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<br />Preparedness Grants Manual <br />The terms of an OPSG award do not extend to an SLTT partner any authority to enforce additional <br />laws, statutes, or regulations beyond their own authorities; SLTT partners are not empowered <br />through OPSG to enforce immigration authorities under Title 8 of the U.S. Code (i.e., the Immigration <br />and Nationality Act (INA)). Participation in the grant does not grant participants the power to operate <br />outside of their own jurisdictional boundaries. <br />8.11.1. CONCEPT OF OPERATIONS AND CAMPAIGN PLANNING <br />Post-Allocation Announcement/Pre-Award <br />The overarching operational cycle involves three stages: 1) application (described in the HSGP <br />NOFO); 2) concept of operations to formulate a Campaign Plan, and 3) one or more tactical <br />operational periods, which are all developed by the IPT. All Operations Orders: Concept of Operations <br />(CONOPS), Operation Orders or Campaign Plans, and Fragmentary Orders (FRAGOs) shall be <br />submitted through the CBP Stonegarden Data Management System. <br />Campaign Plan <br />After awards are announced, participants will create and submit an operations order that forms a <br />campaign plan and captures the initial, generalized-budgetary intent to their IPT. <br />The campaign plan should articulate the participant agency’s long-term border security objectives <br />and goals designed to mitigate border security risk. <br />Funds should be obligated as needed to target specific threats or vulnerabilities and ensure that <br />OPSG usage is commensurate to the unique risk of each border region. This may require several <br />short-term operations that combine to form an ongoing operational cycle, ensuring that USBP <br />commanders and SLTT agency partners reserve the flexibility to respond to the ever-changing <br />elements of border security. <br />The operations plan also will articulate the budgetary intent of how funds are to be used throughout <br />the performance period. The operations plan will project planned expenditures in the following <br />categories: overtime, equipment, travel, maintenance, fuel, and administrative funds. The <br />subrecipient can initiate the procurement of equipment as well as state how much the county <br />intends to use for M&A while keeping funds for overtime or residual equipment funds available for <br />use as needed. If the subrecipient intends to spend more than 50% of its award on overtime over the <br />course of the performance period, a Personal Reimbursement for Intelligence Cooperation and <br />Enhancement of Homeland Security Act (PRICE Act) waiver request must be submitted in accordance <br />with the policy initially outlined in IB 379: Guidance to State Administrative Agencies to Expedite the <br />Expenditure of Certain DHS/FEMA Grant Funding. The operations plan will meet both the SAA <br />expectations to obligate the funds within 45 days of the award announcement and the demands of <br />the grant’s operational intent. Sector approved campaign plans must be submitted to USBP <br />Headquarters no later than four months after the official awards announcement has been made. <br />Investment Modifications - Changes in Scope or Objective <br />Changes in scope or objective of the award – including those resulting from intended actions by the <br />recipient or subrecipients – require FEMA’s prior written approval, in accordance with 2 C.F.R. § <br />200.308(c)(1), § 200.407. <br />72