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Bill· HRH.R. 11775 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1976
Prohibits commercial flights by supersonic aircraft into or over the United States until: (1) the Congress approves findings by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that the operation of such aircraft will not have detrimental physiological or psychological effect on the environment; (2) the Secretary of Transportation has made affirmative findings and submitted a written report to Congress that such aircraft meet all noise, environmental, and safety standards prescribed under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958; and (3) the Congress is satisfied that the Federal Aviation Administration has adopted noise standards for such aircraft equal to the standards for subsonic aircraft.
Bill· SS. 2951 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1976
Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to cause the vessel, Barbara Ann, presently owned by Keith Malcolm of Marine City, Michigan, to be documented as a vessel of the United States with the privileges of engaging in coastwise trade, upon compliance with the usual requirements, so long as the vessel is owned by a citizen of the United States.
Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 167 (94th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1976
Provides that the time of delivery of the final system plan required by the Regional Rail Reorganization Act shall be March 12, 1976, and may be extended to a date not more than 30 days thereafter, prescribed in a notice filed by the United States Railway Association not later than February 17, 1976, with the Special Court and the Congress of the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 11745 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Prohibits the landing or taking off, except for emergency purposes, of any civil aircraft designed to operate at sustained supersonic speed and which generates a noise level in excess of the level prescribed for new subsonic aircraft, from John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, New York.
Bill· HRH.R. 11754 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Makes it unlawful to operate a supersonic aircraft for a commercial flight in the navigable airspace of the United States until such aircraft meets the noise, environmental, and safety standards already established for other commercial aircraft.
Bill· HRH.R. 11759 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Terminates the Airlines Mutual Aid Agreement.
Bill· HRH.R. 11760 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to extend until June 30, 1979, (presently exists until June 30, 1976) the authority of the Secretary of Commerce to accept bids for ship construction. Eliminates the requirement that such approval be based upon the existence of a construction-differential subsidy.
Bill· HRH.R. 11728 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Terminates the Airlines Mutual Aid Agreement.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1022 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Directs the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation to convene a full scale investigation into the entire process surrounding Secretary of Transportation William Coleman's decision to grant the Anglo-French Concorde landing rights at John F. Kennedy Airport and at Dulles International Airport.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1023 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Directs the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation to convene a full scale investigation into the entire process surrounding Secretary of Transportation William Coleman's decision to grant the Anglo-French Concorde landing rights at John F. Kennedy Airport and at Dulles International Airport.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 545 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government should accelerate its development of commercial sailing ships. States that the budget of the Maritime Administration, the Department of the Navy, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Federal Energy Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Transportation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Department of Commerce should include adequate funds to prove the commercial viability of sailing ships.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 546 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Government should accelerate its development of lighter than air systems. Provides that the budgets of specified Federal agencies concerned with research in such area should include adequate funds to prove the commercial viability of lighter than air systems.
Bill· SS. 2929 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1976
Motor Carrier Reform Act - Prohibits the Interstate Commerce Commission from approving any agreement among motor carriers that sets rates for such carriers, seeks to protest or suspend rates, or was reached by permitting participation in deliberations by a carrier not holding itself out to participate in a particular joint line or interline movement affected by such agreement. Terminates specified conferences, bureaus, committees, and other organizations of carriers presently permitted by law. Exempts from the provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act, carriers incidental to air transportation who operate within 100 miles of an airport. Requires the Commission to approve all applications for permits to operate as a private or contract carrier as long as it appears from the application that the applicant is fit, willing, and able to properly perform the service. Prohibits the consideration of the effect such permit will have on protesting carriers or the number of persons to be served by the applicant except as is necessary to identify the existence of a need for its services. Requires the Commission to revise commercial zones to conform with present economic realities, add to the efficiency of transport, and reduce unnecessary transport, accident exposure, fuel consumption, air pollutions, noise and transport costs. Directs the Commission to develop new procedures for expediting the time required for the Commission's consideration of changes to commercial zone boundaries. Directs that permits be issued to allow continued service by a carrier which has been serving a plant from the time such plant was new until the present if that period is at least two years. Specifies that the Commission must, in considering applications for new carrier service, in its determination of whether the proposed service is or will be required by the present or future public convenience and necessity, accord substantial weight in favor of the application where it finds that such service would be reasonably likely to: (1) lower the applicant's operating costs; or (2) improve the applicant's equipment utilization or fuel efficiency; or (3) improve the applicant's service, by among other things, producing shorter transit time or avoiding interchanges; or (4) meet user or consumer preference for service, rates, or combinations thereof not available from other carriers; or (5) generally improve the competitive climate in the area for which the additional service is proposed. Directs the Commission to issue a permit for such service in most instances if it finds that the applicant is fit, willing, and able to perform the service proposed and to conform to provisions and regulations, and the proposed service is reasonably likely to provide sufficient revenues to the applicant to cover the applicant's actual costs of providing the specific transportation without regard to the effect of the applicant's service on its competitors. Requires the Commission to consider all applications submitted 18 months after the enactment of this Act within 90 days after they are submitted. Grants such permits applied for if final action has not been taken on such application by the Commission within 90 days. Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in cooperation with the Commission and the Attorney General, to study the possibility of the need for new laws to provide greater price flexibility, easier entry, broadening the range of service and price options, and in general, in improving the quality of motor carrier transportation. Establishes procedures for testing the lawfulness of rate schedules filed by common carriers. Allows such rates to become effective without a hearing unless a complaint is filed in which case the Commission may suspend such rates until their lawfulness is determined in a hearing as provided by this Act. Lists limitations on the Commission's power to suspend such rates under this Act. States that rates may not be challenged as being too low if they cover the carrier's costs. Directs the Commission to significantly broaden the categories or commodities that may be carried by individual carriers, to permit them to travel the most direct route to their destination, and to report to Congress on how it has acted pursuant to this requirement. Includes as exempt from some existing restrictions the carrying of cargo by a small carrier from such carrier's destination to the proximity of such small carrier's home base (termed a "haul back") if it meets the qualifications of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to consult with the States to develop a more efficient and equitable system of State regulations and make recommendations concerning such a system to the Congress within 18 months after the enactment of this Act. Sets forth new penalties for violating motor carrier safety laws. Exempts from the Clayton Act the merger of two or more motor carriers if the anticompetitive effects prescribed in such Act are outweighed by the public interest in such merger and its beneficial effects on the community's transportation needs and convenience.
Bill· SS. 2930 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1976
Includes the condition, in any grant offer for airport development made by the Secretary of Transportation under the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970, that any sponsor of such airport shall not permit the landing, except for emergency purposes, of any commercial supersonic aircraft which generates a noise level above that level prescribed for new subsonic aircraft. Provides that if any sponsor who has expended funds received from such grant violates such condition then: (1) such sponsor shall immediately repay to the United States all funds received from such grant, and (2) the Secretary shall not make any other grant to such sponsor for airport development at any airport or to any other sponsor for airport development at the airport at which such aircraft landed. Makes it unlawful, except for emergency purposes, for any civil aircraft capable of supersonic speed which generates noise in excess of subsonic noise regulations to land at any place under United States' jurisdiction.
Bill· HRH.R. 11692 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1976
Prohibits commercial flights by supersonic aircraft into or over the United States until: (1) the Congress approves findings by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that the operation of such aircraft will not have detrimental physiological or psychological effect on the environment; (2) the Secretary of Transportation has made affirmative findings and submitted a written report to Congress that such aircraft meet all noise, environmental, and safety standards prescribed under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958; and (3) the Congress is satisfied that the Federal Aviation Administration has adopted noise standards for such aircraft equal to the standards for subsonic aircraft.
Bill· HRH.R. 11664 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1976
Includes independent owner-operator truckers as an exempted class to the motor carriers provision under the Interstate Commerce Act. Provides that no such driver shall charge or collect a rate, fare, or charge lower than the lowest rate, fare, or charge specified in tariffs or schedules filed and in effect pursuant to such Act for the same commodities between identical points served. Provides that if no such tariff or schedule is on file, the lowest rate for like commodities between identical or similar points shall determine the lowest rate, fare, or charge.
Law· GesetzSpurVerkErprGenacted
Germany · Federal statute portal · 29 January 1976
Abkürzung: SpurVerkErprG · Status: InForce · eli/bund/bgbl-1/1976/s241
Bill· SS. 2888 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1976
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to acquire, other than by condemnation, title to railroad rights-of-way which are not being used to provide rail services. States that such lands are to be made available on a lease basis to public or private entities for public recreational purposes or other public purposes. Authorizes such appropriations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 11578 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1976
Terminates the Airlines Mutual Aid Agreement.
Bill· HRH.R. 11516 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1976
National Trust for the Preservation of Historic Ships Act - Provides that in order to acquire, restore, and put on display ships of national interest and importance in the history of the United States and to identify and focus public attention and support for such acquisitions, restoration, and display, there is created a charitable, educational, and nonprofit coporation, to be known as the National Trust for the Preservation of Historic Ships. Authorizes the Historic Ships Trust to acquire, with donated, appropriated, or other funds, ships of national interest and importance in the technical, commercial, and cultural maritime history of the United States and to restore and display such ships. Designates the members of a temporary board of trustees for the Historic Ships Trusts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to establish a suitable advisory commission. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Historic Ships Trust for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next four fiscal years the sum of $1,000,000.
