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United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1993
American Technology Advancement Act of 1993 - Obligates specified 1993 Department of Energy funds for nonmilitary technology assistance, including environmental research, to DOE national laboratories.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1993
Deficit Reduction Through Superconducting Super Collider Termination Act of 1993 - Terminates funding for the Superconducting Super Collider Program.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1993
Expresses the sense of the Senate that neither the President nor the Congress should impose fees, levies, or diversion requirements on imported crude oil and refined petroleum products.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1993
Authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, upon the licensee's request, to extend the time required for commencement of a certain hydroelectric project for a maximum of two consecutive two-year periods in the State of Oregon.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1993
Tennessee Valley Authority Power Privatization Act of 1993 - Directs the President to develop and transmit to the Congress a plan for transferring, by sale or otherwise, all real property, facilities, and equipment of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to appropriate public and private entities. Requires such plan to provide for transfer of: (1) TVA power generation facilities and equipment; (2) National Fertilizer and Environmental Research Center facilities and equipment; (3) TVA's jurisdictional authority over real property; and (4) TVA functions unrelated to power generation to appropriate Federal departments and agencies. Terminates the TVA after the completion of such transfers.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1993
Provides amounts for expenses of investigations and studies by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in the first session of the 103d Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Energy Independence Incentives Title II: Infrastructure Incentives Title III: Investment Incentives Energy Independence, Infrastructure, and Investment Act of 1993 - Title I: Energy Independence Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on the first sale within the United States of any crude oil or refined petroleum product imported into the United States. (The tax is imposed on first use if no prior tax has been imposed.) Exempts crude oil and refined petroleum products purchased for export. Title II: Infrastructure Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the percentage depletion for stripper wells. Repeals the net income limitation on percentage depletion for oil and gas properties. Establishes a crude oil and natural gas exploration and development tax credit. Allows a ten percent credit for qualified investments exceeding $1 million, 20 percent for those of $1 million or less. Permits the credit as an offset against both minimum tax liability and regular liability. Requires any deduction allowed for costs taken into account in computing such credit to be reduced by the amount of the credit attributable to such costs. Establishes a marginal production income tax credit for producers who maintain economically unproductive oil wells. Applies the credit to domestic crude that is: (1) from stripper well property; (2) heavy oil; or (3) oil recovered through a tertiary recovery method. Expands the enhanced oil recovery tax credit to apply to the advanced secondary recovery costs of independent producers. Increases the required production of barrels of oil or natural gas per day for stripper wells. Title III: Investment Incentives - Treats certain geological and geophysical costs and surface casing costs as intangible drilling and development costs that a taxpayer may elect to amortize or to deduct for income tax purposes. Makes depreciation adjustments in computing such income inapplicable to environmental improvement assets.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1993
Omnibus Committee Funding Resolution for 1993 and 1994 - Authorizes expenditures by the following Senate committees and a joint committee from March 1, 1993, through September 30, 1994, and for the period March 1, 1994, through February 28, 1995: (1) Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; (2) Appropriations; (3) Armed Services; (4) Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; (5) Budget; (6) Commerce, Science, and Transportation; (7) Energy and Natural Resources; (8) Environment and Public Works; (9) Finance; (10) Foreign Relations; (11) Governmental Affairs; (12) Judiciary; (13) Labor and Human Resources; (14) Rules and Administration; (15) Small Business; (16) Veterans' Affairs; (17) Aging; (18) Intelligence; (19) Indian Affairs; and (20) Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress. Authorizes the transfer of any unexpended balance of any committee to a special reserve to assist such committee during the transition to a biennial budget. Earmarks a minimum amount to be reserved for each Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1993
