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| 93-hr-17577 | 93 | hr | 17577 | Clean Air Act Amendments | Environmental Protection | 1974-12-05 | 1974-12-05 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 1 | Clean Air Act Amendments - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to undertake to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to study and prepare, within nine months, a report on the potential effects on public health and the environment of the discharge of flurocarbon compounds into the ambient air and the risk of occurrence of such potential effects. Requires manufacturers of products which are likely to discharge any flurocarbon compound to obtain a certificate of safety with respect to any product manufactured one year after the date of enactment of this Act. Prescribes the procedures for the issuance of such certificates and imposes civil penalties for violations. | 2025-09-03T12:50:28Z | |
| 93-s-4189 | 93 | s | 4189 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in order to increase the authorization for the Alaska village demonstration projects. | Environmental Protection | 1974-11-25 | 1974-11-25 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK] | AK | R | S000888 | 0 | Increases from $2,000,000 to $3,500,000 the authorization for the Alaska Village demonstration projects under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. (Amends 33 U.S.C. 1263) | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | |
| 93-hr-17447 | 93 | hr | 17447 | A bill to authorize payment of costs incurred in the alteration or replacement of certain municipal waste incinerators for the purpose of controlling air pollution. | Environmental Protection | 1974-11-18 | 1974-11-18 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Studds, Gerry E. [D-MA-12] | MA | D | S001040 | 0 | Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants for the costs incurred in the alteration or replacement of specified unamortized municipal waste incinerators owned and operated by local government entities for refuse burning in order to control air pollution under the Clean Air Act. | 2024-08-01T18:39:15Z | |
| 93-hres-1460 | 93 | hres | 1460 | Resolution disapproving proposed deferral of budget authority numbered D75-9, relating to construction of waste treatment plants, as transmitted to the Congress in the President's message of September 23, 1974. | Environmental Protection | 1974-11-18 | 1974-11-18 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Roe, Robert A. [D-NJ-8] | NJ | D | R000383 | 0 | States that the House of Representatives disapproves proposed deferral of budget authority numbered D75-9, relating to construction of waste treatment plants, as transmitted to the Congress in the President's message of September 23, 1974. | 2024-08-01T18:27:13Z | |
| 93-hr-17396 | 93 | hr | 17396 | Pollution Control Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-16 | 1974-10-16 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Heinz, John [R-PA-18] | PA | R | H000456 | 0 | Pollution Control Act - Allows a 36-month amortization deduction, under the Internal Revenue Code, of certified pollution control expenditures, previously amortizations based on a period of 60 months. Defines "certified pollution control expenditure". Excludes from such amortization those profit-making pollution abatement facilities, to the extent of their profits. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 169). | 2025-09-03T12:50:24Z | |
| 93-hr-17405 | 93 | hr | 17405 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-16 | 1974-10-16 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Shipley, George E. [D-IL-22] | IL | D | S000367 | 0 | Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring, under the Clean Air Act, an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. States that any rules or regulations with respect to the requirement of such review as a part of any such plan previously promulgated by the Administrator shall be void on the date of the enactment of this Act. | 2024-08-01T18:39:15Z | |
| 93-hres-1451 | 93 | hres | 1451 | Resolution disapproving proposed deferral of budget authority No. D75-9, relating to construction of waste treatment plants, as transmitted to the Congress in the President's message of September 23, 1974. | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-16 | 1974-10-16 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Bingham, Jonathan B. [D-NY-22] | NY | D | B000472 | 6 | States that the House of Representatives disapproves proposed deferral of budget authority numbered D75-9, relating to construction of waste treatment plants, as transmitted to the Congress in the President's message of September 23, 1974. | 2024-08-01T18:27:13Z | |
| 93-hr-17308 | 93 | hr | 17308 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-11 | 1974-10-11 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Talcott, Burt L. [R-CA-12] | CA | R | T000022 | 0 | States that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may continue the system of ad valorem taxation to industrial users of treatment works constructed pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act if he determines that a change from such a system would be costly, disruptive, or difficult; and if he determines that classes of recipients of wast treatment services and industrial users of such services will receive and pay for their proportionate share of services under such system. | 2024-08-01T18:39:09Z | |
| 93-hr-17314 | 93 | hr | 17314 | A bill to amend section 204 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the use of ad valorem taxes to satisfy the user charge system requirement. | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-11 | 1974-10-11 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Danielson, George E. [D-CA-29] | CA | D | D000043 | 3 | Authorizes the use of ad valorem taxes to satisfy the user charge system requirement for applicants for treatment works grants under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. (Amends 33 U.S.C. 1284) | 2024-08-01T18:39:18Z | |
| 93-hr-17345 | 93 | hr | 17345 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-11 | 1974-10-11 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Talcott, Burt L. [R-CA-12] | CA | R | T000022 | 0 | States that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may continue the system of ad valorem taxation to industrial users of treatment works constructed pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act if he determines that a change from such a system would be costly, disruptive, or difficult; and if he determines that classes of recipients of wast treatment services and industrial users of such services will receive and pay for their proportionate share of services under such system. | 2024-08-01T18:39:18Z | |
| 93-hr-17236 | 93 | hr | 17236 | A bill to postpone for 1 year the effective date of indirect source regulations under the Clean Air Act. | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-10 | 1974-10-10 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Owens, Wayne [D-UT-2] | UT | D | O000156 | 0 | Provides that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall postpone for one year (until January 1, 1976) the effective date of indirect source regulations under the Clean Air Act. | 2024-08-01T18:39:07Z | |
| 93-hr-17247 | 93 | hr | 17247 | Solid Waste Energy Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-10 | 1974-10-10 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Spence, Floyd [R-SC-2] | SC | R | S000718 | 0 | Solid Waste Energy Act - Provides that any expenditure, otherwise chargeable to a capital account, for the acquisition and installation of equipment for reduction of solid waste to a form suitable as an energy source shall be treated as a business expense of the current taxable year for purposes of a tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code. Limits such tax deduction to the lesser of the taxpayer's pre-tax profit or $500,000. Allows a carryover of the undeducted excess to the next taxable year. | 2025-09-03T12:50:18Z | |
| 93-hr-17130 | 93 | hr | 17130 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to define the term "useful life of vehicles and engines". | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-08 | 1974-10-08 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Cochran, Thad [R-MS-4] | MS | R | C000567 | 0 | Defines, for purposes of the Clean Air Act, the useful life of vehicles and engines in the case of light duty vehicle engines to be a period of use of two years or of 24,000 miles (or the eguivalent), whichever occurs first. | 2024-08-01T18:39:06Z | |
| 93-hr-17112 | 93 | hr | 17112 | A bill to amend the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to provide that State and local governments may regulate aircraft noise. | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-07 | 1974-10-07 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Wydler, John W. [R-NY-5] | NY | R | W000780 | 0 | Provides that nothing in the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 shall preclude any State or political subdivision from adopting any law with respect to aircraft noise and sonic boom. States that compliance with any such State or political subdivision law shall not relieve any person from the obligation to comply with the provisions of the Federal Aviation Act. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1431). | 2024-08-01T18:38:58Z | |
| 93-hr-17069 | 93 | hr | 17069 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to declare that it is not the intent of the act to require or authorize standards more stringent than primary and secondary ambient air quality standards. | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-03 | 1974-10-03 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Treen, David C. [R-LA-3] | LA | R | T000362 | 0 | Declares that it is not the intent of the Clean Air Act to require or authorize standards more stringent than primary and secondary ambient air quality standards. | 2024-08-01T18:38:58Z | |
| 93-hr-17081 | 93 | hr | 17081 | A bill to amend section 303 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-03 | 1974-10-03 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Myers, John T. [R-IN-7] | IN | R | M001130 | 0 | Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to approve any continuing planning process submitted to him regarding an inventory and ranking, in order of priority, of needs for construction of waste treatment works required to meet the applicable requirements of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, except that in such ranking in order of priority the highest priority shall be given to projects which are the subject of enforcement orders issued pursuant to the Act. (Amends 33 U.S.C. 1313(e)) | 2024-08-01T18:39:01Z | |
| 93-hr-16995 | 93 | hr | 16995 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-02 | 1974-10-02 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Casey, Bob [D-TX-22] | TX | D | C000228 | 4 | Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring, under the Clean Air Act, an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. States that any rules or regulations with respect to the requirement of such review as a part of any such plan previously promulgated by the Administrator shall be void on the date of the enactment of this Act. | 2024-08-01T18:38:50Z | |
| 93-hr-17022 | 93 | hr | 17022 | A bill to amend section 204 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the use of ad valorem taxes to satisfy the user charge system requirement. | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-02 | 1974-10-02 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Danielson, George E. [D-CA-29] | CA | D | D000043 | 6 | Authorizes the use of ad valorem taxes to satisfy the user charge system requirement for applicants for treatment works grants under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. (Amends 33 U.S.C. 1284) | 2024-08-01T18:39:01Z | |
| 93-s-4073 | 93 | s | 4073 | An original bill to extend certain authorizations under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1974-10-02 | 1975-01-02 | Public law 93-592. | Senate | Sen. Randolph, Jennings [D-WV] | WV | D | R000046 | 0 | Extends specified authorizations under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act through fiscal year 1975. | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | |
| 93-hr-16950 | 93 | hr | 16950 | Energy Materials Conservation Education Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-09-30 | 1974-09-30 | Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor. | House | Rep. Mink, Patsy T. [D-HI-2] | HI | D | M000797 | 0 | Energy Materials Conservation Education Act - Establishes within the Office of Education the Council on the Conservation and Nonuse of Energy-Materials, the members of which shall broadly represent the public and private sectors. Directs the Council to advise the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on programs established under this Act. States that funds appropriated for grants and contracts under this Act shall be available for (but not limited to) such activities as: (1) community education programs concerning the conservation and nonuse of energy and materials, including special programs for adults; (2) dissemination of information to public and private nonprofit preschool, elementary, secondary, higher, adult, and community education programs; (3) research, development, and dissemination of curriculums, texts and materials, tests, and programs for adequate vocational and technical education and career counseling for persons in the field of energy-materials conservation and nonuse; and (4) programs and projects to recruit, train, organize, and employ professional and other persons, and to organize and participate in energy-materials conservation and nonuse educational programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and other institutions for planning and carrying out community-oriented education programs or projects on the conservation and nonuse of energy materials in American society for the benefit of interested and concerned adults, young persons, ethnic and cultural groups, community, labor and business leaders, and other individuals and groups within a community. Authorizes the appropriation of $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 for carrying out the purposes of this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:50:12Z | |
