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Austria · National Council · 22 November 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten MMag. Dr. Madeleine Petrovic, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Häufung von Unfällen auf der S 6 <i>(Semmering Schnellstraße)</i> im Raum Gloggnitz
Austria · National Council · 22 November 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Anton Heinzl, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Lärmschutz im Raum St. Pölten <i>(Einführung eines Tempolimits für PKW im Streckenabschnitt</i> <i>der A 1 West Autobahn)</i>
Austria · National Council · 22 November 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Johannes Schweisgut, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Lärmschutzmaßnahmen für die Gemeinde Erl
Austria · National Council · 22 November 2000
Antrag der Abgeordneten Dr. Evelin Lichtenberger, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Prüfung und Umsetzung sektoraler LKW-Fahrverbote, insbesondere auf der Inntal-Brennerachse
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 November 2000
89 Mr. Bradford asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will report on the progress to date in replacing and upgrading the school transport fleet. [26808/00]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 November 2000
89 Mr. Bradford asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will report on the progress to date in replacing and upgrading the school transport fleet. [26808/00]
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 November 2000
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 16 November 2000
Austria · National Council · 14 November 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Eva Glawischnig, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft betreffend wasserrechtliche Genehmigungsverfahren für das Bundesstraßenprojekt B 301 <i>(Wiener Südrand Straße)</i>
Austria · National Council · 14 November 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Werner Kogler, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an die Bundesministerin für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Verschwendung von Bundes- und Landesmitteln durch geplante großräumige Aus- und Neubauten im Verlauf der B 67 <i>(Grazer Straße)</i> und weiterer Straßen im Raum Wildon - Weitendorf - Stocking
European Union · European Parliament · 13 November 2000
Germany · German Bundestag · 10 November 2000
Austria · Federal Council · 9 November 2000
Anfrage der Bundesräte Albrecht Konecny und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Handlungsunfähigkeit im Ressort des Bundesministers für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie
United Kingdom · House of Lords · 9 November 2000
United Kingdom · House of Lords · 9 November 2000
Austria · Federal Council · 7 November 2000
Anfrage der Bundesräte Mag. Dietmar Hoscher und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend LKW-Bemautung
European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 7 November 2000
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 2000
Medicare Program Infrastructure Investment Act of 2000 - Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) a Health Care Infrastructure Advisory Commission to: (1) develop a strategy to create an advanced informational infrastructure for the administration of the Medicare program under parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of the Social Security Act (SSA); and (2) submit to Congress a strategic plan to implement it, as well as progress reports. Amends SSA title XI to provide that if the HHS Secretary adopts a batch standard for a transaction involving a health care provider to enable health information to be exchanged electronically, the Secretary shall also adopt an interactive standard compatible with the batch standard so that the provider may immediately complete the transaction at the point of service.
European Union · EUR-Lex · 31 October 2000
United Kingdom · House of Lords · 30 October 2000
United Kingdom · House of Lords · 30 October 2000
Austria · National Council · 27 October 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Werner Kogler, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend <i>(Güter-)</i> Terminal Graz-Süd <i>(Projekt der Hochleistungsstrecken-AG)</i>
Germany · German Bundestag · 27 October 2000
Aussprache auf Verlangen der Fraktion der PDS, unabhängig von einer Fragestunde
United Kingdom · House of Lords · 26 October 2000
United Kingdom · House of Lords · 26 October 2000
United Kingdom · House of Lords · 26 October 2000
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 2000
Authorizes the: (1) Administrator of General Services to transfer to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the Coast Guard Station Scituate; and (2) Coast Guard to relocate such Station. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to convey: (1) the Coast Guard LORAN Station in Nantucket, Massachusetts, to the town of Nantucket; and (2) the Plum Island Boathouse and Lighthouse, Massachusetts, to the city of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Provides a reversionary interest under each such conveyances if the property ceases to be used for public educational, park, recreational, cultural, historical preservation, or other similar purposes, or as a present or future site for Coast Guard aids to navigation. Requires the maintenance of navigation functions within each conveyance.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 2000
Amends Federal aviation law to declare that airport noise or access restrictions on the operation of stage 2 and stage 3 aircraft shall not apply to a local restriction limiting the hours of operation of an airport adopted by an airport operator but disallowed by a court before 1985 if: (1) the airport operator adopted before 1985 a policy of encouraging voluntary limitation of the hours of operation; and (2) such operator entered into an agreement before 1985 with scheduled air carriers regulating the capacity of the airport terminal.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 2000
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the judiciary, and related agencies. Title I: Department of Justice - Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Justice for: (1) general administration; (2) a Joint Automated Booking System; (3) conversion to narrowband communications; (4) counterterrorism activities; (5) payments of costs of telecommunications carriers in complying with capability requirements; (6) administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities; (7) establishment of a Federal Detention Trustee to exercise functions relating to the detention of Federal prisoners in non-Federal institutions or those in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service and detention of aliens in the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS); (8) the Office of Inspector General; (9) the U.S. Parole Commission; (10) legal activities; (11) antitrust activities; (12) the Offices of U.S. Attorneys; (13) the U.S. Trustee Program; (14) the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; (15) the U.S. Marshals Service, including amounts for Federal prisoner detention; (16) fees and expenses of witnesses; (17) the Community Relations Service; (18) certain uses of the Assets Forfeiture Fund; (19) administrative expenses related to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act; (20) the Radiation Exposure Compensation Trust Fund; (21) interagency law enforcement with respect to organized crime drug trafficking; (22) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (23) construction for specified agencies; (24) the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); (25) the INS; (26) the Federal prison system, including an amount for buildings and facilities; (27) Office of Justice programs; (28) State and local law enforcement assistance; (29) the Executive Office for Weed and Seed; (30) community oriented policing services; (31) juvenile justice programs; and (32) public safety officers' benefits. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 103) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this title to: (1) pay for abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or in the case of rape; or (2) require any person to perform or facilitate an abortion. (Sec. 109) Makes a provision of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 relating to grants for assistance to the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 applicable for FY 2001. (Sec. 111) Makes a certain provision of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 that prohibits the use of funds by any Act to pay premium pay to any Department of Justice attorney applicable hereafter. (Sec. 112) Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish the Genealogy Fee for providing genealogy research and information services. Provides for deposit of the fee as offsetting collections in the Examinations Fee Account. Requires INS employees to collect fees before disseminating any requested genealogical information. Authorizes the Attorney General to establish and collect a premium fee for employment-based petitions and applications. Requires the fee to be used to provide certain premium-processing services to business customers and to make infrastructure improvements in the adjudications and customer-service processes. Provides for deposit of the fee as offsetting collections in the Immigration Examinations Fee Account. (Sec. 114) Amends Federal law to make amounts in the Crime Victims Fund available to the FBI for improving services for the benefit of crime victims in the Federal criminal justice system. (Sec. 115) Authorizes the use of funds appropriated to the Federal Prison System for the placement of certain prisoners sentenced under the District of Columbia Code in privately operated prisons. (Sec. 118) Bars the availability of funds for grant programs under this title to any local jail that runs "pay-to-stay" programs. Title II: Department of Commerce and Related Agencies - Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for the Department of Commerce for: (1) the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; (2) the International Trade Commission; (3) the International Trade Administration; (4) export administration and national security activities; (5) the Economic Development Administration; (6) minority business development; (7) economic and statistical analysis programs; (8) the Census Bureau; (9) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (10) public telecommunications facilities planning and construction grants; (11) information infrastructure grants; (12) the Patent and Trademark Office; (13) the Under Secretary for Technology-Office of Technology Policy; (14) the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including amounts for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the Advanced Technology Program and for construction of new research facilities; (15) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including amounts for procurement, acquisition, and construction of capital assets and for coastal and ocean activities; (16) restoration of Pacific salmon populations; (17) the Coastal Zone Management Fund; (18) the Fishermen's Contingency Fund; (19) the Foreign Fishing Observer Fund; (20) the fisheries finance program account; (21) departmental management; and (22) the Office of Inspector General. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 210) Requires the Secretary of Commerce to establish and administer through the National Ocean Service the Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program to award graduate education scholarships in marine biology, oceanography, or maritime archaeology. Title III: The Judiciary - Judiciary Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for: (1) the Supreme Court, including an amount for care of the building and grounds; (2) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; (3) the U.S. Court of International Trade; (4) the courts of appeals, district courts, and other judicial services; (5) defender services; (6) fees of jurors and commissioners; (7) court security; (8) the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; (9) the Federal Judicial Center; (10) judicial retirement funds; and (11) the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to designate judicial branch officers and employees to be disbursing officers and to certify payment requests from appropriations and funds. Sets forth provisions regarding liability of such officers and employees. (Sec. 305) Requires the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, additional district judges for Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. (Sec. 306) Authorizes the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to appoint a circuit executive. (Sec. 307) Includes judicial branch agencies under the scope of Federal civil service provisions that authorize employment of personal assistants for handicapped employees. (Sec. 308) Deems service performed before the effective date of this section by a member of the Supreme Court Police who is a member on such date to be service performed as a law enforcement officer for purposes of Federal civil service retirement provisions. Deems service performed before such effective date by a member of the Supreme Court Police who is not a member on such date to be employee service for purposes of such provisions. Sets forth provisions regarding mandatory separation of members eligible for immediate retirement and entitlement to annuities. (Sec. 309) Authorizes justices and judges of the United States during FY 2001 to receive salary adjustments only if annual pay adjustments under Federal civil service provisions take effect in FY 2001. Appropriates an amount for such adjustments, provided they take effect. Title IV: Department of State and Related Agency - Department of State and Related Agency Appropriations Act, 2001 - Makes appropriations for the Department of State for: (1) administration of foreign affairs, diplomatic and consular programs; (2) the Capital Investment Fund; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) educational and cultural exchange programs; (5) representation allowances; (6) protection of foreign missions and officials; (7) embassy security, construction, and maintenance; (8) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (9) the repatriation loans program account; (10) the American Institute in Taiwan; (11) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (12) international organizations, conferences, peacekeeping, and commissions; (13) the Asia Foundation; (14) the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Incorporated; (15) the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program; (16) the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West (East-West Center); and (17) the National Endowment for Democracy. Makes appropriations for the Broadcasting Board of Governors for international broadcasting operations, broadcasting to Cuba, and capital improvements. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. (Sec. 403) Bars the use of funds made available in this Act by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to provide assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. (Sec. 404) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources to be appointed by the President. Makes such Deputy Secretary a Level II Executive Schedule position. (Sec. 405) Prohibits funds made available in this Act for the United Nations (UN) from being used by the UN for the enforcement of any treaty, resolution, or regulation authorizing the UN to tax any aspect of the Internet. (Sec. 406) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by any Act to allow for the entry into, or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption in the United States of diamonds if the country of origin in which such diamonds were mined (as evidenced by a legible certificate of origin) is Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Angola, with the exception of diamonds certified by lawful governments of Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or Angola. (Sec. 407) Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize special agents of the Department of State and the Foreign Service to protect and perform protective functions related to maintaining the security and safety of: (1) a departing Secretary of State for a limited time period after termination of the individual's incumbency as Secretary on the basis of a threat assessment; and (2) an individual who has been designated as Secretary prior to such individual's appointment. Title V: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for the: (1) Maritime Administration for maritime security, operations and training, and the maritime guaranteed loan program; (2) Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (3) Commission on Civil Rights; (4) Commission on Ocean Policy; (5) Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; (6) Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China; (7) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); (8) Federal Communications Commission (FCC); (9) Federal Maritime Commission; (10) Federal Trade Commission (FTC); (11) Legal Services Corporation; (12) Marine Mammal Commission; (13) Securities and Exchange Commission; (14) Small Business Administration (SBA), including amounts for the Office of Inspector General and business and disaster loans; and (15) State Justice Institute. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, such funds. Title VI: General Provisions - Sets forth limitations on the use of funds under this Act. (Sec. 607) Sets forth Buy American provisions. (Sec. 608) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to: (1) enforce any EEOC guidelines covering harassment based on religion if such guidelines do not differ from proposed guidelines of October 1, 1993; (2) pay for costs incurred in operating certain diplomatic or consular posts in Vietnam or increasing the number of personnel assigned to such posts until the President makes a specified certification; or (3) provide specified personal comforts in the Federal prison system. (Sec. 609) Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act for any United Nations undertaking if: (1) such undertaking is a peacekeeping mission and will involve U.S. armed forces under the control of a foreign national; and (2) the President's military advisors have not submitted a recommendation that such involvement is in the national security interest and the President has not submitted such recommendation to Congress. (Sec. 616) Makes funds provided by this Act unavailable to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of such products, except for restrictions which are not applied equally to products of the same type. (Sec. 617) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act to issue visas to certain individuals from Haiti, including those involved in specified extrajudicial and political killings. (Sec. 618) Bars funds appropriated under any law from being used for: (1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection with any criminal background check system that implements requirements under the Federal criminal code in connection with certain restrictions on the transfer of firearms; and (2) any such system that does not result in the destruction of information submitted by persons determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm. (Sec. 621) Bars the use of funds appropriated in this Act for purposes of granting immigrant or nonimmigrant visas to residents of countries that the Attorney General has determined deny or unreasonably delay accepting the return of certain deportable aliens. (Sec. 622) Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of Justice in this Act for transporting any maximum or high security prisoner to any prison other than one certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure. (Sec. 623) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to propose or issue rules or orders for implementing the Kyoto Protocol. (Sec. 624) Bars the use of funds made available by this Act for participation by U.S. delegates to the Standing Consultative Commission unless the President certifies to the Appropriations Committees that the U.S. Government is not implementing the Memorandum of Understanding Relating to the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems of May 26, 1972, entered into on September 26, 1997, by the United States, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ukraine or until the Senate provides its advice and consent to the Memorandum. (Sec. 625) Prohibits the availability of funds appropriated in this Act for the Department of State to approve the purchase of property in Arlington, Virginia, by the Xinhua News Agency. (Sec. 627) Amends the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to consider a taking of a Cook Inlet beluga whale under the Marine Mammal Protection Act to be a violation of such Act unless such taking occurs pursuant to a cooperative agreement between the National Marine Fisheries Service and affected Alaska Native organizations. (Currently, such act is considered a violation if it takes place between the enactment date of such Act and October 1, 2000.) (Sec. 628) Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 to revise and extend the authorization of appropriations for activities related to the Pacific Salmon Treaty Agreement. Authorizes appropriations to provide economic adjustment assistance to fishermen pursuant to such agreement. (Sec. 629) Amends the Interstate Horseracing Act to include within the definition of "interstate off-track wager" pari-mutuel wagers placed or transmitted by an individual in one State via telephone or other electronic media and accepted by an off-track betting system in the same or another State as well as the combination of pari-mutuel wagering pools. (Sec. 630) Amends provisions of the Clayton Act to revise conditions under which a person is prohibited from acquiring voting securities or assets of another person prior to filing premerger notification and the expiration of a waiting period. Provides for graduated filing fees of up to $280,000, based on the amount of voting securities and assets held by the acquiring person as a result of the acquisition. (Currently, such fees are set at $45,000.) Directs the Assistant Attorney General and the FTC each to designate for hearing certain petitions a senior official without direct responsibility for the merger review process concerning the proposed acquisition at issue. Requires such officials to hear any petition filed with the FTC, by the acquiring person or by the person whose voting securities or assets are to be acquired, to determine: (1) whether a request for additional information or documentary material is unreasonably cumulative, unduly burdensome or duplicative; or (2) whether the request for such information or material has been substantially complied with by the petitioning person. Provides for an expedited merger review process of petitions filed with the FTC. Increases the number of days by which the waiting period may be extended from 20 to 30 days. (Sec. 631) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to take necessary measures to stabilize and renovate Lock and Dam 10 at Boonesborough, Kentucky, for extending the design life of the structure by an additional 50 years. (Sec. 632) Directs the FCC to modify its rules authorizing the operation of low-power FM radio stations to: (1) prescribe minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels (as well as co-channels and first- and second-adjacent