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United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Revises the Highway Revenue Act of 1954 by changing the Highway Trust Fund to the Transportation Trust Fund. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 120 note)
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1975
Authorizes, under the International Travel Act of 1961, additional appropriations for transition periods in 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979, to carry out specified programs funded under such Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Interior for fiscal years 1976-1978 to promote, through the National Park Service, travel within the United States. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to promote and develop travel within the United States through activities which are in the public interest and which do not complete with activities of any State, city, or private agency.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to upgrade roads in the area of the Raystown Dam project in Pennsylvania.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1975
Airport and Airway Development Act Extension - Continues in effect for an additional 90 days the current authorization for programs under the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1975
Authorizes additional appropriations under the International Travel Act through fiscal year 1978. Authorizes additional appropriations for promoting travel within the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1975
Requests the Secretary of Transportation to provide financial assistance to Alaska for purposes of repairing and reconstructing highways damaged by traffic resulting from the construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1975
Provides that Members of the House of Representatives and employees of the House, except in specified cases, may not be reimbursed for the difference between the cost of first-class air travel accommodations and the cost of other air travel accommodations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1975
Airport and Airway Development Act Extension - Continues in effect for an additional 90 days the current authorization for programs under the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1975
Railroad Right-of-Way Protection Act - Title I: Findings, Purposes, and Definitions - Makes Congressional findings, sets forth the purposes of this Act, and defines the terms used in this Act. Title II: Interstate Railroad System - Requires, within thirty days after the date of enactment of this Act, all rail carriers to provide the Secretary of Transportation and the Rail Services Planning Office with one copy each of the latest edition of all employees operating timetables, with related special instructions; all temporary and semipermament "slow orders" currently in effect; all other current restrictions on train operation not included in the preceding items; and a verified statement indicating the maximum speeds authorized on each and every rail line for freight and passenger trains at all times since January 1, 1935, including the dates between which such speeds were authorized. Requires additions, deletions, and changes in such information to be promptly forwarded to the Secretary and the Office within seven days after any such addition, deletion, or change is made. Provides that the initial Interstate Railroad System shall consist of all rail lines operated within the United States by domestic railroad companies which as of the date of enactment of this Act are subject to traffic usage of at least 10,000,000 gross ton-miles per year per mile of rail line. Sets forth a procedure for additions to, and deletions from, such System. Requires the System to promote and enhance the ability of rail carriers to provide modern, efficient, and economical interstate rail freight and passenger service. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of the Army to study the long term capital improvement needs of System rights-of-ways. Title III: Interstate Railroad Administration - Establishes, in the Department of Transportation, the Interstate Railroad Administration whose functions shall be to acquire, rehabilitate, maintain, and modernize the rail lines of the System so as to fully develop the potential of modern rail service in meeting the transportation requirements of the Nation. Requires the Administration to make quarterly and annual reports on its activities and finances. Title IV: Acquisition of Rail Lines by Administration and States - Permits any railroad company to convey to the Administration its right, title and interest in all its rail lines included within the System. Directs the Administration to convey rail lines deleted from the System to the State in which such rail line is located. Directs the Administration and the States to assume responsibility for the maintenance and rehabilitation of rail lines so acquired. Establishes, within the Treasury of the United States, a Rail Rehabilitation Trust Fund. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Trust fund $500,000,000 for each fiscal year beginning June 30, 1975, and terminating September 30, 1981. Stipulates that amounts in the Trust Fund shall be available for rehabilitating rail lines in the System in accordance with maintenance standards prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation, and for making grants to the States to rehabilitate State rail lines. Requires rail carriers operating over rail lines of the Administration to pay a user charge. Establishes a Rail Maintenance Fund in the treasury to provide funds for the maintenance of rail lines operated by the Administration. Directs that amounts received from the user charge be deposited in the Fund. Title V: Maintenance of and Access to Rail Lines of Railroad Companies - Requires rail lines in the System which are not conveyed to the Administration to be maintained in accordance with specified standards. Prohibits the abandonment of rail lines by railroad