SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Supporting America's Protective
Security Advisor Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. PROTECTIVE SECURITY ADVISOR.

    (a) In General.--Subtitle A of title II of the Homeland Security
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 121 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the
following:

``SEC. 210F. PROTECTIVE SECURITY ADVISOR PROGRAM OFFICE.

    ``(a) In General.--There is in the Department a Protective Security
Advisor Program Office (in this section referred to as the `Office')
within the Protective Security Coordination Division of the Office of
Infrastructure Protection.
    ``(b) Responsibilities.--The Office shall have the primary
responsibility and be the lead office within the Department for--
            ``(1) encouraging State, local, and tribal governments and
        private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure
        and key resources to participate and collaborate within the
        risk management framework of the National Infrastructure
        Protection Plan, or any successor thereto;
            ``(2) coordinating national and intergovernmental critical
        infrastructure and key resource activities with State, local,
        and tribal governments and owners and operators of critical
        infrastructure or key resources;
            ``(3) facilitating and conducting requirements,
        capabilities, and risk assessment analyses that enhance
        critical infrastructure and key resources preparedness;
            ``(4) promoting information sharing and security awareness,
        particularly with State homeland security advisors and private
        sector security officials;
            ``(5) assisting State, local, and tribal governments in
        developing multi-jurisdictional security plans;
            ``(6) helping to ensure ongoing coordination between
        Federal, State, local, and tribal governments, owners and
        operators of critical infrastructure or key resources,
        emergency response providers, and related agencies;
            ``(7) serving as infrastructure liaison officials, with
        primary responsibility to advise the designated Principal
        Federal Official on issues dealing with nationally critical
        infrastructure, when a joint field office is activated in
        response to a natural disaster or terrorist event; and
            ``(8) facilitating and coordinating interaction with
        international security partners relating to the activities of
        the Department regarding international activities described in
        the National Infrastructure Protection Plan, or any successor
        thereto.
    ``(c) Protective Security Advisor Assignments and Distribution
Plan.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall develop a plan for
        the assignment and distribution of protective security advisors
        that takes into account baseline requirements and anticipated
        growth after the date of enactment of this section of the need
        for such advisors.
            ``(2) Plan requirements.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The plan developed under
                paragraph (1) shall--
                            ``(i) ensure that protective security
                        advisors are located across the United States
                        to ensure appropriate coverage and coordinated
                        support, with particular emphasis on high-risk
                        regions, as determined by the Office; and
                            ``(ii) assign protective security advisors
                        and support staff based on risk, including
                        consideration of assigning additional
                        protective security advisors in areas of
                        greater population density and concentration of
                        critical infrastructure and key resources.
                    ``(B) Minimum requirements.--At a minimum, the plan
                developed under paragraph (1) shall provide that--
                            ``(i) at least 1 protective security
                        advisor shall be located in each State;
                            ``(ii) at least 10 supervisory protective
                        security advisors shall be located throughout
                        the United States, to provide regional
                        coordination and management;
                            ``(iii) each supervisory protective
                        security advisor shall have appropriate support
                        staff to assist in performing the duties of
                        that supervisory protective security advisor;
                        and
                            ``(iv) the headquarters of the Office shall
                        include--
                                    ``(I) at least 2 protective
                                security advisors to manage the
                                participation of protective security
                                advisors in special events, training
                                programs, and exercise programs;
                                    ``(II) at least 2 protective
                                security advisors to manage the
                                training and standards program for
                                protective security advisors to ensure
                                that personnel are certified in the
                                latest security practices;
                                    ``(III) at least 2 protective
                                security advisors to manage day-to-day
                                contingency operations in preparation
                                for, or response to, a natural disaster
                                or terrorist event; and
                                    ``(IV) appropriate support staff to
                                assist in performing the duties of the
                                Office.
            ``(3) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
        enactment of this section, the Secretary shall submit to the
        Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the
        Senate a report outlining and justifying the plan developed
        under paragraph (1).
    ``(d) Biennial Reporting.--The Secretary shall submit to Congress a
report regarding the activities of the Office every 2 years.
    ``(e) Authorization of Appropriations.--
            ``(1) In general.--There are authorized to be appropriated
        to carry out this section--
                    ``(A) $40,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2009 and
                2010; and
                    ``(B) such sums as are necessary for each fiscal
                year thereafter.
            ``(2) Availability.--Amounts made available pursuant to
        this subsection shall remain available until expended.''.
    (b) Technical and Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents in
section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101 et
seq.) is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 210E
the following:

``Sec. 210F. Protective Security Advisor Program Office.''.

Summary: Supporting America's Protective Security Advisor Act of 2007 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish the Protective Security Advisor Program Office within the Protective Security Coordination Division of the Office of Infrastructure Protection of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Requires the Office to have primary responsibility within DHS for: (1) encouraging state, local, and tribal governments and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure and key resources to participate and collaborate within the risk management framework of the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. (2) coordinating national and intergovernmental critical infrastructure and key resource activities with such governments, owners, and operators. (3) facilitating and conducting requirements, capabilities, and risk assessment analyses that enhance critical infrastructure and key resources preparedness, (4) promoting information sharing and security awareness, (5) assisting such governments in developing multijurisdictional security plans. (6) helping to ensure coordination among such governments, such owners and operators, emergency response providers, and related agencies. (7) serving as infrastructure liaison officials when a joint field office is activated in response to a natural disaster or terrorist event. And (8) facilitating and coordinating interaction with international security partners. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a plan for the assignment and distribution of protective security advisors that takes into account baseline requirements and anticipated growth to: (1) ensure that protective security advisors are located across the United States and provide appropriate coverage and coordinated support, especially in high-risk regions. And (2) assign protective security advisors and support staff based on risk.

A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to establish the Protective Security Advisor Program Office.


SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Border Health Security Act of
2015''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The United States-Mexico border is an interdependent
        and dynamic region of more than 15,000,000 people with
        significant and unique public health challenges.
            (2) These challenges include low rates of health insurance
        coverage, poor access to health care services, high
        unemployment rates, low educational attainment, and high rates
        of dangerous diseases, such as tuberculosis, diabetes, obesity,
        and other non-communicable diseases.
            (3) As the 2009 novel influenza A (H1N1) pandemic
        illustrated, diseases do not respect international boundaries,
        and a strong public health effort at and along the borders is
        crucial to not only protect and improve the health of Americans
        but also to help secure the country against threats to
        biosecurity and other emerging threats.
            (4) For 11 years, the United States-Mexico Border Health
        Commission has served as a crucial binational institution to
        address these unique and truly cross-border health issues.
            (5) More than 75 percent of Canadians live within 100 miles
        of the United States border. The 2003 epidemic of severe acute
        respiratory syndrome caused more than 250 illnesses in the
        Greater Toronto Area, just 80 miles from New York.

SEC. 3. UNITED STATES-MEXICO BORDER HEALTH COMMISSION ACT AMENDMENTS.

    The United States-Mexico Border Health Commission Act (22 U.S.C.
290n et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 3--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``; and'' and
                inserting ``;'';
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking the period and
                inserting a semicolon; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) to cooperate with the Canada-United States Pan-Border
        Public Health Preparedness Council (referred to in this Act as
        the `Council'), as appropriate; and
            ``(4) to serve as an independent and objective body to both
        recommend and implement initiatives that solve border health
        issues.'';
            (2) in section 5--
                    (A) in subsection (b), by striking ``should be the
                leader'' and inserting ``shall be the Chair''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Providing Advice and Recommendations.--Members of the
Commission and the Council may at any time provide advice or
recommendations to the Secretary, Congress, or any Member of Congress
concerning issues that are considered by the Commission or Council.
Such advice or recommendations may be provided regardless of whether a
request for such is made and regardless of whether the member or
individual is authorized to provide such advice or recommendations by
the Commission or Council or any other Federal official.'';
            (3) by redesignating section 8 as section 12;
            (4) by striking section 7 and inserting the following:

``SEC. 7. BORDER HEALTH GRANTS.

