42 U.S.C. § 290a | Victims of fire

(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

June 30, 1975June 30, 1976For purposes of this section, there are authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending and not to exceed $8,000,000 for the fiscal year ending .

Pub. L. 93–498, § 19Oct. 29, 197488 Stat. 1547 Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b)Oct. 17, 197993 Stat. 695 Pub. L. 106–503, title I, § 110(a)(2)(B)(vii)Nov. 13, 2000114 Stat. 2302 Pub. L. 112–239, div. A, title XVIII, § 1802(b)(1)Jan. 2, 2013126 Stat. 2100 (, , ; , , ; , , ; , , .)

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

Pub. L. 112–2392013—Subsec. (a). substituted “Administrator of FEMA” for “Director” in introductory provisions.

Pub. L. 106–5032000—Subsec. (a). substituted “in cooperation with the Director” for “in cooperation with the Secretary”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

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

Transfer of Functions

section 315(a)(1) of Title 6For 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 , Domestic Security.

November 25, 2002section 542 of Title 6For 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 sections 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of , as modified, set out as a note under .

Definitions

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