carriers without permission from the Interstate Commerce Commission. Title VI: Protection of Employees - Provides that no owner or operator of rail lines shall contract out any project for rehabilitation or maintenance work required by this Act of a value of over $450 per month in labor and materials which is normally performed by employees in any bargaining unit covered by a labor agreement between such owner or operator and any labor organization. Provides that owners and operators of rail lines shall take such action as may be necessary to insure that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors in the performance of construction work financed with the assistance of funds received under this Act shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act. Requires that protective arrangements be made for railroad employees in any transaction for access to rail lines, transfer of freight traffic, reduction of rail line capacity, or abandonment of rail lines. Title VII: Oversight and Enforcement - Establishes an Advisory Committee to: (1) monitor the activities of the Secretary, Commission, Administration, and States pursuant to this Act; and (2) submit to the Secretary a report evaluating the effectiveness of this Act in achieving the objectives thereof declared by the Congress. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any State or any rail carrier to disobey, disregard, or fail to adhere to the provisions of this Act or to any rule, regulation, order, or standard prescribed by the Secretary under this Act. Sets forth civil penalties for violations of the provisions of this Act. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out the provisions of this Act and to perform any other related duties which may be imposed upon him by law. Title VIII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Exempts persons contracting for the joint use of railroad tracks and facilities from all prohibitions of existing law, including the antitrust laws of the United States insofar as may be necessary to enable them to enter into such contracts and to perform their obligations thereunder.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1975
Local Rail Service Amendments - States that the purpose of this Act is to establish procedures for reviewing local-service line decisions which will give full and adequate consideration to the national goals specified by the Regional Rail Reorganization Act. Requires the Consolidated Rail Corporation to collect information sufficient to permit an accurate determination of the revenues, costs, and operations of light density rail lines as operating and economic units. Specifies that the final system plan required by the Regional Rail Reorganization Act shall designate those rail lines which the United States Railway Association determines: (1) are not required to provide rail service to meet the goals and requirements of this Act and which should not be transferred to the Corporation or offered for sale to a profitable railroad at that time, and (2) what rail carrier should be required to perform interim service over each such line under subsidy as provided by this Act. Requires that copies of the final system plan and the local service plan be delivered to each district court of the United States or any other court having jurisdiction over a railroad in the region. States that interim service must be provided over such lines until the local service plan is implemented. Authorizes the Secreatry of Transportation to reimburse the Corporation or other railroad performing the service for any loss which it shall incur in the operation of such lines, and to pay to the owner of rail properties over which such service is performed an amount representing the return on the value thereof. Directs the Rail Service Planning Office to solicit, evaluate, and provide the Corporation with a report summarizing the views of specified individuals with respect to present and future rail service on such lines. Sets forth procedures governing reinstitution of service on out-of-service lines. Requires the Corporation to deliver the local service plan to Congress within 660 days following the effective date of the final service plan. Authorizes appropriations of specified sums to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1975
Prohibits nonnational flag carriers engaged in an given trade in the foreign commerce of the United States from charging rates which are lower than the lowest corresponding rate charged by any national flag carrier in that trade unless such rate is determined by the Federal Maritime Commission to be compensatory on a commercial cost basis. Sets forth procedures to be followed by the Commission in determining whether rates charged by nonnational carriers meet the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1975
Provides that all or any portion of the amounts apportioned to a State for a rail-crossing program may be transferred to other highway safety programs authorized by the Highway Safety Act of 1973 if such State has no rail-highway crossings on its Federal-aid system.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1975