    ``(a) Eligible Entity Defined.--In this section, the term `eligible
entity' means a State, public institution of higher education, local
government, Indian tribe, tribal organization, urban Indian
organization, nonprofit health organization, trauma center, critical
access hospital or other hospital that serves rural or other vulnerable
communities and populations, faith-based entity, or community health
center receiving assistance under section 330 of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254b), that is located in the United States-
Mexico border area or the United States-Canada border area.
    ``(b) Authorization.--From amounts appropriated under section 11,
the Secretary, in consultation with members of the Commission and
Council and in coordination with the Office of Global Affairs, shall
award grants to eligible entities to address priorities and
recommendations outlined by the strategic plan and operational work
plan of the Commission and the Council, as authorized under section 9,
to improve the health of United States-Mexico border area and United
States-Canada border area residents.
    ``(c) Application.--An eligible entity that desires a grant under
subsection (b) shall submit an application to the Secretary at such
time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary
may require.
    ``(d) Use of Funds.--An eligible entity that receives a grant under
subsection (b) shall use the grant funds for any of the following:
            ``(1) Programs relating to any one or more of the
        following:
                    ``(A) Maternal and child health.
                    ``(B) Primary care and preventative health.
                    ``(C) Infectious disease testing, monitoring, and
                surveillance.
                    ``(D) Public health and public health
                infrastructure.
                    ``(E) Health promotion.
                    ``(F) Oral health.
                    ``(G) Behavioral and mental health.
                    ``(H) Substance abuse prevention and harm
                reduction.
                    ``(I) Health conditions that have a high prevalence
                in the United States-Mexico border area or United
                States-Canada border area.
                    ``(J) Medical and health services research.
                    ``(K) Workforce training and development.
                    ``(L) Community health workers and promotoras.
                    ``(M) Health care infrastructure problems in the
                United States-Mexico border area or United States-
                Canada border area (including planning and construction
                grants).
                    ``(N) Health disparities in the United States-
                Mexico border area or United States-Canada border area.
                    ``(O) Environmental health.
                    ``(P) Health education.
                    ``(Q) Outreach and enrollment services with respect
                to Federal programs (including programs authorized
                under titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act (42
                U.S.C. 1396 et seq. and 1397aa et seq.)).
                    ``(R) Trauma care.
                    ``(S) Health research with an emphasis on
                infectious disease and pressing issues related to
                noncommunicable diseases.
                    ``(T) Epidemiology and health research.
                    ``(U) Cross-border health surveillance coordinated
                with Mexican Health Authorities or Canadian Health
                Authorities.
                    ``(V) Obesity, particularly childhood obesity.
                    ``(W) Crisis communication, domestic violence,
                health literacy, or cancer.
                    ``(X) Community-based participatory research on
                border health issues.
                    ``(Y) Violence prevention.
                    ``(Z) Cross-border public health preparedness.
            ``(2) Other programs determined appropriate by the
        Secretary.
    ``(e) Supplement, Not Supplant.--Amounts provided to an eligible
entity awarded a grant under subsection (b) shall be used to supplement
and not supplant other funds available to the eligible entity to carry
out the activities described in subsection (d).

``SEC. 8. GRANTS FOR EARLY WARNING INFECTIOUS DISEASE SURVEILLANCE
              (EWIDS) IN THE BORDER AREA.

    ``(a) Eligible Entity Defined.--In this section, the term `eligible
entity' means a State, local government, Indian tribe, tribal
organization, urban Indian organization, trauma center, regional trauma
center coordinating entity, or public health entity.
    ``(b) Authorization.--From funds appropriated under section 11, the
Secretary shall award grants for Early Warning Infectious Disease
Surveillance (EWIDS) to eligible entities for infectious disease
surveillance activities in the United States-Mexico border area or
United States-Canada border area.
    ``(c) Application.--An eligible entity that desires a grant under
this section shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time,
in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may
require.
    ``(d) Uses of Funds.--An eligible entity that receives a grant
under subsection (b) shall use the grant funds, in coordination with
State and local all hazards programs, to--
            ``(1) develop and implement infectious disease surveillance
        plans and networks and public health emergency and readiness
        assessments and preparedness plans, and purchase items
        necessary for such plans;
            ``(2) coordinate infectious disease surveillance planning
        and interjurisdictional risk assessments in the region with
        appropriate United States-based agencies and organizations and
        appropriate authorities in Mexico or Canada;
            ``(3) improve infrastructure, including surge capacity,
        syndromic surveillance, and isolation/decontamination capacity,
        and policy preparedness, including for mutual assistance and
        for the sharing of information and resources;
            ``(4) improve laboratory capacity, in order to maintain and
        enhance capability and capacity to detect potential infectious
        disease, whether naturally occurring or the result of
        terrorism;
            ``(5) create and maintain a health alert network, including
        risk communication and information dissemination that is
        culturally competent and takes into account the needs of at-
        risk populations, including individuals with disabilities;
            ``(6) educate and train clinicians, epidemiologists,
        laboratories, and emergency management personnel;
            ``(7) implement electronic data and infrastructure
        inventory systems to coordinate the triage, transportation, and
        treatment of multicasualty incident victims;
            ``(8) provide infectious disease testing in the United
        States-Mexico border area or United States-Canada border area;
        and
            ``(9) carry out such other activities identified by the
        Secretary, members of the Commission, members of the Council,
        State or local public health authorities, representatives of
        border health offices, or authorities at the United States-
        Mexico or United States-Canada borders.

``SEC. 9. PLANS, REPORTS, AUDITS, AND BY-LAWS.

    ``(a) Strategic Plan.--
            ``(1) In general.--Not later than 2 years after the date of
        enactment of this section, and every 5 years thereafter, the
        Commission (including the participation of members representing
        both the United States and Mexican sections) and the Council
        (including the participation of members representing both the
        United States and Canada) shall each prepare a binational
        strategic plan to guide the operations of the Commission and
        the Council and submit such plan to the Secretary and Congress.
            ``(2) Requirements.--The binational strategic plan under
        paragraph (1) shall include--
                    ``(A) health-related priority areas determined most
                important by the full membership of the Commission or
                Council, as applicable;
                    ``(B) recommendations for goals, objectives,
                strategies, and actions designed to address such
                priority areas; and
                    ``(C) a proposed evaluation framework with output
                and outcome indicators appropriate to gauge progress
                toward meeting the objectives and priorities of the
                Commission or Council, as applicable.
    ``(b) Work Plan.--Not later than January 1, 2017, and every 2 years
thereafter, the Commission and the Council shall develop and approve an
operational work plan and budget based on the strategic plan under
subsection (a).
    ``(c) GAO Review.--Not later than January 1, 2018, and every 2
years thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United States shall
conduct an evaluation of the activities conducted by the Commission and
the Council based on the operational work plans described in subsection
(b) for the previous year and the output and outcome indicators
included in the strategic plan described in subsection (a). The
evaluation shall include a request for written evaluations from members
of the Commission and the Council about barriers and facilitators to
executing successfully the work plans of the Commission and the
Council.
    ``(d) Biannual Reporting.--The Commission and Council shall each
issue a biannual report to the Secretary that provides independent
policy recommendations related to border health issues. Not later than
3 months following receipt of each such biannual report, the Secretary
shall provide to Congress the report and any studies or other materials
produced independently by the Commission and Council.
    ``(e) Audits.--The Secretary shall annually prepare an audited
financial report to account for all appropriated assets expended by the
Commission and Council to address both the strategic and operational
work plans for the year involved.
    ``(f) By-Laws.--Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment
of this section, the Commission and Council shall develop and approve
bylaws to provide fully for compliance with the requirements of this
section.
    ``(g) Transmittal to Congress.--The Commission and Council shall
submit copies of the operational work plan and by-laws to Congress. The
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit a copy of each
evaluation completed under subsection (c) to Congress.

``SEC. 10. COORDINATION.

    ``(a) In General.--To the extent practicable and appropriate,
plans, systems, and activities to be funded (or supported) under this
Act for all hazard preparedness, and general border health, shall be
coordinated with Federal, State, and local authorities in Mexico,
Canada, and the United States.
    ``(b) Coordination of Health Services and Surveillance.--The
Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and
Response, when appropriate, may coordinate with the Secretary of
Homeland Security in establishing a health alert system that--
            ``(1) alerts clinicians and public health officials of
        emerging disease clusters and syndromes along the United
        States-Mexico border area and United States-Canada border area;
        and
            ``(2) warns of health threats, extreme weather conditions,
        disasters of mass scale, bioterrorism, and other emerging
        threats along the United States-Mexico border area and United
        States-Canada border area.

