FIRE PREVENTION

Bills and resolutions

Children and youth: provide that children's sleepwear be manufactured in accordance with stricter flammability standards (see H.R. 4523), H3820 [8JN]

CPSC: promulgate fire safety standards for cigarettes (see S. 2643), S8030 [13JY] (see H.R. 4155), H2152 [2AP]

Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act: reauthorize Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (see H.R. 4107), H2018 [1AP]

FEMA: make grants to fire departments for the acquisition of thermal imaging cameras (see H.R. 4643), H4765 [22JN]

Firefighters: require the temporary reinstatement of contracts for large air tankers that were cancelled by the Depts. of Agriculture and the Interior (see H.R. 4533), H3872 [9JN]

Healthy Forest Youth Conservation Corps: establish to permit young adults to perform projects to prevent fire and suppress fires, and provide disaster relief, on public lands (see S. 2253), S3294 [29MR] (see H.R. 4838), H5907 [15JY]

Medicare/Medicaid: require automatic fire sprinkler systems in all nursing facilities (see H.R. 4967), H6703 [22JY]

Safety: establish comprehensive fire safety standards for upholstered furniture, mattresses, bedclothing, and candles (see H.R. 4233), H2482 [28AP]

Smokey Bear's 60th Anniversary: designate (see S. Res. 404), S8030 [13JY]

Taxation: treatment of automatic fire sprinkler systems (see S. 2860), S9936 [29SE]

U.S. Fire Administration: provide assistance to firefighting task forces (see S. 3010), S11639 [19NO]

Letters

Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program funding: Philip C. Stittleburg, National Volunteer Fire Council, S9176 [14SE]

———Steve Edwards, Congressional Fire Services Institute, S9176 [14SE]

Healthy Forest Youth Conservation Corps Act: Representative Goodlatte, Committee on Agriculture (House), H7676 [28SE]

———Representative Pombo, Committee on Resources (House), H7676 [28SE]

Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Firefighters Program funding: Harold A. Schaitberger, International Association of Fire Fighters, S9169 [14SE]

———Philip C. Stittleburg, National Volunteer Fire Council, S9183 [14SE]

———Robert A. DiPoli, International Association of Fire Chiefs, S9169 [14SE]

Remarks in House

Building Safety Week: observance, E530 [2AP]

CPSC: promulgate fire safety standards for cigarettes (H.R. 4155), E534 [2AP]

Dept. of Homeland Security: Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Firefighters Program funding, H4478-H4480 [17JN], H9173 [9OC]

Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act: reauthorize Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (H.R. 4107), H2924 [13MY]

Forests: establish institutes to demonstrate and promote use of adaptive ecosystem management to reduce the risk of wildfires, and restore the health of fire-adapted forest and woodland ecosystems of the interior West (H.R. 2696), H523-H526 [24FE]

Healthy Forest Youth Conservation Corps: establish to permit young adults to perform projects to prevent fire and suppress fires, and provide disaster relief, on public lands (H.R. 4838), H7675-H7677 [28SE]

Healthy Forests Restoration Act: funding, H4229 [16JN]

Medicare/Medicaid: require automatic fire sprinkler systems in all nursing facilities (H.R. 4967), E1495 [22JY]

Moffat County, CO: tribute to Wildland Fire and Fuel Management Plan, E580 [21AP]

Plaugher, Edward: Fire Chief (publication) Career Fire Chief of the Year award recipient, E1562 [8SE]

Public lands: improve capacity to plan and conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects and enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health (H.R. 1904), conference report, H2345 [22AP]

———improve capacity to plan and conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects and enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health funding, H4209, H4210 [16JN]

———wildfire prevention and management funding, H2992 [13MY]

Remarks in Senate

California: prevent implementation of air emission requirements for small engines that would require the addition of devices that are potential fire hazards to such engines, S146 [22JA]

CPSC: promulgate fire safety standards for cigarettes (S. 2643), S8034 [13JY]

Dept. of Homeland Security: Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program funding, S9108 [13SE], S9176, S9177 [14SE]

———Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Firefighters Program funding, S9167-S9171, S9183 [14SE]

Forest Service: hazardous fuels reduction activities funding, S2430 [9MR], S5039 [7MY], S8649 [22JY]

Forests: establish institutes to demonstrate and promote use of adaptive ecosystem management to reduce the risk of wildfires, and restore the health of fire-adapted forest and woodland ecosystems of the interior West (H.R. 2696), S9326 [15SE]

Healthy Forest Youth Conservation Corps: establish to permit young adults to perform projects to prevent fire and suppress fires, and provide disaster relief, on public lands (S. 2253), S3297 [29MR]

King Range National Conservation Area: private property access and fire suppression flexibility, S11794, S11795 [20NO]

National Fire Protection Association: anniversary of National Electrical Code, S6342 [2JN]

Pontius, Arthur J.: Congressional Fire Services Caucus Certificate of Award recipient, S1275 [12FE]

Public lands: improve capacity to plan and conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects and enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health (H.R. 1904), conference report, S5039 [7MY]

———wildfire prevention and management, S7743 [7JY]

———wildfire prevention and management funding, S146, S147 [22JA]

Safety: establish comprehensive fire safety standards for upholstered furniture, mattresses, bedclothing, and candles (S. 1798), S1267 [12FE]

Smokey Bear: anniversary, S4683 [29AP]

Smokey Bear's 60th Anniversary: designate (S. Res. 404), S8803 [22JY]

Taxation: treatment of automatic fire sprinkler systems (S. 2860), S9940 [29SE]

Worcester Polytechnic Institute: anniversary of Center for Firesafety Studies, S2857 [22MR]

Reports filed

American Home Fire Safety Act: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 1798), S11377 [16NO]

Smokey Bear's 60th Anniversary: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. Res. 404), S8473 [20JY]

Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention Act: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (Senate) (H.R. 2696) (S. Rept. 108-252), S3294 [29MR]

Statements

Cigarette Fire Safety Act: Philip C. Stittleburg, National Volunteer Fire Council, E892 [18MY]

Texts of

H.R. 2696, Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention Act, H523-H525 [24FE]

H.R. 4838, Healthy Forest Youth Conservation Corps Act, H7675 [28SE]

S. Res. 404, Smokey Bear's 60th Anniversary, S8050 [13JY], S8803 [22JY]