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Bill· HRH.R. 7391 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1982
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to transport to the decedent's place of burial the remains of a member of the uniformed services entitled to retired or retainer pay who dies in a military medical facility.
Bill· HRH.R. 7369 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1982
Infrastructure Revitalization Act of 1982 - Title I: Capital Investment Budget - Federal Capital Investment Budget Act of 1982 - Requires the President to include with each budget on or after January 1, 1984, a special analysis of Federal capital investments. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to promulgate regulations providing for the consistent classification of Federal capital investment spending. Title II: Dedicated Revenue Incentives - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make it out of order for either the House or the Senate to consider any budget legislation which includes or assumes budget process enforcement devices restricting or impeding any legislation in which the spending authority or budget authority is derived from any trust fund where the amount of anticipated receipts (dedicated revenues) or the budget authority estimated to result exceeds the estimated amount of total new obligational authority. Title III: National Commission on the Rebuilding of America - Establishes the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America to study and report on the state of the Nation's infrastructure. Directs the Commission to submit its final report to the Congress and the President within one year of its first meeting. Terminates the Commission six months after the submission of such report. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title.
Bill· HRH.R. 7360 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1982
Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 - Title I: Highway Improvement Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to revise the authorization of appropriations for FY 1984 through 1990 for the Interstate Highway System. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to apportion, for FY 1984, the sums authorized to be appropriated for expenditures on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways according to specified factors. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1982 to conform to provisions of this Act. Sets forth limitations on obligations for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for FY 1983 through 1986. Excludes from such limitations obligations for emergency relief and certain accelerated bridge projects. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to conform to provisions of this title. Prohibits the Secretary from distributing amounts for administrative expenses and forest highways. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1986 for: (1) the Federal-aid primary system in rural areas; (2) the Federal-aid secondary system in rural areas; (3) the Federal-aid urban system; (4) forest highways; and (5) public lands highways. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1986 for: (1) Indian reservation roads and bridges; (2) the territorial highway program in the Virgin Islands; and (3) the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Repeals provisions of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 which authorizes certain demonstration projects between the States of New Mexico and Texas. Requires States which receive funds for FY 1983 and 1984 in excess of FY 82 funds to give priority consideration to specified primary routes and railroad-highway crossing demonstration projects. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to increase the authorized funding for FY 1984 for interstate resurfacing and authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987. Makes funds available from the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1986 for substitute highway projects. Authorizes sums as may be necessary from the general fund of the Treasury for substitute public mass transit projects. Authorizes the Secretary to distribute 25 percent of both substitute project funds, and requires congressional approval of cost estimates for the remaining percentages before apportionment. Requires reapportionment of unobligated funds which remain available for the fiscal year for which apportioned. Makes any route statutorily designated after March 7, 1978, ineligible for substitute highway funding. Allows the Secretary to extend the approval deadline (September 30, 1983) for substitute projects and withdrawals for any route which on May 12, 1982, is under a judicial injunction prohibiting its construction. Extends the advance construction procedures and bond retirement provisions applicable to the Interstate System to substitute highway projects. Changes apportionment formulas for the Federal-aid primary system and interstate resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing. Requires, for purposes of primary apportionment, that the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa be considered as one State. Makes the mileage limitations for the Federal-aid systems applicable to such territories. Increases the Federal share for interstate resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing for highways that the Secretary determines are energy-impacted roads. Requires a value engineering or other cost reduction analysis on Federal-aid system projects with construction costs in excess of a specified amount. Requires the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of the safety cost-effectiveness of geometric design criteria of current standards for construction and reconstruction of certain highways. Requires the Academy to propose standards to preserve and extend the service life of such highways and enhance highway safety. Provides for the submission of such report to Congress for approval. Permits States to place State-operated vending machines in rest and recreation areas and in safety rest areas located on rights-of-way of the Interstate System. Changes the circumstances for suspension of the general requirements of competitive bidding for contracts from a finding by the Secretary that some other method is in the public interest to a demonstration by the State highway department that some other method is more cost-effective. Changes from January 1, 1978, to January 1, 1983, the date governing the payment of bond interest as an eligible cost of construction for Interstate projects which are under construction in advance of apportionments. Authorizes the Secretary to pay interest on bonds issued after enactment of this Act to the effect that proceeds from the sale of bonds are expended for construction costs. Extends the availability of advance construction funding to bridge projects under the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Authorizes the Secretary, if after 90 days following notification of a State highway department a project is still not being properly maintained, to withhold project funds for one or more of the other Federal-aid systems or programs in the State. (Presently the Secretary is required to withhold funds from all projects in the State.) Revises the method of distributing interstate discretionary funds and allows the Secretary to prioritize unobligated sums. Sets forth a procedure for the transfer of apportioned funds from the Federal-aid primary system to programs for interstate resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing. Establishes the Federal share payable for interstate resurfacing projects financed with primary funds. Permits a Federal share of 100 percent for certain pavement markings projects. Sets forth congressional findings and procedures to deregulate provisions concerning the control of outdoor advertising. Encourages States to make provisions for the control of such advertising and sets forth requirements to assure that control efforts are effective. Permits the payment of compensation for the necessary legal removal of any sign obscured by vegetation grown by a State or local government for the purpose of impairing the visibility of advertising signs. Allows the use of Federal funds for an approach to any toll road, bridge, or tunnel to a point where such approach enters the main lanes of the toll facility. Prohibits the use of Federal funds for toll collection equipment. Authorizes the Secretary to approve projects on the Interstate System for the construction of parking facilities for carpools and vanpools. Requires provisions of equal employment opportunities for highway projects without regard to sex. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct and finance training and assistance programs for minority business enterprises. Permits the cost of providing shuttle service to and from fringe and corridor parking facilities constructed with Federal funds to be included in the eligible fees that may be charged for the use of parking facilities. Revises the apportionment formula for the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Requires the placement of deficient bridges into specified categories. Sets aside certain amounts from authorized funds for FY 1983 through 1986 for the use of the Secretary as discretionary funds. Permits the allocation of discretionary bridge funds for the replacement of the LaSalle Peru bridge in Illinois and a certain bridge in the vicinity of Cloverdale, California. Sets forth the Federal share for carpool and vanpool projects. Allows States to transfer funds allocated for a particular urbanized area to another such area. Extends the eligibility of hazard elimination funds to highway safety improvement projects outside the Federal-aid systems. Establishes a coordinated Federal Lands Highways Program for the construction and improvement of forest highways, public lands highways, park roads, parkways, and Indian reservation roads and bridges. Sets forth an allocation formula for such program. Allows Federal-aid highway projects to include construction programs for bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways. Allows States to include the cost of certain parking ramp construction and frontage roads as part of the interstate cost estimate. Makes eligible for specified funding safety improvements near the inter-changes of certain Interstate System routes and Federal-aid primary routes not on the Interstate System. Requires the Secretary to establish alternative methods to accelerate the time required to complete highway projects. Authorizes payment of construction costs for certain two-lane bridges as four-lane bridges upon completion of certain substructures. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a demonstration project in Los Angeles County, California, to demonstrate methods of improving the motor vehicle transportation of freight to and from areas for the transshipment of waterborne commerce. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985 out of the Highway Trust Fund for such project. Requires the Secretary to carry out a highway project demonstrating state of the art technology connecting a city to the Interstate System using a toll road. Sets forth a timetable for reports to Congress on the results of such project. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1985 for such project. Requires the Secretary to conduct a demonstration project using state of the art methods of repairing damaged highways and preventing damage to highways resulting from shoreline erosion in the vicinity of Buhne Point, Humboldt Bay, California. Authorizes funds out the Highway Trust Fund for such project. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress not later than 180 days after such projects' completion. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a project in the vicinity of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to demonstrate the efficacy of reducing traffic congestion by connecting a certain highway to the Interstate System. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for such project. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a project in the vicinity of Louisville, Kentucky, to demonstrate methods of accelerating construction of high traffic sections of highways on the Federal-aid primary system which are directly connected to the Interstate System. Requires a report to Congress not later than 180 days after such projects' completion the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 and FY 1984 for such project. Revises vehicle weight, length, and width limitations for the Interstate System. Makes such revisions effective upon enactment of a more equitable allocation of the tax burden among classes of users of the highway system. Establishes criteria under which the Martin Luther King Bridge which crosses the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois will be eligible for assistance under the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Directs the Secretary to enter into arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences' Transportation Research Board to conduct a comprehensive study and investigation of future transportation professional manpower needs. Requests the National Academy of Sciences to report to the Secretary and the Congress not later than two years after enactment of this Act on the result of such study together with recommendations. Directs the Office of Technology Assessment to conduct a comprehensive investigation and study of the feasibility of a highspeed ferryboat operation over the waters of the Caribbean Sea between Saint Croix and Saint Thomas. Requires the Office to complete and transmit a report on such study to Congress not later than January 1, 1984. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress not later than one year after enactment of this Act on the need for including weather-related factors, particularly freezing and thawing, in the apportionment formulas for Federal-aid highways. Requires the Secretary, within one year of enactment of this Act, to submit a detailed report to Congress on the potential benefits and costs associated with the establishment of a national intercity truck route network for the operation of a special class of longer combination commercial motor vehicles. Authorizes the Secretary to approve a change in location of Interstate segments if the original location meets specified criteria. Extends the deadline for reports to Congress on specified access control demonstration projects from September 30, 1983, to September 30, 1985. Authorizes the modification of a project agreement for a highway project in New Jersey to compensate businesses in the vicinity that have suffered economic losses as a result of such project. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the feasibility of incorporating rubber from recycled tires into materials used for roadway resurfacing. Prohibits the apportionment of highway funds to a State which does not require proof of payment of the heavy vehicle use tax before such vehicle can be registered in the State. Provides for a study by the National Academy of Sciences to monitor the effects on highways and highway safety from the use of double trailer combinations. Authorizes the advancement of non-Federal shares for qualifying highway projects to States which certify the lack of sufficient funds to meet their share of such projects. Prohibits California from imposing lane restrictions in certain areas of Alameda County. Makes California eligible for funds to upgrade certain interchanges. Prohibits the use of materials made by convict labor on Federal-aid highway projects. Requires the Secretary to insure the payment of the prevailing rate of wage for all construction work on highway projects. Title II: Highway Safety Act of 1982 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1986 out of the Highway Trust Fund for: (1) bridge replacement and rehabilitation; and (2) projects for elimination of hazards. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1985 and 1986 for highway safety programs administered by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Requires that specified amounts be obligated to enforce the 55 mph speed limit and requires States to expend specified amounts to encourage the use of safety belts in motor vehicles. Sets forth limitations on amounts to be obligated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Highway Administration for highway safety programs for FY 1983 through 1986. Amends the Highway Safety Act of 1978 to extend certain highway safety program authorizations until September 30, 1986. Makes a specified amount previously authorized under the Highway Safety Act of 1978, no longer available for obligation. Prohibits the Secretary from approving certain projects in any State whose laws do not constitute a substantial deterrent to violations of the maximum speed limit. Amends the Highway Safety Act of 1973 to extend until September 30, 1986, the authorization to carry out projects for the elimination of hazards at rail-highway crossings. Amends the Highway Safety Act of 1978 to make certain of its provisions relating to highway safety and information applicable to certain authorization provisions of Federal-aid primary highway funds. Requires the Secretary to report annually, beginning on December 31, 1983, to Congress on the highway safety performance of each State in the preceding fiscal year. Eliminates provisions of the highway safety program which require a different apportionment for the territories of the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Declares that Congress encourages each State to prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages to persons who are less than 21 years of age. Title III: Federal Public Transportation Act of 1982 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through 1986 for: (1) the discretionary capital grant program; (2) the innovative methods and techniques grant program; (3) the planning program; (4) the block grant program; (5) the program to meet the special needs of the elderly and handicapped; and (6) the formula grant program for other than urbanized areas. Requires that a specified percentage of such funding be available from the Public Transportation Trust Fund to carry out certain programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1986 for: (1) the research and development program; (2) the training grant program; (3) the university research grant program; (4) administrative expenses; and (5) the human resource grant program. Requires research and development funding to remain available until expended. Creates a block grant program for mass transportation projects in urbanized areas. Sets forth a formula for distribution of funds for such areas with populations of less than 200,000 and of more than 200,000. Provides certification procedures for persons in receipt of such grants. Requires the Secretary to notify the appropriate congressional committees prior to the issuance of a letter of intent to obligate future Appropriation Act funds for a project. Extends the authorization for grants for research and training in urban transportation problems from FY 1982 until FY 1986. Permits matching funds for university operating grants to consist of any non-Federal funds (in lieu of State funds). Permits contracts for the purchase of rolling stock to be based on a competitive procurement process. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within one year of enactment of this Act on any legislative or administrative revisions required to ensure that procurement procedures are fair and competitive. Revises the definition of "fixed guideway" to include a public transportation facility which uses a fixed catenary system and utilizes a right-of-way usable by other forms of transportation. Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1965 to repeal provisions relating to bus seat specifications. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress in January 1984 and biennially thereafter on the current performance and condition of public mass transportation systems and an assessment of the future needs of such facilities. Sets forth conditions applicable for Federal assistance to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Exempts the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority from repaying a certain percentage of a transit loan to acquire rail properties. Grants the Secretary discretionary authority relative to the remaining percentage. Authorizes advance acquisition of transit rights-of-way. Directs the Secretary to make a grant to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority to conduct a feasibility study of new transit technology. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the possibility of providing long-term contracts with local or State transit authorities for use in leveraging further capital assistance from State or local government or private sector sources. Title IV: Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to prohibit the Secretary from imposing limitations on assistance which restrict a State from imposing more stringent Buy America requirements, provided such requirements do not conflict with exceptions under such Act. Makes Buy America provisions inapplicable when the inclusion of domestic materials increases project contract costs by more than 20 percent (currently, ten percent).
Bill· SS. 3072 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1982
Federal Public Transportation Act of 1982 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from making a discretionary capital grant or loan unless the applicant has sufficient capability to maintain the facilities and equipment purchased with such grant or loan. Sets forth the Federal share for grants to assist projects under this Act, including projects for the construction of certain fixed guideway systems. Prohibits alteration of Federal share commitments before enactment of this Act, including projects within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area transit system. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985 for: (1) grants or loans to States and local public agencies; (2) long-range planning and technical studies; (3) grants and loans to meet the needs of the elderly and handicapped; and (4) the grant program for areas other than urbanized areas. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985 for: (1) research, development, and demonstration projects; (2) grants for managerial, technical and professional training programs; (3) grants for research and training in urban transportation problems; and (4) the establishment and operation of transportation centers at nonprofit institutions of higher learning. Limits the amounts available for appropriations under this Act for FY 1983 and 1984. Establishes a formula capital and operating assistance program to finance the planning, acquisition, construction, improvement, and operating costs of facilities, equipment, and maintenance items in mass transportation service. Sets forth the apportionments of such funds for urbanized areas, and the Federal share payable for such projects. Allows States to transfer apportionments between urbanized areas of different sizes. Sets forth requirements for entities to receive such grants. Requires the Secretary to notify the appropriate congressional committees before issuing letters of intent to obligate funds under this Act. Directs the Secretary to give priority to such commitments approved before enactment of this Act. Makes funds available under the urban mass transit program available for expenditure through 1985. Revises the definition of construction to include any bus rehabilitation project which extends the economic life of a bus by five or more years. Revises the definition of fixed guideway to include any transportation facility which utilizes a right-of-way rail usable by other forms of transportation and a public transit facility which utilizes a fixed catenary system. Repeals the intercity bus service/terminal development program and safety authority provisions of the National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974. Terminates funding for the waterborne transportation demonstration project. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1985 for the transit capital infrastructure program. Sets forth requirements for receiving grants under such program.
Bill· SS. 3061 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1982
Title I: Public Improvements Repair Act - Public Improvements Repair Act of 1982 - Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 for projects to repair, rehabilitate, or replace existing interstate highways, primary, secondary, or urban roads, bridges, mass transit systems, and sewer and water supply lines. Title II: Rebuilding of America Act - Rebuilding of America Act of 1982 - Directs the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America, established by this Act, to conduct an inventory of existing major public improvements (highways, roads, bridges, and water and sewer systems) by region, State, and major metropolitan areas of the United States. Requires the Commission to develop a National Public Improvements Plan listing in priority order maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of public improvements which will be necessary in each region, to sustain regionally balanced national economic development. Requires the Commission, as a part of the plan, to suggest specific revisions in Federal laws, regulations, and policies that may be necessary to reverse the pattern of disinvestment in national public improvements. Sets forth procedures for the submission of such plan to Congress and for review and implementation of the plan. Establishes the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America to assess the condition of the national public works infrastructure. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act. Directs the Comptroller General to submit to specified congressional committees model unified budgets for the year of enactment of this Act and the preceding fiscal year that distinguish Federal civilian capital investment outlays from other Federal outlays. Requires the Comptroller General to include with such budgets a report on their usefulness.
Bill· SS. 3058 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1982
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to implement the project for beach erosion control at Presque Isle Peninsula, Pennsylvania.
Bill· HRH.R. 7345 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1982
Public Works Employment Act of 1982 - Amends the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to increase from 6.5 percent to 7.5 percent the minimum unemployment rate necessary to qualify a State for a special allocation of set aside funds for local public works programs. Extends to December 23, 1983, the date by which grant applications must be received by the Secretary of Commerce. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and following years.