``SEC. 11. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    ``There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act
$7,000,000 for fiscal year 2017 and each succeeding year, subject to
the availability of appropriations for such purpose, of which
$4,650,000 shall be made available to fund operationally feasible
functions, activities, and grants with respect to the United States-
Mexico border and the border health activities under cooperative
agreements with the border health offices of the States of California,
Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, and $2,350,000 shall be allocated for
the administration of United States activities under this Act on the
United States-Canada border and the border health authorities, acting
through the Canada-United States Pan-Border Public Health Preparedness
Council.''; and
            (5) in section 12 (as so redesignated)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as
                paragraphs (4) and (6), respectively;
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (2), the
                following:
            ``(3) Indians; indian tribe; tribal organization; urban
        indian organization.--The terms `Indian', `Indian tribe',
        `tribal organization', and `urban Indian organization' have the
        meanings given such terms in section 4 of the Indian Health
        Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1603).''; and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (4), as so
                redesignated, the following:
            ``(5) United states-canada border area.--The term `United
        States-Canada border area' means the area located in the United
        States and Canada within 100 kilometers of the border between
        the United States and Canada.''.

Summary: Border Health Security Act of 2015 This bill amends the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission Act to require the commission to cooperate with the Canada-United States Pan-Border Public Health Preparedness Council and to recommend and implement initiatives that solve border health issues. Members of the commission may provide advice or recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) or Congress without authorization or a request. HHS must award grants: (1) to address the priorities and recommendations of the commission and council to improve the health of border area residents, and (2) for infectious disease surveillance activities in border areas. Every five years, the commission and the council must each prepare a binational strategic plan that includes priority areas, recommendations to address these priority areas, and an evaluation framework to gauge progress. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response may coordinate with the Department of Homeland Security in establishing a system that alerts clinicians and public health officials to emerging health threats in border areas.

Border Health Security Act of 2015


SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Teachers For Tomorrow Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. REVISION OF TEACHER LOAN FORGIVENESS PROGRAMS.

    (a) Guaranteed Student Loans.--Part B of title IV of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 is amended by--
            (1) redesignating section 428K (20 U.S.C. 1078-11) as
        section 428L; and
            (2) by inserting after section 428J the following new
        section:

``SEC. 428K. EXPANDED LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR TEACHERS.

    ``(a) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this section to expand,
subject to the availability of appropriations therefor, the eligibility
of individuals to qualify for loan forgiveness for teachers beyond that
available under section 428J, in order to provide additional incentives
for such individuals to enter and continue in the teaching profession.
    ``(b) Program Authorized.--
            ``(1) In general.--From the sums appropriated pursuant to
        subsection (i), the Secretary shall carry out a program,
        through the holder of the loan, of assuming the obligation to
        repay a qualified loan amount for a loan made under section 428
        or 428H, in accordance with subsection (c), for any new
        borrower on or after October 1, 1998, who is not eligible for
        loan forgiveness under section 428J, but who--
                    ``(A) is employed as a full-time teacher--
                            ``(i) in a public elementary or secondary
                        school;
                            ``(ii) if employed as a secondary school
                        teacher, is teaching a subject area that is
                        relevant to the borrower's academic major as
                        certified by the chief administrative officer
                        of the public secondary school in which the
                        borrower is employed; and
                            ``(iii) if employed as an elementary school
                        teacher, has demonstrated, as certified by the
                        chief administrative officer of the public
                        elementary school in which the borrower is
                        employed, knowledge and teaching skills in
                        reading, writing, mathematics, or other areas
                        of the elementary school curriculum;
                    ``(B) has a State certification (which may include
                certification obtained through alternative means) or a
                State license to teach, and has not failed to comply
                with State or local accountability standards; and
                    ``(C) is not in default on a loan for which the
                borrower seeks forgiveness.
            ``(2) Selection of recipients.--The Secretary shall by
        regulations, establish a formula that ensures fairness and
        equality for applicants in the selection of borrowers for loan
        repayment under this section, based on the amount available
        pursuant to subsection (i).
    ``(c) Qualified Loans Amount.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall repay not more than
        the percentage specified in paragraph (2) of the loan
        obligation on a loan made under section 428 or 428H that is
        outstanding after the completion of each complete school year
        of teaching described in subsection (b)(1). No borrower may
        receive a reduction of loan obligations under both this section
        and section 460.
            ``(2) Percentage eligible.--The percent of the loan
        obligation which the Secretary shall repay under paragraph (1)
        of this subsection is--
                    ``(A) in the case of teaching in a school that
                qualifies under section 465(a)(2)(A) for loan
                cancellation for Perkins loan recipients who teach in
                such schools, 25 percent for the first or second year
of such service, and 50 percent for the third year of such service; or
                    ``(B) in the case of any other public elementary or
                secondary school, 15 percent for the first or second
                year of such service, 20 percent for the third or
                fourth year of such service, and 30 percent for the
                fifth year of such service.
            ``(3) Treatment of consolidation loans.--A loan amount for
        a loan made under section 428C may be a qualified loan amount
        for the purposes of this subsection only to the extent that
        such loan amount was used to repay a Federal Direct Stafford
        Loan, a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, or a loan
        made under section 428 or 428H for a borrower who meets the
        requirements of subsection (b), as determined in accordance
        with regulations prescribed by the Secretary.
            ``(4) Treatment of years of service for continuing
        education loans.--For purposes of paragraph (2), the year of
        service is determined on the basis of the academic year that
        the borrower began the service as a full-time teacher, except
        that in the case of a borrower who incurs a loan obligation for
        continuing education expenses while teaching, the year of
        service is determined on the basis of the academic year
        following the academic year for which the loan obligation was
        incurred.
    ``(d) Regulations.--The Secretary is authorized to issue such
regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this
section.
    ``(e) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to
authorize any refunding of any repayment of a loan.
    ``(f) List.--If the list of schools in which a teacher may perform
service pursuant to subsection (c)(2)(A) is not available before May 1
of any year, the Secretary may use the list for the year preceding the
year for which the determination is made to make such service
determination.
    ``(g) Additional Eligibility Provisions.--
            ``(1) Continued eligibility.--Any teacher who performs
        service in a school that--
                    ``(A) meets the requirements of subsection
                (b)(1)(A) in any year during such service; and
                    ``(B) in a subsequent year fails to meet the
                requirements of such subsection,
        may continue to teach in such school and shall be eligible for
        loan forgiveness pursuant to subsection (b).
            ``(2) Prevention of double benefits.--No borrower may, for
        the same service, receive a benefit under both this section and
        subtitle D of title I of the National and Community Service Act
        of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12571 et seq.).
    ``(h) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term `year',
where applied to service as a teacher, means an academic year as
defined by the Secretary.
    ``(i) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary
for fiscal year 2002 and each of the 5 succeeding fiscal years.''.
    (b) Direct Student Loans.--Part D of title IV of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 is amended by inserting after section 460 the
following new section:

``SEC. 460A. EXPANDED LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR TEACHERS.

