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Bill· HRH.R. 4691 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1981
Port and Waterways Maintenance, Development, and Improvement Act of 1981 - Title I: Findings, Declaration of Purposes, and Definitions - Declares that Congress finds it in the national interest to maintain and develop a viable marine transportation system within the United States, including a network of commercial deep-draft seaports, inland shallow-draft ports, and a multipurpose domestic waterway system to accommodate the needs of the foreign and domestic commerce, promote economic stability, and provide for national security. Title II: Cost Recovery - Imposes specified tonnage charges on all international commerce commodities at the time of entry into or exit from the United States in order to recover 50 percent of all costs associated with operation and maintenance expenditures of the Army Corps of Engineers directly allocated and attributable to commercial navigation. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate a rate system sufficient to cover such costs. Requires that such charges shall be deposited in the Inland Waterways Trust Fund (hereafter known as the Ports and Waterways Trust Fund). Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to utilize such funds for the Federal share of operation, maintenance, and construction of deep-draft (except those administered by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation) and inland shallow-draft waterways. Directs the Secretary to recommend biennially to Congress that specified new construction projects be authorized. Authorizes certain projects only after agreement that a non-Federal public body will reimburse the Federal Government for 50 percent of such projects' costs. Requires completion of such reimbursements within the life of the project concerned but in no event more than 50 years after the date the project is available for use. Authorizes such non-Federal public bodies to recover all or a portion of their shares of the project costs through: (1) existing funding sources; and (2) user fees. Grants the consent of Congress to any port authority to collect, in the form of a duty of tonnage or ad valorem duty, a nondiscriminatory seaport user fee from vessels or cargo engaged in foreign trade. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in consultation with the Secretaries of State, Commerce, Transportation, Treasury, Energy, and Agriculture, the Attorney General, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and with the approval of Congress, to promulgate regulations and guidelines concerning such fee collections. Title III: Project Authorizations - Authorizes non-Federal public bodies to develop new navigation construction projects without congressional authorization if they agree to pay 100 percent of the costs of such projects. Title IV: Reports to Congress - Directs the Secretary of the Army to prepare specified reports for submission to Congress.
Bill· SS. 1692 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1981
National Harbors Improvement and Maintenance Act of 1981 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to maintain the deep-draft channels and harbors of the United States. Prohibits the Secretary, after October 1, 1982, from expending funds for such maintenance until an appropriate non-Federal interest contracts with the Secretary to pay for specified portions thereof. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the President and to Congress on national harbor maintenance needs for the succeeding fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1983 through 1987. Authorizes such non-Federal interest to undertake navigation improvements subject to required permits. Requires that such non-Federal interest repay the United States, within 50 years of the date of enactment, the cost of all channel and harbor construction projects undertaken after September 30, 1982. Declares that this Act shall not prohibit or interfere with national defense transportation requirements. Permits an affected non-Federal interest to recover its reimbursement obligation by collecting fees from specified vessels engaged in commercial waterway transportation. Sets forth procedures concerning the joint processing of all Federal permits required for such construction activities. Directs the Secretary to report to certain congressional committees in regard to such permit schedules.
Bill· SS. 1682 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1981
Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to allow vessels in the foreign trade receiving operating-differential or construction-differential subsidies to transport cargo between the island of Unalaska, Alaska, and the contiguous United States during a voyage in the foreign trade.
Bill· HRH.R. 4645 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1981
Prohibits the Coast Guard from using funds authorized for fiscal year 1982 to collect certain user fees.
Bill· HRH.R. 4627 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1981
Port Development and Navigation Improvement Act of 1981 - Title I: Priority Maintenance and Navigation Improvement Projects - Directs the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to submit to Congress within two years after enactment of this Act a deep-draft commercial port channel maintenance program. Specifies that such program shall include alternate disposal sites for dredged or fill material. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to submit to Congress a programmatic environmental impact statement, including an analysis of the adequacy of deep-draft commercial ports to accommodate increasing import and export trade. Provides for veto of such maintenance programs and navigational improvement projects by concurrent resolution of Congress within 60 days. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress modifications of approved maintenance and navigational improvement projects. Requires the Secretary to undertake navigation improvements in deep-draft commercial ports on a priority basis under specified circumstances. Sets forth procedures by which the Secretary shall submit feasibility studies, survey reports, and environmental impact statements to Congress. Prohibits a State port authority from dredging or performing other maintenance with regard to a navigation improvement project constructed by or with assistance from the Secretary except under specified circumstances. Requires the Secretary to enter into memorandums of agreement with: (1) the Administrator in regard to the disposal of dredged and fill material into navigable waters; and (2) the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce concerning the environmental aspects of the maintenance and improvement of federally authorized channels in deep-draft commercial ports. Sets forth procedures for congressional approval of new navigational improvement projects. Title II: Financing of Navigation Improvement Projects - Grants the consent of Congress to the levying by States of tonnage duties. Lists the purposes of such duties, including reimbursement of Federal and State entities in regard to navigation improvement projects. Directs the Comptroller General to audit periodically the operations of State port authorities dealing with such duties of tonnage. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes appropriations. Allows the Secretary, upon congressional approval, to transfer funds from existing Department of the Army civil appropriations pending appropriation of such authorized sums.
