§ 2232. — Burn research.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC2232]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 49--FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
Sec. 2232. Burn research
(a) Office
The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall
establish an office in the Agency to establish specific criteria of
grant recipients and to administer grants under this section.
(b) Safety organization grants
The Director may make grants, on a competitive basis, to safety
organizations that have experience in conducting burn safety programs
for the purpose of assisting those organizations in conducting burn
prevention programs or augmenting existing burn prevention programs.
(c) Hospital grants
The Director may make grants, on a competitive basis, to hospitals
that serve as regional burn centers to conduct acute burn care research.
(d) Other grants
The Director may make grants, on a competitive basis, to
governmental and nongovernmental entities to provide after-burn
treatment and counseling to individuals that are burn victims.
(e) Report
(1) In general
The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency shall
submit a report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure of the House of Representatives on the results of the
grants provided under this section.
(2) Content
The report shall contain the following:
(A) A list of the organizations, hospitals, or other
entities to which the grants were provided and the purpose for
which those entities were provided grants.
(B) Efforts taken to ensure that potential grant applicants
are provided with information necessary to develop an effective
application.
(C) The Director's assessment regarding the appropriate
level of funding that should be provided annually through the
grant program.
(D) The Director's assessment regarding the appropriate
purposes for such grants.
(E) Any other information the Director determines necessary.
(3) Submission date
The report shall be submitted not later than February 1, 2002.
(f) Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this
section amounts as follows:
(1) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2001.
(2) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2002.
(Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title XVII, Sec. 1703], Oct. 30,
2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-364.)
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, and not as part of the Federal
Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 which comprises this chapter.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the
Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relating thereto, to
the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related
references, see sections 313(1), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6,
Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security
Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note
under section 542 of Title 6.
