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Bill· HRH.R. 375 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides that, under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Federal Government shall pay 75 percent of the cost of construction of any publicly owned water treatment works begun on or after July 1, 1972, which meets the requirements of such Act as determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Bill· HRH.R. 282 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Allows a tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for the taxable year of $10 for each ton of post-consumer waste paper processed in the United States by the taxpayer during the taxable year into new commercially marketable pulp, paper, paperboard or other similar products.
Bill· HRH.R. 75 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
National Environmental Policy Institute Act - Authorizes the creation of a nonprofit corporation to be named the National Environmental Policy Institute. States that duties of the Institute include: (1) the development and analysis of long-term policy alternatives for dealing with environmental problems; (2) making available advice and information developed by the Institute; and (3) identifying and exploring areas where additional environmental research and data collection is needed to deal with emerging and potential problems. Provides for a nine-member Board of Directors, and specifies the composition of such Board. Directs the Board to appoint a President. States that the Institute shall have the powers conferred upon a nonprofit corporation by the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act. Authorizes the Institute to obtain grants and accept voluntary services from specified sources. Authorizes to be appropriated for the expenses of the Institute for each of the fiscal years 1976 through 1980 the sum of $10,000,000. Provides for annual audit of the accounts of the Institute. Requires the Institute to submit an annual report to the President and the Congress.
Bill· HRH.R. 35 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Environmental Research Centers Act - Allows the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide financial assistance to enable any State, if such State does not participate in a regional environmental research center. Establishes prerequisites for the designation of such State environmental research centers. Allows the Administrator to provide financial assistance to enable two or more States, if none of such States has an environmental research center, to establish and operate a regional environmental research center. Establishes prequistes for the designation of such regional centers. Establishes eligibility requirements for enviromental research centers. Declares that the functions of each State and regional environmental center shall include: (1) the planning and implementing of research, investigations, and experiments relating to the study and resolution of environmental pollution, natural resource management, and other local, State, and regional environmental problems and opportunities: (2) the training of environmental professionals through such research, investigations, and experiments, which training may include, but is not limited to, biological, ecological, geographic, geological, engineering, economic, legal, energy resoruce, natural resource and land use planning social, recreational, and other aspects of environmental problems. Authorizes $7,000,000 for fiscal year 1975: $3,8000,000 for fiscal year 1976: and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 to be disbursed in equal shares to the environmental centers, except that each regional center shall receive a number of shares equal to the number of states participating in such regional center. Authorizes $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977 to be allocated to the environmental centers on a proportional basis determined by population, land area, severity of the environmental problems in the areas served by the centers, the presence of areas of high environmental importance, and the ability and willingness of such centers to address themselves to such problems. Establishes the Environmental Research Centers Research Coordination Board for the purpose of assisting the Administrator with the development and operation of the program. Requires the Governor of each State having a State environmental research center, and the Governor of States participating in each regional environmental center, to appoint an advisory board to advise such centers of the efforts of Federal, State, and local governments and private industry relating to the protection and enhancement of the environment. Requires the Administrator to report, on or before January 1, of each year to the President and to Congress regarding the receipts and expenditures and works of all State and regional environmental centers.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 49 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
States that the House of Representatives disapproves proposed deferral of budget authority numbered D75-9, relating to construction of waste treatment plants, as transmitted to the Congress in the President's message of September 23, 1974.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 54 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Establishes a standing Committee on the Environment in the House of Representatives, to consist of twenty-five members. States that all proposed legislation and other matters pertaining to the quality of the physical environment of the United States and its possessions shall be referred to the Committee.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 22 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Establishes a standing House Committee on the Environment, to consist of twenty-five members of the House of Representatives. Grants the committee jurisdiction over 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) a acoustic problems.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 8 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Makes it the sense of Congress that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency should not administer the provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to enforcement measures against pollution of interstate or navigable waters so as to establish any system of priorities which provides for the reimbursement of construction costs of water pollution control facilities built after June 30, 1966, prior to reimbursement of construction costs of such facilities built between June 30, 1956, and June 30, 1966.