| 93-s-4060 | 93 | s | 4060 | A bill to amend section 206 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in order to authorize reimbursement for the construction of certain sewage treatment works. | Environmental Protection | 1974-09-30 | 1974-09-30 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Hansen, Clifford P. [R-WY] | WY | R | H000170 | 4 | Authorizes Federal reimbursement to the States for the construction of specified sewage treatment works constructed with financial assistance appropriated pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for any fiscal year beginning July 1, 1966, and ending June 30, 1971. (Amends 86 Stat. 838) | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | |
| 93-hr-16873 | 93 | hr | 16873 | A bill to amend section 206(e) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to increase the authorization for reimbursement. | Environmental Protection | 1974-09-25 | 1974-09-25 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Grover, James R., Jr. [R-NY-2] | NY | R | G000504 | 10 | Increases from $2,600,000,000 to $3,100,000,000 the authorization for reimbursement for the construction of water treatment works under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. (Amends 33 U.S.C. 1286(e)) | 2024-08-01T18:38:54Z | |
| 93-hr-16788 | 93 | hr | 16788 | A bill to reduce pollution which is caused by litter composed of soft drink and beer containers, and to eliminate the threat to the Nation's health, safety, and welfare which is caused by such litter by banning such containers when they are sold in interstate commerce on a no-deposit, no-return basis. | Environmental Protection | 1974-09-23 | 1974-09-23 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Fish, Hamilton, Jr. [R-NY-25] | NY | R | F000141 | 0 | Prohibits the manufacture, sale, or delivery for sale of beverage containers with respect to which no reasonable refund money deposit is required from the consumer for use in marketing or packaging any beverage for human consumption. | 2024-08-01T18:38:43Z | |
| 93-hr-16760 | 93 | hr | 16760 | Safe Drinking Water Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-09-19 | 1974-09-19 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Robison, Howard W. [R-NY-27] | NY | R | R000357 | 0 | Safe Drinking Water Act - Subjects public water systems in each State to national primary drinking water regulations under the Public Health Service Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to publish proposed national interim primary drinking water regulations within 90 days after enactment of this Act, such regulations to take effect within a year of promulgation. Directs the Administrator to establish by rule the recommended maximum contaminant levels for each contaminant which may have any adverse effect on the health of persons. Sets standards for the treatment of water contaminants. Requires the Administrator to publish guidelines designed to insure the proper operation of public water supply systems. Prescribes standards to be followed by the National Academy of Science in conducting a study, in agreement with the Administrator, on water contaminants effects and treatments therefor. Designates the States as primary enforcers for purposes of this Act. Directs the Administrator to advise public water systems on methods of meeting national primary drinking water regulations when such systems are out of compliance and are not taking steps to comply. Sets forth prohibited acts by such systems and establishes penalties for willful violations. Authorizes the Administrator to take necessary actions when presented with information that a contaminant which is present or is likely to be present in a public water system is an imminent danger to the public health, and when State or local authorities have not acted to relieve such danger. Provides that when a public water system applies to the Administrator for water treatment chemicals which have become unavailable to such system, the Administrator may issue a certificate of need and the President may, within seven days, order the provision of such chemicals from appropriate manufacturers, producers, processors, and distributors. Authorizes the Administrator to conduct research and demonstrations, or to contract for such, relating to causes… | 2025-09-03T12:49:53Z | |
| 93-hr-16662 | 93 | hr | 16662 | A bill to amend section 204 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the use of ad valorem taxes to satisfy the user charge system requirement. | Environmental Protection | 1974-09-16 | 1974-09-16 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Danielson, George E. [D-CA-29] | CA | D | D000043 | 0 | Authorizes the use of ad valorem taxes to satisfy the user charge system requirement for applicants for treatment works grants under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. (Amends 33 U.S.C. 1284) | 2024-08-01T18:38:45Z | |
| 93-hr-16595 | 93 | hr | 16595 | A bill to extend the time for using funds appropriated to carry out the rural environmental assistance program (REAP) and the rural environmental conservation program (RECP) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1973 and June 30, 1974. | Environmental Protection | 1974-09-11 | 1974-09-11 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Culver, John C. [D-IA-2] | IA | D | C000979 | 0 | Extends, until December 31, 1975, the time for using funds appropriated to carry out specified activities under the Rural Environmental Assistance Program (REAP) and the Rural Environmental Conservation Program (RECP) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1973, and June 30, 1974. | 2024-08-01T18:38:32Z | |
| 93-s-3989 | 93 | s | 3989 | A bill to assist local areas in obtaining reimbursement for construction of public waste treatment works constructed prior to July 1, 1972. | Environmental Protection | 1974-09-11 | 1974-09-11 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Taft, Robert, Jr. [R-OH] | OH | R | T000010 | 0 | Provides, under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, that specified publicly owned treatment works constructed with Federal financial assistance granted subsequent to June 30, 1956, and prior to July 1, 1972, shall be reimbursed in the amount by which the total assistance received is exceeded by 50 percent of the cost of construction or 55 percent where construction was in conformity with a comprehensive metropolitan treatment plan. | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | |
| 93-hr-16539 | 93 | hr | 16539 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. | Environmental Protection | 1974-08-22 | 1974-08-22 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Casey, Bob [D-TX-22] | TX | D | C000228 | 13 | Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring, under the Clean Air Act, an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. States that any rules or regulations with respect to the requirement of such review as a part of any such plan previously promulgated by the Administrator shall be void on the date of the enactment of this Act. | 2024-08-01T18:38:33Z | |
| 93-s-3943 | 93 | s | 3943 | A bill to extend the time for using funds appropriated to carry out the Rural Environmental Assistance Program (REAP) and the Rural Environmental Conservation Program (RECP) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1973, and June 1974. | Environmental Protection | 1974-08-22 | 1975-01-04 | Pocket vetoed by President. | Senate | Sen. Clark, Dick [D-IA] | IA | D | C000448 | 0 | Extends until December 31, 1975, the time for using funds appropriated to carry out specified activities under the Rural Environmental Assistance Program (REAP) and the Rural Environmental Conservation Program (RECP) for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1973, and June 30, 1974. | 2025-01-14T16:41:20Z | |
| 93-hr-16505 | 93 | hr | 16505 | A bill to amend title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for State certification. | Environmental Protection | 1974-08-21 | 1974-08-21 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Cleveland, James C. [R-NH-2] | NH | R | C000512 | 15 | Empowers the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to discharge specified responsibilities for actions, determinations, or approvals with repect to projects for treatment works under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act by accepting a certification by the State water pollution control agency of its performance of such responsibilities. | 2024-08-01T18:38:37Z | |
| 93-hr-16436 | 93 | hr | 16436 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. | Environmental Protection | 1974-08-15 | 1974-08-15 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Casey, Bob [D-TX-22] | TX | D | C000228 | 24 | Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring, under the Clean Air Act, an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. States that any rules or regulations with respect to the requirement of such review as a part of any such plan previously promulgated by the Administrator shall be void on the date of the enactment of this Act. | 2024-08-01T18:38:32Z | |
| 93-hr-16437 | 93 | hr | 16437 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. | Environmental Protection | 1974-08-15 | 1974-08-15 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Casey, Bob [D-TX-22] | TX | D | C000228 | 20 | Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring, under the Clean Air Act, an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. States that any rules or regulations with respect to the requirement of such review as a part of any such plan previously promulgated by the Administrator shall be void on the date of the enactment of this Act. | 2024-08-01T18:38:32Z | |
| 93-hr-16278 | 93 | hr | 16278 | A bill to direct the Director of the National Bureau of Standards to issue regulations with respect to recycled oil. | Environmental Protection | 1974-08-06 | 1974-08-06 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Helstoski, Henry [D-NJ-9] | NJ | D | H000465 | 0 | Defines the term "recycled oil" and authorizes the Director of the National Bureau of Standards to issue regulations with respect to recycled oil. Provides that no excise tax shall be imposed on recycled oil which is not for use in automobiles. | 2024-08-01T18:38:29Z | |
| 93-hr-16222 | 93 | hr | 16222 | A bill to provide for a program of Federal financial assistance for the installation of noise suppression devices on aircraft to suppress aircraft noise pollution. | Environmental Protection | 1974-08-01 | 1974-08-01 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Wolff, Lester L. [D-NY-6] | NY | D | W000680 | 0 | Provides for a program of Federal financial loan assistance for the installation of noise suppression devices on aircraft to suppress aircraft noise pollution. Authorizes appropriations of $700,000,000 to carry out the purposes of this Act. | 2024-08-01T18:38:19Z | |
| 93-hr-16223 | 93 | hr | 16223 | A bill to provide the States with the right to adopt or enforce requirements with respect to certain environmental matters. | Environmental Protection | 1974-08-01 | 1974-08-01 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-38] | CA | D | B000918 | 0 | States the purposes of this Act including to direct that the policies, regulations, and public laws of the United States should not be interpreted as precluding or denying to any State or political subdivision the right to adopt or enforce any standard, requirement, limitation, or other restriction, with respect to major governmental actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. Makes changes to: (1) the Clean Air Act; (2) the Noise Control Act; (3) the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (4) the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; (5) the Federal Aviation Act; and (6) the Atomic Energy Act to carry out such purpose. | 2024-08-01T18:38:19Z | |
| 93-hr-16175 | 93 | hr | 16175 | Nonreturnable Beverage Container Prohibition Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-07-30 | 1974-07-30 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Tiernan, Robert O. [D-RI-2] | RI | D | T000265 | 0 | Nonreturnable Beverage Container Prohibition Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to prevent the use of offending types of nonreturnable beverage containers by banning their shipment and sale in interstate commerce. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to certify beverage containers which satisfy specified requirements. Sets forth penalties of up to a $1,000 fine and/or up to six months imprisonment for violation of provisions of this Act. Provides that the provisions relating to prohibitions and penalties for violations of this Act shall not be effective until three years after enactment of this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:49:36Z | |
| 93-hr-16154 | 93 | hr | 16154 | A bill to amend the Noise Control Act of 1972 and the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to provide that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall prescribe standards for the control and abatement of aircraft noise and sonic boom. | Environmental Protection | 1974-07-29 | 1974-07-29 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Wolff, Lester L. [D-NY-6] | NY | D | W000680 | 0 | Directs the Environmental Protection Agency, after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation and with the Federal Aviation Administration, to prescribe standards for the measurement of aircraft noise and sonic boom and to prescribe and amend such regulations as the EPA may find necessary to provide for the control and abatement of aircraft noise and sonic boom. States that in prescribing and amending standards and regulations under this Act, the EPA shall consider whether any proposed standard or regulation is economically reasonable, technologically practicable, and appropriate for the particular type of aircraft, aircraft engine, appliance, or certificate to which it will apply, and consult with such Federal, State, and interstate agencies as he deems appropriate. | 2024-08-01T18:38:18Z | |
| 93-sconres-104 | 93 | sconres | 104 | Concurrent resolution relating to the availability of unleaded gasoline and related equipment. | Environmental Protection | 1974-07-25 | 1974-07-25 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Bible, Alan [D-NV] | NV | D | B000436 | 14 | Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency should, in the application of regulations pursuant to the Clean Air Act with respect to supplying, after July 1, 1974, unleaded gasoline for automobiles: (1) grant reasonable extensions of time for compliance to retailers who are unable to obtain such gasoline or delivery systems for such gasoline; and (2) consult with the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration in order to obtain a fair allocation of such gasoline for all segments of the petroleum industry marketing structure. | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | |
| 93-s-3795 | 93 | s | 3795 | Clean Air Amendments | Environmental Protection | 1974-07-23 | 1974-07-23 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Sparkman, John J. [D-AL] | AL | D | S000701 | 1 | Clean Air Amendments - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to approve State air quality control plans that include fixed or variable emission limitations (based, whenever technically feasible, on measurement and field-validated models of the impact of individual sources), schedules, and timetables for compliance with such limitations, or such other meausres as may be necessary to insure attainment and maintenance of such primary or secondary standard; provide for revision, after public hearings, of such plan from time to time as may be necessary to take account of (1) revisions of such national primary or secondary ambient air quality standard and (2) the availability of improved or more expeditious methods, including more cost-effective methods, of achieving such primary or secondary standard; and provides a procedure for petition by a source owner or operator to the State agency for promulgation of emission limitations or other measures with respect to a particular source different from those approved elsewhere in the Act. Allows any owner or operator of a new stationary source to petition the Administrator for a permit to operate a new source with emission limits in excess of those established by the Administrator as standards of performance for such source. Requires the Administrator to establish procedures for conduct of hearings on the record with respect to such petitions. Requires the Administrator to revise State plans within nine months that are not in conformance with this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:53:09Z | |
| 93-hr-16045 | 93 | hr | 16045 | An Act to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1975. | Environmental Protection | 1974-07-22 | 1975-01-02 | Public law 93-611. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 10 | (LATEST SUMMARY) Authorizes appropriations, under the Solid Waste Disposal Act, for fiscal year 1975. | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | |
| 93-s-3791 | 93 | s | 3791 | A bill to amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 in order to assist industry and employees in complying with environmental protection programs. | Environmental Protection | 1974-07-22 | 1974-07-22 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE] | DE | D | B000444 | 0 | Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, under the Public Works and Economic Development Act, to initiate an investigation of any employment loss resulting from the issuance of a standard or order under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Clean Air Act, or any other Federal law having for its primary purpose the improvement of environmental quality. Requires the owner or operator of any commercial or industrial facility seeking assistance under the Public Works and Economic Development Act, or alleging that an employment loss at any facility under his control will result from the enforcement of an order or standard for the protection of environmental quality, to submit to the Administrator a report disclosing specified information, including: (1) his plans to comply, including a description of the technology necessary for compliance and its cost; (2) the extent of potential employment loss; and (3) alternatives to the potential employment loss. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to provide assistance to individuals classified as unemployed as a result of economic environmental effects. Authorizes to be appropriated $100,000,000 for carrying out the above purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to aid in financing any project in the United States for the acquisition, construction, or alteration of pollution control facilities (including machinery and equipment) for industrial or commercial usage. Specifies the terms of such assistance. Authorizes to be appropriated $100,000,000 per fiscal year for fiscal years 1975, and 1976, to carry out such loans. | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | |
| 93-hr-15934 | 93 | hr | 15934 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act as amended by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. | Environmental Protection | 1974-07-16 | 1974-07-16 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Shriver, Garner E. [R-KS-4] | KS | R | S000388 | 0 | Requires that, before grants for construction of treatment works are approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, such works must be: (1) included in any applicable areawide waste treatment management plan: (2) in conformity with any applicable State plan; (3) certified by the appropriate State water pollution control agency; (4) guaranteed by the applicant to have the capability of proper operation and maintenance; (5) approved with respect to the size and capacity of such works in relation to the needs to be served; and (6) awarded solely on the basis of prospective ability to perform the contract of construction of such works. Requires the applicant to adopt a system of charges to assure that each recipient of waste treatment services will pay its equitable share of the costs of operation and maintenance of such works. | 2024-08-01T18:38:12Z | |
| 93-hr-15858 | 93 | hr | 15858 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. | Environmental Protection | 1974-07-11 | 1974-07-11 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Casey, Bob [D-TX-22] | TX | D | C000228 | 0 | Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring, under the Clean Air Act, an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. States that any rules or regulations with respect to the requirement of such review as a part of any such plan previously promulgated by the Administrator shall be void on the date of the enactment of this Act. | 2024-08-01T18:38:01Z | |
| 93-s-3723 | 93 | s | 3723 | Resource Conservation and Energy Recovery Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-06-27 | 1974-06-27 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Hart, Philip A. [D-MI] | MI | D | H000291 | 0 | Resource Conservation and Energy Recovery Act - Declares the findings of Congress and purposes of this Act, including to promote the use of materials that can be used again through recovery, reuse, and recycling and to discourage the unnecessary use and depletion of virgin natural resource materials. Defines the terms used in this Act. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to make changes in the rates charged by common carriers to promote the movement of recycled materials. Provides, with regard to such rates, for the filing of complaints, investigation, proceedings, and review of orders issued by the Commission. Requires the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission to: (1) undertake studies of the need and feasibility of establishing a transportation rate policy for all recoverable materials based only on the type, size, and kind of transportation equipment used, the characteristics of movements, services, and facilities provided, and the weight and/or volume of the shipment; and (2) of the extent to which the transportation rate structure of recycled materials is unjustly discriminatory or unreasonable. Provides that, with respect to procurement items purchased through advertisements for bids, no procurement shall be made of any item unless it is, by comparison with competing items offered for sale by suppliers, composed of the greatest percentage of reclaimed materials and is, to the greatest extent, recyclable or reusable following the use for which it is designed or used, whenever a significant difference exists between such item and competing items with respect to such characteristics. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare: (1) guidelines for the use of procuring agencies, setting forth recommended practices with respect to the procurement of reclaimed, recyclable, and reusable materials; (2) promulgate standards regulating the manufacture and distribution of certain products in commerce to the extent necessary to protect human health and… | 2025-09-03T12:53:02Z | |
| 93-hr-15594 | 93 | hr | 15594 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize additional funds for grants for the construction of treatment works which are required for compliance with international pollution control agreements. | Environmental Protection | 1974-06-25 | 1974-06-25 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Kemp, Jack [R-NY-38] | NY | R | K000086 | 0 | Authorizes up to $100,000,000, under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, for grants for the construction of treatment works which are required for compliance with pollution control agreements between the United States and any other nation. | 2024-08-01T18:37:56Z | |
| 93-hr-15617 | 93 | hr | 15617 | A bill to extend the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended, for 1 year. | Environmental Protection | 1974-06-25 | 1974-06-25 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Staggers, Harley O. [D-WV-2] | WV | D | S000778 | 1 | Extends the Solid Waste Disposal Act through fiscal year 1975, authorizing an appropriation of $76,000,000 for the extended one-year period. | 2024-08-01T18:37:54Z | |
| 93-hr-15475 | 93 | hr | 15475 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to increase the penalties for discharging oil and hazardous substances. | Environmental Protection | 1974-06-19 | 1974-06-19 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Gunter, Bill [D-FL-5] | FL | D | G000528 | 0 | Increases the penalties under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for the discharging of oil and hazardous substances by operators of vessels, on-shore facilities, and off-shore facilities. | 2024-08-01T18:37:49Z | |
| 93-s-3656 | 93 | s | 3656 | A bill making appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, for reimbursement of costs of construction of treatment works pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. | Environmental Protection | 1974-06-17 | 1974-06-17 | Referred to Senate Committee on Appropriations. | Senate | Sen. Nelson, Gaylord [D-WI] | WI | D | N000033 | 3 | Makes appropriations of $600,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 for reimbursement of costs to the States of construction of waste treatment works pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. | 2025-01-14T18:18:18Z | |
| 93-s-3625 | 93 | s | 3625 | National Oil Recycling Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-06-11 | 1974-06-11 | Referred to Senate Committee on Finance. | Senate | Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] | NM | R | D000407 | 15 | National Oil Recycling Act - Directs all Federal officials to act within their authority to encourage the use of recycled oil. States that this Act shall in no way preempt State regulation of recycled oil or used oil disposal whenever such regulation provides for stricter control of recycled oil or used oil than provided for by Federal law. States that the States should encourage the use of recycled oil in order to accomplish the purposes of this Act. Requires that in order to qualify for Federal grants under this Act, a State shall adopt laws, regulations, and administrative machinery which shall provide for, but not be limited to: (1) requiring that used oil collectors obtain a State permit prior to engaging in used oil collecting activities; (2) requiring that used oil recyclers obtain a State permit prior to engaging in recycling operations; (3) when recycled oil is available at prices competitive with new oil produced for the same purpose, using recycled oil for all automotive and industrial uses of the State government, and requiring all parties contracting with the State to use recycled oil in the performance of such contracts; (4) regulating the retail sales of automobile oil so as to encourage the recycling of used oil; (5) prohibiting the use of used oil as fuel oil or for the oiling of State roads, unless such oil has been processed to meet the minimum standards for such uses established by Federal and State pollution control laws; and (6) educating the public and private sectors of the State as to the merits of recycled oil, and the need for its use in order to reduce the drain on the Nation's oil reserves and minimize the disposal of used oil in ways harmful to the environment. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations with respect to the labeling of recycled oil in order to carry out the purpose of this Act. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring all containers of automotive and industrial oil, both new and recycled, to bear la… | 2025-09-03T12:53:03Z | |
| 93-s-3560 | 93 | s | 3560 | Solid Waste Utilization Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-31 | 1974-05-31 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Randolph, Jennings [D-WV] | WV | D | R000046 | 0 | Solid Waste Utilization Act - Requires the Administrator of the Enviornmental Protection Agency to promulgate, within 180 days, solid waste disposal standards, which shall include prohibitions on all open burning and dumping and compliance with effluent requirements under the Clean Air and Federal Water Pollution Control Acts. Authorizes technical assistance to State and local governments for planning and implementation of resource recovery systems and the implementation and operation of conventional solid waste management systems. Requires the Administrator to publish guidelines for identifying solid waste management areas that are appropriate planning units for the establishment of regional solid waste management systems and resource recovery systems. Directs each State Governor, after such action by the Administrator, to identify each solid waste management area within each State that complies with such guidelines and to designate a planning organization for such area. Requires such organizations to have waste management and recovery systems in operation within a year. Requires the Governors to designate management agencies for such areas. Authorizes apporpriations through fiscal year 1977 for purposes of this Act. Authorizes loans to municipalities and agencies for financing projects related to resource or energy recovery systems. Authorizes loan guarantees to private borrowers for such projects. Requires Federal agencies to give preference in the purchase of materials or energy to such items manufactured from recovered resources. Requires manufacturers of materials from which containers are manufactured and container manufacturers to guarantee the purchase of all recovered resources from containers recovered from resource recovery systems constructed as a result of this Act, if requested by the Administrator to do so. Prohibits the adoption by entities receiving assistance under this Act of restrictions, fees, taxes, or deposits on the manufacture or sale of containers based on the disposal characteristics … | 2025-09-03T12:52:56Z | |
