[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR150.5]

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              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 
                                SECURITY
 
PART 150_PUBLIC SAFETY AWARDS TO PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  150.5  Joint Public Safety Awards Board.

    (a) A Joint Public Safety Awards Board (Joint Board) is hereby 
established to fulfill the responsibilities of the Director of FEMA and 
the Attorney General by administering the process of nomination for the 
President's Award and by participating in the selection process with the 
Executive Office of the President. The Joint Board shall consist of ten 
representatives who are Federal employees and are of appropriate rank 
(at or equivalent to grades GM-14 or above). Five persons shall be named 
by and represent the Director of FEMA, and five persons shall be named 
by and represent the Attorney General. The representatives serving on 
the Joint Board shall select one of their number to act as the 
chairperson.
    (b) Representatives on the Joint Board shall serve in addition to 
their regular duties and without additional compensation. Consistent 
with the requirements of this part, the members of the Joint Board shall 
establish the procedures by which the selections for the President's 
Award shall be made to assure the timely presentation of these awards.
    (c) A National Emergency Training Center employee shall act as 
Executive Secretary of the Joint Board. The Executive Secretary shall 
perform such functions as are appropriate to the Board's 
responsibilities, including the receipt of all nominations and the 
communication of nomination information, for the purpose of receiving 
comments thereon, from members of the public safety community pursuant 
to Sec.  150.5(e). The Executive Secretary shall be appointed by the 
Associate Director, Training and Fire Programs of FEMA.
    (d) The Joint Board shall review the nominations for the President's 
Award and shall recommend to the Director, FEMA, and the Attorney 
General by February 1 of each year, those nominees determined by it to 
merit consideration for the President's Award together with reasons 
therefor. The Director and the Attorney General shall then recommend to 
the President those nominees determined by them to merit the President's 
Award, together with the reasons therefor. Recommendations for 1983 
shall be submitted on or before March 29, 1985.
    (e) The Joint Board may request that persons representing a cross-
section of the national public safety community comment upon nominations 
made to the Board for the President's Award. Both the request for 
comments and the comments themselves shall be made in writing.

[49 FR 39845, Oct. 11, 1984, as amended at 50 FR 3350, Jan. 24, 1985]