Federal Spending and Deficit Reduction Act of 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Title I: Department of Defense

Title II: Department of State

Title III: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Subtitle A: Commodity Programs

Subtitle B: Replacement of Federal Crop Insurance with

Emergency Crop Loss Assistance

Subtitle C: Other Agricultural Programs

Title IV: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

Title V: Committee on Environment and Public Works

Title VI: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Title VII: Civil Service Programs

Title VIII: Committee on Finance

Title IX: Reinventing Government

Federal Spending and Deficit Reduction Act of 1993 - Title I: Department of Defense - Limits to $18 billion the total amount appropriated for FY 1994 through 1998 for programs managed by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization. Limits the obligation of such funds to research only.

(Sec. 102) Limits: (1) as of December 31, 2000, the number of nuclear warheads to be maintained by the United States (with a waiver exercised by the President under certain conditions); and (2) the total amount that may be expended by the Department of Energy for nuclear weapons research, development, and testing activities during FY 1994 through 1998.

(Sec. 104) Directs the Secretary of Defense to require the secretaries of the military departments to retire at least 60,000 members of the armed forces before October, 1, 1994, under the military early retirement program.

(Sec. 105) Directs the Secretary to carry out a study to determine the most cost effective alternatives for meeting| requirements for military family housing.

(Sec. 106) Provides end strength and grade distribution limitations for civilian personnel of the Department of Defense (DOD).

(Sec. 107) Directs the Secretary to consolidate and reduce the recruiting activities of the armed forces, with a waiver in the case of war or national emergency.

(Sec. 108) Prohibits DOD funds from being used to operate any commissary store on or after October 1, 1996, unless determined necessary for the continued operation of such store due to its remote location or high costs of operation. Requires revenues received from store operations to be used to pay operating costs. Requires the Secretary to ensure that actions to increase a store's effectiveness of operations do not result in reduced benefits for store patrons and do not adversely affect stores that are in remote or high cost locations. Provides a phased reduction during FY 1994 through 1996 in the authorization of appropriations for commissary store operations.

(Sec. 109) Authorizes military personnel to be used to perform a base operations function or to carry out a military construction project under certain conditions, with an exception if the cost of such performance is found to exceed its benefits.

(Sec. 110) Directs the President to enter into negotiations with each member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and every nation with which the United States has a bilateral or multilateral defense agreement to conclude an agreement that requires each such nation to pay a significant portion of the costs of stationing U.S. military and civilian personnel and equipment in such nation. Excludes the pay and allowances of such personnel from such costs.

Title II: Department of State - Requires the Secretary of State to: (1) determine which foreign affairs programs, agencies, and activities, whether within or without the jurisdiction of the Department of State, are redundant, duplicative, outmoded, or obsolete; (2) undertake actions necessary to streamline, consolidate, or eliminate those programs, agencies, or activities under the Department's jurisdiction such that funding equals a level constant in real terms (inflation-adjusted) with the funding level in 1984; and (3) report to the Congress on those programs, agencies, and activities outside the Department's jurisdiction which are redundant, outmoded, or obsolete.

Title III: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - Subtitle A: Commodity Programs - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to reduce deficiency payments for wheat, feed grains, cotton, and rice.

(Sec. 302) Reduces the base acreage eligible for deficiency payments.

(Sec. 303) Increases dairy producer program contributions.

(Sec. 304) Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act to revise milk marketing order provisions, including elimination of minimum regional price adjustments and parity price determinations.

(Sec. 305) Repeals the National Wool Act of 1954 (eliminates the wool and mohair price support program).

(Sec. 306) Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to eliminate the honey price support program.

Subtitle B: Replacement of Federal Crop Insurance with Emergency Crop Loss Assistance - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to replace the Federal crop insurance program with an emergency crop loss assistance program for: (1) annual crops (program and nonprogram target crops, peanuts, sugar, and tobacco, soybeans and nonprogram crops, forage crops, and crop quality reduction payments); (2) orchards; and (3) forest crops. Authorizes appropriations.

Subtitle C: Other Agricultural Programs - Repeals title I (sales) and title II (grants) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954.

(Sec. 332) Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to eliminate the interest rate subsidy for Rural Electrification Administration direct loans.

(Sec. 333) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to consolidate specified Department of Agriculture field offices.

Title IV: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - Amends the National Forest Management Act of 1976 to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from selling any timber on National Forest System lands for which sales revenues are less than the legal minimum bid.

(Sec. 402) Amends the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 to preclude the use of Federal funds to: (1) support or implement a recreational activity or program; or (2) establish or maintain the National Fertilizer and Environmental Research Center.

Prohibits the Board of Directors (the Board) of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from using Federal funds for stewardship activities unrelated to the power system.

Authorizes the Board to develop and implement a user fee mechanism for: (1) users of TVA stewardship activities that are unrelated to the power system to cover the costs of such nonpower-related activities; and (2) users of power from the system to cover the costs of all stewardship activities.

(Sec. 403) Amends specified Federal law relating to power regulation and development to mandate that all moneys received from Federal power sales be deposited in the Treasury through uniform annual payments that consist of equal amounts of principal and interest and that reflect a commencement of payments for each project with the first year in which project electric power and energy is delivered to the Secretary of Energy.

(Sec. 404) Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to direct the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to establish, according to prescribed guidelines, an annual domestic livestock grazing fee equal to fair market value in certain National Forest System and public domain lands within their respective jurisdictions.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to establish a fee structure for entrance and user fees at public lands that are part of the National Park System.

Title V: Committee on Environment and Public Works - Prohibits: (1) the Secretary of Transportation from carrying out, or entering into any agreement to carry out, a highway demonstration project described in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 in FY 1994 through 1998, except in the case of an agreement entered into before March 31, 1994; and (2) the expenditure of funds in such fiscal years for such a project.

Rescinds: (1) any amounts set aside or otherwise made available for such projects that are not expended as a result of this title; and (2) the underlying appropriations for such amounts.

Title VI: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - (Sec. 601) Amends the Communications Act of 1934 (the Act) to subject revenues from the use of the electromagnetic spectrum pursuant to any initial license of construction permit issued after the enactment of this Act to a royalty of four percent. Subjects any licensee who knowingly or willfully submits inaccurate information or who fails to submit information required under this title to forfeiture of the license.

(Sec. 602) Requires the Secretary of Transportation to develop and implement a system to require the payment of a user fee for the inland waterway transportation system to generate revenues sufficient to fully recover operation, maintenance, and construction costs.

Title VII: Civil Service Programs - Amends Federal civil service law to require each Federal agency to prefund the Government share of its annuitants' Federal health insurance coverage.

(Sec. 702) Repeals provisions excluding senior executives from the limitation on the accumulation of annual leave.

(Sec. 703) Eliminates administratively uncontrollable overtime pay, except for law enforcement officers.

Title VIII: Committee on Finance - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to impose a one dollar fee for processing paper part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) claims; and (2) reduce reimbursements for items and services not billed electronically by the amount of any such fee imposed.

(Sec. 802) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for the issuance and sale of import licenses at public auction to administer quantitative restrictions with respect to textiles and textile products and sugar.

Title IX: Reinventing Government - Provides that, in any fiscal year, any agency with budget authority appropriated in operation accounts which will be unobligated on the last day of such fiscal year, and will expire at the end of such day, may place up to 50 percent of such budget authority into an agency innovation fund to be established for specified activities for each executive agency of the Federal Government. Requires any funds transferred to one of these funds to remain available for obligation for a qualified purpose for an additional two years beyond the date the funds would otherwise have expired.