Emergency Climate Stabilization and Earth Regeneration Act of 1992 - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to establish a process through which the Congress and the President shall cooperate in a national and international program to: (1) reduce heat, drought, famine, tornadoes, and forest fires and to decrease the freezing extremes, snow buildup, flooding, cloud cover, and storms in the winter; (2) regenerate the earth through reforestation, soil and ocean remineralization, conservation, and alternative energy technology development; (3) maximize food and agricultural security; and (4) create a secure, environmentally sustainable way of life consistent with long-term climate stabilization. Sets forth specific ways to achieve reduction of carbon dioxide. Directs the President to provide for a climatic stabilization program and for information development and processing centers to process data concerning world climatic conditions. Directs the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate to take steps to establish a Joint Committee on Climate Stabilization. Establishes a Council on Climate Stabilization and Earth Regeneration as an independent Federal agency. Requires the President to provide for a unified crisis management operation to minimize damage from, and to maintain agricultural and industrial production under, changing atmospheric conditions that cause natural disasters. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a corporate tax surcharge. Terminates such tax for tax years after December 31, 1996. Establishes a Climate Stabilization Trust Fund to be composed of the amount of corporate tax surcharges received in the Treasury. Makes the Fund available to carry out this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1993
Bomb-Grade Uranium Export Substitution Act of 1993 - Authorizes appropriations for the Reduced Enrichment Research and Test Reactors Program for fuel development and technical assistance for FY 1994 through 1998.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1993
Terminates Federal funding for the superconducting super collider project.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1993
Buy-American Investment Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an incremental investment credit in an amount equal to ten percent of the excess of the aggregate bases of qualified investment credit properties placed in service over 80 percent of the base amount. Excludes: (1) property if completed outside the United States or if less than 75 percent of the basis of the property is attributable to value added within the United States; and (2) passenger automobiles and office furnishings. Establishes formulas for determining the base amount. Makes the incremental investment credit inapplicable to any property to which the energy or rehabilitation credit would apply unless the taxpayer waives the application of such credits. Establishes special rules for the incremental investment credit in relation to limitations based on the amount of tax. Applies such limitations and provisions concerning carryback and carryforward of unused credits separately, in the case of a C corporation: (1) first with respect to the credit allowed as is not attributable to the incremental investment credit; and (2) then with respect to such credit. Limits the credit, in lieu of current limitations, to the net chapter 1 tax.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1993
Soil and Water Protection Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Soil Conservation Service, to establish a Federal energy conservation grant program.
United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Energy Independence Incentives Title II: Infrastructure Incentives Title III: Investment Incentives Energy Independence, Infrastructure, and Investment Act of 1993 - Title I: Energy Independence Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on the first sale within the United States of any crude oil or refined petroleum product imported into the United States. (The tax is imposed on first use if no prior tax has been imposed.) Exempts crude oil and refined petroleum products purchased for export. Title II: Infrastructure Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the percentage depletion for stripper wells. Repeals the net income limitation on percentage depletion for oil and gas properties. Establishes a crude oil and natural gas exploration and development tax credit. Allows a ten percent credit for qualified investments exceeding $1 million, 20 percent for those of $1 million or less. Permits the credit as an offset against both minimum tax liability and regular liability. Requires any deduction allowed for costs taken into account in computing such credit to be reduced by the amount of the credit attributable to such costs. Establishes a marginal production income tax credit for producers who maintain economically unproductive oil wells. Applies the credit to domestic crude that is: (1) from stripper well property; (2) heavy oil; or (3) oil recovered through a tertiary recovery method. Expands the enhanced oil recovery tax credit to apply to the advanced secondary recovery costs of independent producers. Increases the required production of barrels of oil or natural gas per day for stripper wells. Title III: Investment Incentives - Treats certain geological and geophysical costs and surface casing costs as intangible drilling and development costs that a taxpayer may elect to amortize or to deduct for income tax purposes. Makes depreciation adjustments in computing such income inapplicable to environmental improvement assets.
