Records whose title is actually about this topic. Use a country filter if the list is still too broad.
Records
Bill· HRH.R. 3076 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Safe pesticides Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct a comprehensive study and investigation of the use and effects of pesticides on man and other animals, on other life forms, and on man's environment. Requires such study to give special consideration to: (1) the necessity and desirability of using pesticides; (2) the advisability of permanently prohibiting the use of certain pesticides or classes of pesticides; (3) the effectiveness of existing Federal regulation on pesticides; (4) the length of time that pesticides continue to remain in effect in man's environment after application; and (5) laws and regulations of other countries relating to the use of pesticides and international consequences of such laws and regulations, or the absence thereof. Directs the Secretary in such study to seek the assistance and cooperation of the Secretary of the Interior. Requires the Secretary to submit a report to the President and the Congress with recommendations. Transfers to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare all powers, duties, and functions of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to the adminsitration of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. Makes it unlawful for any persons to ship or deliver for shipment to any foreign country any economic poison if the government of such country has indicated in writing to the Secretary that such country prohibits the import of such economic poison and the Secretary has published a notice to that effect in the Federal Register. Provides under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, for a period of five years following the effective date of this section, it shall be unlawful for any person to distribute, sell, or offer for sale in any territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or to ship or deliver for shipment from any State, territory, the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or to deliver for shipment from any State, territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or to receive in any State, territory, the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from any place outside therof the economic poison dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, dieldrin, aldrin, endrin, heptachlor, toxaphene, chlordane, and lindane. Makes this Act effective one hundred and fifty days after the date of enactment.
Bill· HRH.R. 3027 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Authorizes an investigation and study by the National Academy of Sciences of coastal hazards from offshore drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Atlantic Ocean. Authorizes appropriations of $500,000 annually for the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted, and for the succeeding fiscal year, in order to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2921 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Creates in the Executive Office of the President a Council on Energy Policy. Requires the Council to develop a long range, comprehensive plan for energy utilization, and to provide assistance to any executive agency concerned with energy and power in the United States. Sets forth the administrative powers and functions of the Council. Provides for an annual Energy Report by the President to the Congress, including: (1) an estimate of energy needs for the ensuing ten year period; (2) an estimate of the domestic and foreign energy supply on which the United States will be expected to rely to meet such needs in an economical manner; (3) current and foreseeable trends in the quality, management, and utilization of energy resources; and (4) recommendations for the development and application of new technologics and practices required to meet these objectives. Authorizes to be appropriated $300,000 for fiscal year 1974, $750,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $1,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter for purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2920 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Creates in the Executive Office of the President a Council on Energy Policy. Requires the Council to develop a long range, comprehensive plan for energy utilization, and to provide assistance to any executive agency concerned with energy and power in the United States. Sets forth the administrative powers and functions of the Council. Provides for an annual Energy Report by the President to the Congress, including: (1) an estimate of energy needs for the ensuing ten year period; (2) an estimate of the domestic and foreign energy supply on which the United States will be expected to rely to meet such needs in an economical manner; (3) current and foreseeable trends in the quality, management, and utilization of energy resources; and (4) recommendations for the development and application of new technologics and practices required to meet these objectives. Authorizes to be appropriated $300,000 for fiscal year 1974, $750,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $1,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter for purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2883 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Provides that no person shall manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale, or introduce or deliver for introduction in interstate commerce any nonreturnable container of glass, plastic, or metal or any combination thereof, with respect to which no reasonable refundable money deposit is required from the consumer for use in packaging or marketing any beverage for human consumption. Provides that whoever violates this Act shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
Bill· HRH.R. 2785 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Noise Disclosure Act - Forbids manufacturers to transport in, sell in, or introduce in interstate commerce or to import any new machinery unless disclosure of such machine's operational noise level is made or such machinery is exempted. Permits the Administrator to prescribe regulations exempting machinery whose operational noise level is negligible; which is incorporated in machinery already subject to disclosure; and which is newly imported and disclosure will be made prior to sale. Requires any new machinery to which is not exempted to have permanently affixed to the outside thereof a plate or label which discloses the operational noise level of such machinery; and to have affixed to any container in which it is sold a label disclosing such noise level. Requires the Administrator to prescribe regulations establishing standard procedures for measuring the operational noise level of each class of machinery. Permits reasonable inspection of the areas of a factory of or warehouse where the operational noise level of machinery is measured. Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for violation of this Act. Permits any person to commence a civil action against an alleged violation of this Act or against the Administrator for failure to perform any act or duty.