Bill· HRH.R. 7330 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1982
Title I: Federal-Aid Highway Reauthorization Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to revise the authorization of appropriations for the Interstate Highway System for FY 1984 through 1991. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to apportion for FY 1985 and 1986 the sums authorized to be appropriated for expenditures on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways according to specified factors. Authorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1988 for: (1) the Federal-aid primary system in rural areas; (2) the Federal-aid urban system; (3) forest highways; (4) public lands highways; (5) parkways and park highways; (6) Indian reservation highways; (7) bridge replacement and rehabilitation; (8) the highway safety improvement program; and (9) substitute highway projects. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for the interstate system resurfacing for FY 1984 through 1989. Sets aside funding for the rehabilitation of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Virginia. Revises the definition of the term construction to include costs incurred by States in performing Federal-aid project related audits which directly benefit the Federal-aid highway program. Allows Federal participation in the relocation of utilities for the purpose of eliminating hazards on the Federal-aid system. Revises the interstate withdrawal and substitution process for the Federal-aid system. Makes any route or segment added to the Interstate System after March 7, 1978, ineligible for withdrawal or substitution. Eliminates the priority primary program and the connector primary demonstration program. Sets forth provisions to assure a State's FY 1984 and FY 1985 apportionments for resurfacing and construction notwithstanding enactment of this Act. Repeals requirements for specified reports under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress in January 1983, and biennially thereafter, on estimates of the future highway needs of the Nation. Eliminates the requirement for the Secretary to establish guidelines for the Federal-aid system to conform to provisions of the Clean Air Act. Permits vending machines on the interstate system without cost to the Federal Government. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for the inspection and approval of construction on Federal-aid projects. Eliminates requirements for a final inspection of such projects. Permits construction by States of highway substitute and bridge projects in advance of such apportioned funds. Repeals provisions requiring payments to States for bond retirement. Permits the Secretary to withhold project approval for projects in specific areas within a State, or for the entire State, where the Secretary finds that a project is not being properly maintained. (Present law requires the Secretary to withhold funds for the entire State). Revises the certification acceptance program to eliminate the requirement for the Secretary to make final inspections. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate to State highway departments any of his responsibilities under any Federal law, except those involving civil rights and authority over bridges over navigable waters. Revises the Interstate Discretionary Fund to authorize the Secretary to give priority to interstate projects of unusually high cost in relation to a State's apportionment, and to projects which contribute to the completion of an Interstate segment. Sets forth provisions for program consolidation. Revises provisions for emergency relief due to natural disasters or catastrophic failures to limit the amounts payable for emergency relief. Requires each State to establish commercial motor vehicle weights in accordance with weights specified in Federal law. Allows toll financing of new highway construction projects. Eliminates the toll road provisions under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978. Amends the Department of Transportation Act of 1966 to change references to historic sites to references to National Historic Landmarks. Requires equal employment opportunities for highway projects without regard to sex. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct and finance training and assistance programs for socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Makes funds available for such purposes. Authorizes the withholding of apportioned funds from any State which does not enforce the heavy vehicle use tax. Sets forth apportionment formulas for the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Allows States to transfer funds allocated to one urbanized area to another such area within the State. Revises the highway safety improvement program by combining existing safety categories. Requires the Secretary to conduct an interagency environmental process review. Establishes a Federal Lands Highways Program for oversight of forest highways, park roads, parkways, Indian reservation roads, and public lands highways. Revises apportionments for research and planning projects and sets forth the Federal share payable for such projects. Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with State highway and transportation departments and certain organizations without regard to provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Establishes the obligation limitation for FY 1983 Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs. Exempts from such limitation emergency relief projects, certain bridge demonstration projects, and the Woodrow Wilson bridge and Union Station projects. Allows light truck traffic and limited commercial truck traffic on the Highland Scenic Highway in West Virginia. Transfers the functions, powers, and duties of the Appalachian Regional Commission that relate to the Appalachian Development Highway System to the Secretary of Transportation. Eliminates the authority of the Federal Highway Administrator to regulate the rate of tolls on bridges. Authorizes the Secretary to approve projects for the reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge by Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Prohibits the Secretary from approving any such project until the three jurisdictions accept title to their portions of the bridge without monetary consideration. Establishes a working group in the Department of Transportation to develop uniform State procedural standards for vehicle registration, fuel tax, and third structural tax requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to initiate rulemaking to implement acceptable recommended standards. Sets forth minimum financial responsibilities for motor carriers transporting hazardous wastes in interstate, foreign, and intrastate commerce. Sets forth provisions to ensure that certain trucks are allowed to operate on the Interstate System in every State. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to States to assist in implementing programs for the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety standards. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1984 through 1988 for such purposes. Sets forth civil penalties and injunctive relief for the enforcement of violations of motor carrier safety regulations. Title II: Amendments to the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 - Transit Assistance Authorization Act of 1982 - 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. Decreases the Federal share of such grants and loans. Authorizes appropriations, beginning in FY 1983, for administrative costs necessary to carry out the functions of such Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for the: (1) discretionary capital grant program; (2) innovative methods and techniques program; (3) planning program; (4) urbanized area capital formula program; (5) program to meet special needs of the elderly and handicapped; (6) formula grant program for other than urbanized areas; and (7) capital formula program for areas other than urbanized areas. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1988 for: (1) research, development, and demonstration projects; (2) grants for managerial, technical and professional training programs; (3) grants for research and training in urban transportation problems; and (4) grants for the establishment and operation of transportation centers at nonprofit institutions of higher learning. Authorizes appropriations for formula grants for FY 1982 through 1984 for: (1) urban mass transit; (2) construction or operating assistance; and (3) commuter rail and fixed guideway systems. Provides that any such unobligated or deobligated funds shall be added to amounts available for certain other capital grant programs. Declares that apportionments for FY 1975 shall lapse on September 30, 1977, and apportionments for FY 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. Establishes a capital formula program for urbanized areas to finance the planning, acquisition, construction, and improvement of facilities, equipment, and spare parts for transit vehicles in mass transportation service. Prohibits the use of such grants for the construction or extension of fixed-guideway systems other than exclusive facilities for buses. Exempts from such prohibition projects already agreed upon for the District of Columbia metropolitan area. Provides a procedure for receiving and distributing assistance under such program. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to establish a benchmark price representing the maximum Federal participation for the acquisition of buses. Transfers the enforcement of labor standards for construction projects funded by the Department of Transportation from the Secretary of Labor to the Secretary of Transportation. Includes the capital formula programs for urbanized areas and for non-urbanized areas within the reporting system and uniform system of accounts. Makes technical amendments to formula grants for nonurbanized areas to parallel the operation of formula grants for urbanized areas. Establishes a capital formula program for areas other than urbanized areas consistent with provisions of formula grant programs for nonurbanized areas. Authorizes Governors to transfer funds between the two programs under certain circumstances. Authorizes appropriations out of the Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1988 to finance grants for urban transit capital infrastructure development projects. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to prohibit the authorization of appropriations for a specified waterborne transportation demonstration project after September 30, 1983. Amends the National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974 to repeal provisions dealing with the investigation of safety hazards in urban mass transportation systems. Title III: Highway Revenue Act of 1982 - Amends the Highway Revenue Act of 1956 to extend the period for which taxes may go into the Highway Trust Fund until April 1, 1990. Makes expenditures available from such Fund until October 1, 1991, to meet obligations of the Federal-aid highway program. Makes conforming amendments to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. Establishes a Transit Account within the Highway Trust Fund to consist of amounts attributable after March 31, 1983, to one cent per gallon user fees on diesel fuel, special motor fuels, and gasoline under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Requires such amounts to be spent according to provisions of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964. Extends the authority for the user fees transferred into the Fund from October 1, 1984, until April 1, 1990. Increases the rate of tax on gasoline, diesel and special motor fuels from four cents per gallon to nine cents per gallon. Repeals the tax on diesel and special motor fuel which is used in off-highway vehicles. Increases the manufacturers' excise tax on trucks and trailers from ten percent to 12 percent. Increases the taxable threshold weight from 10,000 pounds to 33,000 pounds. Increases the manufacturers' excise tax on truck parts and accessories from eight percent to 12 percent. Repeals the excise tax on highway tires weighing less than 100 pounds and on inner tubes. Changes the manufacturers' excise tax on tires from 9.75 cents a pound for all tires to 25 cents a pound for tires weighing more than 100 pounds. Increases the manufacturers' excise tax on tread rubber from five cents a pound to 25 cents a pound. Repeals the manufacturers' excise tax on lubricating oil. Revises the heavy vehicle use tax to provide a graduated rate of tax for vehicles weighing 55,000 pounds and up. Exempts vehicles which travel less than 2,500 miles on Federal-aid highways. Provides a tax credit for gasoline used for nonhighway uses. Imposes a floor stocks tax on specified products held by dealers for sale. Provides that certain exemptions from user fees expire on April 1, 1990. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study alternatives to the heavy vehicle user fees and report to Congress within two years of enactment of this title. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to permit States to assist in the collection or enforcement of such tax.
