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PUBLIC LAW 93-498-OCT. 29, 1974
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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. F I R E SAFETY EFFECTIVE N E S S
15 USC 2212.
g^c. 13. 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. ANNUAL
15 USC 2213.
STATEMENTS
CONFERENCE
SEC. 14. 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. P U B L I C SAFETY AWARDS
15 USC 2214.
g^Q 15^ (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There are hereby established two classes of honorary awards for the recognition of outstanding and distinguished service by public safety officers— (1) the President's Award For Outstanding Public Safety Service ("President's Award"); and (2) the Secretary's Award For Distinguished Public Safety Service ("Secretary's Award"). (b) DESCRIPTION.— (1) The President's Award shall be presented by the President of the United States to public safety officers for extraordinary valor in the line of duty or for outstanding contribution to public safety. (2) The Secretary's Award shall be presented by the Secretary, the Secretary of Defense, or by the Attorney General to public safety officers for distinguished service in the field of public safety. (c) SELECTION.—The Secretary, the Secretary of Defense, and the Attorney General shall advise and assist the President in the selection of individuals to whom the President's Award shall be tendered and in the course of performing such duties they shall seek and review nominations for such awards which are submitted to them by Federal, State, county, and local government officials. They shall annually transmit to the President the names of those individuals determined by them to merit the award, together with the reasons therefor. Recipients of the President's Award shall be selected by the President. (d) LIMITATION.—(1) There shall not be presented in any one calendar year in excess of twelve President's Awards. (2) There shall be no limitation on the number of Secretary's Awards presented. (e) AWARD.— (1) Each President's Award shall consist of— (A) a medal suitably inscribed, bearing such devices and emblems, and struck from such material as the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary, the Secretary of Defense, and the Attorney General deems appropriate. The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the medal to be struck and furnished to the President; and (B) an appropriate citation.
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