United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate the ten-percent investment tax credit with respect to property placed in service during 1992, 1993, or 1994, and make the at-risk rules inapplicable to such property. Requires the computation of the rehabilitation credit, energy credit, and reforestation credit as in effect on the day before enactment of this Act. Makes the investment tax credit applicable to certain projects entered into after December 31, 1994.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 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). 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. 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.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1993
Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Expansion and Fossil Forest Protection Act - Amends the San Juan Wilderness Protection Act of 1984 to incorporate additional lands in New Mexico into the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness. Withdraws such lands from all forms of appropriation under the mining laws and from disposition under laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing and mineral material sales. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to follow specified coal lease exchange procedures under the Code of Federal Regulations on any coal preference right lease application on such lands if the applicant demonstrates that coal exists in commercial quantities on such lands. Provides for the exchange of State and Navajo Indian lands located in the wilderness for other lands. Establishes the Fossil Forest Research Natural Area within New Mexico. Makes such area subject to the same withdrawal requirements and coal preference rights as the wilderness area designated under this Act. Prohibits livestock grazing in the Area. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, to develop a baseline inventory of all categories of fossil resources and to conduct monitoring surveys. Requires the Secretary to submit a management plan for the Area to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to include: (1) a plan for the implementation of a cooperative program with other agencies for laboratory and field interpretation and public education; (2) provisions for vehicle management; (3) procedures for the excavation and collection of fossil remains; and (4) mitigation and reclamation standards for activities that disturb the surface to the detriment of scenic and environmental values.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1993
Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in order to promote development and new production on a producing or nonproducing lease or to encourage production of marginal or uneconomic resources on such a lease, to reduce or suspend any royalty or net profit share set forth in the lease. Provides that no royalty payment shall be due on new production from any lease located in water depths of 200 meters or greater in the Western and Central Planning Areas of the Gulf of Mexico until the capital costs directly related to such production have been recovered by the lessee out of the proceeds from production.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies Subtitle A: Farmers Home Administration Subtitle B: Rural Electrification Administration Subtitle C: Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization Title II: Interior Title III: Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development Title IV: Commerce, Justice, and State Rural Jobs and Investment Act of 1993 - Title I: Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies - Subtitle A: Farmers Home Administration - Makes supplemental FY 1993 appropriations for: (1) rural housing loans; (2) rural housing repair loans; (3) rural rental housing loans; (4) rural rental multifamily housing loans; (5) rural water and sewer facility loans; (6) community facility loans; (7) the rural development loans program account; (8) rural water and waste disposal grants; (9) very low-income housing repair grants; (10) supervisory and technical assistance grants; (11) rural housing preservation grants; (12) rural development grants; and (13) local technical assistance grants. Subtitle B: Rural Electrification Administration - Provides supplemental FY 1993 appropriations for insured rural electrification loans. Subtitle C: Alternative Agricultural Research and Commercialization - Provides supplemental FY 1993 appropriations for alternative agricultural research and commercialization. Title II: Interior - Makes supplemental FY 1993 appropriations for Department of Energy programs of: (1) low-income weatherization assistance; and (2) institutional energy conservation and the State energy conservation programs. Title III: Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development - Provides supplemental FY 1993 appropriations for: (1) community development grants; (2) water treatment works; and (3) State water pollution control revolving funds. Title IV: Commerce, Justice, and State - Provides supplemental FY 1993 appropriations for the Small Business Administration microloan demonstration program.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1993
Expresses the sense of the Senate that neither the President nor the Congress should impose import fees on the importation of crude oil or refined petroleum products.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1993
Energy Security Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on the first sale within the United States of imports of: (1) crude oil; (2) refined petroleum products; and (3) petrochemical feedstocks or petrochemical derivatives.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1993
Energy Extension Fair Share Act of 1993 - Amends the National Energy Extension Service Act to provide for the use of population figures in the latest available estimates prepared by the Department of Commerce (currently, provided by the most recent decennial census) for the calculation of the apportionment of State energy extension service funds.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1993
Florida Coastal Protection Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from conducting any preleasing activity or holding any lease sale under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act in the South Atlantic Planning Area off the coast of Florida, the Straits of Florida Planning Area, and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. Cancels specific existing leases off the Florida coast and requires compensation to lessees after the filing of a report on analysis of the cancelled leases. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1993
Energy Extension Fair Share Act of 1993 - Amends the National Energy Extension Service Act to provide for the use of population figures provided by the latest available estimates prepared by the Department of Commerce (currently, provided by the most recent decennial census) for the calculation of the apportionment of State energy extension service funds.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1993
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for energy conservation expenditures by an electric or gas utility during a taxable year in connection with its trade or business, as long as the rates for the sale of such electricity or natural gas have been approved by the appropriate governing body.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1993
Casa Malpais National Historical Park Establishment Act of 1993 - Establishes the Casa Malpais National Historical Park in Arizona as a unit of the National Park System, to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior and the town of Springerville, Arizona. Directs the Secretary to submit a plan for the protection, preservation, interpretation, development, and maintenance of the site to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance to Springerville for the site's management; (2) make grants to the town for annual costs of operation and maintenance; (3) enter into cooperative agreements for the management and interpretation of the Park; and (4) participate in, and provide technical assistance for, land use planning for lands adjacent to the Park. Directs the Secretary to submit a general management plan for the Park to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Establishes the Casa Malpais National Historical Park Advisory Commission. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1993