Harbor Drift Removal Act - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to reduce and remove drift and debris from publicly maintained commercial boat harbors of the United States and from the land and water areas immediately adjacent. Provides that the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall be responsible for developing projects for such removal. Sets the Federal share at 75 percent of the total cost of any project. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake projects without specific congressional approval when the total Federal cost for the project is less than $400,000. Authorizes to be appropriated an additional $11,700,000 for the removal of drift from the New York harbor.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Authorizes the appropriation of $211,000,000 to be used as a direct Federal payment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to continue the construction of the Washington Metrorail System in fiscal year 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Declares that the Dark Head Creek portion of the Middle River Waterway in the community of Middle River, Baltimore County, Maryland, is nonnavigable water of the United States. Gives coordinates setting out such area and provides that it shall be established as a combined pierhead and bulkhead line. Directs that any project heretofore authorized in such area shall not be authorized after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Directs the modification of the project for Tuttle Creek Lake, Big Blue River, Kansas, by authorizing the construction of an access road by the Corps of Engineers. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $220,000 for the purposes of such construction.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Authorizes the Corps of Engineers to provide for the modification of the project for Tuttle Creek Lake, Big Blue River, Kansas, by the construction of a replacement bridge to take the place of one severely damaged by floodwaters in the fall of 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Calls for a concerted effort to come to an agreement with industry on a plan to increase the use of passive restraint systems on the roads. Defers rulemaking with respect to passive restraints on the highways until they are proven to reduce deaths and injury.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1975
Airport and Airway Development Extension Act - Authorizes the use of funds under the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 to mitigate adverse environmental effects resulting from airport development or the operation of aircraft. Provides under such Act for reliever airports designated by the Secretary of Transportation as having a primary function to relieve congestion at air carrier airports. Defines terms used in such Act. Increases the appropriations authorized under such Act. Provides for direct payments to specified sponsors during fiscal years 1976 through 1980. Requires metropolitan airport development projects to prepare environmental impact statements. Excludes airport development projects outside metropolitan areas from the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act, unless items of special significance such as parks or historical sites are involved. Directs the Secretary to establish a civil avaition information distribution program within each region of the Federal Aviation Administration. States that such program shall be designed so as to provide State and local school administrators, college and university officials, and officers of civic and other interested organizations, upon request, with informational materials and expertise on various aspects of civil aviation.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1975
Railroad Right-of-Way Improvement Act - Declares it the purpose of this Act to provide, during times of high unemployment, assistance to create employment opportunities in rebuilding the Nation's railroad rights-of-way. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to provide financial assistance during times of high unemployment for the purpose of providing employment for unemployed and under employed persons in jobs maintaining or rebuilding railroad rights-of-way. Authorizes, for such purposes, appropriations of $500,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Requires such funds be expended only for wages and employment benefits. Prohibits further obligation of such funds to be made subsequent to a determination by the Secretary that the rate of national unemployment (seasonally adjusted) has receded below 4.5 percent for three consecutive months. Requires applications for financial assistance for a railroad right-of-way employment program to contain specified assurances. Directs the Secretary to transmit to Congress at least annually a detailed report setting forth the activities conducted under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1975
Calls for a concerted effort to come to an agreement with industry on a plan to increase the use of passive restraint systems on the roads. Defers rulemaking with respect to passive restraints on the highways until they are proven to reduce deaths and injury.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1975
Harbor Drift Removal Act - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to reduce and remove drift and debris from publicly maintained commercial boat harbors of the United States and from the land and water areas immediately adjacent. Provides that the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall be responsible for developing projects for such removal. Sets the Federal share at 75 percent of the total cost of any project. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake projects without specific congressional approval when the total Federal cost for the project is less than $400,000. Authorizes to be appropriated an additional $11,700,000 for the removal of drift from the New York harbor.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1975
Transportation Statistics Act - Establishes a National Center for Transportation Statistics within the Office of the Secretary of Transportation. Declares the purpose of the Center to be to assure the collection and dissemination of statistics and other data related to transportation in the United States and other nations. Sets forth as duties of the Center: (1) the collection and reporting of statistics on transportation in the United States and in the foreign commerce of the United States, including statistics on the movement of passengers and freight by commercial and private modes; (2) the coordination of all Federal transportation statistics programs; (3) the provision of assistance to other Federal agencies and State and local transportation agencies in improving their statical operations; (4) the development of standardized data collection methods; and (5) the review of foreign transportation activities. Directs the establishment of an Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics with members to be appointed by the Secretary of Transportation. Authorizes the Director of the Center to require all persons engaged in commercial transportation to submit such reports and statistics as the Center may require.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1975