    ``(a) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this section to expand,
subject to the availability of appropriations therefor, the eligibility
of individuals to qualify for loan forgiveness for teachers beyond that
available under section 460, in order to provide additional incentives
for such individuals to enter and continue in the teaching profession.
    ``(b) Program Authorized.--
            ``(1) In general.--From the sums appropriated pursuant to
        subsection (i), the Secretary shall carry out canceling the
        obligation to repay a qualified loan amount in accordance with
        subsection (c) for Federal Direct Stafford Loans and Federal
        Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loans made under this part for any
        new borrower on or after October 1, 1998, who is not eligible
        for loan forgiveness under section 460, but who--
                    ``(A) is employed as a full-time teacher--
                            ``(i) in a public elementary or secondary
                        school;
                            ``(ii) if employed as a secondary school
                        teacher, is teaching a subject area that is
                        relevant to the borrower's academic major as
                        certified by the chief administrative officer
                        of the public secondary school in which the
                        borrower is employed; and
                            ``(iii) if employed as an elementary school
                        teacher, has demonstrated, as certified by the
                        chief administrative officer of the public
                        elementary school in which the borrower is
                        employed, knowledge and teaching skills in
                        reading, writing, mathematics, or other areas
                        of the elementary school curriculum;
                    ``(B) has a State certification (which may include
                certification obtained through alternative means) or a
                State license to teach, and has not failed to comply
                with State or local accountability standards; and
                    ``(C) is not in default on a loan for which the
                borrower seeks forgiveness.
            ``(2) Selection of recipients.--The Secretary shall by
        regulations, establish a formula that ensures fairness and
        equality for applicants in the selection of borrowers for loan
        repayment under this section, based on the amount available
        pursuant to subsection (i).
    ``(c) Qualified Loans Amount.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall cancel not more than
        the percentage specified in paragraph (2) of the loan
        obligation on a loan made under this part that is outstanding
        after the completion of each complete school year of teaching
        described in subsection (b)(1). No borrower may receive a
        reduction of loan obligations under both this section and
        section 428J.
            ``(2) Percentage eligible.--The percent of the loan
        obligation which the Secretary shall cancel under paragraph (1)
        of this subsection is--
                    ``(A) in the case of teaching in a school that
                qualifies under section 465(a)(2)(A) for loan
cancellation for Perkins loan recipients who teach in such schools, 25
percent for the first or second year of such service, and 50 percent
for the third year of such service; or
                    ``(B) in the case of any other public elementary or
                secondary school, 15 percent for the first or second
                year of such service, 20 percent for the third or
                fourth year of such service, and 30 percent for the
                fifth year of such service.
            ``(3) Treatment of consolidation loans.--A loan amount for
        a Federal Direct Consolidation Loan may be a qualified loan
        amount for the purposes of this subsection only to the extent
        that such loan amount was used to repay a Federal Direct
        Stafford Loan, a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, or
        a loan made under section 428 or 428H for a borrower who meets
        the requirements of subsection (b), as determined in accordance
        with regulations prescribed by the Secretary.
            ``(4) Treatment of years of service for continuing
        education loans.--For purposes of paragraph (2), the year of
        service is determined on the basis of the academic year that
        the borrower began the service as a full-time teacher, except
        that in the case of a borrower who incurs a loan obligation for
        continuing education expenses while teaching, the year of
        service is determined on the basis of the academic year
        following the academic year for which the loan obligation was
        incurred.
    ``(d) Regulations.--The Secretary is authorized to issue such
regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this
section.
    ``(e) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to
authorize any refunding of any repayment of a loan.
    ``(f) List.--If the list of schools in which a teacher may perform
service pursuant to subsection (c)(2)(A) is not available before May 1
of any year, the Secretary may use the list for the year preceding the
year for which the determination is made to make such service
determination.
    ``(g) Additional Eligibility Provisions.--
            ``(1) Continued eligibility.--Any teacher who performs
        service in a school that--
                    ``(A) meets the requirements of subsection
                (b)(1)(A) in any year during such service; and
                    ``(B) in a subsequent year fails to meet the
                requirements of such subsection,
        may continue to teach in such school and shall be eligible for
        loan forgiveness pursuant to subsection (b).
            ``(2) Prevention of double benefits.--No borrower may, for
        the same service, receive a benefit under both this section and
        subtitle D of title I of the National and Community Service Act
        of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12571 et seq.).
    ``(h) Definition.--For purposes of this section, the term `year',
where applied to service as a teacher, means an academic year as
defined by the Secretary.
    ``(i) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this section such sums as may be necessary
for fiscal year 2002 and each of the 5 succeeding fiscal years.''.

SEC. 3. NO INCOME TAX BY REASON OF LOAN FORGIVENESS.

    Subsection (f) of section 108 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986
is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(4) Loan forgiveness for teachers.--In the case of an
        individual, gross income does not include any amount which (but
        for this paragraph) would be includible in gross income by
        reason of the discharge (in whole or in part) of any loan if
        such discharge was pursuant to section 428J, 428K, 460, or 460A
        of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1078-10), as in
        effect on the date of the enactment of this paragraph.''

Summary: Teachers for Tomorrow Act of 2001 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish new programs for teacher student loan forgiveness, under the guaranteed loan program and the direct loan program. Requires three consecutive complete school years of full-time teaching in a public elementary or secondary school as: (1) a secondary school teacher of a subject area relevant to the borrower's academic major. Or (2) an elementary school teacher who has demonstrated knowledge and teaching skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and other curriculum areas. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from a teacher's gross income any student loan amounts discharged under both the current HEA programs and those added by this Act.

To expand the teacher loan forgiveness programs under the guaranteed and direct student loan programs, and for other purposes.


SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Modified Line Item Veto/Expedited
Rescissions Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED RESCISSIONS.

    (a) In General.--Part B of title X of the Congressional Budget and
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 681 et seq.) is amended by
redesignating sections 1013 through 1017 as sections 1014 through 1018,
respectively, and inserting after section 1012 the following new
section:

       ``expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions

    ``Sec. 1013. (a) Proposed Rescission of Budget Authority.--In
addition to the method of rescinding budget authority specified in
section 1012, the President may propose, at the time and in the manner
provided in subsection (b), the rescission of any budget authority
provided in an appropriations Act. Funds made available for obligation
under this procedure may not be proposed for rescission again under
this section or section 1012.
    ``(b) Transmittal of Special Message.--
            ``(1) Not later than 3 days after the date of enactment of
        an appropriation Act, the President may transmit to Congress a
        special message proposing to rescind amounts of budget
        authority provided in that Act and include with that special
        message a draft bill that, if enacted, would only rescind that
        budget authority. That bill shall clearly identify the amount
        of budget authority that is proposed to be rescinded for each
        program, project, or activity to which that budget authority
        relates.
            ``(2) In the case of an appropriation Act that includes
        accounts within the jurisdiction of more than one subcommittee
        of the Committee on Appropriations, the President in proposing
        to rescind budget authority under this section shall send a
        separate special message and accompanying draft bill for
        accounts within the jurisdiction of each such subcommittee.
            ``(3) Each special message shall specify, with respect to
        the budget authority proposed to be rescinded, the matters
        referred to in paragraphs (1) through (5) of section 1012(a).
    ``(c) Limitation on Amounts Subject to Rescission.--
            ``(1) The amount of budget authority which the President
        may propose to rescind in a special message under this section
        for a particular program, project, or activity for a fiscal
        year may not exceed 25 percent of the amount appropriated for
        that program, project, or activity in that Act.
            ``(2) The limitation contained in paragraph (1) shall only
        apply to amounts specifically authorized to be appropriated for
        a particular program, project, or activity.
    ``(d) Procedures for Expedited Consideration.--
            ``(1)(A) Before the close of the second legislative day of
        the House of Representatives after the date of receipt of a
        special message transmitted to Congress under subsection (b),
        the majority leader or minority leader of the House of
        Representatives shall introduce (by request) the draft bill
        accompanying that special message. If the bill is not
        introduced as provided in the preceding sentence, then, on the
        third legislative day of the House of Representatives after the
        date of receipt of that special message, any Member of that
        House may introduce the bill.
            ``(B) The bill shall be referred to the Committee on
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives. The committee
        shall report the bill without substantive revision and with or
        without recommendation. The bill shall be reported not later
        than the seventh legislative day of that House after the date
        of receipt of that special message. If the Committee on
        Appropriations fails to report the bill within that period,
        that committee shall be automatically discharged from
        consideration of the bill, and the bill shall be placed on the
        appropriate calendar.
            ``(C) During consideration under this paragraph, any Member
        of the House of Representatives may move to strike any proposed
        rescission or rescissions of budget authority if supported by
        49 other Members.
            ``(D) A vote on final passage of the bill shall be taken in
        the House of Representatives on or before the close of the 10th
        legislative day of that House after the date of the
        introduction of the bill in that House. If the bill is passed,
        the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall cause the bill
        to be engrossed, certified, and transmitted to the Senate
        within one calendar day of the day on which the bill is passed.
            ``(2)(A) A motion in the House of Representatives to
        proceed to the consideration of a bill under this section shall
        be highly privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the
        motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move
        to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or
        disagreed to.
            ``(B) Debate in the House of Representatives on a bill
        under this section shall not exceed 4 hours, which shall be
        divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the
        bill. A motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable.
        It shall not be in order to move to recommit a bill under this
        section or to move to reconsider the vote by which the bill is
        agreed to or disagreed to.
            ``(C) Appeals from decisions of the Chair relating to the
        application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the
        procedure relating to a bill under this section shall be
        decided without debate.
            ``(D) Except to the extent specifically provided in the
        preceding provisions of this subsection, consideration of a
        bill under this section shall be governed by the Rules of the
        House of Representatives.
            ``(3)(A) A bill transmitted to the Senate pursuant to
        paragraph (1)(D) shall be referred to its Committee on
        Appropriations. The committee shall report the bill without
        substantive revision and with or without recommendation. The
        bill shall be reported not later than the seventh legislative
        day of the Senate after it receives the bill. A committee
        failing to report the bill within such period shall be
        automatically discharged from consideration of the bill, and
        the bill shall be placed upon the appropriate calendar.
            ``(B) During consideration under this paragraph, any Member
        of the Senate may move to strike any proposed rescission or
        rescissions of budget authority if supported by 14 other
        Members.
            ``(C) A vote on final passage of a bill transmitted to the
        Senate shall be taken on or before the close of the 10th
        legislative day of the Senate after the date on which the bill
        is transmitted. If the bill is passed in the Senate without
        amendment, the Secretary of the Senate shall cause the
        engrossed bill to be returned to the House of Representatives.
            ``(D) If the bill is amended in the Senate solely as
        provided by subparagraph (B), the Secretary of the Senate shall
        cause an engrossed amendment (in the nature of a substitute) to
        be returned to the House of Representatives. Any Member of the
        House may offer a privileged motion that the House concur in
        that Senate amendment. That motion is not subject to a demand
        for division of the question and the previous question is
        considered as ordered on the motion to final adoption without
        intervening motion.
            ``(4)(A) A motion in the Senate to proceed to the
        consideration of a bill under this section shall be privileged
        and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in
        order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote
        by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
            ``(B) Debate in the Senate on a bill under this section,
        and all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith,
        shall not exceed 10 hours. The time shall be equally divided
        between, and controlled by, the majority leader and the
        minority leader or their designees.
            ``(C) Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion or
        appeal in connection with a bill under this section shall be
        limited to not more than 1 hour, to be equally divided between,
        and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the bill,
        except that in the event the manager of the bill is in favor of
        any such motion or appeal, the time in opposition thereto,
        shall be controlled by the minority leader or his designee.
        Such leaders, or either of them, may, from time under their
        control on the passage of a bill, allot additional time to any
        Senator during the consideration of any debatable motion or
        appeal.
            ``(D) A motion in the Senate to further limit debate on a
        bill under this section is not debatable. A motion to recommit
        a bill under this section is not in order.
    ``(e) Amendments and Divisions Prohibited.--Except as provided by
paragraph (1)(C) or (3)(B) of subsection (d), no amendment to a bill
considered under this section shall be in order in either the House of
Representatives or the Senate. It shall not be in order to demand a
division of the question in the House of Representatives (or in a
Committee of the Whole) or in the Senate. No motion to suspend the
application of this subsection shall be in order in either House, nor
shall it be in order in either House to suspend the application of this
subsection by unanimous consent.
    ``(f) Requirement To Make Available for Obligation.--Any amount of
budget authority proposed to be rescinded in a special message
transmitted to Congress under subsection (b) shall be made available
for obligation on the day after the date on which either House defeats
the bill transmitted with that special message.
    ``(g) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
            ``(1) the term `appropriation Act' means any general or
        special appropriation Act, and any Act or joint resolution
        making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations;
        and
            ``(2) the term `legislative day' means, with respect to
        either House of Congress, any day during which that House is in
        session.''.
    (b) Exercise of Rulemaking Powers.--Section 904 of such Act (2
U.S.C. 621 note) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and 1017'' in subsection (a) and
        inserting ``1013, and 1018''; and
            (2) by striking ``section 1017'' in subsection (d) and
        inserting ``sections 1013 and 1018''.
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 1011 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 682(5)) is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (4), by striking ``1013'' and
                inserting ``1014''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (5)--
                            (i) by striking ``1016'' and inserting
                        ``1017''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``1017(b)(1)'' and
                        inserting ``1018(b)(1)''.
            (2) Section 1015 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 685) (as
        redesignated by section 2(a)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``1012 or 1013'' each place it
                appears and inserting ``1012, 1013, or 1014'';
                    (B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``1012'' and
                inserting ``1012 or 1013'';
                    (C) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``1013'' and
                inserting ``1014''; and
                    (D) in subsection (e)(2)--
                            (i) by striking ``and'' at the end of
                        subparagraph (A);
                            (ii) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as
                        subparagraph (C);
                            (iii) by striking ``1013'' in subparagraph
                        (C) (as so redesignated) and inserting
                        ``1014''; and
                            (iv) by inserting after subparagraph (A)
                        the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(B) he has transmitted a special message under
                section 1013 with respect to a proposed rescission;
                and''.
            (3) Section 1016 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 686) (as
        redesignated by section 2(a)) is amended by striking ``1012 or
        1013'' each place it appears and inserting ``1012, 1013, or
        1014''.
    (d) Clerical Amendments.--The table of sections for subpart B of
title X of such Act is amended--
            (1) by redesignating the items relating to sections 1013
        through 1017 as items relating to sections 1014 through 1018;
        and
            (2) by inserting after the item relating to section 1012
        the following new item:

``Sec. 1013. Expedited consideration of certain proposed
                            rescissions.''.

Summary: Modified Line Item VetoExpedited Rescissions Act of 1993 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to allow the President to transmit to both Houses of the Congress, for expedited consideration, a special message proposing to rescind all or part of any item of budget authority provided in an appropriation bill. Requires that such special message be transmitted not later than three days after the President approves the appropriation bill and be accompanied by draft bill or joint resolution that would, if enacted, rescind the budget authority proposed to be rescinded. Limits the amount subject to rescission to 25 percent of the amount appropriated. Sets forth House and Senate procedures for the expedited consideration of such a proposal.


SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Uranium Mining Modernization Act''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL LANDS URANIUM LEASING.

    The Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) is amended by
redesignating section 44 as section 45, and by inserting after section
43 the following new section:

``SEC. 44. LEASING OF LANDS FOR URANIUM MINING.