Bill· HRH.R. 4574 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1981
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to increase the authorization for a four-lane highway bridge between Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Washington.
Bill· SS. 1649 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1981
National Bridge Improvement Act of 1981 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to revise the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program to concentrate Federal funding on bridges most in need of replacement and rehabilitation. Requires the establishment of guidelines for the distribution of such funds throughout the States. Directs the Secretary to review each State's compliance with national bridge inspection standards and to revise such standards to decrease the maximum time lapse between inspections. Declares that the Secretary, by January 1, 1983, shall implement a plan of action designed to achieve full compliance by State and local governments with national bridge inspection standards. Directs the Secretary to inventory all bridges maintained by Federal agencies. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the administrative actions taken under this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4519 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1981
Maritime Dry Bulk Trade Act - Directs the Secretary in the Department in which the Maritime Administration is operating to negotiate a Governing International Maritime Agreement with each nation with which the United States traded a specified amount of dry bulk cargo in 1980. Directs the Secretary to also negotiate such an agreement with nations whose U.S. trade was less than the specified amount if such a nation asks to negotiate an agreement. Lists the essential provisions of a Governing International Maritime Agreement. Directs the Secretary to enter into such an agreement with any group of nations which desires to execute the agreement on a regional basis. Prohibits such an agreement from becoming effective until 60 days after it is transmitted to Congress. Sets forth the procedures for a Congressional veto of such an agreement. Prohibits a non-national-flag ship from transporting dry bulk cargo with a trading partner except as authorized by the Governing International Maritime Agreement. Provides that five years after enactment of this Act: (1) non-national-flag ships not documented under the laws of a trading partner are prohibited from transporting dry bulk cargo; and (2) such ships documented under the laws of a trading partner are authorized to transport dry bulk cargo between the United States and any nation not a party to such an agreement. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of the Treasury to implement procedures to insure that non-national-flag ships do not transport bulk cargo in excess of the authorized amount. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to assist in implementing this Act. Requires it to report annually to Congress on its activities. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress annually on actions taken pursuant to this Act.
Bill· SS. 1623 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1981
Declares that the lock replacing the Vermilion Lock on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Louisiana, shall be named the Leland Bowman Lock.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 179 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1981
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to apportion the sums authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1983 for the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 178 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1981
Disapproves the final rule promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission dealing with the matter of the trade regulation rule relating to the sale of used motor vehicles.
Bill· HRH.R. 4463 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1981
Railroad Land Grant Development Act of 1981 - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 to repeal the limitation on the acquisition of a coal lease or permit by a railroad. Requires a railroad leasing public lands adjacent to grant lands held by the railroad to annually determine its net revenues from resource development and to use at least 33 1/3 percent of such revenues for the operation and maintenance of the railroad, and of that 33 1/3 percent at least 33 1/3 percent must be used to operate and maintain railroad branchlines.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 177 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1981
Urges the President to: (1) negotiate an agreement with Japan to require Japanese auto manufacturers to build facilities in the United States and to use North American parts in Japanese autos sold in the United States in exchange for retaining access to the American market; (2) phase in an agreement setting quotas of U.S. parts to be used in Japanese cars; and (3) report to Congress on the progress of the negotiations.
Bill· HRH.R. 4421 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1981
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to direct air carriers that cancel flights to compensate ticketed passengers for the increased costs of taking alternative flights.
Bill· HRH.R. 4446 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1981
Designates the Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan, as Greilickville Harbor.
Bill· HRH.R. 4374 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1981
Amends the Shipping Act, 1916, to redefine the term "ocean freight forwarder" to mean any person in the United States who for others: (1) dispatches shipments via ocean common carriers; and (2) processes the documentation or performs related activities incident to such shipments. Directs every common carrier by water to file with the Federal Maritime Commission copies of agreements that limit or regulate the membership of ocean carrier conferences. Denies Commission approval to conference agreements that fail to admit to membership at least one carrier operating United States-flag vessel willing to serve the particular trade or route involved. Sets time limits on proceedings to disapprove, cancel, or modify certain agreements. Places the burden of proof on the Commission or such other department or agency that opposes the agreement. Describes procedures for holding Commission hearings to resolve complaints by common carriers by water, shippers, ports, or others subject to this Act. Repeals civil penalty provisions concerning agreement violations. Allows shippers' councils, pursuant to an agreement approved by the Federal Trade Commission, to meet, confer, and: (1) consult and agree in regard to rate levels, practices, and terms and conditions of service; (2) exchange specified information with ocean common carriers or conferences; (3) analyze and distribute such information. Declares that the above shall not restrict the powers of an association organized under the Export Trade Act. Requires shippers' councils to file such agreements with the Federal Trade Commission. Exempts such agreements from the antitrust laws of the United States. Sets forth provisions to be included in such agreements before Commission approval. Repeals provisions concerning the sale of certain Panama Canal bonds. Changes certain criminal penalties for violations of the Shipping Act, 1916, to civil penalties. Revises procedures for assessing such civil penalties. Repeals license requirements for ocean freight forwarders. Requires that forwarders and non-vessel- operating common carriers shall furnish a bond approved by the Federal Maritime Commission.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 172 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1981
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the United States should seek the support of specified nations for its naval presence in the Indian Ocean and that Japanese support could include civil aircraft and sealift assets; (2) the Japanese Self-Defense Force should increase its capacity to defend sealanes important to Japan's security; (3) the United States and Japan should take further steps to implement their 1978 defense guidelines on the standardization and integration of their defense capabilities; (4) Japan should continue to increase its share of the cost of the U.S. military presence in Japan; (5) the United States and other specified nations should continue to support the ASEAN nations which represent an important element in the stability of Southeast Asia and occupy an important position on the sealanes in and between the Indian and Pacific Oceans; and (6) the United States should participate in naval exercises with specified nations in order to assure the security of those sealanes.
