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Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-110

§2209 Master Plans

Title 15 › CHAPTER 49 — FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL › § 2209

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Administrator must encourage and help states and local governments make master plans for fire prevention and control. The Administrator must give technical help and training to state and local fire officials to build nationwide and state mutual aid systems for national emergencies. Those systems must cover threat assessment and how to deploy equipment, set up ways to collect accurate, timely data on assets and resources for regional deployment, and follow the Federal Response Plan. The Administrator must also create and share model mutual aid plans for help inside a state and between states. Master plan — a plan that creates and puts into action a local fire prevention and control program. It is expected to include a survey of current fire services and codes; an analysis of short‑ and long‑term needs; a plan to meet those needs; and cost estimates, realistic financing plans, and a summary of anticipated problems.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §2209

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(a)Encouragement by Administrator (b) Mutual aid systems
The establishment of master plans for fire prevention and control are the responsibility of the States and the political subdivisions thereof. The Administrator is authorized to encourage and assist such States and political subdivisions in such planning activities, consistent with his powers and duties under this chapter.
(c)“Master plan” defined
For the purposes of this section, a “master plan” is one which will result in the planning and implementation in the area involved of a general program of action for fire prevention and control. Such master plan is reasonably expected to include (1) a survey of the resources and personnel of existing fire services and an analysis of the effectiveness of the fire and building codes in such area; (2) an analysis of short and long term fire prevention and control needs in such area; (3) a plan to meet the fire prevention and control needs in such area; and (4) an estimate of cost and realistic plans for financing the implementation of the plan and operation on a continuing basis and a summary of problems that are anticipated in implementing such master plan.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–498, Oct. 29, 1974, 88 Stat. 1535, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 2201 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

2003—Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 108–169 added subsec. (b) and redesignated former subsec. (b) as (c). 2000—Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 106–503 redesignated subsec. (c) as (b) and struck out former subsec. (b) which required Secretary to submit to Congress a report on establishment and effectiveness of master plans four years after Oct. 29, 1974.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Functions of National Fire Prevention and Control Administration [now United States Fire Administration] and National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control generally transferred to Federal Emergency Management Agency. For further details see

Transfer of Functions

note set out under section 2202 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

15 U.S.C. § 2209

Title 15, Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110