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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2726
To provide for improved instruction in mathematics and science education.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 23, 1993
Mr. SAWYER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and Labor
A BILL
To provide for improved instruction in mathematics and
science education.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mathematics Edu-
cation Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds that—
(1) society is entering a new age of information;
(2) effects of technological innovation on busi-
ness, government, and industry are paralleled by
dramatic changes in the physical, social, and life
sciences;
(3) more than many other areas of study and
application, mathematics is taking new directions;
(4) although rapid changes are occurring,
teaching mathematics has remained relatively un-
changed;
(5) to equip students for productive, fulfilling
lives in the information age, the definition of success
in mathematics is being transformed; and
(6) to meet these challenges the Federal Gov-
ernment needs to transform its method of support
for equal access to quality instruction at all levels of
mathematics to reflect the directions given in the
Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School
Mathematics established by the National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics.
SEC. 3. PURPOSE.
It is the purpose of this Act—
(1) to create an innovative funding program
that will provide the schools of the Nation with the
ability to improve mathematics education programs
at all grade levels; and
(2) to support locally-based mathematics edu-
cation programs that take into account and use ex-
(4) give priority in funding and assistance to
schools in the most disadvantaged areas in a State.
(c) LIMITATION.—Not more than $250,000 during
the first year and $125,000 during each of the following
four years shall be used by the association selected to
administer the Fund for administrative costs.
SEC. 5. GRANTS.
The Fund shall provide grants of not more than
$50,000 each year to schools and institutions of higher
education to improve mathematics education and to meet
the goals outlined in the Curriculum and Evaluation
Standards for School Mathematics.
SEC. 6. APPLICATIONS.
In addition to such other information and assurances
as the administrator of the Fund may reasonably require,
applications to the Fund for grants and contracts shall—
(1) describe the students to be served, and the
resources that exist in the community and school;
(2) describe assessment measurements to be
used to evaluate mathematics education improve-
ments;
(3) describe expected improvements in mathe-
matics education during the ten-year period begin-
ning on the date of the enactment of this Act; and
(4) describe how other resources that exist in
the community shall be used to improve mathe-
matics education.
SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000
for each of the fiscal years 1994 through 1997.
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quent discharge monitoring reports if the Adminis-
trator requires. Such reports shall contain, at a min-
imum, such information as the Administrator shall
require by regulation.
‘‘(2) 
REPORTING
OF
HAZARDOUS
DIS-
CHARGES.—
‘‘(A) GENERAL
RULE.—If a discharge
from a point source for which a permit is issued
under this section exceeds an effluent limitation
contained in such permit which is based on an
acute water quality standard or any other dis-
charge which may cause an exceedance of an
acute water quality standard or otherwise is
likely to cause injury to persons or damage to
the environment or to pose a threat to human
health and the environment, the person holding
such permit shall notify the Administrator, in
writing, of such discharge not later than 2
hours after the later of the time at which such
discharge commenced or the time at which the
permittee knew or had reason to know of such
discharge.
‘‘(B) SPECIAL RULE FOR HAZARDOUS POL-
LUTANTS.—If a discharge described in subpara-
graph (A) is of a hazardous pollutant (as de-
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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2727
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to improve the
enforcement and compliance programs.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 23, 1993
Mr. PALLONE (for himself, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. GILCHREST, Mr. JACOBS, Mrs.
MORELLA, Mr. KILDEE, and Ms. BYRNE) introduced the following bill;
which was referred jointly to the Committees on Public Works and Trans-
portation and Merchant Marine and Fisheries
MARCH 23, 1994
Additional sponsors: Mr. DELLUMS, Mr. YATES, Mr. MACHTLEY, Mr. SHAYS,
Mr. JOHNSTON of Florida, Mr. KREIDLER, Mr. BONIOR, Mr. BEILEN-
SON, Mr. TORRES, Mr. ANDREWS of New Jersey, Mr. BERMAN, Mr.
STARK, Mr. EVANS, Mr. CLAY, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. NORTON, Mr.
