Laws of the 105th Congress

To authorize acquisition of certain real property for the Library of Congress, and for other purposes.

To provide for the division, use, and distribution of judgment funds of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan pursuant to dockets numbered 18-E, 58, 364, and 18-R before the Indian Claims Commission.

To make clarifications to the Pilot Records Improvement Act of 1996, and for other purposes.

To require the Attorney General to establish a program in local prisons to identify, prior to arraignment, criminal aliens and aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States, and for other purposes.

To provide for the convening of the Second Session of the One Hundred Fifth Congress.

To make technical corrections to the Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act.

To provide for the design, construction, furnishing, and equipping of a Center for Historically Black Heritage within Florida A&M University.

To amend chapter 443 of title 49, United States Code, to extend the authorization of the aviation insurance program, and for other purposes.

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize appropriations for refugee and entrant assistance for fiscal years 1998 and 1999.

To reauthorize the programs of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.

To reform the statutes relating to Amtrak, to authorize appropriations for Amtrak, and for other purposes.

To provide for the establishment of not less than 2,500 Boys and Girls Clubs of America facilities by the year 2000.

To provide certain benefits of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin program to the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, and for other purposes.

To designate the United States Post Office building located at 1919 West Bennett Street in Springfield, Missouri, as the “John N. Griesemer Post Office Building”.

To provide a 6-month extension of highway, highway safety, and transit programs pending enactment of a law reauthorizing the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.

To amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to make certain technical corrections.

To make technical and conforming amendments to the Museum and Library Services Act, and for other purposes.

To provide for the design, construction, furnishing and equipping of a Center for Performing Arts within the complex known as the New Mexico Hispanic Cultural Center and for other purposes.

To extend the authorization of use of official mail in the location and recovery of missing children, and for other purposes.

To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to provide for the designation of common carriers not subject to the jurisdiction of a State commission as eligible telecommunications carriers.

To provide for a 10-year circulating commemorative coin program to commemorate each of the 50 States, and for other purposes.

To designate the Federal building courthouse at Public Square and Superior Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, as the “Howard M. Metzenbaum United States Courthouse”.

To designate the United States courthouse at 200 South Washington Street in Alexandria, Virginia, as the “Martin V. B. Bostetter, Jr. United States Courthouse”.

To reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Waiving certain enrollment requirements with respect to certain specified bills of the One Hundred Fifth Congress.

Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.

Making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.

To amend the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 to prohibit an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States from receiving assistance under that Act.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to prohibit interment or memorialization in certain cemeteries of persons committing Federal or State capital crimes.

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to improve the regulation of food, drugs, devices, and biological products, and for other purposes.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to revise, extend, and improve programs for veterans.

To transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture the authority to conduct the census of agriculture, and for other purposes.

To provide a law enforcement exception to the prohibition on the advertising of certain electronic devices.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to allow revision of veterans benefits decisions based on clear and unmistakable error.

To amend the Act incorporating the American Legion to make a technical correction.

To permit the city of Cleveland, Ohio, to convey certain lands that the United States conveyed to the city.

To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for the United States Fire Administration, and for other purposes.

To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.

To provide for the acquisition of the Plains Railroad Depot at the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site.

Granting the consent of Congress to the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact.

Granting the consent of Congress to the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact.

To waive time limitations specified by law in order to allow the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Robert R. Ingram of Jacksonville, Florida, for acts of valor while a Navy Hospital Corpsman in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam conflict.

To codify without substantive change laws related to transportation and to improve the United States Code.

To amend chapter 91 of title 18, United States Code, to provide criminal penalties for theft and willful vandalism at national cemeteries.

Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes.

To designate the United States Post Office located at 450 North Centre Street in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, as the “Peter J. McCloskey Postal Facility”.

To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a cost-of-living adjustment in the rates of disability compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for survivors of such veterans.

To designate the United States Post Office located at 150 North 3rd Street in Steubenville, Ohio, as the “Douglas Applegate Post Office”.

To assist in the conservation of Asian elephants by supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation programs of nations within the range of Asian elephants and projects of persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of Asian elephants.

To amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act to authorize the design and construction of additions to the parking garage and certain site improvements, and for other purposes.