Authorizes air carriers to grant reduced rate transportation, under the Federal Aviation Act, to individuals twenty-one or younger, adn sixty-five and older, on a space-available basis. Prohibits air carriers from reserving any seating capacity on any regularly scheduled flight without receipt of one-fourth the tariff for air transportation. Prohibits the refund of such deposit unless the reservation is cancelled more than twenty-four hours before the scheduled departure of the reserved flight. Prohibits air carriers from overbooking their flights.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1975
Suspends, under the Tariff Schedules of the United States, the duty on open-top hopper cars exported for repairs or alterations on or before June 30, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1975
Airport and Airway Development Extension Act - Authorizes the use of funds under the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 to mitigate adverse environmental effects resulting from airport development or the operation of aircraft. Provides under such Act for reliever airports designated by the Secretary of Transportation as having a primary function to relieve congestion at air carrier airports. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for the airport and airway development program established by such Act, through fiscal year 1980. Revises the distribution formula for funds appropriated for such program. Sets forth additional requirements for project application approvals under such program. Authorizes the Secretary to provide funds under such Act for terminal development in specified nonrevenue producing public use areas.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1975
Railroad Revitalization Act - Prohibits the Interstate Commerce Commission from declaring a common carrier rate unlawful on the basis that it is too low. Requires railroads to notify the Governor of each affected State and users and potential users before initiating rail line abandonment proceedings with the Commission. Revises standards and procedures for such abandonment proceedings. Provides that the Commission shall have exclusive authority to determine intrastate rates if the State involved has not acted within 120 days upon a request by a railroad to change such rates. Places specified limitations upon the Commission's power to suspend railroad rate changes. Prohibits States from imposing discriminatory taxes upon railroads. Directs the Commission to issue regulations prescribing uniform cost and revenue accounting methods for railroads. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to guarantee loans made to railroads for financing the acquisition and maintenance of rail transportation facilities and equipment, up to an aggregate of $2,000,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to require an applicant for financial assistance pursuant to this Act to enter into a merger or consolidation agreement as a condition for receiving such assistance. Provides that such agreements shall not be subject to antitrust laws. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct research and development in order to promote a national rolling stock management information system which would be capable of expediting the movement of rolling stock on a national basis. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study respecting: (1) the costs to individual railroads of installing compatible rolling stock management information systems; and (2) the economic, safety, and service benefits to be derived from compatible systems.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1975
Railroad Revitalization Act - Prohibits the Interstate Commerce Commission from declaring a common carrier rate unlawful on the basis that it is too low. Requires railroads to notify the Governor of each affected State and users and potential users before initiating rail line abandonment proceedings with the Commission. Revises standards and procedures for such abandonment proceedings. Provides that the Commission shall have exclusive authority to determine intrastate rates if the State involved has not acted within 120 days upon a request by a railroad to change such rates. Places specified limitations upon the Commission's power to suspend railroad rate changes. Prohibits States from imposing discriminatory taxes upon railroads. Directs the Commission to issue regulations prescribing uniform cost and revenue accounting methods for railroads. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to guarantee loans made to railroads for financing the acquisition and maintenance of rail transportation facilities and equipment, up to an aggregate of $2,000,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to require an applicant for financial assistance pursuant to this Act to enter into a merger or consolidation agreement as a condition for receiving such assistance. Provides that such agreements shall not be subject to antitrust laws. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct research and development in order to promote a national rolling stock management information system which would be capable of expediting the movement of rolling stock on a national basis. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study respecting: (1) the costs to individual railroads of installing compatible rolling stock management information systems; and (2) the economic, safety, and service benefits to be derived from compatible systems.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1975
