bill_id,congress,bill_type,bill_number,title,policy_area,introduced_date,latest_action_date,latest_action_text,origin_chamber,sponsor_name,sponsor_state,sponsor_party,sponsor_bioguide_id,cosponsor_count,summary_text,update_date,url
102-s-3382,102,s,3382,Civilian Technology Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]",SC,D,H000725,0,"Civilian Technology Act of 1992 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to establish as an independent instrumentality the Civilian Technology Corporation (CTC). States that the CTC shall:  (1) assist industry to develop and commercialize within the United States new critical civilian technologies; (2) assist industry-led technology development proposals; and (3) ensure project cost-sharing between itself and industry. Provides assistance in the forms of:  (1) technology development grants; (2) loans, guarantees, and equity investments; (3) financial support for venture capital firms (critical technology investment companies) that would invest in the development of critical civilian technologies; and (4) assistance to State technology development programs. Sets forth criminal provisions. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:17:44Z,
102-s-3385,102,s,3385,Small Business Technology Transfer Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-10-08,1992-10-08,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,0,"Small Business Technology Transfer Act of 1992 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to require:  (1) any non-Federal entity that operated a laboratory pursuant to a contract with a Federal agency to submit to the agency any cooperative research and development agreement that the entity proposes to enter into with a small business firm and the joint work statement (JWS) required with respect to that agreement; (2) a Federal agency that receives such a proposed agreement and JWS to review and approve, request specific modifications to, or disapprove the proposed agreement and JWS within 30 days after submission (and prohibits an agreement from being entered into by a Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratory before both approval of the agreement and JWS); and (3) an agency which has contracted with such an entity that disapproves or requests the modification of an agreement or JWS to transmit a written explanation of such disapproval or modification to the head of the laboratory concerned. Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to facilitate and encourage the transfer of technology to small businesses and issue guidelines relating to the program by May 1, 1993. Makes funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Energy and made available for laboratory directed research and development available for agreements or other arrangements for technology transfer.",2025-08-26T15:15:51Z,
102-hr-6133,102,hr,6133,Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-10-05,1992-10-28,Became Public Law No: 102-555.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,2,"Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992 - Repeals the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984. Title I:  Landsat - Makes the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA Administrator) and the Secretary of Defense jointly responsible for management of the Landsat program.  (Currently such program is managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce.)  Requires establishment of an integrated program management structure for the Landsat system.  Directs the NASA Administrator, the Secretary of Defense, and any other Federal official the President designates as responsible for part of the Landsat system, to establish through a management plan the roles, responsibilities, and funding expectations for the Landsat program of the appropriate Federal agencies. Requires the management plan to specify that the fundamental goal of Landsat Program Management (LPM) is continuity of unenhanced Landsat data through acquisition and opearation of a Landsat 7 satellite, as quickly as possible, which is at least functionally equivalent to the Landsat 6 satellite, with the addition of a tracking and data relay satellite communications capability. Requires the management plan to include a baseline funding profile and to specify that any improvements over Landsat 6 capability be funded by a specific sponsoring agency if the required funding exceeds such profile.  Requires the plan to provide for a technology demonstration program. Sets forth LPM responsibilities for various functions, including authority to contract. Establishes a Landsat advisory process and LPM reporting requirements. Requires LPM to contract expeditiously with a U.S. private sector entity to develop and deliver Landsat 7 (subject to appropriations and only under the existing contract authority of the Federal Agencies that compose LPM).  Sets forth development and delivery considerations for LPM in negotiating such contract.  Requires LPM to notify the Congress promptly of any significant cost or schedule changes.  Requires LPM to take into account the location of operations, assets, personnel, and other such factors in defining ""U.S. private sector entities."" Directs LPM to negotiate with the Landsat 6 contractor to formalize a specified arrangement and provide for a phased transition to a data policy consistent with Landsat 7 data policy.  Requires a report to the Congress if there is failure to reach an agreement, by September 30, 1993. Transfers to LPM the responsibilities of the Secretary of Commerce with respect to Landsat 6, as agreed to by such Secretary and LPM. Directs LPM to develop a data policy for Landsat 7 which ensures: (1) availability of unenhanced data to all users at the cost of fulfilling user requests; (2) timely and dependable delivery of unenhanced data to the full spectrum of civilian, national security, commercial, and foreign users and the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive; (3) U.S. retention of ownership of all unenhanced data generated by Landsat 7; (4) support for developing the commercial market for remote sensing data; (5) retention of commercial value-added services based on remote sensing data as an exclusively private sector function; and (6) compatibility, as much as possible, of the Landsat 7 data distribution system with the Earth Observing System Data and Information System.  Allows such data policy also to provide for:  (1) U.S. private sector entity operation of ground receiving stations in the United States for Landsat 7 data; (2) other means for direct access by private sector entities to unenhanced data from Landsat 7; and (3) the charging of U.S. Government fees to entities operating ground receiving stations or distributing Landsat 7 data.  Requires LPM to report to the Congress a Landsat 7 Data Policy Plan by July 15, 1994. Title II:  Licensing of Private Remote Sensing Space Systems - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary, for purposes of this title) to license private sector parties to operate private remote sensing space systems for such period as the Secretary may specify.  Limits the Secretary's authority under this title to remote sensing operations only of any private space systems used for those and other purposes. Requires, before a license may be granted, the Secretary to determine in writing that the applicant will comply with requirements of and regulations under this Act, and any applicable U.S. international obligations and national security concerns.  Sets deadlines for the Secretary's actions on applications. Prohibits the Secretary from denying a license in order to protect any existing licensee from competition.  Directs the Secretary to designate in the licence any unenhanced data which the licensee is required to provide. Requires such licenses for operation of any private remote sensing space system by any persons subject to U.S.  jurisdiction or control or by their subsidiaries or affiliates. Provides that such licenses require a licensee to comply with this Act and with specified requirements relating to national security, international obligations, availability of unenhanced data (both to governments with respect to their territory and to users on a nondiscriminatory basis), disposition of satellites, information on orbit and data collection and deviation, and notification about any intended agreement involving foreign nations or entities.  Sets forth additional licensing requirements for Landsat 6 contractors, including notification and compliance plans with respect to any value added activities. Sets forth the administrative authority and the regulatory authority of the Secretary with respect to this title. Provides for licensing private entities to operate private remote sensing space systems which use, on a space-available basis, civilian U.S. Government space satellites or vehicles as platforms.  Authorizes the Secretary to license such system if:  (1) the operator agrees to reimburse the Government for all related costs, including a share of fixed, platform, data transmission, and launch costs; and (2) the use would not interfere with or compromise intended civilian Government missions. Title III:  Research, Development and Demonstration - Directs the NASA Administrator and the Secretary of Defense to continue and enhance remote sensing research and development programs. Authorizes the NASA Administrator to conduct experimental space remote sensing programs. Authorizes the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to research and develop applications of remote sensing to the management and use of renewable and nonrenewable resources of the United States. Requires all unenhanced land remote sensing data gathered and owned by the U.S. Government to be made available to users in a timely fashion.  Directs the President to seek to ensure that unenhanced data gathered under the technology demonstration program are made available on terms that would not adversely affect the commercial market for unenhanced data gathered by the Landsat 6 spacecraft. Directs the President to establish a technology demonstration program, through appropriate U.S. Government agencies, as a fundamental component of a national land remote sensing strategy. Requires such program to seek to launch advanced land remote sensing system components within five years after enactment of this Act and to demonstrate, within such period:  (1) advanced sensor capabilities suitable for use in the anticipated land remote sensing program; and (2) an advanced land remote system design that could be less expensive to procure and operate than the Landsat system projected to be in operation through the year 2000.  Directs the President, in executing such program, to seek to apply intelligence gathering technologies to the extent that they are appropriate for the technology demonstration and can be declassified without harm to national security.  Requires such program to be designed to be responsive to the broad civilian, national security, commercial, and foreign policy needs of the United States.  Allows such program to be carried out in part with private funding.  Requires LPM to have a coordinating role in such program.  Directs the President to assess the program's progress and report to the Congress within two years after enactment of this Act. Title IV:  Assessing Options for Successor Land Remote Sensing System - Directs LPM to assess and report to the Congress on the options for a successor land remote sensing system to Landsat 7. Requires the report to fully assess advantages and disadvantages of funding and management of a successor system by:  (1) the private sector; (2) an international consortium; (3) the U.S. Government; and (4) a cooperative effort by the U.S. Government and the private sector. States that preference should be given to private sector system development, without competition from the U.S. Government, if a successor land remote sensing system to Landsat 7 can be funded and managed by the private sector while still achieving specified goals and without jeopardizing U.S. domestic, national security, and foreign policy interests. Title V:  General Provisions - Provides for nondiscriminatory availability of data.  Requires that any unenhanced data generated by the Landsat system, or by any other land remote sensing system funded and owned by the U.S. Government, be made available, with specified exceptions, to all users on a nondiscriminatory basis. Declares it to be in the public interest for the U.S. Government to maintain an archive of land remote sensing data for historical, scientific, and technical purposes.  Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide for such data's storage, maintenance, and upgrading. Allows the sale of unenhanced data distributed by any licensee only on condition that it will not be reproduced or disseminated by the purchaser for commerical purposes. Authorizes the NASA Administrator, the Secretary of Defense, and other U.S. Government agency heads to provide assistance to land remote sensing system operators under this Act.  Requires such operators to reimburse the Government for such assistance, except as otherwise provided by law. Authorizes LPM, by a competitive process, to allow a licensee or any other private party to acquire use of equipment from the Landsat system when it is no longer needed to operate, or sell data from, the system. Requires the filing of an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for any radio facilities involved with commercial remote sensing space systems licensed under this Act. States that FCC authority shall not be required for development and construction of any U.S. land remote sensing space system (or component), other than radio transmitting facilities or components, while any licensing determination is being made. Directs the Secretary of Commerce and LPM to consult with:  (1) the Secretary of Defense on all matters under this Act affecting national security; and (2) the Secretary of State on all matters under this Act affecting international obligations. Directs the Secretary of State to report to the Secretary of Commerce and LPM any instances outside the United States of discriminatory distribution of Landsat data. Requires LPM to report to the Congress on Landsat system operations, including timely notification of decisions relating to national security concerns and international obligations. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to require Federal agencies which request imposition of technical modifications on a licensee for national security reasons to reimburse the licensee for certain additional or past development costs (but not for anticipated profits or costs ordinarily associated with doing business abroad). Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in collaboration with the private sector entities responsible for marketing and distributing Landsat system unenhanced data, to develop and implement an enforcement system to ensure that such data received solely for noncommercial purposes are not used for any commercial purpose, in the event that such data are made available for noncommercial purposes at a different price than for other purposes. Provides for the Secretary's enforcement authority, enforcement mechanisms, and procedures and regulations. Title VI:  Prohibition of Commercialization of Weather Satellites - Prohibits the President and any other U.S.  Government official from making any effort to lease, sell, or transfer to the private sector, or commercialize, any portion of the weather satellite systems operated by the Department of Commerce or any successor agency.  Prohibits any such action regardless of any change in circumstances subsequent to enactment of this Act and even if such change makes such commercialization appear to be in the national interest, unless this title has first been repealed.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-hr-6135,102,hr,6135,"National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1993","Science, Technology, Communications",1992-10-05,1992-11-04,Became Public Law No: 102-588.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,0,"National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1993 - Title I:  Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes FY 1993 appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for:  (1) research and development; (2) space flight, control, and data communications; (3) construction of facilities; (4) research and program management; and (5) the Inspector General. Requires the Administrator of NASA (Administrator) to:  (1) report to the Congress on a New Launch System and expendable launch vehicles; and (2) carry out an Earth Observing System program. Title II:  General Provisions - Permits the use of appropriations for research and development and space flight, control, and data communications for certain items of a capital nature (other than land acquisition) required for the performance of research and development contracts and for grants to nonprofit educational and research organizations for construction or purchase of additional research facilities.  Prohibits the use of these funds for the construction of any major facility whose estimated cost exceeds a specified amount, unless the Administrator of NASA notifies specified congressional committees. Authorizes the use of certain funds, subject to limitations, for: (1) facilities construction, repair, or modification; (2) unforeseen programmatic facility project needs; (3) repair or modification of facilities controlled by the General Services Administration; and (4) scientific consultations or extraordinary expenses. Authorizes reprogramming of certain funds for:  (1) transatmospheric research and technology; and (2) construction of facilities. Permits upward variances of funds for facilities construction under circumstances outlined in this Act. Makes available specified funds for the construction and modification of facilities.  Requires the Administrator to notify specified congressional committees of the nature, cost, and reasons for such construction before expending the funds in question. Prohibits, until 30 days following congressional receipt of the Administrator's full explanation, the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this Act for any program that:  (1) has been deleted by the Congress; (2) is in excess of the amount actually authorized for the particular program by specified provisions; or (3) has not been presented to either of specified congressional committees. Limits obligation of unauthorized appropriations and requiures related reports to the Congress and the Comptroller General. Requires NASA to submit to the Congress a five-year budget and an estimate of the lifecycle costs associated with each program. Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to authorize FY 1993 appropriations.  Prohibits user fees unless specifically authorized by the Act. Authorizes FY 1993 appropriations:  (1) to carry out activities of the National Space Council; and (2) to the Secretary of Commerce for the Office of Space Commerce. Requires:  (1) the Administrator to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the single stage rocket technology flight test program; and (2) the National Space Council to report to such committees on a national aerospace transportation technology plan. Declares the sense of the Congress with regard to multilateral scientific cooperation and the Space Agency Forum on International Space Year, including activities by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Repeals provisions of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1991 authorizing appropriations for the Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby/Cassini mission. Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to authorize the National Science Foundation to foster the development and use of computer networks in support of research and education. Directs the President to report to the Congress on various opportunities for increased space-related trade and cooperation with the independent states of the former Soviet Union.  Authorizes the Office of Space Commerce of the Department of Commerce to conduct trade missions for the purpose of familiarizing U.S.  aerospace industry representatives with space-related business opportunities in the independent states. Requires agencies conducting procurement to comply with specified provisions of the Buy American Act. Requires investigation, in meeting NASA's needs for additional facilities, of abandoned and underused buildings, grounds, and facilities in depressed communities. Mandates a study and report to the Congress regarding the extent to which information developed by NASA is brought to market by foreign aerospace firms more quickly than by U.S.  companies. Directs the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to:  (1) establish an Institute for Aviation Weather Prediction, which shall expand upon the activities of the aviation unit currently at the National Severe Storms Center in Kansas City, Missouri; and (2) provide an opportunity for Center employees to assume comparable Institute duties. Title III:  Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research on Space and Aeronautics - Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research on Space and Aeronautics Act - Directs the Administrator to establish an Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research on Space and Aeronautics among eligible States.  Obligates funds for program grants. Title IV:  High Risk Research and Development Contract Administration - Mandates an assessment of the allocation of risk between the Government and its contractors for future research and development contracts regarding increasing the contractor's risk to conform to contract requirements. Requires development of regulations for the administration of research and development contracts regarding:  (1) the use of performance-based contracts; (2) clauses obligating the Government to pay for correction of defects; and (3) cost recovery for defective work. Title V:  Commercial Space Competitiveness - Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to extend through January 1, 2000, the deadline for Government payment of certain launch-related third party claims. Directs the Administrator to establish a commercial space launch voucher demonstration program, which shall expire after September 30, 1995. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make space transportation infrastructure grants.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator and the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of Transportation, to inventory and identify all U.S.-owned launch support facilities. Authorizes:  (1) the Administrator or the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to enter into multiyear anchor tenancy contracts under specified conditions; and (2) use of Government space facilities on a reimbursable basis by non-Federal entities under specified conditions. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act to authorize the Administrator to protect from dissemination information developed under Space Act agreements with non-Federal parties for up to five years. Establishes a Commercial Space Achievement Award.  Sets forth Award criteria. Title VI:  Biomedical Research in Space - Directs the Administrator and the Director of the National Institutes of Health to jointly establish:  (1) a biomedical research joint working group; (2) a biomedical research grant program; (3) a biomedical research fellowship program; and (4) a plan to conduct joint biomedical research activities by the republics of the former Soviet Union and the United States. Directs the Administrator to establish a national electronic data archive for biomedical research data obtained from space-based experiments. Directs the Administrator, with the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Director of the Office of Foreign Disaster, and the Surgeon General of the United States, to jointly establish an international telemedicine satellite consultation capability to support disaster area emergency medical services. Authorizes appropriations.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-hr-6039,102,hr,6039,Wind Engineering Research Program Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-09-25,1992-09-25,"Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.",House,"Rep. Lewis, Thomas F. [R-FL-12]",FL,R,L000295,8,"Wind Engineering Research Program Act of 1992 - Establishes within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Institute) a Wind Engineering Program which shall:  (1) provide for wind engineering research; (2) serve as an information clearinghouse; and (3) improve interagency coordination on wind engineering research. Authorizes Institute appropriations for purposes of this Act, of which at least 50 percent shall be used for interagency wind research cooperative agreements.",2025-08-26T15:14:05Z,
102-s-3273,102,s,3273,Wind Engineering Program Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-09-25,1992-09-25,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]",SC,D,H000725,6,"Wind Engineering Program Act of 1992 - Establishes within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Institute) a Wind Engineering Program which shall:  (1) provide for wind engineering research; (2) serve as an information clearinghouse; and (3) improve interagency coordination on wind engineering research. Authorizes Institute appropriations for purposes of this Act, of which at least 50 percent shall be used for interagency wind research cooperative agreements.",2025-08-26T15:13:55Z,
102-hr-5992,102,hr,5992,Weather Service Modernization Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-09-22,1992-09-22,"Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.",House,"Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-8]",NY,D,S000124,0,"Weather Service Modernization Act of 1992 - Requires the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to include as part of the Department of Commerce's annual budget request justification material a National Implementation Plan (National Plan) of actions needed to accomplish the objectives of the ten-year Strategic Plan currently required under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 (NASA Act) for modernization of the National Weather Service (NWS).  Specifies national plan contents.  Requires the Secretary to: (1) transmit a copy of each annual national plan to the Modernization Transition Committee (established by this Act); and (2) consult with it in developing such plan. Requires the Secretary to:  (1) contract with the National Research Council (NRC) for a review of the scientific and technical modernization criteria by which the Secretary proposes to certify action to close, consolidate, automate, or relocate NWS field offices; and (2) publish in the Federal Register final modernization criteria based on such NRC review. Changes requirements for certification that the closing, consolidation, automation, or relocation of any field office will not result in service degradation. Prohibits the Secretary from:  (1) changing operations at an NWS field office pursuant to implementation of the Strategic Plan unless the Secretary has provided appropriate notification; (2) removing or permanently decommissioning any NWS radar until the Secretary has prepared radar commissioning and decommissioning reports documenting that such action would be consistent with the final modernization criteria established above; (3) commissioning an automated surface observing system located at an airport unless the weather services provided after commissioning will continue to be in full compliance with applicable flight aviation rules; (4) closing, before January 1, 1996, any NWS field office pursuant to implementation of the Strategic Plan; (5) closing or relocating any NWS field office located at an airport unless the Secretary determines that such action will not result in degradation of service that affects aircraft safety; (6) closing or relocating any NWS field office which is the only office in a State unless the Secretary determines that a comparable level of weather services provided to in-State users will remain; or (7) closing, consolidating, automating, or relocating a NWS field office until arrangements have been made to maintain at least one person in the service area to act as a liaison officer with area weather service users with respect to the provision of information regarding NWS modernization and restructuring activities and weather warnings and forecasts. Establishes the Modernization Transition Committee.  Specifies Committee duties, which include reviewing proposed certifications and advising the Congress and the Secretary on implementation and development of the Strategic and National Plans and establishment of modernization criteria. Requires the Secretary to prepare a report for the Congress on the proposed NWS modernization.  Specifies report contents. Repeals provisions of the NASA Act with respect to NWS modernization.",2025-08-26T15:14:26Z,
102-hr-5759,102,hr,5759,Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-08-04,1992-08-11,Referred to the Subcommittee on Science.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,0,"Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992 - Amends the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to require the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, through the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, to establish an Information Infrastructure Program and five-year implementation plan that shall provide a coordinated interagency effort to develop technologies needed to apply high-performance computing and high-speed networking in education, libraries, health care, manufacturing, and other appropriate fields. Requires the plan to take into consideration the activities of the Library of Congress. Directs the establishment of an advisory committee, consisting of qualified industry and academia representatives, on high-performance computing and high-speed networking communications to independently assess plan progress. Requires Federal agency plan participants to report annually on high-performance computing activities. Directs the National Science Foundation and other appropriate agencies to provide for the development of advanced technologies for use in education, including pilot projects connecting primary and secondary schools to the Internet and the National Research and Education Network. Directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish an Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Networking Project to create a collaborative multiyear technology development program. Directs the National Institutes of Health to develop technologies for applications in the health care sector, including application of testbed networks linking medical facilities and schools for the sharing of medical data and imagery. Calls for the development of technologies for digital libraries of electronic information, including the development of advanced data storage systems.  Directs the National Science Foundation, working with the supercomputer centers it supports, to develop prototype digital libraries of scientific data, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop databases of software and remote-sensing images. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:17:15Z,
102-s-3078,102,s,3078,Biomedical Research in Space Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-07-27,1992-07-27,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Bentsen, Lloyd M. [D-TX]",TX,D,B000401,0,Biomedical Research in Space Act of 1992 - Mandates establishment of:  (1) a working group to coordinate space-based biomedical research; (2) microgravity biomedical research grants; and (3) graduate research fellowships.  Authorizes appropriations. Requires a plan for joint biomedical research with the republics of the former Soviet Union. Provides for a national electronic data archive for space-based biomedical research data.  Authorizes appropriations. Mandates an international telemedicine satellite consultation capability to support emergency medical services in disaster areas. Authorizes appropriations.,2025-08-26T15:16:59Z,
102-hconres-349,102,hconres,349,To express the sense of the Congress that Federal spending on civilian research and development should comprise 70 percent of total Federal research and development spending by fiscal year 1997.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-07-21,1992-07-21,"Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.",House,"Rep. Sangmeister, George E. [D-IL-4]",IL,D,S000056,0,"Expresses the sense of the Congress that:  (1) Federal civilian research and development spending should comprise 70 percent of total Federal research and development spending by FY 1997; and (2) by the year 2000, the United States should be unsurpassed in civilian research and development spending as a percentage of gross national product and should be the world leader in industrial and leading-edge technology development.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-hjres-527,102,hjres,527,"To designate the week beginning on July 19 and ending on July 26, 1992, as ""National Invent America Week"".","Science, Technology, Communications",1992-07-09,1992-07-09,Referred to the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.,House,"Rep. Lowery, Bill [R-CA-41]",CA,R,L000479,3,"Designates July 19 through 26, 1992, as National Invent America! Week.",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
102-s-2930,102,s,2930,Deficit Reduction Through Space Station Freedom Termination Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-07-01,1992-07-01,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.,Senate,"Sen. Bumpers, Dale [D-AR]",AR,D,B001057,1,Deficit Reduction Through Space Station Freedom Termination Act of 1992 - Prohibits funds appropriated to or for the use of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the Space Station Freedom program from being expended for that purpose unless such funds were appropriated and made available for such purpose before the date of enactment of this Act.,2025-08-26T15:18:25Z,