Bill· SS. 1593 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1981
Shipping Act of 1981 - Declares the objectives of United States regulation of international liner shipping, including: (1) to develop and maintain an efficient ocean transportation system through commercial means; (2) to foster reliable and responsible service by ocean common carriers and conferences; and (3) to permit cooperation among carriers. Authorizes specified conference and intermodal activities of ocean common carriers or other persons subject to this Act. Lists authorized activities of shippers' councils. Requires that a copy of every agreement entered into with respect to such activities be filed with the Federal Maritime Commission. Sets forth required contents of conference and shippers' council agreements. Describes criteria by which the Commission shall approve, modify, or reject such agreements. Authorizes a conference or ocean common carrier engaged in foreign commerce to utilize loyalty contracts according to certain requirements. Exempts specified agreements, contracts, and activities from the antitrust laws of the United States. Directs ocean common carriers to file with the Commission, and keep open to public inspection, tariffs showing all rates between all points on each carrier's routes. Sets forth procedures for rate changes and refunds of rate charges. Prohibits a controlled carrier from maintaining rates in its tariffs that are below a level that is just and reasonable. Describes standards by which such rates shall be approved or disapproved. Provides for Presidential review of any order of suspension or final order of disapproval of rates of a controlled carrier. Exempts specified carriers from the provisions of this Act. Requires that ocean freight forwarders and non-vessel-operating common carriers shall furnish a bond approved by the Commission. Directs that ocean common carriers shall compensate ocean freight forwarders in a specified manner. Prohibits certain acts by ocean common carriers, including: (1) rebating or refunding any portion of rates except in accordance with a tariff; (2) charging rates that are unreasonably low; or (3) making unfair or unjustly discriminatory contracts with shippers. Restricts certain acts by shippers, ocean freight forwarders, non-vessel-operating common carriers, and other persons. Authorizes ocean common carriers, shippers, or other persons to file with the Commission a complaint alleging a violation of this Act. Describes procedures for the investigation and adjudication of such complaints. Assesses civil penalties for violations of this Act. Makes provisions concerning orders of the Commission relating to violations of this Act or regulations hereunder. Permits the Commission to exempt any specified activity or class of agreements between ocean common carriers or other persons subject to this Act from the requirements of this Act.
Bill· SS. 1586 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1981
Waterways Transportation Development and Improvement Act of 1981 - Title I: Findings, Declaration of Purposes and Definitions - Declares that Congress finds it in the national interest to maintain and develop a viable marine transportation system within the United States, including a network of commercial deep-draft seaports, inland shallow-draft ports, and a multipurpose domestic waterway system to accommodate the needs of the foreign and domestic commerce, promote economic stability, and provide for national security. Title II: Cost Recovery - Imposes specified tonnage charges on all international commerce commodities at the time of entry into or exit from the United States in order to recover all costs associated with operation and maintenance expenditures of the Army Corps of Engineers directly allocated and attributable to commercial navigation. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate a rate system sufficient to cover such costs. Requires that such charges shall be deposited in the Inland Waterways Trust Fund (hereafter known as the Waterways Trust Fund). Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to utilize such funds for operation, maintenance, and construction of deep-draft (except those administered by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation) and inland shallow-draft waterways. Directs the Secretary to recommend biennially to Congress that specified new construction projects be authorized. Authorizes certain projects only after agreement that a non-Federal public body will reimburse the Federal Government for 50 percent of such projects' costs. Requires completion of such reimbursements within the life of the project concerned but in no event more than 50 years after the date the project is available for use. Title III: Local Cost Sharing - Authorizes such non-Federal public bodies to recover all or a portion of their shares of the project costs through: (1) existing funding sources; and (2) user fees. Grants the consent of Congress to any port authority to collect, in the form of a duty of tonnage or ad valorem duty, a nondiscriminatory seaport user fee from vessels or cargo engaged in foreign trade. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in consultation with the Secretaries of State, Commerce, Transportation, Treasury, Energy, and Agriculture, the Attorney General, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to promulgate regulations and guidelines concerning such fee collections. Title IV: Project Authorizations - Authorizes non-Federal public bodies to develop new navigation construction projects without congressional authorization if they agree to pay 100 percent of the costs of such projects. Title V: Reports to Congress - Directs the Secretary of the Army to prepare specified reports for submission to Congress.
Bill· SS. 1542 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1981
Amends the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920 to repeal a provision which prohibits a company operating a common carrier railroad from holding a coal lease under the Act unless the coal is used for its own railroad purposes.
Bill· SS. 1548 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1981
Billboard Deregulation Act of 1981 - Repeals the Federal outdoor advertising control program. Rescinds all authorizations of appropriations for such program that are unappropriated upon enactment of this Act. Describes procedures by which the Secretary of Transportation may withhold funds from a State that has not effectively controlled the establishment and maintenance along the Interstate Highway System and the primary system of outdoor junkyards.
