[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 641 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 641

 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 of Defense that is suitable to be 
                   loaned to rural fire departments.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 18, 2003

 Mrs. Lincoln (for herself, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Miller) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                             Armed Services

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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 of Defense that is suitable to be 
                   loaned 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 2003''.

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):
    ``(d) Priority for Rural Firefighting Agencies.--(1) The Secretary 
of Defense and the Secretary of Agriculture shall enter into an 
agreement to use the authority under section 524 of title 40 to 
transfer to the Forest Service property described in subsection (a) for 
reutilization of that property by firefighting agencies in rural areas.
    ``(2) The priority given under the agreement to a transfer of 
Department of Defense excess personal property to the Forest Service 
for reutilization by firefighting agencies in rural areas shall be at 
least equal to the priority given to transferring such property to 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''.
    (2) The item relating to such section in the table of sections at 
the beginning of chapter 153 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended to read as follows:

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