102-s-2937,102,s,2937,Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-07-01,1992-07-01,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Gore, Albert, Jr. [D-TN]",TN,D,G000321,8,"Information Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992 - Amends the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to require the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, through the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, to establish an Information Infrastructure Program and five-year implementation plan that shall provide a coordinated interagency effort to develop technologies needed to apply high-performance computing and high-speed networking in education, libraries, health care, manufacturing, and other appropriate fields. Requires the plan to take into consideration the activities of the Library of Congress. Directs the establishment of an advisory committee, consisting of qualified industry and academia representatives, on high-performance computing and high-speed networking communications to independently assess plan progress. Requires Federal agency plan participants to report annually on high-performance computing activities. Directs the National Science Foundation and other appropriate agencies to provide for the development of advanced technologies for use in education, including pilot projects connecting primary and secondary schools to the Internet and the National Research and Education Network. Directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish an Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Networking Project to create a collaborative multiyear technology development program. Directs the National Institutes of Health to develop technologies for applications in the health care sector, including application of testbed networks linking medical facilities and schools for the sharing of medical data and imagery. Calls for the development of technologies for digital libraries of electronic information, including the development of advanced data storage systems.  Directs the National Science Foundation, working with the supercomputer centers it supports, to develop prototype digital libraries of scientific data, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to develop databases of software and remote-sensing images. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:13:32Z,
102-sjres-324,102,sjres,324,"A joint resolution to commend the NASA Langley Research Center on the celebration of its 75th Anniversary on July 17, 1992.","Science, Technology, Communications",1992-06-26,1992-07-20,Became Public Law No: 102-323.,Senate,"Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]",VA,R,W000154,1,"Commends the NASA Langley Research Center as it celebrates its 75th anniversary on July 17, 1992.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-hr-5389,102,hr,5389,National Biological Resources Research and Development Act,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-06-11,1992-06-26,"Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Commerce, DOD, DOE, Interior, NSF, Smithsonian.",House,"Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-8]",NY,D,S000124,20,"National Biological Resources Research and Development Act - Establishes within the Smithsonian Institution a National Center for Biological Resources (Research and Development) to facilitate the collection, synthesis, and dissemination of information relating to the sustainable use, research, development, and conservation of biological resources. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:15:20Z,
102-hr-5393,102,hr,5393,To terminate the Space Station Freedom program.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-06-11,1992-06-16,Referred to the Subcommittee on Space.,House,"Rep. Zimmer, Dick [R-NJ-12]",NJ,R,Z000008,2,Terminates the Space Station Freedom program.,2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-hr-5343,102,hr,5343,To make technical amendments to the American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991 and the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act with respect to their treatment of the SI metric system.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-06-09,1992-08-03,Became Public Law No: 102-329.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,0,"Amends the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act with regard to consumer commodities to:  (1) refer to ""weight or mass"" (currently, only ""weight"") for quantity of contents labeling requirements; (2) permit labeling of contents in either inch-pound or SI metric measures (currently, SI metric is primary measure); (3) exempt foods packaged at the retail store level from the requirement that the statement of net quantity of contents include the SI metric measure; and (4) permit inch-pound or SI metric measurements to be carried out to three decimal places (currently, two decimal places for pound measures). Repeals section 107 of the American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991. Makes the labeling amendments under this Act effective as of February 14, 1994.  (This was the effective date under section 107 of the American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991.)  States that such amendments shall not:  (1) apply to products with labels printed prior to such date; (2) apply to unit pricing, advertising, recipe programs, nutrition labeling, or other general pricing information; and (3) be construed to require package size changes.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-hr-5344,102,hr,5344,To authorize the National Science Foundation to foster and support the development and use of certain computer networks.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-06-09,1992-07-02,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,House,"Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9]",VA,D,B000657,9,Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to authorize the National Science Foundation to foster the development and use of computer networks related to science and engineering research and education.,2025-04-21T12:24:17Z,
102-hr-5324,102,hr,5324,NOAA Fleet Modernization Act,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-06-04,1992-09-23,"Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 513.",House,"Rep. Hertel, Dennis M. [D-MI-14]",MI,D,H000547,7,"NOAA Fleet Modernization Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to implement a 15-year program to replace and modernize the fleet of research vessels owned or operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Mandates a plan for the program and preparation of requirements for each class of vessels to be constructed or converted. Authorizes, subject to conditions, multiyear contracts for:  (1) acquisition of the vessels; and (2) oceanographic research, fisheries research, and mapping and charting services to assist in fulfilling NOAA missions. Prohibits awarding a contract for the construction, repair, or alteration of any NOAA vessel in a foreign shipyard if the foreign shipyard benefits from excessive subsidies. Requires, for the fleet replacement and modernization program, use of excess capacity of University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System vessels. Mandates consultation regarding interoperability of NOAA and Navy vessels. Authorizes appropriations.  Requires unobligated amounts appropriated for fleet modernization, shipbuilding, and conversion under the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 to be obligated in accordance with this Act.",2021-06-02T14:57:20Z,
102-hr-5231,102,hr,5231,National Competitiveness Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-05-21,1992-09-23,Laid on the table. See S. 1330 for further action.,House,"Rep. Valentine, Tim [D-NC-2]",NC,D,V000006,44,"Title I:  General Provisions - National Competitiveness Act of 1992 - Sets forth the purposes and goals of this Act. Title II:  Manufacturing - Manufacturing Technology and Extension Act of 1992 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to designate the Department of Commerce (Department) as the lead civilian Federal agency to work with U.S. industry, State and local governments, and private entities to enhance U.S. manufacturing capabilities. Establishes the Commerce Technology Advisory Board. Directs the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to establish in the Department an Advanced Manufacturing Program which shall include advanced manufacturing systems and networking projects.  States that the Program's goal shall be to create U.S. technology development programs in order to develop design and manufacturing technologies and associated applications, including advanced computer integration and electronic networks.  States that the Program shall include:  (1) the advanced manufacturing research and development activities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Institute); and (2) one or more technology development testbeds. Establishes the National Manufacturing Outreach Network to assist U.S. manufacturers, especially small and medium-sized firms, to expand the use of technology and modern manufacturing processes. Provides for:  (1) a related communications infrastructure; (2) an information clearinghouse; and (3) manufacturing outreach centers. Authorizes the Secretary to make American workforce quality partnership grants to create workforce training consortia between industry and institutions of higher education. Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to authorize the Institute to establish local manufacturing offices. Eliminates the requirement that a Manufacturing Technology Center be financially self-supporting after six years of operation. Establishes within the Institute a State Technology Extension Program. Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to expand the number of Engineering Research Centers and strengthen the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program. Authorizes the Director to establish:  (1) graduate traineeships; (2) a manufacturing managers in the classroom program; and (3) a quality management training program. Title III:  Critical Technologies - Subtitle A:  Miscellaneous - Directs the Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology (Under Secretary) to conduct a study of semiconductor lithography technologies. Subtitle B:  Advanced Technology Program - Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress an expansion plan for the Advanced Technology programs. Subtitle C:  Technology Development Loans - Authorizes the Secretary to make technology commercialization loans. Subtitle D:  Critical Technologies Development - Part I:  General Provisions - Critical Technologies Development Act of 1992 - Establishes within the Technology Administration of the Department a Critical Technologies Development Program. Directs the Under Secretary to establish a critical technologies development advisory committee. Part II:  Program Structure and Operation - Establishes a program of financing qualified business concerns through federally assisted licensees. Part III:  Enforcement - Provides for license enforcement. Title IV:  Miscellaneous - Amends the American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991 to expand the Institute's standards pilot program to permit contracts with non-Federal organizations to promote U.S. technical standards dissemination activities abroad.  Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the appropriate Federal role in developing and promulgating domestic and global product and quality standards. Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to prohibit the making of a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award within a category or subcategory if there are no qualifying enterprises in that category or subcategory.  Makes educational institutions an Award category. Directs the Secretary to conduct a competiveness research program. Prohibits the fraudulent use of ""Made in America"" labels.  Provides for compliance with the Buy America Act. Renames the Department as the Department of Manufacturing and Commerce. Subtitle B (sic) :  Technology Transfer Improvements - Technology Transfer Improvements Act of 1992 - Amends Federal law to allow each Federal agency to:  (1) secure copyright on behalf of the United States in any computer software prepared and development agreement or other authority, notwithstanding provisions of Federal copyright law; and (2) grant in advance to a collaborating party licenses or assignments for the copyrights, or options thereto, retaining specified rights. Adds references to software and its author to provisions governing the distribution of royalties received by Federal agencies. Title V:  Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for:  (1) the Office of the Under Secretary; (2) technology policy; (3) Japanese technical literature; and (4) competitiveness research, data collection, and evaluation. Provides for a National Technical Information Service facilities study. Authorizes appropriations for the Institute for:  (1) intramural scientific and technical research and services; (2) facilities renovation; and (3) extramural industrial technology services. Authorizes appropriations for:  (1) the National Manufacturing Outreach Network; (2) the Technology Development Loan Program; (3) the Critical Technologies Development Program; and (4) National Science Foundation manufacturing activities. Title VI:  Fastener Quality Act Amendments - Amends the Fastener Quality Act to:  (1) make technical amendments; and (2) establish an alternative procedure for demonstrating chemical compliance with specified lot standards.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-s-2774,102,s,2774,Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research on Space and Aeronautics Act,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-05-21,1992-05-21,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]",SC,D,H000725,18,"Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research on Space and Aeronautics Act - Directs the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), using the National Science Foundation infrastructure, to make grants (and supplemental grants) to eligible States in areas of research important to NASA. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:18:25Z,
102-s-2789,102,s,2789,Commercial Space Competitiveness Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-05-21,1992-05-21,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Graham, Bob [D-FL]",FL,D,G000352,3,"Commercial Space Competitiveness Act of 1992 - Title I:  General Provisions - Sets forth findings and definitions for this Act. Title II:  Space Transportation - Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to extend certain provisions relating to payment by the United States against a licensee under the Act. Amends the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990 to  include suborbital payloads in the requirement to purchase launch services from commercial providers.  Modifies requirements regarding use of non-commercial providers.  Mandates a report on use of commercial services for suborbital launch programs.  Applies such provisions, as well as those regarding launch service contracts, to the Federal Government.  (Current law refers to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).) Establishes a demonstration program to award vouchers to researchers for the payment of commercial launch services and payload integration services for small scientific payloads. Authorizes grants for projects relating to the development or improvement of space transportation infrastructure. Establishes in the Treasury the Commercial Space Transportation Trust Fund, to consist of revenues from any fees assessed by the Department of Transportation for the licensing of commercial launch activities and to be used for projects that directly benefit the U.S. space transportation industry.  Requires that projects be selected by an Industry Selection Committee representing fee payors. Requires an inventory to identify federally-owned launch support facilities:  (1) not needed for public use; or (2) which could be made available for non-Federal use on a reimbursable basis without interfering with Federal activities. Title III:  Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Administrator of NASA to enter into contracts in which the Government agrees to procure sufficient quantities of a commercial space product or service needed to meet Government mission requirements so that a commercial venture is made viable (anchor tenancy contracts) in order to increase the viability of a commercial space venture. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to authorize NASA to:  (1) make contracts in excess of available funds; and (2) provide for liability payments from certain sources in the event the Government terminates such contracts. Authorizes Federal agencies to allow non-Federal entities to use their space-related facilities on a reimbursable basis. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to mandate protection of information developed under specified provisions of the Act from dissemination. Establishes a Commercial Space Achievement Award, consisting of a medal and, if funding is available, a cash prize, to individuals, corporations, corporate divisions, or corporate subsidiaries meeting certain criteria.  Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to accept gifts from public and private sources for the cash prize.",2025-08-26T15:14:41Z,
102-hr-5211,102,hr,5211,"To amend the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to provide for making Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards to units of Federal, State, or local government and nonprofit organizations.","Science, Technology, Communications",1992-05-20,1992-05-27,Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Competitiveness.,House,"Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]",OH,D,K000009,12,"Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to create Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award categories for:  (1) units of Federal, State, or local government; and (2) nonprofit organizations.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-hr-5206,102,hr,5206,"Amending the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to make improvements in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and for other purposes.","Science, Technology, Communications",1992-05-19,1992-05-27,Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Competitiveness.,House,"Rep. Roemer, Tim [D-IN-3]",IN,D,R000385,12,Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to create a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award category for educational institutions. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report to the Congress regarding award and application criteria for such category.,2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-sres-296,102,sres,296,A resolution to commend and congratulate the crew of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration STS-49 mission for their magnificent rescue of the INTELSAT VI satellite and a memorable maiden voyage of the Space Shuttle Endeavour.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-05-14,1992-05-14,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote.",Senate,"Sen. Garn, E. J. (Jake) [R-UT]",UT,R,G000072,4,Commends and congratulates the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour for the magnificent rescue of the INTELSAT VI satellite and for the successful maiden voyage.,2021-06-02T15:14:47Z,
102-s-2705,102,s,2705,National Technology Agency Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-05-13,1992-05-13,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.,Senate,"Sen. Seymour, John [R-CA]",CA,R,S000269,0,"National Technology Agency Act of 1992 - Establishes in the executive branch the National Technology Agency to be headed by a Director (who shall also serve as the President's Adviser for Science and Technology). Sets forth as the responsibilities of the Agency to:  (1) establish and coordinate a comprehensive Government technology, research, and development policy that will particularly assist the U.S. industries negatively affected by reductions in the national defense budget in the cultivation of new product markets; (2) expand the integration of military and commercial research and development; (3) conduct research into advanced, generic, precompetitive technologies to improve U.S. manufacturing and production processes; (4) enter into partnerships with private sector representatives to establish specific research, development, and technological policy goals; (5) plan and manage research and development with other appropriate Federal agencies; (6) plan and manage all Federal technology assistance programs for private businesses and State governments; (7) implement all Federal research, development, and technological policies in areas not under the jurisdiction of other departments and agencies; and (8) carry out functions transferred to the Agency by this Act. Authorizes the Agency to:  (1) guarantee in whole or in part any public or private financing institution (including any Federal Reserve bank) against the loss of principal or interest on any loan, discount, or advance, or on any commitment in connection therewith, which may be made by such institution for the purpose of financing the conversion of businesses critical to the defense industrial base of the United States that are likely to be closed as a result of projected reductions in Government spending under the national security budget function (critical businesses) from the production of goods primarily for defense-related purposes to the production of goods for other commercial purposes, with priority given to commercially viable environmental technologies; (2) provide such a guarantee by commitment to purchase, share losses, or otherwise; (3) provide such guaranty authority only with respect to financing for critical businesses; and (4) extend direct cash grants consistent with such requirements. Sets forth reporting requirements. Transfers to the Agency all functions which were exercised previously by the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President, as determined by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, involved in carrying out any function relating to the Agency's responsibilities, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Sets forth various administrative and transition provisions. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:16:08Z,
102-s-2665,102,s,2665,Inter-American Scientific Cooperation Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-05-06,1992-05-06,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,3,Inter-American Scientific Cooperation Act of 1992 - Directs the National Science Foundation to establish the Inter-American Scientific Cooperation Program aimed at increasing science and technology cooperation between the United States and Latin America.  Requires the Program to identify and cooperate with private and governmental funding bodies. Authorizes the use of a limited amount of funds authorized under specified Acts to carry out this Act.,2025-08-26T15:16:40Z,
102-hr-4947,102,hr,4947,Technology Transfer Committee Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-04-09,1992-05-04,Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization.,House,"Rep. Regula, Ralph [R-OH-16]",OH,R,R000141,0,"Technology Transfer Committee Act of 1992 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish a committee to:  (1) support the commercial adaption of research and development in the civilian technology area; (2) place a heavy emphasis on critical technologies that will ensure the long-term superiority of U.S. technology; (3) be specifically designed to address the constructive advancement of civilian technology; (4) identify technological needs, problems, and opportunities within and across industrial sectors that, if addressed, could make a significant contribution to the U.S. economy; (5) support projects that range from idea exploration to prototype development and address long-term, high risk areas of technology research, development, and application that are not otherwise being adequately developed by the private sector, but are likely to yield important benefits to the Nation; (6) identify emerging national technology problems and support research pertinent to those problems; (7) support development of solutions to applied research programs; (8) determine the relationships of technological developments and international technology transfers to the output, employment, productivity, and world trade performance of the United States and foreign industrial sectors; (9) investigate the potential of advancing U.S. technological innovation and exploiting innovations of foreign origin; (10) secure the translation of technology into timely, cost competitive, high quality manufactured products and provide an efficient technological infrastructure; (11) support applied research and development that falls outside the purview of other Federal agencies that should be supported in the national interest; (12) generally promote and assist in the development of advanced technologies and the generic application of such technologies of civilian products, processes, and services; (13) assess whether the capital, technical, and other resources available to domestic industrial sectors which are likely to generate new technologies are adequate to meet private and social demands for goods and services and to promote productivity and economic growth; and (14) promote research that contributes to the scientific basis of health, safety, and environmental regulations for the purposes of improving regulatory actions and minimizing duplicative research. Requires the committee to promote:  (1) technology transfer from the Federal Government to private enterprise; and (2) government-industry cooperation to halt the penetration of U.S. markets by foreign competitors. Provides for participation by foreign countries in projects supported by the committee. Requires the committee to be headed by a director who shall make grants and enter into contracts and cooperative agreements with research and development entities or other arrangements with entities that are deemed most useful by the committee to accomplish the purposes of this Act. Requires the committee to provide the funding for research and development concerning the adaption of technology. Requires the committee to coordinate efforts with other Federal agencies to make certain there are no disputes over grants, loans, and contracts. Requires the committee to report annually to the President, both Houses of the Congress, and the Council on Industrial Competitiveness on its past year actions and any recommendations for appropriate legislative actions.",2025-08-26T15:16:39Z,
102-s-2558,102,s,2558,"National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 1993","Science, Technology, Communications",1992-04-09,1992-04-09,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Gore, Albert, Jr. [D-TN]",TN,D,G000321,0,"National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 1993 - Title I:  Fiscal Year 1993 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization - Authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for:  (1) research and development; (2) space flight, control and data communications; (3) construction of facilities; (4) research and program  management; and (5) the Inspector General. Sets forth limits and requirements including, in certain circumstances, requiring notice to specified congressional committees and limiting reprogramming of funds. Title II:  Amendment to the Space Act on Protection of Information Developed Under Space Act Agreements - Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to exempt from public disclosure requirements, for up to five years, trade secret or commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential that was obtained from a non-Federal party.",2025-08-26T15:15:50Z,
102-s-2566,102,s,2566,Department of Energy Laboratory Technology Partnership Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-04-09,1992-08-07,Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.,Senate,"Sen. Johnston, J. Bennett [D-LA]",LA,D,J000189,9,"Department of Energy Laboratory Technology Partnership Act of 1992 - Establishes the Department of Energy (DOE) partnership program under which the Secretary of Energy must ensure that departmental laboratories enter into research partnerships with industry, educational institutions, and other Federal agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to establish Secretary of Energy Partnerships to develop research and demonstration activities listed in the biennial National Critical Technologies Report or in other specified areas. Grants such partnerships the same preference they would receive under the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (whereby they agree that products embodying inventions made under a cooperative research and development agreement will be manufactured substantially in the United States). Directs the Secretary to encourage research partnerships with minority educational institutions, and private sector entities owned or controlled by disadvantaged individuals.  Cites the technology research and demonstration areas which such partnerships may target. Directs the Secretary to:  (1) encourage the exchange of scientists and engineers among departmental laboratories, educational institutions, industry, and other Federal agencies; (2) provide fellowships to facilitate personnel exchanges from such areas; (3) provide education and training; (4) develop evaluation mechanisms; (5) develop a management plan for implementation of this Act; and (6) report biennially to the Congress on its implementation. Directs the Secretary to establish the Laboratory Partnership Advisory Board to provide guidance on the implementation of this Act. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to:  (1) increase the number of DOE Under Secretaries from one to three and the number of Assistant Secretaries from eight to 11; and (2) establish the position of General Counsel. Requires the Secretary to make recommendations to the Congress regarding establishment of an Office of Technology Research within DOE. Directs the Secretary to solicit proposals for a commercial predeployment contractor to conduct specified activities to enable the Federal uranium enrichment enterprise to deploy a commercial uranium enrichment plant using the Atomic Vapor Isotope Separation (AVLIS) technology.  Authorizes the Secretary to solicit additional proposals to complete attendant activities, based upon the AVLIS contract results.  Requires the Secretary to submit AVLIS production plant status reports to specified congressional committees every 90 days. Requires the Secretary to submit to certain congressional committees a report addressing opportunities for minority educational institutions to participate in DOE activities, or those conducted by departmental laboratories. Directs the Secretary to establish an international fellowship program under which departmental laboratory staff will serve as visiting scientists and engineers in foreign research facilities. Directs the Secretary to establish a Laboratory Career Path Program to recruit employees of specified National Laboratories (Argonne, Brookhaven, Idaho Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest, and Sandia) to serve in positions in DOE.  (Currently such transfers are unlawful.)  Amends the Federal criminal code and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to declare inapplicable to such National Laboratories certain communications and recusal restrictions (generally, postemployment restrictions) that conflict with the Laboratory Career Path Program.  Limits such exemption to employees of such Laboratories who return to the Laboratories after an earlier transfer to DOE.",2026-03-24T12:48:03Z,
102-hr-4726,102,hr,4726,Opportunities in Science and Technology Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-04-01,1992-06-23,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,2,"Opportunities in Science and Technology Act of 1992 - Establishes a joint program by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy of annual competitive, merit-reviewed awards to provide and upgrade facilities and equipment at institutions engaged in fostering knowledge of science and technology.  Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:14:48Z,
102-hjres-452,102,hjres,452,"Designating the week of September 14 through September 20, 1992, as ""National Small Independent Telephone Company Week"".","Science, Technology, Communications",1992-03-26,1992-03-30,Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population.,House,"Rep. Grandy, Fred [R-IA-6]",IA,R,G000371,83,"Designates September 14 through 20, 1992, as National Small Independent Telephone Company Week.",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
102-sjres-281,102,sjres,281,"A joint resolution designating the week of September 14 through September 20, 1992, as ""National Rural Telecommunications Service Week"".","Science, Technology, Communications",1992-03-26,1992-07-08,Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population.,Senate,"Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]",IA,R,G000386,52,"Designates September 14 through 20, 1992, as National Rural Telecommunications Services Week.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
102-hr-4550,102,hr,4550,AmeRus Foundation for Research and Development Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-03-24,1992-05-19,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,29,"AmeRus Foundation for Research and Development Act of 1992 - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to establish the AmeRus Foundation for Research and Development as an endowed, nongovernmental, nonprofit foundation to:  (1) promote and support joint research for peaceful purposes between scientists and engineers in the United States and former Soviet states; (2) establish joint nondefense industrial research and development through private sector linkages which may involve the academic sectors and shall include some contribution from industrial participants; and (3) ensure equal distribution of Foundation funding. Authorizes the Foundation to accept funding from governmental appropriations, private donations, debt conversions, and local foreign currencies generated by U.S. assistance programs as available. Requires a specified percentage of royalty revenues on patents resulting from Foundation projects to be returned to the Foundation. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:14:47Z,
102-s-2401,102,s,2401,AmeRus Foundation for Research and Development Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-03-24,1992-03-24,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.,Senate,"Sen. Gore, Albert, Jr. [D-TN]",TN,D,G000321,0,"AmeRus Foundation for Research and Development Act of 1992 - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to establish the AmeRus Foundation for Research and Development as an endowed, nongovernmental, nonprofit foundation to:  (1) promote and support joint research for peaceful purposes between scientists and engineers in the United States and former Soviet states; (2) establish joint nondefense industrial research and development through private sector linkages which may involve the academic sectors and shall include some contribution from industrial participants; and (3) ensure equal distribution of Foundation funding. Authorizes the Foundation to accept funding from governmental appropriations, private donations, debt conversions, and local foreign currencies generated by U.S. assistance programs as available. Requires a specified percentage of royalty revenues on patents resulting from Foundation projects to be returned to the Foundation. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:15:56Z,