Bill· HRH.R. 2804 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Allows a tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code equal to fifty percent of any amount paid during the taxable year for the purchase or installation of any marine sanitation device which complies with the regulations of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Makes this deduction applicable only to amounts paid after the date of enactment, or after the date on which the Federal Water Pollution Control Act's regulations are promulgated, whichever is later. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 219)
Bill· HRH.R. 2784 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Noise Abatement and Control Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish within the Agency an Office of Noise Abatement and Control, pursuant to the Noise Pollution and Abatement Act of 1970. Directs the Office to coordinate the efforts of the Federal Government that relate to noise control, abatement, and prevention. Requires all instrumentalities, agencies, and departments of the Federal Government to furnish the Office with such information as it may require to this end. Directs each such entity of the Federal Government to carry out the program within its control in accordance with the purposes of this Act. Prescribes that, in any case where a level of Federal Government is carrying out or sponsoring an activity resulting in noise which the head of the office determines amounts to a public nuisance or is otherwise objectionable, such Federal entity must consult with the head of the Office to determine possible means of abating the offending noise. Requires the Office to compile and publish a regular report as to the efforts and activities of the Federal Government and its instrumentalities, agencies, and departments in regard to noise. Directs the Office to submit to the Congress, in July of each year, a report concerning its activities. Authorizes the Office to make grants to States, counties, municipalities, and regional governmental bodies, commissions, and councils for the purposes of developing, establishing, and carrying out programs of noise control and for research into the causes and effects of noise and new techniques of controlling, preventing, and abating noise. Authorizes to be appropriated for these grants $5 million for fiscal year ending June 30, 1973; $10 million for fiscal year 1974; $15 million for fiscal year 1975; $20 million for fiscal year 1976; and $25 million for fiscal year 1977. Authorizes the head of the Office to make grants to any public or nonprofit private agency, organization, or institution, or engage by contract the services of any such agency, organization, institution, or of any individual to conduct research into noise pollution; to provide training of professional and technical personnel in noise control techniques, methods, and approaches; and to establish and conduct demonstration projects relating to noise control. Authorizes to be appropriated for these grants $5 million for fiscal year 1973; $7 million for fiscal year 1974; $10 million for fiscal year 1975; $12 million for fiscal year 1976 and fiscal year 1977. Establishes, for the purpose of advising the head of the Office on matters bearing on his responsibilities under this title, a Noise Control Advisory Council of nine individuals skilled in fields relating to the matters to be considered by the Office. Requires the Council, once each fiscal year, to submit to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and to the Congress a report containing full and complete information on its work. Directs the Office of Noise Abatement and Control to prescribe standards for any machine, or class of machinery, which he determines contributes to, or may contribute to, noise which endangers, or contributes to endangering, the public health and welfare, and sets forth enforcement powers. Authorizes suits by private citizens or groups against the noise polluter and the head of the Office, if the head of the Office fails to take action against a violator within 60 days. Provides that such suits may be brought without regard to the amount in controversy or citizenship of the parties.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 245 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Establishes a Joint Congressional Committee on the Environment to consist of eleven Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker and eleven Members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate. Gives the Committee the duty: (1) to conduct a continuing comprehensive study and review of the character and extent of environmental changes that may occur in the future and their effect on population, communities, and industries, including but not limited to the effects of such changes on the need for public and private planning and investment in housing, water resources (including oceanography), pollution control, food supplies, education, automation affecting interstate commerce, fish and wildlife, forestry, mining, communications, transportation, power supplies, welfare, and other services and facilities; (2) to study methods of using all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster, promote, create, and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans; (3) to develop policies that would encourage maximum private investment in means of improving environmental quality; and (4) to review any recommendations made by the President (including the environmental quality report required to be submitted pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) relating to environmental policy. Grants the Committee necessary powers to carry out the objectives of this Act, and requires a final report to the House of Representatives and the Senate on the studies and projects undertaken by the Committee. Authorizes necessary appropriations to enable the committee to carry out its functions under this Act.
Bill· SS. 498 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Extends for one year the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency under the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $76,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 for such purposes. Authorizes to be appropriated $140,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 for grants for resource recovery systems and improved solid waste disposal facilities. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior $22,500,000 for fiscal year 1974 to carry out his functions under the Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of the Clean Air Act $300,000,000 for fiscal year 1974.
Bill· HRH.R. 2729 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law or any other regulation, no State shall receive a lesser allocation of water pollution control funds in fiscal year 1973 or fiscal year 1974 than it received in fiscal year 1972.
Bill· HRH.R. 2727 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the rural environmental assistance program pursuant to the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 590h(b))
Bill· HRH.R. 2677 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to provide for participation by the Federal Government with State and local governments, private individuals, and other interested persons in a comprehensive program to prevent further damage to the lands, waters, and natural resources of the Nation from unregulated or inadequately regulated surface and underground coal mining operations, to stabilize lands damaged by surface coal mining, to promote an effective continuing conservation land-use and management program for the coal mining industry, and to assist any worker adversely affected by this Act. Provides that this Act shall be administered by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Provides that each coal mining operation, the products of which enter interstate commerce, or the operations or products of which indirectly or directly affect interstate commerce, and each operator of such mining operation, shall be subject to this Act. Title I: Environmental Protection Coal Mining Limitation - Provides that no surface coal mining shall hereafter be conducted in any area of the national wildlife refuge system, the national park system, or the national forest system. States that no underground coal mining shall be permitted in any designated wilderness area or in any area under study as a wilderness area. Provides that no operator shall begin or renew any surface coal mining operation in any State on or after the effective date of this Act. States that no operator shall conduct contour surface coal mining operations in any State on and after the effective date of this Act. Provides that any operator who, on the effective date of this Act, is actively carrying out surface coal mining operations, other than contour surface coal mining, may continue to do so as provided in this Act if such operator obtains a permit under this title within six months after such date, and if the Administrator determines that such mining is not in violation of, or will not result in any violation of, any provision of the Clean Air Act, and does not cause, or will not result in, irrevocable or lasting injury to the public health or welfare, or damaging, flooding, or destruction of agricultural land, or dislocation or disturbance of surface or subsurface streams, or destruction of, or damange to, historic values, or destruction or damage to valuable recreational or wildlife areas, or destruction or damage of contiguous areas. States that, within two months after the effective date of this Act, no operator shall engage in surface or underground coal mining operations if he has not applied for a permit under the provisions of this Act. Sets forth the requirements for obtaining such permits. Provides that no permit application shall be approved unless the Administrator finds that the applicable requirements of this title and the rules and regulations adopted thereunder will be observed, and that, in the case of a surface coal mining application, there is probable cause to believe that the stabilization of the area of affected land can be achieved. Provides that a stabilization plan shall accompany every application for a permit for surface coal mining and be made available to the public and be approved in the same manner as a permit. Provides that after a permit application has