| 93-s-3549 | 93 | s | 3549 | Energy Recovery and Resource Conservation Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-30 | 1974-05-30 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Muskie, Edmund S. [D-ME] | ME | D | M001121 | 0 | Energy Recovery and Resource Conservation Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct and render financial, technical, and other assistance to appropriate public (whether Federal, State, interstate, or local) and private agencies and institutions, and individuals in the conduct of research, investigations, experiments, training and demonstrations relating to: (1) any adverse health and welfare effects of the release into the environment of material present in solid waste, and methods to eliminate such effects; (2) the operation and financing of solid waste disposal programs; and (3) measures necessary to aid the cleanup of inner city areas and other places which face particularly severe public health problems or other dangers because of accumulations of solid waste. States that in carrying out such provisions the Administrator is authorized to: (1) collect and make available, through publications and other appropriate means, the results of, and other information pertaining to, such research and other activities; (2) recommend model codes, ordinances, and statutes which are designed to implement the purposes of this Act; and (3) make grants-in-aid to public or private agencies, and institutions and to individuals for research, training projects, surveys, and demonstrations. Requires the Administrator to carry out an investigation and study to determine means of recovering energy and materials from solid waste, recommended uses of such materials and energy for national or international welfare, including identification of potential markets for such recovered resources. Allows the Administrator to make grants to States for the purpose of establishing statewide solid waste management and resource recovery programs. Provides that after January 1, 1977, no State shall be eligible for such a grant unless that State has developed a statewide solid waste management and resource recovery plan submitted to and approved by the Administrator consistent with the intent and requirements of … | 2025-09-03T12:52:56Z | |
| 93-hr-14963 | 93 | hr | 14963 | A bill to amend section 203 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for State certification. | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-22 | 1974-05-22 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Cleveland, James C. [R-NH-2] | NH | R | C000512 | 3 | Provides for certification by the State water pollution control agency of treatment projects within such State where the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency determines that such projects will be carried out in accordance with State laws and standards at least equivalent to those established by Federal law. | 2024-08-01T18:37:31Z | |
| 93-s-3531 | 93 | s | 3531 | Clean Air Amendments | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-22 | 1974-05-22 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Sparkman, John J. [D-AL] | AL | D | S000701 | 1 | Clean Air Amendments - Authorizes $150,000,000 to be appropriated for the fiscal years 1975 and 1976 for research related to fuels and vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Authorizes $300,000,000 to be appropriated for the fiscal years 1975 and 1976 for air pollution control under the Clean Air Act. States that, upon application by the Governor of a State on or after June 1, 1976, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may extend for not more than five years the deadline for attainment of national primary ambient air quality standards where transportation control measures are necessary for the attainment of such standards, and where the implementation of such control measures would have serious adverse social or economic effects. Provides that, within one hundred and twenty days following the submission of an application and all supporting materials, and after providing an opportunity for public comment, the Administrator shall grant an extension, if he determines that the requirements of this subsection have been met. Authorizes the Governor of any State, on or after June 1, 1981, to apply for a further extension. Provides that no extension may go beyond May 31, 1987. Provides that if the Administrator determines that technological or economic limitations on the application of measurement methodology to a particular class of new stationary air pollutant sources (as defined under the Clean Air Act) would make the imposition of an emission standard infeasible, he may instead prescribe a design or equipment standard meeting the requirements of this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to request the Attorney General to commence a civil action for a permanent or temporary injunction or to assess and recover a civil penalty of not more than $25,000 per day of violation, or both, whenever any person: (1) violates or fails or refuses to comply with any order issued under the Clean Air Act; or (2) violates any requirement of an applicable implementation plan during any period of federally assumed enforcem… | 2025-09-03T12:52:56Z | |
| 93-hr-14781 | 93 | hr | 14781 | Urban Forestry Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-14 | 1974-05-14 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Nedzi, Lucien N. [D-MI-14] | MI | D | N000019 | 0 | Urban Forestry Act - States that the growth of trees and shrubs helps to improve the quality of the urban environment by preventing erosion, providing shade, and reducing noise and air pollution levels. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to cities to pay up to 100 percent of the cost of trees and shrubs planted under the cities' and park districts' forestry programs, including programs of cities or park districts' forestry programs, including programs of cities or park districts which provide for the planting of trees on privately owned land. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,000,000 for the fiscal year 1975 for grants under this section. States that the Secretary may make grants to cities with populations exceeding ten thousand and park districts to pay 75 percent of the annual salaries of urban foresters. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year 1975 for grants under this section. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to cities and park districts to assist such cities in planning, developing, and administering forestry programs. | 2025-09-03T12:48:49Z | |
| 93-hr-14687 | 93 | hr | 14687 | A bill to amend title II of the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (Public Law 92-500). | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-08 | 1974-05-08 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-6] | FL | R | Y000031 | 0 | Provides that any water treatment project in which construction was initiated after July 1, 1972, and which did not receive Federal grant support shall be eligible for future reimbursement to the same extent that a grant support could have been provided if all funds authorized under the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 had been appropriated and alloted to the States in accordance with that Act. | 2024-08-01T18:37:17Z | |
| 93-hr-14690 | 93 | hr | 14690 | Nonreturnable Beverage Container Prohibition Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-08 | 1974-05-08 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Esch, Marvin L. [R-MI-2] | MI | R | E000213 | 0 | Nonreturnable Beverage Container Prohibition Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to prevent the use of offending types of nonreturnable beverage containers by banning their shipment and sale in interstate commerce. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to certify beverage containers which satisfy specified requirements. Sets forth penalties of up to a $1,000 fine and/or up to six months imprisonment for violation of provisions of this Act. Provides that the provisions relating to prohibitions and penalties for violations of this Act shall not be effective until three years after enactment of this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:48:48Z | |
| 93-hr-14615 | 93 | hr | 14615 | Nonreturnable Beverage Container Prohibition Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-07 | 1974-05-07 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Dellenback, John [R-OR-4] | OR | R | D000220 | 0 | Nonreturnable Beverage Container Prohibition Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to prevent the use of offending types of nonreturnable beverage containers by banning their shipments and sale in interstate commerce. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to certify beverage containers which satisfy specified requirements. Authorizes the Administrator to establish appropriate liquid capacities and shapes for beverage containers to be certified pursuant to this Act. Sets forth penalties of up to a $1,000 fine and/or up to six months imprisonment for violation of provisions of this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:48:43Z | |
| 93-hr-14628 | 93 | hr | 14628 | Transportation of Hazardous Materials Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-07 | 1974-05-07 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Kuykendall, Dan H. [R-TN-8] | TN | R | K000348 | 0 | Transportation of Hazardous Materials Act - States that the Secretary of Transportation may prescribe regulations for the safe transportation in interstate and foreign commerce of hazardous materials. Provides that regulations shall be applicable to a carrier, a shipper utilizing a vessel or a carrier, and a person who manufactures, fabricates, marks, maintains, reconditions, repairs, or tests a package or container which may be used for the transportation of hazardous materials. Stipulates that regulations may cover any aspect of the transportation of hazardous materials which the Secretary deems necessary or appropriate and shall include, but are not limited to, regulations covering: (1) the packing, handling, labeling, marking, placarding, and routing of hazardous material, and (2) the manufacture, fabrication, marking, maintenance, reconditioning, repair, or testing of a package or container which may be used for the transportation of hazardous materials. Sets forth civil penalties for violations of the provisions of this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:48:43Z | |
| 93-hr-14629 | 93 | hr | 14629 | A bill to repeal certain provisions of law relating to the transportation of hazardous materials. | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-07 | 1974-05-07 | Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary. | House | Rep. Kuykendall, Dan H. [R-TN-8] | TN | R | K000348 | 0 | Provides, under the crime and criminal procedures provisions (title 18) of the United States Code, that specified headings currently referred to as "explosives and combustibles" shall now be entitled "hazardous materials." States that any person who knowingly violates the Transportation of Hazardous Materials Act of 1974, or any regulation issued thereunder, shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, except that, if the violation results in the death or bodily injury of any person, the violator shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. | 2024-08-01T18:37:12Z | |
| 93-hr-14527 | 93 | hr | 14527 | Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Amendments | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-01 | 1974-05-01 | Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. | House | Rep. Blatnik, John Anton [D-MN-8] | MN | D | B000550 | 0 | Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Amendments - Provides that, pursuant to the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, the requirement of reports by any Federal entity involved in project planning or construction established by such Act shall be extended to any project affecting any stream or other body of water. Requires, in the making of reports under such Act, consultation with the National Marine Fisheries Service, and arrangements for such additional environmental impact assessments as the report of the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Commerce may recommend or is otherwise found to be proper. Requires such Federal departments or agencies to give every appropriate opportunity for public participation in project planning. Requires reports made by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to the Act to be based in part on the findings, with respect to effects on wildlife resources attributable to the project, of the National Marine Fisheries Service. Makes it necessary for the appropriate Federal agency to be advised by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce that they are satisfied with the measures recommended to prevent, mitigate, or compensate wildlife losses or damages resulting from the project. Provides that, in the case of a project constructed or financially assisted by the Federal Government, the appropriate Federal department or agency shall assume the costs of prevention, mitigation, and compensation for damages to wildlife resources. Provides that the appropriate Federal department or agency shall transfer to the National Marine Fisheries Service such funds as may be needed to conduct its duties under this Act. Strikes the provisions of the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act preventing the application of such Act to Federal land use and management programs. Provides that any revenue from the use and operation of waters, lands, or interests therein may be available to the appropriate agency or department to carry out the purposes of this Act… | 2025-09-03T12:48:41Z | |
| 93-hr-14541 | 93 | hr | 14541 | A bill to amend section 203 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for State certification. | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-01 | 1974-05-01 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Cleveland, James C. [R-NH-2] | NH | R | C000512 | 17 | Provides for certification by the State water pollution control agency of treatment projects within such State where the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency determines that such projects will be carried out in accordance with State laws and standards at least equivalent to those established by Federal law. | 2024-08-01T18:37:17Z | |
