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15 U.S.C. § 2204 — United States Fire Administration
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**(a) Establishment** There is hereby established in the Department of Commerce an agency which shall be known as the United States Fire Administration.
**(b) Administrator** There shall be at the head of the Administration the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration. The Administrator shall be appointed by the President and shall be compensated at the rate now or hereafter provided for level IV of the Executive Schedule pay rates ([5 U.S.C. 5315](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5315&num=0&edition=prelim)). The Administrator shall report and be responsible to the Administrator of FEMA.
**(c) Deputy Administrator** The Administrator may appoint a Deputy Administrator, who shall—
(1) perform such functions as the Administrator shall from time to time assign or delegate; and
(2) act as Administrator during the absence or disability of the Administrator or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Administrator.
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**(a) Establishment** There is hereby established in the Department of Commerce an agency which shall be known as the United States Fire Administration.
**(b) Administrator** There shall be at the head of the Administration the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration. The Administrator shall be appointed by the President and shall be compensated at the rate now or hereafter provided for level IV of the Executive Schedule pay rates ([5 U.S.C. 5315](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5315&num=0&edition=prelim)). The Administrator shall report and be responsible to the Administrator of FEMA.
**(c) Deputy Administrator** The Administrator may appoint a Deputy Administrator, who shall—
(1) perform such functions as the Administrator shall from time to time assign or delegate; and
(2) act as Administrator during the absence or disability of the Administrator or in the event of a vacancy in the office of Administrator.
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Level V of the Executive Schedule applies to the following positions, for which the annual rate of basic pay shall be the rate determined with respect to such level under chapter 11 of title 2, as adjusted by [section 5318 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5318&num=0&edition=prelim):
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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.
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(1) **Sense of Congress** — It is the sense of Congress that the Federal air marshal program is critical to aviation security.
(2) **Limitation on statutory construction** — Nothing in this chapter, including any amendment made by this chapter, shall be construed as preventing the Under Secretary of Transportation for Security from implementing and training Federal air marshals.
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Level IV of the Executive Schedule applies to the following positions, for which the annual rate of basic pay shall be the rate determined with respect to such level under chapter 11 of title 2, as adjusted by [section 5318 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5318&num=0&edition=prelim):
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Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any report, notification, or consultation addressing directly or indirectly the use of appropriated funds and stipulated by this chapter to be submitted to, or held with, the Congress or any Congressional committee shall also be submitted to, or held with, the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives under the same conditions and with the same restrictions as stipulated by this chapter.
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The Congress finds that—
(1) The National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control, established pursuant to Public Law 90–259, has made an exhaustive and comprehensive examination of the Nation’s fire problem, has made detailed findings as to the extent of this problem in terms of human suffering and loss of life and property, and has made ninety thoughtful recommendations.
(2) The United States today has the highest per capita rate of death and property loss from fire of all the major industrialized nations in the world.
(3) Fire is an undue burden affecting all Americans, and fire also constitutes a public health and safety problem of great dimensions. Fire kills 12,000 and scars and injures 300,000 Americans each year, including 50,000 individuals who require extended hospitalization. Almost $3 billion worth of property is destroyed annually by fire, and the total economic cost of destructive fire in the United States is estimated conservatively to be $11,000,000,000 per year. Firefighting is the Nation’s most hazardous profession.
(4) Such losses of life and property from fire are unacceptable to the Congress.
(5) While fire prevention and control is and should remain a State and local responsibility, the Federal Government must help if a significant reduction in fire losses is to be achieved.
(6) The fire service and the civil defense program in each locality would both benefit from closer cooperation.
(7) The Nation’s fire problem is exacerbated by (A) the indifference with which some Americans confront the subject; (B) the Nation’s failure to undertake enough research and development into fire and fire-related problems; (C) the scarcity of reliable data and information; (D) the fact that designers and purchasers of buildings and products generally give in
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section, Pub. L. 107–296, title XI, § 1115, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2280, which related to a Personnel Management Demonstration Project, was transferred to [section 599B of Title 28](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section599B&num=0&edition=prelim), Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, by Pub. L. 109–162, title XI, § 1187(b), (c)(2), Jan. 5, 2006, 119 Stat. 3127, 3128.