channels); and (2) prohibit any applicant from obtaining a low-power FM license if such applicant has engaged in the unlicensed operation of any radio station in violation of FCC radio licensing requirements. Prohibits the FCC, without specific authorization by Congress, from: (1) eliminating or reducing such minimum distance separations for third-adjacent channels; or (2) extending the eligibility for low-power FM stations beyond those organizations and entities proposed in MM Docket No. 99-25. Invalidates any previously issued low-power FM station license that does not comply with such rule modifications. Directs the FCC to conduct an experimental program to test whether low- power FM stations will result in harmful interference to existing FM radio stations if such stations are not subject to the minimum distance separation requirements. Requires the FCC to: (1) publish test results and allow an opportunity for public comment; and (2) report test results and FCC recommendations on reducing or eliminating minimum distance standards to specified congressional committees. (Sec. 633) Makes an additional amount available for SBA salaries and expenses. (Sec. 634) Prohibits the use of funds provided in this or any previous Act or made available to the Department of Commerce for the issuance or renewal, for any fishing vessel, of any general or harpoon category fishing permit for Atlantic bluefin tuna that would allow the vessel to: (1) use an aircraft to locate, or otherwise assist in fishing for, catching, or possessing such tuna; or (2) fish for, catch, or possess such tuna located by the use of an aircraft. Amy Boyer's Law - Amends the Social Security Act to bar the public display or sale of any individual's social security number, or any identifiable derivative of such number, without the expressed consent, electronically or in writing, of such individual. Prohibits obtaining a social security number for purposes of locating or identifying an individual with the intent to physically injure, harm, or use the identity of the individual for illegal purposes. Provides prerequisites for consent, including that the individual be informed of the general purposes for which the number will be utilized and the types of persons to whom the number may be available. Provides that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit or limit display, sale, or use of social security numbers: (1) required under certain Federal laws; (2) by professional and commercial users who use the information in the normal course of their business so long as a number is not publicly displayed or sold; (3) for law enforcement; or (4) that may appear in a public record. Authorizes persons aggrieved by violations of this law to bring civil actions in district courts to recover damages. Prohibits actions from being commenced more than three years after the date the violation was or should have been reasonably discovered. Subjects violators to civil money penalties as determined by the Commissioner of Social Security in addition to any other penalties that may be prescribed. Prescribes criminal penalties for such violations under the Social Security Act. Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the feasibility and advisability of imposing additional limitations on the use of social security numbers in public records. (Sec. 636) Prohibits the redesignation of Cuyahoga Valley National Park as a Class I area under the Clean Air Act. Title VII: Rescissions - Rescinds specified amounts for the DEA Drug Diversion Control Fee Account and the Maritime Administration maritime guaranteed loan program account. Title VIII: Debt Reduction and Other Matter - Provides for deposit of an additional amount into the account established to reduce the public debt. (Sec. 801) Requires the presiding officer of the Senate, on the first day of the 107th Congress, to apply all of the precedents of the Senate under rule XXVIII (conference committees, reports; open meetings) in effect at the conclusion of the 103rd Congress. Provides that there is now in effect a standing order of the Senate that the reading of conference reports is no longer required if the report is available in the Senate. Title IX: Wildlife, Ocean and Coastal Conservation - Makes an amount available to support activities that supplement existing funding available to the States and territories from the sport fish restoration and wildlife restoration accounts to be used for wildlife conservation and restoration plans and programs. (Sec. 902) Amends the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act to establish in the Federal aid to wildlife restoration fund a subaccount known as the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Account. Authorizes and allocates appropriations. Authorizes States to apply to the Secretary of the Interior for approval of a wildlife conservation and restoration program or for Account funds to develop a program. Prohibits the use of no more than ten percent of the amount apportioned to a State for a program for wildlife-associated recreation. Permits Account funds to be used for wildlife conservation education programs except for programs that promote opposition to the regulated taking of wildlife. Makes a State agency ineligible to receive matching funds under this title if sources of revenue available to the agency after January 1, 2000, for wildlife conservation are diverted for any purpose other than agency administration. Amends the North American Wetlands Conservation Act to increase the maximum amount authorized to be appropriated to the Department of the Interior to carry out North American wetlands conservation. (Sec. 903) Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to authorize appropriations for coastal impact assistance to producing coastal States with approved coastal impact assistance plans. Defines a "producing coastal State" as a coastal State with a coastal seaward boundary within 200 miles from the geographic center of a tract leased for drilling, developing, and producing oil and natural gas other than a tract within any Outer Continental Shelf area where a specified moratorium on new leasing was in effect as of January 1, 2000. Sets forth the formula for allocating such funds to producing coastal States and coastal political subdivisions and describes authorized uses. Requires the development and submission of a Coastal Impact Assistance Plan by each producing coastal State for transmittal to the Secretary of Commerce for approval prior to the disbursement of funds. Title X: Local TV Act - Launching Our Communities' Access to Local Television Act of 2000 - Establishes the LOCAL Television Loan Guarantee Board to approve or disapprove loan guarantees under this Act. Allows loan guarantees to be approved only to the extent provided for in advance in appropriations Acts. Requires such loans to be used to finance the means by which local television (TV) broadcast signals will be delivered to nonserved or underserved areas, with a loan priority for nonserved areas. States that the Board should give additional consideration to projects that also provide high-speed Internet access. Prohibits the Board from approving a loan for a project that is designed primarily to serve one of the 40 designated market areas or would alter or remove National Weather Service warnings from local broadcast signals. Limits a loan guarantee to 80 percent of a loan meeting requirements under this Act, with a total loan aggregate value limit of $1.25 billion. (Sec. 1005) Requires the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service to administer all loan guarantees approved under this Act. Requires loan applicants to enter into stipulated performance schedules with respect to the signals to be provided through the project. Sets forth provisions regarding credit requirements, default procedures, and recovery of payments. Requires the Board to charge and collect a loan guarantee fee and use such fee to cover administrative costs. (Sec. 1006) Requires an annual audit and report concerning the loan guarantee program. (Sec. 1007) Directs the FCC to reinstate as tentative rural service selectees, and permit application amendments for: (1) Great Western Cellular Partners; (2) Monroe Telephone Services L.P.; and (3) FutureWave General Partners L.P. (Sec. 1008) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 with respect to the definition of "satellite carrier." (Includes distributors under specified circumstances.) (Sec. 1009) Prohibits any loan guarantee from being approved after December 31, 2006. (Sec. 1011) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 through 2006. (Sec. 1012) Requires the FCC to provide for an independent technical demonstration of any terrestrial service technology proposed by any entity that has applied to provide such service in the direct broadcast satellite frequency band to determine whether the proposed technology will cause harmful interference to any direct broadcast satellite service. Title XI: Encouraging Immigrant Family Reunification - Legal Immigration Family Equity Act (LIFE Act) - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to accord nonimmigrant status to certain aliens: (1) with pending or approved but unavailable visa petitions who are the spouses or unmarried sons and daughters of permanent resident aliens; and (2) with approved but unavailable visa petitions who are the spouses of U.S. citizens or minor children of such spouses. Permits related status adjustments for qualifying aliens. (Sec. 1104) Provides for the permanent resident status adjustment of certain alien class action participants who entered the United States prior to January 1, 1982, and maintained a qualifying period of unlawful U.S. residence. Considers certain Cuban and Haitian entrants as so qualifying. Requires demonstration of basic citizenship skills, with exceptions for elderly or disabled persons. Provides for related temporary stay of removal, employment authorization, and public assistance eligibility.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 2000
Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2001 - Title I: Export and Investment Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) direct loans, loan guarantees, tied-aid grants, insurance, and administrative expenses under Export-Import Bank programs; (2) Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) direct and guaranteed loans and credit and insurance programs, including administrative expenses; and (3) the Trade and Development Agency. Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) expenses of the President in carrying out certain programs under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (2) the Agency for International Development (AID) child survival and infectious disease programs, including basic education programs (earmarking amounts for child survival and maternal health, vulnerable children, HIV-AIDS, other infectious diseases, children's basic education, UNICEF, U.S. contributions to the Global Fund for Children's Vaccines and to an international HIV-AIDS fund, and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative); (3) specified development assistance (allowing availability of limited amounts for the Inter-American Foundation and the African Development Foundation, agriculture and rural development programs (including plant biotechnology research and development), the International Fertilizer Development Center, AmeriCares for the construction, rehabilitation, and operation of community-based primary healthcare facilities in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute, the American Schools and Hospitals Abroad program, and an international media training center); (4) specified projects aimed at reunification of Cyprus; (5) specified assistance for Lebanon for scholarships and direct support of the American educational institutions there; (6) democracy and humanitarian activities in Burma; (7) specified assistance for the preservation of habitats and related activities for endangered wildlife; (8) international disaster assistance; (9) international disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction assistance to support transition to democracy and to long-term development of countries in crisis (provided AID reports to the Committees on Appropriations at least five days before the beginning of such program assistance); (10) micro and small enterprise development programs; (11) direct loans and loan guarantees under the development credit authority program for development assistance to foreign countries (provided such funds are made available only for urban and environmental programs); (12) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (13) operating expenses of AID and the AID Office of Inspector General; (14) Economic Support Fund (ESF) assistance (earmarking amounts for Israel, Egypt, Jordan, East Timor, Indonesia, Mongolia, and the National Democratic Alliance of Sudan); (15) the International Fund for Ireland; (16) ESF assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States (earmarking amounts for Kosova and Bosnia and Herzegovina, subject to specified conditions); (17) assistance for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union (earmarking amounts for the Southern Caucasus region, the Russian Far East, assistance to meet the health and other assistance needs of victims of trafficking in persons, Ukraine, Georgia, and child survival, environmental health, and to combat infectious diseases, subject to specified conditions); (18) the Peace Corps (but with a prohibition on the use of such funds for abortions); (19) international narcotics control and law enforcement; (20) migration and refugee assistance; (21) the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund; (22) nonproliferation, anti-terrorism, demining, and related programs and activities (including U.S. contributions to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), subject to a specified condition, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Preparatory Commission, the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), subject to specified conditions, and the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund); (23) international affairs technical assistance activities of the Department of the Treasury; and (24) debt restructuring of concessional loans, guarantees, and credits made to least developed countries. Bars the use of development assistance funds for: (1) coercive abortions or involuntary sterilizations (but allowing them for voluntary family planning projects in developing nations that meet specified requirements; and (2) U.S. private and voluntary organizations which obtain less than 20 percent of annual funding from sources other than the U.S. Government. Withholds 60 percent of funds appropriated to the Government of the Russian Federation until the President certifies to the Committees on Appropriations it has met certain conditions. Title III: Military Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) expanded international military education and training (IMET) to Indonesia and Guatemala (subject to a specified condition); (2) foreign military financing grants (earmarking amounts for Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Malta, Tunisia, and Georgia (including drawdowns of defense articles and services)); and (3) international peacekeeping operations (subject to a specified condition). Prohibits foreign military financing for Sudan, Liberia, and Guatemala. Title IV: Multilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for the U.S. contribution to: (1) the Global Environment Facility of the International Bank for reconstruction and Development (World Bank); (2) the International Development Association (IDA) (providing that in negotiating U.S. participation in the next replenishment of the IDA that the Secretary of the Treasury accord high priority to providing it with the policy flexibility to provide new grant assistance to countries eligible for debt reduction under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) Initiative); (3) the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency; (4) the Inter-American Investment Corporation; (5) the Enterprise for the Americas Multilateral Investment Fund; (6) the Asian Development Fund; (7) the African Development Bank; (8) the African Development Fund; (9) the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and (10) the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for international organizations. Earmarks a specified amount for the World Food Program. Prohibits the use of funds for the United Nations Fund for Science and Technology, KEDO, or the IAEA. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth limits on the use of appropriations, including that no more than 15 percent of such appropriations shall be obligated during the last month of availability. (Sec. 502) Prohibits: (1) the use of funds for bilateral funding of international financial institutions; and (2) the transfer of such funds by AID directly to such an institution for the purpose of repaying a foreign country's loan obligations to it. (Sec. 503) Sets forth limits on the use of appropriations, including no more than specified maximums for official residence expenses, entertainment expenses, and representation allowances for AID, and for entertainment and representation allowances for the Inter-American Foundation and the Trade and Development Agency. Limits the use of funds for entertainment expenses of the Peace Corps, and of entertainment and representation allowances under the Foreign Military Financing Program. (Sec. 506) Prohibits the use of funds for: (1) the export of nuclear equipment, fuel, or technology (except for nuclear safety purposes); (2) direct assistance or reparations to Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, or Syria; (3) assistance to any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree; (4) certain transfers between appropriations accounts without prior presidential consultation with Congress; (5) assistance to any country in default in excess of a year on payments on a U.S. loan (except for any narcotics-related assistance for Colombia, Bolivia, or Peru); and (6) assistance (except in certain circumstances) for production of any commodity for export by a foreign country, if the commodity is likely to be in surplus on world markets when the resulting productive capacity is expected to become operative, and if the assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a similar commodity. (Sec. 514) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of specified international financial institutions to oppose any assistance for the production or extraction of any commodity or mineral for export if it is in surplus on world markets and such assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a similar commodity. (Sec. 516) Declares that funds appropriated for foreign operations, export financial, and related programs, that are returned or not made available for international organizations and programs, shall remain available for obligation through FY 2002. (Sec. 517) Prohibits the availability of assistance for the Independent States of the former Soviet Union to a Government of such an Independent State, unless such Government is making progress in implementing comprehensive economic reforms based on market principles, private ownership, respect for commercial contracts, and equitable treatment of foreign private investment. Prohibits the availability of assistance also: (1) if such a Government applies or transfers U.S. assistance to any entity for the purpose of expropriating or seizing ownership of assets, investments, or ventures (unless the President determines such assistance is in the national interest); (2) if such Government directs any action in violation of the territorial integrity or national sovereignty of any other Independent State such as those violations included in the Helsinki Final Act; or (3) to enhance its military capability (except for demilitarization, demining, or nonproliferation programs). (Sec. 518) Prohibits the use of development assistance funds for abortions or involuntary sterilizations as methods of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions, or provide financial incentive to undergo sterilization. (Sec. 519) Limits to no more than five percent the amount of export financing funds (other than for administrative expenses) that can be transferred from one appropriation to another, with no appropriation being increased by more than 25 percent by such transfer. (Sec. 520) Prohibits the use of funds for Colombia, Haiti, Liberia, Serbia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, or the Democratic Republic of Congo, except through the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 522) Makes funds available to AID for child survival, basic education, infectious disease activities and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) research and control in developing countries. (Sec. 523) Bars funding for indirect assistance or reparations to Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or China unless the President certifies that the withholding of such funds is contrary to the U.S. national security interest. (Sec. 524) Requires the Department of Defense (DOD) to notify the Committees on Appropriations before providing excess DOD articles to certain NATO and major non-NATO countries. (Sec. 526) Authorizes the availability of ESF funds to provide general support and grants for nongovernment organizations located outside China that have as their primary purpose fostering democracy and rule of law in that country (including earmarking amounts to such organizations to support activities which preserve cultural traditions and promote sustainable development and environmental conservation in Tibetan communities). Earmarks ESF funds to the Jamestown Foundation (currently the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights) for a project to disseminate information and support research about China, and related activities. (Sec. 527) Prohibits bilateral assistance funds to any country which the President determines grants sanctuary from prosecution to any individual or group which has committed an act of international terrorism or otherwise supports such activities. Authorizes the waiver of this prohibition by the President for national security and humanitarian reasons, requiring notification to the Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 528) Directs the Secretary of State to report quarterly to the Committees on Appropriations on the use of supplemental appropriations for ESF assistance and military asistance to certain countries. (Sec. 529) Requires all AID contracts and subcontracts to include a clause requiring that U.S. insurance companies have a fair opportunity to bid for insurance when insurance is necessary or appropriate. (Sec. 530) Directs the Secretary of State to determine, and report periodically to the Committees on Appropriations, whether Peru has made substantial progress in creating the conditions for free and fair elections, and in respecting human rights, the rule of law, the independence and constitutional role of the judiciary and national congress, and freedom of expression and independent media. Prohibits the use of funds for assistance to Peru unless the Secretary determines that it has made substantial progress with respect to such goals. Earmarks amounts to support the work of nongovernmental organizations and the Organization of American States in promoting free and fair elections, democratic institutions, and human rights in Peru. (Sec. 531) Authorizes nongovernmental organizations which are AID grantees or contractors to place funds made available