencies of the laboratories to conduct research, development, demonstration, or commercial application activities in areas listed in the Report or in energy efficiency or supply, high-performance computing, the environment, human health, advanced manufacturing technologies, advanced materials, transportation, space, or quality technologies, or technologies listed in the annual defense critical technologies plan. Requires the Secretary to establish a: (1) Laboratory Partnership Advisory Board within DOE; and (2) program to encourage scientists and engineers from departmental laboratories to serve in the research facilities of governments, educational institutions, and industrial organizations in the United States and foreign countries. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on opportunities for minority colleges and universities to participate in DOE or departmental laboratory programs. Requires the Secretary to establish a career path program to recruit employees of the national laboratories to serve in DOE positions. Amends the Federal criminal code and the Federal Procurement Policy Act to make certain post-employment restrictions inapplicable with respect to the national laboratories. Amends the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 to provide for cost-shared projects involving DOE or DOE laboratories and non-Federal entities to test and apply high-performance computing and high-speed networking technologies. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to solicit contract proposals for the deployment of a commercial uranium enrichment plant using the Atomic Vapor Laser Isotope Separation technology. Increases the number of DOE Under Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries. Authorizes appropriations.

Providing amounts from the contingent fund of the House for the expenses of investigations and studies by certain committees of the House in the first session of the One Hundred Third Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1993

Makes available from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives certain amounts for investigations and studies by the Joint Committee on the Organization of the Congress and the following House committees in the first session of the 103d Congress: Agriculture; Armed Services; Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; District of Columbia; Education and Labor; Energy and Commerce; Foreign Affairs; Government Operations; House Administration; Intelligence; Judiciary; Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Natural Resources; Post Office and Civil Service; Public Works and Transportation; Rules; Science, Space, and Technology; Small Business; Standards of Official Conduct; Veterans' Affairs; and Ways and Means. Limits the funds that may be used for procurement of consultant services and specialized training for professional staff. Directs the Committee on House Administration, through the House Information Systems, to develop, operate, and improve computer and information services for the House of Representatives.