TOWNS, Mr. REYNOLDS, Mr. SANDERS, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Ms.
DELAURO, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. DIXON, Mr. VENTO, Ms. PELOSI, Ms.
ESHOO, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. ANDREWS of Maine, Ms. WOOLSEY, Ms. ROY-
BAL-ALLARD, Mr. RICHARDSON, Mr. MARTINEZ, Mr. WYNN, and Mr.
MCDERMOTT
A BILL
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to
improve the enforcement and compliance programs.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clean Water Enforce-
ment and Compliance Improvement Amendments Act of
1993’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Congress finds that—
(1) a significant number of persons who have
been issued permits under section 402 of the Fed-
eral Water Pollution Control Act are in violation of
such permits;
(2) current enforcement programs of the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
and the States fail to address violations of such per-
mits in a timely and effective manner;
(3) often violations of such permits continue for
a considerable period of time, yielding significant
economic benefits for the violator and thus penaliz-
ing similar facilities which act lawfully;
(4) penalties assessed and collected by the Ad-
ministrator from violators of such permits are often
less than the economic benefit gained by the violator;
(5) swift and timely enforcement by the Admin-
istrator and the States of violations of such permits
is necessary to increase levels of compliance with
such permits; and
(6) actions of private citizens have been effec-
tive in enforcing such permits and directing funds to
environmental mitigation projects with $9,000,000
in penalties and interest having been recovered and
deposited with the Treasury of the United States
over the last 4 fiscal years.
(b) FINDING WITH RESPECT TO HARM CAUSED BY
VIOLATIONS.—Section 101 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251) is amended by adding at
the end the following:
‘‘(h) FINDING WITH RESPECT TO HARM CAUSED BY
VIOLATIONS.—Congress finds that a discharge which re-
sults in a violation of this Act or a regulation, standard,
limitation, requirement, or order issued pursuant to this
Act interferes with the restoration and maintenance of the
chemical, physical, and biological integrity of any waters
into which the discharge flows (either directly or through
a publicly owned treatment works), including any waters
into which the receiving waters flow, and, therefore, harms
those who use or enjoy such waters and those who use
or enjoy nearby lands or aquatic resources associated with
those waters.
‘‘(i) FINDING WITH RESPECT TO CITIZEN SUITS.—
Congress finds that citizen suits are a valuable means of
enforcement of this Act and urges the Administrator to
take actions to encourage such suits, including providing
information concerning violators to citizen groups to assist
them in bringing suits, providing expert witnesses and
other evidence with respect to such suits, and filing amicus
curiae briefs on important issues related to such suits.’’.
SEC. 3. VIOLATIONS OF REQUIREMENTS OF LOCAL CON-
TROL AUTHORITIES.
Section 307(d) of Federal Water Pollution Control
Act (33 U.S.C. 1317(d)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(d) VIOLATIONS.—After the date on which (1) any
effluent standard or prohibition or pretreatment standard
or requirement takes effect under this section, or (2) any
requirement imposed in a pretreatment program under
section 402(a)(3) or 402(b)(8) of this Act takes effect, it
shall be unlawful for any owner or operator of any source
to operate such source in violation of the effluent stand-
ard, prohibition, pretreatment standard, or requirement.’’.
SEC. 4. INSPECTIONS, MONITORING, AND PROVIDING IN-
FORMATION.
(a) APPLICABILITY
OF
REQUIREMENTS.—Section
308(a) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C. 1318(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘the owner or op-
erator of any point source’’ and inserting ‘‘a person sub-
ject to a requirement of this Act’’.
(b) PUBLIC ACCESS TO INFORMATION.—The first
sentence of section 308(b) of such Act is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(including information con-
tained in the Permit Compliance System of the En-
vironmental Protection Agency)’’ after ‘‘obtained
under this section’’;
(2) by inserting ‘‘made’’ after ‘‘shall be’’; and
(3) by inserting ‘‘by computer telecommuni-
cation and other means’’ after ‘‘public’’ the first
place it appears.