Revises the definitions of "air commerce" and "air transportation" under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to include intrastate matters as defined by such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1975
Increases the Federal share of a rail service continuation subsidy under the Regional Rail Reorganization Act to 100 percent during each of the two fiscal years following the effective date of the final system plan, 90 percent during the succeeding fiscal year, and 70 percent for each fiscal year thereafter. Requires the United States Railway Association to analyze specific railroad branch lines for inclusion in the final system plan.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Authorizes the Federal Maritime Commission to require annual, periodical, or special reports from every common carrier by water in interstate commerce. Provides that such reports shall give an account of the affairs of the carrier in such form and detail as may be described by the Commission. Provides that the statistics, tables, and figures contained in such reports shall be preserved as public records, and may be received as evidence for what they purport to be for the purposes of Commission investigations and judicial proceedings.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Requires the capital cities of the States (other than Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico) to be connected to the Interstate System of highways. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 103)
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
States that the Airlines Mutual Aid Agreement approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board is adverse to the public interest and is hereby terminated. States that the effective date of this Act is February 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1975
Restricts the authority of the Army Corps of Engineers to supervise waterways activities to navigable waters which are presently used, or are susceptible to use in their natural condition or by reasonable improvement, as a means to transport interstate or foreign commerce. Abolishes Corps authority over the discharge of fill material into such waterways. Permits the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Engineers to waive jointly any requirements they may have for review and approval of any activities on waters of the United States if the Chief of Engineers determines that such activities will not have a substantial adverse impact on the affected waters for their use to transport interstate or foreign commerce and can be effectively regulated by the State concerned.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1975
National Transportation Services Board Act - Title I: National Transportation Services Board - Establishes the National Transportation Services Board as an independent agency of the executive branch of Government. Abolishes the Department of Transportation, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Federal Maritime Commission, and the United States Railway Association, and transfers all the functions of such agencies to the Board. Sets forth the qualifications and terms of office for the members of the Board. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Board such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Title II: National Transportation Policy and Planning - Directs the Board to develop a single national transportation policy and to develop and recommend legislation to implement such policy. Directs the Board to prepare a National Rail Services Plan on the basis of studies and reports prepared in accordance with the requirements set forth in this Act. Directs the Board to publish such plan in the Federal Register and to submit such plan to Congress. Provides for Congressional disapproval of such plan. Authorizes $35,000,000 to be appropriated for the preparation of such plan. Title III: Acquisition of Railroad Rights-of-Way and Certain other Properties - Directs the Board to: (1) acquire by purchase or condemnation such railroad rights-of-way, track, and appurtenant property, equipment, and structures as are necessary for the operation of such rights-of-way and track to carry out the National Rail Services Plan established pursuant to this Act; and (2) enter into appropriate arrangements with the railroads for the use by such railroads of such rights-of-way, track, property, equipment, and structures in carrying out such Plan in return for the payment of an agreed upon fee calculated upon gross ton-miles of locomotive and train operation or upon such other standard or standards as may be determined by the Board. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to pay for the property acquired pursuant to this title. Title IV: Abandonment Moratorium and Alternative Service - Provides that no rail service may be discontinued without approval by the Board. Prohibits the Board from approving any petition for rail service discontinuance unless it determines that no community will be adversely affected. Authorizes a railroad whose discontinuance petition has been denied to apply for a rail service continuation subsidy. Provides that a railroad which earned an average rate of return of less than 10 percent of its invested capital in its last five fiscal years, is entitled to financial assistance on rail service which it proposes to discontinue in a petition to the Board if the Board determines that such service is unprofitable to operate and could not continue to be operated without Federal assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1975
