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[CITE: 42USC290a]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
                       Part H--General Provisions
 
Sec. 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 Secretary 
of Commerce, 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

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

(Pub. L. 93-498, Sec. 19, Oct. 29, 1974, 88 Stat. 1547; Pub. L. 96-88, 
title V, Sec. 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)

                          Codification

    In subsec. (a), ``Secretary of Commerce'' substituted for 
``Secretary'' pursuant to section 4(6) of the Federal Fire Prevention 
and Control Act of 1974, Pub. L. 93-498, which is classified to section 
2203(6) of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
    Section was enacted as part of the Federal Fire Prevention and 
Control Act of 1974 (which is classified principally to chapter 49 
(Sec. 2201 et seq.) of Title 15), and not as a part of the Public Health 
Service Act which comprises this chapter.

                         Change of Name

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