[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5421 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5421

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to support the Federal Excess 
Personal Property program of the Forest Service by making it a priority 
 of the Department of Defense to transfer to the Forest Service excess 
personal property of the Department that is suitable to be loaned under 
                 the program to rural fire departments.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 19, 2002

  Mr. Ross (for himself, Mr. Berry, Mrs. Clayton, Mr. Wilson of South 
   Carolina, Mrs. Jones of Ohio, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. Oberstar, Mr. 
Boucher, Mr. Shows, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Turner, Mr. Skelton, 
  Mr. Goode, Mr. Etheridge, Mr. Carson of Oklahoma, Mr. Matheson, Mr. 
Israel, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Scott, Mr. John, Mr. Stenholm, Mr. Edwards, Mr. 
   Phelps, Mr. Sandlin, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mr. Boswell, Mr. 
Cramer, Mr. Lucas of Kentucky, and Mr. Snyder) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in 
     addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to support the Federal Excess 
Personal Property program of the Forest Service by making it a priority 
 of the Department of Defense to transfer to the Forest Service excess 
personal property of the Department that is suitable to be loaned under 
                 the program to rural fire departments.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rural Fire Department Equipment 
Priority Act of 2002''.

SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF EXCESS DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PERSONAL PROPERTY TO 
              SUPPORT FOREST SERVICE FEDERAL EXCESS PERSONAL PROPERTY 
              PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Section 2576b of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``Subject'' and 
        inserting ``Notwithstanding any other provision of law and 
        subject'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(d) Priority for Rural Firefighting Agencies.--(1) The Secretary 
of Defense shall enter into an agreement with the Secretary of 
Agriculture to use the existing property disposal program of the Forest 
Service, known as the Federal Excess Personal Property program, to 
facilitate the reutilization of Department of Defense personal property 
described in subsection (a) by firefighting agencies in rural areas.
    ``(2) The transfer of Department of Defense personal property 
described in subsection (a) to the Forest Service for reutilization by 
firefighting agencies in rural areas shall be afforded a property 
disposal priority at least equal to the priority given the military 
departments and other entities within the Department of Defense.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendments.--(1) The heading for such section is 
amended to read as follows:
``Sec. 2576b. Excess personal property: reutilization to assist 
              firefighting agencies''.
    (3) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 153 of such 
title is amended by striking the item relating to section 2576b and 
inserting the following new item:

``2576b. Excess personal property: reutilization to assist firefighting 
                            agencies.''.
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