DISASTERS

Amendments

Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1612), 37729, 37883 [21DE]

Farm Disaster Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 1157), 9211, 9214, 9216, 9218, 9220, 9222, 9224, 9225, 9226, 9228, 9235, 9236 [22AP], 9378, 9393, 9394, 9395, 9396, 9397, 9399, 9450-9452 [23AP]

FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program: funding (H.J. Res. 102), 2303, 2304, 2339, 2343 [29JA]

Analyses

Appropriations for International Security and Disaster Assistance Programs and Peace Corps (S. 580), 3937 [23FE]

Appointments

Conferees on H.R. 1157, Farm Disaster Assistance Act, 11245 [5MY], 11608 [7MY]

Articles and editorials

Accident One More Reason To Bar MRS, 15409 [11JN]

Banker Described as Good Troubleshooter, 34638 [9DE]

Chevron USA Mourns a Well-Loved President, 34637 [9DE]

Disaster on Maryland Rails, 204 [6JA]

Does Helping Really Help?—The West's Dilemma—Aid to the Starving May Benefit Those Who Made Them Starve, 38283 [22DE]

Ex-County Official Had Returned to Airlines Job, 34638 [9DE]

Famine Next Time, 838-840 [7JA]

Famine—Hunger Stalks Ethiopia Once Again—And Aid Groups Fear the Worst, 38280-38283 [22DE]

Federal Power Over Nuclear Power, 3823 [19FE]

Iowa Farmers Keep Local Hotlines Busy, 28986 [22OC]

Kingfisher County Farmers Could Lose Nearly $3 Million Because of Flooding, 9239 [22AP]

Local Residents Opened Homes, Hearts—Some Climbed Into Wreckage—Others Played Piano and Made Sandwiches, 205 [6JA]

Nuclear Nonplused, 8287 [7AP]

Psychological Assessment of Bhopal Gas Tragedy, 33782 [2DE]

Rains Put Wheat Farmers in a Bind, 9239 [22AP]

600 Blood Donors Jam Red Cross HQ, 205 [6JA]

Storm Leaves Destruction, 35308 [11DE]

Texas City Disaster Is Recalled by Survivor, 11936 [11MY]

Tragedy's Marin Victims—President Worked To Fix College's Finances, 34637 [9DE]

Union Carbide, India Are Urged To Settle by October 30, 29658 [28OC]

USA for Africa Forces Critics To Change Tune, 1881 [22JA]

Valley With a Heart—Pulling Together, 7326 [30MR]

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: assistance for apple producers (see H.R. 1151)

———emergency assistance to certain producers (see S. 341; H.R. 904, 1146)

———income averaging for victims of natural disasters (see H.R. 1726)

———revise disaster program (see H.R. 1015)

———suspend minimum planting requirement for producers affected by flood damage (see S. 697)

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: allow farmers in natural disaster areas to defer Farmers Home Administration loan payments (see S. 847)

Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 1612), 5723 [16MR]

Farmers: disaster payments (see H.R. 2797)

FEMA: authorize States to withdraw, without penalty, from a certain agreement (see H.R. 1429)

Housing and Community Development Act: uniform emergency number systems (see H.R. 721)

Marine accidents salvage: protect historic shipwrecks (see H.R. 2071)

National Commission on the 1987 Natural Resources Disaster: establish (see H.R. 3630)

National Flood Insurance Act: revise schedule for payment of flood insurance (see H.R. 2500)

North Carolina: direct SBA Administrator to declare red tide contamination a disaster (see H.R. 3694)

NRC: establish emergency response program (see H.R. 1570)

Nuclear accidents: compensation (see S. 44)

Nuclear energy: procedures for liability and indemnification for incidents (see H.R. 2994)

———require emergency planning and preparedness plan (see S. 369)

———unlimited liability in event of powerplant accident (see H.R. 2141)

Prevented Planting Agricultural Disaster Assistance Program: extend (see H.R. 909)

Prichard, AL: cancellation of repayment of community disaster loan (see S. 1503)

Response (see S. 1453; H.R. 2707)

Salvage: establish title of States in certain abandoned shipwrecks (see S. 858)