to them under this Act in interest bearing accounts in order to enhance their participation in economic activities under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, including endowments and debt-for-development and debt-for-nature exchanges. (Sec. 532) Directs the Administrator of AID to require foreign countries that receive foreign assistance which results in the generation of local currencies to deposit such currencies in a separate account to be used to finance foreign assistance activities. (Sec. 533) Prohibits payments to any international financial institution while the U.S. Executive Director to the institution is compensated at a rate in excess of that for Level IV of the Executive Schedule. (Sec. 534) Bars assistance to any country that is not in compliance with the United Nations (UN) sanctions against Iraq, unless the President certifies to Congress that such assistance: (1) is in the U.S. national interest; (2) will directly benefit the needy people in that country; or (3) will be humanitarian assistance for foreign nationals who have fled Iraq and Kuwait. (Sec. 535) Declares that provisions under this or any other Act authorizing appropriations for foreign operations or export financing shall not be construed to prohibit activities authorized by the Peace Corps Act, the Inter-American Foundation Act, or the African Development Foundation Act. Requires an agency to report to the Committees on Appropriations whenever it is conducting or proposing activities in a country for which such assistance is prohibited. (Sec. 536) Prohibits the use of funds to provide: (1) any financial incentive to a business for purposes of inducing it to relocate outside the United States if it will reduce the number of employees in the United States; (2) assistance for establishing or developing in a foreign country an export processing zone or other designated area in which a country's tax, tariff, labor, environment, and safety laws do not apply to activities in the area, unless the President certifies that such assistance is not likely to cause a loss of U.S. jobs; or (3) assistance for any project that contributes to the violation of internationally recognized workers rights in the recipient country. (Sec. 537) Urges the export of U.S. clean coal technology. (Sec. 538) Declares that funds appropriated under this Act for Afghanistan, Lebanon, Montenegro, and for victims of war, displaced children, and displaced Burmese may be made available notwithstanding any other provision of law. Prohibits the use of funds made available to Cambodia for military or paramilitary purposes. Authorizes the use of foreign assistance funds to support tropical forestry and biodiversity conservation programs, and subject to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations, energy programs aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Authorizes the use of foreign assistance funds by AID to employ up to 25 personal services contractors in the United States for the purpose of providing direct, interim support for new or expanded overseas programs and activities managed by it until permanent direct hire personnel are hired and trained. Authorizes the President to waive certain prohibitions with respect to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) if the President determines and certifies to Congress that it is in the national interest. (Sec. 539) Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to: (1) immediate public renunciation by the Arab League countries of the boycott of Israel (reinstated in 1997) and of American firms having commercial ties with Israel; (2) normalization of relations with Israel by such Arab countries; and (3) steps the President should take to encourage such renunciation. (Sec. 540) Authorizes the use of ESF funds to strengthen the administration of justice in countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, and in other regions. (Sec. 541) Declares that the restrictions on assistance to foreign countries contained in this Act or any other Act (except those relating to international terrorism or human rights violations) shall not be construed to restrict assistance: (1) in support of certain programs of nongovernmental organizations; or (2) under specified provisions of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954. (Sec. 542) Authorizes the reprogramming of earmarked appropriations for other programs within the same account, provided certain requirements are met. (Sec. 544) Prohibits the use of funds for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States that were not authorized before the enactment of this Act. Earmarks specified amounts to private and voluntary organizations to deal with world hunger abroad. (Sec. 545) Declares that assistance under this Act should make full use of American resources, including commodities, products, and services, to the maximum extent possible. Declares the sense of Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all agricultural commodities, equipment, and products purchased with funds made available in this Act should be American-made. Requires Federal agency heads, in providing financial assistance to or entering into any contract with any entity using funds made available in this Act, to notify such entity of this intention. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to report annually on the efforts of such agency heads and the U.S. directors of international financial institutions in complying with such requirements. (Sec. 546) Prohibits the use of funds to pay any assessments, arrearages, or dues of any UN member (including costs for attendance of another country's delegation at international conferences). (Sec. 548) Prohibits the provision of funds to a private voluntary organization that fails to provide any document, file, or record necessary to the auditing requirements of AID. (Sec. 549) Prohibits the provision of funds to any foreign government that provides lethal military equipment to a country that the Secretary of State has determined has a terrorist government, unless the President determines that the furnishing of such assistance is in the U.S. national interest. (Sec. 550) Withholds assistance from a foreign country in an amount equal to 110 percent of the total unpaid parking fines and penalties owed by the country to the District of Columbia. (Sec. 551) Prohibits the obligation of any appropriations for the PLO for the West Bank and Gaza unless the President has exercised certain authorities to suspend prohibitions on assistance to the PLO. (Sec. 552) Permits the President to provide up to a specified amount of commodities and services to the UN War Crimes Tribunal if doing so will contribute to a just resolution of charges regarding genocide or other violations of international law in the former Yugoslavia. (Sec. 553) Authorizes disposal on a grant basis in foreign countries of demining equipment used in support of the clearance of land mines and unexploded ordnance for humanitarian purposes. (Sec. 554) Prohibits the obligation of appropriations to create in Jerusalem a new U.S. agency office for the purpose of conducting U.S. business with the Palestinian Authority over Gaza and Jericho (or any successor Palestinian governing entity) provided for in the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles. (Sec. 555) Prohibits the obligation of certain funds appropriated for Informational Program activities to pay for: (1) alcoholic beverages; or (2) entertainment expenses for recreational activities. (Sec. 556) Authorizes the President to reduce amounts owed to the United States by eligible countries as a result of: (1) housing guarantees made pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; (2) credits extended or guarantees issued under the Arms Export Control Act; or (3) any obligation to pay for purchases of U.S. agricultural commodities guaranteed by the Commodity Credit Corporation. Permits the exercise of such authority only: (1) to implement multilateral official debt relief and referendum agreements known as the Paris Club Agreed Minutes; and (2) with respect to countries with heavy debt burdens that are eligible to borrow from the IDA (but not from the World Bank) (IDA-only countries). Prescribes additional conditions for the exercise of such authority. (Sec. 558) Bars funds appropriated by this Act or any previous appropriations Act for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs to be made available for assistance for the Government of Haiti until: (1) the Secretary of State reports to the Committees on Appropriations that Haiti has held free and fair elections to seat a new parliament; and (2) the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy reports to the Committees on Appropriations that such Government is fully cooperating with the U.S. efforts to interdict illicit drug traffic through it to the United States. Earmarks a specified percentage of funds appropriated under this Act for bilateral assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean region. (Sec. 559) Requires a specified annual report of the Secretary of State containing the voting record of each foreign member country of the UN to include a side-by-side comparison of each country's overall support for the United States at the UN and the amount of U.S. assistance provided to it in FY 2000. (Sec. 560) Prohibits the United States from paying any voluntary contribution to the UN, including the UN Development Program, unless the President certifies to Congress 15 days in advance of such payment that the UN is not engaged in any effort to implement or impose any taxation on U.S. persons in order to raise revenue for itself or any of its specialized agencies. (Sec. 561) Makes the Government of Haiti eligible to purchase U.S. defense articles and services for its Coast Guard. (Sec. 562) Prohibits the obligation of any appropriations for the PLO unless the President certifies to Congress that it is in the U.S. national security interests. (Sec. 563) Prohibits the use of funds for the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State believes they have committed gross violations of human rights, unless the Secretary reports to the Committees on Appropriations that such country is taking steps to bring the responsible persons to justice. (Sec. 564) Provides for bilateral and multilateral assistance sanctions (with humanitarian, democratization, and certain infrastructure project exceptions) against countries harboring war criminals indicted with respect to the former Yugoslavia. Prohibits the provision of bilateral assistance for programs in which publicly indicted war criminals are known to have any financial interest or communities that are not in compliance with specified sections of the Dayton Agreement relating to war crimes and the Tribunal. Requires the Secretary of State to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the location, if known, of publicly indicted war criminals, on country, entity and municipality authorities known to have obstructed the work of the Tribunal, and on sanctioned countries, entities, and municipalities. (Sec. 565) Prohibits the use of funds for the Government of the Russian Federation unless the President certifies to specified congressional committees that the Federation has not enacted laws or promulgated executive orders that discriminate against religious minorities in violation of international agreements on human rights and religious freedoms to which it is a party. (Sec. 566) Subjects the availability of funds in this Act to support programs or activities promoting country participation in the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) to the regular notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 567) Bars funds to the Central Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Sec. 568) Earmarks specified foreign assistance funds for Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, the Israel-Lebanon Monitoring Group, the Multinational Force and Observers, the Middle East Regional Democracy Fund, Middle East Regional Cooperation, and Middle East Multilateral Working Groups. (Sec. 569) Requires the President to submit to specified congressional committees a plan for the distribution of assets of an Enterprise Fund before any distribution resulting from liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Fund. (Sec. 570) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of international financial institutions to oppose loans to Cambodia (except loans to support basic human needs). Prohibits the availability of funds under this Act for assistance for the Government of Cambodia. (Sec. 571) Directs the Secretaries of Defense and of State to report jointly to Congress on all overseas military training provided to, and proposed to be provided to, foreign military personnel under programs administered by the Defense and State Departments during FY 2000 and 2001. (Sec. 572) Earmarks specified funds for KEDO for administrative expenses and heavy fuel oil costs associated with the Agreed Framework (Joint Declaration on Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula). Earmarks other amounts to KEDO if the President certifies to Congress that North Korea is complying with the provisions of the Agreed Framework. (Sec. 573) Authorizes investment of funds made available to grantees of the African Development Foundation pending expenditure for project purposes when authorized by the President of the Foundation. (Sec. 574) Bars the use of funds appropriated under this Act to provide equipment, technical support, consulting services, or any other assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. (Sec. 575) Earmarks specified amounts of ESF funds for programs benefitting the Iraqi people, including for food, medicine, and other humanitarian assistance, and for a political transition in Iraq, Iraqi opposition groups for political, economic, humanitarian, and other activities, and for groups and activities seeking the prosecution of Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi government officials for war crimes. Bars the use of such funds for administrative expenses of the State Department. (Sec. 576) Directs AID to submit an annual budget justification consistent with certain requirements of this Act to the Committees on Appropriations. (Sec. 577) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act to propose or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or orders for implementation, or in preparation for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol to the United States Framework Convention on Climate Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification pursuant to the U.S. Constitution, and which has not entered into force. (Sec. 578) Directs the Secretary of State, 30 days prior to the initial obligation of ESF funds for the bilateral West Bank and Gaza Program, to certify to the appropriate congressional committees that procedures have been established to assure that the Comptroller General will have access to appropriate U.S. financial information in order to review the uses of such funds for the Program. (Sec. 579) Makes foreign military financing program funds available for Indonesia if the President determines and reports to the appropriate congressional committees that the Indonesian government and the Indonesian armed forces are taking specified actions to: (1) bring to justice, and cooperate with investigations and prosecutions of, members of the armed forces and militia groups with respect to human rights violations in Indonesia and East Timor; (2) allow safe passage for refugees returning home to East Timor from West Timor; and (3) not impede the UN Transitional Authority in East Timor. (Sec. 580) Bars the use of appropriated funds under this Act for the UN Man and the Biosphere Program or the UN World Heritage Fund for programs in the United States. (Sec. 581) Directs the President, not less than 30 days prior to the next round of arms talks between the United States and Taiwan, to consult with appropriate congressional leaders and committee chairmen and ranking members regarding: (1) Taiwan's requests for purchase of defense articles and defense services during the pending round of arms talks; (2) the Administration's assessment of the legitimate defense needs of Taiwan; and (3) the decision-making process used by the Executive branch to consider such requests. (Sec. 582) Urges funds appropriated by this Act for U.S. assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States to the maximum extent practicable to be used for the procurement of articles and services of U.S. origin. (Sec. 583) Bars the use of funds appropriated by this Act for assistance for the government of any country that has been determined to have: (1) provided lethal or non-lethal military support or equipment, directly or through intermediaries, within the previous six months to the Sierra Leone Revolutionary United Front (RUF), or any other group intent on destabilizing the democratically elected government of the Republic of Sierra Leone; or (2) aided or abetted, within the previous six months, in the illicit distribution, transportation, or sale of diamonds mined in Sierra Leone. (Sec. 584) Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000 to authorize voluntary separation incentive payments to AID employees who voluntarily separate (whether by retirement or resignation) on or before December 31, 2001, to eliminate AID positions and functions contained in a mandatory strategic plan outlining such payments. (Sec. 585) Earmarks a specified amount of international organizations and program funds for the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) (except for any country program in China). Conditions the availability of such funds to UNFPA on specified requirements, including that it does not fund abortions. (Sec. 586) Makes any national of Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos who was paroled into the United States before October 1, 1997, eligible for adjustment of status. (Sec. 587) Requires information relevant to the December 2, 1980, murders of four American churchwomen in El Salvador to be made public to the fullest extent possible. (Sec. 588) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold ten percent of the U.S. payment to any international financial institution until the Secretary certifies that such institution has implemented certain procurement and financial management reforms. (Sec. 589) Authorizes the commercial leasing of defense articles (instead of government-to-government sale) to Israel, Egypt, NATO, and major non-NATO allies if the President determines that there are compelling foreign policy or national security reasons. (Sec. 591) Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2000 to abolish the Inter-American Foundation in 2001. (Sec. 593) Extends the authorities of the General Accounting Office until all available funds appropriated under the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act are expended. (Sec. 594) Earmarks funds made available under this Act for Serbia, subject to specified conditions. (Sec. 595) Declares that the provisions of S. 3140 relating to the transfer of administrative jurisdiction over land of the Tennessee Valley Authority within the Daniel Boone National Forest to the Secretary of Agriculture are hereby enacted into law. (Sec. 596) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors at specified international financial institutions to oppose any loan of such institutions that would require user fees or service charges on poor people for primary education or primary health care, including prevention and treatment efforts for HIV-AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and infant, child, and maternal well-being, in connection with the institutions' lending programs. (Sec. 597) Makes certain foreign assistance funds available for basic education programs for Pakistan. (Sec. 598) Earmarks a certain amount of bilateral economic assistance funds for population planning activities or other population assistance. Title VI: Emergency Supplemental Appropriation - Authorizes emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 2001 to the President for: (1) the AID for international disaster assistance for rehabilitation and reconstruction assistance for Mozambique, Madagascar, and southern Africa; (2) operating expenses of AID; (3) bilateral economic assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States (earmarking amounts only for Montenegro, Croatia, and Serbia); (4) IMET and foreign military financing for grants to countries of the Balkans and southeast Europe; and (5) the Department of the Treasury for a contribution to the HIPC Trust Fund of the World Bank. (Sec. 601) Declares that amounts appropriated under this title or under any other provision of law for FY 2001 that are in addition to funds made available under title II of this Act shall be deemed to have been appropriated under such title and are subject to all limitations and restrictions contained in this Act. Title VII: Debt Reduction - Makes additional funds available for FY 2001 for the Bureau of the Public Debt for reduction of the public debt. Title VIII: International Debt Forgiveness and International Financial Institutions Reform - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreement Act to authorize appropriations for FY 2001 though 2003 for U.S. contributions to the HIPC Trust Fund of the World Bank. (Sec. 802) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of each multilateral development bank to exert U.S. influence to strengthen each bank's procedures and management controls to ensure that funds disbursed by it to borrowing countries are used as intended and in a manner that complies with the conditions of the bank's loan to such country. (Sec. 803) Directs the Comptroller General to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees on the sufficiency of audits of the financial operations of each multilateral development bank conducted by persons or entities outside of such bank. (Sec. 804) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to repeal the President's discretionary authority to transfer certain funds to certain international financial institutions for the purpose of bilateral funding. (Sec. 805) Amends the Bretton Woods Agreement Act to declare that it is the policy of the United States to work to implement specified lending reforms in the International Monetary Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 2000
Savage Rapids Dam Act of 2000 - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, prior to removal of Savage Rapids Dam, to: (1) design and install modern electric irrigation pumps and associated infrastructure at or near the Dam on the Rogue River in Oregon to supply water to the Grants Pass Irrigation District; (2) install fish screens at the pump stations; and (3) certify that the pumping facilities are operational and in conformity with environmental regulations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the Dam and remove it and to correct any deficiencies in the design, specification, and installation of the pumps. Vests title to the pumping facilities in the District. Requires the Bureau of Reclamation to monitor any impacts downstream from the Dam resulting from dam removal and to implement appropriate remedial actions. Requires the Bureau and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to implement fisheries enhancement projects upstream of the Dam and downstream to the mouth of Applegate River to minimize the impact, and maximize the benefit, of dam removal. Requires the Secretary to work with the State of Oregon and Josephine and Jackson Counties to implement community recreational enhancement projects.
