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Selected Legislation in the 103rd Congress Related to Electronic Information Delivery
S. 335 Innouye Companion Measure H.R. 707
Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act of 1993
A bill to require the Secretary of Commerce to make additional frequencies available for commercial assignment in order to promote the development and use of new
telecommunications technologies. Introduced on February 4, 1993. Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Subcommittee on
Communications. Hearings held on March 17, 1993.
Directs the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission FCC to conduct
joint spectrum planning meetings. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to: 1 identify bands of frequencies that may be reallocated to commercial users; and 2
establish a related advisory committee. Directs the FCC to submit to the President and the Congress a plan for the distribution of the reallocated banks of frequencies
under this Act.
Authorizes the President to reclaim reallocated bands of frequencies for reassignment to government stations.
This bill was also incorporated in H.R. 2264, the Omibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.
S. 473 Johnston Department of Energy National Competitiveness
Technology Partnership Act of 1993
A bill to promote the industrial competitiveness and economic growth of the United States by strengthening the linkages between the laboratories of the Department of
Energy and the private sector and by supporting the development and application of technologies critical to the economic, scientific and technological competitiveness
of the United States. Introduced on March 2, 1993. Referred to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development. Committee hearings held on March 18, 23 and 24, 1993. Reported to Senate Amended by Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources On June
24, 1993, report no.:103-69.
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Source Book on Digital Libraries Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to authorize the Secretary of
Energy and the directors of departmental laboratories laboratoires operated by or on behalf of the Department of Energy DOE or facilities that would be considered to
be laboratories under the Stevenson-Wylder Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to enter into any partnership that will enhance the economic, scientific, or
technological competitiveness of U.S. industry.
Directs the Secretary to develop a multi-year critical technology strategy for each critical technology listed in the National Critical Technologies Report. Authorizes
the Secretary and the directors of departmental laboratories to enter into partnerships that build on the core competencies of the laboratories to conduct research,
development, demonstration, or commercial application activities in areas listed in Report or in energy efficiency or supply, high-performance computing, the
environment, human health, advanced manufacturing technologies, advanced materials, transportation, space, or quality technologies, or technologies listed in the
annual defense critical technologies plan.
Amends the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 to provide for cost-shared projects involving DOE or DOE laboratories and non-Federal entities to test and
apply high-performance computing and high-speed networking technologies.
S. 570 Grassley Local Exchange Infrastructure Modernization Act of 1993