| 93-s-3413 | 93 | s | 3413 | A bill to amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended. | Environmental Protection | 1974-05-01 | 1974-05-01 | Referred to Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Metzenbaum, Howard M. [D-OH] | OH | D | M000678 | 17 | Authorizes an annual appropriation through fiscal year 1989 to the land and water conservation fund of sums necessary to make the income of the fund $500,000,000 annually (now $300,000,000). (Amends 16 U.S.C. 4601-5(c)) | 2025-04-23T11:41:33Z | |
| 93-hr-14468 | 93 | hr | 14468 | National Environmental Policy Institute Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-04-30 | 1974-04-30 | Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. | House | Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-16] | MI | D | D000355 | 1 | National Environmental Policy Institute Act - Authorizes the creation of a nonprofit corporation to be named the National Environmental Policy Institute to analyze, integrate, and evaluate the growing body of environmental research now underway to develop in a systematic and critical manner the alternatives such research presents for the development of new governmental policies and programs, and to restructure such existing policies and programs. States that the Institute shall have an eleven-member Board of Directors, and specifies the composition of the Board. States that the Institute shall have the powers conferred upon a nonprofit organization by the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act, and the power to obtain grants and accept voluntary services from specified sources. Authorizes to be appropriated for the expenses of the Institute $10,000,000 for each fiscal year from 1974 through 1978, in addition to contributions from Federal sources received during such period, except that such contributions may not exceed $5,000,000. Provides for the accounts of the Institute to be audited annually by independent certified public accountants. | 2025-09-03T12:48:38Z | |
| 93-hr-14290 | 93 | hr | 14290 | Clean Air Amendments | Environmental Protection | 1974-04-23 | 1974-04-23 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Edwards, Jack [R-AL-1] | AL | R | E000084 | 0 | Clean Air Amendments - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to approve State air quality control plans that include fixed or variable emission limitations (based, whenever technically feasible, on measurement and field-validated models of the impact of individual sources), schedules, and timetables for compliance with such limitations, or such other measures as may be necessary to insure attainment and maintenance of such primary or secondary standard; provide for revision, after public hearings, of such plan from time to time as may be necessary to take account of: (1) revisions of such national primary or secondary ambient air quality standard; and (2) the availability of improved or more expeditious methods, including more cost-effective methods, of achieving such primary or secondary standard; and provide a procedure for petition by a source owner or operator to the State agency for promulgation of emission limitations or other measures with respect to a particular source different from those approved elsewhere in the Act. Allows any owner or operator of a new stationary source to petition the Administrator for a permit to operate a new source with emission limits in excess of those established by the Administrator as standards of performance for such source. Requires the Administrator to establish procedures for conduct of hearings on the record with respect to such petitions. Requires the Administrator to revise State plans within nine months that are not in conformance with this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:48:34Z | |
| 93-hr-14300 | 93 | hr | 14300 | Nonreturnable Beverage Container Prohibition Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-04-23 | 1974-04-23 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Podell, Bertram L. [D-NY-13] | NY | D | P000399 | 0 | Nonreturnable Beverage Container Prohibition Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to prevent the use of offending types of nonreturnable beverage containers by banning their shipments and sale in interstate commerce. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to certify beverage containers which safisfy specified requirements. Sets forth penalties of up to a $1,000 fine and/or up to six months imprisonment for violation of provisions of this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:48:34Z | |
| 93-hr-14160 | 93 | hr | 14160 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize a grant program for the payment by the United States of the cost of certain chemicals used for water pollution control purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1974-04-10 | 1974-04-10 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Froehlich, Harold V. [R-WI-8] | WI | R | F000388 | 0 | Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make grants for the payment by the United States of the cost of chemicals used for water pollution control purposes to private nonprofit organizations and associations and to State and local governments. | 2024-08-01T18:36:58Z | |
| 93-hr-14161 | 93 | hr | 14161 | Solid Waste Energy Recovery Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-04-10 | 1974-04-10 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Fulton, Richard [D-TN-5] | TN | D | F000424 | 0 | Solid Waste Energy Recovery Act - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to: (1) make grants for the purpose of paying estimated costs which recover energy from solid wastes, for the purpose of reimbursing for costs of planning such systems which resulted in completion of construction of the same after January 1, 1971, and for the purpose of paying estimated costs of providing basic research, and monitoring equipment and systems necessary for analyzing and evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness or integrated energy recovery systems constructed after January 1, 1971; (2) make loans for the purpose of paying estimated costs of constructing the portion of resource recovery facilities which recovers energy from solid waste, including estimated costs of procuring any monitoring equipment, and constructing any structure needed to house such equipment, which the Administrator determines to be necessary for such aspect of any such facility; and (3) insure loans obtained from a source other than the Federal Government for the purposes stated above. Provides that a grant shall be made only if: (1) the Administrator determines that the resource recovery system will recover energy from solid waste, and will be consistent with the guidelines with respect to solid waste recovery systems; and (2) the recipient is awarded the grant on the condition that such recipient will reimburse the Federal Govenment for the full amount of such grant. Stipulates that the amount of such grant shall be for 90 percent of the estimated or actual costs of the planning or evaluation of the system. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, and 1978 to carry out the purposes of this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:48:30Z | |
| 93-hr-14165 | 93 | hr | 14165 | A bill to amend section 104 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize an improved program for research and demonstration of new techniques for the control of lake pollution. | Environmental Protection | 1974-04-10 | 1974-04-10 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Hastings, James F. [R-NY-39] | NY | R | H000327 | 1 | Authorizes an appropriation of up to $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and for each of the next three fiscal years for grants and contracts for research and demonstration of methods of lake pollution control. Requires that not less than $10,000,000 of such sum be for demonstration programs. | 2024-08-01T18:36:58Z | |
| 93-hr-13894 | 93 | hr | 13894 | Clean Air Amendments | Environmental Protection | 1974-04-02 | 1974-04-02 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Nelsen, Ancher [R-MN-2] | MN | R | N000028 | 3 | Clean Air Amendments - Authorizes $150,000,000 to be appropriated for the fiscal years 1975 and 1976 for research related to fuels and vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Authorizes $300,000,000 to be appropriated for the fiscal years 1975 and 1976 for air pollution control under the Clean Air Act. States that, upon application by the Governor of a State on or after June 1, 1976, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may extend for not more than five years the deadline for attainment of national primary ambient air quality standards where transportation control measures are necessary for the attainment of such standards, and where the implementation of such control measures would have serious adverse social or economic effects. Provides that, within one hundred and twenty days following the submission of an application and all supporting materials, and after providing an opportunity for public comment, the Administrator shall grant an extension, if he determines that the requirements of this subsection have been met. Authorizes the Governor of any State, on or after June 1, 1981, to apply for a further extension. Provides that no extension may go beyond May 31, 1987. Provides that if the Administrator determines that technological or economic limitations on the application of measurement methodology to a particular class of new stationary air pollutant sources (as defined under the Clean Air Act) would make the imposition of an emission standard infeasible, he may instead prescribe a design or equipment standard meeting the requirements of this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to request the Attorney General to commence a civil action for a permanent or temporary injunction or to assess and recover a civil penalty of not more than $25,000 per day of violation, or both, whenever any person: (1) violates or fails or refuses to comply with any order issued under the Clean Air Act; or (2) violates any requirement of an applicable implementation plan during any period of federally assumed enforcem… | 2025-09-03T12:48:24Z | |
| 93-hr-13910 | 93 | hr | 13910 | A bill to amend section 203 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for State certification. | Environmental Protection | 1974-04-02 | 1974-04-02 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Cleveland, James C. [R-NH-2] | NH | R | C000512 | 0 | Provides for certification by the State water pollution control agency of treatment projects within such State where the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency determines that such projects will be carried out in accordance with State laws and standards at least equivalent to those established by Federal law. | 2024-08-01T18:36:52Z | |
| 93-hr-13911 | 93 | hr | 13911 | A bill to amend section 206 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the payment of interest on certain reimbursements. | Environmental Protection | 1974-04-02 | 1974-04-02 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Cleveland, James C. [R-NH-2] | NH | R | C000512 | 0 | Authorizes the payment of interest on reimbursements to States authorized by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for a publicly owned treatment works in a State on which construction was initiated after June 30, 1966, but before July 1, 1972. Authorizes the appropriation of not more than $2,000,000,000 to make the interest payments authorized by this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of not more than $750,000,000 from which reimbursements for publicly owned treatment works construction initiated between June 30, 1956 and June 30, 1966 are to be made as provided by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. | 2024-08-01T18:36:44Z | |
| 93-s-3287 | 93 | s | 3287 | Clean Air Amendments | Environmental Protection | 1974-04-02 | 1974-04-02 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Baker, Howard H., Jr. [R-TN] | TN | R | B000063 | 1 | Clean Air Amendments - Authorizes $150,000,000 to be appropriated for the fiscal years 1975 and 1976 for research related to fuels and vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Authorizes $300,000,000 to be appropriated for the fiscal years 1975 and 1976 for air pollution control under the Clean Air Act. States that, upon application by the Governor of a State on or after June 1, 1976, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may extend for not more than five years the deadline for attainment of national primary ambient air quality standards where transportation control measures are necessary for the attainment of such standards, and where the implementation of such control measures would have serious adverse social or economic effects. Provides that, within one hundred and twenty days following the submission of an application and all supporting materials, and after providing an opportunity for public comment, the Administrator shall grant an extension, if he determines that the requirements of this subsection have been met. Authorizes the Governor of any State, on or after June 1, 1981, to apply for a further extension. Provides that no extension may go beyond May 31, 1987. Provides that if the Administrator determines that technological or economic limitations on the application of measurement methodology to a particular class of new stationary air pollutant sources (as defined under the Clean Air Act) would make the imposition of an emission standard infeasible, he may instead prescribe a design or equipment standard meeting the requirements of this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to request the Attorney General to commence a civil action for a permanent or temporary injunction or to assess and recover a civil penalty of not more than $25,000 per day of violation, or both, whenever any person: (1) violates or fails or refuses to comply with any order issued under the Clean Air Act; or (2) violates any requirement of an applicable implementation plan during any period of federally assumed enforcem… | 2025-09-03T12:52:49Z | |
| 93-s-3277 | 93 | s | 3277 | Energy and Resources Recovery Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-29 | 1974-03-29 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] | NM | R | D000407 | 15 | Energy and Resources Recovery Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish within the Agency an Office of Energy and Resources Recovery to achieve the purposes and administer the provisions of this Act. Directs the Administrator, within one year of the date of enactment of this Act, after consultation with appropriate Federal, State interstate, regional, and local agencies and after opportunity for public hearings, to promulgate standards for collection, handling, disposal, and recovery of all hazardous and other solid waste which may, if improperly disposed of, cause air or water pollution or other environmental damage. States that the Administrator, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, may require the operator of any disposal system for hazardous or other solid waste to: (1) establish and maintain such records; (2) make such reports; and (3) install, use, and maintain such monitoring equipment or methods as he may require. Establishes a $25,000 per day fine for violations of this Act. Requires the Administrator, within one year following enactment of this section and each year thereafter, to publish guidelines specifying the percentages of energy and resources that can be recovered from solid waste by use of the best recovery management practices and technology that are reasonably available. Provides that as a part of such guidelines, the Administrator shall publish thorough descriptions of existing technology and practices which can be implemented by agricultural producers, industries, municipalities, consumers, and others to achieve the percentages of energy or resource recovery from each category of solid waste that the Administrator finds reasonable. Requires the Administrator, within one year following enactment of this section to make a complete assessment of the use of natural resources and recycled materials in product packaging; and establish guidelines for the packaging of products to encourage efficient use of such resources and materials with a consequ… | 2025-09-03T12:52:49Z | |
| 93-hr-13697 | 93 | hr | 13697 | Clean Air Amendments | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-25 | 1974-03-25 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Hosmer, Craig [R-CA-32] | CA | R | H000802 | 0 | Clean Air Amendments - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to approve State air quality control plans that include fixed or variable emission limitations (based, whenever technically feasible, on measurement and field-validated models of the impact of individual sources), schedules, and timetables for compliance with such limitations, or such other measures as may be necessary to insure attainment and maintenance of such primary or secondary standard; provide for revision, after public hearings, of such plan from time to time as may be necessary to take account of: (1) revisions of such national primary or secondary ambient air quality standard; and (2) the availability of improved or more expeditious methods, including more cost-effective methods, of achieving such primary or secondary standard; and provide a procedure for petition by a source owner or operator to the State agency for promulgation of emission limitations or other measures with respect to a particular source different from those approved elsewhere in the Act. Allows any owner or operator of a new stationary source to petition the Administrator for a permit to operate a new source with emission limits in excess of those established by the Administrator as standards of performance for such source. Requires the Administrator to establish procedures for conduct of hearings on the record with respect to such petitions. Requires the Administrator to revise State plans within nine months that are not in conformance with this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:48:12Z | |
| 93-hr-13657 | 93 | hr | 13657 | A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide income tax incentives to improve the economics of recycling waste paper. | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-21 | 1974-03-21 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Archer, Bill [R-TX-7] | TX | R | A000215 | 0 | Allows a tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for the taxable year of $10 for each ton of post-consumer waste paper processed in the United States by the taxpayer during the taxable year into new commercially marketable pulp, paper, paperboard or other similar products. | 2024-08-01T18:36:37Z | |
| 93-hr-13643 | 93 | hr | 13643 | A bill to suspend until June 1, 1970, the regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency relating to spill prevention control and countermeasure plans. | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-20 | 1974-03-20 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. McSpadden, Clem Rogers [D-OK-2] | OK | D | M000603 | 0 | Suspends from January 10, 1974 to June 1, 1976, the regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency relating to spill prevention control and countermeasure plans. | 2024-08-01T18:36:36Z | |
| 93-hr-13536 | 93 | hr | 13536 | A bill to require the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Engineers to act on certain applications within 90 days or explain his failure to do so. | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-18 | 1974-03-18 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. Bauman, Robert E. [R-MD-1] | MD | R | B000244 | 12 | Requires the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Engineers to act, on applications for permits, licenses or any other authorization under the provisions of any law, within ninety days or explain the failure to do so to the applicant. | 2024-08-01T18:36:28Z | |
| 93-hr-13495 | 93 | hr | 13495 | A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide income tax incentives to improve the economics of recycling waste paper. | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-14 | 1974-03-14 | Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means. | House | Rep. Fulton, Richard [D-TN-5] | TN | D | F000424 | 0 | Allows a tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for the taxable year of $10 for each ton of post-consumer waste paper processed in the United States by the taxpayer during the taxable year into new commercially marketable pulp, paper, paperboard or other similar products. | 2024-08-01T18:36:31Z | |
| 93-hr-13445 | 93 | hr | 13445 | Business Pollution Abatement Loan Assistance and Workers Readjustment Assistance Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-13 | 1974-03-13 | Referred to House Committee on Banking and Currency. | House | Rep. Brown, George E., Jr. [D-CA-38] | CA | D | B000918 | 0 | Business Pollution Abatement Loan Assistance and Worker's Readjustment Assistance Act - Title I: Assistance to Businesses - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make planning grants to a business firm or to a group of employees of a business firm not to exceed $100,000 or 100 percent of the cost of preparing a plan for pollution abatement. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to business firms not to exceed $500,000 or 100 percent of the cost of meeting the requirements of State or Federal laws, rules, or regulations relating to pollution abatement, whichever is less. Requires a pollution abatement plan to include a summary of the requirements of State or Federal laws, rules, or regulations, relating to pollution abatement with which such business firm must comply; proposals for meeting such requirements; and the estimated costs of meeting such requirements. Provides for loans not to exceed $500,000 for the initial capital cost to businesses of tying into municipal waste treatment facilities. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums not to exceed $4,000,000,000 as may be necessary to carry out this title. Title II: Assistance to Workers - Provides readjustment allowances to workers meeting qualifying requirements who are totally or partially separated from employment due to the enforcement of State or Federal laws, rules, or regulations relating to pollution abatement. States that the amount of readjustment allowance payable to an adversely affected worker for any week shall be equal to his average weekly wage over the last 6 months of his employment, and that it shall be reduced by any amount of unemployment insurance received with respect to such week. Specifies a limit of 52 weeks, plus an extension under specified circumstances, for which readjustment allowances may be paid, and states that a readjustment allowance shall not be paid for a week of unemployment beginning more than 2 years after the beginning of the appropriate week. Affords affected workers, where appropriate, testing, counseling, training… | 2025-09-03T12:48:05Z | |
| 93-hr-13464 | 93 | hr | 13464 | Clean Air Amendments | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-13 | 1974-03-13 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Nelsen, Ancher [R-MN-2] | MN | R | N000028 | 0 | Clean Air Amendments - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to approve State air quality control plans that include fixed or variable emission limitations (based, whenever technically feasible, on measurement and field-validated models of the impact of individual sources), schedules, and timetables for compliance with such limitations, or such other measures as may be necessary to insure attainment and maintenance of such primary or secondary standard; provide for revision, after public hearings, of such plan from time to time as may be necessary to take account of: (1) revisions of such national primary or secondary ambient air quality standard; and (2) the availability of improved or more expeditious methods, including more cost-effective methods, of achieving such primary or secondary standard; and provide a procedure for petition by a source owner or operator to the State agency for promulgation of emission limitations or other measures with respect to a particular source different from those approved elsewhere in the Act. Allows any owner or operator of a new stationary source to petition the Administrator for a permit to operate a new source with emission limits in excess of those established by the Administrator as standards of performance for such source. Requires the Administrator to establish procedures for conduct of hearings on the record with respect to such petitions. Requires the Administrator to revise State plans within nine months that are not in conformance with this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:48:05Z | |
| 93-hr-13429 | 93 | hr | 13429 | A bill to protect the environment and conserve natural resources by stimulating the use of recycled or recyclable materials by effecting rate changes in the movement of these materials by common carrier. | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-12 | 1974-03-12 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Tiernan, Robert O. [D-RI-2] | RI | D | T000265 | 14 | Declares that it is the purpose of Congress to: (1) establish a national transportation rate policy for all recovered materials; and (2) eliminate discriminatory transportation rates charged by regulated carriers for the movement in commerce of recovered waste and recycled or recyclable materials. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission to effect such lawful changes in the rate structure of the country as will promote the freedom of movement by common carriers of recovered materials at the lowest possible lawful rates compatible with the maintenance of adequate transportation service. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to take such steps as are necessary to insure that the directives of this Act are carried out as expeditiously as possible, including the initiation of, and intervention in, proceedings before the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission to undertake studies to be completed within two years of the enactment of this Act of the feasibility of establishing a transportation rate policy for all recoverable materials. Specifies areas to be covered in such study and requires that it be submitted to Congress. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Maritime Commission, and the Federal Railroad Administration to establish a transportation research and demonstration program coordinated by the Secretary of Transportation with the objective of facilitating the most efficient movement of recycled materials in commerce. Prohibits any railroad, common carrier by water, or motor carrier in interstate or foreign commerce from charging, demanding or collecting any rate for the transportation of recovered materials which is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory. Describes procedures for complaints with respect to such alleged discrimination. Provides civil penalties for violation of this Act. | 2024-08-01T18:36:26Z | |
| 93-hr-13298 | 93 | hr | 13298 | National Resource and Energy Conservation Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-06 | 1974-03-06 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Tiernan, Robert O. [D-RI-2] | RI | D | T000265 | 14 | National Resource and Energy Conservation Act - Title I: Formal Provisions - Declares it to be the purpose of the Congress to reduce the wasteful allocation of scarce resources by recovering materials and producing energy from waste through an intensive research and development program in the Environmental Protection Agency (with the assistance of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and a program of technical assistance and support to Government agencies and persons producing or using such energy. Title II: Product Standards and Regulation - States that it shall be unlawful for any person to introduce or deliver for introduction in commerce any product which does not conform to the standards or regulations prescribed by the Administrator under this title. Provides that any person, other than a person who commits a criminal violation, who is found by the Administrator after notice and an opportunity for an adjudicative hearing to have committed an act prohibited by this title, shall be liable to the United States for a civil penalty of a sum which is not more than $20,000 for each day of violation. Requires that, within one year after the date of enactment of this title, the Administrator shall promulgate and shall, from time to time, revise such standards regulating the manufacture and distribution of certain products in commerce as he determines necessary to protect health or the environment against unreasonable burdens and risks associated with the disposal of such products. Permits the Administrator or the Attorney General to file an action against any product which constitutes an imminent hazard as prescribed by this title or any product which the Administrator finds is manufactured or distributed in violation of this title for seizure of such product. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study of possible methods of regulating the design, use, reuse, and recycling of certain products to reduce the generation of solid waste, reduce the consumption of virgin materials resources, or to reduce… | 2025-09-03T12:48:00Z | |
| 93-hr-13299 | 93 | hr | 13299 | A bill to protect the environment and conserve natural resources by stimulating the use of recycled or recyclable materials by effecting rate changes in the movement of these materials by common carrier. | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-06 | 1974-03-06 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Tiernan, Robert O. [D-RI-2] | RI | D | T000265 | 13 | Declares that it is the purpose of Congress to: (1) establish a national transportation rate policy for all recovered materials; and (2) eliminate discriminatory transportation rates charged by regulated carriers for the movement in commerce of recovered waste and recycled or recyclable materials. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission to effect such lawful changes in the rate structure of the country as will promote the freedom of movement by common carriers of recovered materials at the lowest possible lawful rates compatible with the maintenance of adequate transportation service. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to take such steps as are necessary to insure that the directives of this Act are carried out as expeditiously as possible, including the initiation of, and intervention in, proceedings before the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission to undertake studies to be completed within two years of the enactment of this Act of the feasibility of establishing a transportation rate policy for all recoverable materials. Specifies areas to be covered in such study and requires that it be submitted to Congress. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Maritime Commission, and the Federal Railroad Administration to establish a transportation research and demonstration program coordinated by the Secretary of Transportation with the objective of facilitating the most efficient movement of recycled materials in commerce. Prohibits any railroad, common carrier by water, or motor carrier in interstate or foreign commerce from charging, demanding or collecting any rate for the transportation of recovered materials which is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory. Describes procedures for complaints with respect to such alleged discrimination. Provides civil penalties for violation of this Act. | 2024-08-01T18:36:19Z | |
| 93-hr-13257 | 93 | hr | 13257 | Interstate Recycling Expansion Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-05 | 1974-03-05 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Rodino, Peter W., Jr. [D-NJ-10] | NJ | D | R000374 | 1 | Interstate Recycling Expansion Act - Sets forth the purposes and definitions of the Act. Title I: Establishment of Nondiscriminatory Rates and Charges for the Transportation of Recyclable and Recycled Solid Waste Materials in Interstate and Foreign Commerce - Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission to investigate all freight commodities and within two years to enter appropriate orders terminating all such unreasonable discrimination in transportation charges. Title II: Expansion of Recycling Through Federal Procurement - Directs all Federal procurement agencies to work closely with the Environmental Protection Agency in the establishment of new rules and procedures to maximize the procurement of recyclable materials and products which contain recycled materials. Title III: Modifications of Other Federal Impediments to Expanded Recycling in Commerce - States that labels under the Wool Products Labeling Act shall use the term recycled rather than reused or reprocessed. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Provides that the Act shall be effective on the date of enactment. | 2025-09-03T12:48:00Z | |
| 93-s-3093 | 93 | s | 3093 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize certain alternatives to secondary treatment for publicly owned treatment works. | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-01 | 1974-03-01 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK] | AK | R | S000888 | 0 | Authorizes an alternative treatment, under the Water Pollution Control Act, in the case of any publicly owned treatment works required to use secondary treatment. Requires that an application and satisfactory showing be made that such alternative would result in an equal or preferable effect on the receiving waters at a lesser cost. | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | |
| 93-s-3094 | 93 | s | 3094 | International Salinity Control Project, Colorado River | Environmental Protection | 1974-03-01 | 1974-03-01 | Referred to Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. | Senate | Sen. Jackson, Henry M. [D-WA] | WA | D | J000013 | 0 | International Salinity Control Project, Colorado River - Authorizes the Secretary of State through the Commissioner of the United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission, who shall consult with the Secretary of the Interior and may delegate such authority to the Secretaries of Agriculture, the Army, and the Interior, and the Administor of the Environmental Protection Agency, to: (1) construct, operate, and maintain a desalting complex, including a deslating plant within the boundaries of the United States and a bypass drain for the discharge of the reject stream from the plant and other Wellton-Mohawk drain water to the Santa Clara Slough in Mexico, with the part in Mexico to be constructed by the appropriate agencies of the Government of Mexico with funds transferred through the Commission; (2) accelerate cooperative management programs with the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District; (3) acquire lands or interest in lands within the Wellton-Mohawk division, Gila project, to reduce the seventy-five thousand irrigable areas known as the Gila River Reauthorization Act, and to dispose of or use such lands or interests therein on terms consistent with the objective of this Act; (4) assist water users in the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District in installing onfarm systems, as a means of reducing saline drainage flows through improved irrigation efficiencies; (5) reduce repayment obligations of the district to the United States under existing contracts; (6) contract with the Coachella Valley County Water District to provide for reimbursement by the United States for its use of the water saved through the rehabilitation and betterment of the Coachella Canal as a temporary source of water for meeting the obligations of minute numbered 242; (7) reduce repayment obligations of the Imperial Irrigation District to the United States under existing contracts; (8) acquire lands or interest in lands within the Imperial Irrigation District on the East Imperial Mesa which receive, or whic… | 2025-09-03T12:52:46Z | |
| 93-hr-13176 | 93 | hr | 13176 | Comprehensive Waste Management and Resource Recovery Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-28 | 1974-02-28 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 8 | Comprehensive Waste Management and Resource Recovery Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to propose guidelines, based on specified national objectives, for the adoption, submission, implementation, and enforcement of effective State waste management and resource recovery plans. Requires the adoption of such plans within 12 months of the promulgation of guidelines by the Administrator. Requires the acceptance or rejection based on specified criteria, of such a plan by the Administrator within six months of its submission by the State. Provides for modifications of a State plan, or plans developed by units of local government of a State, where the cost of such a plan would be greatly disproportionate to the benefit conferred on the State by such a system, or under other specified circumstances. Requires the Administrator to propose regulations establishing Federal standards of performance for new sources of waste generation. Requires the Administrator to issue, from time to time, information on processes or techniques which reduce or eliminate the generation or toxicity of wastes, or permit resource recovery in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Provides that, within 18 months of enactment of this Act and from time to time thereafter, the Administrator shall identify hazardous wastes and specified characteristics thereof, and shall promulgate regulations establishing requirements for generation of hazardous wastes and to enter into agreements with the States for the purpose of enactment of these regulations. Defines the rights of the Administrator or his authorized representative with respect to gathering information for the purpose of developing or assisting in the development of any State waste management and resource recovery plan under this Act. Provides for Federal enforcement of the provisions of this Act and states that the Administrator may issue orders requiring compliance with the provisions of this Act. States that any person who knowingly violates any require… | 2025-09-03T12:47:54Z | |
| 93-hr-13088 | 93 | hr | 13088 | A bill to establish a National Energy Information System, to authorize the Department of the Interior to undertake an inventory of U.S. energy resources on public lands and elsewhere, and for other purposes. | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-27 | 1974-02-27 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Nix, Robert N. C. [D-PA-2] | PA | D | N000113 | 0 | Energy Information Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and the purposes of this Act. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Title I: Bureau of Energy Information - Establishes as an agency within the Department of Commerce a Bureau of Energy Information to be a main line component of the Social and Economic Statistics Administration, coequal with the Bureau of the Census. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to perform the duties conferred upon the Bureau by this title or delegate any of them. Provides that the Bureau shall be headed by a Director of Energy Information to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. States that the principal function of the Bureau shall be to operate, maintain, and improve the National Energy Information System established by Title II of this Act. Enumerates the work priorities of the Bureau. Title II: National Energy Information System - Establishes a National Energy Information System, to be operated and maintained by the Bureau. Directs that the components of the System shall be: (1) a public library of energy information; (2) a confidential library of energy information for restricted governmental use; and (3) a secret library of energy information for use only in preparing anonymous statistics. Specifies the characteristics of the System. States that the purpose of the public library is to make available to the general public promptly and conveniently as much of the information in the System as can be released consistently with national security and reasonable competitive equities. States that the purpose of the secret library is to serve the Nation's need for accurate statistical information on mineral fuel reserves, natural energy resources, and energy industries. Directs the Director to place in the secret library information obtained under authority of this Act for which either the national security or reasonable competitive equities require that the information be wholly suppressed or be published only in sta… | 2024-08-01T18:36:11Z | |
| 93-hr-13042 | 93 | hr | 13042 | A bill to amend the Clean Air Act for Energy Conservation and Conservation Requirements. | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-26 | 1974-02-26 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. McDade, Joseph M. [R-PA-10] | PA | R | M000399 | 0 | States that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may temporarily (until May 15, 1974) suspend any stationary source fuel or emission limitation as it applies to any person, if the Administrator finds that such person will be unable to comply with such limitation during such period solely because of unavailability of types or amounts of fuels. Provides that, after public notice and public hearing, the Administrator may, for any period beginning after May 15, 1974, and ending not later than June 30, 1979, temporarily suspend any stationary source fuel or emission limitation as it applies to any person if the Administrator finds: (1) that such person will be unable to comply with such limitation solely because of the unavailability of types and amounts of fuels, (2) that such suspension will not, after the application implementation plan deadline, result in or contribute to a level of air pollutants which is greater than that specified in a national primary ambient air quality standard, and (3) that such person has been placed on a schedule which provides for the use of methods which the Administrator determines will assure continuing compliance with a national primary ambient air quality standard as soon as practicable (but no later than June 30, 1979), which schedule shall include increments of progress toward compliance with such standard by such date. Provides for judicial review of a grant or denial of a suspension or of any interim requirement on which suspension is conditioned by filing a petition with the United States district court for any judicial district in which is located any stationary source to which the action of the Administrator applies. Sets forth requirements governing the issuance of suspensions by the Administrator. Requires the Administrator to report to Congress not later than March 31, 1974, with respect to: (1) the present and projected impact on the program under this Act of fuel shortages and of allocation and end-use allocation programs; (2) availability of sc… | 2024-08-01T18:36:11Z | |
| 93-s-3057 | 93 | s | 3057 | A bill to amend section 15d of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 to provide that expenditures for pollution control facilities will be credited against acquired power investment return payments and repayments. | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-26 | 1974-11-19 | Senate companion measure, H.R. 11929, passed in lieu. | Senate | Sen. Baker, Howard H., Jr. [R-TN] | TN | R | B000063 | 5 | Provides, under the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, that expenditures for certified pollution control facilities will be credited against the payments required as a return on the appropriation investment in power facilities and the annual repayment sum. Defines the term "certified pollution control facility" for purposes of this Act. | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | |
| 93-s-3055 | 93 | s | 3055 | A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in order to improve the program for research and demonstration of new techniques in lake pollution control. | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-25 | 1974-02-25 | Referred to Senate Committee on Public Works. | Senate | Sen. Byrd, Robert C. [D-WV] | WV | D | B001210 | 2 | Authorizes an appropriation of up to $15,000,000 for fiscal 1975 and for each of the next three fiscal years for grants and contracts for research and demonstration of methods of lake pollution control. Requires that not less than $10,000,000 of such sum be for demonstration programs. | 2025-01-14T17:12:38Z | |
