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later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
that eligible applicants shall submit applications within 45 
days after the grant announcement, and that the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency shall act not later than 60 
days after receipt of an application: Provided further, That 
grantees shall provide additional reports on their use of 
funds, as determined necessary by the Secretary of Home-
land Security: Provided further, That (a) the Center for Do-
mestic Preparedness may provide training to emergency re-
sponse providers from the Federal Government, foreign gov-
ernments, or private entities, if the Center for Domestic 
Preparedness is reimbursed for the cost of such training, 
and any reimbursement under this subsection shall be cred-
ited to the account from which the expenditure being reim-
bursed was made and shall be available, without fiscal year 
limitation, for the purposes for which amounts in the ac-
count may be expended, (b) the head of the Center for Do-
mestic Preparedness shall ensure that any training pro-
vided under (a) does not interfere with the primary mission 
of the Center to train State and local emergency response 
providers: Provided further, That the Government Account-
ability Office shall report to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the Senate and the House of Representatives regard-
ing the data, assumptions, and methodology that the De-
partment uses to assess risk and allocate Urban Area Secu-
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rity Initiative and State Homeland Security Grants not 
later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act: 
Provided further, That the report shall include the reli-
ability and validity of the data used, the basis for the as-
sumptions used, how the methodology is applied to deter-
mine the risk scores for individual locations, an analysis 
of the usefulness of placing States and cities into tier 
groups, and the allocation of grants to eligible locations: 
Provided further, That the Department provide the Govern-
ment Accountability Office with the actual data that the 
Department used for its risk assessment and grant alloca-
tion for at least two locations at the discretion of the Gov-
ernment Accountability Office for the 2007 grant allocation 
process: Provided further, That the Department provide the 
Government Accountability Office with access to all data 
needed for its analysis and report, including specifics on 
all changes for the fiscal year 2008 process, including, but 
not limited to, all changes in data, assumptions, and 
weights used in methodology within seven days after the 
date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That any 
subsequent changes made regarding the risk methodology 
after the initial information is provided to the Government 
Accountability Office shall be provided within seven days 
after the change is made.
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FIREFIGHTER ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For necessary expenses for programs authorized by the 
Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 
2201 et seq.), $750,000,000, of which $560,000,000 shall be 
available to carry out section 33 of that Act (15 U.S.C. 
2229) and $190,000,000 shall be available to carry out sec-
tion 34 of that Act (15 U.S.C. 2229a), to remain available 
until September 30, 2009: Provided, That not to exceed five 
percent of the amount available under this heading shall 
be available for program administration. 
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE GRANTS 
For necessary expenses for emergency management 
performance grants, as authorized by the National Flood 
Insurance Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), the Earthquake Hazards Reduc-
tion Act of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), and Reorganiza-
tion Plan No. 3 of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), $300,000,000: Pro-
vided, That total administrative costs shall not exceed three 
percent of the total amount appropriated under this head-
ing. 
RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM 
The aggregate charges assessed during fiscal year 2008, 
as authorized in title III of the Departments of Veterans 
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Inde-
pendent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (42 U.S.C.
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5196e), shall not be less than 100 percent of the amounts 
anticipated by the Department of Homeland Security nec-
essary for its radiological emergency preparedness program 
for the next fiscal year: Provided, That the methodology for 
assessment and collection of fees shall be fair and equitable 
and shall reflect costs of providing such services, including 
administrative costs of collecting such fees: Provided fur-
ther, That fees received under this heading shall be deposited 
in this account as offsetting collections and will become 
available for authorized purposes on October 1, 2008, and 
remain available until expended. 
UNITED STATES FIRE ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses of the United States Fire Ad-
ministration and for other purposes, as authorized by the 
Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 
2201 et seq.) and the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 
U.S.C. 101 et seq.), $43,300,000. 
DISASTER RELIEF 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $1,400,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That of the total amount pro-
vided, $16,000,000 shall be transferred to the Department 
of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General for audits 
and investigations related to disasters, subject to section 503
522 
of this Act: Provided further, That up to $60,000,000 may 
be transferred to ‘‘Management and Administration’’, Fed-
eral Emergency Management Agency, of which $48,000,000 
and 250 positions are for management and administration 
functions and $12,000,000 is for activities related to the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.): Provided further, That 
of the amount provided in the previous proviso, $30,000,000 
shall not be available for transfer for management and ad-
ministration functions until the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency submits an expenditure plan to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives regarding the 250 positions: Provided fur-
ther, That the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
shall hereafter submit a monthly ‘‘Disaster Relief’’ report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives to include: 
(1) status of the Disaster Relief fund including 
obligations, allocations, and amounts undistributed/ 
unallocated; 
(2) allocations, obligations, and expenditures for 
Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma and all open 
disasters; 
(3) information on national flood insurance 
claims;
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(4) obligations, allocations, and expenditures by 
State for unemployment, crisis counseling, inspec-
tions, housing assistance, manufactured housing, pub-
lic assistance, and individual assistance; 
(5) mission assignment obligations by agency, 
including: 
(A) the amounts to other agencies that are 
in suspense because the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency has not yet reviewed and ap-
proved the documentation supporting the expend-
iture or for which an agency has been mission 
assigned but has not submitted necessary docu-
mentation for reimbursement; 
(B) an explanation if the amounts of re-
ported obligations and expenditures do not reflect 
the status of such obligations and expenditures 
from a government-wide perspective; and 
(C) each such agency’s actual obligation 
and expenditure data; 
(6) the amount of credit card purchases by agen-
cy and mission assignment; 
(7) specific reasons for all waivers granted and 
a description of each waiver; 
(8) a list of all contracts that were awarded on 
a sole source or limited competition basis, including