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[CITE: 42USC5187]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 68--DISASTER RELIEF
 
            SUBCHAPTER IV--MAJOR DISASTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
 
Sec. 5187. Fire suppression grants

    The President is authorized to provide assistance, including grants, 
equipment, supplies, and personnel, to any State for the suppression of 
any fire on publicly or privately owned forest or grassland which 
threatens such destruction as would constitute a major disaster.

(Pub. L. 93-288, title IV, Sec. 420, formerly Sec. 417, May 22, 1974, 88 
Stat. 158; renumbered Sec. 420, Pub. L. 100-707, title I, Sec. 106(j), 
Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4705.)