Energy Security Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on the first sale within the United States of imports of: (1) crude oil; (2) refined petroleum products; and (3) petrochemical feedstocks or petrochemical derivatives.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1993
Authorizes expenditures by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for the 103d Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Energy Price and Supply Information Act of 1993 - Directs the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy to conduct and publish weekly surveys on a national, State, and PADD (Petroleum Administration Defense District) basis during each winter season with respect to: (1) home heating fuel; (2) natural gas; and (3) automotive fuel. Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish on such bases recommended adequate inventory levels for home heating fuel, natural gas, and automotive fuel. Requires the Secretary to: (1) notify the Congress, the President, and State energy offices before October 1 of each year whether such inventory levels will be met for the winter heating season; and (2) recommend legislative and administrative actions necessary to restore inadequate inventories if they fall below recommended levels. Requires the Secretary to study and report on the effect of interruptible natural gas contracts on the demand and supply of home heating fuel during the 1989-1990 winter heating season.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Directs the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to implement the Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Program consistent with the provisions of this Act. Establishes the environmental sciences review panel for certain areas of the Outer Continental Shelf off-shore Florida in order to assess the adequacy of oceanographic, ecological, and socio-economic information available with respect to authorizing leasing and exploration, development, and production activities. Sets limitations with respect to preleasing activities and lease sales within such areas, including specific points in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Planning Area. Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to: (1) include within certain required environmental studies an assessment of the adequacy of available physical oceanographic, ecological, and socioeconomic information; and (2) provide that certain lessee compensation may be a combination of currency and forgiveness of debts due on other leases.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1993
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from either conducting any lease sales, or issuing any new leases in any area of the outer continental shelf off the State of Florida, between the seaward lateral boundary between Florida and Alabama and the seaward lateral boundary between Florida and Georgia. Sets forth a moratorium period. Requires the Secretary to: (1) undertake specified environmental or oceanographic studies; (2) initiate cancellation of all leases within a specified area; and (3) report annually to the Congress on the status of such cancellations. Provides that: (1) compensation for such leases shall be paid out of the Treasury; and (2) the State of Florida shall incur no cost or other liability as a consequence of such lease cancellations. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Elevation of the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet Level Title II: Environmental Role of the United States in International Organizations to Which it Belongs Title III: Establishment of the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection Title IV: Effective Date Department of the Environment Act of 1993- Title I: Elevation of the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet Level - Department of the Environment Act - Redesignates the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the Department of the Environment. Encourages the Secretary of the Environment to: (1) assist the Secretary of State in participating in international environmental protection agreements and organizations; (2) conduct research on and develop responses to international environmental problems; and (3) provide assistance to foreign countries and international bodies to improve the environment. Establishes a Bureau of Environmental Statistics and an Advisory Council on Environmental Statistics. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes grants to, and contracts with, State and local governments to assist in data collection. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for a report on the adequacy of the Department's data collection procedures and capabilities. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth conflict-of-interest disclosure requirements for persons entering into arrangements for services with the Secretary. Requires public notice when the award of a contract may result in a conflict of interests. Title II: Environmental Role of the United States in International Organizations to Which It Belongs - Urges the Secretary of State to convene international conferences to encourage the exchange of information on energy efficiency and environmentally acceptable renewable energy sources. Requires the President to encourage the establishment of an international office to monitor annual generation of carbon dioxide and trace gases on a country-by-country basis. Title III: Establishment of the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection - Establishes the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection to make recommendations on the implementation of Federal environmental laws to protect human health and the environment. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the investment tax credit in connection with depreciable solar energy property and geothermal property against the taxpayer's entire regular tax liability and minimum tax liability.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Appoints Senator Krueger to serve as a member of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Appoints Senator Conrad to the Senate Committee on Finance in lieu of his appointment to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Amends rule XXV of the Standing Rules of the Senate to revise current committee structure by designating the following standing committees of the Senate: (1) National Priorities; (2) Agricultural Policy; (3) Defense Policy; (4) Commercial Policy; (5) Economic Policy; (6) Energy Policy; (7) Environmental Policy; (8) Foreign Policy; (9) Governmental Policy; (10) Judicial Policy; (11) Social Policy; (12) Native American Programs; (13) Senior American Programs; (14) Veteran American Programs; and (15) Entrepreneurial American Programs. Maintains the committees on Rules, Ethics, and Intelligence. Sets forth procedures for making committee assignments. Provides that each standing committee shall be responsible for appropriations legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1993
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to make prospective the rules on recognition of precontribution gain in the case of certain distributions to a contributing partner. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that such gain be subject to tax without netting or precondition losses. Imposes an interest charge on any deferred tax liability.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1993
Designates minority party membership on the following Senate Committees: (1) Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; (2) Appropriations; (3) Armed Services; (4) Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; (5) Commerce, Science, and Transportation; (6) Energy and Natural Resources; (7) Environment and Public Works; (8) Finance; (9) Foreign Relations; (10) Governmental Affairs; (11) Judiciary; and (12) Labor and Human Resources.
