Item 18 - Adopt Resolution for FY 2021 Emergency Management Performance Grant

Home Browse Search

HSGP Appendix | February 2021 Page A-37 agency. The content of each operational plan, to include the requested items will be reviewed for border- security value and approved by the corresponding sector’s Chief Patrol Agent or his/her designee. All operational plans should be crafted in cooperation and coordination with federal and SLTT partners to meet the needs of the USBP Sector. Consideration will be given to applications that are coordinated across multiple jurisdictions. All applicants must coordinate with the CBP/USBP Sector Headquarters with geographic responsibility for the applicant’s location in developing and submitting an Operations Order with an embedded budget to the SAA. Operations are to be crafted so that resources are allocated to one or more of the supportable categories: 1) Law Enforcement Presence 2) Situational Awareness 3) Intelligence Collection, Analysis, and Distribution Law Enforcement Presence includes activities and costs associated to having an SLTT partner provide a law enforcement patrol presence in an area designated by the USBP Sector in support of border security efforts. Situational Awareness includes technology to provide current and immediately relevant information about currently active border security threats. Intelligence Collection and Distribution includes both technology and manpower related to the gathering and analysis of intelligence with a nexus to border security. The terms of an OPSG award do not extend to an SLTT partner any authority to enforce additional laws, statues, or regulations beyond their own authorities; SLTT partners are not empowered through OPSG to enforce immigration authorities under Title 8 of the U.S. Code (i.e., the INA). Participation in the grant does not grant participants the power to operate outside of their own jurisdictional boundaries. Concept of Operations and Campaign Planning Post-Allocation Announcement/Pre-Award The overarching operational cycle involves three stages: 1) application; and 2) concept of operations to formulate a Campaign Plan, which are all developed by the IPT. All Operations Orders: Concept of Operations (CONOPS), Operation Orders (OO) or Campaign Plans and FRAGOs shall be submitted through the CBP Stonegarden Data Management System. All OPSG grant Application packages shall be submitted to the SAA for entry into Grants.gov. Application: Please refer to the current fiscal year’s HSGP NOFO and relevant information in this Manual. Campaign Plan: After awards are announced, participants will create and submit an operations order that forms a campaign plan and captures the initial, generalized-budgetary intent to their IPT. The campaign plan should articulate the participant agency’s long-term border security objectives and goals designed to mitigate border-security risk. Funds should be obligated as needed to target specific threats or vulnerabilities and ensure that OPSG usage is commensurate to the unique risk of each border region. This may require several short-term operations that combine to form an ongoing operational cycle, ensuring that USBP commanders and SLTT agency partners reserve the flexibility to respond to the ever-changing elements of border security. The operations plan also will articulate the budgetary intent of how funds are to be used throughout the performance period. The operations plan will project planned expenditures in the following categories: