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Austria · National Council · 4 July 1996
Bericht des Umweltausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (4 d.B.): Übereinkommen über die Zusammenarbeit zum Schutz und zur verträglichen Nutzung der Donau (Donauschutzübereinkommen) samt Anlagen und Erklärung
Austria · National Council · 4 July 1996
Bericht des Umweltausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (99 d.B.): Briefwechsel betreffend die Auflösung der Vereinbarung zwischen der Republik Österreich und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland gemäß Art. 11 des Basler Übereinkommens über die Kontrolle der grenzüberschreitenden Verbringung gefährlicher Abfälle und ihrer Entsorgung
Austria · National Council · 4 July 1996
Bericht des Umweltausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (149 d.B.): Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz geändert wird (EU-Novelle 1996 zum AWG)
Austria · National Council · 4 July 1996
Bericht des Umweltausschusses über den Antrag 23/A(E) der Abgeordneten Mag. Thomas Barmüller und Genossen betreffend Reduktion des Flottenverbrauchs
Austria · National Council · 4 July 1996
Bericht des Umweltausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (5 d.B.): Montrealer Protokoll über Stoffe, die zu einem Abbau der Ozonschicht führen; Anlage D und Änderung
Austria · National Council · 4 July 1996
Bericht des Umweltausschusses über den Antrag 32/A(E) der Abgeordneten Anna Elisabeth Aumayr und Genossen betreffend Nationalen Umweltplan und Bundes-Abfallwirtschaftsplan als strategische Instrumente der österreichischen Abfallwirtschaft
Austria · National Council · 4 July 1996
Entschließungsantrag des Umweltausschusses betreffend Reduktion des Flottenverbrauchs für Neuwagen ab dem Jahr 2005
Austria · National Council · 2 July 1996
Bericht des Wirtschaftsausschusses über den Antrag 20/A(E) der Abgeordneten Mag. Thomas Barmüller und Genossen betreffend Kraft-Wärme-Kopplungen <i>(zur Reduktion der Kohlendioxydemissionen)</i>
Austria · National Council · 2 July 1996
Bericht des Wirtschaftsausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (57 d.B.): Energiechartaprotokoll über Energieeffizienz und damit verbundene Umweltaspekte samt Anlage
Austria · National Council · 2 July 1996
Bericht des Wirtschaftsausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (56 d.B.): Vertrag über die Energiecharta samt Anlagen und Beschlüssen
Austria · National Council · 2 July 1996
Bericht des Ausschusses für Land- und Forstwirtschaft über den Antrag 114/A(E) der Abgeordneten Ing. Mathias Reichhold und Genossen betreffend Importverbot für Rinder und Rindfleisch aus EU-Mitgliedstaaten, in denen Rinderwahnsinn grassiert
Austria · National Council · 2 July 1996
Bericht des Ausschusses für Land- und Forstwirtschaft über den Antrag 39/A(E) der Abgeordneten Andreas Wabl und Genossen betreffend ein Bundesgesetz zur Förderung des Tierschutzes im Bereich der landwirtschaftlichen Nutztierhaltung (Tierschutzförderungsgesetz)
Austria · National Council · 28 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Ing. Monika Langthaler und Genossen an die Bundesministerin für Gesundheit und Konsumentenschutz betreffend <i>(Trinkwasser-Grenzwert von)</i> 30 mg Nitrat - Aufhebung
Austria · National Council · 28 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten MMag. Dr. Madeleine Petrovic und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Wissenschaft, Verkehr und Kunst betreffend Tierversuche im Zusammenhang mit dem Pestizid "Benlate"
Austria · National Council · 27 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Kurt Wallner und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Wissenschaft, Verkehr und Kunst betreffend Förderungen für Investitionen zum Luftgütesanierungsprogramm im Raum Leoben
Austria · National Council · 27 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Kurt Wallner und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie betreffend Förderungen für Investitionen zum Luftgütesanierungsprogramm im Raum Leoben
Austria · National Council · 27 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Kurt Wallner und Genossen an den Bundesminister für wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten betreffend Förderungen für Investitionen zum Luftgütesanierungsprogramm im Raum Leoben
Austria · National Council · 27 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Thomas Barmüller und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie betreffend Empfehlung des Umweltrates zu Massenverfahren
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1996