102-hr-4436,102,hr,4436,To establish a loan program at the Department of Commerce to promote the development and commercialization of advanced technologies and products.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-03-11,1992-03-13,Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Competitiveness.,House,"Rep. Mineta, Norman Y. [D-CA-13]",CA,D,M000794,20,"Authorizes loans under specified provisions of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to small and medium sized businesses for development and commercialization of advanced technologies and products and research and development on, and demonstration of the commercial feasibility of, advanced technologies and products in specified fields.  Regulates the loan interest rate. Authorizes appropriations.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-hr-4447,102,hr,4447,To provide for National Aeronautics and Space Administration negotiations with former Soviet republics regarding the acquisition by the United States of Soviet civil space hardware and technology for integration into United States civil space projects.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-03-11,1992-04-09,Subcommittee Hearings Held.,House,"Rep. Zimmer, Dick [R-NJ-12]",NJ,R,Z000008,15,"Requires that representatives of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) negotiate with the Governments of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, or the Commonwealth of Independent States regarding acquisition by the United States of civil space hardware and related technology for integration into U.S. civil space projects authorized by the Congress, with emphasis on the acquisition of prototypes and technology so that the actual hardware can be manufactured in the United States. Allows limited exemption, during the negotiations, from laws regarding the exporting of technical data.  Provides for NASA approval of NASA contractors as NASA representatives.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-s-2336,102,s,2336,A bill to establish a loan program at the Department of Commerce to promote the development and commercialization of advanced technologies and products.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-03-11,1992-03-11,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]",WV,D,R000361,3,"Authorizes loans under specified provisions of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act to small and medium sized businesses for development and commercialization of advanced technologies and products and research and development on, and demonstration of the commercial feasibility of, advanced technologies and products in specified fields.  Regulates the loan interest rate. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-hr-4364,102,hr,4364,"National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1993","Science, Technology, Communications",1992-03-03,1992-08-10,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 613.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,0,"National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1993 - Title I:  Fiscal Year 1993 Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for:  (1) research and development; (2) space flight, control, and data communications; (3) construction of facilities; (4) research and program management; and (5) the Inspector General. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1991 to repeal the authorization of appropriations for the Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby/Cassini mission. Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to authorize appropriations for the Secretary of Transportation. Authorizes appropriations for the National Space Council. Title II:  Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research on Space and Aeronautics - Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research on Space and Aeronautics Act - Directs the Administrator of NASA to establish an Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research on Space and Aeronautics among eligible States. Obligates funds for program grants. Title III:  General Provisions - Permits appropriations for the first two numbered categories of titles I and II to be used for certain items of a capital nature (other than land acquisition) required for the performance of research and development contracts and for grants to nonprofit educational and research organizations for purchase or construction of additional research facilities.  Prohibits the use of these funds for the construction of any major facility whose estimated cost exceeds a specified amount, unless the Administrator of NASA notifies specified congressional committees. Authorizes use of certain funds, subject to limitations, for:  (1) facilities construction, repair, or modification; (2) unforeseen programmatic facility project needs; and (3) repair or modification of General Services Administration facilities. Permits upward variances of funds for facilities construction under circumstances outlined in this Act. Authorizes certain fund transfers and makes available specified funds for the construction and modification of facilities.  Requires the Administrator to notify specified congressional committees of the nature, cost, and reasons for such construction before expending the funds in question. Prohibits, until 30 days following congressional receipt of the Administrator's full explanation, the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this Act for any program that:  (1) has been deleted by the Congress; (2) is in excess of the amount actually authorized for the particular program by specified provisions; or (3) has not been presented to either of specified congressional committees. Expresses the sense of the Congress that NASA should geographically distribute its research and development funds whenever possible. Prohibits the use of civil space stations authorized under this Act for non-peaceful purposes. Requires the Administrator to submit to the Congress an annual budget of programs whose development costs are expected to exceed a specified amount. Requires:  (1) the Administrator to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the single stage rocket technology flight test program; and (2) the National Space Council to report to such committees on a national aerospace transportation technology plan. Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to extend through January 1, 2000, the deadline for Government payment of certain launch-related third party claims. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to authorize the Administrator to protect from dissemination information developed under Space Act agreements with non-Federal parties for up to five years. Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to authorize the National Science Foundation to foster the development and use of computer networks in support of research and education. Directs the National Space Council to prepare a plan and to report to the Congress on increased space program cooperation between the United States and the Republics of the former Soviet Union. Directs the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to:  (1) establish an Institute for Aviation Weather Prediction, which shall expand upon the activities of the aviation unit currently at the National Severe Storms Center in Kansas City, Missouri; and (2) provide an opportunity for Center employees to assume comparable Institute duties.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-hr-4330,102,hr,4330,Superconducting Super Collider Buy American Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-02-27,1992-03-03,Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy.,House,"Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [D-TX-4]",TX,D,H000067,6,"Superconducting Super Collider Buy American Act of 1992 - Prohibits awarding any contract or making payments for the site preparation, construction, or outfitting of the Superconducting Super Collider project to any foreign firm unless the foreign firm's host country has committed substantial participation to the project.",2025-08-26T15:14:37Z,
102-hr-4352,102,hr,4352,Advanced Technologies Capital Consortium Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-02-27,1992-03-16,Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization.,House,"Rep. Torricelli, Robert G. [D-NJ-9]",NJ,D,T000317,2,"Advanced Technologies Capital Consortium Act of 1992 - Mandates: (1) grants and loans to the Advanced Technologies Capital Consortium (ATCC)  for research, development, application, and commercialization of critical technologies through grants, loans, and investments made by the ATCC to enterprises engaged in such activities; and (2) designation of a consortium of at least four private sector enterprises, academic institutions, foundations, and State and local governments as the ATCC. Establishes the Advisory Committee on Federal Participation in the Advanced Technology Capital Consortium. Limits to a specified percentage of the total asset value of a company the aggregate amount of loans and investments by the ATCC to that company. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:15:07Z,
102-s-2271,102,s,2271,Federal Research and Development Commercialization Act,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-02-27,1992-03-12,Subcommittee on Government Info. And Regulation. Hearings held.,Senate,"Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]",WI,D,K000305,0,Federal Research and Development Commercialization Act - Amends Federal law to require the head of each agency to include in any appropriation request relating to research and development funding a competitiveness impact statement. Requires the President to include in the budget a statement for each such request.,2025-08-26T15:15:06Z,
102-s-2286,102,s,2286,Advanced Technologies Capital Consortium Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-02-27,1992-02-27,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]",WV,D,R000361,4,"Advanced Technologies Capital Consortium Act of 1992 - Mandates: (1) grants and loans to the Advanced Technologies Capital Consortium (ATCC)  for research, development, application, and commercialization of critical technologies through grants, loans, and investments made by the ATCC to enterprises engaged in such activities; and (2) designation of a consortium of at least four private sector enterprises, academic institutions, foundations, and State and local governments as the ATCC. Establishes the Advisory Committee on Federal Participation in the Advanced Technology Capital Consortium. Limits to a specified percentage of the total asset value of a company the aggregate amount of loans and investments by the ATCC to that company. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:15:22Z,
102-s-2297,102,s,2297,Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1992-02-27,1992-10-07,Senate passed companion measure H.R. 3614 in lieu of this measure by Voice Vote.,Senate,"Sen. Pressler, Larry [R-SD]",SD,R,P000513,0,"Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992 - Repeals the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984. Title I:  Landsat - Makes the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA Administrator) and the Secretary of Defense jointly responsible for management of the Landsat program.  (Currently such program is managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospherc Administration of the Department of Commerce.) Requires establishment of an integrated program management structure for the Landsat system.  Directs the NASA Administrator, the Secretary of Defense, and any other Federal official the President designates as responsible for part of the Landsat system, to establish through a management plan the roles, responsibilities, and funding expectations for the Landsat program of the appropriate Federal agencies. Requires the management plan to specify that the fundamental goal of Landsat Program Management (LMP) is continuity of unenhanced Landsat data through acquisition and operation of a Landsat 7 satellite, which is at least functionally equivalent to the Landsat 6 satellite, with the addition of a tracking and data relay satellite communications capability. Requires the management plan to include a baseline funding profile and to specify that any improvements  over Landsat 6 capability be funded by a specific sponsoring agency if the required funding exceeds such profile.  Requires the plan to provide for a technology demonstration program. Sets forth LPM responsibilities for various functions, including authority to contract. Establishes a Landsat advisory process and LPM reporting requirements. Requires LPM to contract expeditiously with a U.S. private sector entity to develop and deliver Landsat 7 (subject to appropriations and only under the existing contract authority of the Federal Agencies that compose LPM).  Sets forth development and delivery considerations for LPM in negotiating such contract.  Requires LPM to notify the Congress promptly of any significant cost or schedule changes.  Requires LPM to take into account the location of operations, assets, personnel, and other such factors in defining "" U.S. private sector entities."" Directs LPM to negotiate with the Landsat 6 contractor with respect to specified aspects of data policy for Landsat 1 through 6 and to ensure that such data policy is consistent with Landsat 7 data policy. Requires a report to the Congress if there is failure to reach an agreement, within 120 days after enactment of this Act. Transfers to LPM the responsibilities of the Secretary of Commerce with respect to Landsat  6, as agreed to by such Secretary, and LPM. Directs LPM to develop a data policy for Landsat 7 which ensures: (1) availability of unenhanced data to all users at the cost of fulfilling user requests; (2) timely and dependable delivery of unenhanced data to the full spectrum of civilian, national security, commercial, and foreign users and the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive; (3) U.S. retention of ownership of all unenhanced data generated by Landsat 7; (4) that exclusive marketing rights to Landsat 7 are not extended to any contractor; (5) that the proposed data distribution system contributes to the commercialization goal for land remote sensing; and (6) compatibility of, as much as possible, the Landsat 7 data distribution system with the Earth Observing System Data and Information System. Title II:  Licensing of Private Remote Sensing Space Systems - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary, for purposes of this title) to license private sector parties to operate private remote sensing space systems for such period as the Secretary may specify.  Limits the Secretary's authority under this title to remote sensing operations only of any private system used for those and other purposes. Requires, before a license may be granted, the Secretary to determine in writing that the applicant will comply with requirements of and regulations under this Act, and any applicable U.S. international obligations and national security concerns.  Sets deadlines for the Secretary's actions on applications.  Prohibits the Secretary from denying a license in order to protect any existing licensee from competition.  Directs the Secretary to designate in the license any unenhanced data which the licensee is required to provide. Requires such licenses for operation of any private remote sensing space system by any person subject to U.S. jurisdiction or control or by their subsidiaries or affiliates. Provides that such licenses require a licensee to comply with this Act and with specified requirements relating to national security, international obligations, availabilty of unenhanced data (both to governments with respect to their territory and to users on a nondiscriminatory basis), disposition of satellite information on orbit and data collection and deviation, and notification about any intended agreement involving foreign nations or entities. Sets forth the administrative authority and the regulatory authority of the Secretary of Commerce with respect to this title. Provides for licensing private entities to operate private remote sensing space systems which use, on a space-available basis, civilian U.S. Government satellites or vehicles as platforms. Authorizes the Secretary to license such system if: (1) the operator agrees to reimburse the Government for all related costs, including a share of fixed, platform, data transmission, and launch costs; and (2) the use would not interfere with or compromise intended civilian Government missions. Title III:  Research, Development and Demonstration - Directs the NASA Administrator and the Secretary of Defense to continue and enhance remote sensing research and development programs. Authorizes the NASA Administrator to conduct experimental space remote sensing programs. Authorizes the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to research and develop applications of remote sensng to the management and use of renewable and nonrenewable resources of the United States. Requires all unenhanced land remote sensing data gathered and owned by the U.S. Government to be made available to users in a timely fashion.  Directs the President to seek to ensure that unenhanced data gathered under the technology demonstration program are made avaiable on terms that would not adversely affect the commercial market for unenhanced data gathered by the Landsat 6 spacecraft. Directs the President to establish a technology demonstration program, through appropriate U.S. Government agencies, as a fundamental component of a national land remote sensing strategy. Requires such program to seek to launch advanced land remote sensing system components within five years after enactment of this Act and to demonstrate, within such period:  (1) advanced sensor capabilities suitable for use in the anticipated land remote sensing program; and (2) an advanced land remote system design that could be less expensive to procure and operate than the Landsat system.  Directs the President, in executing such program, to seek to apply intelligence gathering technologies to the extent that they are appropriate for the technology demonstration and can be declassified without harm to national security.  Requires such program to be designed to be responsive to the broad civilian, national securty, commercial, and foreign policy needs of the United States.  Allows such program to be carried out in part with private funding.  Requires LPM to have a coordinating role in such program.  Directs the President to assess the program's progress and report to the Congress within two years after enactment of this Act. Title IV:  Assessing Options for Successor Land Remote Sensing System - Directs LPM to assess and report to the Congress on the options for a successor land remote sensing system to Landsat 7. Requires the report fully assess advantages and disadvantages of funding and management of a successor system by:  (1) the private sector; (2) an international consortium; (3) the U.S.  Government; and (4) a cooperative effort by the U.S. Government and the private sector. Title V:  General Provisions - Declares it to be in the public interest for the U.S. Government to maintain an archive of land remote sensing data for historical, scientific, and technical purposes. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide for such data's storage, maintenance, and upgrading. Allows the sale of unenhanced data distributed by any licensee only on condition that it will not be reproduced or disseminated by the purchaser for commercial purposes. Authorizes the NASA Administrator, the Secretary of Defense, and other U.S. Government agency heads to provide assistance to land remote sensing system operators under this Act.  Requires such operators to reimburse the Government for such assistance, except as otherwise provided by law. Authorizes LPM, by a competitive process, to allow a licensee or any other private party to acquire use of equipment from the the Landsat system when it is no longer needed to operate, or sell data from, the system. Requires the filing of an application with the FCC for any radio facilities involved with commercial remote sensing space systems licensed under this Act. States that Federal Commerce Commission authority shall not be required for development and construction of any U.S.  land remote sensing space system (or component), other than radio transmitting facilities or components while any licensing determination is being made. Directs LPM to consult with:  (1) the Secretary of Defense on all matters under this Act affecting national security; and (2) the Secretary of State on all matters under this Act affecting international obligations. Directs the Secretary of State to report to the Secretary of Commerce and LPM any instances outside the United States of discriminatory distribution of Landsat data. Requires LPM to report to the Congress Landsat system operations, including timely notification of decisions relating to national security concerns and international obligations. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to require Federal agencies which request imposition of technical modifications a license for national security reasons to reimburse the licensee for certain additional or past development costs (but not for anticipated profits or costs ordinarily associated with doing business abroad). Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in collaboration with the private sector entities responsible for marketing and distributing Landsat system unenhanced data, to develop and implement an enforcement system to ensure that such data received solely for noncommercial purposes are not used for any commercial purpose (in the event that such data are made available for noncommercial purposes at a different price than for commercial applications).  Provides for the Secretary's enforcement authority, enforcement mechanisms, and procedures and regulations. Title VI:  Prohibition of Commercialization of Weather Satellites - Prohibits the President and any other U.S. Government official from making any effort to lease, sell, or transfer to the private sector, or commercialize, any portion of the weather satellite systems operated by the Department of Commerce or any successor agency. Prohibits any such action regardless of any change in circumstances subsequent to enactment of this Act and even if such change makes such commercialization appear to be in the national interest, unless this title has first been repealed.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-hjres-420,102,hjres,420,"Designating February 14, 1993, through February 20, 1993, as ""National Engineers Week"".","Science, Technology, Communications",1992-02-25,1992-02-25,Referred to the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service.,House,"Rep. Roe, Robert A. [D-NJ-8]",NJ,D,R000383,0,"Designates the week of February 14 through 20, 1993, as National Engineers Week.",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
102-hr-3953,102,hr,3953,National Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination Act,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-11-26,1992-07-09,"Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Science, Space and Technology. H. Rept. 102-664, Part I.",House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,37,"National Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination Act - Establishes the Electric and Magnetic Fields Interagency Committee, designating the Department of Energy, through the Office of Health, as the Committee's lead agency. Establishes the National Electric and Magnetic Fields Advisory Committee. Requires the Interagency Committee to submit:  (1) to the Advisory Committee a comprehensive agenda for research on the possible human health effects of electric and magnetic fields, with particular emphasis on the electric and magnetic fields produced by electricity of the 60 Hertz frequency; and (2) to the Secretary of Energy recommendations on the scope and nature of research information to be disseminated to the public.  Requires the Advisory Committee to establish research priorities consistent with the Interagency's agenda. Directs the Secretary, after receiving the Advisory Committee's priorities, to establish a program to conduct such research. Authorizes grants and contracts for it. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Division of Health Communication and Coordination of the Office of Health, to establish a program to collect, compile, publish, and disseminate to the public information on electric and magnetic fields and their possible human health effects, especially fields produced by the 60 Hertz frequency. Authorizes appropriations. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that remedial action taken by the Government on electric and magnetic fields, if and as necessary, should be based on, and consistent with, the results of the research authorized by this Act and other scientifically valid research.",2025-01-15T18:51:50Z,
102-hr-3922,102,hr,3922,Biomedical Research in Space Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-11-25,1992-06-10,Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.,House,"Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [D-TX-4]",TX,D,H000067,17,Biomedical Research in Space Act of 1991 - Mandates establishment of:  (1) a working group to coordinate space-based biomedical research; (2) microgravity biomedical research grants; and (3) graduate research fellowships.  Authorizes appropriations. Requires a plan for joint biomedical research with the Soviet Union or its constituent republics. Provides for a national electronic data archive for space-based biomedical research data.  Authorizes appropriations. Mandates an international telemedicine satellite consultation capability to support emergency medical services in disaster areas.  Authorizes appropriations.,2025-08-26T15:15:06Z,
102-hr-3848,102,hr,3848,Commercial Space Competitiveness Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-11-21,1992-08-11,Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,House,"Rep. Hall, Ralph M. [D-TX-4]",TX,D,H000067,17,"Commercial Space Competitiveness Act of 1992 - Title I:  General Provisions - Sets forth findings and definitions for this Act. Title II:  Space Transportation - Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to extend certain provisions relating to payment by the United States against a licensee under the Act until January 1, 2000. Amends the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990 to require all Federal agencies (currently only the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)) to purchase launch services, including suborbital payloads, from commercial providers, except:  (1) if the payload requires the unique capabilities of the space shuttle or serves a national security or foreign policy purpose; (2) if cost effective commercial services are not reasonably available; or (3) if use of commercial launch services poses an unreasonable risk of loss of a unique scientific opportunity.  Requires the Administrator of NASA to:  (1) report to the appropriate congressional committees any determination not to use commercial launch services; and (2) report to the Congress on NASA plans to increase commercial launch services in its suborbital launch programs. Requires the Federal Government (currently, NASA) to conduct full competitions for launch services contracts, limit requirements for cost or pricing data, and use performance specifications to the maximum extent feasible. Phases in such Federal agency launch services requirements. Establishes a demonstration program to award vouchers to researchers for the payment of commercial launch services and payload integration services for small scientific payloads.  Requires the Administrator to submit a program report to the Congress. Authorizes grants for projects relating to the development or improvement of space transportation infrastructure. Establishes in the Treasury the Commercial Space Transportation Trust Fund, to consist of revenues from any fees assessed by the Department of Transportation for the licensing of commercial launch activities and to be used for projects that directly benefit the U.S. space transportation industry.  Requires that projects be selected by an Industry Selection Committee representing fee payors. Requires an inventory to identify federally-owned launch support facilities:  (1) not needed for public use; or (2) which could be made available for non-Federal use on a reimbursable basis without interfering with Federal activities.  Requires the Administrator to submit a program report to the Congress. Title III:  Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Administrator to enter into contracts in which the Government agrees to procure sufficient quantities of a commercial space product or service needed to meet Government mission requirements so that a commercial venture is made viable (anchor tenancy contracts) in order to increase the viability of a commercial space venture. Authorizes Federal agencies to allow non-Federal entities to use their space-related facilities on a reimbursable basis if:  (1) in support of commercial space activities; and (2) equivalent commercial services are not reasonably available. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to mandate protection of information developed under specified provisions of the Act from dissemination. Establishes a Commercial Space Achievement Award, consisting of a medal and, if funding is available, a cash prize, to individuals, corporations, corporate divisions, or corporate subsidiaries meeting certain criteria.  Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to accept gifts from public and private sources for the cash prize. Prohibits the fraudulent use of ""Made in America"" labels.  Bars a person who violates such prohibition from contract eligibility under this Act.  Requires Federal agencies soliciting bids under this Act to comply with the Buy American Act.",2025-06-06T14:17:56Z,
102-s-1999,102,s,1999,Daylight Savings Time Amendments Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-11-20,1991-11-20,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Simpson, Alan K. [R-WY]",WY,R,S000429,3,Daylight Savings Time Amendments Act of 1991 - Amends the Uniform Time Act of 1966 to extend the period of daylight savings time from the last Sunday of October to the first Sunday in November.,2025-08-26T15:13:53Z,
102-s-1974,102,s,1974,Inter-American Scientific Cooperation Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-11-15,1991-11-15,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,2,"Inter-American Scientific Cooperation Act of 1991 - Directs the National Science Foundation to establish the Inter-American Scientific Cooperation Program aimed at increasing science and technology cooperation between the United States and Latin America.  Requires the Program to identify and cooperate with private and governmental funding bodies. Requires the Program to encourage the use of debt-for-science exchanges to finance cooperative scientific research projects. Requires the Program Director to make funds available, in accordance with the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, to non-Federal organizations for such exchanges.  Requires intent by a debtor nation to contribute at least 75 percent of the full face value of the discounted debt, or at least 20 percent over the current market purchase price of the debt. Requires the Director to appoint a Board of Governors for the U.S. side of a United States-Mexico Binational Science Endowment.  Requires that the Endowment be an independent, nongovernmental, nonadvocacy, not-for-profit organization operated exclusively for scientific and educational purposes, receiving funds and supporting projects of potential benefit to both nations. Authorizes the use of a limited amount of funds authorized under specified Acts to carry out this Act.  Authorizes and encourages the President to provide a specified amount from the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for certain purposes of this Act.",2025-08-26T15:18:19Z,