Bill· HRH.R. 11489 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1976
Redefines "current connection with the railroad industry", as defined and used to establish eligibility for annuity benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, to include individuals who have completed 25 years of railroad service.
Law· HRH.R. 11504 (94th)open
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1976
Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to extend until June 30, 1979, (presently exists until June 30, 1976) the authority of the Secretary of Commerce to accept bids for ship construction. Eliminates the requirement that such approval be based upon the existence of a construction-differential subsidy.
Bill· HRH.R. 11419 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1976
Increases the national maximum speed limit from 55 to 60 miles per hour. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 154)
Bill· HRH.R. 11410 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1976
Tonnage Measurement Simplification Act - Transfers from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, responsibility for measuring vessels by tonnage. Requires that a vessel be measured if it engages in international voyage by sea, or it is at least 24 meters in length and is self-propelled. Provides that a vessel not required to be measured by this Act may be measured if requested by the owner. Specifies instances in which remeasurement shall be required. Provides that a vessel measured prior to the effective date of this Act shall be considered as having been measured as required by this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 11411 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1976
Repeals the law: (1) providing for issuance by the Commissioner of Customs of certificates to sail for pleasure in any designated yacht; (2) providing for prescription by the Secretary of the Navy of signals for all licensed yachts; and (3) providing that no licensed yacht shall engage in trade nor violate the revenue laws of the United States, and requiring every licensed yacht to comply with the laws in all respects. Revises specified provisions of law governing pleasure yachts, including granting the authority to issue certificates declaring a vessel to be a pleasure vessel to the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating. States that such certificates shall be used to identify a vessel to a foreign government as a vessel owned by a United States citizen. Sets forth the requirements to be met by applicants for certificates and the form of such certificates. States that a pleasure vessel may not be documented under any law of the United States. Provides an exception for retention of documentation for vessels with preferred mortgages perfected before January 1, 1977. Grants certified pleasure vessel crew members all rights, privileges, and benefits they otherwise would have if the vessel were documented under the laws of the United States. Changes existing law governing the reciprocal exemption of foreign yachts from charges and tonnage taxes to encompass "vessels". Makes additional conforming amendments.
Bill· HRH.R. 11412 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1976
Vessel Documentation Act - Requires the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to designate ports of documentation in the United States where vessels may be documented. Describes the vessels which shall be eligible for documentation. States that eligibility shall be based upon weight (minimum of five tons) and ownership by a citizen of the United States, or the Government of the United States or a political subdivision thereof. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe the form of filing, the manner of filing, and the information to be contained in applications for certificates of documentation. Requires the Secretary to maintain a numbering system for the identification of documented vessels. Provides that a certificate of documentation issued under this Act is: (1) conclusive evidence of nationality for international purposes, but not in any proceeding conducted under the laws of the United States; (2) evidence of qualification to be employed in a specified trade; and (3) not conclusive evidence of ownership in any proceeding in which ownership is in issue. Authorizes the issuance of a registry for any vessel which is eligible for documentation. Lists the privileges incident to the issuance of a registry, including authority to be employed in foreign trade. Allows the issuance of a coastwise license or an appropriately endorsed registry for any vessel which: (1) is eligible for documentation; (2) was built in the United States; and (3) qualifies under laws of the United States to be employed in the coastwise trade. Provides that vessels receiving such a license may be employed in coastwise trade and the fisheries. Establishes similar requirements for the issuance of a Great Lakes license and a fishery license. Prohibits the employment of a documented vessel in any trade other than a trade covered by the certificate of documentation. Provides that whenever the owner of a vessel knowingly falsifies or conceals a material fact, or makes a false representation in connection with the documentation of his vessel under this Act, in addition to any other penalty provided by law, that vessel, together with its equipment, is liable to seizure by, and forfeiture to, the United States. Authorizes the Secretary and the Secretary of State to provide for the issuance of a provisional registry for any vessel procured outside the United States which meets the ownership requirements of this Act. Imposes a civil penalty of not more than $500 for each violation of this Act to be assessed and collected by the Secretary.
Bill· HRH.R. 11395 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1976
Declares it to be the sense of Congress that all portions of the officially designated National System of Interstate and Defense Highways be free from tolls. Provides that each State having any portion of a free or toll highway, bridge or tunnel which is part of the Interstate System shall be entitled to receive additional funds from the Highway Trust Fund for the removal of such toll facilities and the completion of the Interstate System within such State . Directs the Secretary of Transportation to deliver to Congress an estimate of the September 30, 1977, depreciated value of toll and free facilities incorporated into the Interstate System. Specifies criteria for determining such depreciation value. Allows a reimbursement of 90 percent of such depreciated value for States which remove tolls or presently operate free highway facilities. Decreases Federal-aid highway apportionments for States not electing to eliminate tolls from facilities within the Interstate System. (Adds 23 U.S.C. 156)