Making supplemental appropriations and rescissions for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995, and for other purposes.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 37.
Congressional Research Service
Official summary
Version 00 · Introduced in House · Mar 8, 1995
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Supplemental Appropriations Title II: Rescissions Title III: General Provisions Title I: Supplemental Appropriations - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 1995 available to the Department of Agriculture for the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, and the Commodity Credit Corporation Fund (through a fund transfer). Makes supplemental appropriations available to the United States Information Agency for international broadcasting operations. Makes additional funds available to the President for debt relief for Jordan. Makes an appropriation to the family trust of Dean A. Gallo, late a Representative from New Jersey. Makes additional funds available through a transfer of funds for: (1) the Botanic Garden; (2) the Federal Railroad Administration of the Department of Transportation; (3) the Department of the Treasury for department offices, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Internal Revenue Service, and the United States Mint; and (4) the General Services Administration. Makes additional funds available to the Office of Personnel Management for employee life insurance benefits. Title II: Rescissions - Rescinds appropriations made to: (1) the Department of Agriculture for Public Law 480 Programs Accounts; (2) the Department of Commerce for the National Institute of Standards and Technology; (3) the Department of State for the administration of foreign affairs and international organizations and conferences; (4) the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and (5) the United States Information Agency. Rescinds funds made available to the President for the Agency for International Development and to the Congressional Budget Office for salaries and expenses. Title III: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds to issue, implement, administer, or enforce any executive order, or other rule or order, that prohibits Federal contracts with companies that hire permanent replacements for striking employees. (Sec. 302) Makes inapplicable in FY 1995 the requirement to replace each public housing dwelling unit that is disposed of or demolished. (Sec. 303) Prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing or enforcing any requirement that a State implement trip reduction measures to reduce vehicular emissions. (Sec. 304) Prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing or enforcing any requirement that a State implement an inspection and maintenance program for vehicular emissions. (Sec. 305) Rescinds any Federal implementation plan under the Clean Air Act for the South Coast, Ventura, or Sacramento areas of California. (Sec. 306) Prohibits the funding of an abortion except when necessary to save the life of the mother or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest. Declares that each State is and remains free to fund abortions to the extent that the State deems appropriate, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term. (Sec. 307) Establishes an emergency two-year salvage timber sale program beginning on the date of enactment of this section. Establishes expedited procedures for the Secretary concerned to prepare, advertise, offer, and award contracts during the emergency period for salvage timber sales from Federal lands to satisfy salvage timber sale volume requirements. Requires the Secretary concerned to plan and implement reforestation of each parcel of land harvested under a salvage timber sale as expeditiously as possible. Subjects such sales to judicial review only in the United States district court for the district in which the affected Federal lands are located. Excludes the following Federal lands from such sale: (1) any area included in the National Wilderness Preservation System; (2) any roadless area designated by Congress for wilderness study in Colorado or Montana; (3) any roadless area recommended by the Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management for wilderness designation in its most recent land management plan; and (4) any area on which timber harvesting for any purpose is prohibited by statute. Releases certain timber sale contracts that have been previously awarded.
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