Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/2207?qt-us_code_tabs=2
Timestamp: 2015-05-22 20:44:27
Document Index: 231287128

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 8', '§ 202', '§ 6', '§ 9', '§ 6', '§ 6']

Limitation on manufacture and sale of equipment The Administration shall not engage in the manufacture or sale of any equipment or device developed pursuant to this section, except to the extent that it deems it necessary to adequately develop, test, or evaluate such equipment or device.
Rural and wildland-urban interface assistance The Administrator may, in coordination with the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Wildland Fire Leadership Council, assist the fire services of the United States, directly or through contracts, grants, or other forms of assistance, in sponsoring and encouraging research into approaches, techniques, systems, equipment, and land-use policies to improve fire prevention and control in—
Assistance to other Federal agencies At the request of other Federal agencies, including the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior, the Administrator may provide assistance in fire prevention and control technologies, including methods of containing insect-infested forest fires and limiting dispersal of resultant fire particle smoke, and methods of measuring and tracking the dispersal of fine particle smoke resulting from fires of insect-infested fuel.
Technology evaluation and standards development (1)
In general In addition to, or as part of, the program conducted under subsection (a) of this section, the Administrator, in consultation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Inter-Agency Board for Equipment Standardization and Inter-Operability, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Directorate of Science and Technology of the Department of Homeland Security, national voluntary consensus standards development organizations, interested Federal, State, and local agencies, and other interested parties, shall—
develop new, and utilize existing, measurement techniques and testing methodologies for evaluating new firefighting technologies, including—
Standards for new equipment (A)
In making a determination whether or not to waive the requirement under subparagraph (A) with respect to a specific standard, the Administrator shall, to the greatest extent practicable—
Coordination In establishing and conducting programs under this section, the Administrator shall take full advantage of applicable technological developments made by other departments and agencies of the Federal Government, by State and local governments, and by business, industry, and nonprofit associations.
Publication of research results (1)
In general For each fire-related research program funded by the Administration, the Administrator shall make available to the public on the Internet website of the Administration the following:
Deadlines (A)
In general Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the information required by paragraph (1) shall be published with respect to a research program as follows:
Exception No information shall be required to be published under this subsection before the date that is 1 year after October 8, 2008.
(Pub. L. 93–498, § 8,Oct. 29, 1974, 88 Stat. 1540; Pub. L. 108–169, title II, § 202,Dec. 6, 2003, 117 Stat. 2037; Pub. L. 110–376, §§ 6, 9
(b),Oct. 8, 2008, 122 Stat. 4059, 4061.)
2008—Subsec. (c)(2) to (5). Pub. L. 110–376, § 9(b), added par. (2) and redesignated former pars. (2) to (4) as (3) to (5), respectively.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 110–376, § 6(a), amended subsec. (d) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Administrator is authorized to assist the Nation’s fire services, directly or through contracts, grants, or other forms of assistance, to sponsor and encourage research into approaches, techniques, systems, and equipment to improve fire prevention and control in the rural and remote areas of the Nation.”
Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 110–376, § 6(b), added subsec. (h).
2003—Subsecs. (e) to (g). Pub. L. 108–169added subsecs. (e) and (f) and redesignated former subsec. (e) as (g).