    ``(a) In General.--
            ``(1) Withdrawal from entry; leasing requirement.--
        Effective upon the date of enactment of this section, all
        Federal lands are hereby permanently withdrawn from location
        and entry under section 2319 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C.
        22 et seq.) for uranium. After the end of the 2-year period
        beginning on such date of enactment, no uranium may be produced
        from Federal lands except pursuant to a lease issued under this
        Act.
            ``(2) Leasing.--The Secretary--
                    ``(A) may divide any lands subject to this Act that
                are not withdrawn from mineral leasing and that are
                otherwise available for uranium leasing under
                applicable law, including lands available under the
                terms of land use plans prepared by the Federal agency
                managing the land, into leasing tracts of such size as
                the Secretary finds appropriate and in the public
                interest; and
                    ``(B) thereafter shall, in the Secretary's
                discretion, upon the request of any qualified applicant
                or on the Secretary's own motion, from time to time,
                offer such lands for uranium leasing and award uranium
                leases thereon by competitive bidding.
    ``(b) Fair Market Value Required.--
            ``(1) In general.--No bid for a uranium lease shall be
        accepted that is less than the fair market value, as determined
        by the Secretary, of the uranium subject to the lease.
            ``(2) Public comment.--Prior to the Secretary's
        determination of the fair market value of the uranium subject
        to the lease, the Secretary shall give opportunity for and
        consideration to public comments on the fair market value.
            ``(3) Disclosure not required.--Nothing in this section
        shall be construed to require the Secretary to make public the
        Secretary's judgment as to the fair market value of the uranium
        to be leased, or the comments the Secretary receives thereon
        prior to the issuance of the lease.
    ``(c) Lands Under the Jurisdiction of Other Agencies.--Leases
covering lands the surface of which is under the jurisdiction of any
Federal agency other than the Department of the Interior may be issued
only--
            ``(1) upon consent of the head of the other Federal agency;
        and
            ``(2) upon such conditions the head of such other Federal
        agency may prescribe with respect to the use and protection of
        the nonmineral interests in those lands.
    ``(d) Consideration of Effects of Mining.--Before issuing any
uranium lease, the Secretary shall consider effects that mining under
the proposed lease might have on an impacted community or area,
including impacts on the environment, on agricultural, on cultural
resources, and other economic activities, and on public services.
    ``(e) Notice of Proposed Lease.--No lease sale shall be held for
lands until after a notice of the proposed offering for lease has been
given once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general
circulation in the county in which the lands are situated, or in
electronic format, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the
Secretary.
    ``(f) Auction Requirements.--All lands to be leased under this
section shall be leased to the highest responsible qualified bidder--
            ``(1) under general regulations;
            ``(2) in units of not more than 2,560 acres that are as
        nearly compact as possible; and
            ``(3) by oral bidding.
    ``(g) Required Payments.--
            ``(1) In general.--A lease under this section shall be
        conditioned upon the payment by the lessee of--
                    ``(A) a royalty at a rate of not less than 12.5
                percent in amount or value of the production removed or
                sold under the lease; and
                    ``(B) a rental of--
                            ``(i) not less than $2.50 per acre per year
                        for the first through fifth years of the lease;
                        and
                            ``(ii) not less than $3 per acre per year
                        for each year thereafter.
            ``(2) Use of revenues.--Amounts received as revenues under
        this subsection with respect to a lease may be used by the
        Secretary of the Interior, subject to the availability of
        appropriations, for cleaning up uranium mill tailings and
        reclaiming abandoned uranium mines on Federal lands in
        accordance with the priorities and eligibility restrictions,
        respectively, under subsections (c) and (d) of section 411 of
        the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30
        U.S.C. 1240a).
    ``(h) Lease Term.--A lease under this section--
            ``(1) shall be effective for a primary term of 10 years;
        and
            ``(2) shall continue in effect after such primary term for
        so long is as uranium is produced under the lease in paying
        quantities.
    ``(i) Exploration Licenses.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary may, under such
        regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, issue to any person
        an exploration license. No person may conduct uranium
        exploration for commercial purposes on lands subject to this
        Act without such an exploration license. Each exploration
        license shall be for a term of not more than two years and
        shall be subject to a reasonable fee. An exploration license
        shall confer no right to a lease under this Act. The issuance
        of exploration licenses shall not preclude the Secretary from
        issuing uranium leases at such times and locations and to such
        persons as the Secretary deems appropriate. No exploration
        license may be issued for any land on which a uranium lease has
        been issued. A separate exploration license shall be required
        for exploration in each State. An application for an
        exploration license shall identify general areas and probable
        methods of exploration. Each exploration license shall be
        limited to specific geographic areas in each State as
        determined by the Secretary, and shall contain such reasonable
        conditions as the Secretary may require, including conditions
        to ensure the protection of the environment, and shall be
        subject to all applicable Federal, State, and local laws and
        regulations. Upon violation of any such conditions or laws the
        Secretary may revoke the exploration license.
            ``(2) Limitations.--A licensee may not cause substantial
        disturbance to the natural land surface. A licensee may not
        remove any uranium for sale but may remove a reasonable amount
        of uranium from the lands subject to this Act included under
        the Secretary's license for analysis and study. A licensee must
        comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the Federal
        agency having jurisdiction over the surface of the lands
        subject to this Act. Exploration licenses covering lands the
        surface of which is under the jurisdiction of any Federal
        agency other than the Department of the Interior may be issued
        only upon such conditions as it may prescribe with respect to
        the use and protection of the nonmineral interests in those
        lands.
            ``(3) Sharing of data.--The licensee shall furnish to the
        Secretary copies of all data (including geological,
        geophysical, and core drilling analyses) obtained during such
        exploration. The Secretary shall maintain the confidentiality
        of all data so obtained until after the areas involved have
        been leased or until such time as the Secretary determines that
        making the data available to the public would not damage the
        competitive position of the licensee, whichever comes first.
            ``(4) Exploration without a license.--Any person who
        willfully conducts uranium exploration for commercial purposes
        on lands subject to this Act without an exploration license
        issued under this subsection shall be subject to a fine of not
        more than $1,000 for each day of violation. All data collected
        by such person on any Federal lands as a result of such
        violation shall be made immediately available to the Secretary,
        who shall make the data available to the public as soon as it
        is practicable. No penalty under this subsection shall be
        assessed unless such person is given notice and opportunity for
        a hearing with respect to such violation.
    ``(j) Conversion of Mining Claims to Mineral Leases.--
            ``(1) In general.--The owner of any mining claim (in this
        subsection referred to as a `claimant') located prior to the
        date of enactment of this section may, within two years after
        such date, apply to the Secretary of the Interior to convert
        the claim to a lease under this section. The Secretary shall
        issue a uranium lease under this section to the claimant upon a
        demonstration by the claimant, to the satisfaction of the
        Secretary, within one year after the date of the application to
        the Secretary, that the claim was, as of such date of
        enactment, supported by the discovery of a valuable deposit of
        uranium on the claimed land. The holder of a lease issued upon
        conversion from a mining claim under this subsection shall be
        subject to all the requirements of this section governing
        uranium leases, except that the holder shall pay a royalty of
        6.25 percent on the value of the uranium produced under the
        lease, until beginning ten years after the date the claim is
        converted to a lease.
            ``(2) Other claims extinguished.--All mining claims located
        for uranium on Federal lands whose claimant does not apply to
        the Secretary for conversion to a lease, or whose claimant
        cannot make such a demonstration of discovery, shall become
        null and void by operation of law three years after such date
        of enactment.''.

Summary: Uranium Mining Modernization Act - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to: (1) withdraw all fedral lands permanently from location and entry for uranium, and (2) prescribe a uranium leasing program for such lands.

To amend the Mineral Leasing Act to permanently withdraw all Federal lands from location and entry for uranium mining, to provide for leasing of such lands under such Act for uranium mining, and for other purposes.


SECTION 1. CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY TO THE TANANA TRIBAL COUNCIL.

    (a) Conveyance of Property.--
            (1) In general.--As soon as practicable, but not later than
        180 days, after the date of enactment of this Act, the
        Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this Act
        as the ``Secretary'') shall convey to the Tanana Tribal Council
        located in Tanana, Alaska (referred to in this section as the
        ``Council''), all right, title, and interest of the United
        States in and to the property described in subsection (b) for
        use in connection with health and social services programs.
            (2) Effect on any quitclaim deed.--The conveyance by the
        Secretary of title by warranty deed under this subsection
        shall, on the effective date of the conveyance, supersede and
        render of no future effect any quitclaim deed to the property
        described in subsection (b) executed by the Secretary and the
        Council.
            (3) Conditions.--The conveyance of the property under this
        section--
                    (A) shall be made by warranty deed; and
                    (B) shall not--
                            (i) require any consideration from the
                        Council for the property;
                            (ii) impose any obligation, term, or
                        condition on the Council; or
                            (iii) allow for any reversionary interest
                        of the United States in the property.
    (b) Property Described.--The property, including all land,
improvements, and appurtenances, described in this subsection is the
property included in U.S. Survey No. 5958, Lot 12, in the village of
Tanana, Alaska, within surveyed Township 4N, Range 22W, Fairbanks
Meridian, Alaska, containing 11.25 acres.
    (c) Environmental Liability.--
            (1) Liability.--
                    (A) In general.--Notwithstanding any other
                provision of law, the Council shall not be liable for
                any soil, surface water, groundwater, or other
                contamination resulting from the disposal, release, or
                presence of any environmental contamination on any
                portion of the property described in subsection (b) on
                or before the date on which the property is conveyed to
                the Council.
                    (B) Environmental contamination.--An environmental
                contamination described in subparagraph (A) includes
                any oil or petroleum products, hazardous substances,
                hazardous materials, hazardous waste, pollutants, toxic
                substances, solid waste, or any other environmental
                contamination or hazard as defined in any Federal or
                State of Alaska law.
            (2) Easement.--The Secretary shall be accorded any easement
        or access to the property conveyed under this section as may be
        reasonably necessary to satisfy any retained obligation or
        liability of the Secretary.
            (3) Notice of hazardous substance activity and warranty.--
        In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall comply with
        subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 120(h)(3) of the
        Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
        Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9620(h)(3)).

SEC. 2. CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY TO THE BRISTOL BAY AREA HEALTH
              CORPORATION.