Bill· HRH.R. 4332 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1981
Air Traffic Controller Act of 1981 - Redefines the terms "air traffic controller" and "controller," for purposes of civil service provisions, to mean air traffic control specialists of the GS-2152 series, excluding management officials. Establishes a workweek of four consecutive eight-hour days for controllers. Directs the Office of Personnel Management to issue regulations providing that: (1) a controller shall be eligible for full retirement after 20 years of service as a controller actively engaged in the control of air traffic; (2) payment of the controller's retirement annuity shall commence within 30 days after the retirement date; and (3) the controller shall qualify for vested rights in the retirement program after five years of service. Declares that controllers shall accrue one day of sick leave for each biweekly pay period. Grants the controllers' exclusive representative the right to bargain collectively with their employer concerning wages, hours, and other conditions of employment. Establishes a salary classification system for controllers. Provides for differential payments for hours worked during a night shift, weekend, or an assignment as an on-the-job instructor. Exempts the salary of an air traffic controller from provisions limiting the pay of Federal employees.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 202 (97th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1981
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration annually should submit to the Committee on Science and Technology full research and development program planning documentation with regard to the modernization and replacement of the Administration's air traffic control en route computer system.
Bill· HRH.R. 4321 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1981
Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to require the Administrator of the General Services Administration to insure that a specified number of the nonmilitary motor vehicles acquired for Government motor vehicle pools in each of fiscal years 1983 through 1987 be alcohol-fueled vehicles.
Bill· HRH.R. 4284 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1981
Declares that the lock replacing the Vermilion Lock on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, Louisiana, shall be named the Leland Bowman Lock.
Bill· HRH.R. 4278 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1981
Sets forth the findings of Congress in regard to the transfer of the Alaska Railroad to the State of Alaska. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to transfer, without direct monetary consideration, the rail properties of the Alaska Railroad to the State of Alaska. Lists conditions that must be met before such transfer may be made. Terminates the Secretary's authority if he has not certified that the State has satisfied such conditions within one year from the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to dispose of such properties if such certification has not been made. Requires that the Secretary and the State, within six months of the date of enactment of this Act, enter into a closing agreement that describes in detail the rail properties to be transferred under this Act. Revokes claims for such rail properties under any Federal law other than this Act for which title has not vested with the claimant. Excludes certain properties from the provisions of specified Acts. Describes the employment status of Alaska Railroad employees who transfer to the State under this Act. Directs the President to approve any application by the State or any buyer or transferee of the railroad for the extension of the existing railroad system to the Yukon River and to the international border between Alaska and Canada. Declares that, after the transfer directed by this Act, the State-owned railroad shall be a rail carrier engaged in interstate and foreign commerce subject to the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Authorizes the Commission to exempt the State from applicable requirements of the Interstate Commerce Act. Provides for the reversion of such properties to the United States if all or part of them have been converted to a use that would adversely affect railroad operations. Sets forth provisions for rail properties within the boundaries of the Denali National Park and Preserve. Directs the Secretary to transfer, for no direct monetary consideration, to the city of Nenana, Alaska, all right, title, and interest of the United States to the Yukon River Barge Service.
Bill· HRH.R. 4251 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1981
Modifies the navigational project at Mamaroneck Harbor, New York, relating to the Federal share of specified costs of disposing of dredged material. Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to refund any amounts contributed by non-Federal public interests prior to the date of enactment of this Act for such disposal costs.
Bill· HRH.R. 4253 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1981
Modifies the navigational project for Anchorage Channel, New York Harbor, to require the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to dredge the branch channel to Port Jersey, Bayonne, New Jersey.
Bill· HRH.R. 4233 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1981
Amends the Inland Waterways Revenue Act of 1978 to make applicable to the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway specified provisions relating to the tax on fuel used in commercial transportation on inland waterways.
Bill· HRH.R. 4215 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1981
Directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration to establish a for-profit corporation for the purpose of owning and administering specified railroads and railroad property. Dissolves the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) and the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) and transfers their assets and liabilities to such corporation. Directs the corporation to pay to the United States: (1) all of the proceeds from any sale of the common stock of the corporation; and (2) 49 percent of any profits earned by the corporation. Requires that such payments be deposited in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund. Sets forth procedures for the issuance of corporate stock and the sale or exchange of Conrail and Amtrak stock.
Bill· SS. 1500 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1981
Sets forth the findings of Congress in regard to the transfer of the Alaska Railroad to the State of Alaska. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to transfer, without direct monetary consideration, the rail properties of the Alaska Railroad to the State of Alaska. Lists conditions that must be met before such transfer may be made. Terminates the Secretary's authority if he has not certified that the State has satisfied such conditions within one year from the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to dispose of such properties if such certification has not been made. Requires that the Secretary and the State, within six months after enactment of this Act, enter into a closing agreement that describes in detail the rail properties to be transferred under this Act. Revokes claims for such rail properties under any Federal law other than this Act for which title has not vested with the claimant. Excludes certain properties from the provisions of specified Acts. Describes the employment status of Alaska Railroad employees who transferred to the State under this Act. Declares that, after the transfer directed by this Act, the State-owned railroad shall be a rail carrier engaged in interstate and foreign commerce subject to the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Authorizes the Commission to exempt the State from applicable requirements of the Interstate Commerce Act. Provides for the reversion of such properties to the United States if all or part of them have been converted to a use that would adversely affect railroad operations. Sets forth provisions for rail properties within the boundaries of the Denali National Park and Preserve.