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Additional Empowerment Zones Title II: New Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Title III: Expensing of Environmental Remediation Costs Title I: Additional Empowerment Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from: (1) 9 to 11 the number of areas which may be designated as empowerment zones; (2) six to eight the number of such zones which may be in urban areas; and (3) 750,000 to 1,000,000 the aggregate population allowable in all urban area zones. Title II: New Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities - Permits, before January 1, 1998, the designation, in the aggregate of an additional: (1) 80 nominated areas as enterprise communities; and (2) 20 nominated areas as empowerment zones, subject to availability of eligible nominated areas. Modifies eligibility criteria. Prohibits: (1) applying the employment credit to the new empowerment zones; and (2) in certain developable sites, application of increased expensing provisions for certain depreciable business assets. Modifies provisions concerning: (1) enterprise facility zone bonds; and (2) the enterprise zone business definition. Title III: Expensing of Environmental Remediation Costs - Permits a taxpayer to expense any defined qualified environmental remediation expenditure which is not chargeable to capital account.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1996
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: FHA Multifamily Housing Title II: Housing for Special Populations Title III: Extensions of Existing Authority FHA Multifamily Housing Reform Act of 1996 - Title I: FHA Multifamily Housing - Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to: (1) insure first (and second) mortgages secured by multifamily housing projects or health care facilities and engage in other credit enhancement activities; and (2) enter into risk-sharing arrangements with qualified participating entities and housing finance agencies. Sets forth program provisions. Title II: Housing for Special Populations - Amends the Housing Act of 1959 and the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to: (1) reduce the term of rental assistance contracts for supportive housing for the elderly and for supportive housing for persons with disabilities; and (2) establish environmental review requirements for such programs. Title III: Extensions of Existing Authority - Amends the National Housing Act to extend: (1) auction authority; and (2) authority to transfer excess receipts to the flexible subsidy program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1996
Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to permit financial assistance authorized under such Act to be used for the development of brownfield sites (land containing abandoned or underused commercial or industrial facilities the expansion or redevelopment of which is complicated by the presence or potential presence of hazardous substances).
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1996
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Additional Empowerment Zones Title II: New Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Title III: Expensing of Environmental Remediation Costs Title I: Additional Empowerment Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from: (1) 9 to 11 the number of areas which may be designated as empowerment zones; (2) six to eight the number of such zones which may be in urban areas; and (3) 750,000 to 1,000,000 the aggregate population allowable in all urban area zones. Title II: New Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities - Permits, before January 1, 1998, the designation, in the aggregate of an additional: (1) 80 nominated areas as enterprise communities; and (2) 20 nominated areas as empowerment zones, subject to availability of eligible nominated areas. Modifies eligibility criteria. Prohibits: (1) applying the employment credit to the new empowerment zones; and (2) in certain developable sites, application of increased expensing provisions for certain depreciable business assets. Modifies provisions concerning: (1) enterprise facility zone bonds; and (2) the enterprise zone business definition. Title III: Expensing of Environmental Remediation Costs - Permits a taxpayer to expense any defined qualified environmental remediation expenditure which is not chargeable to capital account.
European Union · Council of the European Union · 27 June 1996
Austria · Federal Council · 26 June 1996
Anfrage der Bundesräte Anton Hüttmayr und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Wissenschaft, Verkehr und Kunst betreffend WTK (Wolfsegg-Traunthaler Kohlenwerks GesmbH)
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1996
Women Veterans Research Act of 1996 - Requires the inclusion of women veterans in research conducted by the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs to be ongoing and continuous, with monitoring strategies and evaluations to ensure a sufficient number of such veterans to establish statistical significance. Directs the Secretary to foster and encourage research in the following matters as they relate to women: (1) breast and other gender-specific cancers; (2) gynecological and reproductive health; (3) HIV and AIDS; (4) mental health; (5) diseases related to aging; (6) substance abuse and spousal abuse; (7) sexual violence and related trauma; (8) exposure to toxic chemicals and environmental hazards; (9) cardiac care and heart disease; (10) the comparative prevalence of hysterectomies and other surgeries performed on women who have served in the military; and (11) the physical and psychological causes and effects of homelessness among women veterans. Requires specified Department personnel to be engaged in such research.