Transportation Statistics Act - Establishes a National Center for Transportation Statistics within the office of the Secretary of Transportation. Declares the purpose of the Center to be to assure the collection and dissemination of statistics and other data related to transportation in the United States and other nations. Sets forth as duties of the Center: (1) the collection and reporting of statistics on transportation in the United States and in the foreign commerce of the United States, including statistics on the movement of passengers and freight by commercial and private models; (2) the coordination of all Federal transportation statistics programs; (3) the provision of assistance to other Federal agencies and State and local transportation agencies in improving their statistical operations; (4) the development of standardized data collection methods; and (5) the review of foreign transportation activities. Directs the establishment of an Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics, with members to be appointed by the Secretary of Transportation. Authorizes the Director of the Center to require all persons engaged in commercial transportation to submit such reports and statistics as the Center may require. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1975
Alternative Vehicle Propulsion Systems Research and Development Act - Declares it to be the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to: (1) demonstrate the commercial feasibility of all steam, electric, hybrid, and other alternative propulsion systems for vehicles for urban and rural individual and business use; (2) to encourage research and development in new technologies for all such vehicles; and (3) to provide incentives for consumers, government, and industry to purchase and utilize alternative vehicles. Directs the Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration to establish the Alternative Vehicle Research and Development Project. Specifies the aims of the project, including promoting research and development of alternative vehicle technology and ascertaining consumer needs and desires for alternative vehicles. Authorizes the Administrator to enter into such contracts as may be necessary to provide for the production, within one year of the enactment of this Act, of significant numbers of urban passenger and commercial vehicles emphasizing alternative propulsion systems. Stipulates that not more than 50 percent of such contracts shall be with the major auto companies. Requires the Administrator, within 120 days of enactment of this Act, to promulgate performance standards and criteria for alternative engines which are suitable for urban vehicles. Directs the Administrator to make such arrangements as may be necessary: (1) for the introduction of alternative vehicles into the vehicle fleets of State and local governments and Federal agencies; and (2) for the introduction of such vehicles into individual and business use. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study to determine the existence of any factors which may tend to bias transportation systems against the use of alternative vehicles, and to report the results of such study to the Congress. Authorizes to be appropriated a sum not to exceed $50,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978 for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1975
Stipulates that specified provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act prohibiting undue preferences or prejudices in the rates charged by common carriers by motor vehicle shall not be construed to authorize through routes and joint rates to or from the State of Hawaii if the motor carrier segment of the transportation is confined to the commercial zones of ports and contiguous commercial zones.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1975
Authorizes the construction of a lock and dam project on the Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois and Missouri by the Corp of Engineers in accordance with plans approved by the Secretary of the Army on July 14, 1969. Provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed as authorizing a twelve-foot channel above Alton, Illinois. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1975
Permits signs and notices for motorists to get information about travel-oriented services and facilities along the Federal Interstate System of highways. States that such signs must conform to national standards promulgated by the Secretary of Transportation under the authority of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1975
Emergency Rail Transportation Improvement and Employment Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to authorize the Secretary of Transportation in consultation with the Secretary of Labor to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants, for programs aimed at reducing unemployment and at repairing, rehabilitating, or improving essential railroad roadbeds and facilities. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to provide financial assistance in the form of grants to eligible applicants for projects that involve the repair, rehabilitation or improvement of railroad roadbeds and facilities that best fulfill specified objectives. Provides that such grants shall be expended for the payment of wages. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants for materials and equipment assistance, upon assurances that other financing is not. Sets forth guidelines and procedures for grant and other financial assistance applications. Sets forth employment priorities applicable to projects financed under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $600,000,000 for the payment of wages, $100,000,000 for materials and equipment assistance, and $7,000,000 for administrative expenses, to remain available for obligation until December 31, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1975