Bill· SS. 3043 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1982
Federal-Aid Highway Improvement Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to revise the authorization of appropriations for FY 1984 through 1990 for the Interstate Highway System. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1987 for: (1) the Federal-aid primary program; (2) the Federal-aid rural program; (3) the Federal-aid urban program; (4) forest highways; (5) public lands highways; (6) bridge replacement and rehabilitation; and (7) highway safety improvements. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1987 for Indian reservation roads. Rescinds specified unapportioned or unallocated sums authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1982. Declares that no State shall receive less than one-half of one percent of the total apportionment for the Interstate System for FY 1984 through 1988. Revises apportionments for the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Requires that not less than 60 percent of apportioned funds for the Federal-aid primary, rural, and urban programs be spent on projects for resurfacing, restoring, and rehabilitating roads. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to develop a selection process for discretionary bridges according to certain criteria. Revises the apportionment ratio for resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing the Interstate System. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the distribution of Federal financial assistance for such activities. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 to extend the authorization of appropriations from FY 1983 through 1988 for resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing specified lanes on the Interstate System. Authorizes appropriations, out of the Highway Trust Fund, for FY 1983 through 1987 for substitute highway and mass transit projects. Repeals provisions concerning priority primary routes. Revises procedures concerning the Federal-aid urban and rural programs. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the States, to establish a highway safety improvement program for projects on public roads including: (1) specified highway safety improvement projects; (2) railway-highway crossing projects; (3) highway-related safety requirements and guidelines; and (4) evaluation of the highway safety improvement program. Sets forth procedures for the implementation of such program. Revises the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Revises provisions concerning the Federal lands highways program including forest highways and park roads. Repeals provisions concerning: (1) economic growth center development highways; (2) the national scenic and recreational highway; (3) access highways to certain public recreation areas; and (4) highway crossings. Directs the Secretary to expend such sums as are necessary (up to 100 percent of costs) for carpool and vanpool projects. Authorizes the Secretary to approve financial assistance for acquisition or construction of preferential parking facilities for carpools. Prohibits the use of emergency relief funds for the repair or reconstruction of certain bridges that have been permanently closed to vehicular traffic. Requires that emergency relief funds be appropriated from the Highway Trust Fund. Revises the Federal share payable for emergency repairs or reconstruction. Allows Federal-aid highway projects to include nonconstruction programs or projects which enhance the safety and use of bicycles. Increases to 100 percent the Federal share for bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkway projects. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 to allow limited truck traffic on the Highland Scenic Highway in West Virginia. Allows States to transfer funds allocated for a particular urbanized area to another such area. Authorizes the Secretary to discharge any of his responsibilities relative to the physical construction phase of Interstate projects using established certification acceptance procedures. Eliminates the requirement for the Secretary to make a final inspection of each such project. Requires defense access roads to be funded from monies appropriated for defense maneuvers and exercises. Authorizes the Secretary, if after 90 days following notification of a State highway department a project is still not being properly maintained, to withhold project funds for one or more of the other Federal-aid systems or programs in the State. (Presently the Secretary is required to withhold funds from all projects in the State). Requires each State on January 1 of each year to certify to the Secretary that it has a program for the Interstate Highway System in accordance with the Secretary's guidelines. Combines highway planning and research funds into a single fund for administration by the Secretary. Establishes the Federal share for any project financed by such fund. Requires provision of equal employment opportunities for highway projects without regard to sex. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct and finance training and assistance programs for minority business enterprises. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements with other Federal agencies to minimize duplication, paperwork, and delays in the development of Federal highway projects. Sets forth limitations on obligations and State allocations for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for FY 1983 through 1987. Requires the Secretary, in cooperation with the State of Vermont, to carry out a project to demonstrate the feasibility of reducing the time required to complete highway projects by extending the coverage of State certifications to any Federal law, regulation, or policy applicable to such project. Authorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund for such project. States that the Federal share of any such project shall be 100 percent of the total cost and that authorized funds shall remain available until expended. Requires the Secretary to submit a recommendation and report to Congress within six months of the project's completion. Allows the State of Alaska to expend Federal-aid highway funds on portions of an Alaskan highway that extend into Canada. Repeals the Territorial Highway Program. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to repeal the acceleration of the bridge projects program. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out projects in and around Devils Lake, North Dakota, to demonstrate construction techniques to prevent wave erosion on closed basin lakes with grade level highway crossings. Authorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 for such projects. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse North Dakota for funds previously expended on such projects. Sets forth the Federal share for the demonstration projects and makes authorized funding available until expended. Directs the Secretary, in cooperation with the State of Idaho, to conduct a demonstration project to study factors contributing to truck accidents. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund to carry out such project. States that the Federal share of the project shall be 100 percent of the total cost and that authorized funds shall remain available until expended. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the results of such project not later than 180 days after its completion.
Bill· SS. 3044 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1982
Surface Transportation Act of 1982 - Title I: Highway Revenue Act of 1982 - Amends the Highway Revenue Act of 1956 to extend the period for which taxes may go into the Highway Trust Fund until April 1, 1990. Makes expenditures available from such Fund until October 1, 1991, to meet obligations of the Federal-aid highway program. Makes conforming amendments to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. Establishes a Transit Account within the Highway Trust Fund to consist of amounts attributable after March 31, 1983, to one cent per gallon user fees on diesel fuel, special motor fuels, and gasoline under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Requires such amounts to be spent according to provisions of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964. Extends the authority for the user fees transferred into the Fund from October 1, 1984, until April 1, 1990. Increases the rate of tax on gasoline, diesel and special motor fuels from four cents per gallon to nine cents per gallon. Repeals the tax on diesel and special motor fuel which is used in off-highway vehicles. Increases the manufacturers' excise tax on trucks and trailers from ten percent to 12 percent. Increases the taxable threshold weight from 10,000 pounds to 33,000 pounds. Increases the manufacturers' excise tax on truck parts and accessories from eight percent to 12 percent. Repeals the excise tax on highway tires weighing less than 100 pounds and on inner tubes. Changes the manufacturers' excise tax on tires from 9.75 cents a pound for all tires to 25 cents a pound for tires weighing more than 100 pounds. Increases the manufacturers' excise tax on tread rubber from five cents a pound to 25 cents a pound. Repeals the manufacturers' excise tax on lubricating oil. Revises the heavy vehicle use tax to provide a graduated rate of tax for vehicles weighing 55,000 pounds and up. Exempts vehicles which travel less than 2,500 miles on Federal-aid highways. Provides a tax credit for gasoline used for nonhighway uses. Imposes a floor stocks tax on specified products held by dealers for sale. Provides that certain exemptions from user fees expire on April 1, 1990. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study alternatives to the heavy vehicle user fees and report to Congress within two years of enactment of this title. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to permit States to assist in the collection or enforcement of such tax. Title II: Federal- Aid Highway Reauthorization Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to revise the authorization of appropriations for the Interstate Highway System for FY 1984 through 1991. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to apportion for FY 1985 and 1986 the sums authorized to be appropriated for expenditures on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways according to specified factors. Authorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1988 for: (1) the Federal-aid primary system in rural areas; (2) the Federal-aid urban system; (3) forest highways; (4) public lands highways; (5) parkways and park highways; (6) Indian reservation highways; (7) bridge replacement and rehabilitation; (8) the highway safety improvement program; and (9) substitute highway projects. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for the interstate system resurfacing for FY 1984 through 1989. Sets aside funding for the rehabilitation of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Virginia. Revises the definition of the term construction to include costs incurred by States in performing Federal-aid project related audits which directly benefit the Federal-aid highway program. Allows Federal participation in the relocation of utilities for the purpose of eliminating hazards on the Federal-aid system. Revises the interstate withdrawal and substitution process for the Federal-aid system. Makes any route or segment added to the Interstate System after March 7, 1978, ineligible for withdrawal or substitution. Eliminates the priority primary program and the connector primary demonstration program. Sets forth provisions to assure a State's FY 1984 and 1985 apportionments for resurfacing and construction notwithstanding enactment of this Act. Repeals requirements for specified reports under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress in January 1983, and biennially thereafter, on estimates of the future highway needs of the Nation. Eliminates the requirement for the Secretary to establish guidelines for the Federal-aid system to conform to provisions of the Clean Air Act. Permits vending machines on the interstate system without cost to the Federal Government. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for the inspection and approval of construction on Federal-aid projects. Eliminates requirements for a final inspection of such projects. Permits construction by States of highway substitute and bridge projects in advance of such apportioned funds. Repeals provisions requiring payments to States for bond retirement. Permits the Secretary to withhold project approval for projects in specific areas within a State, or for the entire State, where the Secretary finds that a project is not being properly maintained. (Present law requires the Secretary to withhold funds for the entire State). Revises the certification acceptance program to eliminate the requirement for the Secretary to make final inspections. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate to State highway departments any of his responsibilities under any Federal law, except those involving civil rights and authority over bridges over navigable waters. Revises the Interstate Discretionary Fund to authorize the Secretary to give priority to interstate projects of unusually high cost in relation to a State's apportionment, and to projects which contribute to the completion of an Interstate segment. Sets forth provisions for program consolidation. Revises provisions for emergency relief due to natural disasters or catastrophic failures to limit the amounts payable for emergency relief. Requires each State to establish commercial motor vehicle weights in accordance with weights specified in Federal law. Allows toll financing of new highway construction projects. Eliminates the toll road provisions under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978. Amends the Department of Transportation Act of 1966 to change references to historic sites to references to National Historic Landmarks. Requires equal employment opportunities for highway projects without regard to sex. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct and finance training and assistance programs for socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Makes funds available for such purposes. Authorizes the withholding of apportioned funds from any State which does not enforce the heavy vehicle use tax. Sets forth apportionment formulas for the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Allows States to transfer funds allocated to one urbanized area to another such area within the State. Revises the highway safety improvement program by combining existing safety categories. Requires the Secretary to conduct an interagency environmental process review. Establishes a Federal Lands Highways Program for oversight of forest highways, park roads, parkways, Indian reservation roads, and public lands highways. Revises apportionments for research and planning projects and sets forth the Federal share payable for such projects. Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with State highway and transportation departments and certain organizations without regard to provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Establishes the obligation limitation for FY 1983 Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs. Exempts from such limitation emergency relief projects, certain bridge demonstration projects, and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Union Station projects. Allows light truck traffic and limited commercial truck traffic on the Highland Scenic Highway in West Virginia. Transfers the functions, powers, and duties of the Appalachian Regional Commission that relate to the Appalachian Development Highway System to the Secretary of Transportation. Eliminates the authority of the Federal Highway Administrator to regulate the rate of tolls on bridges. Authorizes the Secretary to approve projects for the reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, and rehabilitation of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge by Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Prohibits the Secretary from approving any such project until the three jurisdictions accept title to their portions of the bridge without monetary consideration. Title III: Amendments to the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 - Transit Assistance Authorization Act of 1982 - 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. Decreases the Federal share of such grants and loans. Authorizes appropriations, beginning in FY 1983, for administrative costs necessary to carry out the functions of such Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1988 for the: (1) discretionary capital grant program; (2) innovative methods and techniques program; (3) planning program; (4) urbanized area capital formula program; (5) program to meet special needs of the elderly and handicapped; (6) formula grant program for other than urbanized areas; and (7) capital formula program for areas other than urbanized areas. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 through 1988 for: (1) research, development, and demonstration projects; (2) grants for managerial, technical and professional training programs; (3) grants for research and training in urban transportation problems; and (4) grants for the establishment and operation of transportation centers at nonprofit institutions of higher learning. Authorizes appropriations for formula grants for FY 1982 through 1984 for: (1) urban mass transit; (2) construction or operating assistance; and (3) commuter rail and fixed guideway systems. Provides that any such unobligated or deobligated funds shall be added to amounts available for certain other capital grant programs. Declares that apportionments for FY 1975 shall lapse on September 30, 1977, and apportionments for FY 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. Establishes a capital formula program for urbanized areas to finance the planning, acquisition, construction, and improvement of facilities, equipment, and spare parts for transit vehicles in mass transportation service. Prohibits the use of such grants for the construction or extension of fixed-guideway systems other than exclusive facilities for buses. Exempts from such prohibition projects already agreed upon for the District of Columbia metropolitan area. Provides a procedure for receiving and distributing assistance under such program. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to establish a benchmark price representing the maximum Federal participation for the acquisition of buses. Transfers the enforcement of labor standards for construction projects funded by the Department of Transportation from the Secretary of Labor to the Secretary of Transportation. Includes the capital formula programs for urbanized areas and for non-urbanized areas within the reporting system and uniform system of accounts. Makes technical amendments to formula grants for nonurbanized areas to parallel the operation of formula grants for urbanized areas. Establishes a capital formula program for areas other than urbanized areas consistent with provisions of formula grant programs for nonurbanized areas. Authorizes Governors to transfer funds between the two programs under certain circumstances. Authorizes appropriations out of the Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1988 to finance grants for urban transit capital infrastructure development projects. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to prohibit the authorization of appropriations for a specified waterborne transportation demonstration project after September 30, 1983. Amends the National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974 to repeal provisions dealing with the investigation of safety hazards in urban mass transportation systems. Title IV: Highway Safety - Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1985 through 1988 for specified highway safety programs. Eliminates exceptions for apportionments for the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Revises the vehicle weight and width limitations for the Interstate System to make the maximum width of a commercial motor vehicle 102 inches. Sets forth provisions to ensure that certain trucks are allowed to operate on the Interstate System in every State. Establishes a working group in the Department of Transportation to develop uniform State procedural standards for vehicle registration, fuel tax, and third structural tax requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to initiate rulemaking to implement acceptable recommended standards. Sets forth minimum financial responsibilities for motor carriers transporting hazardous wastes in interstate, foreign, and intrastate commerce. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to States to assist in implementing programs for the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety standards. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1984 through 1988 for such purpose. Sets forth civil penalties and injunctive relief for the enforcement of violations of motor carrier safety regulations.
Bill· HRH.R. 7308 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1982
Amends the Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings Act to authorize the Administrator of the General Services Administration to issue an order requiring that up to ten percent of government gasoline-powered passenger motor vehicles be equipped with the Webster-Heise valve. Conditions such order upon a favorable determination by the Secretary of Transportation that such valve will increase fuel efficiency and decrease the volume of air pollutants emitted by government vehicles. Makes such order applicable to motor vehicles manufactured for model year 1984 and thereafter.
Bill· SS. 3007 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize the Civil Aeronautics Board to permit foreign carriers to transport domestic passengers between specified airports on the east coast and Alaska until a domestic carrier initiates comparable nonstop service.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 268 (97th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Congratulates the American Public Transit Association on a century of service to the transit industry.
Bill· HRH.R. 7265 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Rebuilding of America Act of 1982 - Directs the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America, established by this Act, to conduct an inventory of existing major public improvements (highways, roads, bridges, mass transit facilities, and water and sewer systems) by region, State, and major metropolitan area of the United States. Requires the Commission to develop a National Public Improvements Plan listing in priority order maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of public improvements which will be necessary in each region, to sustain regionally balanced national economic development. Requires the Commission, as a part of the plan, to suggest specific revisions in Federal laws, regulations, and policies that may be necessary to reverse the pattern of disinvestment in national public improvements. Sets forth procedures for the submission of such plan to Congress and for review and implementation of the plan. Establishes the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America to assess the condition of the national public works infrastructure. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 7258 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Capital Improvements Act of 1982 - Directs the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America, established by this Act, to conduct an inventory of existing major public improvements (highways, roads, bridges, public transportation facilities, and water supply, sewer systems, airports and port facilities) by region, State, and major metropolitan area of the United States. Requires the Commission to develop a National Public Improvements Plan listing in priority order maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of public improvements which will be necessary in each region to sustain regionally balanced national economic development. Requires the Commission, as a part of the plan, to suggest specific revisions in Federal laws, regulations, and policies that may be necessary to reverse the pattern of disinvestment in national public improvements. Sets forth procedures for the submission of such plan to Congress and for review and implementation of the plan. Establishes the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America to assess the condition of the national public works infrastructure. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
Bill· SS. 3000 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, to allow transportation of merchandise during a three-year period between points within the continental United States, including Alaska, in any vessel engaged in such service on September 1, 1982, which involved transportation, in part, over Canadian rail lines. Allows documented foreign-built vessels used in the processing or assembly of fishery products to transport merchandise which is directly fisheries-related between points in the United States. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to report to Congress, within one year of enactment of this Act, on measures necessary to improve marine transportation to, from, and within Alaska. Repeals provisions of this Act on January 1, 1986, and reamends the Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as of such date, to read the way it reads on the day before enactment of this Act.
Bill· SS. 2984 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the Secretary of Transportation to establish minimum wind shear alert standards for commercial and general aviation aircraft.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 256 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Congratulates the American Public Transit Association on a century of service to the transit industry.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 613 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1982
Congratulates the American Public Transit Association on a century of service to the transit industry.
Bill· SS. 2958 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1982
Prohibits States from imposing vehicle width limitations of more or less than 102 inches on segments of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
Bill· SS. 2926 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1982
Rebuilding of America Act of 1982 - Directs the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America, established by this Act, to conduct an inventory of existing major public improvements (highways, roads, bridges, and water and sewer systems) by region, State, and major metropolitan area of the United States. Requires the Commission to develop a National Public Improvements Plan listing in priority order maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, or replacement of public improvements which will be necessary in each region, to sustain regionally balanced national economic development. Requires the Commission, as a part of the plan, to suggest specific revisions in Federal laws, regulations, and policies that may be necessary to reverse the pattern of disinvestment in national public improvements. Sets forth procedures for the submission of such plan to Congress and for review and implementation of the plan. Establishes the National Commission on the Rebuilding of America to assess the condition of the national public works infrastructure. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 7103 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1982
Amends Federal law to recodify and consolidate specified shipping and related marine provisions. Reorganizes existing law with respect to: (1) the operation, inspection, and regulation of passenger, cargo, animal transport, and recreational vessels; (2) marine casualties and accidents; (3) licenses, certificates and merchant mariners' documents; (4) the maning of vessels; and (5) merchant seamen, their protection and relief. Repeals specified laws.
Bill· SS. 2869 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1982
Amends the River and Harbor Act of 1962 to authorize the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to pay the city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, for certain remedial work the city did as a result of the navigation project for Lynnhaven Inlet, Bay, and connecting waters, Virginia.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 454 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 August 1982
Declares the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Department of Transportation has not fully utilized the human resources available to restore the capacity of the air traffic control system; (2) steps should be taken to waive the age-thirty hiring rule; and (3) the processing of appeals of former traffic controllers seeking reinstatement should be expedited.