been approved for surface coal mining but before such a permit is issued, the applicant shall file with the Administrator a bond for performance payable to the United States and conditioned on the operator faithfully performing all the requirements of this Act. Creates in the Department of the Treasury a revolving fund to be known as the Coal Mine Lands Stabilization Fund. Authorizes to be appropriated to the fund initially the sum of $100,000,000, and such other sums as may thereafter be appropriated by the Congress. Provides that moneys in the fund may be expended by the Chief of the Corps of Engineers to acquire by purchase, donation, exchange, or otherwise land which has been affected by surface coal mining operations, has not been fully stabilized prior to the effective date of this Act, and has been abandoned or is declared inactive as determined by him. Authorizes the Chief of the Corps of Engineers to stabilize directly or by contract the lands so acquired. Provides for renewal of licenses issued under this Act. Requires every surface coal mining operator to stabilize the land affected by his mining. Sets forth the required standards for such stabilization. Restricts dumping and the use of explosives on operations authorized under this Act. Requires each mining operator to report to the Administrator on the amount of coal produced, the number of employees, the days worked, the number and location of acres of land mined, number and location of acres of the land stabilized, and a description of the progress made toward the completion of the reclamation plan. Sets forth conditions for the release of bonds filed under this Act. Provides for the periodic inspection of operations authorized under this Act. Allows any person to commence a civil action on his own behalf: (1) against any person, including the United States, and any other governmental instrumentality or agency, who is alleged to be in violation of this title; or (2) against the Administrator and the Chief of the Corps of Engineers where there is alleged a failure of the Administrator or the Chief to perform any act or duty under this title which is not discretionary with the Administrator or the Chief. Provides that no Federal agency may enter into any contract for the procurement of goods, materials, and services with any operator who is convicted of any offense under this title to perform such contract at any coal mining operation at which the violation which gave rise to such conviction occurred. States that no person shall discharge or in any other way discriminate against or cause to be discharged or discriminated against any employee of a surface mine or any authorized representative thereof by reason of the fact that such employee or representative has: (1) notified the Administrator or his authorized representative of any alleged violation or danger, (2) has filed instituted, or caused to be filed, or (2) instituted, any proceeding under this Act, or (3) testified or is about to testify in any proceeding resulting from the administration or enforcement of the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Attorney General to apply to the appropriate United States district court for injunctions restraining or enforcing compliance with the provisions of this title. Authorizes actions for damages (including attorney fees) by persons injured by violations of this title. Provides for a civil penalty of not to exceed $10,000 for each violation of this title. Prohibits States from enacting mining standards that are less stringent than those established by this Act. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out this title. Title II: Assistance to Workers - Provides that payment of a readjustment allowance shall be made to a worker adversely affected by this Act who applies for such allowance for any week of unemployment which begins after the thirtieth day after the date of the enactment of this Act. Provides that such allowance shall be an amount equal to 90 percent of his average weekly wage or to 90 percent of the average weekly manufacturing wage, whichever is greater. Provides for a diminishing of such allowance to the extent that it is supplied through other provisions of law. States that adversely affected workers shall be afforded, where appropriate, the testing, counseling, training, and placement services provided for under any Federal law. Provides for a relocation allowance for any adversely affected worker who is the head of a family and who has been totally separated. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this title.
Bill· HRH.R. 2587 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
Allows Consumer Pollution Control Tax Credit Act - Allows a tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for homewowners, apartment owners, small businessmen, and car owners who purchase and install certified pollution control devices. Limits the tax credit to 25 percent of all amounts paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year to acquire or install any certified pollution control device. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 40)
Bill· HRH.R. 2596 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
Makes it unlawful to package carbonated and/or malt beverages in one way containers which have been manufactured for sale, sold, offered for sale, or introduced or delivered for introduction in interstate commerce. Imposes a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 for violations of this Act. Provides that each container violating this Act shall constitute a separate violation. Allows a tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code for equipment necessary for the conversion to the manufacture of returnable containers.
Law· SS. 433 (93rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Safe Drinking Water Act - Provides that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, after consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, shall issue proposed regulations prescribing national primary and secondary drinking water standards within 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act. Restricts the authority of the Administrator to prescribe the addition of any substance to water systems other than for the purpose of treating contaminants. Requires the Administrator to review the adequacy of any national primary or secondary drinking water standards issued under this Act every three years. Establishes, within the Environmental Protection Agency, a National Drinking Water Council consisting of fifteen scientifically qualified members. Provides that the Council shall advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Administrator on matters relating to the scientific review of data relating to the activities of the Agency under this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to render financial, technical, and other assistance to public agencies, institutions, water supply utilities, and individuals in the conduct of research and investigations relating to contaminants in drinking water or to the provision of adequate supplies of safe drinking water. Authorizes the Administrator to finance any project or activity which is designed: (1) to develop, expand, or carry out a program for training persons for occupations involving the management and operation of drinking water systems; and (2) to train instructors to teach such programs. Authorizes appropriations of $14,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $23,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $31,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Provides that the Administrator shall (after consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and the several States) conduct a survey of the quantity, quality, and availability of rural drinking water supplies. States that such survey shall be completed within two years after the date of enactment of this Act and a final report submitted, not less than six months after the completion of such survey, to the President for transmittal to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations of $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for such survey. Provides for special study and demonstration grants for the purposes of: (1) demonstrating new or improved methods of providing safe drinking water to the urban and rural areas of the nations; and (2) investigating the health implications of recycling waste waters for drinking and related uses. States that such grants shall not exceed 66 2/3 percent of the construction costs and 75 percent of other costs as determined by the Administrator. Authorizes appropriations of $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Authorizes appropriations of $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $21,300,000 for fiscal year 1976 for grants to States to assist them in establishing and maintaining adequate programs to assure the safety of public drinking water. Provides that such grants shall not exceed 66 2/3 percent of the cost of any such State program. Sets forth provisions which a State plan for such program shall contain to qualify for grants under this Act. Grants the States primary enforcement responsibility with respect to standards established under this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to issue regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides for judicial review of such regulations. States that nothing in this Act shall affect the authority of any State or local governmental unit to establish drinking water standards, except that such standards shall not be less stringent than the requirements of this Act. Specifies activities which are prohibited under this Act. Sets forth penalties for any such violations. Authorizes any person to commence a civil action for injunctive relief under this Act. Makes the provisions of the Act applicable to Federal facilities. Authorizes the Administrator to waive compliance with the requirements of this Act upon receiving information from the Secretary of Defense or from the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating that such waiver is in the interest of national security. Authorizes appropriations not to exceed $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $11,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $13,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for the purposes and administration of this Act.