(c) PUBLIC INFORMATION.—Section 308 of such Act
is further amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(e) PUBLIC INFORMATION.—
‘‘(1) POSTING OF NOTICE OF POLLUTED WA-
TERS.—At each major point of public access (includ-
ing, at a minimum, beaches, parks, recreation areas,
marinas, and boat launching areas) to a body of
navigable water that does not meet an applicable
water quality standard or that is subject to a fishing
and shell fishing ban, advisory, or consumption re-
striction (issued by a Federal, State, or local author-
ity) due to fish or shellfish contamination, the State
within which boundaries all or any part of such body
of water lies shall, either directly or through local
authorities, post and maintain a clearly visible sign
which—
‘‘(A) indicates the water quality standard
that is being violated or the nature and extent
of the restriction on fish or shellfish consump-
tion, as the case may be;
‘‘(B) includes (i) information on the envi-
ronmental and health effects associated with
the failure to meet such standard or with the
consumption of fish or shellfish subject to the
restriction, and (ii) a phone number for obtain-
ing additional information relating to the viola-
tion and restriction; and
‘‘(C) will be maintained until the body of
water is in compliance with the water quality
standard or until all fish and shellfish consump-
tion restrictions are terminated with respect to
the body of water, as the case may be.
‘‘(2) NOTICE OF DISCHARGES TO NAVIGABLE
WATERS.—Except for permits issued to municipali-
ties for discharges composed entirely of stormwater
under section 402 of this Act, each permit issued
under section 402 by the Administrator or by a
State shall ensure compliance with the following
requirements:
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (9) and inserting a semicolon; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(10) To ensure that any permit for a dis-
charge from a major industrial or municipal facility,
as defined by the Administrator by regulation, in-
cludes conditions under which such facility will be
subject to at least annual inspections by the State
in accordance with subsection (q) of this section;’’.
(d) MONTHLY REPORTS FOR SIGNIFICANT INDUS-
TRIAL USERS OF POTWS.—Section 402(b) of such Act
is further amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(11) To ensure that any permit for a dis-
charge from a publicly owned treatment works in the
State includes conditions under which the treatment
works will require any significant industrial user of
the treatment works, as defined by the Adminis-
trator by regulation, to prepare and submit to the
Administrator, the State, and the treatment works a
monthly discharge monitoring report as a condition
to using the treatment works;’’.
(e) PERMITS REQUIRED
FOR INTRODUCTION
OF
POLLUTANTS INTO POTWS.—Section 402(b) of such Act
is further amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(ii) the amount of funds made available
under section 505 and subsections (a) and (b)
of this section for such fiscal year.’’.
(c) PRESERVATION OF FUNDS.—Section 506(e)(5) of
such Act is amended by striking ‘‘1995’’ and inserting
‘‘1996’’.
SEC. 103. OPERATIONS OF FAA.
Section 106(k) of title 49, United States Code, is
amended by striking ‘‘, $5,100,000,000’’ and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘1995’’ and inserting ‘‘, $4,576,000,000 for
fiscal year 1994, $4,674,000,000 for fiscal year 1995, and
$4,810,000,000 for fiscal year 1996’’.
SEC. 104. APPORTIONMENT OF FUNDS.
(a) MINIMUM AMOUNT FOR PRIMARY AIRPORTS.—
Section 507(b)(1) of the Airport and Airway Improvement
Act of 1982 (49 U.S.C. App. 2206(b)(1)) is amended by
striking ‘‘$400,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$500,000’’.
(b) CONSIDERATION OF DIVERSION OF REVENUES IN
AWARDING DISCRETIONARY GRANTS.—Section 507 of
such Act is further amended by redesignating subsection
(f) as subsection (g) and by inserting after subsection (e)
the following new subsection:
‘‘(f) CONSIDERATION OF DIVERSION OF REVENUES
IN AWARDING DISCRETIONARY GRANTS.—In deciding
whether or not to distribute funds to an airport from the
carry out mitigation projects under section 309 or 505(a),
as the case may be).
‘‘(c) ADMINISTRATION OF TRUST FUND.—The Ad-
ministrator shall administer the Clean Water Trust Fund.
The Administrator may use moneys in the Fund to carry
out inspections and enforcement activities pursuant to this
Act. In addition, the Administrator may make such
amounts of money in the Fund as the Administrator de-
termines appropriate available to carry out title VI of this
Act.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO STATE REVOLV-
ING FUND PROGRAM.—Section 607 of such Act (33
U.S.C. 1387) is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—’’ before
‘‘There is’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(b) TREATMENT
OF TRANSFERS FROM CLEAN
WATER
TRUST
FUND.—For purposes of this title,
amounts made available from the Clean Water Trust
Fund under section 519 of this Act to carry out this title
shall be treated as funds authorized to be appropriated
to carry out this title and as funds made available under
this title.’’.
SEC. 14. RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.
Sections 101(h), 309(g)(6)(A), 505(a)(1), 505(b),
505(g), and 505(i) of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act, as inserted or amended by this Act, shall be retro-
actively applicable to all cases pending under such Act on
the date of the enactment of this Act and all cases brought
on or after such date of enactment relating to violations
which occurred before such date of amendment.
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long-term impact of the finding on domestic manufac-
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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2557 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make imprisonment manda-
tory for unauthorized disclosure of returns and return information, unau-
thorized inspection of returns or return information, and willful oppres-
sion under color of law by officers and employees of the United States, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 27, 2013 
Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee 
on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make 
imprisonment mandatory for unauthorized disclosure of 
returns and return information, unauthorized inspection 
of returns or return information, and willful oppression 
under color of law by officers and employees of the 
United States, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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‘‘(C) the adjusted basis (for determining
gain) of such property immediately before the
exchange exceeded its fair market value at such
time,
then the deduction under this section, and such ad-
justed basis, shall both be reduced by the excess de-
scribed in subparagraph (C).
‘‘(g) BASIS ADJUSTMENT.—For purposes of this sub-
title, if a deduction is allowed under this section with re-
spect to the purchase of any stock, the basis of such stock
(without regard to this subsection) shall be reduced by the
amount of the deduction allowed with respect to the pur-
chase of such stock.
‘‘(h) APPLICATION OF SECTION.—This section shall
apply only to stock acquired after December 31, 1992, and
before January 1, 2008.’’
(b) TECHNICAL AMENDMENT.—Subsection (a) of
section 1016 of such Code (relating to adjustments to
basis) is amended by striking out ‘‘and’’ at the end of
paragraph (23), by striking out the period at the end of
paragraph (24) and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘, and’’, and
by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:
‘‘(25) to the extent provided in section 197(g),
in the case of stock with respect to which a deduc-
tion was allowed under section 197.’’
the issues involved, the employee may withdraw the com-
plaint or the parties may enter into a written agreement,
subject to the approval of the Director.
SEC. 11. PROHIBITION OF INTIMIDATION.
Any intimidation of, or reprisal against, any employee
by any Member, officer, or employee of the Senate, or by
the Architect of the Capitol, or anyone employed by the
Architect of the Capitol, as the case may be, because of
the exercise of a right under this Act constitutes an unlaw-
ful employment practice, which may be remedied in the
same manner under this Act as is a violation of a law
made applicable to Congress under section 4.
SEC. 12. CONFIDENTIALITY.
(a) COUNSELING.—All counseling shall be strictly
confidential except that the Office and the employee may
agree to notify the head of the employing office of the alle-
gations.
(b) MEDIATION.—All mediation shall be strictly con-
fidential.
(c) HEARINGS.—Except as provided in subsection
(d), the hearings, deliberations, and decisions of the hear-
ing board shall be confidential.
(d) RELEASE OF RECORDS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW.—
The records and decisions of hearing boards, and the deci-
sions of the Select Committee on Ethics, may be made
public if required for the purpose of judicial review under
section 9.
SEC. 13. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1991.—Section 117 and
title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (2 U.S.C. 60l,
120l et seq.) are repealed.
(b) RULE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—
Rule LI of the House of Representatives is repealed.
(c) FAIR
LABOR
STANDARDS
AMENDMENTS
OF
1989.—Section 8 of the Fair Labor Standards Amend-
ments of 1989 is repealed.
SEC. 14. POLITICAL AFFILIATION AND PLACE OF RESI-
DENCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—It shall not be a violation of a law
made applicable to Congress under section 4 to consider
the—
(1) party affiliation;
(2) domicile, or
(3) political compatibility with the employing
office,
of an employee with respect to employment decisions.
(b) DEFINITION.—For purposes of subsection (a),
the term ‘‘employee’’ means—
(1) an employee on the staff of the House of
Representatives or Senate leadership;
(2) an employee on the staff of a committee or
subcommittee;
(3) an employee on the staff of a Member of
the House of Representatives or Senate;
(4) an officer or employee of the House of Rep-
resentatives or Senate elected by the House of Rep-
resentatives or Senate or appointed by a Member
House of Representatives or Senate, other than
those described in paragraphs (1) through (3); or
(5) an applicant for a position that is to be oc-
cupied by an individual described in paragraphs (1)
through (4).
SEC. 15. OTHER REVIEW.
No congressional employee may commence a judicial
proceeding to redress practices prohibited under section
4, except as provided in this Act.
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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 272
To amend title 11 of the United States Code to establish a priority for
the payment of claims for retiree health benefits in liquidation cases
under chapters 7 and 11.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 5, 1993
Mr. MCCOLLUM introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend title 11 of the United States Code to establish
a priority for the payment of claims for retiree health
benefits in liquidation cases under chapters 7 and 11.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. PRIORITY OF CLAIMS FOR RETIREE HEALTH
BENEFITS.
(a) DEFINITION.—Section 101 of title 11, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) by redesignating the last four paragraphs as
paragraphs (58), (59), (60), and (61),
(2) in paragraph (60), as so redesignated, by
striking ‘‘and’’ at the end,
(3) in paragraph (61), as so redesignated, by
striking the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’,
and
(4) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(62) ‘retiree health benefits’ means payments
to any entity or person for the purpose of providing
or reimbursing payments for retired employees and
their spouses and dependents, for medical, surgical,
or hospital care benefits under any plan, fund, or
program (through the purchase of insurance or oth-
erwise) maintained or established in whole or in part
by the debtor prior to filing a petition commencing
a case under this title.’’.
(b) PRIORITY UNDER CHAPTER 7.—(1) Section
726(a)(1) of title 11, United States Code, is amended to
read as follows:
‘‘(1) first—
‘‘(A) except as provided in subparagraph
(B), in payment of claims of the kind specified
in, and in the order specified in section 507 of
this title; and
‘‘(B) immediately after payment of claims
of the kind specified in section 507(a)(4), in
discretionary funds established by subsections (c) and (d),
the Secretary shall consider as a factor militating against
the distribution of such funds to the airport the fact that
the airport is using revenues generated by the airport or
by local taxes on aviation fuel for purposes other than cap-
ital or operating costs of the airport or the local airports
system.’’.
SEC. 105. USE OF APPORTIONED AND DISCRETIONARY
FUNDS.
(a) INTEGRATED AIRPORT SYSTEM PLANNING SET-
ASIDE.—Section 508(d)(4) of the Airport and Airway Im-
provement Act of 1982 (49 U.S.C. App. 2207(d)(4)) is
amended by striking ‘‘1⁄2’’ and inserting ‘‘3⁄4’’.
(b) 
MILITARY
AIRPORT
SET-ASIDE.—Section
508(d)(5) of such Act is amended by striking ‘‘and 1995’’
and inserting ‘‘, 1995, and 1996’’.
(c) DESIGNATION OF MILITARY AIRPORTS.—Section
508(f)(1) of such Act is amended by striking ‘‘12’’ and
inserting ‘‘16’’.
(d) CONSTRUCTION
OF
PARKING
LOTS, FUEL
FARMS, AND UTILITIES.—Section 508(f)(6) of such Act
is amended by striking ‘‘and 1995’’ and inserting ‘‘1995,
and 1996’’.