European Union · EUR-Lex · 23 October 2000
Austria · National Council · 19 October 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Kurt Gaßner, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Ausbau der Donaustraße B 3
Austria · National Council · 19 October 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Gisela Wurm, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend vollelektronische LKW-Maut-Varianten
Austria · National Council · 19 October 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dieter Brosz, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend "Werbeauftritt" des Verkehrsministers für verbotenes Telefonieren ohne Freisprecheinrichtung
Austria · National Council · 19 October 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Evelin Lichtenberger, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Umgehung der Ökopunkteregelung im Straßengütertransit durch Österreich, insbesondere mittels CEMT <i>(Conférence Européenne des Ministres des Transports)</i> -Genehmigungen
Austria · National Council · 19 October 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Helmut Dietachmayr, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Verkehrssicherheit
France · Senate · 19 October 2000
Le financement des infrastructures de transport
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 October 2000
5 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Public Enterprise the reason she considers it necessary for the State to divest itself of ownership of Bus Átha Cliath in advance of the commencement of franchising of the core bus network in Dublin. [20070/00]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 October 2000
2 Mr. Stagg asked the Minister for Public Enterprise the funding and implementation arrangements for the £14 billion transport plan for County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22710/00]
Austria · National Council · 18 October 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Josef Edler, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Schnellbahnausbau und Lärmschutz in Wien
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 2000
Exempts from certain restrictions on carriage in coastwise trade the transport of petroleum and petroleum products between any two U.S. ports designated by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 2000
National Defense Features Program Enhancement Act of 2000 - Requires the Federal Maritime Commission, in any case in which it finds that the failure of vessels built under the National Defense Features program to obtain employment in a trade route in the foreign commerce of the United States, together with long-term domination of that trade route by citizens of an allied nation, evidences the existence of restrictive trade practices, to counteract such practices utilizing all available remedies under the Foreign Shipping Practices Act of 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 2000
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001- Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and for sundry independent agencies. Title I: Department of Veterans Affairs - Makes appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs for: (1) veterans' compensation, pensions, and readjustment benefits; (2) veterans' insurance and indemnities; (3) veterans' housing, education, and vocational rehabilitation loan accounts; (4) veterans' medical care; (5) medical and prosthetic research; (6) medical administration; (7) departmental administration; (8) the National Cemetery Administration; (9) the Office of Inspector General; (10) construction; (11) the parking revolving fund; and (12) grants to States for construction of extended care facilities and cemeteries. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds made available under this title. (Sec. 114) Prohibits the obligation of funds appropriated for medical care for the Department of Veterans Affairs for the realignment of the health care delivery system in Veterans Integrated Service Network 12 until the Secretary of Veterans Affairs makes a specified certification regarding impacts on the accessibility of veterans health care services to affected veterans. Title II: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Makes appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for: (1) public and Indian housing; (2) the Public Housing Capital and Operating Funds; (3) drug elimination grants for low-income housing; (4) revitalization of severely distressed public housing; (5) Native American housing block grants; (6) Indian housing loan guarantees; (7) housing opportunities for persons with AIDS; (8) the Office of Rural Housing and Economic Development; (9) empowerment zones and enterprise communities; (10) the community development fund; (11) brownfields redevelopment; (12) the HOME investment partnerships program; (13) homeless assistance grants; (14) Shelter Plus Care program renewals; (15) housing for special populations; (16) the Federal Housing Administration (FHA); (17) the Government National Mortgage Association; (18) housing policy development and research; (19) fair housing activities; (20) the Lead Hazard Reduction Program; (21) management and administration; (22) the Office of Inspector General; and (23) carrying out the Federal Housing Enterprise Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds made available under this title. (Sec. 203) Requires the Secretary of HUD, from amounts made available under this title for FY 2001 for housing opportunities for persons with AIDS, to make a grant for any State that: (1) received an allocation in a prior fiscal year due to having a specified number of AIDS cases outside of a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) with a population exceeding 500,000; and (2) is not otherwise eligible for a FY 2001 allocation because the areas outside the MSAs that qualify for funding in FY 2001 do not have the number of AIDS cases required. (Sec. 206) Bars the use of funds appropriated by any Act by the Secretary of HUD to prohibit any entity that is responsible for convening and managing a continuum of care process in a community for purposes of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act from participating in such capacity unless the Secretary has published in the Federal Register a description of all circumstances that would be grounds for, and the procedures for, such prohibition. (Sec. 207) Requires any grant or assistance made pursuant to this title to be made in accordance with HUD accountability provisions of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 on a competitive basis. (Sec. 210) Amends the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 to make housing assistance under such Act available for law enforcement officers on reservations or in other Indian areas if the presence of such officers may deter crime. (Sec. 211) Prohibits the use of funds appropriated in any Act by the Secretary of HUD to provide any assistance to benefit a facility which sells predominantly cigarettes or other tobacco products (such sales representing more than 35 percent of the annual, total in-store, non-fuel sales). (Sec. 212) Bars the use of funds to implement the June 2000 agreement between the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Public Housing Administration, and HUD related to the allocation of operating subsidies for such Housing Administration unless the Housing Administration and HUD submit by December 31, 2000, a schedule of benchmarks and measurable goals to the Appropriations Committees designed to address issues of mismanagement and safeguards against fraud and abuse. (Sec. 214) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide for onsite computer access and training resources for public housing residents. Authorizes computer centers in and around public housing, through a Neighborhood Networks initiative and related activities, to be established, operated, and assisted by the use of: (1) public housing capital and operating funds, and certain technical assistance; and (2) demolition, site revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based assistance grants for projects. (Sec. 215) Considers the properties known as the Hawthornes in Independence, Missouri, as eligible multifamily housing for purposes of participating in a specified multifamily housing restructuring program. (Sec. 216) Amends the National Housing Act to extend through FY 2001 the authority for all project owners to retain excess income under the rental and cooperative housing program. (Sec. 217) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to modify the definition of "urban county" for purposes of the community development block grant program and to authorize an urban county that was so classified for FY 1999, at its option, to remain classified as such for purposes of such Act. (Sec. 218) Exempts public housing agencies in Alaska and Mississippi from certain membership requirements for their boards of directors under the United States Housing Act of 1937. (Sec. 221) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to make recipients under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 eligible for certain supportive services and empowerment activities currently offered to public housing residents. (Sec. 222) Extends the availability of certain grants made available under an economic development initiative pursuant to the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 through FY 2001. (Sec. 224) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to extend through FY 2001 the 25 percent public services cap for the City of Los Angeles, California, under the community development block grant program. (Sec. 226) Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to permit the use of assistance for the costs of implementing management information systems for collecting unduplicated counts of homeless people and analyzing patterns of use of assistance under such Act. (Sec. 227) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to authorize loan guarantees for Indian housing to be used to refinance standard