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PUBLIC LAW 93-498-OCT. 29, 1974
[88 STAT.
coordinated program to support and reinforce the fire prevention and control activities of State and local governments. PURPOSES
15 USC 2202.
QEC. 3. I t is declared to be the purpose of Congress in this Act to— (1) reduce the Nation's losses caused by fire through better fire prevention and control; (2) supplement existing programs of research, training, and education, and to encourage new and improved programs and activities by State and local governments; (3) establish the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration and the Fire Research Center within the Department of Commerce; and (4) establish an intensified program of research into the treatment of burn and smoke injuries and the rehabilitation of victims of fires within the National Institutes of Health. DEFINITIONS
15 USC 2203.
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SEC. 4. As used in this Act, the term— (1) "Academy" means the National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control; (2) "Administration" means the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration established pursuant to section 5 of this Act; (3) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration; (4) "fire service" means any organization in any State consisting of personnel, apparatus, and equipment which has as its purpose protecting property and maintaining the safety and welfare of the public from the dangers of fire, including a private firefighting brigade. The personnel of any such organization may be paid employees or unpaid volunteers or any combination thereof. The location of any such organization and its responsibility for extinguishment and suppression of fires may include, but need not be limited to, a Federal installation, a State, city, town, borough, parish, county, fire district, fire protection district, rural fire district, or other special district. The terms "fire prevention", "firefighting", and "firecontrol" relate to activities conducted by a fire service; (5) "local" means of or pertaining to any city, town, county, special purpose district, unincorporated territory, or other political subdivision of a State; (6) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Commerce; and (7) "State" means any State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Kico, the Virgin Islands, the Canal Zone, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and any other territory or possession of the United States. ESTABLISHMENT or
THE NATIONAL FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ADMINISTRATION
15 USC 22 4.
g^^ g ^^^ ESTABLISHMENT OF ADMINISTRATION.—There is hereby established in the Department of Commerce an agency which shall be known as the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration, (b) ADMINISTRATOR.—There shall be at the head of the Administration the Administrator of the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration. The Administrator shall be appointed by the Presi-
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