Crs Report for Congress Received through the Crs Web Fiscal Year 2005 Homeland Security Grant Program : State Allocations and Issues for Congressional Oversight February 16, 2005

By Reese, Shawn

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Title:	Crs Report for Congress Received through the Crs Web Fiscal Year 2005 Homeland Security Grant Program : State Allocations and Issues for Congressional Oversight February 16, 2005
Author:	Reese, Shawn
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
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Summary: The Office for Domestic Preparedness, within the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for directing and supervising federal terrorism preparedness grants for states and localities. Prior to FY2005, the Office for Domestic Preparedness offered that assistance through six separate grant programs. Some state and local officials, however, criticized the fragmentation of homeland security assistance and recommended streamlining the grant process. Subsequently, the Office for Domestic Preparedness recommended and -- pursuant to Section 872 of the Homeland Security Act (P.L. 107-296), which authorizes the Department of Homeland Security Secretary “to allocate, reallocate, and consolidate functions and organization units within the Department” -- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge approved consolidating the separate programs into a single Homeland Security Grant Program. Within the consolidated program, however, the six types of assistance continue to have their separate identities and funding allocations as “sub-grants.” As a whole, the Homeland Security Grant Program provides assistance for a wide range of eligible activities, among which are planning, training, equipment acquisition, and exercises. To fund the program, Congress appropriated approximately $2.5 billion for FY2005, roughly $600,000 less than for the programs in FY2004.

Table of Contents
Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Homeland Security Grant Program Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 State Homeland Security Grant Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Urban Area Security Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Citizen Corps Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Emergency Management Performance Grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Metropolitan Medical Response System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Program Guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Funding Distribution Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 HSGP Application and Matching Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 EMPG Applications and Matching Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 UASI Applications and Matching Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Pass-through Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 State and Urban Area Homeland Security Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Citizen and Private Sector Involvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Operational Overtime Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Critical Infrastructure Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Border Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Unauthorized Homeland Security Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Task Force on State and Local Homeland Security Funding Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Funding Distribution Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Authorized Expenditures for Homeland Security Assistance Funding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12