United States · United States Congress · 7 January 1993
Designates majority party membership on the following Senate Committees: (1) Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; (2) Appropriations; (3) Armed Services; (4) Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; (5) Commerce, Science, and Transportation; (6) Energy and Natural Resources; (7) Environment and Public Works; (8) Finance; (9) Foreign Relations; (10) Governmental Affairs; (11) Judiciary; and (12) Labor and Human Resources.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from engaging in any oil or gas leasing or preleasing activity (including the approval of exploration, development, or production plans) for a ten-year moratorium period for specified areas off the New Jersey coast.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Makes certain protections under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, regarding the placing of restrictions on water resources construction projects licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, applicable to a segment of the North Fork of the Payette River in Idaho.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Geothermal Energy Control Act of 1993 - Establishes the National Geothermal Energy Commission. Requires the Commission to determine and publish in the Federal Register a list of those areas in the United States which have a potential for the extraction of geothermal resources. Directs the Commission to grant exclusive 99-year licenses to persons capable of carrying out exploration and development of geothermal resources in such areas. Permits a licensee under this Act to apply for a license to market the geothermal resources from the licensee's area in their natural state. Requires the Commission to grant a marketing license for the most reasonable geographic area to successfully market geothermal resources. Limits marketing licenses to one per geographic area. Provides that a marketing license shall be valid for as long as the licensee holds the exploration and development license. Permits the transfer of exploration, development, and marketing licenses with the Commission's approval. Requires that a licensee under this Act be a U.S. citizen or a person owned or controlled by a U.S. citizen. Restricts the sale of geothermal resources which have been converted to electrical or other energy forms to existing utility companies or other persons licensed to transmit such energy. Permits the sale of geothermal resources to such a company or person for conversion into other energy forms.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations to carry out certain economic development programs for FY 1993. Amends the Small Business Act to increase the program levels of the Small Business Administration for FY 1993. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the targeted jobs credit for every individual hired within one year after the date of enactment of this Act. Increases the amount of such credit. Excludes from gross income distributions from individual retirement accounts used to purchase or refinance a principal residence. Exempts such distributions from the penalty tax on early distributions from retirement plans. Provides for the delay or suspension of obligations for certain defense, foreign assistance, space, and energy research programs.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to change from discretionary to mandatory the Secretary of the Interior's authority to cancel a lease or permit within such lands in specified circumstances. Revises the condition that the Secretary must determine that continued activity would probably cause serious harm or damage. States that lease or permit cancellation shall occur if the activity has resulted in or poses a threat of serious harm or damage and that the environmental or other resources harmed or placed at risk are of substantial value. Prohibits the cancellation of a lease or permit unless its operation has been suspended or temporarily prohibited by the Secretary or the Congress. (Current law provides for suspension by the Secretary alone.) Decreases the due extension of such suspended lease term from five years to one. Allows the compensation for a cancelled lease to be made in the form of currency, forgiveness of the lessee's obligation to pay rents or royalties on another issued lease, or against bonus payments for future lease purchases. Changes the administrative procedure for processing comments received from a Governor modifying a proposed Outer Continental Shelf leasing program that affects his or her State. Requires the national interest of lands within the Outer Continental Shelf to be determined by application of a balancing process that gives equal weight to obtaining oil and gas supplies and to protection of the environment. Directs the Secretary to accept a Governor's recommendation providing a reasonable balance between the national interest and the well-being of the citizens of such affected State, unless found to be based on a material error of fact or arbitrary or capricious. Sets requirements for peer review and publication deadlines for certain environmental studies.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act with respect to storage of civilian spent nuclear fuel to: (1) require the Secretary of Energy to notify the affected State and Indian tribe of any decision to provide storage capacity at any site located within their respective jurisdiction; and (2) authorize such entities to disapprove that decision. (Currently, such notification and disapproval guidelines apply only to storage capacity of specified minimum tonnage.) Expedites from three years to one year mandatory removal of such fuel from the interim storage facility. Applies the notice and disapproval guidelines to contracts or obligations in effect before January 7, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Amends the Federal Power Act to prohibit the granting of a Federal license for a hydroelectric project unless the applicant complies with all substantive and procedural requirements of the affected State in which the project is located with respect to water acquisition and use. Declares that the Act shall not be construed to constitute a preemption or intent to preempt procedural and substantive State law regarding water rights or water use.