Bill· SS. 2857 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
National Port Development and Customs Revenue Sharing Act of 1982 - Establishes in the Treasury the Customs Revenue Sharing Trust Fund. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to expend money from the Fund to conduct the operation, maintenance, and navigation improvement authorized by this Act. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to pay seven percent of all customs revenues collected during each preceding fiscal year into such Fund. Requires the Secretary to maintain the Fund at a specified level. Requires reversion to the Treasury of all unallocated moneys remaining in the Fund at the end of every five fiscal years. Requires the Secretary of the Army (Secretary), acting through the Chief of Engineers, to prepare and submit to Congress a comprehensive port maintenance program with respect to each deep-draft commercial port. Sets forth procedures for the adoption and revision of such maintenance program by Congress. Establishes a consolidated port development permit program, in which such a permit shall constitute all necessary permits, authorizations and approvals required under federal law in order to construct, operate, and maintain a navigation improvement project and any shoreshide installations ancillary to the navigation improvement project. Sets forth the procedure for review and approval of permit applications. Requires the Secretary to submit a report to Congress recommending approval for any new channel improvement project within certain time periods. Directs the Secretary to expedite construction of new navigation improvement projects. Sets forth the terms of cost-sharing agreements and financing assistance for eligible navigation improvement projects. Declares that this Act does not modify, amend, or repeal any congressional authorization for the construction of a navigation improvement project to increase the depth of any channel in a deep-draft commercial port or to pay all of the costs of constructing and maintaining any navigation improvement project other than a project approved under this Act. Sets forth the Federal maintenance responsibilities for navigation improvement projects constructed pursuant to this Act. Grants exclusive jurisdiction to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review any issue arising from the approval of the maintenance program, a program revision, or navigation improvement project. Prescribes the form for concurrent resolutions of congressional approval of projects under this Act. Grants congressional consent to the levying of duties of tonnages by the States. Requires the Secretary to establish guidelines for the use of public port authorities in computing the rates of duties of tonnage levied by them under this Act. Requires the Comptroller General of the United States to carry out periodic audits of the operations of public port authorities that have elected duties of tonnage under this Act. States that the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation shall not provide facilities necessary to the operation and maintenance of seaway channels. Terminates the obligation of the Corporation to pay the principal on obligations incurred to finance its activities. Declares that any formula for a division of revenues from the Saint Lawrence Seaway shall not take into account annual debt charges and shall not include the total cost incurred by the United States in financing activities, but shall provide for an equitable division of the revenues of the seaway between the Corporation and the Saint Lawrence Seaway Authority of Canada. Requires that rates for use of the seaway be calculated to cover all costs of operating and maintaining the works under the administration of the Corporation, except for the cost of operating and maintaining connecting seaway channels. Declares that such rates shall not include any charge to amortize the principal of the debts and obligations of the Corporation which have been terminated by the United States.
Bill· SS. 2866 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement with North Carolina under which the Secretary shall pay for the repair and maintenance costs for the portion of North Carolina Highway 12 located within the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area.
Bill· HRH.R. 7038 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Maritime Safety Act of 1982 - Prohibits vessels subject to Coast Guard inspection from being operated without such inspection. Subjects violators to fines under various Federal laws. Requires vessel owners, operators, or agents to notify the Coast Guard about any vessel that may have been lost or imperiled. Subjects violators to fines. Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to contract with specified U.S. shipowners for installation of a marine satellite telecommunications system. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 and 1985. Subject all acts of marine incompetency or misconduct committed by licensed personnel to Coast Guard jurisdiction.
Bill· HRH.R. 7013 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1982
Used Motor Vehicle Sales Act of 1982 - Requires any sales contract for a used motor vehicle to contain a provision which gives the consumer the option of returning such vehicle to the dealer if: (1) the return is made within three business days after the date of sale; (2) the exterior condition at the time of return is the same as at the date of sale; and (3) the consumer furnishes the dealer with a written statement that the vehicle has not been driven more than 200 miles or sustained any damage during the period of possession. Authorizes the dealer to reduce the refund for such returned vehicle by not more than $100 or ten percent of the purchase price, whichever is less. Sets forth penalties for violation of provisions of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6979 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1982
Competitive Shipping and Shipbuilding Act of 1982 - Requires that, by 1983, five percent of all bulk cargoes imported into or exported from the United States by water be carried on U.S.-flag ships. Requires yearly one percent increases until the percentage carried on U.S.-flag ships reaches 20 percent. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prepare annual estimates of current and projected costs of U.S.-flag bulk ship operation and shipbuilding. Requires anyone engaged in importing or exporting bulk commodities in U.S. foreign commerce whose business volume exceeds $1,000,000 annually to report to the Secretary of Commerce on the percentage of such person's exports and imports carried on U.S.-flag ships. Requires that such importer or exporter use U.S.-flag ships for the percentage of shipping required under this Act or be subject to specified penalties. Sets forth procedures for the investigation and prosecution of violations of this Act.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 394 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1982
Urges the President to: (1) avoid taking any actions which could foreclose eventual U.S. participation in the Convention on the Law of the Sea; (2) evaluate U.S. objectives for ocean use and relevant foreign policy interests with respect to the Convention; and (3) designate a U.S. representative for the meetings of the Preparatory Commission of the Conference on the Law of the Sea that will formulate the rules and regulations for seabed mining.
Bill· HRH.R. 6965 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1982
Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 - Title I: Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 to decrease the authorization of appropriations for FY 1984 for the Interstate Highway System. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to apportion, for FY 1984, the sums authorized to be appropriated for expenditures on the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, using specified factors. Sets forth limitations on obligations for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for FY 1983. Excludes from such limitations obligations for emergency relief and certain accelerated bridge projects. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to conform to provisions of this title. Prohibits the Secretary from distributing amounts for administrative expenses and forest highways. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 for: (1) the Federal-aid primary system in rural areas; (2) the Federal-aid secondary system in rural areas; (3) the Federal-aid urban system; (4) forest highways; (5) public lands highways; (6) economic growth center development highways; and (7) the Great River Road. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 for: (1) Indian reservation roads and bridges; (2) the territorial highway program; (3) the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; and (4) access highways. Specifies appropriated amounts which shall be available at the discretion of the Secretary and amounts which shall be available for certain highway construction in Pennsylvania. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 to specify amounts available for FY 1983 for railway-highway crossings. Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to increase the authorized funding for FY 1984 for interstate resurfacing. Allows the Secretary to extend the approval deadline (September 30, 1983) for substitute projects and withdrawals for any route which on May 12, 1982, is under a judicial injunction prohibiting its construction. Revises the interstate resurfacing formula. Authorizes State highway departments to give priority to projects for the reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, or rehabilitation of energy-impacted roads. Requires a value engineering or other cost reduction analysis on Federal-aid system projects with construction costs in excess of a specified amount. Directs the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study of safety cost-effectiveness of geometric design criteria of standards currently in effect for highway construction to determine minimum resurfacing standards. Permits States to place State-operated vending machines in rest and recreation areas and in safety rest areas located on rights-of-way of the Interstate System. Changes the circumstances for suspension of the general requirements of competitive bidding for contracts from a finding by the Secretary that some other method is in the public interest to a demonstration by the State highway department that some other method is more cost-effective. Changes from January 1, 1978, to January 1, 1983, the date governing the payment of bond interest as an eligible cost of construction for Interstate projects which are under construction in advance of apportionments. Authorizes the Secretary to pay interest on bonds issued after enactment of this Act to the extent that proceeds from the sale of bonds are expended for construction costs. Extends the availability of advance construction funding to bridge projects under the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Revises the method of distributing interstate discretionary funds and allows the Secretary to prioritize unobligated sums. Sets forth a procedure for the transfer of apportioned funds from the Federal-aid primary system to programs for interstate resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing. Establishes the Federal share payable for interstate resurfacing projects financed with primary funds. Permits a Federal share of 100 percent for certain pavement markings projects. Limits the Federal share of specified other projects to 95 percent. Sets forth congressional findings and procedures to deregulate provisions concerning the control of outdoor advertising. Encourages States to make provisions for the control of such advertising and sets forth requirements to assure that control efforts are effective. Allows the use of Federal funds for an approach to any toll road, bridge, or tunnel to a point where such approach enters the main lanes of the toll facility. Prohibits the use of Federal funds for toll collection equipment. Requires provisions of equal employment opportunities for highway projects without regard to sex. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct and finance training and assistance programs for minority business enterprises. Permits the cost of providing shuttle service to and from fringe and corridor parking facilitites constructed with Federal funds to be included in the eligible fees that may be charged for the use of parking facilities. Revises the apportionment formula for the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Requires the placement of deficient bridges into specified categories. Sets aside certain amounts from authorized funds for FY 1983 for the use of the Secretary as discretionary funds. Permits the allocation of discretionary bridges funds for the replacement of the LaSalle Peru bridge in Illinois, the bridge over the Russian River, California, and the Preston Overhead on Route 101, Cloverdale, California. Authorizes the Secretary to approve projects on the Interstate System for the construction of parking facilities for carpools and vanpools. Establishes a coordinated Federal Lands Highways Program for the construction and improvement of forest highways, public lands highways, park roads, parkways, and Indian reservation roads and bridges. Sets forth an allocation formula for such program. Allows Federal-aid highway projects to include construction programs for bicycle transportation and pedestrian walkways. Allows States to include the cost of certain parking ramp construction as part of the interstate cost estimate. Declares that a specified amount set aside for priority primary routes for FY 1982 shall remain available until expended and shall be available for obligation by the Secretary for certain designated priority primary routes. Sets forth a procedure for the Secretary to fully utilize apportioned funds through FY 1982. Requires the Secretary to establish alternative methods to accelerate the time required to complete highway projects. Authorizes payment of construction costs for certain two-lane bridges as four-lane bridges upon completion of certain substructures. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct an investigation and study of competitive bidding practices with respect to highway and mass transit construction and report to Congress on the results including recommendations for legislation and administrative practices. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a demonstration project in Los Angeles County, California, to demonstrate methods of improving the motor vehicle transportation of freight to and from areas for the transshipment of waterborne commerce. Directs the Secretary to carry out a highway project to demonstrate state of the art technology involving toll charges and advances in highway traffic control and safety hardware. Requires the addition of such project to the Federal-aid primary system upon its completion. Sets forth a timetable for the Secretary to report to Congress on such project. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for both projects for fiscal years after 1982. Directs the Secretary to conduct a project to demonstrate state of the art methods of repairing damaged highways resulting from shoreline erosion on Buhne Point, Humboldt Bay, California. Makes funds available for such project out of the Highway Trust Fund. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the results of such project not later than 180 days after its completion. Establishes criteria under which the Martin Luther King Bridge which crosses the Mississippi River between Missouri and Illinois will be eligible for assistance under the highway bridge replacement and rehabilitation program. Directs the Secretary to enter into arrangements with the National Academy of Sciences' Transportation Research Board to conduct a comprehensive study and investigation of future transportation professional manpower needs. Requests the National Academy of Sciences to report to the Secretary and the Congress not later than two years after enactment of this act, on the result of such study together with recommendations. Directs the Office of Technology Assessment to conduct a comprehensive investigation and study of the feasibility of a highspeed ferryboat operation over the waters of the Caribbean Sea between Saint Croix and Saint Thomas. Requires the Office to complete and transmit a report on such study to Congress not later than January 1, 1984. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress not later than one year after enactment of this Act on the need for including weather-related factors, particularly the effects of freezing and thawing, in the apportionment formulas for Federal-aid highways. Requires the Secretary, within one year of enactment of this Act, to submit a detailed report to Congress on the potential benefits and costs associated with the establishment of a national intercity truck route network for the operation of a special class of longer combination commercial motor vehicles. Sets forth conditions for project eligibility of Federal-aid primary routes not on the Interstate System. Title II: Highway Safety Act of 1982 - Part A - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 out of the Highway Trust Fund for: (1) bridge replacement and rehabilitation; and (2) projects for elimination of hazards. Limits the amount of expenditures for highway safety programs carried out by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Highway Administration for FY 1983. Prohibits the Secretary from approving certain projects in any State whose laws do not constitute a substantial deterrent to violations of the maximum speed limit. Amends the Highway Safety Act of 1973 to extend until September 30, 1983, the authorization to carry out projects for the elimination of hazards at rail-highway crossings. Amends the Highway Safety Act of 1978 to make certain of its provisions relating to highway safety and information applicable to certain authorization provisions of Federal-aid primary highway funds. Requires the Secretary to report annually, beginning on April, 1983, to Congress on the highway safety performance of each State in the preceding fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make grants to States which adopt and implement effective programs to reduce traffic safety problems resulting from persons driving while under the influence of alcohol. Requires the Secretary to establish and publish criteria for the awarding of such grants. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1983 through 1985 for such grants. Eliminates provisions of the highway safety program which require a different apportionment for the territories of the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Part B - National Driver Register Act of 1982 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish and maintain a National Driver Register to assist chief driver licensing officials of participating States in exchanging information regarding the motor vehicle driving records of individuals. Requires the Secretary to promulgate a final rule which provides for orderly transition from the system regarding motor vehicle driving records in the Department of Commerce to the Register established under this Act. Prohibits the Secretary from maintaining information in such Register after: (1) more than a seven-year period from the date of its entry; (2) the State of record removes it from the State's file; or (3) the date of establishment of a fully electronic Register system. Allows any State to participate in such Register system. Directs the chief driver licensing official of a participating State to transmit to the Secretary specified information on certain drivers. Allows access to such information to specified individuals, including the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration and the Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. Limits the use of such information to official investigations and other specified purposes. Restricts employer access to such information to three years from its date of entry. Directs the Secretary to implement a pilot test program to demonstrate the potential effectiveness of a system for electronic referral and relay of information regarding the motor vehicle driving records of individuals. Describes State participation in such program. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the program. Sets forth criminal penalties for the unauthorized disclosure of information from the National Driver Register. Establishes a National Driver Register Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary directly on the efficiency of the maintenance and operation of the National Driver Register. Directs the Secretary, within nine years of the date of enactment of this Act, to report to Congress on the level of State participation in and the effectiveness of the Register system. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act after FY 1982. Title III: Federal Public Transportation Act of 1982 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 for: (1) the discretionary capital grant program; (2) the innovative methods and techniques grant program; (3) the planning program; (4) the block grant program; (5) the program to meet the special needs of the elderly and handicapped; and (6) the formula grant program for other than urbanized areas. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 for: (1) the research and development program; (2) the training grant program; (3) the university research grant program; (4) administrative expenses; and (5) the human resource grant program. Requires research and development funding to remain available until expended. Creates a block grant program for mass transportation projects in urbanized areas. Sets forth a formula for distribution of funds for such areas with populations of less than 200,000 and another formula for areas of more than 200,000. Provides certification procedures for persons in receipt of such grants. Requires the Secretary to notify the appropriate congressional committees prior to the issuance of a letter of intent to obligate future Appropriation Act funds for a project. Extends the authorization for grants for research and training in urban transportation problems from FY 1982 until FY 1983. Permits matching funds for university operating grants to consist of any non-Federal funds (in lieu of State funds). Permits contracts for the pruchase of rolling stock to be based on a competitive procurement process. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within one year of enactment of this Act on any legislative or administrative revisions required to ensure that procurement procedures are fair and competitive. Revises the definition of "fixed guideway" to include a public transportation facility which uses a fixed catenary system and utilizes a right-of-way usable by other forms of transportation. Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1965 to repeal provisions relating to bus seat specifications. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress in January 1983 and biennially thereafter on the current performance and condition of public mass transportation systems and an assessment of the future needs of such facilities. Sets forth conditions applicable for Federal assistance to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Exempts the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority from repaying a certain percentage of a transit loan to acquire rail properties. Grants the Secetary discretionary authority relative to the remaining percentage. Title IV - Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1978 to extend its Buy American provisions to Federal-aid highway programs, the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 and funds authorized under this Act.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 566 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of August 29 through Septmber 4, 1982, as National Railroad Week and September 4, 1982, as National Railroad Day.
Bill· HRH.R. 6927 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1982
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to construct a bridge approach roadway at Clarkston, Washington.
Bill· HRH.R. 6925 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1982
Railroad Service Protection Act of 1982 - Amends the Interstate Commerce Act to authorize the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to: (1) order the cessation or rescission of securities transactions of controlled rail carriers that are not in the public interest; and (2) order actions as necessary, including divestiture of control, for such carriers whose service to the public is impaired or threatened. Repeals the authority of the ICC to regulate acquisition of control of certain carriers by a person that is not a carrier. Allows such transactions, also without ICC authorization, where the only parties are certain rail carriers whose aggregate gross revenues during a recent 12-month period did not exceed $10,000,000. Requires ICC authorization and approval when one rail carrier party to the transaction is controlled by, or is under common control with, a class I railroad.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 389 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal Trade Commission should prescribe a rule governing the sale of used vehicles which would require dealers to: (1) provide consumers with a written statement regarding the availability of a warranty or service contract for each used motor vehicle offered for sale; (2) disclose the duration and other terms of any such warranty or service contract; and (3) list such information on a sticker placed prominently on each used motor vehicle.
