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DHS Announces Grant Allocations<br />

for Fiscal Year <strong>2016</strong> Preparedness<br />

Grants<br />

Continued from page 34<br />

Awards made to the states and urban<br />

areas for HSGP carry pass-through<br />

requirements. Pass-through is decurity<br />

enhancements for nonprofit<br />

organizations that are at high risk of<br />

a terrorist attack and located within<br />

one of the 29 Fiscal Year <strong>2016</strong> UASIeligible<br />

urban areas.<br />

Tribal Homeland Security Grant<br />

Program (THSGP) — a competitive<br />

grant that provides $10 million to<br />

eligible tribal nations to implement<br />

preparedness initiatives to help<br />

strengthen the nation against risk<br />

associated with potential terrorist<br />

attacks and other hazards.<br />

Intercity Bus Security Grant Program<br />

(IBSGP) — a competitive<br />

grant that provides $3 million to<br />

assist operators of fixed-route intercity<br />

and charter bus services within<br />

high-threat urban areas to protect<br />

bus systems and the traveling public<br />

from acts of terrorism, major disasters<br />

and other emergencies.<br />

In addition to the competitive grants<br />

announced today, in February <strong>2016</strong>,<br />

Secretary Johnson announced more<br />

than $1.3 billion in preparedness<br />

grant program funding.<br />

Non-Competitive Grant Program<br />

Allocations for Fiscal Year <strong>2016</strong>:<br />

vides more than $350 million to<br />

assist local, tribal, territorial, and<br />

state governments in enhancing and<br />

sustaining all-hazards emergency<br />

management capabilities.<br />

Intercity Passenger Rail - Amtrak<br />

(IPR) Program — a non-competitive<br />

grant that provides $10 million to<br />

protect critical surface transportation<br />

infrastructure and the traveling<br />

public from acts of terrorism and<br />

increase the resilience of the Amtrak<br />

rail system.<br />

Homeland Security Grant Program<br />

(HSGP) — provides more than $1<br />

billion for states and urban areas to<br />

prevent, protect against, mitigate,<br />

respond to, and recover from acts<br />

of terrorism and other threats. The<br />

HSGP grants are:<br />

• State Homeland Security Program<br />

(SHSP) — a non-competitive<br />

grant that provides $402 million<br />

to support the implementation of<br />

the National Preparedness System<br />

to build and strengthen preparedness<br />

capabilities at all levels.<br />

• Urban Areas Security Initiative<br />

(UASI) — a non-competitive<br />

grant that provides $580 million<br />

to enhance regional preparedness<br />

and capabilities in 29 high-threat,<br />

high-density areas.<br />

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Emergency Management Performance<br />

Grant (EMPG) Program — a<br />

non-competitive grant that profined<br />

as an obligation on the part<br />

of the State Administrative Agency<br />

(SAA) to make funds available to<br />

local units of government, combinations<br />

of local units, tribal governments,<br />

or other specific groups<br />

or organizations. The SAA must<br />

obligate at least 80 percent (80%) of<br />

the funds awarded under SHSP and<br />

UASI to local or tribal units of government.<br />

Per section 2006 of the Homeland<br />

Security Act of 2002, as amended<br />

(6 U.S.C. § 607), DHS/FEMA is required<br />

to ensure that at least 25 percent<br />

of grant funding must be used<br />

for law enforcement terrorism prevention<br />

activities.<br />

Further information on DHS’s<br />

preparedness grant programs is<br />

available at www.dhs.gov and http://<br />

www.fema.gov/grants.<br />

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