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‘‘(1) developing and enhancing State, local, or
regional plans, risk assessments, or mutual aid agree-
ments;
‘‘(2) purchasing, upgrading, storing, or main-
taining equipment;
‘‘(3) designing, conducting, and evaluating
training and exercises, including exercises of mass
evacuation plans under section 512 and including the
payment of overtime and backfill costs in support of
such activities;
‘‘(4) responding to an increase in the threat level
under the Homeland Security Advisory System, or to
the needs resulting from a National Special Security
Event, including payment of overtime and backfill
costs;
‘‘(5) establishing, enhancing, and staffing with
appropriately qualified personnel State and local fu-
sion centers that comply with the guidelines estab-
lished under section 206(i);
‘‘(6) protecting critical infrastructure and key
resources identified in the Critical Infrastructure List
established under section 1101 of the Improving
America’s Security Act of 2007, including the pay-
ment of appropriate personnel costs;
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‘‘(7) any activity permitted under the Fiscal
Year 2007 Program Guidance of the Department for
the Urban Area Security Initiative or the Law En-
forcement Terrorism Prevention Grant Program, in-
cluding activities permitted under the full-time
counterterrorism staffing pilot; and
‘‘(8) any other activity relating to achieving tar-
get capabilities approved by the Administrator.
‘‘(g) DISTRIBUTION OF AWARDS TO METROPOLITAN
AREAS.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—If the Administrator ap-
proves the application of an eligible metropolitan
area for a grant under this section, the Administrator
shall distribute the grant funds to the State or States
in which the eligible metropolitan area is located.
‘‘(2) STATE DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each State shall pro-
vide the eligible metropolitan area not less than
80 percent of the grant funds. Any funds re-
tained by a State shall be expended on items or
services approved by the Administrator that ben-
efit the eligible metropolitan area.
‘‘(B) FUNDS RETAINED.—A State shall pro-
vide each relevant eligible metropolitan area
with an accounting of the items or services on
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which any funds retained by the State under
subparagraph (A) were expended.
‘‘(3) MULTISTATE REGIONS.—If parts of an eli-
gible metropolitan area awarded a grant are located
in 2 or more States, the Secretary shall distribute to
each such State—
‘‘(A) a portion of the grant funds in accord-
ance with the proposed distribution set forth in
the application; or
‘‘(B) if no agreement on distribution has
been reached, a portion of the grant funds in
proportion to each State’s share of the popu-
lation of the eligible metropolitan area.
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
are authorized to be appropriated for grants under this
section—
‘‘(1) for fiscal year 2007, such sums as are nec-
essary;
‘‘(2) for each of fiscal years 2008, 2009, and
2010, $1,278,639,000; and
‘‘(3) for fiscal year 2011, and each fiscal year
thereafter, such sums as are necessary.
‘‘SEC. 2004. STATE HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM.
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established a State
Homeland Security Grant Program to assist State, local,