A bill to provide sound physical bases and operational systems for achieving major reductions in the earthquake hazards faced by the population living in regions of the United States of significant seismic risk, and to amend the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 so as to provide for a research program relating to earthquake mitigation, and for other purposes.
Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to reduce the risks of life and property from future earthquakes in the United States through an effective earthquake hazards reduction program.
Directs the President to establish and direct to be maintained: (1) a coordinated National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program; (2) an Office of Earthquake Hazards Reduction; (3) a National Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction; and (4) an Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Board. Requires the President to take prescribed steps with respect to the Administration of the Program.
Requires the participation in such program of specified Federal departments and agencies.
Provides that the earthquake hazards reduction program contain the following elements: (1) physical studies; (2) structural studies; (3) social, legal, and economic research; (4) implementation by applying acquired knowledge; and (5) other elements including studies of foreign experience and post-earthquake investigations.
Directs the President to submit an annual report to the Congress after the end of each fiscal year describing and evaluating any progress achieved in reducing the risks of earthquake hazards.
Authorizes specified sums to be appropriated for fiscal years 1977 through 1979 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
Reported to Senate from the Committee on Commerce with amendment, S. Rept. 94-862.
Reported to Senate from the Committee on Commerce with amendment, S. Rept. 94-862.
Referred to Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.
Committee on Labor and Public Welfare discharged in Senate.
Committee on Labor and Public Welfare discharged in Senate.
Placed on calendar in Senate.
Call of calendar in Senate.
Measure considered in Senate.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate, amended.
Measure passed Senate, amended.
Referred to House Committee on Science and Technology.
Reported to House from the Committee on Science and Technology with amendment, H. Rept. 94-1440 (Part 1).
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Reported to House from the Committee on Science and Technology with amendment, H. Rept. 94-1440 (Part 1).
Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Reported to House from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs with amendment, H. Rept. 94-1440 (Part II).
Reported to House from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs with amendment, H. Rept. 94-1440 (Part II).
Measure called up under motion to suspend rules and pass in House.
Measure considered in House.
Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: Measure failed of passage in House under suspension of rules, roll call #768 (192-192).
Roll Call #768 (House)Measure failed of passage in House under suspension of rules, roll call #768 (192-192).
Roll Call #768 (House)