An amendment numbered 5 printed in part B of House Report 109-84 to authorize not more than $5 million in grants for the National Medical Preparedness Consortium to standardize training, national health care policies, and standards of care for emergency medical professionals to prepare for mass casualties resulting from a terrorist event involving WMD.

1. Adds SEC. 310. NATIONAL MEDICAL PREPAREDNESS CONSORTIUM on page 50, line 17

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   Inserted: SEC. 310. NATIONAL MEDICAL PREPAREDNESS CONSORTIUM.

   Inserted: (a) In General.--The Secretary of Homeland Security shall make grants for the National Medical Preparedness Consortium to train emergency medical professionals to prepare for the mass casualties that would be caused by a terrorist event involving weapons of mass destruction.

   Inserted: (b) Description of Consortium.--The Consortium referred to in subsection (a) is a consortium of institutions that--

   Inserted: (1) have existing facilities and experience in emergency medical training;

   Inserted: (2) have worked together for over 10 years on disaster medical training and mass casualty management;

   Inserted: (3) in 2004, established a national standard, known as the National Disaster Life Support curricula, for the medical treatment of mass casualties from terrorist events involving weapons of mass destruction; and

   Inserted: (4) have worked to implement throughout the United States training programs for medical professionals that use such standard.

   Inserted: (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--For the purpose of making grants under subsection (a), there is authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2006.

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