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[CITE: 15USC2202]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                 CHAPTER 49--FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 
Sec. 2202. Declaration of purpose

    It is declared to be the purpose of Congress in this chapter 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 United States Fire 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.

(Pub. L. 93-498, Sec. 3, Oct. 29, 1974, 88 Stat. 1536; Pub. L. 95-422, 
Sec. 2(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1978, 92 Stat. 932.)


                               Amendments

    1978--Par. (3). Pub. L. 95-422 substituted ``United States Fire 
Administration'' for ``National Fire Prevention and Control 
Administration''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    The National Fire Prevention and Control Administration [now United 
States Fire Administration] and the National Academy for Fire Prevention 
and Control and the positions of Administrator of the Administration and 
Superintendent of the Academy were transferred to an independent agency 
in the Executive Branch, to be known as the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, and all functions vested in the Secretary of Commerce, the 
Administrator and Deputy Administrator of the National Fire Prevention 
and Control Administration, and the Superintendent of the National 
Academy for Fire Prevention and Control pursuant to the provisions of 
this chapter, with the exception of those functions under sections 2220 
and 2221 of this title which remain vested in the Administrator of the 
United States Fire Administration, were transferred to the Director of 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 
1978, Secs. 201, 301, June 19, 1978, 43 F.R. 41944, 92 Stat. 3788, set 
out as a note under section 2201 of this title, effective Apr. 1, 1979, 
pursuant to Ex. Ord. No. 12127, Secs. 1-101, 1-103(a), Mar. 31, 1979, 44 
F.R. 19367.