Transfers all functions of the Secretary of Agriculture under the Food Stamp Act to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Declares that a household shall not participate in the food stamp program while any of its members is on strike due to a labor dispute. Exempts any such household that qualified for food stamps prior to the start of such strike. Stipulates that any individual who is receiving at least one-half of his income from any member of another household shall not be considered as a member of a household for purposes of the Food Stamp Act of 1964. Directs the Secretary to prescribe rules for the purpose of determining the eligibility of such person.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Omnibus Rail Act - Title I: Alternative Rail Reorganization Plan - Directs the United States Railway Association to formulate and transmit to Congress an alternate plan to that required in the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 for the preservation of essential rail service in the northeast and midwest regions of the United States. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to formulate such plan. Title II: Modern Rail Transportation Act - Permits any railroad to abandon, discontinue, or change rail service, notwithstanding the laws of any State or order of any State agency or court, 90 days after notifying the Secretary of Transportation of such plans. Authorizes the Secretary to prohibit such proposed abandonment, discontinuation, or change if he finds that such action is necessary to the national or regional economy, or to the national defense. Requires the Secretary to reimburse railroads for losses incurred as a result of continued operation. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to make such reimbursement. Permits any railroad to establish and revise rates, fare and charges for the transportation of property so long as such rates, fares, and charges are nondiscriminatory, and are established in accordance with specified factors. Authorizes the imposition of a fine of not more than $10,000 for any railroad, or officer or agent which knowingly sets discriminatory rates or makes rebates to shippers. Title III: Reformation of Railroad Work Rules - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to formulate and report within one year to the Congress a plan for reforming railroad work rules, including recommendations for necessary legislation to implement such plan and protect existing railroad employees. Authorizes appropriations necessary for such purposes. Title IV: National Transportation Right-of-Way Land Bank - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire, other than by condemnation, title to railroad rights-of-way which are not being used to provide rail services. Provides that all such acquired rights-of-way shall be maintained by the Secretary in a National Transportation Right-of-Way Land Bank and may be made available on a lease basis to public or private entities to be used for public recreational purposes or other public purposes. Authorizes to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires any nursing home, which provides services under State plans approved under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, fully to disclose to the State licensing agency the identity of each person who has any ownership interest in such home or is the owner (in whole or in part) of any mortgage, deed of trust, note, or other obligation secured (in whole or in part) by such home.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires any nursing home, which provides services under State plans approved under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, fully to disclose to the State licensing agency the identity of each person who has any ownership interest in such home or is the owner (in whole or in part) of any mortgage, deed of trust, note, or other obligation secured (in whole or in part) by such home.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Requires any nursing home, which provides services under State plans approved under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, fully to disclose to the State licensing agency the identity of each person who has any ownership interest in such home or is the owner (in whole or in part) of any mortgage, deed of trust, note, or other obligation secured (in whole or in part) by such home.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides, under the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act, for the establishment within the Energy Research and Development Administration of a Division of Ground Propulsion Systems. Authorizes research, development, and demonstration of ground propulsion systems and states that such activities shall be conducted so as to contribute to specified goals, including the improvement of and verifying of ground propulsion systems with emphasis on efficiency, performance, and usefulness. Defines "ground propulsion system" as the engine, transmission, or drive, and associated controls, necessary to power automobiles, trucks, trains, buses, and selected light marine vehicles. Authorizes to be appropriated, for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1977; and $100,000,000 for fiscal years 1978-80.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Provides that all or any portion of the amount apportioned to any State in accordance with the rail- highway crossings program of the Highways Safety Act of 1973 may be transferred to other highway safety programs if such State has no rail-highway crossings on its Federal-aid highway system.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Shellfish Area Management Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, to establish a National Shellfish Advisory Committee. Directs the Committee to review all aspects of the shellfish industry, including the impact of Federal legislation affecting water quality on the industry and existive standards with respect to bacteria, pesticides, and toxic metals by which the wholesomeness of shellfish is determined. Directs the Committee to report the the findings of such review to the Secretary and to Congress by June 30, 1977. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to coastal States for the improvement of shell- fish resources. Requires Congressional review of all proposed Federal regulations affecting the shellfish industry with respect to interstate commerce.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Prohibits the imposition of a tax, under the Internal Revenue Code, upon any aircraft owned and operated by the Civil Air Patrol if such aircraft are used in search and rescue missions by the Civil Air Patrol.