European Union · Council of the European Union · 25 June 1996
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1996
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Provisions Relating to the National Institutes of Health Title II: Provisions Relating to the National Research Institutes Title III: Specific Institutes and Centers Subtitle A: National Cancer Institute Subtitle B: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Subtitle C: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Subtitle D: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Subtitle E: National Institute on Aging Subtitle F: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Subtitle G: National Institute on Drug Abuse Subtitle H: National Institute of Mental Health Subtitle I: National Center for Research Resources Subtitle J: National Library of Medicine Title IV: Awards and Training Title V: Research with Respect to AIDS Title VI: General Provisions Subtitle A: Authority of the Director of NIH Subtitle B: Office of Rare Disease Research Subtitle C: Certain Reauthorizations Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions Subtitle E: Repeals and Conforming Amendments National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1996 - Title I: Provisions Relating to the National Institutes of Health - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for: (1) the discretionary fund of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and (2) the development and improvement of vaccines. Title II: Provisions Relating to the National Research Institutes - Authorizes appropriations for research and related activities concerning osteoporosis, Paget's disease, and related bone disorders. (Sec. 202) Declares that the purpose of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is to characterize the structure and function of the human genome, including: (1) mapping and sequencing of genes; and (2) addressing related ethical, legal, and social issues. Transfers to NHGRI all functions of the National Center for Human Genome Research. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 203) Increases the dollar thresholds for requiring technical and scientific peer review and advisory council approval for contracts and cooperative agreements. (Sec. 204) Revises advisory council requirements. (Sec. 205) Eliminates (or reduces the frequency of) mandated reports by: (1) NIH; (2) various coordinating committees and advisory boards and a task force; and (3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Revises requirements regarding research on sudden infant death syndrome. Amends the International Health Research Act of 1960 to eliminate a mandated report by the President. Title III: Specific Institutes and Centers - Subtitle A: National Cancer Institute - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for the National Cancer Institute and for activities related to breast, gynecological, prostate, and other cancers. Authorizes appropriations regarding conditions associated with diethylstilbestrol (DES). Subtitle B: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute - Authorizes appropriations for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Subtitle C: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Authorizes appropriations for research and training regarding tuberculosis and for community-based clinical trials of treatments for infection with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Subtitle D: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development - Authorizes appropriations for activities regarding contraception and infertility. Subtitle E: National Institute on Aging - Authorizes appropriations for the National Institute on Aging. Subtitle F: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism - Authorizes appropriations for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Modifies requirements regarding grants to National Alcohol Research Centers. Subtitle G: National Institute on Drug Abuse - Authorizes appropriations for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (including the Medication Development Program). Modifies requirements regarding grants to Drug Abuse Research Centers. Subtitle H: National Institute of Mental Health - Authorizes appropriations for the National Institute of Mental Health. Subtitle I: National Center for Research Resources - Authorizes appropriations for biomedical and behavioral research facilities. Authorizes (currently, requires) reservation of an unspecified amount (currently, $5 million) for regional centers for primate research. (Sec. 382) Mandates grants: (1) for the establishment of general clinical research centers; (2) to support individual careers in clinical research; and (3) to support individual clinical research projects. Authorizes appropriations for each of the grants. (Sec. 384) Modifies: (1) the composition of the Scientific and Technical Review Board on Biomedical and Behavioral Research Facilities; and (2) requirements regarding biomedical and behavioral research facilities grants. Subtitle J: National Library of Medicine - Authorizes appropriations for the National Library of Medicine. Title IV: Awards and Training - Mandates expansion of the Medical Scientist Training Program to include fields that will contribute to training clinical investigators in the skills of performing patient-oriented clinical research. (Sec. 402) Increases the maximum annual educational loan repayment that may be made on behalf of health professionals (including, in some cases, those from disadvantaged backgrounds) conducting AIDS, contraception, infertility, or other research. Authorizes appropriations regarding the AIDS research loan repayments. (Sec. 403) Mandates a program of educational loan repayments for health professionals conducting research in areas identified by the NIH Director. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 404) Increases the aggregate limit on the number of undergraduate scholarships for professions needed by NIH and the number of loan repayment contracts regarding NIH clinical researchers. Replaces, in provisions authorizing those loan repayments, references to being from disadvantaged backgrounds with a requirement that a specified percentage of appropriated funds be used for such individuals. Authorizes appropriations for the loan repayments. Title V: Research with Respect to AIDS - Authorizes appropriations for: (1) carrying out a comprehensive plan for NIH AIDS activities; and (2) the AIDS emergency discretionary fund. Title VI: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Authority of the Director of NIH - Adds to the authorities of the NIH Director conducting and supporting research training and appointing health care professionals. Subtitle B: Office of Rare Disease Research - Establishes the Office for Rare Disease Research and a related advisory council. Subtitle C: Certain Reauthorizations - Authorizes appropriations for: (1) National Research Service Awards; and (2) the National Foundation for Biomedical Research. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Provisions - Establishes the National Fund for Health Research. (Sec. 633) Requires, notwithstanding any other provision of law, that the Secretary of Health and Human Services be treated as a nonprofit entity for the purpose of making contributions to the retirement systems of Silvio O. Conte Senior Biomedical Research Service appointees in a manner that will permit the appointees to continue to be fully covered under the retirement systems they were members of immediately before their appointment. Subtitle E: Repeals and Conforming Amendments - Replaces, in provisions limiting administrative expenses, a reference to the National Center for Nursing Research with a reference to the National Institute of Nursing Research. Revises ex officio or other membership regarding various advisory councils and advisory boards. Repeals provisions establishing the National Diabetes Advisory Board, the National Digestive Diseases Advisory Board, the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Advisory Board, the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Advisory Board, and the National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Advisory Board. Removes provisions requiring that the National Academy of Sciences be requested to conduct certain studies on biomedical and behavioral research personnel. Amends the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1979 to repeal provisions establishing the National Commission on Alcoholism and Other Alcohol-Related Problems. Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to remove provisions establishing an advisory council relating to hazardous substance research and training.
Austria · National Council · 20 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Walter Guggenberger und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie betreffend Kühlschrankentsorgung
Austria · National Council · 20 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Walter Guggenberger und Genossen an den Bundesminister für wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten betreffend Kühlschrankentsorgung
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1996
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Military Personnel Title II: Operation and Maintenance Title III: Procurement Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Title V: Revolving and Management Funds Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs Title VII: Related Agencies Title VIII: General Provisions Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1997 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force. Title II: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for FY 1997 for the operation and maintenance (O&M) of the Army, Navy, and Air Force (including a transfer of funds in each case), the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for: (1) overseas contingency operations (including a transfer of funds); (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (3) environmental restoration for the Army, Navy, Air Force, and defense-wide (including a transfer of funds in each case); (4) environmental restoration at former defense sites (including a transfer of funds); (5) overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid; and (6) nuclear threat reduction programs with respect to republics of the former Soviet Union. Title III: Procurement - Appropriates funds for FY 1997 for procurement by the armed forces and its reserve components of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other procurement. Appropriates funds for defense-wide procurement and for National Guard and reserve equipment. Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation - Appropriates funds for FY 1997 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the armed forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Directors of Test and Evaluation and Operational Test and Evaluation. Title V: Revolving and Management Funds - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Business Operations Fund; and (2) programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund. Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Department of Defense (DOD) medical and health care programs; (2) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense (including a transfer of funds); and (4) expenses and activities of the Office of the Inspector General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978. Title VII: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; (2) expenses of the Intelligence Community Management Account; (3) authorized payments to the Kaho'olawe Island Conveyance, Remediation, and Environmental Restoration Trust Fund; and (4) national security scholarships, fellowships, and grants (using funds derived from the National Security Education Trust Fund). Title VIII: General Provisions - Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds. (Sec. 8010) Authorizes procurement funds appropriated under this Act to be used for multiyear procurement contracts for Javelin missiles, Arleigh Burke class destroyers, and certain machine guns, rifles, and automatic weapons. (Sec. 8011) Prohibits during FY 1997 the management by end strengths of DOD civilian