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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4732
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the dollar limitation
on the deduction of interest on education loans.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 14, 2002
Mr. WU introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means
A BILL
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal
the dollar limitation on the deduction of interest on
education loans.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REPEAL OF DOLLAR LIMITATION ON DEDUC-
TION OF INTEREST ON EDUCATION LOANS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (b) of section 221 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to maximum
deduction) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) LIMITATION BASED ON MODIFIED ADJUSTED
GROSS INCOME.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The amount which would
(but for this subsection) be allowable as a deduction
under this section shall be reduced (but not below
zero) by the amount determined under paragraph
(2).
‘‘(2) AMOUNT
OF
REDUCTION.—The amount
determined under this paragraph is the amount
which bears the same ratio to the amount which
would be so taken into account as—
‘‘(A) the excess of—
‘‘(i) the taxpayer’s modified adjusted
gross income for such taxable year, over
‘‘(ii) $50,000 ($100,000 in the case of
a joint return), bears to
‘‘(B) $15,000 ($30,000 in the case of a
joint return).
‘‘(3) MODIFIED
ADJUSTED
GROSS
INCOME.—
The term ‘modified adjusted gross income’ means
adjusted gross income determined—
‘‘(A) without regard to this section and
sections 222, 911, 931, and 933, and
‘‘(B) after application of sections 86, 135,
137, 219, and 469.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
this section shall apply to payments made in taxable years
beginning after December 31, 2001.
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(1) The Alaska National Interest Lands Con-
servation Act (16 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.) established
new and expanded units of the National Park Sys-
tem and the National Wildlife Refuge System in
many areas of Alaska. The purposes of these con-
servation system units include protection of habitat
for fish and wildlife, conservation of fish and wildlife
populations in their natural state, continued oppor-
tunity for subsistence uses by local residents, and
protection of archeological sites associated with Alas-
ka Native cultures.
(2) Many rural Alaskan communities are in
close proximity to conservation system units and the
purposes of these conservation system units are
uniquely relevant to the culture and ways of Alaska
Natives and other residents of rural Alaska commu-
nities. Congress recognized this close relationship in
sections 1306, 1307, and 1308 of the Alaska Na-
tional Interest Lands Conservation Act, which di-
rected the Secretary of the Interior to establish pro-
grams whereby Alaska Native lands were given pref-
erence for the siting of conservation system unit fa-
cilities, Alaska Native corporations and local resi-
dents were given preference for the provision of vis-
strengthen relationships between mothers
and fathers.
(4) Therefore, it is the sense of the Congress
that increasing success in moving families from wel-
fare to work, as well as in promoting healthy mar-
riage and other means of improving child well-being,
are very important Government interests and the
policy contained in part A of title IV of the Social
Security Act (as amended by this Act) is intended
to serve these ends.
TITLE I—TANF
SEC. 101. PURPOSES.
Section 401(a) (42 U.S.C. 601(a)) is amended—
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by
striking ‘‘increase’’ and inserting ‘‘improve child
well-being by increasing’’;
(2) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘and serv-
ices’’ after ‘‘assistance’’;
(3) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘parents on
government benefits’’ and inserting ‘‘families on gov-
ernment benefits and reduce poverty’’; and
(4) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘two-parent
families’’ and inserting ‘‘healthy, 2-parent married
families, and encourage responsible fatherhood’’.
‘‘(4) AVAILABILITY
OF
PREMIUM
AND
COST-
SHARING SUBSIDIES FOR LOW-INCOME ENROLLEES
AND REINSURANCE SUBSIDY PAYMENTS FOR ORGA-
NIZATIONS.—For provisions—
‘‘(A) providing premium and cost-sharing
subsidies to low-income individuals receiving
qualified prescription drug coverage through a
Medicare+Choice plan, see section 1860G; and
‘‘(B) providing a Medicare+Choice organi-
zation with reinsurance subsidy payments for
providing qualified prescription drug coverage
under this part, see section 1860H.
‘‘(5) SPECIFICATION OF SEPARATE AND STAND-
ARD PREMIUM.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of ap-
plying section 1854 and section 1860G(b)(2)(B)
with respect to qualified prescription drug cov-
erage offered under this subsection under a
plan, the Medicare+Choice organization shall
compute and publish the following:
‘‘(i) SEPARATE
PRESCRIPTION
DRUG
PREMIUM.—A premium for prescription
drug benefits that constitute qualified pre-
scription drug coverage that is separate
from other coverage under the plan. Such
(5) The Secretary shall not impose the assessment
provided in paragraphs (2) or (3) of this subsection if the
person liable for royalty payments under this section cor-
rects the underreporting before the date such person re-
ceives notice from the Secretary that an underreporting
may have occurred, or before 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this section, whichever is later.
