[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1820 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1820

   To enhance authorities relating to emergency preparedness grants.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 13, 2001

 Mr. Cleland (for himself, Mr. Rockefeller, and Mr. Wyden) introduced 
the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 
                on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
   To enhance authorities relating to emergency preparedness grants.

    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 ``Heroic Emergency Response Operations 
Act'' or ``HERO Act''.

SEC. 2. ENHANCEMENT OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GRANTS.

    (a) Security Training for Transportation of Hazardous Material.--
Subsection (i) of section 5116 of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) to develop minimum national standards for, and to 
        develop and conduct, security training relating to the 
        transportation of hazardous material in commerce, except that 
        not more than 5 percent of the amount in the account available 
        in any fiscal year may be used for activities under this 
        paragraph.''.
    (b) Amount Available for Supplemental Training Grants.--Subsection 
(j) of that section is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(6) The amount made available each fiscal year from the 
        account under subsection (i)(1) for grants under this 
        subsection shall be $1,000,000.''.
    (c) Availability of Funds Generally.--Notwithstanding any 
limitation in section 5127 of title 49, United States Code, or in any 
appropriations Act (including any appropriations Act enacted after the 
date of the enactment of this Act), all fees collected pursuant to 
section 5108 of that title, including any fees collected before the 
date of the enactment of this Act that remain available for obligation, 
shall be available for obligation, without further appropriation in 
accordance with section 5116(i) of that title, as amended by subsection 
(a).
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