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The Office of
Grants and Training (OGT), the funding arm for the federal
Department of Homeland Security, made the official award of
$13.48 million to Iowa on June 30, 2006.
The homeland security funds will be used to continue regional
collaboration, while building and sustaining specialized
response teams. Here is a snapshot of some of the larger
estimated funding recommendations.
Regional
Collaboration: $3,296,241
Almost $3.3 million
was allocated to Iowa’s six homeland security regions to improve
efforts in key preparedness areas of planning, training, and
exercises.
Funds were also
allocated for ongoing NIMS compliance, EOC activities and
improvements for National Infrastructure Protection and Critical
Asset Protection.
Each region was
allocated $200,000 that could be used to improve local planning,
training, and exercise efforts.
Here are the
allocations by Region:
Region 1:
$633,302
Region 2:
$500,224
Region 3:
$516,782
Region 4:
$496,163
Region 5:
$504,343
Region 6:
$645,423
Regional
allocations were based on a combination of a base rate, combined
with population and the number of critical assets within a
region.
Fusion System:
$2,338,383
Funds from the Law
Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program will be used to
continue building a system to gather, and more importantly,
analyze intelligence information. These dollars will be used to
fund one state and six regional intelligence centers. A direct
state appropriation will help support personnel at the state
level.
NIMS/NRP
Implementation: $1,933,240
These dollars will
be used to ensure the state remains compliant under the
announced National Incident Management System (NIMS)
requirements and is aligned with the National Response Plan (NRP).
Additional NIMS
requirements are also expected over the next two years and these
funds will support those requirements.
WMD/HazMat
Response: $1,600,000
Iowa’s hazardous
materials teams will use these dollars to improve their response
capabilities for WMD and terrorism incidents. Iowa’s hazardous
materials task force is heading this effort to build the
capabilities of local teams to enable them to respond to a WMD/terrorism
event around the state.
Law Enforcement
Investigations and Operations: $1,000,000
These funds will be
used to improve capabilities of Iowa’s local and state tactical
response or SWAT teams.
Animal Health and Emergency
Support: $951,197
Increasing Iowa’s ability to prepare for and
respond to foreign animal diseases through a Veterinary Rapid
Response team will be the focus of these funds.
US&R: $650,000
These funds will be
used to sustain Iowa’s heavy search and rescue team through the
Sioux City and Cedar Rapids Fire Departments.
A complete listing
of the funds will be available when final dollar amounts are
obligated to OGT by August 30, 2006.
(this information was
gathered from the July 25th edition of
Secured and Prepared)
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