102-hr-3704,102,hr,3704,National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-11-04,1991-11-20,For Further Action See H.R.2130.,House,"Rep. Hertel, Dennis M. [D-MI-14]",MI,D,H000547,3,"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1991 - Title I:  National Ocean Service - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Commerce for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for:  (1) mapping, charting, and geodesy; (2) observation and assessment; and (3) ocean and coastal management.  Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to conduct analyses of samples collected under the National Status and Trends Program until completion of a specified water circulation model for Long Island Sound.  Earmarks observation and assessment funds for such a model. Title II:  National Marine Fisheries Service - Amends the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Fisheries Program Authorization Act to authorize appropriations to the Department of Commerce for the National Marine Fisheries Service for: (1) information collection and analysis; (2) conservation and management; and (3) State and industry assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with, and provide financial assistance to, State, marine fisheries commissions, regional fishery management councils, and academic institutions for research on marine animals, endangered species, and fisheries conservation and management. Mandates a study in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and a report to specified congressional committees on the effects of feeding of noncaptive dolphins by human beings. Requires establishment in NOAA of the National Shellfish Indicator Study Project to conduct research on pathogenic indicators of contamination of shellfish growing areas, to be conducted in accordance with a specified existing cooperative agreement between NOAA and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.  Directs the Secretary of Commerce to release certain previously-appropriated funds for shellfish water standards research.  Authorizes appropriations. Mandates a comprehensive economic study and a report to the Congress to provide baseline information to guide policy decisions on the future of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic shrimp fishery.  Authorizes appropriations. Title III:  Oceanic and Atmospheric Research - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for:  (1) climate and air quality research; and (2) atmospheric research. Requires the Office of the Chief Scientist of NOAA to submit to the Congress a plan for implementation of a nationwide climate services system and applied climatology program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for ocean and Great Lakes research.  Authorizes appropriations to the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OOAR) of NOAA for the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research.  Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for the OOAR for a large lakes research plan. Title IV:  National Weather Service - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) for operations and research. Mandates establishment of:  (1) an advisory committee on Atlantic tropical cyclone research and reconnaissance; and (2) a five-year program for data collection, research, and analysis on such cyclones; and (3) a management plan for the five-year program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for the NWS for public warning and forecast systems, including systems acquisition. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary to complete the acquisition and deployment of the Next Generation Weather Radar system and the Automated Surface Observing Systems. Directs the Secretary to provide at least one NWS liaison officer for each area receiving such public institution liaison and community preparedness services, as of the date of enactment of this Act, from a Weather Service Office (WSO), a Weather Service Meteorological Observatory (WSMO), or an Agricultural Weather Service Center (AWSC). Requires such officer to be provided for at least two years after the WSO, WSMO, or AWSC is closed, consolidated, automated, or relocated.  Directs the Secretary to provide such areas with sufficient personnel to ensure that modernization and restructuring of the NWS do not result in degradation in public institution liaison and community preparedness of such areas. Requires the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to identify areas for which there is significant doubt that the Secretary will be able to make a certification that such actions regarding a WSO or a Weather Service Forecast Office will not result in degradation of weather services to the affected area.  Requires the Comptroller General to report to specified congressional committees regarding any areas certified by the Secretary which are listed by the NAS as significantly doubtful of certification.  Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to add removal of any NWS radar to the list of actions requiring such certification by the Secretary.  Modifies the required contents of the certification and associated procedure. Title V:  National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for:  (1) satellite observing systems; and (2) completion of the procurement of specified Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites and Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites and the launching and supporting ground systems for each; and (3) data and information services. Amends the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 to mandate that any license issued under specified provisions of that Act specify that the licensee shall promptly make available all unenhanced data which the Secretary of the Interior (currently, the Secretary of Commerce) may request under specified provisions of the Act relating to archiving of data. Amends provisions of the Act relating to archiving in order to transfer from the Secretary of Commerce to the Secretary of the Interior responsibility for:  (1) providing for long-term storage, maintenance, and upgrading of the basic, global, land remote-sensing data set; (2) requesting data needed for the basic data set from a system operator; (3) making data which is in the public domain available to requesting parties; and (4) using existing Government facilities, to the extent practicable, to carry out these functions. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to consult with the Secretary of Commerce to ensure that archiving activities are consistent with the terms and conditions of any contract, agreement, or license under specified provisions of the Act. Title VI:  Buy America Provisions - Sets forth Buy American provisions regarding any contract or subcontract made with funds authorized under this Act for articles, materials, or supplies. Declares ineligible for any contract or subcontract from NOAA any person determined by a court or Federal agency to have affixed a fraudulent ""Made in America"" label to any product. Authorizes awarding to a domestic firm a contract under this Act for goods that, under competitive procedures, would be awarded to a foreign firm, if certain circumstances exist. Title VII:  Tropical Cyclone Research Program - Tropical Cyclone Research Act of 1991. Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to establish a five-year joint program, which expands on the plan established in provisions of this Act relating to Atlantic tropical cyclones, for collecting operational and reconnaissance data, conducting research, and analyzing data on tropical cyclones to assist the forecast and warning program and increase the understanding of the causes and behavior of tropical cyclones.  Sets forth the responsibilities of each Secretary. Directs those Secretaries to jointly develop and submit to the Congress management plans for:  (1) the program established by this Act; and (2) continued tropical cyclone surveillance and reconnaissance which will adequately protect the citizens of U.S. coastal areas. Mandates that the management plan and program:  (1) provide for a minimum of the same level and quality of protection as the current tropical cyclone surveillance and reconnaissance program; and (2) in no way allow any reduction in the level, quality, timeliness, sustainability, and area of served of both the existing principal and back-up severe storm reconnaissance and tracking systems. Title VIII:  Program Support - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for:  (1) executive direction and administrative activities; (2) acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of facilities; (3) marine services; and (4) reactivation and operation of a specified research vessel.  Directs the Secretary to acquire space from the Administrator of General Services that meets the long-term needs of NOAA on Near Island in Kodiak, Alaska, provided the annual lease costs do not exceed a specified amount.  Prohibits deactivation of any NOAA research vessel until an equivalent replacement is operational. Prohibits construction of any NOAA vessel or its major components in a foreign shipyard.  Prohibits NOAA vessels homeported in the United States from being overhauled, repaired, or maintained in a foreign shipyard, except for voyage repairs. Directs the Secretary to consult with the Oceanographer of the Navy regarding interoperability of NOAA vessels with Navy vessels. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for modernization of the NOAA fleet.  Mandates submission to the Congress of a detailed fleet replacement and modernization plan.  Authorizes the Secretary to acquire NOAA vessels by purchase, lease, lease-purchase, or otherwise, under one or more multi-year contracts.  Imposes requirements and conditions on such contracts. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for aircraft services. Title IX:  Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires notice to specified congressional committees:  (1) before the Secretary may carry out a major reorganization of, or reprogram over a specified amount of funds appropriated for, any NOAA program or activity; and (2) annually regarding any new NOAA program or activity. Requires the Comptroller General to submit to the Congress an audit of:  (1) natural resource damage assessment and restoration activities of NOAA under specified Acts; and (2) the Damage Assessment and Restoration Revolving Fund. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on a two-year budget cycle for NOAA. Freezes the price of nautical charts or other nautical products produced or published by NOAA. Mandates a report to the Congress by the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology regarding:  (1) the most urgent current needs of oceanographic researchers for remote sensing capabilities and remotely sensed data; and (2) the major goals of satellite oceanography for the next ten years. Directs the Secretary to submit to specified congressional committees a report on how current and planned Federal satellite capabilities can aid in the enforcement of Federal fisheries laws and international fisheries conservation programs. Establishes in NOAA a Cooperative Institute of Fisheries Oceanography in partnership with Duke University and the Consolidated University of North Carolina.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to acquire space from the Administrator of General Services in the area of Newport News-Norfolk, Virginia, for consolidating and meeting the long-term space needs of NOAA in a cost-effective manner.  Authorizes exchange of Department of Commerce real property for other real property in the area. Directs the Secretary to complete and make publicly available a manual describing requirements for recipients of NOAA financial assistance.  Prohibits, after enactment of this Act, subjecting such assistance to review by the Financial Assistance Review Board. Sets forth procedures applicable to nondiscretionary assistance programs. Declares that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, financial assistance provided under a program for which the recipient is specified by statute to be, or has customarily been, a State or an interstate fishery commission may be provided on a sole-source basis. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for implementing the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990. Prohibits using amounts appropriated under this Act for activities authorized separately under the Deep Seabed Hard Minerals Resources Act. Repeals the National Ocean Pollution Planning Act of 1978. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant of a specified amount to a qualified institution to develop and promote innovative post-secondary education and research in seafood business management and vessel operations. Establishes in NOAA the Chesapeake Bay Estuarine Resources Office. Earmarks funds for the establishment of the Office. Requires, notwithstanding any other provision of law, that amounts received by the United States (after enactment of this Act or with respect to the grounding of the Exxon Valdez) as reimbursement of expenses related to oil or hazardous substance spills response activities conducted by NOAA:  (1) be deposited in NOAA's Damage Assessment and Restoration Revolving Fund; (2) be available for use in accordance with the law under which the activities are conducted; and (3) not be considered to be an augmentation of appropriations. Requires reversion to the Humbolt Bay Harbor Recreation and Conservation District of certain property on Woodley Island in Eureka, California, acquired from that District and determined to be excess property.",2025-08-26T15:15:16Z,
102-hjres-365,102,hjres,365,To designate the Provasoli-Guillard Center for the Culture of Marine Phytoplankton as a National Center and Facility.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-10-28,1991-11-07,"Referred to the Subcommittee on Oceanography, Great Lakes, and the Outer Continental Shelf.",House,"Rep. Andrews, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]",ME,D,A000211,1,"Designates the Provasoli-Guillard Center for the Culture of Marine Phytoplankton in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, as a National Center and Facility.",2021-06-02T14:03:06Z,
102-sjres-220,102,sjres,220,A joint resolution to designate the Provasoli-Guillard Center for the Culture of Marine Phytoplankton as a National Center and Facility.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-10-25,1991-10-25,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Mitchell, George J. [D-ME]",ME,D,M000811,1,"Designates the Provasoli-Guillard Center for the Culture of Marine Phytoplankton in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, as a National Center and Facility.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-hr-3614,102,hr,3614,Land Remote Sensing Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-10-23,1992-10-08,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,0,"Land Remote Sensing Act of 1992 - Repeals the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984. Title I:  Landsat - Makes the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA Administrator) and the Secretary of Defense jointly responsible for management of the Landsat program.  (Currently such program is managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospherc Administration of the Department of Commerce.) Requires establishment of an integrated program management structure for the Landsat system.  Directs the NASA Administrator, the Secretary of Defense, and any other Federal official the President designates as responsible for part of the Landsat system, to establish through a management plan the roles, responsibilities, and funding expectations for the Landsat program of the appropriate Federal agencies. Requires the management plan to specify that the fundamental goal of Landsat Program Management (LMP) is continuity of unenhanced Landsat data through acquisition and operation of a Landsat 7 satellite, which is at least functionally equivalent to the Landsat 6 satellite, with the addition of a tracking and data relay satellite communications capability. Requires the management plan to include a baseline funding profile and to specify that any improvements  over Landsat 6 capability be funded by a specific sponsoring agency if the required funding exceeds such profile.  Requires the plan to provide for a technology demonstration program. Sets forth LPM responsibilities for various functions, including authority to contract. Establishes a Landsat advisory process and LPM reporting requirements. Requires LPM to contract expeditiously with a U.S. private sector entity to develop and deliver Landsat 7 (subject to appropriations and only under the existing contract authority of the Federal Agencies that compose LPM).  Sets forth development and delivery considerations for LPM in negotiating such contract.  Requires LPM to notify the Congress promptly of any significant cost or schedule changes.  Requires LPM to take into account the location of operations, assets, personnel, and other such factors in defining "" U.S. private sector entities."" Directs LPM to negotiate with the Landsat 6 contractor to formalize a specified arrangement and provide for a phased transition to a data policy consistent with Landsat 7 data policy.  Requires a report to the Congress if there is failure to reach an agreement by September 30, 1993. Transfers to LPM the responsibilities of the Secretary of Commerce with respect to Landsat  6, as agreed to by such Secretary, and LPM. Directs LPM to develop a data policy for Landsat 7 which ensures: (1) availability of unenhanced data to all users at the cost of fulfilling user requests; (2) timely and dependable delivery of unenhanced data to the full spectrum of civilan, national security, commercial, and foreign users and the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive; (3) U.S. retention of ownership of all unenhanced data generated by Landsat 7; (4) support for developing the commercial market for remote sensing data; (5) retention of commercial value-added services based on remote sensing data as an exclusively private sector function; and (6) compatibility, as much as possible, of the Landsat 7 data distribution system with the Earth Observing System Data and Information System.  Allows such data policy also to provide for:  (1) U.S. private sector entity operation of ground receiving stations in the United States for Landsat 7 data; (2) other means for direct access by private sector entities to unenhanced data from Landsat 7; and (3) the charging of U.S. Government fees to entities operating ground receiving stations or distributing Landsat 7 data.  Requires LPM to report to the Congress a Landsat 7 Data Policy Plan by July 15, 1994. Title II:  Licensing of Private Remote Sensing Space Systems - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary, for purposes of this title) to license private sector parties to operate private remote sensing space systems for such period as the Secretary may specify. Requires, before a license may be granted, the Secretary to determine in writing that the applicant will comply with requirements of and regulations under this Act, and any applicable U.S. international obligations and national security concerns.  Sets deadlines for the Secretary's actions on applications.  Prohibits the Secretary from denying a license in order to protect any existing licensee from competition.  Directs the Secretary to designate in the license any unenhanced data which the licensee is required to provide. Requires such licenses for operation of any private remote sensing space system by any person subject to U.S. jurisdiction or control or by their subsidiaries or affiliates. Provides that such licenses require a licensee to comply with this Act and with specified requirements relating to national security, international obligations, availabilty of unenhanced data (both to governments with respect to their territory and to users on a nondiscriminatory basis), disposition of satellite information on orbit and data collection and deviation and notification about any intended agreement involving foreign nations or entities.  Sets forth additional licensing requirements for Landsat 6 contractors. Sets forth the administrative authority and the regulatory authority of the Secretary with respect to this title. Provides for licensing private entities to operate private remote sensing space systems which use, on space-available basis, civilian U.S. Government satellites or vehicles as platforms. Authorizes the Secretary to license such systems if: (1) the operator agrees to reimburse the Government for all related costs, including a share of fixed, platform, data transmission, and launch costs; and (2) the use would not interfere with or compromise intended civilian Government missions. Title III:  Research, Development and Demonstration - Directs the NASA Administrator and the Secretary of Defense to continue and enhance remote sensing research and development programs. Authorizes the NASA Administrator to conduct experimental space remote sensing programs. Authorizes the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to research and develop applications of remote sensng to the management and use of renewable and nonrenewable resources of the United States. Requires all unenhanced land remote sensing data gathered and owned by the U.S. Government to be made available to users in a timely fashion.  Directs the President to seek to ensure that unenhanced data gathered under the technology demonstration program are made avaiable on terms that would not adversely affect the commercial market for unenhanced data gathered by the Landsat 6 spacecraft. Directs the President to establish a technology demonstration program, through appropriate U.S. Government agencies, as a fundamental component of a national land remote sensing strategy. Requires such program to seek to launch advanced land remote sensing system components within five years after enactment of this Act and to demonstrate, within such period:  (1) advanced sensor capabilities suitable for use in the anticipated land remote sensing program; and (2) an advanced land remote system design that could be less expensive to procure and operate than the Landsat system projected to be in operation through the year 2000. Directs the President, in executing such program, to seek to apply intelligence gathering technologies to the extent that they are appropriate for the technology demonstration and can be declassified without harm to national security. Requires such program to be designed to be responsive to the broad civilian, national securty, commercial, and foreign policy needs of the United States.  Allows such program to be carried out in part with private funding.  Requires LPM to have a coordinating role in such program.  Directs the President to assess the program's progress and report to the Congress within two years after enactment of this Act. Title IV:  Assessing Options for Successor Land Remote Sensing System - Directs LPM to assess and report to the Congress on the options for a successor land remote sensing system to Landsat 7. Requires the report fully assess advantages and disadvantages of funding and management of a successor system by:  (1) the private sector; (2) an international consortium; (3) the U.S.  Government; and (4) a cooperative effort by the U.S. Government and the private sector.    States that preference should be given to private sector system development, without competition from the U.S. Government, if a successor land remote sensing system to Landsat 7 can be funded and managed by the private sector while still achieving specified goals and without jeopardizing U.S. domestic, national security, and foreign policy interests. Title V:  General Provisions - Provides for nondiscriminatory availability of data.  Requires that any unenhanced data generated by the Landsat system, or by any other land remote sensing system funded and owned by the U.S. Government, be made available with specified exceptions, to all users on a nondiscriminatory basis. Declares it to be in the public interest for the U.S. Government to maintain an archive of land remote sensing data for historical, scientific, and technical purposes.  Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide for such data's storage, maintenance, and upgrading. Allows the sale of unenhanced data distributed by any licensee only on condition that it will not be reproduced or disseminated by the purchaser for commercial purposes. Authorizes the NASA Administrator, the Secretary of Defense, and other U.S. Government agency heads to provide assistance to land remote sensing system operators under this Act.  Requires such operators to reimburse the Government for such assistance, except as otherwise provided by law. Authorizes LPM, by a competitive process, to allow a licensee or any other private party to acquire use of equipment from the the Landsat system when it is no longer needed to operate, or sell data from, the system. Requires the filing of an application with the FCC for any radio facilities involved with commercial remote sensing space systems licensed under this Act.  States that FCC authority shall not be required for development and construction of any U.S.  land remote sensing space system (or component), other than radio transmitting facilities or components while any licensing determination is being made. Directs the Secretary of Commerce and LPM to consult with:  (1) the Secretary of Defense on all matters under this Act affecting national security; and (2) the Secretary of State on all matters under this Act affecting international obligations. Directs the Secretary of State to report to the Secretary of Commerce and LPM any instances outside the United States of discriminatory distribution of Landsat data. Requires LPM, as often as necessary, to report to the Congress Landsat system operations, including timely notification of decisions relating to national security concerns and international obligations. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to require Federal agencies which request imposition of technical modifications for national security reasons to reimburse the licensee for certain additional or past development costs (but not for anticipated profits or costs ordinarily associated with doing business abroad). Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in collaboration with the private sector entities responsible for marketing and distributing Landsat system unenhanced data, to develop and implement an enforcement system to ensure that such data received solely for noncommercial purposes are not used for any commercial purpose (in the event that such data are made available for noncommercial purposes at a different price than for commercial applications).  Provides for the Secretary's enforcement authority, enforcement mechanisms, and procedures and regulations. Title VI:  Prohibition of Commercialization of Weather Satellites - Prohibits the President and any other U.S. Government official from making any effort to lease, sell, or transfer to the private sector, or commercialize, any portion of the weather satellite systems operated by the Department of Commerce or any successor agency. Prohibits any such action regardless of any change in circumstances subsequent to enactment of this Act and even if such change makes such commercialization appear to be in the national interest, unless this title has first been repealed.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-hr-3529,102,hr,3529,National Research Facilities Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-10-08,1991-10-29,Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.,House,"Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-9]",CA,D,S000810,0,"National Research Facilities Act of 1991 - Establishes the National Commission on Research Needs to:  (1) study the areas of nondefense related research which require greater amounts of funding and Federal assistance; (2) determine which of the Laboratories (the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, or Sandia National Laboratory) has the ability to conduct such research; (3) identify research programs being conducted at any such Laboratory that the Commission determines are best suited for nondefense research and that should be transferred to other laboratories operated by the Department of Energy; and (4) report to the President and the Congress one year after the enactment of this Act on its findings and recommendations.  Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of such report.",2025-08-26T15:14:45Z,
102-hr-3416,102,hr,3416,Daylight Savings Time Amendments Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-09-25,1991-10-15,Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation and Hazardous Materials.,House,"Rep. Thomas, Craig [R-WY-At Large]",WY,R,T000162,0,Daylight Savings Time Amendments Act of 1991 - Amends the Uniform Time Act of 1966 to extend the period of daylight savings time from the last Sunday of October to the first Sunday in November.,2025-08-26T15:17:06Z,
102-sjres-203,102,sjres,203,"A joint resolution designating the week beginning on November 3, 1991, as ""American Magazine Week"".","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-09-24,1991-09-24,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]",AK,R,S000888,0,"Designates the week beginning on November 3, 1991, as American Magazine Week.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
102-sjres-201,102,sjres,201,"A joint resolution designating the week beginning on October 6, 1991, as ""American Magazine Week"".","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-09-23,1991-09-23,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]",AK,R,S000888,1,"Designates the week beginning on November 3, 1991, as American Magazine Week.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
102-hr-3215,102,hr,3215,Inter-American Scientific Cooperation Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-08-02,1992-10-08,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,29,"Inter-American Scientific Cooperation Act of 1992 - Directs the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish the Inter-American Scientific Cooperation Program aimed at increasing science and technology cooperation between the United States and Latin America. Includes in the Program:  (1) joint research projects and project development interchanges; (2) establishment of an Inter-American Scientific Exchange; (3) technical and informational exchanges; and (4) promotion of research centers in Latin America. Authorizes the Director (Director) of NSF to make grants to U.S. nongovernmental organizations, including colleges and universities, for the purpose of debt-for-science exchanges (agreements whereby a country's commercial debt burden is exchanged by the holder for a contribution of local currencies or other assets to support scientific and technological research). Requires the Director to report to the Congress with respect to: (1) Binational Science Foundations; and (2) the Inter-American Scientific Cooperation Program. Authorizes appropriations. Wind Engineering Program Act of 1992 - Establishes within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Institute) a Wind Engineering Program which shall:  (1) provide for wind engineering research; (2) serve as an information clearinghouse; and (3) improve interagency coordination on wind engineering research.  Authorizes appropriations.",2025-01-23T13:14:35Z,
102-hr-3247,102,hr,3247,National Undersea Research Program Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-08-02,1992-07-01,Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,House,"Rep. Jones, Walter B. [D-NC-1]",NC,D,J000256,5,"Title I:  National Undersea Research Program - National Undersea Research Program Act of 1992 - Designates as undersea regions ten specified areas, plus any region resulting from an establishment, modification, or merger under specified provisions of this Act. Establishes in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the National Undersea Research Program to enhance scientific understanding of processes in the oceans and large lakes of the world through research and through developing and applying research technology. Establishes in NOAA the Office of Undersea Research to conduct the Program.  Mandates appointment of a science advisor to the Program's Director.  Establishes the National Undersea Research Steering Committee to advise the Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere and the Director. Requires assignment of one or more undersea research regions to each National Undersea Research Center in existence at the time of enactment of this Act.  Regulates establishment and merger of Centers. Mandates review of Centers and regions every five years. Requires, if continued operation of a Center is not warranted, establishment of a new Center for the same region. Provides for Center research programs, including annual solicitation of individual research proposals. Authorizes use of amounts  appropriated to carry out the Program to make grants and contracts to fund any Center program, subject to terms and conditions. Exempts grants and contracts under the Program from review by the Financial Assistance Review Board. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act and specified provisions of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act relating to the study of underwater diving techniques and equipment. Title II:  Miscellaneous - Directs the Under Secretary to establish a Center for the Great Lakes region. Directs the Under Secretary, jointly with the Director of the National Science Foundation and the Secretary of the Navy, to develop procedures for joint review of research proposals. Requires compliance, in spending funds under this Act, with specified provisions of the Buy American Act. Declares the sense of the Congress that only American-made equipment and products should be purchased with assistance provided under this Act.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-hr-3153,102,hr,3153,Omnibus Space Commercialization Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-07-31,1991-08-08,Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law.,House,"Rep. Walker, Robert S. [R-PA-16]",PA,R,W000068,9,"Omnibus Space Commercialization Act of 1991 -  Title I:  Space Launch and Launch Support Facilities - Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a comprehensive inventory of all space launch and launch support facilities owned by the United States, identifying facilities that are surplus to public and national security needs, and report to the Congress.  Requires all facilities identified as surplus to be referred to the General Services Administration for disposition. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish criteria for and designate launch facilities as Commercial Space Centers.  Makes all Centers and associated property, services, and products, including such services and activities in space as are launched from a Center, and proceeds from insurance exempt from all Federal corporate income and other taxes and all Federal excises, imports, duties, and all other Federal tariffs. Requires the United States to make available to commercial providers on a fair rental basis, based on the cost to the United States, launch and support facilities not in use for public and national security needs. Title II:  Purchase of Space Transportation Services - Space Transportation Services Purchase Act of 1991 - Amends the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990 to require the Federal Government to purchase space transportation services from commercial providers, unless the Administrator  of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) or the Secretary of Defense, on a case-by-case basis, determines:  (1) the payload requires the unique capabilities of the space shuttle; (2) commercial services are not or would not be available when required; or (3) the use of commercial services poses an unacceptable risk of loss of a unique scientific opportunity.  Allows space transportation vehicles to be acquired or owned by the Government only in such circumstances or for research, development, and testing of space transportation technology. Requires the service contracts to be awarded by competitive bidding.  Prohibits, subject to exception, requiring submission of cost or pricing data supporting a bid or proposal or for the fulfillment of a contract.  Requires performance specifications rather than Federal civilian or military design or construction specifications. Mandates a program to award vouchers for the payment of space transportation services and payload integration services for conducting microgravity biomedical, materials, or other research.  Authorizes appropriations. Title III:  Intellectual Property Disposition - Requires that a commercial provider making an invention under contract with the Government have the same rights as would a small business firm under specified provisions of Federal patent law. Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to require (current law permits) each Federal agency to permit the director of any of its Government-operated Federal laboratories and, in certain circumstances, the director of any of its Government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories to enter into cooperative research and development agreements and to negotiate licensing agreements.  Prohibits disclosure of trade secrets or commercial or financial information, that is privileged or confidential under the meaning of specified Federal law, which is obtained by the Government in the conduct of research or as a result of activities under this Act. Title IV:  Tax Incentives for Commercial Space Activities - Space Business Incentives Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction for the amount of the purchase of Commercial Space Center stock. Excludes from gross income gain on the sale or exchange of common stock of a corporation that derived at least 75 percent of its gross receipts from providing space-related products or services. Adds space launch and launch support facilities to the list of exempt facility bonds. Provides for the treatment of space launch and launch support facilities bonds. Excludes from gross income:  (1) income from the commercial sale of any product manufactured in space and returned to Earth; and (2) income from services performed in space in a commercial space activity. Excludes products manufactured in space and returned to Earth from all Federal excises, imposts, duties, and other Federal tariffs. Directs the President to encourage State and local governments to offer tax and other incentives for commercial space activities. Title V:  Miscellaneous - Declares that, notwithstanding specified provisions of the Clayton Act and the National Cooperative Research Act of 1984, standing to conduct litigation arising from activities carried out under this Act is reserved to the Department of Justice under the direction of the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission.  Makes injunctive relief the sole relief available to the United States in such litigation, notwithstanding specified provisions of such Acts. Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to extend certain provisions relating to liability insurance.  Mandates a study on the feasibility of the United States providing termination liability insurance for commercial providers of certain categories of products and services. Declares that, subject to exception, in any action against a commercial provider arising from activities under this Act, evidence of failure of the provider to follow military or NASA specifications shall not, in and of itself, constitute proof of negligence. Establishes a National Award for the Commercialization of Space to consist of a medal and, if funding is available, a cash prize, to be awarded to persons or organizations who have substantially advanced space transportation, manufacturing, or research and development.  Authorizes the Chairman of the National Space Council to seek and accept gifts of money from public and private sources to fund the cash prize. Establishes in the Department of Commerce the Office of Space Commerce to be the principal unit for the coordination of space-related issues, programs, and initiatives within the Department. Requires each Federal agency or department with an annual research and development budget over a specified amount to report to the Congress:  (1) regarding a plan for activities to support space-related research; and (2) biennially on implementation progress. Requires the United States to accommodate commercial advertising by concerns providing or recycling space-related products, facilities, or services. Requires that negotiations between NASA and a commercial provider on implementation of a joint endeavor agreement or procurement agreement under a specified dollar amount be conducted in a timely manner. Requires the United States, to the extent practicable, to procure its space infrastructure, launch and launch support facilities, and payloads:  (1) from commercial providers; and (2) so as to encourage cost effectiveness and innovation and minimize detailed specifications.  Mandates a report to the President and the Congress on using proof of concept methods and unsolicited proposals. Terminates specified provisions of this Act 15 years after enactment.",2025-08-26T15:15:38Z,