Bill· HRH.R. 6911 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1982
Rail Safety and Service Improvement Act of 1982- Title I: Rail Safety - Federal Railroad Safety Authorization Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations to apply safety principles to track used for commuter or other short-haul rail passenger service in a metropolitan or suburban area. Authorizes appropriations for the purposes of such Act for FY 1983 and 1984. Revises provisions concerning the movement of railroad cars in need of repair. Repeals the Act of May 30, 1908 (commonly referred to as the Ash Pan Act) concerning safety ash pans on locomotives. Title II: Bankrupt Railroads - Bankrupt Railroad Service Preservation and Employee Protection Act of 1982 - Amends the Milwaukee Railroad Restructuring Act to provide a procedure for the acquisition of rail carrier lines subject to liquidation. Permits any person who is financially responsible and who has made a bona fide offer to acquire such rail line, and whose offer has been rejected by that carrier, to submit an application to the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) seeking approval of acquisition of such carrier. Requires that a copy of such application be filed simultaneously with the appropriate bankruptcy court. Sets forth rules of procedure for the Commission upon receipt of such application. Requires any person acquiring a rail line under this provision to use, to the maximum extent practicable, employees or former employees of the carrier in the operation of service. Prohibits such person from transferring or discontinuing service within four years of such acquisition. Amends the Rock Island Railroad Transition and Employee Assistance Act to direct the ICC to order directed service for three years (currently two years) over any railroad in operation on March 1, 1980, which is subject to Federal bankruptcy laws and which has ceased to provide passenger commuter service. Empowers the Commission to authorize temporary operations over any rail carrier subject to a liquidation until the disposition of the properties of the estate of such carrier. Amends the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to direct the Secretary to guarantee an obligaton of any railroad in reorganization under the Federal bankruptcy laws for purposes of funding any agreement between such railroads and their employees which provides for the protection of employees adversely affected by reduction in service or restructuring transactions. Sets forth the maximum amount of such guarantees. Requires any class I rail carrier involved in a bankruptcy case, and in liquidation as a result, to enter into an agreement with its employees' labor organizations to provide protection for employees adversely affected by reductions in service by such carrier. Directs the ICC to prescribe fair and equitable terms if the parties do not agree within a specified time. Declares that any such order of the ICC or of any bankruptcy court having jurisdiction over the case may be appealed only to the appropriate United States Courts of Appeals. Requires that employee claims for benefits and allowances under employee protection agreements be filed with the Railroad Retirement Board. Requires that benefits and allowances under such agreements be paid from the bankrupt carrier's assets or obligation guarantees. Makes employees who elect to receive a separation allowance from a bankrupt railroad under an employee protection agreement eligible to receive career training assistance from the Railroad Retirement Board. Terminates such assistance after April 1, 1984. Deems employees receiving assistance under this title to have waived any employee protection benefits otherwise available under certain provisions of the Bankruptcy Act or other applicable agreements except a specified agreement regarding Midwest Rail employees. Sets forth procedures and limitations for employees who elect to receive assistance under this title. Provides that such obligation guarantees shall be treated as administrative expenses of the estate of the bankrupt carrier. Limits the total liability of a bankrupt carrier to the amount guaranteed by the Secretary. Declares that prerequisites, general requirements, and employee protection provisions of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 shall not apply to such guaranteed obligations. Provides for judicial review of this title. Authorizes the Railroad Retirement Board to prescribe regulations as necessary to carry out its duties. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Milwaukee Railroad Restructuring Act. Title III: Northeast Corridor Project - Authorizes the improvement in facilities for rail passenger service to Buffalo, New York, and Atlantic City, New Jersey. Makes sums available as may be required for numerous projects on the main line of the Northeast Corridor. Permits authorized but unappropriated funds for a specific fiscal year to be carried forward and appropriated in excess of any authorization limit applicable to future fiscal years. Grants priority funding for FY 1983 through 1985 for main line service to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Buffalo, New York. Declares that such main line improvements shall not be undertaken as a substitute for improvements specified in a document entitled "Corridor Master Plan II, NECIP Restructed Program" prepared for the Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Northeast Corridor Improvement Project. Title IV: Continuance of Preference Share Program - Amends the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to extend the preference share program until September 30, 1985. Requires the Secretary to purchase a specified amount of redeemable preference shares as necessary for the purchase, lease, or rehabilitation of properties of the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) by non-carrier entities to be used for common carrier rail service, provided an application for a certificate of abandonment or notice of insufficient revenues has been filed with the ICC with respect to such rail service. Requires the Secretary to make certain that all indebtedness under this title is likely to be repaid or can be secured. Directs the Secretary to purchase a specified amount of shares for the rehabilitation of the rail properties of the Delaware River Port Authority, upon application by the Authority. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 for the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Fund. Sets aside certain amounts of preference share funding for the St. Louis Gateway project in Missouri and for the purchase of a rail line of the Rock Island Railroad between the cities of Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas. Title V: Miscellaneous - Amends the Department of Transportation Act to revise the method of determining State rail service entitlements. Directs the Secretary to operate the Transportation Test Center in Pueblo, Colorado, until the Center is transferred to another party. Requires the Secretary to attempt to transfer the Center to a non-Federal party before January 1, 1983. Amends the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to revise insurance provisions relative to Conrail. Declares a specified portion of the Burnham Canal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as nonnavigable. Amends the Northeast Rail Service Act of 1981 and the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 to provide for reappropriations to conform to provisions of this Act. Amends the Rail Passenger Service Act to transfer authority for the Northeast Corridor coordination from the Board of Directors of Amtrak Commuter to the Northeast Corridor Coordination Board. Directs the United States Railway Association to make a specified amount available to Conrail to construct and improve a designated rail line connection. Directs the Secretary to transfer the Alaska Railroad to the State of Alaska before October 1, 1982, under specified terms. Vests in the United States for administration by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, all right, title, and interest to lands within the boundaries of a conservation system unit or national forest held by the Alaska Railroad. Reserves to the Alaska Railroad the right to use and occupy, without compensation, the surface of the lands on the right-of-way of the Railroad within the Denali National Park and Preserve for terminal and other existing facilities. Subjects the use of such lands to laws and regulations regarding the protection of resources of the national park system. Reserves to the Secretary of the Interior: (1) existing and future rights-of-way and easements for park administration, transportation, and utility purposes; and (2) the right to use and occupy without compensation the McKinley Park Station for national park administrative purposes. Prohibits such reservations from unreasonably interfering with railroad operation and support functions. Reserves to the Alaska Railroad, subject to reasonable stipulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, the right to use and occupy, without compensation, the surface of the lands within that portion of the right-of-way of the Railroad located within any national forests for terminal and other railroad facilities. Declares that if the State of Alaska abandons any rights pursuant to the Railroad transfer such rights shall terminate and not be renewed except with congressional approval. Transfers to the Secretary of the Interior the right to use and occupy railroad land at Talkeetna, Alaska, for the National Park Service administrative activities. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to determine the validity of all claims of valid existing rights arising under Federal law and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in land excluded from rail properties of the Alaska Railroad. Provides for judicial review of the Secretary's determinations. Provides for the administration of lands selected by Native corporations and lands transferred to the Railroad. Grants the State of Alaska the option of paying the consideration for the railroad transfer with cash, land transfers, or both. Allows the State to extend the railroad across Federal lands through grants of rights-of-way in accordance with applicable provisions of law, including the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act and the Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 for the Office of the Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 544 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1982
Directs the U.S. Special Trade Representative and the Federal Aviation Administration to report to Congress on the status of compliance with the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft and other specified aviation matters.
Bill· HRH.R. 6909 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1982
Establishes the grade of commodore in the Coast Guard. Sets forth provisions concerning appointment, active duty status, involuntary retirement, and pay grades.
Bill· HRH.R. 6883 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1982
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement with North Carolina under which the Secretary shall pay the costs of repair and maintenance of the portion of North Carolina Highway 12 located within the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area.
Bill· HRH.R. 6874 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1982
Used Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1982 - Amends the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to set forth provisions requiring information disclosures and certifications regarding the sale of used motor vehicles. Requires the seller of a used motor vehicle to furnish the buyer with a written statement on the present condition of certain components of the vehicle as compared to the original condition of those components. Requires the seller to include as a provision of the sale contract, certification of the roadworthiness of such vehicle. Sets forth buyer remedies and civil penalties for violations of provisions of this Act.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 218 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1982
Requests the President to designate the week of August 29 through September 4, 1982, as National Railroad Week and September 4, 1982, as National Railroad Day.
Bill· SS. 2761 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1982
Amends the International Safe Container Act to give the owners of certain containers until January 1, 1985, to have the containers examined and plated in accordance with the International Convention for Safe Containers. (Current law gives the owners until September 6, 1982, to meet such requirements.)
Bill· HRH.R. 6829 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1982
Maritime Services Financial Responsibility Act of 1982 - Requires owners of vessels engaged in foreign commerce and using the ports or navigable waters of the United States to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility to meet claims in connection with maritime services. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to refuse clearance to such vessels which upon request do not have certification from the Federal Maritime Commission of compliance with this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to deny entry to, or detain at, any port or place in the United States any vessel which does not comply with provisions of this Act.
Bill· SS. 2749 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1982
Authorizes, within available funds, the construction of a bridge approach at Clarkston, Washington.
Law· HRH.R. 6804 (97th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1982
Entitles a member of the Coast Guard Reserve enrolled in an officer candidate program to a subsistence allowance at the same rate as that received by a member of the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
Law· HRH.R. 6732 (97th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1982
Amends the International Safe Container Act to give the owners of certain containers until January 1, 1985, to have the containers examined and plated in accordance with the International Convention for Safe Containers. (Current law gives the owners until September 6, 1982, to meet such requirements.)
Bill· SS. 2712 (97th)open
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1982
Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to prohibit Federal assistance for purchasers of capital equipment for mass rapid transportation subsidized in violation of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Declares that a violation shall be presumed to exist if certain determinations are made pursuant to the Export-Import Bank Act Amendments of 1978 (especially with regard to foreign noncompetitive financing), the Trade Act of 1974 or the Tariff Act of 1930. Requires the Secretary to notify a recipient of the intent to withhold assistance and provide it with the opportunity to cure such violation.
Bill· SS. 2691 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1982
Sailing School Vessels Act of 1982 - Sets forth provisions to include sailing school vessels operated by nonprofit educational institutions under the regulatory authority of the Coast Guard as small passenger-carrying vessels. Excludes sailing school instructors or students from the definition of "passenger" for such vessels. Declares that such instructors or students shall not be considered seamen under Federal statutes. Requires each owner or charterer of a sailing school vessel to maintain evidence of financial responsibility to meet liability for death or injury to sailing school students or instructors on vessel voyages. Declares that such vessels shall not be deemed merchant vessels nor vessels engaged in trade or commerce. Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to prescribe rules and regulations necessary to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 6695 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1976 to restrict the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers to regulate activities in any body of water located entirely within one State which is, or could be, considered a navigable body of water of the United States solely on the basis of historical use in interstate commerce.
Bill· SS. 2666 (97th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1982
Air Carrier Employees Protection Act of 1982 - Amends the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 with respect to the employee protection program by eliminating provisions which make payments under such program subject to amounts provided in appropriation Acts. Requires that monthly assistance payments be equal to the average of such amounts provided in the previous year. Requires the Secretary of Labor when making such payments to deduct the full amounts of benefits received by the protected employee under Federal or State law relating to unemployment compensation, food stamps, public assistance, or welfare programs. Grants protected employees who were furloughed or terminated by air carriers certified under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 prior to enactment of this Act the first right of hire on a regional basis by any other such air carrier. Provides that flight deck operating crew members shall not retain rights of seniority or recall with the air carrier from which they were furloughed or terminated. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to periodically publish the comprehensive list of available jobs with certified air carriers on a regional basis. Requires the Secretary of Labor to certify that employee protection agreements meet certain standards. Grants the United States district courts jurisdiction of actions to enforce duties under such agreements.