[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 42CFR38.2]



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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH

 

    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 

                                SERVICES

 

PART 38_DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR CRISIS COUNSELING AND TRAINING--Table of 

Contents

 

Sec. 38.2  Definitions.



    All terms not defined herein shall have the same meaning as given 

them in the Act. As used in this part:

    (a) Act means the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5121, et 

seq.).

    (b) Administrator means the Administrator, Federal Disaster 

Assistance Administration (FDAA), Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, and any other person to whom he delegates the authority.

    (c) Contractor means any public agency or private mental health 

organization which, pursuant to this part, contracts with the Secretary 

to provide professional mental health crisis counseling services or to 

provide mental health training for disaster workers.

    (d) Crisis means the existence of any life situation resulting from 

a major disaster or its aftermath which so effects the emotional and 

mental equilibrium of a disaster victim that professional mental health 

counseling services should be provided to help preclude possible 

damaging physical or psychological effects.

    (e) Disaster workers means mental health specialists such as 

psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, social workers, or 

qualified agents thereof.

    (f) Federal Coordinating Officer means the person appointed by the 

Administrator to coordinate Federal assistance in a major disaster.

    (g) Governor means the chief executive of a State.

    (h) Grantee means any public agency or private nonprofit mental 

health organization which, pursuant to this part, is awarded a grant for 

the purpose of providing professional mental health crisis counseling 

services or mental health training for disaster workers.

    (i) Major disaster means any hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high-

water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic 

eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, drought, fire, explosion, or 

other catastrophe in any part of the United States which, in the 

determination of the President, causes damage of sufficient severity and 

magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance under the Act above and 

beyond emergency services by the Federal Government, to supplement the 

efforts and available resources of the States, local governments, and 

disaster relief organizations, in alleviating the damage, loss, 

hardship, or suffering caused thereby.

    (j) Regional Director means a director of a regional office of the 

Federal Disaster Assistance Administration (FDAA).

    (k) Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and 

any other officer or employee of the Department of Health and Human 

Services to whom the authority involved has been delegated.

    (l) State means any of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, 

Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Canal Zone, 

or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

    (m) State Coordinating Officer means the person appointed by the 

Governor to act in cooperation with the appointed Federal Coordinating 

Officer.

    (n) Training means the specific instruction which may be required to 

enable disaster workers to provide professional mental health crisis 

counseling to victims of a major disaster or its aftermath.