- § 2201. Congressional findings
- § 2202. Declaration of purpose
- § 2203. Definitions
- § 2204. United States Fire Administration
- § 2205. Public education
- § 2206. National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control
- § 2207. Fire technology
- § 2208. National Fire Data Center
- § 2209. Master plans
- § 2210. Reimbursement for costs of firefighting on Federal property
- § 2211. Review of fire prevention codes
- § 2212. Fire safety effectiveness statements
- § 2213. Annual conference
- § 2214. Public safety awards
- § 2215. Reports to Congress and President
- § 2216. Authorization of appropriations
- § 2217. Public access to information
- § 2218. Administrative provisions
- § 2219. Assistance to Consumer Product Safety Commission
- § 2220. Arson prevention, detection, and control
- § 2221. Arson prevention grants
- §§ 2222, 2223. Repealed.
- § 2223a. Review
- § 2223b. Working group
- § 2223c. Report and recommendations
- § 2223d. Annual revision of recommendations
- § 2223e. “Emergency response personnel” defined
- § 2224. Listings of places of public accommodation
- § 2225. Fire prevention and control guidelines for places of public accommodation
- § 2225a. Prohibiting Federal funding of conferences held at non-certified places of public accommodation
- § 2226. Dissemination of fire prevention and control information
- § 2227. Fire safety systems in federally assisted buildings
- § 2228. CPR training
- § 2229. Firefighter assistance
- § 2229a. Staffing for adequate fire and emergency response
- § 2230. Surplus and excess Federal equipment
- § 2231. Cooperative agreements with Federal facilities
- § 2232. Burn research
- § 2233. Removal of civil liability barriers that discourage the donation of fire equipment to volunteer fire companies
- § 2234. Encouraging adoption of standards for firefighter health and safety
- § 2235. Investigation authorities
The Administrator is authorized to take such steps as the Administrator considers appropriate to educate the public and overcome public indifference as to fire, fire prevention, and individual preparedness. Such steps may include, but are not limited to, publications, audiovisual presentations, and demonstrations. Such public education efforts shall include programs to provide specialized information for those groups of individuals who are particularly vulnerable to fire hazards, such as the young and the elderly. The Administrator shall sponsor and encourage research, testing, and experimentation to determine the most effective means of such public education.
The Administrator is authorized to review, evaluate, and suggest improvements in State and local fire prevention codes, building codes, and any relevant Federal or private codes and regulations. In evaluating any such code or codes, the Administrator shall consider the human impact of all code requirements, standards, or provisions in terms of comfort and habitability for residents or employees, as well as the fire prevention and control value or potential of each such requirement, standard, or provision.
The Administrator is authorized to encourage owners and managers of residential multiple-unit, commercial, industrial, and transportation structures to prepare Fire Safety Effectiveness Statements, pursuant to standards, forms, rules, and regulations to be developed and issued by the Administrator.
The Administrator is authorized to organize, or to participate in organizing, an annual conference on fire prevention and control. He may pay, in whole or in part, the cost of such conference and the expenses of some or all of the participants. All of the Nation’s fire services shall be eligible to send representatives to each such conference to discuss, exchange ideas on, and participate in educational programs on new techniques in fire prevention and control. Such conferences shall be open to the public.
Upon request, the Administrator shall assist the Consumer Product Safety Commission in the development of fire safety standards or codes for consumer products, as defined in the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2051 et seq.).
The Administrator of the United States Fire Administration (hereafter in sections 2223a to 2223e of this title referred to as the “Administrator”) shall conduct a review of existing response information used by emergency response personnel at the State and local levels to evaluate its accuracy and consistency, and to determine whether it is properly expressed. Such information should clearly communicate to emergency response personnel the probable hazards which they must contend with in an emergency situation involving hazardous materials, and the appropriate response to those hazards.
The working group established under section 2223b of this title shall, within 1 year after October 22, 1990, submit a report to the Administrator and to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate presenting the results of the review carried out under sections 2223a to 2223e of this title, along with recommendations to ensure that response information disseminated to emergency response personnel is appropriate for operational personnel at the local level.
After the submission of the report cited in section 2223c of this title, the working group established under section 2223b of this title shall meet as needed, but at least once every 12 months, to review and recommend changes and additions to the report cited in section 2223c of this title, that are necessary and appropriate for operational personnel at the local level.
As used in sections 2223a to 2223e of this title, the term “emergency response personnel” means personnel responsible for mitigation activities in a medical emergency, fire emergency, hazardous material emergency, or natural disaster.
The Administrator of FEMA, acting through the Administrator, is authorized to take steps to encourage the States to promote the use of automatic sprinkler systems and automatic smoke detection systems, and to disseminate to the maximum extent possible information on the life safety value and use of such systems. Such steps may include, but need not be limited to, providing copies of the guidelines described in section 2225 of this title and of the master list compiled under section 2224(b) of this title to Federal agencies, State and local governments, and fire services throughout the United States, and making copies of the master list compiled under section 2224(b) of this title available upon request to interested private organizations and individuals.
No funds shall be made available to a State or local government under section 2221 of this title unless such government has a policy to actively promote the training of its firefighters in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
The Administrator shall make publicly available, including through the Internet, information on procedures for acquiring surplus and excess equipment or property that may be useful to State and local fire, emergency, and hazardous material handling service providers.
The Administrator shall make publicly available, including through the Internet, information on procedures for establishing cooperative agreements between State and local fire and emergency services and Federal facilities in their region relating to the provision of fire and emergency services.