    (a) Conveyance of Property.--
            (1) In general.--As soon as practicable, but not later than
        180 days, after the date of enactment of this Act, the
        Secretary shall convey to the Bristol Bay Area Health
        Corporation located in Dillingham, Alaska (referred to in this
        section as the ``Corporation''), all right, title, and interest
        of the United States in and to the property described in
        subsection (b) for use in connection with health and social
        services programs.
            (2) Effect on any quitclaim deed.--The conveyance by the
        Secretary of title by warranty deed under this subsection
        shall, on the effective date of the conveyance, supersede and
        render of no future effect any quitclaim deed to the property
        described in subsection (b) executed by the Secretary and the
        Corporation.
            (3) Conditions.--The conveyance of the property under this
        section--
                    (A) shall be made by warranty deed; and
                    (B) shall not--
                            (i) require any consideration from the
                        Corporation for the property;
                            (ii) impose any obligation, term, or
                        condition on the Corporation; or
                            (iii) allow for any reversionary interest
                        of the United States in the property.
    (b) Property Described.--The property, including all land,
improvements, and appurtenances, described in this subsection is the
property included in Dental Annex Subdivision, creating tract 1, a
subdivision of Lot 2 of U.S. Survey No. 2013, located in Section 36,
Township 13 South, Range 56 West, Seward Meridian, Bristol Bay
Recording District, Dillingham, Alaska, according to Plat No. 2015-8,
recorded on May 28, 2015, in the Bristol Bay Recording District,
Dillingham, Alaska, containing 1.474 acres more or less.
    (c) Environmental Liability.--
            (1) Liability.--
                    (A) In general.--Notwithstanding any other
                provision of law, the Corporation shall not be liable
                for any soil, surface water, groundwater, or other
                contamination resulting from the disposal, release, or
                presence of any environmental contamination on any
                portion of the property described in subsection (b) on
                or before the date on which the property is conveyed to
                the Corporation.
                    (B) Environmental contamination.--An environmental
                contamination described in subparagraph (A) includes
                any oil or petroleum products, hazardous substances,
                hazardous materials, hazardous waste, pollutants, toxic
                substances, solid waste, or any other environmental
                contamination or hazard as defined in any Federal or
                State of Alaska law.
            (2) Easement.--The Secretary shall be accorded any easement
        or access to the property conveyed under this section as may be
        reasonably necessary to satisfy any retained obligation or
        liability of the Secretary.
            (3) Notice of hazardous substance activity and warranty.--
        In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall comply with
        subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 120(h)(3) of the
        Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
        Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9620(h)(3)).

            Passed the Senate March 22, 2018.

            Attest:

                                                JULIE E. ADAMS,

                                                             Secretary.

Summary: This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convey to the Tanana Tribal Council in Tanana, Alaska, all interest of the United States in and to certain property containing 11.25 acres, in the village of Tanana for use in connection with health and social services programs. HHS shall convey to the Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation in Dillingham, Alaska, all interest of the United States in and to certain property included in the Dental Annex Subdivision containing 1.474 acres more or less, also for use in connection with health and social services programs. Such conveyances by warranty deed: (1) shall supersede and render of no future effect any quitclaim deed to the property executed by HHS and the Council or Corporation. And (2) shall not require any consideration from the Council or Corporation for the property, impose any obligation, term, or condition on the Council or Corporation, or allow for any US reversionary interest in the property. The Council or Corporation shall not be liable for soil, surface water, groundwater, or other contamination resulting from the disposal, release, or presence of environmental contamination. HHS shall: (1) be accorded any easement or access to the conveyed property as may be necessary to satisfy any retained obligations and liability. And (2) comply with requirements under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 for certain deeds for the transfer of US-owned real property on which any hazardous substance was stored for one year or more, disposed of, or known to have been released.

A bill to provide for the conveyance of certain property to the Tanana Tribal Council located in Tanana, Alaska, and to the Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation located in  Dillingham, Alaska, and for other purposes.


SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Federal-Utah State Trust Lands
Consolidation Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) The San Rafael Swell in Utah is a 900-square mile, wild
        and beautiful region west of the Green River. The San Rafael
        Swell is dominated by the jagged, uplifted San Rafael Reef,
        which has nearly two dozen major canyons and many side draws
        and box canyons. The San Rafael Swell towers above the desert
        like a wilderness castle, ringed by 1,000-foot ramparts of
        Navajo sandstone. Its highlands have been fractured by uplift
        and scooped hollow by erosion over countless millennia, leaving
        a tremendous basin punctuated by mesas, buttes, and canyons and
        traversed by sediment-laden desert streams.
            (2) The San Rafael Swell region was one of the country's
        last frontiers and possesses important natural, historical, and
        cultural resources, including exceptional backcountry
        recreation opportunities, productive habitat for Desert Bighorn
        Sheep, important historical sites, including sections of the
        Old Spanish Trail and the Outlaw Trail, significant
        paleontological resources, and multiple wilderness study areas
        created pursuant to section 603 of the Federal Lands Policy and
        Management Act of 1976, or otherwise identified by local
        government and conservation interests as having significant
        conservation values. The beautiful rural landscapes, historic
        and cultural landscapes, and spectacular scenic vistas of the
        San Rafael Swell region contain significant undeveloped
        recreational opportunities for people throughout the United
        States.
            (3) The State of Utah owns approximately 102,871 acres of
        land located in the San Rafael Swell region and administered by
        the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration.
        These lands were granted by the Congress to the State of Utah
        pursuant to the Utah Enabling Act of 1894 (chapter 138; 23
        Stat. 107), to be held in trust for the benefit of the State's
        public school system and other public institutions. The lands
        are largely scattered in checkerboard fashion amidst the
        Federal lands comprising the remainder of the San Rafael Swell
        area.
            (4) Development of surface and mineral resources on State
        trust lands within the San Rafael Swell area, or the sale of
        such lands into private ownership, could be incompatible with
        management of such lands for nonimpairment of their wilderness
        characteristics pursuant to section 603(c) of the Federal Land
        Policy and Management Act of 1976, with future congressional
        designation of the lands as wilderness, or with future
        designation of such lands as a national monument, national
        heritage area, or other conservation designation.
            (5) The State of Utah also owns 3,533 acres of land within
        or directly adjacent to the Manti-La Sal National Forest in
        Grand and Emery Counties, Utah, and 6,411 acres of land within
        the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, a conservation reserve
        established in 1995 by the United States and Washington County,
        Utah, to implement a multiple-species habitat conservation plan
        approved by the Fish and Wildlife Service under section 10(a)
        of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The Reserve contains the
        highest density of critical habitat for the Mojave desert
        tortoise, a threatened species, in the United States. These
        State trust lands are also administered by the Utah School and
        Institutional Trust Lands Administration, but the use of such
        lands by the State is limited because of the conservation
        designations of surrounding Federal lands.
            (6) The United States owns lands and interests in lands
        elsewhere in Utah that can be transferred to the State of Utah
        in exchange for the San Rafael Swell inholdings, the Manti-La
        Sal forest lands, and the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve lands
        without jeopardizing Federal management objectives or needs.
            (7) The large presence of State trust land inholdings in
        the San Rafael Swell region, the Manti-La Sal National Forest,
        and the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve makes land and resource
        management in these areas difficult, costly, and controversial
        for both the State of Utah and the United States.
            (8) It is in the public interest to reach agreement on
        exchange of such inholdings, on terms fair to both the State of
        Utah and the United States. Such an agreement, subject to
        ratification by Congress and consent by the Utah legislature,
        would save much time and delay in meeting the legitimate
        expectations of the State school and institutional trusts, in
        simplifying management of Federal lands, and in avoiding the
        significant time and expense associated with administrative
        land exchanges.
            (9) The State of Utah and the United States have reached an
        agreement under which the State would exchange certain State
        trust lands within the San Rafael Swell region, the Manti-La
        Sal National Forest, and the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve for
        various Federal lands outside of those areas but in the same
        region of Utah.
            (10) The parties agreed at the outset of negotiations to
        avoid identifying Federal assets for conveyance to the State
        where any of the following was known to exist or likely to be
an issue as a result of foreseeable future uses of the lands:
                    (A) Wilderness study areas.
                    (B) Areas proposed for wilderness designation in
                pending Federal legislation.
                    (C) Significant endangered species habitat.
                    (D) Significant archaeological resources.
                    (E) Areas of critical environmental concern.
                    (F) Other lands known to raise significant
                environmental concerns of any kind.
            (11) Because the State trust lands to be acquired by the
        Federal Government include properties within some of the most
        spectacular wild areas in the western United States, and
        because a mission of the Utah School and Institutional Trust
        Lands Administration is to produce economic benefits for Utah's
        public schools and other beneficiary institutions, the exchange
        of lands called for in this agreement will resolve longstanding
        environmental conflicts with respect to existing and proposed
        wilderness study areas, place important natural lands into
        public ownership, and further the interests of the State trust
        lands, the school children of Utah, and these conservation
        resources.
            (12) Under this agreement, the State interests to be
        conveyed to the United States by the State of Utah, and the
        Federal interests to be conveyed to the State of Utah by the
        United States, have been examined by licensed independent real
        estate consultants and, taken as a whole, have been found to be
        approximately equal in value.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to enact into law and
direct prompt implementation of this agreement, and thereby to further
the public interest by consolidating State and Federal lands into
manageable units while facilitating the protection of lands with
significant scientific, cultural, and natural resources.

SEC. 3. RATIFICATION OF THE AGREED EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE STATE OF UTAH
              AND THE UNITED STATES.

    (a) Agreement.--The State of Utah, the Department of the Interior,
and the Department of Agriculture have agreed to exchange certain
Federal lands in the State of Utah for lands of approximately equal
value managed by the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands
Administration in the San Rafael Swell area of Utah, the Manti-La Sal
National Forest, and the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve.
    (b) Ratification.--All terms, conditions, procedures, covenants,
reservations, and other provisions set forth in the document entitled
``Agreement for Exchange of Lands 2002 Federal-Utah State Trust Lands
Consolidation'', dated June ____, 2002 (in this Act referred to as
``the Agreement''), are hereby incorporated in this Act, are ratified
and confirmed, and set forth the obligations of the United States, the
State of Utah, and the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands
Administration, as a matter of Federal law.

SEC. 4. CONVEYANCES.

    (a) Conveyances.--All conveyances under sections 2, 3, and 4 of the
Agreement shall be completed not later than 70 days after enactment of
this Act.
    (b) Maps and Legal Descriptions.--
            (1) In general.--The maps and legal descriptions referred
        to in the Agreement depict the lands subject to the conveyances
        under the Agreement.
            (2) Public availability.--The maps and legal descriptions
        referred to in the Agreement shall be on file and available for
        public inspection in the offices of the Secretary of the
        Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Intermountain
        Regional Office of the Forest Service, and the Utah State
        Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
            (3) Conflict.--In case of any conflict between the maps and
        the legal descriptions in the Agreement, the legal descriptions
        shall control.

SEC. 5. MINERAL DEVELOPMENT.

    All payments received by the United States pursuant to section
13(c) of the Agreement shall be subject to sharing with the State of
Utah in the same manner the United States shares bonus bids, rentals,
and royalties with the State of Utah under section 35 of the Mineral
Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191).

SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary
to carry out this Act, including such sums as may be desired to reduce
the balance of the interest and principal amounts owed by the United
States to the Trust Lands Administration pursuant to sections 4 and 5
of the Agreement.

SEC. 7. COSTS.

    The United States and the State of Utah shall each bear its own
respective costs incurred in the implementation of this Act.

Summary: Federal-Utah State Trust Lands Consolidation Act - Establishes that the State of Utah, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Agriculture have agreed to exchange certain Federal lands in the State of Utah for certain Utah State lands. Ratifies, confirms, and incorporates all provisions set forth in the Agreement for Exchange of Lands 2002 Federal-Utah State Trust Lands Consolidation. Directs the Federal Government to share payments pursuant to the Agreement with the State of Utah as bonus bids, rental, and royalties are shared under the Mineral Leasing Act.

A bill to provide for the exchange of certain lands in Utah.


SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Education Modernization Fund Act''.

SEC. 2. EDUCATION MODERNIZATION LOANS AND FUND.

    (a) Loans.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary of Education (referred to in
        this subsection as the ``Secretary'') shall make loans to
        States for the purpose of constructing and modernizing
        elementary schools and secondary schools.
            (2) Terms.--The Secretary shall make low interest, long-
        term loans, as determined by the Secretary, under paragraph
        (1). The Secretary shall determine the eligibility requirements
        for, and the terms of, any loan made under paragraph (1).
            (3) Allocation of funds.--The Secretary shall determine a
        formula for allocating the funds made available under
        subsection (b)(4) to States for loans under paragraph (1). The
        Secretary shall ensure that the formula provides for the
        allocation of funds for such loans to each eligible State. In
        determining the formula, the Secretary shall take into
        consideration the need for financial assistance of States with
        significant increases in populations of elementary school and
        secondary school students.
            (4) Definitions.--In this subsection, the terms
        ``elementary school'' and ``secondary school'' have the
        meanings given the terms in section 14101 of the Elementary and
        Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801).
    (b) Fund.--
            (1) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury of
        the United States a trust fund, to be known as the ``Education
        Modernization Fund'', consisting of the amounts transferred to
        or deposited in the Trust Fund under paragraph (2) and any
        interest earned on investment of the amounts in the Trust Fund
        under paragraph (3).
            (2) Transfers and deposits.--
                    (A) Transfer.--The Secretary of the Treasury shall
                transfer to the Trust Fund an amount equal to
                $5,000,000,000 from the modernization fund described in
                section 5302 of title 31, United States Code.
                    (B) Deposits.--There shall be deposited in the
                Trust Fund all amounts received by the Secretary of
                Education incident to loan operations under subsection
                (a), including all collections of principal and
                interest.
            (3) Investment of trust fund.--
                    (A) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury
                shall invest the portion of the Trust Fund that is not,
                in the Secretary's judgment, required to meet current
                withdrawals.
                    (B) Obligations.--Such investments may be made only
                in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or
                in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and
                interest by the United States. For such purpose, such
                obligations may be acquired--
                            (i) on original issue at the issue price;
                        or
                            (ii) by purchase of outstanding obligations
                        at the market price.
                    (C) Purposes for obligations of the united
                states.--The purposes for which obligations of the
                United States may be issued under chapter 31 of title
                31, United States Code, are extended to authorize the
                issuance at par of special obligations exclusively to
                the Trust Fund.
                    (D) Interest.--Such special obligations shall bear
                interest at a rate equal to the average rate of
                interest, computed as to the end of the calendar month
                next preceding the date of such issue, borne by all
                marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United
                States then forming a part of the Public Debt, except
                that where such average rate is not a multiple of \1/8\
                of 1 percent, the rate of interest of such special
                obligations shall be the multiple of \1/8\ of 1 percent
                next lower than such average rate.
                    (E) Determination.--Such special obligations shall
                be issued only if the Secretary of the Treasury
                determines that the purchase of other interest-bearing
                obligations of the United States, or of obligations
                guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the
                United States on original issue or at the market price,
                is not in the public interest.
                    (F) Sale of obligation.--Any obligation acquired by
                the Trust Fund (except special obligations issued
                exclusively to the Trust Fund) may be sold by the
                Secretary of the Treasury at the market price, and such
                special obligations may be redeemed at par plus accrued
                interest.
                    (G) Credits to trust fund.--The interest on, and
                the proceeds from the sale or redemption of, any
                obligations held in the Trust Fund shall be credited to
                and form a part of the Trust Fund.
            (4) Expenditures from trust fund.--Amounts in the Trust
        Fund shall be available to the Secretary of Education for
        making expenditures to carry out subsection (a).

Summary: Education Modernization Fund Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make low-interest, long-term loans to States for constructing and modernizing elementary and secondary schools. Requires the Secretary of Education to determine a formula for allocating such loans to eligible States, taking into consideration the needs of States with significant increases in school student populations. Establishes the Education Modernization Fund (EMF) in the Treasury to provide funds for such loans. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) transfer to the EMF a specified amount from the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund. And (2) invest, in a specified manner, the portion of the EMF that is not required to meet current withdrawals. Directs the Secretary of Education to deposit in the EMF all amounts received by incident to such loan operations, including all collections of principal and interest.

Education Modernization Fund Act