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Attachment A FY05 HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM regional preparedness efforts? State and Urban Area Homeland Security Strategies will continue to serve as an overarching guide to homeland security efforts. States are strongly encouraged to employ regional approaches to planning and preparedness and to adopt regional response structures whenever appropriate to meet the needs identified through the assessments and in the state's homeland security strategy. Furthermore, DHS intends to guide state and local security and preparedness efforts toward a project-oriented process to address common measurable objectives. Security and preparedness officials at all levels should seek opportunities to leverage funding from multiple sources whenever possible and not restrict their activities to federal funding alone. T bl 6 FY05 HSGP P . FY05 HSGP Program Overview Program State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program (LETPP) SHSP provides financial assistance directly to each of the states and territories to prevent, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism. SHSP supports the implementation of the State Homeland Security Strategy (SHSS) to address the identified planning, equipment, training, and exercise needs. In addition, SHSP supports the implementation of the NIMS, Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 8: National Preparedness, and the National Response Plan (NRP). SHSP is further detailed in Section VI of this solicitation. UASI provides financial assistance .to address the unique planning, equipment, training, and exercise needs of high risk urban areas, and to assist them in building an enhanced and sustainable capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from threats or acts of terrorism. Allowable costs for the urban areas comport with the FY05 SHSP, and funding is expended based on the Urban Area Homeland Security Strategies. This funding will be provided to identified urban areas through the SAAs. Funds under FY05 UASI are also available to protect nonprofit organizations located within the urban areas. UASI is further detailed in Section VII of this solicitation. LETPP will provide law enforcement communities with funds to support the following prevention activities: information sharing to preempt terrorist attacks; target hardening to reduce vulnerability of selected high value targets; recognition and mapping of potential or developing threats: counterterrorism and security planning; interoperable communications; and, interdiction of terrorists before they can execute a threat or intervention activities that prevent terrorists from executing a threat. These funds may be used for planning, organization, training, exercises, and equipment, and will be administered by the respective SAA. LETPP is further detailed in Section VIII of this solicitation. 7 As used in this solicitation, the tenn "regional" refers to mu!tj.state or sub-state geographic areas thai function as regions (e.g., the National Capital Region) and is not a reference to any federal regions. OFFICE FOR DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 19 III U 2 '" Q 5 CI ::!! ~'. (.') o ~