(6) The Secretary shall waive any portion of an as-
sessment under paragraph (2) or (3) of this subsection
attributable to that portion of the underreporting for
which the person responsible for paying the royalty dem-
onstrates that—
(A) such person had written authorization from
the Secretary to report royalty on the value of the
production on basis on which it was reported,
(B) such person had substantial authority for
reporting royalty on the value of the production on
the basis on which it was reported,
(C) such person previously had notified the Sec-
retary, in such manner as the Secretary may by rule
prescribe, of relevant reasons or facts affecting the
royalty treatment of specific production which led to
the underreporting, or
(D) such person meets any other exception
which the Secretary may, by rule, establish.
in the case of an individual described in paragraph
(2) who seeks to enroll under the policy not later
than 63 days after the date of the termination of en-
rollment described in such paragraph and who sub-
mits evidence of the date of termination or
disenrollment along with the application for such
medicare supplemental policy.
(2) INDIVIDUAL COVERED.—An individual de-
scribed in this paragraph is an individual who—
(A) enrolls in a prescription drug plan
under part D of title XVIII of the Social Secu-
rity Act; and
(B) at the time of such enrollment was en-
rolled and terminates enrollment in a medicare
supplemental policy which has a benefit pack-
age classified as ‘‘H’’, ‘‘I’’, or ‘‘J’’ under the
standards referred to in paragraph (1)(A) or
terminates enrollment in a policy to which such
standards do not apply but which provides ben-
efits for prescription drugs.
(3) ENFORCEMENT.—The provisions of para-
graph (1) shall be enforced as though they were in-
cluded in section 1882(s) of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 1395ss(s)).
(A) The terms and conditions of the existing
permit are not being met.
(B) The operator has not demonstrated that
the financial assurance would continue to apply in
full force and effect for the renewal term.
(C) Any additional revised or updated informa-
tion required by the Secretary concerned has not
been provided.
(D) The applicant has not demonstrated that
the mineral activities will be in compliance with the
requirements of all other applicable Federal require-
ments, and any State requirements agreed to by the
Secretary concerned pursuant to cooperative agree-
ments under section 207.
(4) A renewal of an operations permit shall be for
a term of 10 years or for such additional term as the Sec-
retary concerned deems appropriate. Application for re-
newal shall be made at least one year prior to the expira-
tion of the existing permit. Where a renewal application
has been timely submitted and a permit expires prior to
Secretarial action on the renewal application, reclamation
shall and other mineral activities may continue in accord-
ance with the terms of the expired permit until the Sec-
retary concerned makes a decision on the renewal applica-
tion.
(4) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-
section, the term ‘‘medicare supplemental policy’’
has the meaning given such term in section 1882(g)
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ss(g)).
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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4738
To facilitate the ability of certain spectrum auction winners to pursue alter-
native measures required in the public interest to meet the needs of
wireless telecommunications consumers.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 15, 2002
Mr. STEARNS (for himself, Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. TERRY, Mr. PICKERING, Mr.
TOWNS, and Mr. RUSH) introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
A BILL
To facilitate the ability of certain spectrum auction winners
to pursue alternative measures required in the public
interest to meet the needs of wireless telecommunications
consumers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. RETURN OF DOWNPAYMENTS.
On or before the 15th day after the date of enactment
of this Act, the Federal Communications Commission shall
return to the winning bidders of auction 35 the full
amount of all deposits and downpayments made by such
winning bidders for licenses that the Commission has not
by that date delivered to such winning bidders.
SEC. 2. RELIEF FROM CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS.
Each such winning bidder that elects, by formal writ-
ten notice to the Commission on or before the 15th day
after the date of enactment of this Act, to relinquish its
rights under auction 35 to receive a license for which it
was the winning bidder, and which the Commission has
not delivered to such bidder by the date of such election,
shall be free of all obligations such winning bidder would
otherwise have with respect to such license, including the
obligation to pay the full amount of its winning bid upon
delivery of such license.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act:
(1) COMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’
means the Federal Communications Commission.
(2) AUCTION
35.—The term ‘‘auction 35’’
means the Commission’s C and F block broadband
personal communications service spectrum auction,
which began on December 12, 2000, and ended on
January 26, 2001, insofar as such auction related to
spectrum previously licensed to NextWave Personal
Communications Inc., NextWave Power Partners,
Inc., or Urban Comm-North Carolina, Inc.