personnel. (Sec. 8020) Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to establish with host governments of NATO-member countries an account for the deposit of residual value amounts negotiated in the return of U.S. military installations to such countries. (Sec. 8033) Authorizes DOD to incur up to $350 million in obligations for DOD personnel compensation, military construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the government of Kuwait. (Sec. 8034) Earmarks funds from this Act for the Civil Air Patrol. (Sec. 8041) Authorizes the payment of voluntary separation incentive payments to military personnel. (Sec. 8044) Authorizes funds available for defense drug interdiction and counter-drug activities to be used for the Young Marines program. (Sec. 8051) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) for the modification of an aircraft, weapon, ship, or other equipment that the military department concerned plans to retire or otherwise dispose of within five years after completion of the modification; (2) to transport chemical munitions to the Johnston Atoll for storage or demilitarization (with an exception and an authorized wartime waiver by the President); (3) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (4) for assistance to or programs in the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; and (5) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30, 1996 level. (Sec. 8054) Earmarks funds appropriated under this Act for the mitigation of adverse environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from DOD activities. (Sec. 8059) Earmarks $40 million from the funds authorized for chemical agents and munitions destruction, defense, to initiate a pilot program to identify alternatives to the current incineration process for demilitarized chemical munitions (requiring an evaluation and annual report to the defense committees with respect to such program). (Sec. 8061) Authorizes DOD to enter into interim leasing arrangements for the Adak Naval Air Facility. (Sec. 8062) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts. (Sec. 8075) Appropriates funds to DOD for transfer to the Coast Guard. (Sec. 8078) Directs the Secretary to report quarterly to specified congressional committees setting forth all costs incurred by DOD in implementing or supporting United Nations Security Council resolutions. (Sec. 8079) Directs the Secretary, to the extent authorized by law, to issue loan guarantees in support of U.S. defense exports not otherwise provided for, with a contingent liability limit of $15 billion. Requires quarterly reports to specified congressional committees on such loan guarantees. (Sec. 8083) Authorizes the use of DOD O&M funds for a pilot program to increase the use of Reserve personnel in support of U.S. missions and with eligible organizations and activities outside of DOD. (Sec. 8086) Authorizes specified amounts for Air Force aircraft procurement from prior-year defense appropriations Acts to remain available for expenditure until the end of FY 2002. (Sec. 8088) Directs the Secretary, upon the enactment of this Act, to make specified transfers between various DOD appropriation accounts.(Sec. 8089) Requires, no later than June 30, 1997, that DOD disbursements in excess of $3 million be matched to a particular obligation before the disbursement is made. (Sec. 8090) Directs the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) to submit to the defense committees a detailed report identifying any activity for which the FY 1998 budget was reduced because the Congress appropriated funds above the President's budget request for such activity for FY 1997. (Sec. 8092) Makes certain prior-year Air Force missile procurement funds available, until paid, for the payment of satellite on-orbit incentive fees. (Sec. 8095) Restricts the purchase of security locks used to protect critical national security information or other classified material. (Sec. 8096) Restricts the use of FY 1997 DOD funds for the modification of established reprogramming procedures. (Sec. 8097) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds appropriated under this Act for prostate cancer research through the Department of the Army. (Sec. 8098) Repeals a provision of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1996, which prohibits the use of Navy funds to develop or procure an emergency generator set for the New Attack Submarine unless such equipment is powered by a diesel engine manufactured in the United States by a U.S. entity.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1996
Wetlands Restoration and Improvement Act of 1996 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to declare that it is national policy to: (1) achieve, through regulatory and nonregulatory opportunities involving all levels of government and supported by private initiatives, the conservation and restoration of wetlands to increase the quantity and quality of, and no overall net loss of, the wetlands resource base of the United States; and (2) foster wetlands mitigation banking as a means to mitigate wetlands loss by providing a stable, practical, and workable regulatory framework for the use of mitigation banking, making appropriate use of existing, successful State programs for mitigation banking, taking into account regional variations in wetlands conditions. Directs the Secretary of the Army to issue a mitigation bank charter to a person whose application satisfies specified criteria. Requires an applicant to submit an application signed by a responsible official which contains specified information, including: (1) the proposed restoration, enhancement, creation, or preservation projects proposed to be included in the scope of the charter; (2) the proposed service area for each proposed project; (3) reliable assurances of an adequate source of water; (4) adequate legal control over the real property in the proposed project; (5) adequate financial assurances; (6) an adequate operations and maintenance plan to assure continued viability of the proposed project after completion of project construction; and (7) adequate legal protection to assure permanent protection of the wetlands in the mitigation bank that are used as the basis for selling credits. Sets forth provisions regarding annual reports, decision deadlines, and other procedural matters, including State approval of mitigation bank projects. Authorizes a mitigation bank, upon receipt of its charter, to offer mitigation credits for sale, subject to specified requirements. Directs the Secretary to propose regulations which set forth objective criteria by which: (1) the number of credits to be yielded by a mitigation banking project may be determined; and (2) mitigation bank service areas are to be determined. Requires such regulations to establish a preference for in-kind compensation of wetland impacts. Directs the Secretary to develop a State-by-State implementation strategy. Sets forth reporting requirements.
