PUBLIC LAW 102-486—OCT. 24, 1992 106 STAT. 3131 receive for transferring an interest in liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons pursuant to a farmout agreement.". (c) EFFECTIVE DATE; APPLICATION OF AMENDMENTS.— (1) Except n use loi note. as provided in paragraph (2), the amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. (2) The amendments made by this section shall not apply with respect to cases commenced under title 11 of the United States Code before the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 3018. RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION. Section 6 of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (42 U.S.C. 2210 note) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(1) JUDICIAL REVIEW.— An individual whose claim for compensation under this Act is denied may seek judicial review solely m a district court of the United States. The court shall review the denial on the administrative record and shall hold unlawful and set aside the denial if it is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.". SEC. 3019. STRATEGIC DIVERSIFICATION. The Office of Barter within the United States Department Reports, of Commerce and the Interagency Group on Countertrade shall within six months from the date of enactment report to the President and the Congress on the feasibility of using barter, countertrade and other self-liquidating finance methods to facilitate the strategic diversification of United States oil imports through cooperation with the former Soviet Union in the development of its energy resources. The report shall consider among other relevant topics the feasibility of trading American grown food for Soviet produced oil, minerals or energy. SEC. 3020. CONSULTATIVE COMMISSION ON WESTERN HEMISPHERE 42 USC 13555. ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT. (a) FINDINGS. — The Congress finds that— (1) there is growing mutual economic interdependence among the countries of the Western Hemisphere; (2) energy and environmental issues are intrinsically linked and must be considered together when formulating policy on the broader issue of sustainable economic development for the Western Hemisphere as a whole; (3) when developing their respective energy infrastructures, countries in the Western Hemisphere must consider existing and emerging environmental constraints, and do so in a way that results in sustaineible long-term economic growth; (4) the coordination of respective national energy and environmental policies of the governments of the Western Hemisphere could be substantially improved through regular consultation among these countries; (5) the development, production and consumption of energy can affect environmental quality, and the environmental consequences of energy-related activities are not confined within national boundaries, but are regional and global in scope; (6) although the Western Hemisphere is richly endowed with indigenous energy resources, an insufficient energy supply would severely constrain future opportunities for sustainaole economic development and growth in each of these member countries; and
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