(3) WINNING
BIDDER.—The term ‘‘winning
bidder’’ means those bidders whose applications for
auction 35 licenses the Commission accepted for fil-
ing, as listed in Appendix A to the Commission’s
Public Notice DA 01–520, issued on February 27,
2001.
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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4739
To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities
Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the
design, planning, and construction of a project to reclaim and reuse
wastewater within and outside of the service area of the City of Austin
Water and Wastewater Utility, Texas.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 15, 2002
Mr. DOGGETT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Resources
A BILL
To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater
Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of
the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and
construction of a project to reclaim and reuse wastewater
within and outside of the service area of the City of
Austin Water and Wastewater Utility, Texas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, WASTE-
WATER RECLAMATION AND REUSE PROJECT.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF PROJECT.—The Reclamation
Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act
(Public Law 102–575, title XVI; 43 U.S.C. 390h et seq.)
is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘SEC. 1635. AUSTIN, TEXAS, WATER RECLAMATION AND
REUSE PROJECT.
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary, in coopera-
tion with the City of Austin Water and Wastewater Util-
ity, Texas, is authorized to participate in the planning (in-
cluding an appraisal and feasibility study), design, and
construction of, and land acquisition for, a project to re-
claim and reuse wastewater, including degraded ground-
waters, within and outside of the service area of the City
of Austin Water and Wastewater Utility, Texas.
‘‘(b) COST SHARE.—The Federal share of the cost
of the project authorized by this section shall not exceed
25 percent of the total cost of the project.
‘‘(c) LIMITATION.—The Secretary shall not provide
funds for the operation and maintenance of the project
authorized by this section.’’.
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents
in section 2 of Public Law 102–575 (106 Stat. 4600) is
amended by adding at the end of the items relating to
chapter XVI the following:
‘‘Sec. 1635. Austin, Texas, Water Reclamation and Reuse Project.’’.
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Union Calendar No. 384
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4739
[Report No. 107–635]
To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities
Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the
design, planning, and construction of a project to reclaim and reuse
wastewater within and outside of the service area of the City of Austin
Water and Wastewater Utility, Texas.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 15, 2002
Mr. DOGGETT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Resources
SEPTEMBER 4, 2002
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union
and ordered to be printed
A BILL
To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater
Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of
the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and
construction of a project to reclaim and reuse wastewater
within and outside of the service area of the City of
Austin Water and Wastewater Utility, Texas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, WASTE-
WATER RECLAMATION AND REUSE PROJECT.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF PROJECT.—The Reclamation
Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act
(Public Law 102–575, title XVI; 43 U.S.C. 390h et seq.)
is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘SEC. 1635. AUSTIN, TEXAS, WATER RECLAMATION AND
REUSE PROJECT.
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary, in coopera-
tion with the City of Austin Water and Wastewater Util-
ity, Texas, is authorized to participate in the planning (in-
cluding an appraisal and feasibility study), design, and
construction of, and land acquisition for, a project to re-
claim and reuse wastewater, including degraded ground-
waters, within and outside of the service area of the City
of Austin Water and Wastewater Utility, Texas.
‘‘(b) COST SHARE.—The Federal share of the cost
of the project authorized by this section shall not exceed
25 percent of the total cost of the project.
‘‘(c) LIMITATION.—The Secretary shall not provide
funds for the operation and maintenance of the project
authorized by this section.’’.
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents
in section 2 of Public Law 102–575 (106 Stat. 4600) is
amended by adding at the end of the items relating to
chapter XVI the following:
‘‘Sec. 1635. Austin, Texas, Water Reclamation and Reuse Project.’’.
Union Calendar No. 384
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4739
[Report No. 107–635]
A BILL
To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and
Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to author-
ize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in
the design, planning, and construction of a
project to reclaim and reuse wastewater within
and outside of the service area of the City of
Austin Water and Wastewater Utility, Texas.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2002
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
(A) was the first educational experiment of
the Reconstruction Era and the eventual end of
chattel slavery; and
(B) remains 1 of the most significant Afri-
can-American cultural and educational institu-
tions in the United States.
(5) The Freedmen’s Bureau, located in the re-
stored Beaufort College, served as the chief policy
arm of the Federal Government for matters related
to emancipated slaves during the Reconstruction
Era.
(6) Beaufort County, South Carolina, and the
surrounding sea islands have many other noteworthy
historic 
buildings 
and 
archaeological 
sites,
including—
(A) buildings and sites associated with
Robert Smalls, a former slave who—
(i) became a hero to the Union cause
when he and several slaves seized control
of the armed Confederate ship on which
they served and then turned the ship over
to the Union navy; and
(ii) represented the State of South
Carolina in the House of Representatives
during the Reconstruction Era;
ber of the dependent relative with respect to whom the
individual was engaged in providing care during such
month, and other information as the Commissioner may
require to verify the status of the dependent relative, on
whatever application may be required to obtain benefits
under this section.
‘‘Annual Reimbursement of Federal Old-Age and
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund
‘‘(e) There are authorized to be appropriated to the
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund for
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, and for each
fiscal year thereafter, such sums as the Commissioner of
Social Security deems necessary on account of—
‘‘(1) payments made under this section during
the second preceding fiscal year and all fiscal years
prior thereto to individuals entitled to benefits under
this section,
‘‘(2) the additional administrative expenses re-
sulting from the payments described in paragraph
(1), and
‘‘(3) any loss in interest to such Trust Fund re-
sulting from such payments and expenses,
(2) by inserting ‘‘by a railroad carrier or its
managers, supervisors, officers, and agents’’ after
‘‘or allowed’’; and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘In the case of a dually employed employee, a railroad
carrier shall not be held responsible for violating this sub-
section because of the employee’s work schedule for an-
other employer if none of the railroad carrier’s managers,
supervisors, officers, and agents had actual knowledge of
that work schedule. For purposes of the preceding sen-
tence, a railroad carrier’s managers, supervisors, officers,
and agents shall be considered to have actual knowledge
of the work schedules of the dispatching service employees
of its independent contractors. A railroad carrier shall be
held responsible for the actions of its independent contrac-
tors in requiring or allowing a dispatching service em-
ployee to remain or go on duty.’’.
(c) REDESIGNATION.—Subsections (c) and (d) of sec-
tion 21105 are redesignated as subsections (d) and (e),
respectively.
(d) POWER DIRECTORS.—Section 21105 is amended
by inserting after subsection (b) the following new sub-
section:
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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4745
To provide for the geographic reclassification of a county for purposes of
equitable hospital payment rates under the Medicare Program.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 15, 2002
Mr. VISCLOSKY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To provide for the geographic reclassification of a county
for purposes of equitable hospital payment rates under
the Medicare Program.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. HOSPITAL GEOGRAPHIC RECLASSIFICATION.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, effective
for discharges occurring on or after October 1, 2002, for
purposes of making payments under section 1886(d) of
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)), Porter
County, Indiana, is deemed to be located in the Chicago,
Illinois, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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‘‘(II) a percentage of such total authorized har-
vest established by the Council having jurisdiction
over the fishery.
‘‘(ii) This subparagraph does not apply to a commu-
nity that is eligible to participate in the western Alaska
community development program or the western Pacific
community development program, under section 305(i).
‘‘(5) Any fishery management plan that establishes
an individual quota system for a fishery may include provi-
sions that—
‘‘(A) allocate individual quotas under the sys-
tem among categories of vessels; and
‘‘(B) provide a portion of the annual harvest in
the fishery for entry-level fishermen, small vessel
owners, or crew members who do not hold or qualify
for individual quotas.
‘‘(6) An individual quota system established for a
fishery may be limited or terminated at any time by the
Secretary or through a fishery management plan or
amendment developed by the Council having authority
over the fishery for which it is established, if necessary
for the conservation and management of the fishery.
‘‘(7)(A) A fishery management plan that establishes
an individual quota system for a fishery—
(B) all requirements applicable to such
patent application were fully complied with by
that date.
(2) RIGHT TO PATENT.—If the Secretary makes
the determinations referred to in subparagraphs (A)
and (B) of paragraph (1) for any millsite claim, the
holder of the claim shall be entitled to the issuance
of a patent in the same manner and degree to which
such claim holder would have been entitled to prior
to the enactment of this Act, unless and until such
determinations are withdrawn or invalidated by the
Secretary or by a court of the United States.
SEC. 112. ROYALTY.
(a) RESERVATION OF ROYALTY.—Production of all
locatable minerals from any mining claim located under
the general mining laws and maintained in compliance
with this Act, or mineral concentrates or products derived
from locatable minerals from any mining claim located
under the general mining laws and maintained in compli-
ance with this Act, as the case may be, shall be subject
to a royalty of 8 percent of the net smelter return from
such production. The claim holder and any operator to
whom the claim holder has assigned the obligation to make
royalty payments under the claim and any person who