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As used in this chapter, the term—
(1) “Academy” means the National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control;
(2) “Administration” means the United States Fire Administration established pursuant to [section 2204 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section2204&num=0&edition=prelim);
(3) “Administrator” means, except as otherwise provided, the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration, within the Federal Emergency Management Agency;
(4) “Administrator of FEMA” means the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency;
(5) “fire service” means any organization in any State consisting of personnel, apparatus, and equipment which has as its purpose protecting property and maintaining the safety and welfare of the public from the dangers of fire, including a private firefighting brigade. The personnel of any such organization may be paid employees or unpaid volunteers or any combination thereof. The location of any such organization and its responsibility for extinguishment and suppression of fires may include, but need not be limited to, a Federal installation, a State, city, town, borough, parish, county, Indian tribe, fire district, fire protection district, rural fire district, or other special district. The terms “fire prevention”, “firefighting”, and “fire control” relate to activities conducted by a fire service;
(6) “Indian tribe” has the meaning given that term in [section 5304 of title 25](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title25-section5304&num=0&edition=prelim) and “tribal” means of or pertaining to an Indian tribe;
(7) “local” means of or pertaining to any city, town, county, special purpose district, unincorporated territory, or other political subdivision of
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 2204
Par. (5). Pub. L. 112–239, § 1802(a)(3), inserted ‘‘Indian
tribe,’’ after ‘‘county,’’ and substituted ‘‘and ‘fire con-
trol’ ’’ for ‘‘and ‘firecontrol’ ’’.
Pars. (6) to (8). Pub. L. 112–239, § 1802(a)(4), (5), added
par. (6) and redesignated former pars. (6) and (7) as (7)
and (8), respectively. Former par. (8) redesignated (9).
Par. (9). Pub. L. 112–239, § 1802(a)(6), (7), added par. (9)
and redesignated former par. (9) as (10). Former par. (10)
redesignated (11).
Pub. L. 112–239, § 1802(a)(4), redesignated par. (8) as (9).
Former par. (9) redesignated (10).
Par. (10). Pub. L. 112–239, § 1802(a)(8), amended par. (10)
generally. Prior to amendment, par. (10) defined the
term ‘‘State’’.
Pub. L. 112–239, § 1802(a)(6), redesignated par. (9) as
(10). Former par. (10) redesignated (11).
Pub. L. 112–239, § 1802(a)(4), redesignated par. (9) as
(10).
Par. (11). Pub. L. 112–239, § 1802(a)(6), redesignated par.
(10) as (11).
2008—Par. (3). Pub. L. 110–376, § 10(1), substituted ‘‘Ad-
ministration, within the Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency’’ for ‘‘Administration’’.
Par. (9). Pub. L. 110–376, § 10(2)–(4), added par. (9).
2000—Pars. (7) to (9). Pub. L. 106–503 inserted ‘‘and’’
after semicolon in par. (7), redesignated par. (9) as (8),
and struck out former par. (8) which read as follows:
‘‘ ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of Commerce; and’’.
1990—Pars. (4) to (9). Pub. L. 101–391 added pars. (4)
and (7) and redesignated former pars. (4), (5), (6), and (7)
as (5), (6), (8), and (9), respectively.
1978—Pars. (2), (3). Pub. L. 95–422 substituted ‘‘United
States Fire Administration’’ for ‘‘National Fire Pre-
vention and Control Administration’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
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TITLE 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
§ 5315
rates of pay set out as a note under section 5332 of this
title.
For prior year salary increases per the recommenda-
tion of the President, see Prior Salary Recommenda-
tions notes under section 358 of Title 2, The Congress.
For miscellaneous provisions dealing with adjust-
ments of pay and limitations on use of funds to pay sal-
aries in prior years, see notes under section 5318 of this
title.
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Office of Emergency Preparedness, including offices
of Director, Deputy Director, Assistant Directors, and
Regional Directors, abolished and functions vested by
law in Office of Emergency Preparedness or Director of
Office of Emergency Preparedness transferred to Presi-
dent by sections 1 and 3(a)(1) of 1973 Reorg. Plan No. 1,
effective July 1, 1973, set out in the Appendix to this
title.
§ 5315. Positions at level IV
Level IV of the Executive Schedule applies to
the following positions, for which the annual
rate of basic pay shall be the rate determined
with respect to such level under chapter 11 of
title 2, as adjusted by section 5318 of this title:
Deputy Administrator of General Services.
Associate Administrator of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Assistant Administrators, Agency for Inter-
national Development (6).
Regional Assistant Administrators, Agency
for International Development (4).
Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture (3).
Assistant Secretaries of Commerce (11).
Assistant Secretaries of Defense (19).
Assistant Secretaries of the Air Force (5).
Assistant Secretaries of the Army (5).
Assistant Secretaries of the Navy (4).
Assistant Secretaries of Health and Human
Services (6).
Assistant Secretaries of the Interior (
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