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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§290a Victims of Fire

Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER III — NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part H — General Provisions › § 290a

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Health and Human Services must set up, inside the National Institutes of Health and working with FEMA, a bigger research and treatment program for burns, burn care, and recovery for fire victims. The NIH must push for 25 new standalone burn hospitals and 25 burn units inside general hospitals, help create 90 burn programs in general hospitals, train and support burn specialists and emergency burn care staff, expand research on burns and smoke inhalation, and back other treatment and rehab research and training. Up to $5,000,000 may be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and up to $8,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §290a

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Research on burns, burn injuries, and rehabilitation
The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish, within the National Institutes of Health and in cooperation with the Administrator of FEMA, an expanded program of research on burns, treatment of burn injuries, and rehabilitation of victims of fires. The National Institutes of Health shall—
(1)sponsor and encourage the establishment throughout the Nation of twenty-five additional burn centers, which shall comprise separate hospital facilities providing specialized burn treatment and including research and teaching programs and twenty-five additional burn units, which shall comprise specialized facilities in general hospitals used only for burn victims;
(2)provide training and continuing support of specialists to staff the new burn centers and burn units;
(3)sponsor and encourage the establishment of ninety burn programs in general hospitals which comprise staffs of burn injury specialists;
(4)provide special training in emergency care for burn victims;
(5)augment sponsorship of research on burns and burn treatment;
(6)administer and support a systematic program of research concerning smoke inhalation injuries; and
(7)sponsor and support other research and training programs in the treatment and rehabilitation of burn injury victims.
(b)Authorization of appropriations
For purposes of this section, there are authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 and not to exceed $8,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (which is classified principally to chapter 49 (§ 2201 et seq.) of Title 15), and not as a part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

2013—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 112–239 substituted “Administrator of FEMA” for “Director” in introductory provisions. 2000—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–503 substituted “in cooperation with the Director” for “in cooperation with the Secretary”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” in subsec. (a) pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

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. Definitions For definition of terms used in this section, see section 2203 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

42 U.S.C. § 290a

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110