102-s-1593,102,s,1593,National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Act Amendments of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-07-30,1991-08-14,Became Public Law No: 102-95.,Senate,"Sen. Pell, Claiborne [D-RI]",RI,D,P000193,3,"National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Act Amendments of 1991 - Amends the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Act to revise provisions relating to the powers and functions of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (the Commission). Repeals a requirement that the Secretary of Education provide the Commission with administrative services in return for advance payment or reimbursement from Commission funds. Revises provisions relating to contributions to the Commission. Authorizes the Commission to accept, hold, administer, and use gifts, bequests, and devises, and devises of property, both real and personal, to aid or facilitate its work.  Requires that money and sales proceeds of other property received as such gifts, bequests, or devises be deposited in the Treasury and available for disbursement upon the Commission's order. Revises the Commission's functions to include activities relating to international (as well as national) communications and cooperative networks. Provides that a majority of Commission members shall constitute a quorum for conduct of business at its official meetings.  Revises provisions for the terms of office of Commission members. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such Act for FY 1992 and succeeding fiscal years.",2025-07-21T19:44:15Z,
102-s-1581,102,s,1581,Technology Transfer Improvements Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-07-29,1992-07-31,Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 587.,Senate,"Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]",WV,D,R000361,1,"Technology Transfer Improvements Act of 1991 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to allow each Federal agency to: (1) secure copyright on behalf of the United States in any computer software prepared in whole or in part by U.S. employees under a cooperative research and development agreement or other authority, notwithstanding provisions of Federal copyright law; (2) grant in advance to a collaborating party licenses or assignments for the copyrights, or options thereto; and (3) when such an assignment is made, retain specified rights. Adds references to software and its author to provisions governing the distribution of royalties received by Federal agencies.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
102-s-1563,102,s,1563,National Sea Grant College Program Authorization Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-07-25,1991-12-04,Became Public Law No: 102-186.,Senate,"Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]",MA,D,K000148,13,"National Sea Grant College Program Authorization Act of 1991 - Amends the National Sea Grant College Program Act (Sea Grant Act) to require that the National Sea Grant College Program be administered by a National Sea Grant Office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  Requires that the Program Director oversee the Office.  Empowers the Secretary of Commerce to accept funds from other Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities to pay for and add to (currently, to pay for) grants and contracts. Authorizes appropriations to carry out specified provisions of the Sea Grant Act. Repeals provisions of the Sea Grant Act authorizing grants and contracts for a sea grant strategic research plan.  Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 (Aquatic Nuisance Act) to generally authorize appropriations for grants under the Sea Grant Act.  (Currently, the provisions of the Aquatic Nuisance Act being amended here authorize appropriations only for grants for the sea grant research plan under the Sea Grant Act.)",2025-04-21T12:24:17Z,
102-hr-3001,102,hr,3001,National Advanced Materials Processing and Research and Development Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-07-23,1992-07-29,Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Competitiveness.,House,"Rep. Torricelli, Robert G. [D-NJ-9]",NJ,D,T000317,2,"National Advanced Materials Processing and Research and Development Act of 1991 - Requires the National Critical Materials Council to establish a National Strategic Plan for Advanced Materials Processing, Synthesis, and Research and Development (Strategic Plan). Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to establish up to ten National Advanced Materials Processing and Synthesis Centers for collaboration among industry, universities, research groups, and government entitles. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Energy, the Director of the National Science Foundation, and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to establish within each of their departments or agencies a competitive grants program of Advanced Materials Principal Investigator Awards to provide funding for research and development by individual investigators on specific topics of interest in the advancement of materials science and engineering. Requires each of such departments and agencies to establish a Graduate Fellowship Program for Materials Processing and Synthesis to enable research and work in affiliation with the awarding department or agency, to be awarded  on the basis of academic merit. Authorizes appropriations.",2025-08-26T15:16:55Z,
102-hr-2936,102,hr,2936,Scientific and Technical Education Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-07-17,1992-08-11,Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,House,"Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]",NC,D,P000523,64,"Scientific and Technical Education Act of 1992 - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to carry out a program of grants to assist associate-degree-granting colleges (ADCs) and consortia thereof to provide education in advanced technology fields, with an emphasis on the needs of students who have been in the workforce.  Requires maintenance of an inventory of programs funded under these provisions. Requires establishment of as many as ten centers of excellence in advanced technical education or undergraduate mathematics and science education.  Sets forth the duties of centers, including serving as national and regional clearinghouses and models. Mandates grants to partnerships of one or more ADCs and one or more bachelor-degree-granting institutions (BDIs) to assist students pursuing bachelors degrees in mathematics, science, engineering, or technology to make the transition from ADCs to BDIs. Requires grants to ADCs to strengthen relationships with secondary schools by improving mathematics and science education and encouraging interest and aptitude in science and advanced technology fields. Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to authorize the National Science Foundation, in carrying out specified provisions, to support the development and use of computer networks which may be used substantially for purposes in addition to research and education in the sciences and engineering, if the additional uses will tend to increase the overall capabilities of the networks to support such research and education activities. Authorizes FY 1992 and 1993 appropriations.",2025-07-21T19:44:15Z,
102-s-1405,102,s,1405,"An act to authorize appropriations for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and for other purposes.","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-06-27,1992-08-12,Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 284.,Senate,"Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]",MA,D,K000148,2,"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1991 - Title I:  NOAA Atmospheric and Satellite Programs - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Commerce for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for:  (1) operations and research activities of the National Weather Service; (2) public warning and forecast systems, (3) climate and air quality research; (4) atmospheric research activities; (5) satellite observing systems activities; (6) maintaining geostationary environmental satellite coverage for monitoring and prediction of hurricanes and severe storms; and (7) data and information services.  Requires submission to specified congressional committees of a strategic plan for development, procurement, and operation of the environmental satellite program of the Department of Commerce. Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to establish a five-year joint program for collecting operational and reconnaissance data, conducting research, and analyzing data on tropical cyclones to assist the forecast and warning program and increase the understanding of the cause and behavior of tropical cyclones.  Sets forth the responsibilities of each Secretary. Directs those Secretaries to jointly develop and submit to the Congress management plans for:  (1) the program established by this Act; and (2) continued tropical cyclone surveillance and reconnaissance which will adequately protect the citizens of U.S. coastal areas. Mandates that the management plans and programs required by this Act:  (1) provide for at least the same degree and quality of protection as currently exists with a combination of satellite technology and manned flights; and (2) in no way allow any reduction in the level, quality, timeliness, sustainability, or area served of both the existing principal and back-up tropical cyclone reconnaissance and tracking systems. Mandates establishment of a United States Weather Research Program to take specified steps, including with regard to modernizing the U.S. public weather forecast system, improving local and regional forecasts and warnings, and addressing weather-related scientific issues. Authorizes NOAA to construct or acquire, on land leased from the University of Nevada System, Desert Research Institute, a Weather Forecast Office, upper air facility, regional climate center, and associated items.  Amends the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 to mandate that any license issued under specified provisions of that Act specify that the licensee shall promptly make available all unenhanced data which the Secretary of the Interior (currently, the Secretary of Commerce) may request under specified provisions of the Act relating to archiving of data. Amends provisions of the Act relating to archiving in order to transfer from the Secretary of Commerce to the Secretary of the Interior responsibility for:  (1) providing for long-term storage, maintenance, and upgrading of the basic, global, land remote-sensing data set; (2) requesting data needed for the basic data set from a system operator; (3) making data which is in the public domain available to requesting parties; and (4) using existing Government facilities, to the extent practicable, to carry out these functions. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to consult with the Secretary of Commerce to ensure that archiving activities are consistent with the terms and conditions of any contract, agreement, or license under specified provisions of the Act. Prohibits, until a specified date, closure, consolidation, automation, or relocation of any National Weather Service Office or National Weather Service Forecast Office for weather service modernization. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to prohibit such actions unless certain conditions are met. Title II:  NOAA Ocean and Coastal Programs - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Commerce for NOAA for:  (1) mapping, charting, and geodesy; (2) observation and assessment; (3) ocean management; and (4) ocean and Great Lakes research. Title III:  NOAA Marine Fishery Programs - Amends the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Fisheries Program Authorization Act to authorize appropriations to the Department of Commerce for the National Marine Fisheries Service for information collection and analysis, conservation and management operations, and State and industry assistance. Earmarks certain funds for developing dolphin-safe methods of locating and catching yellowfin tuna.  Requires measures for cost-sharing by foreign governments that conduct, or authorize their nationals to conduct, yellowfin tuna fishing in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Amends the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson Act) to mandate a comprehensive program of fishery research to carry out the Act.  Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to define ""fishery facility"" as it applies to aquaculture. Mandates a report to specified congressional committees on joint enforcement by the Coast Guard and NOAA in the western Pacific Ocean under the Magnuson Act. Establishes in NOAA the Chesapeake Bay Estuarine Resources Office. Earmarks funds for the establishment of the Office. Title IV:  Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Commerce for NOAA for:  (1) executive direction and administration; (2) acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of facilities; (3) marine services; (4) acquisition of a multibeam sonar mapper; (5) reactivation and operation of a specified research vessel; (6) fleet modernization; and (7) aircraft services. Mandates acquisition of space for NOAA in the area of Newport News-Norfolk, Virginia.  Prohibits:  (1) the Secretary of Commerce from deactivating any NOAA research vessel until an equivalent replacement vessel is operational; (2) subject to exception, construction of NOAA vessels and their major components in a foreign shipyard; and (3) overhauling, repairing, or maintaining a NOAA vessel homeported in the United States in a shipyard outside the United States.  Requires consultation regarding interoperability of NOAA and Navy vessels.  Mandates submission to the Congress of a detailed fleet replacement and modernization plan.  Authorizes NOAA vessel acquisition by purchase, lease, lease-purchase, or otherwise under one or more multiyear contracts. Prohibits the Secretary from reprogramming amounts without prior notice to specified congressional committees. Title V:  Coastal Monitoring - Marine and Coastal Monitoring Act of 1991 - Establishes in NOAA a uniformed nationwide monitoring network, to include the National Status and Trends Program, to be the single Federal activity for the national-scale monitoring of U.S. marine and coastal waters with regard to ecological conditions. Mandates:  (1) designation of specific estuarine and coastal regions of major concern for intensive monitoring: (2) establishment of monitoring coordination groups for each region; (3) establishment in NOAA of a National Coastal Monitoring Center to develop scientific methods for carrying out the monitoring under this title; and (4) development of methods for collecting and analyzing baseline data on environmental phenomena in the Boston Harbor. Authorizes monitoring of the ecological impacts on Cape Cod Bay resulting from the cleanup of Boston Harbor. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI:  NOAA Foundation - NOAA Foundation Establishment Act - Establishes a charitable and nonprofit corporation to be known as the NOAA Foundation (the Foundation).  Specifies that the Foundation is neither an agency nor an establishment of the United States. Sets forth the functions of the organization, including:  (1) accepting and administering gifts for the benefit of, or in connection with, either the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) or the Foundation; (2) undertaking activities that enhance and support the activities of NOAA; (3) assisting international organizations conducting activities of the type conducted by NOAA; and (4) conducting education and outreach programs to foster an understanding of the mission of NOAA.  Authorizes appropriations.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-s-1416,102,s,1416,A bill to provide adequate authority in the Library of Congress for the provision of fee-based library research and information products and services.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-06-27,1991-06-27,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules.,Senate,"Sen. Pell, Claiborne [D-RI]",RI,D,P000193,0,"Title I:  Distribution of Bibliographic Products and Services and Other Technical Publications - Authorizes the Librarian of Congress to sell bibliographic products, services, and other technical publications to institutions and individuals. Repeals provisions of Federal law that authorize the Librarian to sell copies of card indexes and other publications only. Title II:  Library of Congress Revolving Fund - Establishes the Library of Congress Revolving Fund to be available to the Librarian, without fiscal year limitation, to carry out library research and information product and service activities. Directs the Librarian of Congress to promulgate regulations to: (1) provide specified fee-based products and services; and (2) make library research and information products and services available to Federal, State, and local agencies, foreign governments, libraries, industry, business, and other organizations and individuals.  Requires the Librarian to publish the new Fund-service activities (including cost information) in the Federal Register, with at least a 45-day public comment period. Title III:  General Standards and Limitations - Directs the Librarian of Congress to respect and preserve the security classification of any scientific or technical information, data, patents, inventions, or discoveries in, or coming into, the Librarian's possession or control that has been classified by or through the President as being essential in the interest of national defense. Prohibits:  (1) the use of Congressional Research Service resources to generate fee-based research and information services; and (2) the marketing or publication of its products without prior approval of specified congressional committees.",2025-01-14T17:21:40Z,
102-hjres-287,102,hjres,287,"To designate the week of July 27 through August 2, 1991, as ""National Invent America Week"".","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-06-26,1991-07-01,Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population.,House,"Rep. Lowery, Bill [R-CA-41]",CA,R,L000479,70,"Designates July 27 through August 2, 1991, as National Invent America! Week.",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
102-hr-2763,102,hr,2763,National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-06-25,1992-05-18,Became Public Law No: 102-285.,House,"Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-4]",WV,D,R000011,48,"National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992 - Establishes in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program.  Sets forth program objectives. Requires that the program include Federal, support, State, and education geologic mapping components.  Sets forth objectives for each component, including the support component contributing to national paleontologic, geochronologic, geophysical-map, and geochemical-map data bases. Establishes an advisory committee. Mandates  preparation of an implementation plan for the program covering specified matters. Establishes a national geologic-map data base to be a national archive that includes all maps and data bases developed under this Act. Declares that geologic maps contributed to the national archives should be standardized so that information can be assimilated, exchanged, and compared efficiently and accurately. Authorizes appropriations for each component. Designates:  (1) the Geological Survey established by specified Federal law as the United States Geological Survey; and (2) the Bureau of Mines established by specified Federal law as the United States Bureau of Mines.",2026-03-24T12:48:03Z,
102-s-1351,102,s,1351,Department of Energy Science and Technology Partnership Act,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-06-21,1991-07-31,Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Hearings concluded. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 102-203.,Senate,"Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]",NM,R,D000407,14,"Department of Energy Science and Technology Partnership Act - Establishes a program in the Department of Energy (DOE) under which the Secretary of Energy shall encourage departmental laboratories to enter into partnerships for research in:  energy efficiency, energy supply, high-performance computing, environmental problems, human health, advanced manufacturing technologies, education and training.  Authorizes such partnerships with colleges and universities, industry, and other Federal agencies. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to establish a career path program for the recruitment of promising and gifted employees of DOE's national laboratories to serve in critical and other positions as a stage in realizing the full potential that such employees contribute to the strategic defense and energy security posture of the United States. Increases the number of Under Secretaries in DOE from one to three, and the number of Assistant Secretaries from eight to 11.",2026-03-24T12:48:03Z,
102-s-1327,102,s,1327,National Critical Technologies Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-06-19,1991-06-19,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,21,"National Critical Technologies Act of 1991 - Title I:  Federal Management of National Critical Technologies - Amends the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to direct the President, through the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, to develop and submit to the Congress, at least once every two years, a strategic road map, covering at least four years after the year in which it is issued, for each national critical technology. Specifies the required contents of each map, including:  (1) assessing current U.S. strengths and weaknesses in developing and applying the covered technologies; (2) specifying goals and priorities in enhancing development or application; (3) increasing access to foreign technology; and (4) identifying feasible joint actions of Federal departments and agencies. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish one or more critical technologies advisory committees to advise the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology (Coordinating Council) and review each map. Requires that the Coordinating Council:  (1) serve as the lead Federal agency for development of the maps and interagency coordination of map-related activities; (2) review the Federal budget prior to submission and submit review results to the Executive Office of the President. Title II:  Federal Support for Development of Critical Technologies - Part A:  Department of Defense - Directs the Secretary of Defense to enter into cooperative arrangements, each known as a Defense Dual-Use Technology Partnership, to encourage and provide for research and development of dual-use critical technologies identified in the annual defense critical technologies plan mandated by current law. Amends Federal law to authorize the Secretary of Defense, in carrying out advanced research projects through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) or a military department (currently, through DARPA), to enter into cooperative agreements and other transactions with any entity.  Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretary of the military department concerned to enter into such transactions.  Repeals provisions terminating, on a specified date, the Secretary's authority to enter into such agreements. Sets forth special rules for applying existing provisions (relating to payments by the Department of Defense of independent research development costs) to a specified portion of costs attributable to participation in critical technology research and development consortia meeting certain requirements. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Partnership provisions. Part B:  Other Departments and Agencies - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, through the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology acting under the Advanced Technology Program, to continue to support the activities of U.S. industry and joint ventures associated with applications of national critical technologies.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Energy to enter into cooperative arrangements, each known as a Department of Energy Critical Technology Partnership, for research and development of critical technologies selected by the Secretary, with each Partnership required to be composed of at least two eligible firms and at least one Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory.  Allows other participants.  Mandates similar Critical Technology Partnerships within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  Authorizes appropriations separately for DOE, NASA, and HHS. Part C:  Administrative Provisions Relating to Critical Technology Partnerships - Requires that the participants in each Partnership designate a lead institution to direct Partnership activities. Requires:  (1) non-Federal participants to contribute at least half of the total Partnership cost; and (2) Partnership selection to be made through a competitive process using specified criteria. Allows an agreement establishing a Partnership to include a requirement that a participant make payments to the department or agency establishing the Partnership.  Protects trade secrets and information that is privileged or confidential. Part D:  Additional Definitions - Sets forth definitions applicable to this title. Title III:  Critical Technology Application Centers - Amends Federal law to direct the Secretary of Defense to conduct the Critical Technology Application Centers Assistance Program, to assist regional critical technology application centers. Requires a center to:  (1) include eligible firms conducting business in the region; and (2) be sponsored by an agency connected in one of specified ways to State or local governments.  Declares the purpose of a center to be to facilitate the use of national critical technologies for commercial purposes to enhance the development and economic sustainability of the capability of an industry of the region to compete internationally and, in the case of military applications, thereby to maintain industrial capabilities vital to national security. Allows center activities to include:  (1) joint research and development; (2) proprietary research and development (limited to a specified percentage of center costs); and (3) sharing of information, equipment, personnel, and expertise. Authorizes the Secretary to provide to a center financial assistance (limited to 30 percent of costs) and technical assistance for up to six years.  Prohibits financial assistance for construction. Requires the sponsoring agency to pay at least 30 percent and participating firms to pay at least 40 percent of center costs. Requires that non-Federal participants pay the total costs for proprietary research and development. Requires assistance to be awarded under a competitive process according to specified criteria. Directs the Secretary of Defense to appoint a panel to evaluate the activities of each center receiving financial assistance.  Prohibits further assistance to a center if the panel determines that the center's activities are not consistent with center purposes as specified in this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Defense and Commerce to carry out the Program. Title IV:  Foreign Technology Monitoring and Assessment - Requires the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology to:  (1) coordinate Federal monitoring of foreign technology developments; (2) facilitate joint foreign science and technology monitoring and assessment efforts of Federal departments and agencies; and (3) establish strategic goals and priorities for the clearinghouses established by this title. Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to establish in the Office of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology the Clearinghouse of Foreign Commercial Technology Monitoring and Assessment (Commerce Clearinghouse) to serve as the lead Federal agency for the compilation and dissemination of unclassified information and assessments on foreign research, development, and application of commercial critical technologies.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish a merit-based foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment grant program for the establishment of foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment offices in Europe and on the Pacific Rim Area.  Limits support for an office to six years and 50 percent of operating and capital costs.  Requires each office to disseminate its assessments to the Commerce Clearinghouse.  Authorizes appropriations. Amends Federal law to declare that there is, in the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering, the Clearinghouse of Foreign Defense Technology Monitoring and Assessment (Defense Clearinghouse).  Includes among Defense Clearinghouse responsibilities: (1) creating unclassified and classified data bases; and (2) ensuring maximum public availability of information in those data bases through limiting restrictive classification and through disseminating information to the Commerce Clearinghouse.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes making available to the National Science Foundation, for support of the assessment of foreign capabilities in critical technologies, specified sums from the amounts authorized by this Act for the Commerce and Defense Clearinghouses.",2025-08-26T15:16:52Z,
