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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1020 
To authorize the Urban Areas Security Initiative Grants Program of the 
Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 13, 2007 
Mr. FOSSELLA (for himself, Mr. REYNOLDS, and Mr. CROWLEY) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
A BILL 
To authorize the Urban Areas Security Initiative Grants 
Program of the Department of Homeland Security, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Urban Area Security 
Initiative Grant Enhancement and Authorization Act of 
2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) The High Threat Urban Areas program 
created under Public Law 108–7— 
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(A) was devised as an additional response 
to the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Domestic Pre-
paredness Program created under title XIV of 
the National Defense Authorization Act of 1996 
(Public Law 104–201), in recognizing that cer-
tain large urban areas remain high threat tar-
gets and are inadequately prepared to respond 
to a weapon of mass destruction event; 
(B) addresses the unique equipment, train-
ing, planning and exercise needs of selected 
large high threat urban areas; and 
(C) has become known as the Urban Area 
Security Initiative. 
(2) The allocation of the funds available for fis-
cal year 2006 for the Urban Areas Security Initia-
tive grants program of the Department of Homeland 
Security did not reflect the original intent of the 
program. 
(3) The needs-based variable used in the fund-
ing formula for such allocation is not a proper risk- 
based variable. 
(4) The allocation of funds for such program 
should be based solely on the risk of terrorist attack, 
and determined based solely on consideration of 
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threat of, vulnerabilities to, and consequence of such 
an attack. 
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF URBAN AREAS SECURITY INI-
TIATIVE GRANTS PROGRAM. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary of Homeland 
Security may carry out an Urban Areas Security Initiative 
Grants Program (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Pro-
gram’’), under which the Secretary may make grants for 
the same purposes for which grants were made under such 
a program with amounts made available to the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security for fiscal year 2005. 
(b) USE OF GRANT.— 
(1) AUTHORIZED
USES.—A grant under this 
section may be used— 
(A) to purchase equipment, to provide 
training, to conduct exercises, and to provide 
technical assistance to State and local first re-
sponders; 
(B) to construct, develop, expand, modify, 
operate, or improve facilities to provide training 
or assistance to State and local first responders, 
including construction relating to target hard-
ening, communications facilities, emergency 
command centers, or medical response facilities; 
and 
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