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42 U.S.C. § 15701 — Findings
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The Congress finds the following:
(1) Hurricanes, tropical storms, tornadoes, and thunderstorms can cause significant loss of life, injury, destruction of property, and economic and social disruption. All States and regions are vulnerable to these hazards.
(2) The United States currently sustains several billion dollars in economic damages each year due to these windstorms. In recent decades, rapid development and population growth in high-risk areas has greatly increased overall vulnerability to windstorms.
(3) Improved windstorm impact reduction measures have the potential to reduce these losses through—
(A) cost-effective and affordable design and construction methods and practices;
(B) effective mitigation programs at the local, State, and national level;
(C) improved data collection and analysis and impact prediction methodologies;
(D) engineering research on improving new structures and retrofitting existing ones to better withstand windstorms, atmospheric-related research to better understand the behavior and impact of windstorms on the built environment, and subsequent application of those research results; and
(E) public education and outreach.
(4) There is an appropriate role for the Federal Government in supporting windstorm impact reduction. An effective Federal program in windstorm impact reduction will require interagency coordination, and input from individuals, academia, the private sector, and other interested non-Federal entities.
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The Congress finds the following:
(1) Hurricanes, tropical storms, tornadoes, and thunderstorms can cause significant loss of life, injury, destruction of property, and economic and social disruption. All States and regions are vulnerable to these hazards.
(2) The United States currently sustains several billion dollars in economic damages each year due to these windstorms. In recent decades, rapid development and population growth in high-risk areas has greatly increased overall vulnerability to windstorms.
(3) Improved windstorm impact reduction measures have the potential to reduce these losses through—
(A) cost-effective and affordable design and construction methods and practices;
(B) effective mitigation programs at the local, State, and national level;
(C) improved data collection and analysis and impact prediction methodologies;
(D) engineering research on improving new structures and retrofitting existing ones to better withstand windstorms, atmospheric-related research to better understand the behavior and impact of windstorms on the built environment, and subsequent application of those research results; and
(E) public education and outreach.
(4) There is an appropriate role for the Federal Government in supporting windstorm impact reduction. An effective Federal program in windstorm impact reduction will require interagency coordination, and input from individuals, academia, the private sector, and other interested non-Federal entities.
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**(a)** By January 30 of each odd-numbered year, the Director shall simultaneously transmit a report to the Congress, the Attorney General, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Education, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
**(b)** The report required by subsection (a) shall contain—
(1) an accounting and comparison, by sex, race, and ethnic group and by discipline, of the participation of women and men in scientific and engineering positions, including—
(A) the number of individuals in permanent and temporary and in full-time and part-time scientific and engineering positions by appropriate level or similar category;
(B) the average salary of individuals in such scientific and engineering positions;
(C) the number and type of promotional opportunities realized by individuals in such scientific and engineering positions;
(D) the number of individuals serving as principal investigators in federally conducted or federally supported research and development; and
(E) the unemployment rate of individuals seeking scientific and engineering positions;
(2) an assessment, including quantitative and other data, of the proportion of women and minorities studying scientific and engineering fields, including mathematics and computer skills, at all educational levels; and
(3) such other data, analyses, and evaluations as the Director, acting on the advice of the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering, determines appropriate to carry out the Foundation’s functions as well as the policies and programs of sections 1885 to 1885d of this title.
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In this chapter:
(1) **Director** — The term “Director” means the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
(2) **Lifelines** — The term “lifelines” means public works and utilities, including transportation facilities and infrastructure, oil and gas pipelines, electrical power and communication facilities and infrastructure, and water supply and sewage treatment facilities.
(3) **Program** — The term “Program” means the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program established by [section 15703(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section15703/a&num=0&edition=prelim).
(4) **State** — The term “State” means each of the States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States.
(5) **Windstorm** — The term “windstorm” means any storm with a damaging or destructive wind component, such as a hurricane, tropical storm, northeaster, tornado, or thunderstorm.