Germany · German Bundestag · 20 June 1996
Aussprache auf Verlangen der Fraktion B90/GR, unabhängig von einer Fragestunde
Austria · National Council · 19 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Josef Meisinger und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Finanzen betreffend Kündigungen bei der Wildbach- und Lawinenverbauung
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1996
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of Transportation Title II: Related Agencies Title III: General Provisions Title IV: Miscellaneous Highway Provisions Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 (with specified rescissions, limitations on obligations and direct loans, and liquidations of contract authorizations) for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Transportation; (2) the Coast Guard; (3) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (4) the Federal Highway Administration (FHA); (5) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (6) the Federal Railroad Administration; (7) the Federal Transit Administration; (8) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (9) the Research and Special Programs Administration; (10) the Office of the Inspector General; and (11) the Surface Transportation Board. Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 for: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; and (2) the National Transportation Safety Board. Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth specified prohibitions, limitations, permissions, and mandates with respect to the use of appropriations under this Act identical or very similar to those enacted in the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-50). (Sec. 321) Reduces the amount of funds provided in this Act for the Transportation Administrative Service Center. (Sec. 327) Prohibits the use of funds (as in Public Law 104-50) for employee training which: (1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official duties; (2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emotional response or psychological stress in some participants; (3) contains any methods or content associated with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or "new age" belief systems; (4) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants' personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace; or (5) includes content related to human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS) other than that necessary to make employees more aware of its medical ramifications and the workplace rights of HIV-positive employees. (Sec. 334) Prohibits the use of funds to construct, or to pay the salaries or expenses of Department of Transportation personnel who approve or facilitate the construction of, a third track on the Metro-North Railroad Harlem Line in the vicinity of Bronxville, New York, when it is made known to the Federal official having authority to obligate or expend such funds that a final environmental impact statement for the project has not been completed. (Sec. 335) Amends Federal mass transportation law to include the locally preferred alternative for the South-North Corridor Project in the federally-funded Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon Light Rail Program. (Sec. 336) Allows a specified amount funds made available to Cleveland for the Cleveland Dual Hub Corridor Project or Cleveland Dual Hub Rail Project in FY 1991, 1992, and 1994, to be made available for the Berea Red Line Extension and the Euclid Corridor Improvement projects. (Sec. 337) Earmarks specified funds made available to Michigan under specified Federal law for FY 1997 for the purchase of buses and bus-related equipment and facilities. (Sec. 338) Makes additional appropriations for activities of the National Civil Aviation Review Commission. (Sec. 339) Enacts into law specified provisions of H.R. 1361, as passed the House of Representatives on May 9, 1995, relating to conveyance of the light station, Montauk Point, New York. Title IV: Miscellaneous Highway Provisions - Prohibits on U.S. Route 15 in Virginia between the Maryland border and the intersection with U.S. Route 29: (1) any semitrailer units operating in a truck tractor-semitrailer combination whose semitrailer unit is more than 48 feet long; and (2) certain truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer combinations specified under Federal transportation law. (Sec. 402) Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to provide for: (1) feasibility studies, preliminary engineering, and construction of a new bridge and approaches over the Mobile River, Alabama; and (2) improvements to the VIPA Molasses Dock intermodal port facility on the island of St. Croix, Virgin Islands, to enable the facility to handle multiple cargo tasks. (Sec. 404) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to modify certain agreements to provide a specified additional line of credit usable to replace otherwise required contingency reserves, if the modification is supported by the amount of the original appropriation. (Sec. 405) Amends specified Federal law (for continuing appropriations, FY 1988) to authorize the use of specified Traffic Improvement Demonstration Project funds to include the upgrading of existing local roads in the vicinity of Petoskey, Michigan.
Germany · German Bundestag · 19 June 1996
Verabschiedung des Globalen Aktionsplans auf der FAO-Konferenz vom 17. bis 23.6.1996 in Leipzig und zügige Umsetzung, Aufnahme einer staatlichen Verpflichtung zur Erhaltung der biologischen Vielfalt in das Saatgutverkehrsgesetz, Erhalt der führenden Rolle Deutschlands bei der Ex-situ-Erhaltung der genetischen Vielfalt in Genbanken bei gleichzeitigen verstärkten Anstrengungen um traditionelle und neue Formen von Kulturpflanzen an natürlichen Standorten und in der Landwirtschaft (in situ, on farm), Berücksichtigung der biologischen Vielfalt bei der Neustrukturierung der Ressortforschung des BML, verstärkte Koordinierung und Unterstützung von Maßnahmen auf EU-Ebene
Austria · National Council · 18 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Rudolf Anschober und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft betreffend Abwasserförderung im ländlichen Raum
Austria · National Council · 18 June 1996
Antrag der Abgeordneten Ing. Monika Langthaler und Genossen betreffend wirksame Maßnahmen zur Einschränkung des Walfanges
Austria · National Council · 18 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Rudolf Anschober und Genossen an den Bundesminister für auswärtige Angelegenheiten betreffend Atomvertrag - EU-Beitrittsverhandlungen Tschechiens und der Slowakei
Austria · National Council · 18 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Rudolf Anschober und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie betreffend Abwasserförderung im ländlichen Raum
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1996
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development Title III: Independent Agencies Title IV: General Provisions Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 - Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 to the Department of Veterans Affairs, setting forth uses and limitations for them. Establishes in the Treasury a franchise fund pilot for capitalizing and operating central administrative services. Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), setting forth uses and limitations for them. (Sec. 201) Directs public housing agencies to require families to pay a minimum monthly rent of up to $25, and reduce monthly assistance payments accordingly. (Sec. 203) Extends the single family assignment program through FY 1997. (Sec. 204) Authorizes HUD to restructure multifamily apartment mortgages subsidized with section 8 project-based rental assistance contracts that expire in FY 1997. Limits such restructuring to property insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) whose rents are higher than comparable market rents for the area. Authorizes HUD to use arrangements, by delegation, contract, or otherwise, with one or more State housing finance agencies, selected competitively and qualified to act as liability managers, under which such liability managers shall: (1) assume and manage the HUD's insurance risk; (2) discharge specified public purpose objectives; and (3) restructure and recapitalize certain housing projects. Requires protection of tenants against displacement, as well as the provision of tenant-based assistance by HUD or the liability manager. (Sec. 205) Authorizes HUD to renew any expiring section 8 contracts at rent levels no higher than market levels. Title III: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 1997 to the: (1) American Battle Monuments Commission; (2) Department of the Treasury for community development financial institutions; (3) Consumer Product Safety Commission; (4) Corporation for National and Community Service; (5) Court of Veterans Appeals; (6) Department of Defense-Civil for cemeterial expenses, Army; (7) Environmental Protection Agency; (8) Executive Office of the President for the Office of Science and Technology Policy; (9) Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality; (10) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); (11) General Services Administration for the Consumer Information Center; (12) National Aeronautics and Space Administration; (13) National Credit Union Administration for the obligations of the Central Liquidity Facility; (14) National Science Foundation; (15) Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and (16) Selective Service System. Title IV: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses, limitations, and prohibitions on uses of funds appropriated by this Act. (Sec. 415) Expresses the sense of the Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased with funds made available under this Act should be American made. (Sec. 417) Requires FY 1997 pay raises to be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act. (Sec. 419) Requires that certain FY 1997 Department of Health and Human Services appropriations be made available to carry out the orderly termination of the Office of Consumer Affairs. (Sec. 420) Authorizes certain corporations and agencies of HUD to make commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as necessary to carry out provisions under the Government Corporation Control Act. Allows any collections by such corporations and agencies to be used for new loan or mortgage purchase commitments to the extent provided under this Act, with specified exceptions. (Sec. 421) Prohibits the use of funds to pay the salaries of personnel who approve a contract for the purchase, lease, or acquisition in any manner of supercomputing equipment or services after a preliminary or final determination by the Department of Commerce that an organization providing such equipment or services has offered them at other than fair value.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1996
Recognizes and reaffirms the value of ties between the United States and the South Pacific region. Notes the need to continue to support the efforts of the countries of the region to enhance the sustainable development of the more fragile island economies and their integration into the regional economy, while helping to ensure the protection of the region's unique ecosystems. Commends the South Pacific Commission for managerial and organizational reform and recognizes the important role the U.S. financial contribution to, and participation in, the organization makes in assisting it to realize the gradual economic self-sufficiency of all of its members. Reaffirms the U.S. commitment as a member of the Commission and the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, and the post-forum dialogue partnership of the United States with the South Pacific Forum.
Austria · National Council · 14 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Ing. Monika Langthaler und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie betreffend unhaltbare Kürzung von Nachbarrechten in Verfahren zur Genehmigung von Abfallbehandlungsanlagen
Austria · National Council · 14 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Johann Schuster und Genossen an die Bundesministerin für Gesundheit und Konsumentenschutz betreffend die Erlangung der "zusätzlichen Garantien" gemäß Artikel 10 der RL 64/432/EWG und die in diesem Zusammenhang notwendigen periodischen Untersuchungen betreffend die Tilgung der IBR/IPV <i>(Infektiösen Bovinen Rhinotracheitis/Infektiösen</i> <i>Pustulösen Vulvovaginitis),</i> die für den Zeitraum 01.11.1996 bis 31.10.1997 vorgesehen sind
Austria · National Council · 14 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Josef Meisinger und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft betreffend Kündigungen bei der Wildbach- und Lawinenverbauung
Austria · National Council · 13 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Rudolf Anschober und Genossen an den Bundesminister für wirtschaftliche Angelegenheiten betreffend Licht ins Dunkel fragwürdiger Stromimportverträge
Austria · National Council · 13 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Rudolf Anschober und Genossen an die Bundesministerin für Gesundheit und Konsumentenschutz betreffend Entsorgung radioaktiver Molke nach Moldawien <i>(nach dem Reaktorunfall in Tschernobyl)</i>
Austria · National Council · 13 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Andreas Wabl und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft betreffend Schmuggel von Pestiziden nach Österreich
Austria · National Council · 13 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Ing. Mathias Reichhold und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft betreffend Herkunftsnachweis bei Rindern
Austria · National Council · 13 June 1996
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Ing. Mathias Reichhold und Genossen an die Bundesministerin für Gesundheit und Konsumentenschutz betreffend Herkunftsnachweis bei Rindern
Austria · National Council · 13 June 1996
Antrag der Abgeordneten Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Peter Keppelmüller und Genossen betreffend ein Bundesgesetz, mit dem die Emissionen von Anlagen zur Herstellung von Holzspanplatten begrenzt werden