A bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to direct the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to conduct a study to determine the resources that are needed for development of an effective nationwide communications system for emergency response personnel.

Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to require the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to conduct and report to specified congressional committees on a study to determine the resources needed for development of an effective nationwide communications system for emergency response personnel, which shall include a review of the use of the digital or analog spectrum as a key component to meeting the urgent communications needs of such personnel.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
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[S. 1631 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1631

     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
    Assistance Act to direct the Director of the Federal Emergency 
 Management Agency to conduct a study to determine the resources that 
 are needed for development of an effective nationwide communications 
                system for emergency response personnel.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 5, 2001

    Mr. Jeffords (for himself, Mr. Smith of New Hampshire, and Mrs. 
   Clinton) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
    Assistance Act to direct the Director of the Federal Emergency 
 Management Agency to conduct a study to determine the resources that 
 are needed for development of an effective nationwide communications 
                system for emergency response personnel.

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

SECTION 1. STUDY OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM.

    Title VII of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5201 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:

``SEC. 706. STUDY OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM.

    ``(a) In General.--The Director shall conduct a study to determine 
the resources that are needed for development of an effective 
nationwide communications system for emergency response personnel.
    ``(b) Report.--Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this section, the Director shall submit to the Committee on 
Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives a 
report on the study.''.
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