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**(a) Establishment** There is established the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program, the purpose of which is to achieve major measurable reductions in the losses of life and property from windstorms through a coordinated Federal effort, in cooperation with other levels of government, academia, and the private sector, aimed at improving the understanding of windstorms and their impacts and developing and encouraging the implementation of cost-effective mitigation measures to reduce those impacts.
**(b) Responsibilities of Program agencies**
(1) **Lead agency** — The National Institute of Standards and Technology shall have the primary responsibility for planning and coordinating the Program. In carrying out this paragraph, the Director shall—
(A) ensure that the Program includes the necessary components to promote the implementation of windstorm risk reduction measures by Federal, State, and local governments, national standards and model building code organizations, architects and engineers, and others with a role in planning and constructing buildings and lifelines;
(B) support the development of performance-based engineering tools, and work with appropriate groups to promote the commercial application of such tools, including through wind-related model building codes, voluntary standards, and construction best practices;
(C) request the assistance of Federal agencies other than the Program agencies, as necessary to assist in carrying out this chapter;
(D) coordinate all Federal post-windstorm investigations to the extent practicable; and
(E) when warranted by research or investigative findings, issue recommendations to assist in informing the development of model codes, and provide information to Congress on the use of such recommendations.
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Nothing in this chapter supersedes any provision of the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 [[42 U.S.C. 5401](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5401&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]. No design, construction method, practice, technology, material, mitigation methodology, or hazard reduction measure of any kind developed under this chapter shall be required for a home certified under section 616 of the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 ([42 U.S.C. 5415](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5415&num=0&edition=prelim)), pursuant to standards issued under such Act, without being subject to the consensus development process and rulemaking procedures of that Act.
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**(a) Federal Emergency Management Agency** There are authorized to be appropriated to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for carrying out this chapter—
(1) $5,332,000 for fiscal year 2015;
(2) $5,332,000 for fiscal year 2016; and
(3) $5,332,000 for fiscal year 2017.
**(b) National Science Foundation** There are authorized to be appropriated to the National Science Foundation for carrying out this chapter—
(1) $9,682,000 for fiscal year 2015;
(2) $9,682,000 for fiscal year 2016; and
(3) $9,682,000 for fiscal year 2017.
**(c) National Institute of Standards and Technology** There are authorized to be appropriated to the National Institute of Standards and Technology for carrying out this chapter—
(1) $4,120,000 for fiscal year 2015;
(2) $4,120,000 for fiscal year 2016; and
(3) $4,120,000 for fiscal year 2017.
**(d) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration** There are authorized to be appropriated to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for carrying out this chapter—
(1) $2,266,000 for fiscal year 2015;
(2) $2,266,000 for fiscal year 2016; and
(3) $2,266,000 for fiscal year 2017.
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The Secretary of Commerce, the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the heads of other Federal departments and agencies carrying out activities under this chapter and the statutes amended by this chapter shall work together to ensure that research, technologies, and response techniques are shared among the programs authorized in this chapter in order to coordinate the Nation’s efforts to reduce vulnerability to the hazards described in this chapter.
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 15604
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CODIFICATION
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30304 of Title 34, Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
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30305 of Title 34, Crime Control and Law Enforcement.
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CHAPTER 148—WINDSTORM IMPACT
REDUCTION
Sec.
15701.
Findings.
15702.
Definitions.
15703.
National Windstorm Impact Reduction Pro-
gram.
15704.
National Advisory Committee on Windstorm
Impact Reduction.
15705.
Savings clause.
15706.
Authorization of appropriations.
15707.
Coordination.
§ 15701. Findings
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Hurricanes, tropical storms, tornadoes,
and thunderstorms can cause significant loss
of life, injury, destruction of property, and
economic and social disruption. All States and
regions are vulnerable to these hazards.
(2) The United States currently sustains sev-
eral billion dollars in economic damages each
year due to these windstorms. In recent dec-
ades,
rapid
development
and
population
growt
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