Bill· SS. 426 (93rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Toxic Substances Control Act - Presents the finding of the Congress that man and the environment are being exposed to many chemical substances each year, that many of the chemical substances being developed and produced pose unreasonable threats to the environment, and that the effective regulation of interstate commerce in chemical substances necesitates regulation in intrastate commerce. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to require manufacturers and processors of chemical substances to monitor their products and to furnish the results of such monitoring to the Administrator. Requires the Administrator, within one year of enactment of this Act, to propose regulations specifying test protocols for various classes and uses of chemical substances and for the results that must be achieved to protect health and the environment. Requires any manufacturer of a new chemical substance, which is subject to the regulations promulgated under this Act, to submit test results for the intended uses of the substances at least 90 days in advance of the commercial production of that substance. Authorizes the Administrator to require testing of existing chemical substances when he has reason to believe that the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, or disposal of that substance poses an unreasonable threat to human health or the environment. Authorizes the district courts of the United States, upon the petition of the Administrator or the Attorney General, to restrain the uses or distribution of the chemical substance responsible for an imminent hazard. Provides that the court order may require that stocks of such substances be recalled by the manufacturer from wholesalers, retailers, and other distributors. Provides that an imminent hazard will be considered to exist when there is sufficent evidence to show that the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, or disposal of a chemical substance will result in serious damage to human health or the environment prior to the completion of a formal proceeding held pursuant to this Act. Authorizes the seizure of those chemical substances which the Administrator finds are manufactured, processed, distributed, used, or disposed of in violation of regulations under this Act and of themselves constitue an imminent hazard. Provides that the seizure shall be accomplished by condemnation in any district court of the United States within whose jurisdiction such chemical substances is found. Authorizes the Administrator to require reports of manufacturers to enable him to be aware of the chemical substances in use so that he can adequately discharge his function under this Act. Provides that reports be required indicating the names and identity of chemical substances produced, the categories of use, the amounts of each substance produced, and a description of the by-products of each chemical substance. Authorizes the Administrator to exempt manufacturers or processors from all or any part of the reporting requirement if the reports were not necessary for the Administrator to carry out his functions under this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to publish a notice in the Federal Register inviting written comment on the human health and environmental effects of a chemical substance, whenever he determines that such action would be necessary. Establishes a Chemical Substances Board to give scientific advice to the Environmental Protection Agency in carrying out its functions under this Act. Provides that the Board, consisting of 12 members will be drawn from a list of individuals recommended to the Administrator by the National Academy of Sciences. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to appoint one member of the Board from whatever source he desires. Provides that the Board shall consist of qualified scientists not more than one-third of which could have a significant economic interest in the chemical industry. Directs the National Academy of Sciences, in consultation with the Board, to maintain a list of qualified scientists to assist the Administrator in carrying out the provisions of this Act and to act as consultants to the Chemical Substances Board. Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct such research and monitoring as necessary to carry out his functions under this Act. Specifies acts which are prohibited by this title. Provides civil and criminal penalties for violations of such prohibited acts. Authorizes the Administrator to issue regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary, but not to exceed $6,300,000, $10,400,000, and $9,600,000 for the fiscal years ending on June 30, 1974, June 30, 1975, and June 30, 1976, respectively, for the purposes and administration of this Act. Provides that no part of the funds so authorized to be appropriated shall be used to plan, design, or construct any research laboratories unless specifically authorized by the Congress by law.
Bill· SS. 459 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the rural environmental assistance program pursuant to the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 590h(b))
Bill· HRH.R. 2494 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Prohibits the discharge into any of the navigable waters of the United States or into international waters of any military material or other refuse without a certification by the Environmental Protection Agency approving such discharge.
Bill· HRH.R. 2493 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Authorizes the Adminstrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Secretary of the Army to establish standards applicable to the deposit or discharge into the ocean, coastal, and other waters of the United States of all industrial wastes and other materials harmful to the wildlife (resources) or ecology of these waters. Requires any person before depositing or discharging such materials to present sufficient evidence that such materials will not endanger the natural environment and ecology of these waters. Requires such adopted standards to be adopted and enforced by Federal and State agencies, etc. that issue licenses or permits for any activity in the coastal waters. Requires State standards with repsect to the activity covered by a promulgated Federal standard must be more stringent than the Federal standard and provide adequate procedures for enforcement. Requires Federal and State agencies, etc. and other specified individuals to maintain records, make reports, and provide such information the Administrator may require to establish standards and to determine compliance with such standards. Gives U.S. district courts jurisdiction to restrain violations of this Act. Makes violators of any standard (civilly) liable for not more than $10,000 nor less than $5,000 for each violation, and each day shall be considered a separate offense in cases of continuing violations. Terminates all licenses, permits, and authorizations issued by any U.S. employee under authority of any other provision of law upon the effective date of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2461 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides that no person shall manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale, or introduce or deliver for introduction in interstate commerce any nonreturnable container of glass, plastic, or metal or any combination thereof, with respect to which no reasonable refundable money deposit is required from the consumer for use in packaging or marketing any beverage for human consumption. Provides that whoever violates this Act shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
Bill· HRH.R. 2294 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides that, prior to making any detailed statement or proposals for legislation significantly affecting the quality of the environment, the responsible Federal official shall consult with and obtain the comments of any Federal agency which has jurisdiction by law or special expertise with respect to any environmental impact involved. Requires copies of such statement and all comments and views of the appropriate Federal agencies, which are authorized to develop and enforce environmental standards, to be made available to the President, the Council on Environmental Quality, and to the public. Directs the responsible Federal official to notify, consult with, request comments from, and seek recommendations from the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Secretary of the Interior, the Council on Environmental Quality, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, any Federal agency which has jurisdiction by law or special expertise with respect to any environmental impact involved, and the Governor and appropriate State and local officers or agencies of any State which will be affected by such action no later than one hundred and twenty days prior to the commencement of such action. States that at least sixty days prior to the commencement of such action copies of the detailed impact statement, including all comments and recommendations received, shall be made available to the President, the Council on Environmental Quality, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the public. Requires any recommendations received under the preceding sentence which are intended to minimize the impact on or enhance the quality of the environment of fish and wildlife of the United States, shall be adopted and implemented by the responsible Federal official.
