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FY05 HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM - VERSION 2.0. 12.22-2004 Grantees and subgrantees may use UASI funds for select operational expenses associated with increased security measures at critical infrastructure sites, incurred during time periods of DHS-declared Code Orange or Yellow, Funds may only be used in the following authorized categories: . Backfill and overtime expenses for staffing state or local EOCs . Hiring of contracted security for critical infrastructure sites . Public safety overtime . National Guard deployments to protect critical infrastructure sites, including all resources that are part of the standard National Guard deployment package . Increased border security activities in coordination with CBP. Consumable costs, such as fuel expenses, are not allowed except as part of the standard National Guard deployment package. 2. Overtime costs are also allowable for personnel to participate in information, investigative, and intelligence sharing activities specifically related to homeland security. This includes activities such as anti-terrorism task forces, JTTF, Area Maritime Security Committees (as required by the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002), and TEW groups. 3. Hiring of contractors/consultants for participation in information/intelligence sharing groups or intelligence fusion centers. Funding may not be used to supplant ongoing, routine public safety activities of state and local emergency responders, and may not be used to hire staff for operational activities or backfill. Homeland Security Assistance for NonDrofit Oraanizations Funding expenditures to protect nonprofit organizations, located within the urban areas, from terrorist attacks may only be allocated for target hardening, which includes the acquisition and installation of security equipment in real property (including buildings and improvements), owned or leased by a nonprofit organization, specifically in response to a risk of terrorist attack, This equipment is limited to items on the "Allowable Equipment Costs" list set forth in the UASI AEL, with an emphasis on Physical Security Enhancement Equipment. Allowable equipment does not include enhancements that would otherwise have been reasonably necessary due to non- terrorist threats. In addition, M&A costs are not allowed for allocations to nonprofit organizations. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECUR(TY I OFF(CE FOR DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS 73