Bill· HRH.R. 4182 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1981
Fiscal Year 1981 Airport Development Authorization Act - Amends the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 to extend the airport development aid program through fiscal year 1981. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to obligate a specified sum for carrying out noise compatibility programs under the Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement Act of 1979. Authorizes the Secretary to approve certain applications for projects begun after September 30, 1980, and before the date of enactment of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4147 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1981
Airline Deregulation Amendments Act of 1981 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to modify the definition of "ticket agent" as used in such Act. Directs air carriers to file with the Civil Aeronautics Board until December 31, 1982, individual and joint fares and charges, classifications, rules, and services for or in connection with interstate and overseas passenger air transportation. Requires that such filings shall be made with the Secretary of Transportation between January 1, 1983, and December 31, 1984. Prohibits air carriers and ticket agents from charging or collecting greater or less or different compensation than that specified in such filings. Transfers the authority of the Board relating to foreign air transportation to the Department of Transportation. Accelerates to January 1, 1983, the transfer of specified authority of the Board. Allows the Board to approve any contract or agreement that reduces or eliminates competition if it finds that the contract or agreement is necessary to secure important public benefits, including the marketing and sale of transportation through ticket agents. Sets forth the expiration dates for specified authority of the Secretary relating to contract approvals. Revises the expiration date and contents of the Secretary's (currently the Board's) report to Congress concerning the implementation of such Act. Prohibits the Board from issuing any final order or rule in regard to agreements among air carriers and agreements among foreign air carriers insofar as those agreements provide for the accreditation and supervision of travel agents. Directs the Board to forward the recommendations and analyses concerning such proceedings to the Secretary for final disposition. Prohibits the Board and the Department from attaching an expiration date on any certificate of public convenience and necessity. Deletes provisions concerning the issuance of such certificates for temporary authority to provide air transportation. Requires that each air carrier or foreign air carrier shall keep on file with the Board after January 1, 1983, the established divisions of all joint rates, fares, and charges for air transportation in which such carrier participates.
Bill· SS. 1450 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1981
Airline Deregulation Amendments Act of 1981 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to modify the definition of "ticket agent" as used in such Act. Directs air carriers to file with the Civil Aeronautics Board until December 31, 1982, individual and joint fares and charges, classifications, rules, and services for or in connection with interstate and overseas passenger air transportation. Requires that such filings shall be made to the Secretary of Transportation between January 1, 1983, and December 31, 1984. Prohibits air carriers and ticket agents from charging or collecting greater or less or different compensation than that specified in such filings. Transfers the authority of the Board relating to foreign air transportation to the Department of Transportation. Accelerates to January 1, 1983, the transfer of specified authority of the Board. Allows the Board to approve any contract or agreement that reduces or eliminates competition if it finds that the contract or agreement is necessary to secure important public benefits, including the marketing and sale of transportation through ticket agents. Sets forth the expiration dates for specified authority of the Secretary relating to contract approvals. Revises the expiration date and contents of the Secretary's (formerly the Board's) report to Congress concerning the implementation of such Act. Prohibits the Board from issuing any final order or rule in regard to agreements among air carriers and agreements among foreign air carriers insofar as those agreements provide for the accreditation and supervision of travel agents. Directs the Board to forward the recommendations and analyses concerning such proceedings to the Secretary for final disposition. Prohibits the Board and the Department from attaching an expiration date on any certificate of public convenience and necessity. Deletes provisions concerning the issuance of such certificates for temporary authority to provide air transportation. Permits an air carrier to file an application with the Secretary seeking to revoke a temporary or experimental certificate to engage in foreign air transportation. Directs the Secretary to grant such application according to specified criteria. Requires that each air carrier or foreign air carrier shall keep on file with the Board after January 1, 1983, the established divisions of all joint rates, fares, and charges for air transportation in which such carrier participates.
Law· HRH.R. 4074 (97th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1981
Maritime Act of 1981 - Transfers all of the functions, powers, duties, assets, and liabilities of the Maritime Administration of the Department of Commerce to the Department of Transportation. Establishes the office of the Maritime Administrator to head the Maritime Administration. Transfers personnel employed in connection with the functions transferred by this Act. Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to make such incidental dispositions of personnel, assets, liabilities, records, and appropriations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Makes conforming amendments to specified Acts.
Bill· HRH.R. 4028 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1981
Rail Passenger Systems Act of 1981 - Amends the Rail Passenger Service Act to direct the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) to acquire the rights-of-way necessary for the operation of high-speed rail passenger service in accordance with this Act. Directs Amtrak to establish high-speed rail passenger service on 20 specified rail corridors. Encourages the provision of such rail passenger service by Amtrak employees, with Amtrak facilities and equipment. Directs Amtrak to implement a grade-crossing separation program in cooperation with private rail carriers. Directs Amtrak to use centrally generated electrical power produced by local electric utilities whenever possible. Directs the President to appoint a Presidential Rail Corridor Development Expediter to assist Amtrak in providing rail service under this Act. Authorizes Amtrak to guarantee loans for the purposes of this Act. Deletes appropriations for payments of loan principal for fiscal year 1982. Increases the sum available for loan guarantees under this Act.
Bill· SS. 1426 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1981
Civil Aeronautics Board Sunset Act of 1981 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to revise provisions concerning Federal preemption in regard to rates, routes, or services of air carriers. Repeals provisions concerning Civil Aeronautics Board reports on: (1) State subsidies for small community air service; and (2) air carrier marketing of tours. Eliminates certificates of public convenience and necessity for air carriers engaged in domestic transportation. Repeals special operating authorizations and requirements concerning certificates for all-cargo air service. Revises requirements concerning certification of fitness for foreign air transportation. Prohibits air carrier operating certificates from being issued unless applicants for such certificates comply with all applicable insurance regulations. Repeals provisions concerning the transportation of mail by air carriers. Grants the Civil Aeronautics Board the right to intervene in specified merger and interlocking relationship cases proceeding under the antitrust laws. Requires that the Board be a party to such actions which involve foreign air transportation. Amends such Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, and the Consumer Credit Protection Act to repeal provisions concerning the treatment of unfair competitive practices. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to revise provisions concerning guaranteed essential air transportation to small communities. Deregulates domestic cargo and mail air transportation. Declares the necessity of providing safe and adequate service for such transportation. Directs the Board to reduce reporting requirements imposed on air carriers under such Act to the minimum necessary to accomplish the purposes of such Act. Terminates the Civil Aeronautics Board and transfers specified functions to the Secretary of Transportation, the Postal Service, and the Federal Trade Commission. Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to make such determinations as the Board and the: (1) Secretary; (2) Postal Services; or (3) Commission may agree are necessary to effectuate such transfers. Declares that all orders, rules, and regulations issued or granted by the Board shall continue in effect according to their terms. Accelerates, to specified dates, the termination of the Board.
Bill· HRH.R. 3987 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1981
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit the amortization of leased track materials based on a 60-month period. Defines "leased track materials" as any depreciable railroad track material leased to a domestic common carrier by railroad. Specifies the amount of such deduction. Provides that such deduction shall be in lieu of a depreciation deduction. Qualifies leased track materials for the investment tax credit. Allows the credit to noncorporate lessors of such materials. Exempts the leasing of railroad track materials from the limitation on the deduction for losses of amounts considered at risk. Treats such materials as trade or business property for purposes of Internal Revenue Code provisions which extend special capital gains or ordinary loss treatment to the sale or exchange of trade or business property. Exempts depreciation deductions taken with respect to such property from recapture. Makes inapplicable to leased track materials the limitation on the deduction of interest on investment indebtedness. Removes gain from the sale or exchange of leased track materials as an item of tax preference for purposes of the minimum tax.
Bill· SS. 1402 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1981
Uniform Motor Vehicle Standards Act of 1981 - Prohibits a State from establishing or enforcing any regulation of commerce that imposes a limitation of: (1) less than 102 inches on the overall width of commercial motor vehicles operating on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways or other Federal-aid highways; and (2) less than 60 feet on the overall length of commercial motor vehicles operating in truck tractor-semitrailer combinations or less than 65 feet on the overall length of commercial motor vehicles operating in any other combination of units on such highways. Specifies that the total length of a single unit in such combinations shall not exceed 45 feet. Declares that a State shall prohibit neither commercial motor vehicle combinations consisting of a truck trailer and two trailing units on such highways nor impose a limitation of less than 65 feet for such combinations. Prohibits a State from enacting or enforcing any law that denies reasonable access to motor vehicles subject to this Act to and from the Interstate Highway System and the Federal-aid primary system. Directs the Secretary of Transportation or, upon request, the Attorney General, to institute a civil action for injunctive relief as may be appropriate to assure compliance with the provisions of this Act.
Bill· SS. 1389 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1981
National Port and Navigation Improvement Act of 1981 - Title I: Short Title: Findings and Purposes and Objectives; Definitions - Sets forth the findings of Congress concerning deep-draft commercial ports in the United States. Title II: Priority Navigation Projects - Directs the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to prepare, maintain, and submit to Congress within one year after enactment of this Act, a deep- draft commercial port maintenance program. Specifies that such program shall include a schedule of required maintenance dredging projects. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to submit to Congress a programmatic environmental impact statement, including an analysis of the adequacy of deep-draft commercial ports to accommodate increasing import and export trade. Requires the Secretary to enter into memorandums of agreement with: (1) the Administrator in regard to the disposal of dredged and fill material into navigable waters; and (2) the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce concerning the environmental aspects of the maintenance and improvement of federally authorized channels in deep-draft commercial ports. Provides for veto of such maintenance program and environmental impact statement by concurrent resolution of Congress within 60 days. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, for a period of five years (subject to reapproval by resolution of specified congressional committees), to perform maintenance dredging of federally authorized channels. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress modifications of existing environmental impact statements for certain navigation improvement projects. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake navigation improvements in deep-draft commercial ports on a priority basis under specified circumstances. Sets forth procedures by which the Secretary shall submit feasibility studies, survey reports, and environmental impact statements to Congress. Declares that the absence of a concurrent congressional resolution of disapproval within 60 days following receipt of such study, report, or environmental impact statement shall constitute a determination by Congress that: (1) the navigation improvement project is in the national interest for purposes of the Federal consistency provisions of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972; (2) the final environmental impact statement is adequate; and (3) the project is in compliance with the Water Pollution Control Act and the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act of 1972. Directs the Secretary to expedite construction and operation of marine cargo handling facilities at such deep-draft commercial ports. Exempts such environmental impact statements and other actions to carry out such projects from judicial review, with specified exceptions. Title III: Priority Navigation Project Financing - Requires that the Secretary and the port proposing such navigational improvements enter into an agreement which provides that such port pay no more than 40 percent of the project construction cost and no more than 25 percent of operation and maintenance costs. Declares that this Act shall not be construed to prohibit non-Federal public bodies from securing financing through means other than provided for in this Act. Authorizes an affected non-Federal public body to provide for recovery of its reimbursement obligations by the collection of user fees from vessels in commercial waterway transportation in such deep-draft ports. Authorizes the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretaries of Commerce, State, Transportation, Treasury, Energy, and Agriculture, the Attorney General, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to promulgate regulations and guidelines to govern such programs of non-Federal fee collection. Declares that this Act shall not be construed to prohibit the Department of the Army or other Federal authority to operate, maintain, or improve any deep-draft channel or deep-draft commercial port for purposes of Coast Guard navigation requirements or other national defense transportation requirements. Directs the Secretary of the Army to designate a cost allocation of or for national defense and noncommercial purposes of 60 percent for construction and 75 percent for operation and maintenance of deep-draft commercial port navigation improvement projects. Authorizes the Secretary to study, design, construct, rehabilitate, operate, and maintain such deep-draft ports without Federal contribution if the appropriate non-Federal public body agrees to reimburse the Federal Government for all related costs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from taxation the interest on obligations for such deep- draft commercial ports navigation improvement projects. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes appropriations. Allows the Secretary, upon congressional approval, to transfer funds from existing Department of the Army civil appropriations pending appropriation of such authorized sums. Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on the actual and anticipated receipts of the United States pursuant to this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 3977 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1981
National Port and Navigation Improvement Act of 1981 - Title I: Short Title: Findings and Purposes and Objectives; Definitions - Sets forth the findings of Congress concerning deep-draft commercial ports in the United States. Title II: Priority Navigation Projects - Directs the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to prepare, maintain, and submit to Congress within one year after enactment of this Act, a deep-draft commercial port maintenance program. Specifies that such program shall include a schedule of required maintenance dredging projects. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to submit to Congress a programmatic environmental impact statement, including an analysis of the adequacy of deep-draft commercial ports to accommodate increasing import and export trade. Requires the Secretary to enter into memorandums of agreement with: (1) the Administrator in regard to the disposal of dredged and fill material into navigable waters; and (2) the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce concerning the environmental aspects of the maintenance and improvement of federally authorized channels in deep-draft commercial ports. Provides for veto of such maintenance program and environmental impact statement by concurrent resolution of Congress within 60 days. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, for a period of five years (subject to reapproval by resolution of specified congressional committees), to perform maintenance dredging of federally authorized channels. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress modifications of existing environmental impact statements for certain navigation improvement projects. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake navigation improvements in deep-draft commercial ports on a priority basis under specified circumstances. Sets forth procedures by which the Secretary shall submit feasibility studies, survey reports, and environmental impact statements to Congress. Declares that the absence of a concurrent congressional resolution of disapproval within 60 days following receipt of such study, report, or environmental impact statement shall constitute a determination by Congress that: (1) the navigation improvement project is in the national interest for purposes of the Federal consistency provisions of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972; (2) the final environmental impact statement is adequate; and (3) the project is in compliance with the Water Pollution Control Act and the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972. Directs the Secretary to expedite construction and operation of marine cargo handling facilities at such deep-draft commercial ports. Exempts such environmental impact statements and other actions to carry out such projects from judicial review, with specified exceptions. Title III: Priority Navigation Project Financing - Requires that the Secretary and the port proposing such navigational improvements enter into an agreement which provides that such port pay no more than 40 percent of the project construction cost and no more than 25 percent of operation and maintenance costs. Declares that this Act shall not be construed to prohibit non-Federal public bodies from securing financing through means other than provided for in this Act. Authorizes an affected non-Federal public body to provide for recovery of its reimbursement obligations by the collection of user fees from vessels in commercial waterway transportation in such deep-draft ports. Authorizes the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretaries of Commerce, State, Transportation, Treasury, Energy, and Agriculture, the Attorney General, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to promulgate regulations and guidelines to govern such programs of non-Federal fee collection. Declares that this Act shall not be construed to prohibit the Department of the Army or other Federal authority to operate, maintain, or improve any deep-draft channel or deep-draft commercial port for purposes of Coast Guard navigation requirements or other national defense transportation requirements. Directs the Secretary of the Army to designate a cost allocation of or for national defense and noncommercial purposes of 60 percent for construction and 75 percent for operation and maintenance of deep-draft commercial port navigation improvement projects. Authorizes the Secretary to study, design, construct, rehabilitate, operate, and maintain such deep-draft ports without Federal contribution if the appropriate non-Federal public body agrees to reimburse the Federal Government for all related costs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from taxation the interest on obligations for such deep- draft commercial ports navigation improvement projects. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes appropriations. Allows the Secretary, upon congressional approval, to transfer funds from existing Department of the Army civil appropriations pending appropriation of such authorized sums. Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on the actual and anticipated receipts of the United States pursuant to this Act.
