A bill making appropriations for productive employment and humanitarian assistance for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and for other purposes.

Summary

Makes appropriations for FY 1983 for specified purposes to provide for productive employment and humanitarian assistance. Appropriates specified additional amounts for: (1) payment to the "Federal Buildings Fund," General Services Administration, for alterations and repairs; (2) interstate transfer grant-highways, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; (3) interstate transfer grants-transit, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Department of Transportation; (4) rehabilitation of highway bridges which cross over specified Northeast corridor rail transportation properties; (5) improvement of railroad rights-of-way (directs the Secretary of Transportation to make capital grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for such purpose); (6) necessary expenses relating to the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area (Metro) mass transit system; (7) medical care and facilities, Veterans Administration; (8) urban community development grants (an additional amount to be made available in accordance with specified provisions of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974); (9) additional capital for the "Business Loan and Investment Fund" authorized by the Small Business Act; (10) construction, Forest Service; (11) park service facility improvement and maintenance, "Operation of the National Park System," National Park Service; (12) Indian health facilities construction, repair, and improvement; (13) construction of the Hopi High School and personnel quarters, Bureau of Indian Affairs; (14) construction, repair, and improvement of Indian housing; (15) maintenance of wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries, and research facilities, "Resource Management," U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; (16) the special supplemental feeding program for women, infants, and children (WIC) under the Child Nutrition Act; (17) Agricultural Research Service construction; (18) Food and Drug Administration construction; (19) "Rural Water and Waste Disposal Grants," Farmers Home Administration (FHA), Department of Agricultural; (20) loans for rural water and waste disposal systems, "Rural Development Insurance Fund," Farmers Home Administration; (21) Farmers Home Administration salaries and expenses; (22) "Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations," Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture; (23) Federal, State, and local prison modernization, "Buildings and facilities," Federal Prison System, Department of Justice (with a specified portion to be transferred to "Support of United States Prisoners," Legal activities of the Cooperative Agreement Program for State and local facilities confining Federal prisoners); (24) additional amounts for the Corps of Engineers-Civil, Department of the Army for "Construction, general" (for soil conservation, watersheds, and hydroelectric power), "Operation and maintenance, general: (for navigable waterway and flood control), and "Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries" (for construction, maintenance, repair, and rescue work); (25) flood control, shore protection, water resources, and hydroelectric power, "construction program," Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; (26) hydrogenerator uprating, soil and moisture conservation, levee construction, and recreation area improvement, "Operation and Maintenance," Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; (27) small reclamation and irrigation projects, "Loan program", Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; (28) employment and training assistance (with a portion for carrying out specified provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act); (29) community service employment program for older Americans under the Older Americans Act of 1965; (30) grants to States for unemployment insurance and employment services, Employment Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund; ((31) Social Services Block Grant; (32) Community Services Block Grant; (33) school assistance in federally affected areas (impact aid), Department of Education; (34) removal of architectural barriers in schools, under the Education of the Handicapped Act; (35) college work study program student financial assistance, under the Higher Education Act of 1965; (36) public library construction (37) construction and renovation of laboratory facilities of the Centers for Disease Control, "Preventive Health Service; (38) an emergency food and shelter program, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (requires that a special board of private voluntary organizations determine program fund distribution); (39) distribution of surplus agricultural commodities for consumption by needy individuals (directs the Secretary of Agriculture to distribute an additional amount); (40) construction, maintenance, and modernization of housing units for military families, to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force; (41) school, hospital, and low-income weatherization activities, "Energy conservation," Department of Energy; and (42) Federal motor vehicle procurement, General Supply Fund, General Services administration (limited to procurement of domestically manufactured vehicles). Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided.

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  summary · EN · 15 February 1983

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