SBA: declare Long Island, NY, brown tide a disaster (see H.R. 3792)

———loan program (see H.R. 1105)

Small Business: disaster assistance loans (see S. 1957)

Soviet Union: nuclear power plant accident (see S.J. Res. 119; H.J. Res. 259)

Taxation: deduction for donation of agricultural products to victims of natural disasters (see S. 561; H.R. 2778)

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program: funds (see H.R. 906)

Court decisions

Emergency evacuation plans for nuclear accidents: Massachusetts court, 22543 [5AU]

Hearings

Committee on Agriculture: emergency disaster assistance (testimony from Representatives Tallon, Whittaker, and Traxler, Peter C. Myers, and public witnesses), D59 [11FE]

Committee on Appropriations (House): Eximbank, Trade and Development Program, disaster assistance, U.S. schools and hospitals abroad, and Housing Guarantee Program (testimony), D187 [24MR]

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act appropriations

———Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act appropriations (testimony), D274 [23AP]

Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act budget (testimony from officials of FEMA, the U.S. Geological Survey, NSF, and the National Bureau of Standards), D134 [10MR]

Letters

Appropriations for international security and disaster assistance programs and Peace Corps: J. Edward Fox, Dept. of State, 3937 [23FE]

Budget Act waiver for consideration of H.J. Res. 102: Senator Helms, 2302 [29JA]

Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Care Improvement Act: Senators Cranston and Kennedy, 413 [6JA]

Farm Disaster Assistance Act: Dept. of Agriculture, 9221 [22AP]

———Robert K. Dawson, 9240 [22AP]

———Senator Mitchell, 9221 [22AP]

———Terry Wyatt, 9238 [22AP]

Farm program provisions of Food Security Act: several farm organizations, 9377 [23AP]

Meetings

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: disaster payments to certain producers of wheat crop, D37 [29JA]

———disaster payments to certain wheat producers (S. 341), D22 [21JA]

Committee on Appropriations (Senate): making emergency additional funds for Emergency Food and Shelter Program, D37 [29JA]

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Earthquake Hazards Reductions Act appropriations (H.R. 1612), D240 [7AP], D270 [22AP]

Memorials of legislature

Nevada, 9733, 9734 [24AP]

Papers

In From the Cold—Nuclear Winter Melts Down: Russell Seitz, 12292-12296 [13MY]

Poems

``One Year Ago From Today'': Tino Torres, 5288 [10MR]

Remarks in House

Agriculture: assistance to wheat producers (H.R. 814), 2030 [28JA]

———emergency assistance to Southeast States (S. 341), 2500 [3FE]

American Samoa: hurricane, 1428 [20JA], 2200 [29JA]

Bhopal, India: gas tragedy anniversary, 33782 [2DE]

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: allow farmers in natural disaster areas to defer Farmers Home Administration loan payments (S. 847), 7027 [26MR]

Dallas County, TX: flood, 21462 [29JY]

Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1612), 14881-14884 [8JN]

Earthquakes: lessons from California, 31279 [9NO]

Farm Disaster Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 1157), appointment of conferees, 11245 [5MY]

———enact (H.R. 1157), conference report, 12379-12381 [13MY]

Farmers: disaster payments (H.R. 2797), 17878 [26JN]

FEMA: authorize States to withdraw, without penalty, from a certain agreement (H.R. 1429), 4926 [5MR]

FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program: funding (H.J. Res. 102), 1988, 2380 [29JA]

Marine accident salvage: protect historic shipwrecks (H.R. 2071), 8908 [9AP]

Saragosa, TX: disaster, 13765 [27MY]

SBA: declare Long Island, NY, brown tide a disaster (H.R. 3792), 36158 [17DE]

Scheuer, Representative: Africa Drought Monitoring Program, amendment withdrawn, 34676 [10DE]

Taxation: deductions for contributions of agricultural property for victims of natural disasters (H.R. 2776), 17602 [25JN]

Treatment Centers Month: designate, 14046 [28MY]

Winona Flood Dike System: tribute, 23491 [7AU]

Wyoming Valley, PA: chemical plant disaster, 7326 [30MR]