Bill· SS. 1376 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1981
Airline Subsidy Reduction Act of 1981 - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to prohibit the Civil Aeronautics Board from paying any compensation to an air carrier for the transportation of mail: (1) to or from specified airports; and (2) between points within the State of Alaska. Directs that rates of compensation paid for such transportation shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of a specified local service class subsidy rate. Alters the date after which an air carrier may file an application with the Board to have such compensation terminated. Directs the Board and the Secretary of Transportation, by January 1, 1982, to report to Congress on the possibility of limiting subsidy payments for small community air service. Sets forth the effective dates of various provisions of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 3924 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1981
Prohibits funds that are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years after September 30, 1981, from being expended for the collection of user fees imposed by the United States Coast Guard for its services.
Bill· HRH.R. 3906 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1981
Directs that, until completion of the 1990 decennial census by the Bureau of the Census, the population of any area for purpose of determining whether or not such area is an urbanized area under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 shall be the population of such area determined on the basis of the 1970 or 1980 decennial census, whichever is greater.
Bill· HRH.R. 3901 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1981
Airline Subsidy Reduction Act of 1981 - Prohibits the Civil Aeronautics Board from paying any compensation under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to an air carrier for the transportation of mail: (1) to or from specified airports; and (2) between points within the State of Alaska. Directs that rates of compensation paid for such transportation shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of a specified local service class subsidy rate. Alters the date after which an air carrier may file an application with the Board to have such compensation terminated. Directs the Board and the Secretary of Transportation, by January 1, 1982, to report to Congress on the possibility of limiting subsidy payments for small community air service.
Bill· SS. 1351 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1981
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to increase the authorization for a four-lane highway bridge between Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Washington.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 145 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1981
Declares it the sense of Congress that Amtrak should continue to operate service on routes as specified in the Rail Passenger Service Act.
Bill· SS. 1341 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1981
Amends the Inland Waterways Revenue Act of 1978 to make applicable to the Tennessee- Tombigbee Waterway specified provisions relating to the tax on fuel used in commercial transportation on inland waterways.
Bill· SS. 1296 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1981
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Authorization Act of 1981 - Title I: Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety - Amends the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to carry out such Act. Title II: Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings - Amends the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 for: (1) bumper standards; (2) an automobile consumer information study; (3) diagnostic inspection demonstration projects; and (4) odometer requirements.
Bill· HRH.R. 3702 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1981
Transit Assistance Act of 1981 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to prohibit a discretionary capital grant or loan from being made by the Secretary of Transportation unless the applicant has sufficient capability to maintain the facilities and equipment purchased with such grant or loan. Revises the Federal share of such grants and loans. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 through 1986 for the purposes of such Act, including research and development and training and demonstration projects. Authorizes appropriations, beginning in fiscal year 1983, for administrative costs necessary to carry out the functions of such Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make capital grants to States and local public bodies for repair or replacement of public transportation equipment and facilities damaged by natural disaster or catastrophic occurrence. Sets forth conditions for approval of such grants. Authorizes appropriations for formula grants for fiscal years 1981 through 1984 for: (1) urban mass transit; (2) construction or operating assistance; (3) commuter rail and fixed guideway systems; and, for fiscal years 1982 through 1986, (4) the purchase of buses and related equipment or the construction of bus-related facilities; and (5) areas other than urbanized areas. Authorizes a Governor to transfer part of a specified apportionment made to his or her State to supplement funds apportioned to the State for areas other than urbanized areas. Requires that such amounts so transferred be utilized for construction projects. Directs that, after fiscal year 1983, unobligated or deobligated funds for urban mass transit grants shall be added to the amount available for apportionment for buses, bus-related equipment, and construction of bus-related facilities. Declares that apportionments for fiscal year 1975 shall lapse on September 30, 1977, and apportionments for fiscal year 1976 shall lapse on September 30, 1978. Prohibits the Secretary from approving a project for the payment of operating expenses of urban mass transit services after September 30, 1984. Repeals provisions that require that rates charged elderly and handicapped persons for transportation during non-peak hours be no more than one-half of peak hour full fares. Eliminates grants for the establishment and operation of transportation centers at nonprofit institutions of higher learning. Revises the criteria for the award of contracts for acquisition of rolling stock, including buses. Provides a local option for transit programs for the handicapped. Lists the required elements of such programs. Declares that a recipient of funds under such Act may not be required to retrofit: (1) any bus to provide for wheelchair users; or (2) any fixed guideway system to accommodate handicapped persons. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within three years after the date of enactment of this Act on the service being provided by apportionment recipients to handicapped persons. Prohibits sums apportioned by the Secretary after September 30, 1982, for formula grants for areas other than urbanized areas from being used for operating expenses or costs incurred under purchase of service agreements. Repeals provisions concerning terminal development programs and intercity bus service. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to prohibit the authorization of appropriations for a specified waterborne transportation demonstration project after September 30, 1981. Amends the National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974 to repeal provisions dealing with the investigation of safety hazards in urban mass transportation systems.