102-s-1329,102,s,1329,Federal Technology Strategy Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-06-19,1991-06-19,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]",SC,D,H000725,17,"Federal Technology Strategy Act of 1991 - Amends the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to direct the President to develop Federal technology development plans for specified areas of technology and identify national needs in those areas. Requires that the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy serve as the lead Federal official for preparation of the plans. Designates the Department of Commerce as the lead civilian agency and the Department of Defense as the lead defense agency. Requires that the Director review the budget of each department and agency, in the context of the plans, before submission. Requires that the Director summarize Federal funding proposed for each of the critical technologies or groups of technologies identified in the most recent biennial critical technologies report. Requires Federal agencies, as appropriate, to support:  (1) industry-led projects to develop new generic enabling technologies; and (2) collaboration with State and industry to accelerate commercialization and use of new advanced technologies.  Requires each Federal research and development agency to provide funds to support activities under the Advanced Technology Program. Prohibits Federal departments and agencies and any organization in the United States which receives Federal research and development funding from participating in or assisting any technology development project that is operated by or receives funds from a foreign government with which the U.S. Government has a science and technology agreement unless the participation is approved in advance by the Director or the Secretary of Commerce. Authorizes banning violators from receiving Federal research assistance for two years.  Requires, when such approval has been obtained, that any Federal department or agency channel funding  through U.S.-based joint research and development ventures. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report to the Congress on actions that can be taken by private industry, the States, and the Federal Government to increase private investment in: (1) the development and production of new commercial technologies; and (2) the use and application of advanced manufacturing and process technologies.",2025-08-26T15:14:58Z,
102-hr-2449,102,hr,2449,Landsat Continuity Act,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-05-23,1991-05-31,Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,5,"Landsat Continuity Act - Authorizes appropriations for the procurement of long-lead parts for the development of a follow-on to the Landsat 6 spacecraft.  Requires that:  (1) to the extent practicable, funds under this authorization be used to procure items which are common to other spacecraft being procured by specified agencies; and (2) if the Government fails to provide additional funding for the development and launch of a follow-on satellite to Landsat 6 during FY 1993, then the long-lead items procured be made available for other U.S. satellite programs. Requires the National Space Council to establish policy recommendations for carrying out the President's commitment to maintaining the continuity of Landsat data. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of the Interior to preserve early Landsat data which may be lost due to tape degradation and to make the data accessible for global change research and other purposes.",2025-08-26T15:16:43Z,
102-s-1179,102,s,1179,Geologic Mapping Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-05-23,1992-03-31,Senate passed companion measure H.R. 2763 in lieu of this measure by Voice Vote.,Senate,"Sen. Johnston, J. Bennett [D-LA]",LA,D,J000189,22,"Geologic Mapping Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish and maintain a comprehensive nationwide geologic mapping program, with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the lead Federal agency.  Sets forth program objectives. Requires the program to be carried out by an association of geologic mapping partners consisting of representatives from the USGS, the individual State Geological Surveys, and scientists from the academic community.  Establishes a geologic mapping advisory group. Requires that the program include Federal, support, State, and education geologic mapping components.  Sets forth objectives for each component, including the support component contributing to national paleontologic, geochronologic, geophysical-map, and geochemical-map data bases. Requires that the USGS prepare an implementation plan covering specified matters. Requires the USGS to establish a national geologic-map data base to be a national archive that includes all maps and data bases developed under this Act.  Declares that geologic maps contributed to the National Archives should be standardized so that information can be assimilated, exchanged, and compared efficiently and accurately. Authorizes appropriations for each component.",2026-03-24T12:48:03Z,
102-s-1131,102,s,1131,American Leadership in Technology Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-05-22,1991-05-22,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD]",MD,D,M000702,0,"American Leadership in Technology Act of 1991 - Title I: Articulation Consortia - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) (the Director) to award competitive matching grants to eligible consortia for programs which:  (1) enable greater numbers of students from two-year institutions of higher education to successfully transfer into science and engineering programs at four-year institutions of higher education; (2) maximize acceptance of credits of students who transfer from two-year to four-year institutions; (3) improve instruction in science, mathematics, and engineering programs through faculty development, including exchanges and symposia among consortium partners; and (4) strengthen career counseling services in two-year institutions for students who seek to major in science, mathematics, or pre-engineering.  Limits eligible consortia to a four-year institution of higher education in partnership with two or more two-year institutions which serve the same intrastate region. Limits grant awards to eligible consortia:  (1) engaging industries in job training programs at two-year institutions to meet the technical needs of the area; and (2) agreeing among the partners to facilitate the transfer of science and mathematics students from two-year to four-year institutions. Requires the Director:  (1) to evaluate such program; and (2) to assist eligible consortia in submitting applications for such grants and in seeking assistance under other related NSF undergraduate programs.  Allows applications to be for a period of one or three years.  Sets Federal and non-Federal share requirements. Title II:  Instructional Technologies - Requires the Director to establish a program to promote and support development and dissemination of innovative technologies, including computer hardware and software, for science and technological literacy instruction emphasizing worker training and retraining for technological skills. Requires the Director, under such program, to solicit proposals from associate-degree-granting institutions, in cooperation with local businesses, for the development and dissemination of innovative technologies to aid instruction of adults in literacy and technical skills relevant to the workplace.  Requires the Director to award competitive matching grants to entities with ability or outstanding potential to produce innovative technologies materials. Requires the Director to establish a revolving loan fund to make loans for acquisition and use of innovative technologies to educational institutions and other entities (including on-site, workplace literacy initiatives) providing literacy instruction and technical training. Requires the Director to coordinate such program with analogous programs and policies of other Federal agencies, especially the Department of Education. Sets forth requirements for application for financial assistance and for the Federal and non-Federal share of grants. Title III:  Technician Training - Requires the Director to carry out a national advance technician training program of:  (1) awarding competitive matching grants to accredited associate-degree-granting colleges which can provide competency-based technical training in designated advanced-technology occupational fields; and (2) establishing and maintaining a readily accessible inventory of advanced technician training programs. Requires the Director to award competitive matching grants to ten centers of excellence among associate-degree-granting colleges:  (1) five with exceptional programs of advanced technician training, to serve as national and regional technical education clearinghouses for other colleges; and (2) five that excel in undergraduate education in mathematics and science, to serve as national and regional mathematics and science education clearinghouses for both colleges and secondary schools. Requires the Director to make at least 20 competitive matching grants annually to associate-degree-granting colleges for partnerships in mathematics and science education with secondary schools in the community served by the college. Requires the Director to appoint a National Advisory Council on Advanced Technician Training.  Requires the Director and the Council to report annually on the national advanced technician training program. Title IV:  Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for:  (1) articulation consortia for FY 1992 through 1994; (2) instruction technologies for FY 1991; and (3) technician training for FY 1992 through 1994.",2025-08-26T15:14:17Z,
102-hjres-253,102,hjres,253,"Designating the week beginning on October 6, 1991, as ""American Magazine Week"".","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-05-14,1991-05-16,Referred to the Subcommittee on Census and Population.,House,"Rep. McCloskey, Frank [D-IN-8]",IN,D,M000342,72,"Designates the week beginning on October 6, 1991, as American Magazine Week.",2024-02-06T20:04:02Z,
102-hr-2282,102,hr,2282,National Science Foundation Authorization Act Amendments of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-05-09,1991-07-15,"Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources pursuant to the order of March 3, 1988, with instructions that if and when reported, the bill be referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for a period of not to exceed 30 calendar days, not to include days when the Senate is not in session, for the purpose of such committee considering certain matters within its jurisdiction.",House,"Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9]",VA,D,B000657,17,"National Science Foundation Authorization Act Amendments of 1991 - Amends the National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations to the National Science Foundation (the Foundation) for FY 1992 and 1993 for:  (1) research and related activities (including these subcategories:  mathematical and physical sciences; engineering; biological, behavioral, and social sciences; geosciences; computer and information science and engineering; and scientific, technological, and international affairs); (2) education and human resources; (3) Antarctic Program; (4) academic research facilities modernization; (5) Academic Research Instrumentation Program; (6) salaries and expenses; and (7) Office of the Inspector General.  Prohibits funds authorized under this Act for FY 1992 from being available for construction of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. Permits financial assistance provided by the Foundation to an institution of higher education to provide amounts for administrative indirect costs of the institution and for non-administrative indirect costs of the institution.  Requires the chief financial officer of an institution of higher education to certify to the Director of the Foundation that all expenditures reported to substantiate indirect costs were appropriate.  Provides for the recovery, by the Foundation, from an institution of improperly spent funds. Instructs the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to:  (1) establish a committee to identify and examine specified costs associated with federally funded projects of institutions of higher education; and (2) make recommendations. Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to remove provisions declaring ineffective, after the end of FY 1989, provisions: (1) allowing the National Science Foundation (NSF) Board to delegate authority to the NSF Director to make grants, contracts, and other arrangements, and allowing the Board to impose conditions on such delegation; and (2) limiting any such delegations and conditions to two years. Prohibits a contract or subcontract made with funds authorized under this Act from being awarded for the procurement of any article supplied or produced in a foreign country which unfairly, in its procurement practices, discriminates against U.S. products or services so that there is identifiable harm to U.S. businesses.  Prohibits the use of fraudulent ""Made in America"" labels and provides sanctions applicable to those using such fraudulent labels.  Authorizes the Director of the Foundation to award a contract to a domestic firm provided stated conditions are met. Requires the Director of the Foundation to report to the Congress on contracts covered by this paragraph.",2025-04-21T12:24:17Z,
102-s-1031,102,s,1031,Behavioral and Social Sciences Directorate Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-05-09,1991-05-09,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.,Senate,"Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]",MA,D,K000148,0,Behavioral and Social Sciences Directorate Act of 1991 - Amends the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 to establish within the National Science Foundation a Directorate for Behavioral and Social Sciences. Authorizes the Director of the Foundation to establish additional directorates and divisions within directorates.,2025-08-26T15:15:39Z,
102-s-1034,102,s,1034,American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-05-09,1991-11-27,Returned to the Calendar. Calendar No. 232.,Senate,"Sen. Hollings, Ernest F. [D-SC]",SC,D,H000725,9,"American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991 - Title I:  Department of Commerce Research and Technology - Technology Administration Authorization Act of 1991 - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Commerce, to carry out the activities of the Under Secretary for Technology and the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, for the following line items:  (1) Office of Under Secretary; (2) Technology Policy; (3) Japanese Technical Literature; (4) Clearinghouse on State and Local Initiatives on Productivity, Technology, and Innovation; and (5) National Technical Information Service (NTIS).  Prohibits:  (1) transferring funds among such line items; and (2) using funds except for the purpose stated in each item. Requires operating costs for certain NTIS activities to be recovered primarily through fees. Mandates a report by the Secretary to the Congress responding to a specified Inspector General's Report and containing certain information and certifications. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for:  (1) Electronics and Electrical Engineering; (2) Manufacturing Engineering; (3) Chemical Science and Technology; (4) Physics; (5) Materials Science and Engineering; (6) Building and Fire Research; (7) Computer Systems; (8) Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing; (9) Technology Assistance; (10) Research Support Activities; (11) Additional Initiatives; and (12) renovation and upgrading of facilities.  Earmarks certain amounts.  Limits funds transfers among the line items.  Declares that, subject to specified exceptions, this Act contains the complete authorizations of appropriations for NIST for a specified fiscal year. Authorizes the Secretary to pay the Federal share of a pilot program under existing provisions to assist nations that have requested U.S. assistance in developing their standards. Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (NIST Act) to remove provisions limiting the amount NIST may, without specific appropriations, spend for construction or improvement of buildings or facilities. Requires:  (1) NIST fire research and building technology programs to be combined for administrative purposes only, and separate budget accounts to be maintained; and (2) a report to the Congress on the combination and matters related to the two programs. Makes the NIST personnel system, established as a demonstration project, the permanent personnel system for NIST. Amends the NIST Act to authorize financial assistance to U.S. citizens for research and technical activities on Institute programs. Authorizes, where shortages exist, recruitment and employment at NIST of foreign nationals admitted to the United States for permanent residence who intend to become U.S. citizens. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary to carry out the extramural industrial technology services programs of NIST under specified provisions, to be available for:  (1) Regional Centers for the Transfer of Manufacturing Technology; (2) State Technology Extension Program; (3) Advanced Technology Program; and (4) Satellite Manufacturing Centers.  Requires competitive merit review of extramural programs.  Authorizes:  (1) exemption of specific technology extension or transfer services from provisions of Federal law relating to patent rights in inventions made with Federal assistance; and (2) acceptance of funds from other Federal departments and agencies to support Regional Centers for the Transfer of Manufacturing Technology. Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to remove provisions requiring cooperative agreements between NIST and State technology extension services to expire on September 30, 1991. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the National Advisory Committee on Semiconductor Research and Development Act of 1988. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary to make any adjustments in salary, pay, retirement, and other employee benefits which may be provided for by law. Mandates a report to specified congressional committees on what renovations and upgrades of NIST facilities are necessary over the next decade. Prohibits awarding a contract or subcontract with funds authorized under this title for an article or material produced or manufactured in a foreign country whose government unfairly maintains in government procurement a significant and persistent pattern or practice of discrimination against U.S. products or services which results in identifiable harms to U.S. businesses. Makes ineligible to receive a contract or subcontract from the Department of Commerce any person who fraudulently affixes a ""Made in America"" label to a product. Authorizes the Secretary, in certain circumstances, to award to a domestic firm a contract that, under competitive procedures, would be awarded to a foreign firm. Title II:  Advanced Technology Program Amendments - Emerging Technologies and Advanced Technology Program Amendments Act of 1991 - Amends the NIST Act to require the Secretary and the NIST Director, in operating the Advanced Technology Program, to be guided by the findings and recommendations of the Biennial National Critical Technology Reports. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Director, to:  (1) aid industry-led joint (currently, aid joint) research and development ventures under the Program; (2) participate in such joint ventures through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements; and (3) make grants (as well as entering into contracts and cooperative agreements) with U.S. businesses (currently, with U.S. businesses and independent research organizations) under the Program. Prohibits the Program from making an award unless the award will facilitate formation of a new joint venture or the initiation of new research and development by an existing joint venture. Removes provisions entitling the Federal Government to a share of licensing fees and royalty payments from joint ventures. Sets forth eligibility requirements for company participation in the Program.  Requires assistance under the Program to be designed to support high risk projects with potential for eventual substantial widespread commercial application. Requires title to any intellectual property arising from assistance under the Program to vest in a company or companies incorporated in the United States.  Allows the United States to retain a license in connection with such property.  Allows a limited percentage of the funds appropriated for the Program to be used for standards development and technical activities by NIST in support of the purposes of the Program. Authorizes acceptance of funds from other Federal departments and agencies to support Program awards.  Authorizes the Secretary, in carrying out NIST extramural funding programs, to retain amounts to pay for NIST's management of the programs. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 and the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to change references to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs to references to the Under Secretary for Technology in provisions relating to:  (1) membership on the Advisory Council on Federal Participation in Sematech; and (2) the conduct of a study on Federal participation in Sematech. Title III:  Amendments to the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to remove fiscal year limitations from provisions requiring that each Federal agency transfer an amount to NIST for the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer. Adds references to intellectual property to provisions defining ""cooperative research and development agreement.""  Amends the definition of ""Federal agency"" to include any agency of the legislative branch. Authorizes the use of appropriated funds to carry out the Act. Adds to the duties of the Secretary, through the Under Secretary for Technology, that of serving as a focal point for discussions among U.S. companies on topics of interest to industry and labor. Title IV:  Studies and Reports - Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish the High-Resolution Information Systems Advisory Board to monitor and foster the development of U.S.-based high-resolution information systems industries (defined as the equipment and techniques to create, transmit, receive, display, process, store, recover, and play back high-resolution images and accompanying sound).  Authorizes appropriations. Amends the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to mandate an annual report to the Congress on each major multinational science and technology project in which the United States is not participating and which has a total estimated cost over one billion dollars. Modifies the required contents of the biennial national critical technologies report to the President.  Allows a product or process to be considered a national critical technology if it is essential for U.S. long-term national security or economic prosperity (currently, national security and economic prosperity). Establishes the Commission on Technology and Procurement to analyze the effect of Federal Government procurement laws, procedures, and policies on the development of advanced technologies in the United States and to make recommendations on changing Federal policy to promote the development of advanced technologies.  Authorizes appropriations.  Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on the feasibility of establishing and operating a Federal Online Information Product Catalog (FEDLINE) at the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) to serve as a comprehensive inventory of information products and services disseminated by the Federal Government and assist agencies and the public in locating Federal Government information.  Authorizes the NTIS Director to retain and use all monies received to fund obligations and expenses through the end of a specified fiscal year. Amends the National Technical Information Act of 1988 to add producing and disseminating information products in electronic format to the duties of the NTIS. Directs the Secretary to contract with the National Research Council for a thorough review of international product testing and certification issues.  Mandates a report to the Secretary, the President, and the Congress. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to report to the Congress:  (1) proposing a strategy for improving the university research capabilities of States which historically have received relatively little Federal research and development funding; and (2) on the feasibility and advisability of using the National Science Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research as a model for other Federal agencies. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees regarding a plan for coordination of Commerce Department efforts with other Federal agencies concerning high-resolution information systems.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-sjres-140,102,sjres,140,"A joint resolution to designate the week of July 27 through August 2, 1991, as ""National Invent America! Week"".","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-05-07,1991-05-07,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.,Senate,"Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]",VA,R,W000154,45,"Designates July 27 through August 2, 1991, as National Invent America! Week.",2025-07-21T19:32:26Z,
102-hr-2162,102,hr,2162,High-Risk Research and Development Contract Administration Act,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-05-01,1991-05-08,Referred to the Subcommittee on Space.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,1,"High-Risk Research and Development Contract Administration Act - Prohibits the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from entering into any contract which contains a waiver of negligence liability provisions, unless such official determines that, due to inherent risks in the project, no contractor is likely to bid on the project without such provisions and that the use of such provisions would significantly lower the costs to NASA. Requires NASA to report to the Congress on the use of such provisions. Requires the Comptroller General to:  (1) report annually to the Congress, reviewing such determinations by NASA's administrator; and (2) conduct a Government-wide study and report to the Congress on the use of such provisions in saving costs to the Government and on the availability of private insurance for contractor negligence in research and development projects.",2025-08-26T15:18:11Z,
102-hr-2130,102,hr,2130,National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1992,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-04-30,1992-10-29,Became Public Law No: 102-567.,House,"Rep. Hertel, Dennis M. [D-MI-14]",MI,D,H000547,6,"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1992 - Title I:  NOAA Atmospheric and Satellite Programs - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Commerce for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for: (1) National Weather Service operations and research; (2) certain public warning and weather forecast systems and programs; (3) climate and air quality research, including climate and global changes; (4) atmospheric research; and (5) satellite observing systems. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for FY 1992 for deposit into an Emergency Satellite Contingency Fund, to be used by NOAA for satellite coverage and prediction of hurricanes and severe storms.  Directs the Secretary and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to jointly develop and submit to specified congressional committees a strategic plan for the development, procurement, and operation of the environmental satellite program of the Department of Commerce (DOC). Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning with 1993 to complete the procurement of specified geostationary operational environmental satellites, as well as the procurement of the launching and supporting ground systems of such satellites.  Requires the Secretary to make certain certifications to the Congress prior to such authorization. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary to enable NOAA to carry out its data and information services and activities for FY 1992 and 1993.  Earmarks specified funds of such authorization to enable NOAA to modernize its data and information systems in a specified manner. Requires the Secretary, at least biennially, to:  (1) complete an assessment of the adequacy of the environmental data and information systems of NOAA; and (2) develop and submit to specified committees a comprehensive plan to modernize and improve such systems. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Defense to establish a five-year joint program for collecting operational and reconnaissance data, conducting research, and analyzing data on tropical cyclones. Directs the Secretary to establish the Tropical Cyclone Advisory Committee to conduct such research and provide appropriate recommendations.  Directs the Secretaries to jointly develop and report to the Congress specified management plans with respect to the conduct of such research following the recommendations of the Committee. Directs the Secretary to establish a United States Weather Research Program to:  (1) modernize U.S. public weather warning and forecast systems; (2) improve local and regional weather forecasts and warnings; (3) address critical weather-related scientific issues; and (4) coordinate governmental, university, and private sector efforts in such regard.  Requires the Secretary to develop and submit to specified congressional committees an implementation plan with respect to Program activities. Authorizes the NOAA Administrator to construct or acquire by lease a Weather Forecast Office with related facilities in the Reno, Nevada area. Authorizes the NOAA Administrator to construct on land leased from Florida International University a facility for the National Hurricane Center, a Weather Forecast Office, and associated facilities for NOAA activities in the South Florida area. Authorizes the NOAA Administrator to lease buildings and space from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu for the operation of a Weather Forecast Office for a term of up to 20 years, subject to the availability of appropriations in advance. Directs the NOAA Administrator to establish an Institute for Aviation Weather Prediction for service to the aviation community. Authorizes the NOAA Administrator to lease buildings and space to be constructed by the University of Oklahoma for the operation of specified weather facilities for a term of up to 20 years, subject to the availability of appropriations in advance. Amends the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 to transfer from the Secretary of Commerce to the Secretary of the Interior certain responsibilities relating to the archiving of land remote-sensing data enumerated under such Act. Reverts to the city of Eureka, California, all property and improvements thereto on Woodley Island that are acquired by the Secretary for use as a weather forecasting office and determined by the Secretary to be excess. Directs the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology to consider and develop findings and recommendations regarding the most urgent current needs as well as major goals of satellite oceanography. Title II:  NOAA Ocean and Coastal Programs - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for the conduct of NOAA mapping, charting, and geodesy activities, as well as for oceanic observation and assessment activities. Earmarks specified observation and assessment funds to conduct a Coastal Ocean Program. Prohibits any of this Act's funds from being used to conduct analyses of samples collected under the National Status and Trends Program until a certain policy committee makes specified certifications. Earmarks specified observation and assessment funds for completion of the Long Island Sound water circulation model. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for:  (1) ocean management; (2) ocean and Great Lakes research; (3) research and related activities of the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research; (4) large lake research activities of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research; and (5) implementing the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1960 (requiring a report to the Congress by the Secretary). Repeals the National Ocean Pollution Planning Act of 1978. Requires that amounts received by the United States (after enactment of this Act or with respect to the grounding of the Exxon Valdez) as reimbursement of expenses related to oil or hazardous substance spills response activities conducted by NOAA:  (1) be deposited in the NOAA's Damage Assessment and Restoration Revolving Fund; (2) be available for use in accordance with the law under which the activities are conducted; and (3) not be considered an augmentation of appropriations. Title III:  NOAA Marine Fishery Programs - Amends the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Fisheries Program Authorization Act to authorize appropriations to DOC for the National Marine Fisheries Service for:  (1) information collection and analysis; (2) conservation and management; and (3) State and industry assistance.  Earmarks specified amounts of such authorized sums for developing dolphin-safe methods of locating and catching yellowfin tuna.  Requires the Secretary to publish a program plan in connection with such endeavors. Amends the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act to direct the Secretary to initiate and maintain a comprehensive program of fishery research in order to carry out and further the purposes, policy, and provisions of such Act. Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 to include any facilities for aquaculture in the definition of ""fishery facilities"" under such Act. Directs the Secretaries of Commerce and Transportation to jointly develop and submit to specified congressional committees a report describing methods by which Coast Guard fishery regulations enforcement efforts in the western Pacific Ocean may be enhanced and coordinated with those of NOAA. Directs the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on the effects of the feeding of noncaptive dolphins by human beings. Directs the Secretary to establish within NOAA the Chesapeake Bay Estuarine Resources Office to provide various advisory, administrative, and reporting functions with respect to the restoration and protection of living resources in the Chesapeake Bay. Authorizes appropriations for the Office. Directs the Secretary to establish and administer a five-year national shellfish research program to improve existing classification systems for shellfish growing waters using the latest technological advancements in microbiology and epidemiological methods.  Establishes an advisory committee to perform various functions under such program.  Outlines reporting requirements.  Authorizes appropriations for the program. Directs the Secretary to acquire from the Administrator of General Services on a long-term basis space on Pivers Island, North Carolina, for the establishment of the Cooperative Institute of Fisheries Oceanography. Directs the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on providing baseline information to guide policy decisions on the future of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic shrimp fishery. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees describing how current and planned Government satellite capabilities can aid in the enforcement of Federal fisheries law and international fisheries conservation programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual grants in FY 1992 and 1993 to the city of San Francisco and the Port of San Francisco for a joint project to demonstrate safe seafood handling and to conduct seafood education programs.  Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes DOC and the Department of the Interior to pay a specified sum as reimbursement of unpaid costs incurred in a research paper studying the bowhead whale which was presented by the United States at an annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission. Authorizes the Secretary to construct a building to be leased from the University of Southwest Louisiana for use as a fisheries research center. Encourages the NOAA Administrator to give immediate consideration to upgrading dock and warehouse support facilities at the National Marine Fisheries Service Laboratory at Pascagoula, Mississippi. Title IV:  Administration and Other Accounts - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for:  (1) carrying out executive direction and administrative activities; (2) marine services; (3) the acquisition of a multibeam sonar mapper; (4) the reactivation and operation of the research vessel ALBATROSS IV; (5) aircraft services; and (6) acquisition, construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities. Prohibits deactivation of the ALBATROSS IV until a replacement vessel is operational.  Directs the Secretary to consult with the Oceanographer of the Navy with regard to the possible interoperability of NOAA vessels with Navy vessels. Directs the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees before reprogramming funds available for a program, project, or activity of NOAA in an amount greater than the lesser of $250,000 or five percent of the total funding of such program. Requires identical notification in the case of a major reorganization of a NOAA program, project, or activity. Directs the Secretary to develop, offer for public comment, and promulgate regulations or guidelines to ensure that a completed application for a financial assistance grant under a nondiscretionary assistance program shall be processed and approved or disapproved within 75 days after submission to the appropriate NOAA office. Requires applicant notification of such requirement and provides an exemption. Limits the authorized fee for charts and other nautical products produced or published by NOAA and sold after enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements for scientific and educational activities to foster public understanding of NOAA and its programs. Expresses the sense of the Congress that NOAA should continue to expand its educational programs in the sciences, as well as programs to recruit minorities and women for education in the sciences. Title V:  National Marine Monitoring Program - Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972 with respect to national coastal monitoring.  Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to jointly develop and implement a program for the long-term collection, assimilation, and analysis of scientific data designed to measure the environmental quality of the Nation's coastal ecosystems.  Requires any monitoring done by the EPA Administrator and the Under Secretary to be coordinated with all other Federal environmental monitoring programs.  Outlines provisions under such program with respect to:  (1) program elements; (2) monitoring guidelines and protocols (with periodic review); (3) the addition of intensive coastal water quality monitoring programs, with the appropriate identification and designation of coastal areas suitable for such intensive monitoring; (4) a specific intensive monitoring program for Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays; (5) the development and submission to the Congress a comprehensive implementation strategy for the program; (6) specified consultation with appropriate Federal departments and agencies, as well as opportunity for public comment on the strategy; and (7) a memorandum of understanding with appropriate Federal agencies for the coordination of efforts with respect to coastal monitoring programs.  Directs the EPA Administrator and the Under Secretary to jointly report biennially to specified congressional committees describing the conduct of the Nation's ecosystems.  Authorizes appropriations for EPA and NOAA use in administering the program. Title VI:  NOAA Fleet Modernization - NOAA Fleet Modernization Act - Authorizes the Secretary to implement a 15-year program to replace and modernize the NOAA fleet. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out such program, to develop and submit to the Congress a replacement and modernization plan for the NOAA fleet over FY 1993 through 1997.  Outlines plan elements, including the requirement that the Secretary prepare requirements for each class of NOAA vessels to be constructed or converted under the plan and contract with non-governmental entities for such construction or conversion. Allows exceptions for certain vessels.  Outlines required contract provisions and allows multiyear contracting authority. Prohibits the Secretary from awarding a contract for the construction, repair, or alteration of any NOAA vessel in a shipyard if such vessel benefits or would benefit from significant subsidies for such construction, alteration, or repair in that shipyard.  Outlines various support or preferences that will be considered significant subsidies for purposes of such prohibition. Directs the Secretary, in implementing the NOAA fleet replacement and modernization program, to use excess capacity of vessels of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) where appropriate.  Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress comparing the cost-efficiency, accounting, and operating practices of vessels of NOAA, UNOLS, other Federal agencies, and the private sector in meeting the missions of NOAA. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1997 for the fleet replacement and modernization program. Title VII:  Weather Service Modernization - Weather Service Modernization Act - Requires the Secretary to include as part of DOC's annual budget request justification material a National Implementation Plan for modernization of the National Weather Service (NWS) for each fiscal year following 1993 until such modernization is complete.  Specifies Plan contents.  Requires the Secretary to: (1) transmit a copy of each annual Plan to the Modernization Transition Committee (established under this title); and (2) consult with the Committee in developing such Plan. Requires the Secretary to:  (1) contract with the National Research Council (NRC) for a review of the scientific and technical modernization criteria by which the Secretary proposes to certify action to close, consolidate, automate, or relocate NWS field offices; and (2) publish in the Federal Register final modernization criteria based on such NRC review. Changes requirements for certification that the closing, consolidation, automation, or relocation of any field office will not result in service degradation. Prohibits the Secretary from:  (1) changing operations at an NWS field office pursuant to implementation of the Strategic Plan unless the Secretary has provided appropriate notification; (2) removing or permanently decommissioning any NWS radar until the Secretary has prepared radar commissioning and decommissioning reports documenting that such action would be consistent with the final modernization criteria established above; (3) commissioning an automated surface observing system located at an airport unless the weather services provided after commissioning will continue to be in full compliance with applicable flight aviation rules; (4) closing, before January 1, 1996, any NWS field office pursuant to implementation of the Strategic Plan; (5) closing or relocating any NWS field office located at an airport unless the Secretary determines that such action will not result in degradation of service that affects aircraft safety; (6) closing or relocating any NWS field office which is the only office in a State unless the Secretary determines that a comparable level of weather services provided to in-State users will remain; or (7) closing, consolidating, automating, or relocating a NWS field office until arrangements have been made to maintain at least one person in the service area to act as a liaison officer with area weather service users with respect to the provision of information regarding NWS modernization and restructuring activities and weather warnings and forecasts. Establishes the Modernization Transition Committee.  Specifies Committee duties, which include reviewing proposed certifications and advising the Congress and the Secretary on implementation and development of the Strategic and National Plans and establishment of modernization criteria. Requires the Secretary to prepare a report for the Congress on the proposed NWS modernization. Repeals provisions of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 inconsistent with this title. Title VIII:  North Pacific Anadromous Stocks Convention - North Pacific Anadromous Stocks Act of 1992 - Provides for the composition, appointment, terms, compensation, and similar matters regarding:  (1) the U.S. representation on the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission; and (2) an Advisory Panel to the U.S. Commissioners. Authorizes the Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Secretary of Commerce, to accept or reject, on behalf of the United States, Commission recommendations. Makes the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) responsible for administering the Convention for the Conservation of Anadromous Stocks of the North Pacific Ocean, this title, and related regulations. Authorizes any Federal agency, on request of the Commission, to cooperate in the conduct of scientific and other programs, accepting reimbursement from the Commission. Mandates enforcement by the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Transportation.  Sets forth the enforcement authorities of authorized officers. Makes it unlawful to engage in certain activities, including fishing for any anadromous fish in waters designated under this title as the Convention area, retaining on board any such fish taken incidentally, refusing or resisting boarding or inspection, or violating any provision of the Convention, this title, or any regulation under this title. Provides for civil monetary penalties, vessel liability in rem, criminal penalties, and seizure of vessels, gear, stores, and cargo. Creates a rebuttable presumption that all fish on board a vessel seized in connection with a prohibited act were taken or retained in violation of the Convention and this title. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Convention and this title. Provides for the disposition of U.S. property held by the International North Pacific Fisheries Commission on its termination in a manner that would further the purposes of this title. Repeals the North Pacific Fisheries Act of 1954. Title IX:  New England Groundfish - Amends the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act to direct the Secretary, beginning no later than October 1, 1993, if requested by a governor of a State represented on the New England Fishery Management Council, to enter into an agreement with each State so represented authorizing each State's marine law enforcement agencies to perform duties of the Secretary relating to enforcement of the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan. Directs the Commander of the First Coast Guard District to establish an informal fisheries enforcement working group to improve overall compliance with, and effectiveness of, regulations issued under the Plan. Directs the Secretary to establish a Northwest Atlantic Ocean Fisheries Reinvestment Program to:  (1) promote development of commercial fisheries and markets for underutilized species of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean; (2) provide technical support and assistance to U.S. fishermen and fish processors with respect to underutilized species; (3) create new economic opportunities through the improved processing and expanded use of fish waste; (4) develop alternative fishing opportunities for participants in the New England groundfish fishery; and (5) help restore overfished New England groundfish stocks through aquaculture or hatchery programs. Authorizes appropriations for the Program for FY 1993 through 1997. Directs the Council to develop fishery management plans as soon as possible for underutilized species of the northwest Atlantic Ocean in order to prevent overfishing of such species.  Defines an ""underutilized species"" as any fish species so identified by the Director of the Northeast Center of the National Marine Fisheries Service.",2024-02-07T16:32:33Z,
102-s-952,102,s,952,A bill to authorize construction of a National Weather Service facility by the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-04-25,1991-04-25,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Bryan, Richard H. [D-NV]",NV,D,B000993,0,"Authorizes the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to construct and operate, on land to be leased from the University of Nevada System, Desert Research Institute (or to acquire by lease construction on such land, with a lease term of up to 30 years), a Weather Forecast Office, upper air facility, regional climate center, and associated instruments and site improvements as part of the implementation of the Next Generation Weather Radar and National Weather Service Modernization Program.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-s-979,102,s,979,Department of Energy Critical Technologies of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-04-25,1991-06-27,Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 102-165.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,3,"Department of Energy Critical Technologies of 1991 - Title I: Department of Energy Critical Technologies Program - Directs the Secretary to establish the Critical Technologies Planning Council and the Critical Technologies Advisory Board within the Department of Energy (DOE). Requires the Secretary to develop biennially and implement a five-year DOE Critical Technologies Plan that:  (1) coordinates the research and development activities of the DOE laboratories in support of DOE critical technologies; and (2) coordinates DOE Critical Technologies Partnerships.  Sets forth required contents of the Plan. Directs the head of each DOE laboratory to report biennially to the Council and the Advisory Board on the core competencies of such laboratory.  Requires the report to:  (1) identify the national critical technologies listed in the most recent National Critical Technologies Report; (2) describe each laboratory program of research and development in the identified technologies; and (3) discuss the relevance of such technologies to the laboratory's strategic mission objectives.  Directs the Secretary to ensure that core competencies reports are disseminated to the private sector. Requires the Secretary to ensure that the laboratory-directed research and development activities of each DOE laboratory include research and development that extends and maintains the vitality of the laboratory's core competencies. Title II:  Department of Energy Critical Technologies Partnerships - Directs the Secretary to establish as many DOE Critical Technologies Partnerships as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this title.  Requires Partnerships to be comprised of DOE laboratories and participants from U.S. firms and institutions of higher education and other participants, as appropriate.  Provides for the designation of a lead institution for the Partnership to direct activities. Requires proposals for partnerships to be submitted to the Secretary by the lead institution.  Sets forth proposal requirements.  Requires Partnership proposals to demonstrate a financial commitment of the non-Federal participants to contribute 50 percent of the total cost of Partnership activities.  Directs the Secretary to provide technical and other assistance to each Partnership. Requires Partnerships to be selected through a competitive process prescribed by the Secretary.  Sets forth selection criteria. Prohibits the disclosure of confidential commercial or financial information obtained from a non-Federal participant as a result of Partnership activities. Title III:  Authorization of Appropriations and Other Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for atomic energy defense and energy research activities under this Act.  Provides that such funds are in addition to funds authorized to be appropriated for technology transfer in connection with such activities or funds appropriated for such purposes before this Act's enactment. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the applicability of this Act to DOE activities that are classified in the interest of U.S. national security or foreign policy.",2026-03-24T12:48:03Z,
102-s-980,102,s,980,"Advanced Materials Synthesis, Processing, and Commercialization Act of 1991","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-04-25,1991-04-25,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]",NM,D,B000468,1,"Advanced Materials Synthesis, Processing, and Commercialization Act of 1991 - Title I:  National Advanced Materials Processing Plan and Program - Amends the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to direct the President, through the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology, at least once every two years, to develop and implement a five-year National Advanced Materials Processing Plan. Requires that the Council:  (1) serve as the lead Federal entity responsible for the development of the Plan and for facilitating interagency coordination; and (2) annually review the Federal budget regarding consistency with the Plan. Establishes the Advanced Materials Processing Advisory Panel. Title II:  Advanced Materials Processing, Synthesis, and Commercialization Partnerships - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish four or more Advanced Materials Processing, Synthesis, and Commercialization Partnerships, comprised of one or more Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories, U.S. firms, and U.S.  higher education institutions, with additional participants allowed. Mandates establishment of specified numbers of similarly-structured Partnerships associated with the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Department of Commerce (through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)), in each case using laboratories of that department or agency instead of DOE laboratories. Requires that each proposal for the establishment of a Partnership be submitted by the lead institution, selected by the proposed participants in the Partnership.  Sets forth required contents of proposals.  Requires non-Federal cost sharing. Requires Partnerships to be selected through a competitive process. Regulates disclosure of information. Title III:  Other Advanced Materials Programs - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a competitive grants program known as the Advanced Materials Synthesis and Processing Principal Investigator Awards Program. Allows grant funds to be used for research and development related to advanced materials processing sciences conducted by the recipient within colleges and research institutions in the United States using, to the extent feasible, existing capital equipment, instrumentation, and facilities of U.S. firms and Federal laboratories. Requires the National Science Board of the NSF to establish a fellowship program for graduate and post-doctoral studies and research in advanced materials synthesis and processing, with grants awarded on the basis of academic merit. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, through the NIST Director, to: (1) establish and administer a comprehensive national data base for advanced materials, to be the central repository in the Federal Government for such information; and (2) provide for the collection, evaluation, and dissemination of standard reference data for advanced materials. Title IV:  Authorization of Appropriations and Other Provisions - Authorizes appropriations, to carry out responsibilities under this Act, for the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Commerce, the National Science Foundation, and the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology. Allows the head of a department or agency of the Federal Government to waive the application of this Act to any program or activity that is classified in the interest of the national security or foreign policy of the United States.",2025-08-26T15:17:40Z,
102-s-916,102,s,916,A bill regarding the modernization program of the National Weather Service.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-04-24,1991-04-24,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Daschle, Thomas A. [D-SD]",SD,D,D000064,0,"Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from closing, consolidating, automating, or relocating any National Weather Service Office or National Weather Service Forecast Office without certification to specified congressional committees that the action will not result in any degradation of weather services to the affected area and that the affected area will receive complete coverage at 10,000 feet by the NEXRAD doppler network. Prohibits the Secretary from taking such actions regarding either type of office located at an airport without first conducting an air safety appraisal and certifying that the action will not result in a decrease in aircraft safety. Prohibits the Secretary from taking such actions regarding any National Weather Service Office which is the only office in a State without first evaluating the effect on weather services to in-State users and certifying that a comparable level of weather services will remain.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-sres-113,102,sres,113,"A resolution recognizing, on the bicentennial of his birth, the role of Samuel F. B. Morse in the revolutionary development of electrical communications, and his demonstrations, funded by the Congress, of the practicability of sending telegraph messages by electricity.","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-04-24,1991-04-24,"Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote.",Senate,"Sen. Ford, Wendell H. [D-KY]",KY,D,F000268,0,"Recognizes, on the bicentennial of his birth, the role of Samuel F. B. Morse in the development of electrical communications.",2021-06-02T15:14:16Z,
102-hr-1988,102,hr,1988,"National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1992","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-04-23,1991-12-09,Became Public Law No: 102-195.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,4,"National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for:  (1) research and development; (2) space flight, control, and data communications; (3) construction of facilities; (4) research and program management, including scientific consultations; and (5) the Inspector General. Permits appropriations for the first two numbered categories to be used for certain items of a capital nature (other than land acquisition) required for the performance of research and development contracts and for grants to nonprofit educational and research organizations to augment their research facilities. Prohibits the use of these funds for the construction of any major facility whose estimated cost exceeds a specified amount, unless the Administrator of NASA notifies specified congressional leadership and committees. Authorizes fund use, subject to limitations, for facilities construction, repair, or modification and for unforeseen programmatic facility project needs. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1991 to increase the authorization of appropriations for the Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby/Cassini (CRAF/Cassini) mission.  Modifies requirements regarding when certain amounts are available for the mission. Authorizes the Administrator to reprogram, after notifying specified congressional committees, up to a specified amount of funds, authorized for research and development, for the research and development subcategory of physics and astronomy. Permits upward variances of funds for facilities construction under circumstances outlined in this Act. Authorizes certain fund transfers and makes available specified funds for the construction and modification of laboratories and other installations.  Requires the Administrator to notify specified congressional leadership and committees of the nature, cost, and need for such construction before expending the funds in question. Prohibits, until 30 days following congressional receipt of the Administrator's full explanation, the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this Act for any program that:  (1) has been eliminated by the Congress; (2) is in excess of the amount actually authorized for the particular program (except for construction of facilities); or (3) has not been presented to either of the relevant congressional committees. Requires NASA to keep the committees fully and currently informed regarding all activities and responsibilities within the jurisdiction of those committees.  Requires any Federal entity to furnish any information requested relating to such activity or responsibility. Establishes the Office of Facilities Maintenance within the Office of Management Systems and Facilities and requires it to plan and direct facilities maintenance management for all NASA sites.  Expresses the sense of the Congress that it is in the national interest to give consideration to the geographical distribution of Federal research funds whenever feasible. Prohibits a civil space station authorized under this Act from carrying or placing in orbit any nuclear weapon or other weapon of mass destruction.  Permits such civil space stations to be used only for peaceful purposes. Requires the Administrator, at the time of submission of the President's annual budget, to transmit to the Congress:  (1) a five-year budget detailing development costs for each NASA program expected to exceed a specified amount; and (2) an estimate of the life-cycle costs associated with each such program. Mandates a feasibility study on initiating a National Scholars Program of Federal student aid to increase the number of Ph.D. recipients in mathematics, science, and related disciplines among the Nation's economically disadvantaged. Amends the Commercial Space Launch Act to:  (1) authorize appropriations to carry out the Act; and (2) authorize appropriations for a program to ensure the resiliency of the Nation's space infrastructure, only if a law is enacted establishing that program within the Department of Transportation. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the activities of the National Space Council.  Limits the amount the Council may use for official reception and representation expenses.  Requires the Council to reimburse other agencies for at least one-half of the personnel compensation costs of individuals detailed to it. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the Council should establish policy recommendations for carrying out the President's commitment to maintaining the continuity of Landsat data.  Requires such recommendations to be transmitted to the Congress at the time of submission of the President's fiscal year 1993 budget. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Commerce for the Office of Space Commerce. Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 1988 to modify requirements regarding space station budget estimates. Requires the Administrator to submit to the Congress, along with NASA's FY 1993 budget request, a study:  (1) assessing the usefulness of granting NASA multiyear contracting authority similar to that granted the armed forces under existing law; and (2) recommending at least five programs to be considered by the Congress for multiyear contracting. Prohibits fraudulent use of ""Made in America"" labels.  Declares ineligible for any NASA contract or subcontract under this Act any person violating that prohibition. Requires, subject to exception, compliance with specified Federal law, commonly known as the Buy American Act. Prohibits a person providing articles to NASA under contract entered into after enactment of this Act from excluding NASA quality assurance personnel from work sites unless the Administrator has submitted a copy of the contract provision permitting such exclusion to the Congress at least 60 days before entering into the contract. Establishes in the Treasury the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Endeavor Teacher Fellowship Trust Fund (Fund) consisting of gifts and donations plus any amounts transferred by the Administrator from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Gifts and Donations Trust Fund.  Requires income from investment of Fund principal to be used to create the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Endeavor Teacher Fellowship Program to award fellowships to selected U.S. nationals who are undergraduate students pursuing certified teaching degrees in elementary education or in secondary education in mathematics, science, or technology disciplines. Civil Space Employee Testing Act of 1991 - Requires the Administrator to establish a program, applicable to NASA employees responsible for safety-sensitive, security, or national security functions, of preemployment, reasonable suspicion, random, and post-accident testing for alcohol or a controlled substance. Mandates that the Administrator require NASA contractors to establish such a program regarding contractor employees.  Authorizes the Administrator to provide for periodic recurring testing of such employees. Provides for suspension, disqualification, or dismissal of NASA and NASA contractor employees and rehabilitation. Prohibits inconsistent State or local laws or regulations.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-hr-1989,102,hr,1989,American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-04-23,1992-02-14,Became Public Law No: 102-245.,House,"Rep. Valentine, Tim [D-NC-2]",NC,D,V000006,16,"American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991 - Title I:  Department of Commerce Research and Technology - Technology Administration Authorization Act of 1991 - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Commerce, to carry out the activities of the Under Secretary for Technology and the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy, for the following line items:  (1) Office of Under Secretary; (2) Technology Policy; (3) Japanese Technical Literature; (4) Clearinghouse on State and Local Initiatives on Productivity, Technology, and Innovation; and (5) National Technical Information Service (NTIS).  Limits funds transfers among the line items. Requires operating costs for certain NTIS activities to be recovered primarily through fees. Mandates a report by the Secretary to the Congress responding to a specified Inspector General's Report and containing certain information and certifications. Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to change references to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs to references to the Under Secretary for Technology in provisions relating to:  (1) membership on the Advisory Council on Federal Participation in Sematech; and (2) the conduct of a study on Federal participation in Sematech. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for:  (1) Electronics and Electrical Measurements; (2) Manufacturing Engineering; (3) Chemical Science and Technology; (4) Physics; (5) Materials Science and Engineering; (6) Building and Fire Research; (7) Computer Systems; (8) Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing; (9) Technology Assistance; (10) Research Support Activities; (11) Pay Raise; and (12) renovation and upgrading of facilities.  Earmarks certain amounts.  Limits funds transfers among the line items.  Declares that, subject to specified exceptions, this Act contains the complete authorizations of appropriations for NIST for specified fiscal years. Authorizes the Secretary to pay the Federal share of a pilot program under existing provisions to assist a country or countries in the development of comprehensive industrial standards. Amends the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (NIST Act) to remove provisions limiting the amount NIST may, without specific appropriations, spend for construction or improvement of buildings or facilities. Requires:  (1) NIST fire research and building technology programs to be combined for administrative purposes only, and separate budget accounts to be maintained; and (2) a report to the Congress on the combination and matters related to the two programs. Amends the NIST Act to authorize financial assistance to U.S. citizens for research and technical activities on Institute programs. Authorizes, where shortages exist, recruitment and employment at NIST of foreign nationals admitted to the United States for permanent residence who intend to become U.S. citizens. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the intramural scientific and technical research and services activities of NIST should share fully in any funding increases provided to NIST. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary to carry out the extramural industrial technology services programs of NIST under specified provisions, to be available for:  (1) Regional Centers for the Transfer of Manufacturing Technology; (2) State Technology Extension Program; (3) Advanced Technology Program; and (4) Satellite Manufacturing Centers.  Requires competitive merit review of extramural programs. Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to remove provisions requiring cooperative agreements between NIST and State technology extension services to expire on September 30, 1991. Amends the NIST Act to authorize:  (1) exemption of specific technology extension or transfer services from provisions of Federal law relating to patent rights in inventions made with Federal assistance; and (2) acceptance of funds from other Federal departments and agencies to support Regional Centers for the Transfer of Manufacturing Technology. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the National Advisory Committee on Semiconductor Research and Development Act of 1988. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary to make any adjustments in salary, pay, retirement, and other employee benefits which may be provided for by law. Amends the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act to require using the most appropriate units of the SI metric system as the primary system for measuring quantity.  Permits the usage of avoirdupois or other units of measurements in addition to metric units. Requires the head of each Federal executive department to transfer to the National Technical Information Service unclassified information resulting from federally funded research for dissemination to public and private sectors.  Sets forth reporting requirements. Mandates a report to specified congressional committees on what renovations and upgrades of NIST facilities are necessary over the next decade. Prohibits awarding a contract or subcontract with funds authorized under this title for an article or material produced or manufactured in a foreign country whose government unfairly maintains in government procurement a significant and persistent pattern or practice of discrimination against U.S. products or services which results in identifiable harms to U.S. businesses. Makes ineligible to receive a contract or subcontract from the Department of Commerce any person who fraudulently affixes a ""Made in America"" label to a product. Authorizes the Secretary, in certain circumstances, to award to a domestic firm a contract that, under competitive procedures, would be awarded to a foreign firm. Title II:  Advanced Technology Program Amendments - Emerging Technologies and Advanced Technology Program Amendments Act of 1991 - Amends the NIST Act to require the Secretary and the NIST Director, in operating the Advanced Technology Program, to be guided by the findings and recommendations of the Biennial National Critical Technology Reports. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Director, to:  (1) aid industry-led joint (currently, aid joint) research and development ventures under the Program; (2) participate in such joint ventures through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements; and (3) make grants (as well as entering into contracts and cooperative agreements) with U.S. businesses (currently, with U.S. businesses and independent research organizations) under the Program. Prohibits the Program from making an award unless the award will facilitate formation of a new joint venture or the initiation of new research and development by an existing joint venture. Removes provisions entitling the Federal Government to a share of licensing fees and royalty payments from joint ventures. Sets forth eligibility requirements for company participation in the Program.  Requires assistance under the Program to be designed to support high risk projects with potential for eventual substantial widespread commercial application. Requires title to any intellectual property arising from assistance under the Program to vest in a company or companies incorporated in the United States.  Allows the United States to retain a license in connection with such property.  Allows a limited percentage of the funds appropriated for the Program to be used for standards development and technical activities by NIST in support of the purposes of the Program. Authorizes acceptance of funds from other Federal departments and agencies to support Program awards.  Authorizes the Secretary, in carrying out NIST extramural funding programs, to retain amounts to pay for NIST's management of the programs. Title III:  Amendments to the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 - Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to extend, through FY 1996, the requirement that each Federal agency transfer an amount to NIST for the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer. Repeals provisions mandating demonstration projects in technology transfer. Adds references to intellectual property to provisions defining ""cooperative research and development agreement."" Authorizes the head of any Federal agency to give excess research equipment to an educational or nonprofit organization to conduct education and research activities. Amends the definition of ""Federal agency"" to include any agency of the legislative branch. Authorizes the use of appropriated funds to carry out the Act. Adds to the duties of the Secretary, through the Under Secretary for Technology, that of serving as a focal point for discussions among U.S. companies on topics of interest to industry and labor. Title IV:  National Commission on Reducing Capital Costs for Emerging Technology - Establishes the National Commission on Reducing Capital Costs for Emerging Technology to develop recommendations to increase the competitiveness of U.S. industry by encouraging investments in research, the development of new process and product technologies, and the production of those technologies. Authorizes appropriations. Title V:  Studies and Reports - Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish the High-Resolution Information Systems Advisory Board to monitor and foster the development of U.S.-based high-resolution information systems industries (defined as the equipment and techniques to create, store, recover, and play back high-resolution images and accompanying sound).  Authorizes appropriations. Amends the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 to mandate an annual report to the Congress on each major multinational science and technology project in which the United States is not participating and which has a total estimated cost over one billion dollars. Modifies the required contents of the biennial national critical technologies report to the President.  Allows a product or process to be considered a national critical technology if it is essential for U.S. long-term national security or economic prosperity (currently, national security and economic prosperity). Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress, with annual updates, regarding:  (1) civilian industries necessary for a robust manufacturing infrastructure and critical to economic security; and (2) major research and development being undertaken, and substantial investments being made, by the Federal Government in each of the critical industries. Establishes the Commission on Technology and Procurement to analyze the effect of Federal Government procurement laws, procedures, and policies on the development of advanced technologies in the United States and to make recommendations on changing Federal policy to promote the development of advanced technologies.  Authorizes appropriations.  Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on the feasibility of establishing and operating a Federal Online Information Product Catalog (FEDLINE) at the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) to serve as a comprehensive inventory of information products and services disseminated by the Federal Government and assist agencies and the public in locating Federal Government information.  Authorizes the NTIS Director to retain and use all monies received to fund obligations and expenses through the end of a specified fiscal year. Establishes the National Quality Council to take certain actions regarding quality performance in business, education, government, and all other sectors.  Establishes in the Treasury the National Quality Performance Trust Fund to receive all funds received by the Council.  Makes amounts in the Fund available to the Council as provided in appropriations Acts.  Prohibits the Council from accepting  private donations from a single source in excess of a specified amount per year.  Requires approval of two-thirds of the Council to accept donations from a single source over a certain amount per year. Amends the National Technical Information Act of 1988 to add producing and disseminating information products in electronic format to the duties of the NTIS. Directs the Secretary to contract with the National Research Council for a thorough review of international product testing and certification issues.  Mandates a report to the Secretary, the President, and the Congress. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to report to the Congress:  (1) proposing a strategy for improving the university research capabilities of States which historically have received relatively little Federal research and development funding; and (2) on the feasibility and advisability of using the National Science Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research as a model for other Federal agencies. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees regarding a plan for coordination of Commerce Department efforts with other Federal agencies concerning high-resolution information systems.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-hr-2010,102,hr,2010,"To authorize appropriations for certain atmospheric and satellite programs and functions of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and for other purposes.","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-04-23,1991-04-23,"Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.",House,"Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-8]",NY,D,S000124,0,"Title I:  National Weather Service - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Commerce for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the National Weather Service (NWS) for operations and research. Mandates establishment of:  (1) an advisory committee on Atlantic tropical cyclone research and reconnaissance; and (2) a five-year program for data collection, research, and analysis on such cyclones. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for the NWS for public warning and forecast systems, including systems acquisition. Title II:  Atmospheric Research - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for climate and air quality research and atmospheric research. Requires the Office of the Chief Scientist of NOAA to submit to the Congress a plan for implementation of a nationwide climate services system and applied climatology program. Title III:  National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for:  (1) satellite observing systems; and (2) data and information services.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-hr-2011,102,hr,2011,National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-04-23,1991-11-20,For Further Action See H.R.2130.,House,"Rep. Scheuer, James H. [D-NY-8]",NY,D,S000124,4,"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Authorization Act of 1991 - Title I:  Ocean and Coastal Programs - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Commerce for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for:  (1) mapping, charting, and geodesy; (2) observation and assessment; (3) ocean and coastal management; (4) climate and air quality research; and (5) atmospheric research. Requires the Office of the Chief Scientist of NOAA to submit to the Congress a plan for implementation of a nationwide climate services system and applied climatology program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for:  (1) ocean and Great Lakes research; (2) executive direction and administrative activities; (3) acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of facilities; (4) marine services; and (5) aircraft services. Requires notice to congressional committees before the Secretary may:  (1) reprogram over a certain amount of funds; or (2) obligate any amount for a NOAA program proposed or developed after enactment of this Act. Mandates a report to the Congress by the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology regarding:  (1) the most urgent current needs of oceanographic researchers for remote sensing capabilities and remotely sensed data; and (2) the major goals of satellite oceanography for the next ten years. Requires the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to submit to the Congress a report on how current and planned Federal satellite capabilities can aid in the enforcement of Federal fisheries laws and the implementation of international fisheries conservation programs. Authorizes the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere to acquire, by exchange or lease-purchase or both, real property and improvements in the area of Newport News-Norfolk, Virginia, for consolidating NOAA facilities. Requires the Comptroller General to submit to the Congress in each of four specified years an audit of:  (1) NOAA's Damage Assessment program; and (2) the Damage Assessment and Restoration Revolving Fund. Title II:  National Weather Service - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for the National Weather Service (NWS) for operations and research. Mandates establishment of:  (1) an advisory committee on Atlantic tropical cyclone research and reconnaissance; (2) a five-year program for data collection, research, and analysis on such cyclones; and (3) a management plan for the five-year program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for public warning and forecast systems, including systems acquisition. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for completion of the acquisition and deployment of:  (1) the Next Generation Weather Radar System; and (2) the Automated Surface Observing Systems. Directs the Secretary to provide at least one NWS liaison officer for each area receiving such public institution liaison and community preparedness services, as of the date of enactment of this Act, from a Weather Service Office (WSO), a Weather Service Meteorological Observatory (WSMO), or an Agricultural Weather Service Center (AWSC).  Requires such officer to be provided for at least two years after the WSO, WSMO, or AWSC is closed, consolidated, automated, or relocated.  Directs the Secretary to provide such areas with sufficient personnel to ensure that modernization and restructuring of the NWS do not result in degradation in public institution liaison and community preparedness of such areas. Requires the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to identify areas for which there is significant doubt that the Secretary will be able to make a certification that such actions regarding a WSO or a Weather Service Forecast Office will not result in degradation of weather services to the affected area.  Requires the Comptroller General to report to specified congressional committees regarding any areas certified by the Secretary which are listed by the NAS as significantly doubtful of certification.  Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to add removal of any NWS radar to the list of actions requiring such certification by the Secretary.  Modifies the required contents of the certification and associated procedures. Title III:  National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for satellite observing systems. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary to complete the procurement of specified Geostational Operational Environmental Satellites and Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites and the launching and supporting ground systems for each. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for NOAA for data and information services. Amends the Land Remote-Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 to mandate that any license issued under specified provisions of that Act specify that the licensee shall promptly make available all unenhanced data which the Secretary of the Interior (currently, the Secretary of Commerce) may request under specified provisions of the Act relating to archiving of data. Amends provisions of the Act relating to archiving in order to transfer from the Secretary of Commerce to the Secretary of the Interior responsibility for:  (1) providing for long-term storage, maintenance, and upgrading of the basic, global, land remote-sensing data set; (2) requesting data needed for the basic data set from a system operator; (3) making data which is in the public domain available to requesting parties; and (4) using existing Government facilities, to the extent practicable, to carry out these functions. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to consult with the Secretary of Commerce to ensure that archiving activities are consistent with the terms and conditions of any contract, agreement, or license under specified provisions of the Act. Title IV:  Buy America Provisions - Sets forth Buy American provisions regarding any contract or subcontract made with funds authorized under this Act for articles, materials, or supplies. Declares ineligible for any contract or subcontract from NOAA any person determined by a court or Federal agency to have affixed a fraudulent ""Made in America"" label to any product.  Authorizes awarding to an American firm a contract under this Act for goods that, under competitive procedures, would be awarded to a foreign firm, if certain circumstances exist. Title V:  Tropical Cyclone Research Program - Tropical Cyclone Research Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to establish a five-year joint program, which expands on the plan established in provisions of this Act relating to Atlantic tropical cyclones, for collecting operational and reconnaissance data, conducting research, and analyzing data on tropical cyclones to assist the forecast and warning program and increase the understanding of the causes and behavior of tropical cyclones.  Sets forth the responsibilities of each Secretary. Directs those Secretaries to jointly develop and submit to the Congress management plans for:  (1) the program established by this Act; and (2) continued tropical cyclone surveillance and reconnaissance which will adequately protect the citizens of U.S. coastal areas. Mandates that the management plan and program:  (1) provide for a minimum of the same level and quality of protection as the current tropical cyclone surveillance and reconnaissance program; and (2) in no way allow any reduction in the level, quality, timeliness, sustainability, and area served of both the existing principal and back-up severe storm reconnaissance and tracking systems.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-hr-1695,102,hr,1695,"To limit the authority of the Secretary of Commerce to close, consolidate, automate, or relocate any National Weather Service Office or National Weather Service Forecast Office, and for other purposes.","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-04-10,1991-11-20,See H.R.2130.,House,"Rep. Johnson, Tim [D-SD-At Large]",SD,D,J000177,0,"Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from closing, consolidating, automating, or relocating any National Weather Service Office or National Weather Service Forecast Office without certification to specified congressional committees that the action will not result in any degradation of weather services to the affected area and that the affected area will receive complete coverage at 10,000 feet by the NEXRAD doppler network. Prohibits the Secretary from taking such actions regarding either type of office located at an airport without first conducting an air safety appraisal and certifying that the action will not result in a decrease in aircraft safety. Prohibits the Secretary from taking such actions regarding any National Weather Service Office which is the only office in a State without first evaluating the effect on weather services to in-State users and certifying that a comparable level of weather services will remain.",2024-02-07T15:21:41Z,
102-s-778,102,s,778,"National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 1992","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-03-22,1991-03-22,Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,Senate,"Sen. Gore, Albert, Jr. [D-TN]",TN,D,G000321,2,"National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 1992 - Title I:  Fiscal Year 1992 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization - Authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for:  (1) research and development; (2) space flight, control and data communications; (3) construction of facilities; (4) research and program management, including scientific consultations; and (5) the Inspector General. Permits appropriations for the first two numbered categories to be used for certain items of a capital nature (other than land acquisition) required for the performance of research and development contracts and for grants to nonprofit educational and research organizations to augment their research facilities. Prohibits the use of these funds for the construction of any major facility whose estimated cost exceeds a specified amount, unless the Administrator of NASA notifies specified congressional leadership and committees. Authorizes fund use, subject to limitations, for facilities construction, repair, or modification and for unforeseen programmatic facility project needs. Permits upward variances of funds for facilities construction under circumstances outlined in this Act. Authorizes certain fund transfers and makes available specified funds for the construction and modification of laboratories and other installations.  Requires the Administrator to notify specified congressional leadership and committees of the nature, cost, and need for such construction before expending the funds in question. Prohibits, until 30 days following congressional receipt of the Administrator's full explanation, the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this Act for any program that:  (1) has been eliminated by the Congress; (2) is in excess of the amount actually authorized for the particular program (except for construction of facilities); or (3) has not been presented to either of the relevant congressional committees. Title II:  Amendment to the Space Act on Protection of Information Developed under Space Act Agreements - Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to allow protection, for up to five years, of information that would be a trade secret or commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential if obtained from a non-Federal party under an agreement under specified provisions of the Act.",2025-08-26T15:15:05Z,
102-hr-1465,102,hr,1465,"National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 1992","Science, Technology, Communications",1991-03-19,1991-03-27,Referred to the Subcommittee on Space.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,1,"National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act, 1992 - Title I:  Fiscal Year 1992 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization - Authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for:  (1) research and development; (2) space flight control and data communications; (3) construction of facilities; (4) research and program management, including scientific consultations; and (5) the Inspector General. Permits appropriations for the first two numbered categories to be used for certain items of a capital nature (other than land acquisition) required for the performance of research and development contracts and for grants to nonprofit educational and research organizations to augment their research facilities. Prohibits the use of these funds for the construction of any major facility whose estimated cost exceeds a specified amount, unless the Administrator of NASA notifies specified congressional leadership and committees. Authorizes fund use, subject to limitations, for facilities construction, repair, or modification and for unforeseen programmatic facility project needs. Permits upward variances of funds for facilities construction under circumstances outlined in this Act. Authorizes certain fund transfers and makes available specified funds for the construction and modification of laboratories and other installations.  Requires the Administrator to notify specified congressional leadership and committees of the nature, cost, and need for such construction before expending the funds in question. Prohibits, until 30 days following congressional receipt of the Administrator's full explanation, the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this Act for any program that:  (1) has been eliminated by the Congress; (2) is in excess of the amount actually authorized for the particular program (except for construction of facilities); or (3) has not been presented to either of the relevant congressional committees. Title II:  Amendment to the Space Act on Protection of Information Developed under Space Act Agreements - Amends the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 to allow protection, for up to five years, of information that would be a trade secret or commercial or financial information that is privileged or confidential if obtained from a non-Federal party under an agreement under specified provisions of the Act.",2025-08-26T15:14:30Z,
102-hr-1370,102,hr,1370,National Sea Grant College Program Authorization Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-03-12,1991-05-15,Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce.,House,"Rep. Hertel, Dennis M. [D-MI-14]",MI,D,H000547,50,"National Sea Grant College Program Authorization Act of 1991 - Amends the National Sea Grant College Program Act (Sea Grant Act) to require that the National Sea Grant College Program be administered by a National Sea Grant Office within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  Authorizes appropriations for:  (1) program or project grants, including priority oyster disease research; (2) fellowships; and (3) administration of the Act. Repeals provisions of the Sea Grant Act authorizing grants and contracts for a sea grant strategic research plan.  Amends the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 (Aquatic Nuisance Act) to generally authorize appropriations for grants under the Sea Grant Act. (Currently, the provisions of the Aquatic Nuisance Act being amended here authorize appropriations only for grants for the sea grant research plan under the Sea Grant Act.) Repeals provisions authorizing grants relating to marine affairs and resource management.",2025-01-14T18:51:33Z,
102-hr-1389,102,hr,1389,Information Dissemination and Research Accountability Act,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-03-12,1991-03-28,Referred to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.,House,"Rep. Torricelli, Robert G. [D-NJ-9]",NJ,D,T000317,55,Information Dissemination and Research Accountability Act - Establishes in the National Library of Medicine a National Center for Research Accountability to assist in eliminating duplication of effort in Federal research proposals involving live animals. Prohibits Federal agencies from carrying out or funding any research proposal involving live animals unless the proposal is submitted to the Center following agency approval.  Prohibits Federal funding of any proposal the Center determines would duplicate other research completed or in process. Authorizes the Center to contract with private entities to assist in conducting comprehensive full-text literature searches. Directs the Center to report annually to the President and the Congress. Provides for modernization of biomedical information storage and dissemination by the National Library of Medicine. Authorizes the Library to award contracts to the private-sector data recording industry to improve:  (1) the development of technologies for storage and dissemination of full-text biomedical information; and (2) dissemination of such information to medical libraries for research use. Requires the Library to report annually to the Congress on its progress. Authorizes appropriations.,2025-08-26T15:16:59Z,
102-s-343,102,s,343,National High-Performance Computing and Networking Act,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-02-05,1992-01-28,Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.,Senate,"Sen. Johnston, J. Bennett [D-LA]",LA,D,J000189,5,"National High-Performance Computing and Networking Act - Directs the President to:  (1) develop a National High-Performance Computing and Communications Program; and (2) establish a high-speed computer network, known as the National Research and Education Network (NREN). Requires NREN to:  (1) link Federal departments and agencies, research and educational institutions, industry, and others; and (2) foster competition and private sector investment. Directs the Secretary of Energy to:  (1) perform evaluations of high-performance computing systems; (2) conduct or support research; (3) provide for networking infrastructure support for energy-related mission activities; and (4) establish at least two High-Performance Computing Research and Development Collaborative Consortia, with each led by a Department of Energy national laboratory.  Requires research and development results to be transferred to the private sector. Exempts from this Act computer systems that process classified information or are used in connection with certain defense purposes. Authorizes appropriations.",2026-03-24T12:48:03Z,
102-sres-30,102,sres,30,A resolution to express the sense of the Senate that the Willamette Meteorite should be returned to the State of Oregon.,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-01-31,1991-01-31,Referred to the Committee on Rules.,Senate,"Sen. Packwood, Bob [R-OR]",OR,R,P000009,1,Expresses the Senate's support of the Help End Willamette Meteorite Absence Committee's efforts to have the Willamette Meteorite returned for display to its place of discovery in Oregon.,2025-01-14T17:21:40Z,
102-hr-656,102,hr,656,High-Performance Computing and National Research and Education Network Act of 1991,"Science, Technology, Communications",1991-01-28,1991-09-16,Message on Senate action sent to the House.,House,"Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-36]",CA,D,B000918,19,"High-Performance Computing and National Research and Education Network Act of 1991 - Title I:  High-Performance Computing and the National Research and Education Network - Directs the President to establish and, through the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, coordinate the National High-Performance Computing Program. Sets forth Program requirements, including:  (1) setting goals and priorities for Federal high-performance computing research, development, and networking; (2) providing for interagency coordination; (3) providing for oversight of the operation and evolution of the National Research and Education Network provided for in this Act; (4) improving software; (5) acceleration of high-performance computer system development; (6) technical support and research and development of software and hardware needed to address fundamental problems in science and engineering (Grand Challenges); (7) educating undergraduate and graduate students; and (8) providing for security. Establishes an advisory committee on high-performance computing. Requires identifying Program elements in the annual budget requests for each Federal agency and department participating in the Program. Requires participating agencies to support the establishment of a national multi-gigabit-per-second research and education computer network, to be known as the National Research and Education Network, to link research and educational institutions, government, and industry in every State.  Charges the National Science Foundation (NSF), to the extent other entities do not do so, with primary responsibility for connecting colleges, universities, and libraries to the Network. Sets forth Network requirements, including:  (1) fostering and maintaining competition and private sector investment in high-speed data networking within the telecommunications industry; (2) promoting the development of commercial data communications and telecommunications standards; and (3) purchasing standard commercial transmission and network services from vendors whenever feasible. Requires development of accounting mechanisms allowing users to be charged for using copyrighted materials. Requires:  (1) the Department of Defense, through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to support research and development of advanced fiber optics technology, switches, and protocols for the Network; and (2) the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop standards and guidelines for interoperability, common user interfaces to systems, and Network security. Authorizes all Federal agencies and departments to allow Federal research grant recipients to use grant monies to pay for computer networking expenses. Mandates a report to the Congress on Network funding, including user fees, industry support, and Federal investment. Requires the Director to coordinate agency and department activities to promote the development of information services that could be provided over the Network.  Requires protection for copyright and other intellectual property rights of information providers and Network users. Title II:  Agency Activities - Requires the NSF to:  (1) provide computing and networking infrastructure support for all science and engineering disciplines; (2) support basic research and human resource development in computer science, computational science, and engineering; and (3) provide funding to help researchers access supercomputers. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct basic and applied research in high-performance computing, particularly in computational science, with emphasis on aeronautics and the processing of remote sensing and space science data.  Authorizes appropriations. Requires NIST to develop:  (1) standards, guidelines, measurement techniques, and test methods for interoperability of high-performance computers in networks and common user interfaces to systems; and (2) benchmark tests and standards for high-performance computers and software.  Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Energy to:  (1) perform research and development on and evaluation of high-performance computing and communications systems; (2) conduct computational research with emphasis on energy applications; (3) support basic research, education, and human resources in computational science; (4) provide for networking infrastructure support for energy-related mission activities; and (5) establish at least two High-Performance Computing Research and Development Collaborative Consortia.  Sets forth requirements for the Consortia. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a study regarding Federal procurement regulations and software development. Declares that, except to the extent the appropriate Federal agency or department head determines applicable, the provisions of this Act shall not apply to computer systems that process classified information or are used in connection with certain defense purposes. Allows Federal agencies and departments, and their grantees and contractors, to require prototype and early production models of new high-performance computer and communications systems to stimulate hardware and software development.",2025-07-21T19:44:15Z,