| 93-hr-12975 | 93 | hr | 12975 | Urban Forestry Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-21 | 1974-02-21 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Wyatt, Wendell [R-OR-1] | OR | R | W000778 | 4 | Urban Forestry Act - States that the growth of trees and shrubs helps to improve the quality of the urban environment by preventing erosion, providing shade, and reducing noise and air pollution levels. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to cities to pay up to 100 percent of the cost of trees and shrubs planted under the cities' and park districts' forestry programs, including programs of cities or park districts which provide for the planting of trees on privately owned land. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,000,000 for the fiscal year 1975 for grants under this section. Defines the term park district as meaning a single purpose unit of local government which is responsible for the planning, developing, or administration of a system of parks or other recreational areas. States that the Secretary may make grants to cities with populations exceeding ten thousand and park districts to pay 75 percent of the annual salaries of urban foresters. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year 1975 for grants under this section. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to cities and park districts to assist such cities in planning, developing, and administering forestry programs. | 2025-09-03T12:47:48Z | |
| 93-hr-13002 | 93 | hr | 13002 | Safe Drinking Water Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-21 | 1974-11-19 | Measure laid on table in House, S. 433 passed in lieu. | House | Rep. Rogers, Paul G. [D-FL-11] | FL | D | R000401 | 11 | (LATEST SUMMARY) Safe Drinking Water Act - Defines the terms used in this Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to publish proposed national interim primary drinking water regulations within 90 days after the date of this Act's enactment. Makes provisions for national drinking water regulations including the determination of maximum contaminant levels. Declares that for purposes of this Act a State has primary enforcement responsibility for public water systems during any period the State meets the criteria set forth in this Act as determined by the Administrator. Provides for civil actions to require compliance by any State failing to assure enforcement of drinking water regulations. Allows a State to grant variances from an applicable national primary drinking water regulation to one or more public water systems within its jurisdiction. Permits a State which has primary enforcement responsibility to exempt any public water system within the State's jurisdiction from any requirement respecting a maximum contaminant level or any treatment technique requirement, or of an applicable national primary drinking water regulation upon a finding that: (1) due to compelling factors (which may include economic factors) the public water system is unable to comply with such contaminant level or treatment technique requirement, and (2) the public water system was in operation on the effective date of such regulation. Provides for the protection of underground sources of drinking water through underground injection control programs. Provides civil penalties for violation of an applicable underground injection control program. Authorizes the Administrator to take emergency measures to protect public health upon receipt of information that a dangerous cantaminant is present in or is likely to enter a public water system. Requires that the Administrator confer with State and local authorities before exercising this emergency power. Sets forth provisions on … | 2025-09-03T12:47:54Z | |
| 93-hr-12937 | 93 | hr | 12937 | Natural Resource and Energy Conservation Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-20 | 1974-02-20 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Tiernan, Robert O. [D-RI-2] | RI | D | T000265 | 8 | National Resource and Energy Conservation Act - Title I: Formal Provisions - Declares it to be the purpose of the Congress to reduce the wasteful allocation of scarce resources by recovering materials and producing energy from waste through an intensive research and development program in the Environmental Protection Agency (with the assistance of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and a program of technical assistance and support to Government agencies and persons producing or using such energy. Title II: Product Standards and Regulation - States that it shall be unlawful for any person to introduce or deliver for introduction in commerce any product which does not conform to the standards or regulations prescribed by the Administrator under this title. Provides that any person, other than a person who commits a criminal violation, who is found by the Administrator after notice and an opportunity for an adjudicative hearing to have committed an act prohibited by this title, shall be liable to the United States for a civil penalty of a sum which is not more than $20,000 for each day of violation. Requires that, within one year after the date of enactment of this title, the Administrator shall promulgate and shall, from time to time, revise such standards regulating the manufacture and distribution of certain products in commerce as he determines necessary to protect health or the environment against unreasonable burdens and risks associated with the disposal of such products. Permits the Administrator or the Attorney General to file an action against any product which constitutes an imminent hazard as prescribed by this title or any product which the Administrator finds is manufactured or distributed in violation of this title for seizure of such product. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study of possible methods of regulating the design, use, reuse, and recycling of certain products to reduce the generation of solid waste, reduce the consumption of virgin materials resources, or to reduce… | 2025-09-03T12:47:49Z | |
| 93-hr-12938 | 93 | hr | 12938 | A bill to protect the environment and conserve natural resources by stimulating the use of recycled or recyclable materials by effecting rate changes in the movement of these materials by common carrier. | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-20 | 1974-02-20 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Tiernan, Robert O. [D-RI-2] | RI | D | T000265 | 8 | Declares that it is the purpose of Congress to: (1) establish a national transportation rate policy for all recovered materials; and (2) eliminate discriminatory transportation rates charged by regulated carriers for the movement in commerce of recovered waste and recycled or recyclable materials. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission to effect such lawful changes in the rate structure of the country as will promote the freedom of movement by common carriers of recovered materials at the lowest possible lawful rates compatible with the maintenance of adequate transportation service. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to take such steps as are necessary to insure that the directives of this Act are carried out as expeditiously as possible, including the initiation of, and intervention in, proceedings before the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission to undertake studies to be completed within two years of the enactment of this Act of the feasibility of establishing a transportation rate policy for all recoverable materials. Specifies areas to be covered in such study and requires that it be submitted to Congress. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Maritime Commission, and the Federal Railroad Administration to establish a transportation research and demonstration program coordinated by the Secretary of Transportation with the objective of facilitating the most efficient movement of recycled materials in commerce. Prohibits any railroad, common carrier by water, or motor carrier in interstate or foreign commerce from charging, demanding or collecting any rate for the transportation of recovered materials which is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory. Describes procedures for complaints with respect to such alleged discrimination. Provides civil penalties for violation of this Act. | 2024-08-01T18:36:03Z | |
| 93-hr-12869 | 93 | hr | 12869 | Emergency Chlorine Allocation Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-19 | 1974-02-19 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Forsythe, Edwin B. [R-NJ-6] | NJ | R | F000286 | 0 | Emergency Chlorine Allocation Act - Declares that there is a national shortage of chlorine and other chemicals and substances used for safe drinking water and for waste water treatment purposes and that such shortage presents a substantial threat to the public health. Revises the Public Health Service Act by providing that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, shall promulgate regulations providing for mandatory allocation of chlorine, activated carbon, lime, ammonia, soda ash, or other chemical or substance used in the treatment of drinking water or waste water, such regulations to only apply to chlorine unless the other chemicals are also found to be in short supply. Authorizes the Administrator to hold such hearings and receive such evidence as he deems necessary to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to gather such information from, and make such inspections of, producers and importers of chlorine or other allocated chemicals as are necessary to carry out this Act. Provides penalties for failure to comply with regulations promulgated under this Act. Provides that no provision of this Act shall be deemed to convey to any person subject to the Act immunity from civil or criminal liability, or to create defenses to actions, under the antitrust laws. Sets forth exceptions to the antitrust provisions of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:47:48Z | |
| 93-hr-12779 | 93 | hr | 12779 | Urban Forestry Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-13 | 1974-02-13 | Referred to House Committee on Agriculture. | House | Rep. Conable, Barber B., Jr. [R-NY-35] | NY | R | C000666 | 0 | Urban Forestry Act - States that the growth of trees and shrubs helps to improve the quality of the urban environment by preventing erosion, providing shade, and reducing noise and air pollution levels. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to cities to pay up to 100 percent of the cost of trees and shrubs planted under the cities' and park districts' forestry programs, including programs of cities or park districts' forestry programs, including programs of cities or park districts which provide for the planting of trees on privately owned land. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,000,000 for the fiscal year 1975 for grants under this section. States that the Secretary may make grants to cities with populations exceeding ten thousand and park districts to pay 75 percent of the annual salaries of urban foresters. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year 1975 for grants under this section. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to cities and park districts to assist such cities in planning, developing, and administering forestry programs. | 2025-09-03T12:47:43Z | |
| 93-hr-12782 | 93 | hr | 12782 | A bill to amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 in order to specify those actions of the Environmental Protection Agency for which environmental impact statements are required. | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-13 | 1974-02-13 | Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. | House | Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-16] | MI | D | D000355 | 1 | Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make a detailed statement on major Federal actions taken by him affecting the quality of the human environment. Exempts specified legal actions and proceedings from this requirement. | 2024-08-01T18:35:55Z | |
| 93-hr-12818 | 93 | hr | 12818 | Emergency Chlorine Allocation Act | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-13 | 1974-02-13 | Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. | House | Rep. Thompson, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-4] | NJ | D | T000200 | 0 | Emergency Chlorine Allocation Act - Declares that there is a national shortage of chlorine and other chemicals and substances used for safe drinking water and for waste water treatment purposes and that such shortage presents a substantial threat to the public health. Revises the Public Health Service Act by providing that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, shall promulgate regulations providing for mandatory allocation of chlorine, activated carbon, lime, ammonia, soda ash, or other chemical or substance used in the treatment of drinking water or waste water, such regulations to only apply to chlorine unless the other chemicals are also found to be in short supply. Authorizes the Administrator to hold such hearings and receive such evidence as he deems necessary to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to gather such information from, and make such inspections of, producers and importers of chlorine or other allocated chemicals as are necessary to carry out this Act. Provides penalties for failure to comply with regulations promulgated under this Act. Provides that no provision of this Act shall be deemed to convey to any person subject to the Act immunity from civil or criminal liability, or to create defenses to actions, under the antitrust laws. Sets forth exceptions to the antitrust provisions of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. | 2025-09-03T12:47:48Z | |
| 93-hr-12743 | 93 | hr | 12743 | A bill to amend title II of the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (Public Law 92-500). | Environmental Protection | 1974-02-07 | 1974-02-07 | Referred to House Committee on Public Works. | House | Rep. O'Brien, George M. [R-IL-17] | IL | R | O000010 | 0 | Provides that any water treatment project in which construction was initiated after July 1, 1972, and which did not receive Federal grant support shall be eligible for future reimbursement to the same extent that a grant support could have been provided if all funds authorized under the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 had been appropriated and alloted to the States in accordance with that Act. | 2024-08-01T18:35:59Z |
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