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FY05 HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM - VERSION 2.0. 12-22-2004 VII. URBAN AREAS SECURITY INITIATIVE A. Program Overview The FY05 UASI Program provides financial assistance to address the unique planning, equipment, training, and exercise needs of high-threat, high-density 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. The intent of the UASI Program is to create a sustainable national model program to enhance security and overall preparedness to prevent, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism. States must ensure that the identified urban areas take an inclusive regional approach to the development and implementation of the FY05 UASI Program and involve the core city(ies), core county(ies), contiguous jurisdictions, mutual aid partners, port authorities, rail and transit authorities, state agencies, Citizen Corps Council(s), and MMRS steering committees, The program includes an urban area assessment and strategy development component, which will be used by the urban area to allocate funding and guide delivery of OOP-provided direct services, such as training, exercises, and technical assistance. The development of the Urban Area Homeland Security Strategy must be in accordance with OOP's UASI Administrator Handbook, which can be found at htto:/lwww.shsasresources.com. The FY05 UASI Program further provides the opportunity to enhance regional preparedness efforts. Urban areas are encouraged to employ regional approaches to overall preparedness and to adopt regional response structures whenever appropriate to meet the needs identified through the assessments and in the urban area strategy, Furthermore, it is OOP's intent to guide state and urban area 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. This funding will be provided to identified urban area authorities through the SAAs. In addition, urban areas should include citizens in planning, preparedness, training, exercises, and volunteer activities to support emergency responders through the local Citizen Corps Council(s). ODP encourages all current and former geographically contiguous UASI urban areas to continue existing coordinated and collaborative planning structures and efforts in developing, integrating, and implementing homeland security activities. This includes, but is not limited to, participation on advisory committees and working groups involved in homeland security planning and preparedness processes and activities. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY I OFF(CE FOR DOMEST(C PREPAREDNESS 68