[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4765 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4765

  To provide first responders with planning, training, and equipment 
 capabilities for crude oil-by-rail and ethanol-by-rail derailment and 
               incident response, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 16, 2016

 Ms. Herrera Beutler introduced the following bill; which was referred 
           to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide first responders with planning, training, and equipment 
 capabilities for crude oil-by-rail and ethanol-by-rail derailment and 
               incident response, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Fire Department Proper Response and 
Equipment Prioritization Act''.

SEC. 2. SUPPORT FOR FIREFIGHTERS FOR CRUDE OIL-BY-RAIL AND ETHANOL-BY-
              RAIL DERAILMENT AND INCIDENT RESPONSE.

    Section 33(c) of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 
1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph:
            ``(4) Priority.--The Administrator of FEMA shall, in 
        carrying out this section, give high priority consideration to 
        grants providing for planning, training, and equipment to 
        firefighters for crude oil-by-rail and ethanol-by-rail 
        derailment and incident response.''.
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