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Elevation of the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet Level Title II: Environmental Role of the United States in International Organizations to Which it Belongs Title III: Establishment of the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection Title IV: Effective Date Department of the Environment Act of 1993- Title I: Elevation of the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet Level - Department of the Environment Act - Redesignates the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the Department of the Environment. Encourages the Secretary of the Environment to: (1) assist the Secretary of State in participating in international environmental protection agreements and organizations; (2) conduct research on and develop responses to international environmental problems; and (3) provide assistance to foreign countries and international bodies to improve the environment. Establishes a Bureau of Environmental Statistics and an Advisory Council on Environmental Statistics. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes grants to, and contracts with, State and local governments to assist in data collection. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for a report on the adequacy of the Department's data collection procedures and capabilities. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth conflict-of-interest disclosure requirements for persons entering into arrangements for services with the Secretary. Requires public notice when the award of a contract may result in a conflict of interests. Title II: Environmental Role of the United States in International Organizations to Which It Belongs - Urges the Secretary of State to convene international conferences to encourage the exchange of information on energy efficiency and environmentally acceptable renewable energy sources. Requires the President to encourage the establishment of an international office to monitor annual generation of carbon dioxide and trace gases on a country-by-country basis. Title III: Establishment of the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection - Establishes the Commission on Improving Environmental Protection to make recommendations on the implementation of Federal environmental laws to protect human health and the environment. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Revenue Provisions Title II: Income Security and Human Resource Amendments Subtitle A: Amendments Relating to Old-Age, Survivors, and Disabilty Insurance Program Subtitle B: Human Resources Provisions Title III: Tariff and Customs Technical Corrections Act of 1993 - Title I: Revenue Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make technical corrections to amendments made by the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1990 (title XI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990) with respect to: (1) individual income tax provisions; (2) excise taxes; (3) certain revenue increases; (4) the extension of certain expiring tax provisions; (5) energy incentives; (6) small business incentives; and (7) the repeal of expired or obsolete provisions. Makes technical corrections to amendments made by title XII (Pensions) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 concerning: (1) treatment of hedge bond rules; (2) treatment of dispositions of U.S. real property interests; (3) treatment of passive activity credits; (4) certain foreign provisions; (5) certain bond-financed facilities; (6) Medicare entitlements; (7) real estate mortgage investment conduits; (8) veterans' reemployment rights; (9) harbor maintenance tax; and (10) regulated investment companies. Title II: Income Security and Human Resource Amendments - Subtitle A: Amendments Relating to Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program - Makes technical corrections to the Social Security Act and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 relating to the Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program (OASDI). Eliminates certain dollar rounding requirements with respect to OASDI benefits, the earnings test exemption, and adjustments to the health insurance tax contribution base. Subtitle B: Human Resources Provisions - Makes technical corrections to the Social Security Act, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 to make technical corrections related to income security and human resources provisions. Title III: Tariff and Customs - Makes technical amendments to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, the Customs and Trade Act of 1990, the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, the Andean Preference Act, and the Tariff Act of 1930.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Defense Nuclear Workers' Health Insurance Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a health insurance program for certain former employees of Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities exposed to ionizing radiation for certain cancer health care expenses incurred above $25,000.
United States · United States Congress · 5 January 1993
Public Housing Energy Conservation Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to: (1) establish public housing energy conservation performance standards; and (2) revise public housing construction cost limits to reflect structural life-cycle costs and major heating and cooling systems. Requires public housing development and rehabilitation programs begun one year after enactment of this Act to incorporate such standards. Directs the Secretary to provide financial assistance to the Chicago Housing Authority in Illinois to implement public housing energy conservation measures.