Remarks in Senate

Agricultural Emergency Assistance Act: enact (S. 341), 1513 [20JA]

Agriculture: conservation reserve contracts, 9225 [22AP]

———emergency compensation and feed grain deficiency payments, 9397-9399 [23AP]

———emergency disaster assistance program, 9226 [22AP]

———ensure equitable treatment of cotton producers suffering losses, 9236 [22AP]

———exemption from planting requirements upon levee flooding damage, 9222 [22AP]

———supplemental peanut and soybean payments, 9399-9402 [23AP]

———suspend minimum planting requirement for producers affected by flood damage (S. 697), 5153 [10MR]

Bhopal, India: Union Carbide Corp. out-of-court settlement with victims of accident, 29658 [28OC]

Dept. of Commerce: disaster loans, 13723-13725, 13728 [27MY]

Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act: authorizing appropriations (H.R. 1612), 37729 [21DE]

Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Care Improvement Act: enact (S. 10), 404 [6JA]

———enact (S.10), 415 [6JA]

Farm Disaster Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 1157), 9115 [21AP], 9209-9240 [22AP], 9375-9402 [23AP], 11118 [5MY], 11608 [7MY]

———enact (H.R. 1157), appointment of conferees, 11608 [7MY]

———enact (H.R. 1157), conference report, 12032, 12033 [12MY]

———enact (H.R. 1157), unanimous-consent agreement, 12032 [12MY]

———funding, 13728 [27MY]

Farmers Home Administration: funding, 14294-14296 [2JN]

FEMA: tribute, 4569 [3MR]

FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program: funding (H.J. Res. 102), 2295-2313 [29JA]

International disaster assistance: conference, 5185 [10MR]

Operation Haylift: tribute, 2154-2158 [28JA]

Prichard, AL: cancellation of repayment of community disaster loan (S. 1503), 20240 [17JY]

Response (S. 1453), 18192 [30JN]

Roads and highways: natural disaster emergency fund, 2596, 2597 [3FE]

SBA: disaster loans, 13888 [28MY]

Small Business: disaster assistance loans (S. 1957), 35991 [17DE]

Sugar producers: emergency disaster payments, 9218 [22AP]

Taxation: deduction for donation of agricultural products to victims of natural disasters (S. 561), 3759 [19FE]

Westminster Choir College: Living Visions Ensemble tribute, 1673 [21JA]

Reports by conference committees

Farm Disaster Assistance Act (H.R. 1157), 12032 [12MY], 12124-12125 [12MY]

———(H. Rept. 100-91), 12134 [12MY]

Reports filed

Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act Appropriations: Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (H.R. 1612) (H. Rept. 100-89), 13431 [21MY]

Statements

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program: Community Nutrition Institute, 2297 [29JA]

Summaries

Agricultural Emergency Assistance Act (S. 341), 1514 [20JA]

FAO Activities of Direct Benefit to the U.S., 18698 [1JY]

Health Care—States Assume Leadership Role in Providing Emergency Medical Services: GAO, 414 [6JA]

Major Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Amendments (S. 1453): Representative Ridge, 18197 [30JN]

Nuclear Emergency Preparedness Act (S. 408), 2135 [28JA]

Tables

Declarations, fiscal year 1987, 13723 [27MY]

FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program (H.J. Res. 102), 2297, 2298 [29JA]

Texts of

H.J. Res. 102, FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program funding, 2295 [29JA]

H.R. 1612, Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act, 14881 [8JN], 37729 [21DE]

S. 10, Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Care Improvement Act, 410 [6JA]

S. 341, Agricultural Emergency Assistance Act, 1514 [20JA]

S. 408, Nuclear Emergency Preparedness Act, 2136 [28JA]

S. 580, appropriations for international security and disaster assistance programs and Peace Corps, 3937 [23FE]

S. 697, suspend minimum planting requirement for producers affected by flood damage, 5154 [10MR]

S. 858, establish salvage title of States in certain abandoned shipwrecks, 7051 [26MR], 36577 [19DE]

S. 1453, disaster relief and emergency assistance, 18193-18197 [30JN]

S. 1957, small business disaster assistance loans, 35991 [17DE]