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Newsletter #162 Friday, December 20, 2024: (full newsletter)

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DHS Preparedness Grant Funding Changes under Criticism

Mar 21

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imageThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has proposed consolidating their grants program for fiscal year 2013. This was met with criticism in Washington DC Tuesday.  Democrats particularly questioned the proposed consolidation of 16 individual grant programs into the National Preparedness Grant Program (NPGP)  during a hearing of the House Homeland Security emergency preparedness subcommittee. There were calls for the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI), port grants, transit grants and the State Homeland Security Grant Program to remain separate funds. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter testifying for the US Conference of Mayors said NPGP grants would not guarantee any funding to large urban areas like Philadelphia.

A GAO report, Homeland Security: DHS Needs Better Project Information and Coordination Among Four Overlapping Grant Programs, released Tuesday notes additional concerns, mainly over the potential for overlapping funding of individual projects.

- Read full story at: www.hstoday.us/industry-news/general/single-article/critics-question-effectiveness-of-proposed-national-preparedness-grants-at-fema/37e8a43bb920d462c70fae40039f9235.html

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