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Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73

§2232 Burn research

Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 49— - FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL › § 2232

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

FEMA must create an office to set rules for who can get grants and to run the grant program. FEMA can award competitive grants to three groups: safety organizations with burn-prevention experience to run or improve prevention work; hospitals that are regional burn centers to do acute burn care research; and government or nonprofit groups that provide after-burn treatment and counseling to burn victims. The FEMA Administrator must send a report to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure by February 1, 2002. The report must list who got grants and why, describe how applicants were helped, give the Administrator’s view on proper annual funding levels and purposes, and include any other needed information. Congress authorized $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2001 and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2002.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §2232

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(a)The Administrator 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)The Administrator 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)The Administrator may make grants, on a competitive basis, to hospitals that serve as regional burn centers to conduct acute burn care research.
(d)The Administrator 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)(1)The Administrator 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)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 Administrator’s assessment regarding the appropriate level of funding that should be provided annually through the grant program.
(D)The Administrator’s assessment regarding the appropriate purposes for such grants.
(E)Any other information the Administrator determines necessary.
(3)The report shall be submitted not later than February 1, 2002.
(f)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.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

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.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Administrator” substituted for “Director” and “Administrator’s” substituted for “Director’s” on authority of section 612(c) of Pub. L. 109–295, set out as a note under section 313 of Title 6, Domestic Security. Any reference to the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in title VI of Pub. L. 109–295 or an amendment by title VI to be considered to refer and apply to the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency until Mar. 31, 2007, see section 612(f)(2) of Pub. L. 109–295, set out as a note under section 313 of Title 6.

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of all functions, personnel, assets, components, authorities, grant programs, and liabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the Under Secretary for Federal Emergency Management relating thereto, to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, see section 315(a)(1) of Title 6, Domestic Security. 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 former section 313(1) and section 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.

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 2232

Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73