‘‘(3) CONTENTS OF APPLICATION.—Each appli-
cation for a grant under this section must include 
the following: 
‘‘(A) Details of the purpose for which 
grant funds are sought and the reasons why the 
applicant needs the grant, including specifica-
tion of what the applicant expects to purchase 
or accomplish with the grant funds. 
‘‘(B) Identification of the entity that will 
expend the grant funds. 
‘‘(C) A detailed capital budget showing 
how the grant funds will be allocated and spent. 
‘‘(D) A statement of whether a mutual aid 
agreement applies to the use of the grant funds. 
‘‘(E) A description of the source of the 
threat to which the proposed grant relates, in-
cluding the type of attack for which the appli-
cant is preparing for in seeking the grant fund-
ing. 
‘‘(F) A statement of why the proposed use 
of funds is not a traditional first responder mis-
sion. 
‘‘(G) A description of how the applicant in-
tends to meet the matching requirement under 
subsection (g)(2), and a statement of whether 
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the applicant will commit to provide more 
matching funds than the amount required 
under that subsection. 
‘‘(e) THREAT-BASED EVALUATION OF GRANT APPLI-
CATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Under Secretary, shall evaluate and 
prioritize applications for grants under this section 
based on an objective determination and exhaustive 
assessment of the threat to the population or assets 
covered by the application. 
‘‘(2) CATEGORIES OF THREATS TO BE CONSID-
ERED.—In evaluating and prioritizing applications 
for grants under this section, the Under Secretary 
for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protec-
tion’s risk analysis shall include consideration of 
whether and the degree to which threats within the 
following categories are applicable at that time to 
the State or region for which the application is 
made: 
‘‘(A) Threats to the population of the 
State or region, including military and tourist 
populations. 
‘‘(B) Threats to specific economic sectors 
or private sector facilities. 
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‘‘(C) Threats to major communications 
nodes, including cyber and telephonic nodes. 
‘‘(D) Threats to specific elements of the 
Nation’s food supply. 
‘‘(E) Threats to the water supply. 
‘‘(F) Threats to the energy supply, includ-
ing to electrical, petroleum, and nuclear 
sources. 
‘‘(G) Threats to civic infrastructure and 
emergency 
response 
capabilities, 
including 
threats that would— 
‘‘(i) substantially eliminate the gov-
ernment of the State or region; 
‘‘(ii) materially degrade the ability of 
first responders serving the State or region 
to communicate or to provide assistance 
during and in the aftermath of an act of 
terrorism, including a chemical, biological, 
radiological, or nuclear attack; and 
‘‘(iii) curtail the availability or effec-
tiveness of emergency medical services, in-
cluding hospital-based services, needed to 
serve the population of the State or region 
during such a terrorist-induced mass-med-
ical emergency. 
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‘‘(H) Threats to specific national monu-
ments or structures of symbolic national impor-
tance, particularly those that routinely attract 
large numbers of tourist visitors. 
‘‘(I) Threats to significant concentrations 
of natural resources on which major economic 
sectors or population centers depend. 
‘‘(J) Threats to major transportation sys-
tems or nodes. 
‘‘(3) SPECIFIC THREATS.—In addition to the 
categories of threats under paragraph (2), the 
Under Secretary shall consider any other specific 
threat to a critical vulnerability that the Depart-
ment’s Directorate of Information Analysis and In-
frastructure Protection has determined exists within 
the applicant State or region. 
‘‘(4) IDENTIFICATION OF THREAT REQUIRED.— 
The Secretary may not make a grant to an applicant 
under this section unless the Under Secretary identi-
fies a specific vulnerability that is subject to a 
present or analytically projected threat of an act of 
terrorism. 
‘‘(5) PRIORITIZATION.—The Under Secretary 
shall prioritize applications according to the most 
current analysis by the Department’s Directorate of 
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Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection 
of the terrorist threat. 
‘‘(A) The Under Secretary shall prioritize 
threats listed under paragraph (2) according, 
first, to their specificity and tactical immediacy. 
‘‘(B) The Under Secretary shall, next, 
prioritize threats according to— 
‘‘(i) first, whether they pose a risk of 
significant loss of human life; 
‘‘(ii) second, whether they pose a risk 
of large-scale denial of the means of 
human subsistence, including food or water 
supply; and 
‘‘(iii) third, whether they pose a risk 
of massive disruption to one or more sec-
tors of the economy of the United States. 
‘‘(f) USE OF FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Grants under this section 
may be used for— 
‘‘(A) the purchase or upgrading of equip-
ment; 
‘‘(B) exercises to strengthen emergency re-
sponse; 
‘‘(C) training in the use of equipment; and 
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