Bill· HRH.R. 2290 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides that, notwithstanding the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or any other provision of law, whenever the Secretary of the Interior determines, after consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, that the use of any insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, or pesticide results in the pollution of any of the navigable waters of the United States so as to constitute a substantial threat to man or to fish and wildlife resources living in or using such water, he is authorized to restrict or prohibit the use of such insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, or pesticide so as to prevent such pollution. States that such restrictions or probititions shall be for such periods and under such terms and conditions as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe.
Bill· HRH.R. 2287 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to undertake, after consultation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, comprehensive continuing studies on the effects of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides, upon the fish and wildlife resources of the United States, for the purpose of determining the amounts, percentages and formulations of such chemicals that are lethal to or injurious to fish and wildlife and the amounts, percentages, mixtures, or formulations that can be used safely, and thereby prevent losses of fish and wildlife from such spraying, dusting, or other treatment. Requires the Secretary, on the basis of such studies, to transmit to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency information as to how, in the use of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other pesticides, injury to fish and wildlife can be prevented or minimized. Authorizes to be appropriated $3,500,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974, 1975, and 1976 in order to carry out the provision's set forth in the first paragraph of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions set forth in the second paragraph of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2241 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law or any other regulation, no State shall receive a lesser allocation of water pollution control funds in fiscal year 1973 or fiscal year 1974 than it received in fiscal year 1972.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 140 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Establishes a Committee on Environment in the House of Representatives, consisting of 25 members. Provides that such Committee shall deal with all measures relating to the quality of the physical environment of the United States and its possessions, including: (1) water quality; (2) air quality; (3) weather modification; (4) waste disposal and management; (5) pesticides and herbicides; and (6) acoustic problems.
Bill· SS. 388 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1973
Provides that funds appropriated by Congress to carry out the rural environmental assistance program under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act shall not be impounded or otherwise withheld from obligation or expenditure, by any officer or employee of the United States. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 590f)
Bill· HRH.R. 2107 (93rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to make payments or grants of other aid to agricultural producers, including tenants and sharecroppers, in an aggregate amount equal to the sums appropriated therefor during the year with respect to which such payments or grants are made for agricultural conservation programs. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 590h (b))
Bill· HRH.R. 2161 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
States that the regulations relating to control of air pollution from aircraft and aircraft engines proposed by the Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency and published in the Federal Register of December 12, 1972 (37 F.R. 26488-26500) shall have the force and effect of law. Advances the effective date of the following regulations from January 1, 1976, to January 1, 1975: (1) standards for exhaust emissions from new aircraft gas turbine engines in specified classes; (2) standards for exhaust emissions of smoke from in-use aircraft gas turbine engines of class T2 and T3; (3) standards for exhaust emissions resulting from the generations of onboard power from new gas turbine aircraft; and (4) standards for exhaust emissions from in-use aircraft resulting from generation of onboard power. Advances the effective date of the following regulations from January 1, 1979, to July 1, 1977: (1) crankcase emission standards for new class P1 aircraft piston engines; (2) standards for exhaust emissions from new and in-use aircraft piston engines; and (3) standards for exhaust emissions resulting from the generation of onboard power from each new gas turbine aircraft.
Bill· HRH.R. 2184 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Allows a tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code for specified percentages of the amounts paid during the taxable year by the taxpayer to purchase recycled solid waste materials for manufacture by the taxpayer into useful raw materials or salable products. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, by regulation and after a hearing, to disallow such deduction with respect to any solid waste material if the Administrator finds that such deduction is not required to alleviate the depletion of any virgin natural resource. Allows every taxpayer, at his election in lieu of any depreciation deduction, to deduct the amortized basis of any solid waste recycling facility based on a period of 60 months. Provides that the taxpayer may, at any time after making such election, discontinue the amortization deduction with respect to the remainder of the amortization. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 189, 190)
Bill· HRH.R. 2129 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Detergent Pollution Control Act - Enumerates various congressional findings and declarations relating to pollution and synthetic detergents. Makes it unlawful after June 30, 1974, for any person to import into the United States or manufacture in the United States or manufacture in the U.S. any detergent containing phosphorus. Provides that any such detergent shall be liable to be proceeded against on libel of information and condemned in any district court in the United States within the jurisdiction of which such detergent is found. Provides that any detergent condemned under this Act shall, after entry of a decree, be disposed of by destruction or sale as the court may in accordance with the provisions of this Act, direct and the proceeds thereof, if sold, less the legal costs and charges, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to deliver to the Secretary of the Interior upon his request, samples of detergents which are being imported or offered for import into the United States, giving notice thereof to the owner or consignee, who may appear before the Secretary and have the right to introduce testimony. Provides that if it appears from the examination of such samples or otherwise that such detergent contains phosphorus, such detergent shall be refused admission and destroyed, unless it is exported. Provides that pending decision as to the admission of a detergent being imported or offered for import, the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize delivery of such detegent to the owner or consignee upon the execution by him of a good and sufficient bond providing for the payment of such liquidated damages in the event of default as may be required pursuant to regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish standards of water eutrophication ability, biodegradability, toxicity, and of effects on the public health and welfare which must be met by all synthetic detergents. Provides that the Secretary of the Interior shall, on or before June 30, 1973, prescribe and publish in the Federal Register, such standards and rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the policy of this Act. Provides that any person who violates such rules and regulations shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be subject for the first offense to a fine of not more than $5,000 and for any subsequent offense to a fine of not more than $20,000. Provides Federal assistances for the development and manufacture of detergent that are free of phosphorus and directs the Secretary to inventory and report existing technology on substitutes for polyphosphates in detergents, and other technology relating to the development of pollution free detergents.
Bill· HRH.R. 2128 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Prohibits the Secretary of the Army or any other officer of the United States from dumping or permitting the dumping of the spoil from any dredging operation, or any other earth, garbage, or refuse material into any navigable water unless the Secretary of the Interior shall first determine that to do so will not result in the pollution of such water. (Amends 33 U.S.C. 419)
Bill· HRH.R. 2042 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Clean Air Amendments - Provides that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall commence an immediate inquiry into the availability of low-polluting fuels used for nonautomotive industrial and domestic purposes. Directs the Administrator to report the results of his inquiry to Congress by June 30, 1974. Specifies that the report shall contain accurate and detailed information regarding: (1) the location and ownership of low-polluting fuels, both foreign and domestic; (2) the costs of transporting these fuels; (3) the factors which may inhibit the exploitation and availability of these fuels; (4) the sums of money which have been expended since January 1, 1960, and the results obtained by persons in the fuels industry and persons using large quantities of fuels to reduce air contaminants and to develop pollution control devices for facilities using fuels; and (5) the Administrator's recommendations concerning the legislative, administrative and executive steps necessary to achieve a coordinated national fuels policy. Authorizes an appropriation of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 for carrying out such provisions. Directs the Administrator to publish in the Federal Register a list of categories of stationary sources, which are buildings or installations emitting any substantial amounts of an air polluting agent so as to endanger the public health or welfare. Directs the Administrator to subject those sources and any new sources to performance standards. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations establishing a procedure for certification of compliance with any promulgated standard of performance. Asserts that such procedure shall include: (1) provisions for preconstruction review of the locations and design of any new source; (2) provisions for performance tests after commencement of operation of any new source; (3) methods to identify and abate violations of such standards of performance; and (4) methods to insure that any certified new source shall not prevent implementation of national ambient air quality standards promulgated under these provisions. Allows States to develop and submit to the Administrator a procedure for certification and provides that, if such State procedure is equal to the requirements set forth in these provisions, certification authority may be delegated to the States. Makes it unlawful for: (1) any owner or operator to operate any new source without certification; (2) any owner or operator of any certified new source to operate such source in violation of any standard of performance applicable to such source; or (3) any owner or operator to fail or refuse to permit access to, or copying of, records or to fail to make reports, or to fail to install monitoring equipment or methods, or provide information required under these provisions. Grants the United States district courts jurisdiction over actions to restrain violations. Requires the Administrator to commence the testing of all types of propulsion systems for motor vehicles other than the internal combustion engine to determine which has the most satisfactory emission characteristics. Provides that if the Administrator determines that a propulsion system other than the internal combustion engine has emission characteristics superior to the internal combustion enegine, he will set standards based on such characteristics. Allows the States to enforce more stringent emission standards for motor vehicles or for the use of fuel additives than are set forth by the Administrator. Empowers the Administrator to bring suit to abate any severe air pollution and to submit a plan for abatement as part of the suit.
Bill· HRH.R. 2049 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law or any other regulation, no State shall receive a lesser allocation of water pollution control funds in fiscal year 1973 or fiscal year 1974 than it received in fiscal year 1972.
Bill· HRH.R. 2045 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Directs all Federal agencies to include in every recommendation or report on proposals for environmental quality, a detailed statement on: (1) the environmental impact of the proposed action; (2) adverse enviornmental effects which cannot be avoided; (3) alternative proposals; (4) the relationship between local short-term uses of man's environment and the maintenance and enhancement of long term productivity; and (5) any irreversible commitments of resources involved in implementation of any proposed action. Provides that copies should go to the Council on Environmental Quality, the public, and other interested Federal agencies. Directs the Council on Environmental Quality, upon learning about agency plans which would affect the environment, to require a written statement from the agency setting forth nature of the proposal and to issue orders halting the project to give the Council time to analyze the statement. Allows the Council to return these statements for revision and to continue the halt on the project until analysis of the improved statement is complete.
Bill· HRH.R. 2011 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law or any other regulation, no State shall receive a lesser allocation of water pollution control funds in fiscal year 1973 or fiscal year 1974 than it received in fiscal year 1972.
Bill· HRH.R. 1974 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the rural environmental assistance program pursuant to the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 590h(b))
Bill· HRH.R. 2040 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Natural and Human Resources Restoration and Conservation Act - Declares that the Congress finds: (1) there is a growing backlog of necessary and essential work which must be performed if the quality of the nation's national forests, parks, recreation areas, game refugees and public lands, and Indian Reservations are to be maintained and improved; (2) tasks which must be performed include reforestation, fire prevention, protection against floods and soil erosion, disease control, pollution abatement, trail construction, road maintenance and improvement, and development of recreational facilities. Provides that the Congress reaffirms that the national policy of full employment declared in the Employment Act of 1946 continues to be a fundamentally sound and socially enlightened national policy, and that it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments, to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining, in a manner calculated to foster and promote free competitive enterprise and the general welfare, conditions under which there will be afforded useful employment opportunities, including self-employment, for those able, willing and seeking to work, and to promote maximum employment, production and purchasing power. Establishes the National Environmental Services Corps. Makes the Secretary of the Interior responsible for management and administration of the Corps program. Directs the Secretary in carrying out his duties to consult with the heads of other agencies and departments of the Federal Government and directs all agencies of the Federal Government to cooperate with and to assist the Secretary in the development and administration of the Corps program. Authorizes appropriations of $250,000,000 annually for the establishment and administration of the permanent Corps program and such sums as are necessary to enlarge the Corps and meet employment conditions. Provides for national, regional and subregional offices. Authorizes the Corps to expand: (1) by 100,000 Corps members when the Secretary determines that the rate of national unemployment (seasonally adjusted) equals or exceeds 4-1/2 percent for three consecutive months prior to such determination; (2) by 50,000 Corps members for each increment of one-half of 1 percent by which the Secretary determines that the average rate of national unemployment (seasonally adjusted) for three consecutive months prior to any such determination exceeds the rate specified in clause (1); and (3) without regard to the determinations required by clauses (1) and (2), by up to 200,000 Corps members of work in regions of the country categorized as areas of "substantial unemployment," "persistent unemployment," or "concentrated unemployment or underemployment" in the Department of Labor's monthly Bulletin on "Area Trends in Employment and Unemployment". Requires the funds made available to the Secretary for the employment of Corps members shall, insofar as possible, be apportioned on an equitable basis among States and within each State among local areas, including Indian Reservations and to the extent practicable, such funds and employment opportunities shall be apportioned on the basis of: (1) relative numbers of unemployed; (2) severity of unemployment in each area; and (3) relative need of the area for intensified management, development and conservation of lands under Federal jurisdiction. Directs the Secretary, after consultation with the heads of other Federal land and resource management agencies, to: (1) determine the areas under Federal jurisdiction which are appropriate for carrying out programs using employees of the Corps; (2) determine the rates of pay, hours, and other conditions of employment in the Corps; (3) provide for such transportation, lodging, subsistence, and other services and equipment as he may deem necessary or appropriate for the needs of members of the Corps in their duties; (4) promulgate regulations to insure the safety, health, and welfare of the Corps members; and (5) advise every participant in the Corps programs, prior to entering upon employment, of his rights and benefits in connection with such employment. Provides that in expanding the Corps to meet national resource and environmental management goals and to provide new employment opportunities, the Secretary shall first determine that the Corps program: (1) will result in an increase in employment opportunities over those which would otherwise be available; (2) will not result in the displacement of currently employed workers (including partial displacement such as reduction employment benefits); (3) will not impair existing contracts for services or result in the substitution of Federal or other funds in connection with work that would otherwise be performed; and (4) will not substitute Corps jobs for existing federally assisted jobs. Permits any person who is unemployed and who wants and is available for work and who is physically able to perform the available jobs to be eligible for employment in the National Environmental Services Corps. Provides that any person who is underemployed in that their present employment is not providing sufficient income to enable such persons and their families to be self-supporting without welfare assistance shall also be eligible for employment in the Corps. Provides that in the administration of this Act the Secretary shall make every effort to provide training and other assistance to temporary members of the Corps provided employment, which will enable them to obtain permanent private or public employment and that when the rate of national or area unemployment declines below the standards the Secretary shall make maximum efforts to locate permanent employment or training opportunities not supported under this Act for each Corps member temporarily employed under this Act, and shall gradually phase out the temporary Corps program on an area-by-area basis as is warranted by improved local employment oportunities and the accomplishment of the resource and environmental improvement program on the Federal lands in that area. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe necessary regulations and requires an annual report to the Congress.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 194 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Establishes a Joint Congressional Committee on the Environment to consist of eleven Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker and eleven Members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate. Gives the Committee the duty: (1) to conduct a continuing comprehensive study and review of the character and extent of environmental changes that may occur in the future and their effect on population, communities, and industries, including but not limited to the effects of such changes on the need for public and private planning and investment in housing, water resources (including oceanography), pollution control, food supplies, education, automation affecting interstate commerce, fish and wildlife, forestry, mining, communications, transportation, power supplies, welfare, and other services and facilities; (2) to study methods of using all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster, promote, create, and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans; (3) to develop policies that would encourage maximum private investment in means of improving environmental quality; and (4) to review any recommendations made by the President (including the environmental quality report required to be submitted pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) relating to environmental policy. Grants the Committee necessary powers to carry out the objectives of this Act, and requires a final report to the House of Representatives and the Senate on the studies and projects undertaken by the Committee. Authorizes necessary appropriations to enable the committee to carry out its functions under this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 1810 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of the General Services Administration to insure the procurement and use by the Federal Government of products manufactrued from recycled materials. Requires the Secretary and Administrator to make an annual report to the Congress with regard to Federal departments and agencies progress in carrying out the objectives of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 1812 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Requires the use of at least 50 percent recycled paper in the printing of the Congressional Record. (Adds 44 U.S.C. 911)
Bill· HRH.R. 1757 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
States that any person who violates any regulation to control emissions in the District of Columbia of substances into the atmosphere or to protect and improve air quality in the District of Columbia, shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned for no longer than one year, or both. Provides that where such violation is a continuing one, each day of such violation shall constitute a separate offense.
Bill· HRH.R. 1796 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Requires the Secretary of the Army to terminate licenses and permits relating to the disposition of waste materials in the waters of the New York Bight or in any other waters within a 25 mile radius of the Ambrose Lighthouse. Provides for an investigation of the methods and costs of restoring such waters to their condition prior to the discharges terminated under this Act. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 4341-4347)
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 178 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Establishes a Joint Congressional Committee on the Environment to consist of eleven Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker and eleven Members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate. Gives the Committee the duty: (1) to conduct a continuing comprehensive study and review of the character and extent of environmental changes that may occur in the future and their effect on population, communities, and industries, including but not limited to the effects of such changes on the need for public and private planning and investment in housing, water resources (including oceanography), pollution control, food supplies, education, automation affecting interstate commerce, fish and wildlife, forestry, mining, communications, transportation, power supplies, welfare, and other services and facilities; (2) to study methods of using all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster, promote, create, and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans; (3) to develop policies that would encourage maximum private investment in means of improving environmental quality; and (4) to review any recommendations made by the President (including the environmental quality report required to be submitted pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) relating to environmental policy. Grants the Committee necessary powers to carry out the objectives of this Act, and requires a final report to the House of Representatives and the Senate on the studies and projects undertaken by the Committee. Authorizes necessary appropriations to enable the committee to carry out its functions under this Act.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 173 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Establishes a Joint Congressional Committee on the Environment to consist of eleven Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker and eleven Members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate. Gives the Committee the duty: (1) to conduct a continuing comprehensive study and review of the character and extent of environmental changes that may occur in the future and their effect on population, communities, and industries, including but not limited to the effects of such changes on the need for public and private planning and investment in housing, water resources (including oceanography), pollution control, food supplies, education, automation affecting interstate commerce, fish and wildlife, forestry, mining, communications, transportation, power supplies, welfare, and other services and facilities; (2) to study methods of using all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster, promote, create, and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans; (3) to develop policies that would encourage maximum private investment in means of improving environmental quality; and (4) to review any recommendations made by the President (including the environmental quality report required to be submitted pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) relating to environmental policy. Grants the Committee necessary powers to carry out the objectives of this Act, and requires a final report to the House of Representatives and the Senate on the studies and projects undertaken by the Committee. Authorizes necessary appropriations to enable the committee to carry out its functions under this Act.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 116 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Government should seek the agreement of other governments to a proposed treaty prohibiting the use of any environmental or geophysical modification activity as a weapon of war, or the carrying out of any research or experimentation with respect thereto. Sets forth the articles and terms of a proposed Treaty.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 77 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the cooperative agreements recently entered into in Moscow marks a historic turning point in relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, and that the value goes well beyond the tangible scientific and technical benefits they should confer. States the hope of the Congress that both the United States and the Soviet Union will move to implement these accords with commitment and dispatch.
Bill· HRH.R. 1603 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Title I: Mined Area Protection Act - Asserts that mining operations are essential activities affecting interstate commerce which contribute to the economic well-being, security and general welfare of the Nation. Provides that it is the purpose of this Act to encourage a nationwide effort to regulate mining operations to prevent or substantially reduce their adverse environmental effects and to assist the States in carrying out programs for those purposes. Title II: Environmental Regulations for Mining Operations - Provides that each State may submit to the Secretary of the Interior for review and approval or disapproval in accordance with this title State environmental regulations for mining operations on all lands within such State, except for federally owned land or land held in trust for Indians. Establishes criteria that, in the Secretary's judgement, such regulations must be in compliance with. Provides that the criteria set forth in this Act shall be further elaborated by the Secretary through guidelines which will be issued within thirty days after the enactment of this Act. Establishes an Advisory Committee, composed of representatives from the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Appalachian Regional Commission and such other representatives as the Secretary may designate to assist the Secretary in developing guidelines under this title. Asserts that the Secretary may withdraw his approval of such regulations if he determines that the State has failed to enforce the regulations adequately or has otherwise failed to comply with the purposes of this Act. Requires the Secretary to promptly issue environmental regulations for mining operations in a State if at the expiration of two years after the date of enactment of this Act such State has failed to submit such regulations. Provides for the expiration of Federal regulations if the State subsequently submits regulations which are approved by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to make such inspections and investigations of mining operations and mining areas as he considers necessary to evaluate the administration and enforcement of any State's regulations. States that at the request of the Secretary, the Attorney General may institute a civil action in a district court of the United States to prevent the operator of a mining operation from engaging in violations under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to order cessation of a person's mining operations if such person fails to comply with any Federal regulations issued under this title within fifteen days after notice of such failure and such person shall be liable to a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 for each day of continuance of such violation after a fifteen day period. Prescribes a fine up to $10,000 and/or 1 year imprisonment for willful violations of regulations under this title. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct or promote research or training programs to carry out the purposes of this title. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to any State for the purposes of assisting such State in developing, administering, and enforcing environmental regulations under this title. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Title III: Permits the heads of all Federal departments or agencies which have jurisdiction over land on which mining operations are permitted to promulgate environmental regulations to govern such mining operations. Requires such regulations to ensure at least the same degree of protection as is required by any approved State program. Provides that each Federal department and agency shall cooperate with the Secretary and the States to the greatest extent practicable in carrying out the provisions of this Act. Title IV: Defines 'water pollution activities' as: (1) the pollution of interstate waters, navigable waters of the United States, and ground waters, (2) the pollution of the waters of the contiguous zone of the United States that causes or is likely to cause pollution of the territorial sea of the United States, and (3) the pollution of the waters of the high seas beyond the territorial sea of the United States through discharges which are transferred from or originated in areas over which the United States has sovereignty. Asserts that State and interstate action to abate pollution of the waters mentioned in this title shall be encouraged in waters over which the States have jurisdiction. Provides for the adoption of water quality criteria and plans for the implementation and enforcement of this Act. Provides that if within sixty days from the date of publication of such regulations the State has not adopted water quality standards the Secretary shall promulgate such standards. Requires the Secretary to promulgate regulations for waters for which the States do not have jurisdiction after a conference with appropriate interested parties. Authorizes the Secretary to request the Attorney General to bring a suit on behalf of the United States to secure abetement of any water pollution activity if the alleged polluter fails to take remedial action within 180 days after the Secretary has issued notice of such violation. Provides that before the Secretary shall take such action he shall have called a public hearing within 21 days after the alleged polluter, the water pollution control agency, and the interstate agency of the State or States where the pollution originated have been notified. Authorizes the Secretary to recommend to the appropriate agency or agencies that they require the alleged polluter to take remedial action as determined by the Secretary. Provides that if such action does not occur the Secretary may request the Attorney General to bring a suit on behalf of the United States to secure performance of such action. Authorizes the Secretary to request the Attorney General to institute a suit to enjoin immediately any further discharges causing pollution if he determines that such a pollution source is presenting an imminent and substantial danger to the health and welfare of any person or persons or may cause irreparable damage to the environment or water quality. Provides a penalty for the failure to file any report required by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to call a conference of such agency or agencies or foreign countries affected by the water pollution activities in waters described in this title. Asserts that following such conference the Secretary shall prepare and forward to all parties attending a summary of conference discussions.
Bill· HRH.R. 1583 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Creates an Office of Water Disposal Research and Development in the Department of the Interior which shall conduct research into the practical uses of sewage sludge, chemical wastes, dredging spoils and other similar substances. States that such uses shall be developed by January 1, 1978. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to submit a final report to Congress by such date. (Adds 33 U.S.C. 1155(o))
Bill· HRH.R. 1499 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that any capital expenditures incurred to connect a sewage line from the residence of a taxpayer to a municipal sewage system shall be considered to have been a depreciable capital expenditure incurred with respect to property held for the production of income. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 167)