housing on Indian trust lands or in Alaska Native areas. (Sec. 228) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to include within the definition of "eligibility event," for purposes of eligibility for enhanced Section 8 voucher assistance, any termination or expiration of a contract for rental assistance during fiscal years after 1996 prior to the effective date of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001. (Sec. 229) Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to prohibit grants for housing assistance for any governmental entity unless such entity agrees to develop and implement policies for the discharge of persons from publicly funded institutions to prevent such discharge from immediately resulting in homelessness. (Sec. 230) Amends the Preserving Affordable Housing for Senior Citizens and Families into the 21st Century Act to redesignate the Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Care Facility Needs in the 21st Century as the Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Care Facility Needs for Seniors in the 21st Century. (Sec. 231) Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to terminate the Interagency Council on the Homeless on October 1, 2005 (currently, October 1, 1994). (Sec. 232) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to revise provisions regarding Section 8 public housing agency (PHA) project-based assistance. Allows a PHA to use amounts provided under an annual contributions contract to enter into a housing assistance payment contract with respect to an existing, newly constructed, or rehabilitated structure subject to specified requirements, including those for: (1) income mixing; (2) resident choice; (3) contract terms and extensions; (4) rent calculations; and (5) tenant selection. (Sec. 233) Requires the Secretary of HUD, in managing and disposing of any multifamily property that is held by the Secretary and occupied primarily by elderly or disabled families, to maintain any Section 8 rental assistance payments that are attached to any dwelling units in the property. (Sec. 234) Makes section 8 family unification assistance available for up to 18 months for eligible youths between the ages of 18 and 21 who have left foster care at age 16 or older. (Sec. 235) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 to make permanent an FHA multifamily mortgage credit demonstration program. Title III: Independent Agencies - Makes appropriations for: (1) the American Battle Monuments Commission; (2) the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; (3) the Department of the Treasury for community development financial institutions; (4) the Consumer Product Safety Commission; (5) the Corporation for National and Community Service (with a rescission of amounts available in the National Service Trust); (6) the Office of Inspector General; (7) the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims; (8) the Department of Defense for Army cemeterial expenses; (9) the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for carrying out specified activities under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA); and (10) the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry for carrying out specified activities under CERCLA, the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, and the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Appropriates funds for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for: (1) science and technology activities; (2) environmental programs and management; (3) the Office of Inspector General; (4) buildings and facilities; (5) Superfund; (6) the leaking underground storage tank program; (7) oil spill response programs; and (8) assistance to States and Indian tribes for environmental programs and infrastructure. Amends the Clean Air Act to make prohibitions on Federal assistance (including highway funds) for activities which do not comply with State implementation plans for air quality standards inapplicable to nonattainment areas until one year after the area is first designated nonattainment for a specific national ambient air quality standard. Applies this provision with respect to the standard for which an area is newly designated nonattainment and provides that it does not affect the area's requirements with respect to other standards for which it is designated nonattainment. Appropriates funds for: (1) the Executive Office of the President for the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Office of Environmental Quality; and (2) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General. Makes appropriations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency for: (1) disaster relief; (2) disaster assistance direct loans; (3) salaries and expenses; (4) the Office of Inspector General; (5) emergency management planning and assistance; (6) a specified emergency food and shelter program; (7) the National Flood Insurance Fund; and (8) the National Flood Mitigation Fund. Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to extend through December 31, 2001: (1) a certain ceiling on obligations issued under the national flood insurance program; and (2) the authorization of appropriations for certain studies. Makes appropriations for: (1) the General Services Administration for the Federal Consumer Information Center; (2) the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for human space flight, science, aeronautics, and technology research and development, mission support, and the Office of Inspector General; (3) the National Credit Union Administration's Central Liquidity Facility; (4) the National Science Foundation for research, major construction projects, science and engineering education and human resources programs, salaries and expenses, and the Office of Inspector General; (5) the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and (6) the Selective Service System. Sets forth authorized uses of, and limitations on, funds appropriated under this title. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets forth provisions regarding availability, and prohibitions on the use, of funds appropriated by this Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that equipment and products purchased with funds made available in this Act should be American-made. (Sec. 426) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of any of the funds provided in title II of this Act for technical assistance, training, or management improvements unless HUD provides a description of each proposed activity and a detailed budget estimate of costs as part of the budget justifications to the Appropriations Committees. (Sec. 427) Prohibits the use of funds made available in this Act for the designation, or approval of the designation, of any area as an ozone nonattainment area under the Clean Air Act pursuant to the eight-hour national ambient air quality standard for ozone promulgated by the EPA on July 18, 1997, and remanded by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals on May 14, 1999, in the case American Trucking Ass'ns. v. EPA prior to June 15, 2001, or final adjudication of such case by the Supreme Court, whichever occurs first. (Sec. 428) Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Federal Employment Reduction Assistance Act of 1996 to authorize the NASA Administrator to offer voluntary separation incentive payments in order to restructure and improve the efficiency of the workforce. Extends voluntary separation incentives under such Act for separations occurring before September 30, 2002 (currently, September 30, 2000). Requires the NASA Administrator to report to the Appropriations Committees on restructuring activities. (Sec. 429) Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to extend, though December 31, 2001, its commercial space launch industry damage indemnification provisions. Title V: Filipino Veterans' Benefits Improvements - Makes a certain payment rate for service-connected disability benefits paid to members of the Philippine Commonwealth Army who served with U.S. armed forces during World War II inapplicable to those members who are U.S. citizens or aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence. Makes such individuals eligible for hospital and nursing home care and medical services in the same manner as a veteran. Authorizes medical services to veterans with service-connected disabilities within the limits of an outpatient clinic in the Philippines under the Secretary of Veterans Affairs' direct jurisdiction. Title VI: Debt Reduction - Provides for the deposit of an additional amount into the account to reduce the public debt.
Austria · National Council · 13 October 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Werner Kogler, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Gebarung der ASFINAG im Zusammenhang mit der Vergabe der Bauarbeiten für die 2. Röhre des Plabutschtunnels
Austria · Federal Council · 12 October 2000
Anfrage der Bundesräte Jürgen Weiss, Christoph Hagen, Ilse Giesinger und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Überstundenabgeltung <i>(für Ressortbedienstete) (durch Seilbahnunternehmen)</i>
Austria · Federal Council · 12 October 2000
Anfrage der Bundesräte Horst Freiberger und Genossen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend das durch den Bund verursachte Desaster in der Verkehrspolitik für die Steiermark
Austria · National Council · 12 October 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten MMag. Dr. Madeleine Petrovic, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Landesverteidigung betreffend die geplante Hubschrauber-Show <i>(des Bundesheeres)</i> am Wiener Heldenplatz am 26. Oktober 2000
Austria · National Council · 12 October 2000
Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Helmut Dietachmayr, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Rechtsabbiegen bei "Rot"
Austria · National Council · 12 October 2000
Antrag der Abgeordneten Dr. Günther Kräuter, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend die Fassung eines Ministerratsbeschlusses zur Durchsetzung des Semmeringbasistunnels