Item 35 - FY 2022 Emergency Management Performance Grant

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HSGP Appendix | 2023 Page A-39 Law Enforcement Presence includes activities and costs associated to having an SLTT partner provide a law enforcement patrol presence in an area designated by the USBP Sector in support of border security efforts. Situational Awareness includes technology to provide current and immediately relevant information about currently active border security threats. Intelligence Collection and Distribution includes both technology and manpower related to the gathering and analysis of intelligence with a nexus to border security. The terms of an OPSG award do not extend to an SLTT partner any authority to enforce additional laws, statues, or regulations beyond their own authorities; SLTT partners are not empowered through OPSG to enforce immigration authorities under Title 8 of the U.S. Code (i.e., the INA). Participation in the grant does not grant participants the power to operate outside of their own jurisdictional boundaries. Concept of Operations and Campaign Planning Post-Allocation Announcement/Pre-Award The overarching operational cycle involves three stages: 1) application; and 2) concept of operations to formulate a Campaign Plan, which are all developed by the IPT. All Operations Orders: Concept of Operations (CONOPS), Operation Orders (OO) or Campaign Plans and FRAGOs shall be submitted through the CBP Stonegarden Data Management System. All OPSG grant Application packages shall be submitted to the SAA for entry into Grants.gov. Application: Please refer to the current fiscal year’s HSGP NOFO and relevant information in this Manual. Campaign Plan: After awards are announced, participants will create and submit an operations order that forms a campaign plan and captures the initial, generalized-budgetary intent to their IPT. The campaign plan should articulate the participant agency’s long -term border security objectives and goals designed to mitigate border-security risk. Funds should be obligated as needed to target specific threats or vulnerabilities and ensure that OPSG usage is commensurate to the unique risk of each border region. This may require several short-term operations that combine to form an ongoing operational cycle, ensuring that USBP commanders and SLTT agency partners reserve the flexibility to respond to the ever-changing elements of border security. The operations plan also will articulate the budgetary intent of how funds are to be used throughout the performance period. The operations plan will project planned expenditures in the following categories: overtime, equipment, travel, maintenance, fuel, and administrative funds. The subrecipient can initiate the procurement of equipment as well as state how much the county intends to use for M&A while keeping funds for overtime or residual equipment funds available for use as needed. If the subrecipient intends to spend more than 50% of its award on overtime over the course of the performance period, a PRICE Act waiver request must be submitted in accordance with the policy initially outlined in IB 379: Guidance to State Administrative Agencies to Expedite the Expenditure of Certain DHS/FEMA Grant Funding. The operations plan will meet both the SAA expectations to obligate the funds within 45 days of the award announcement and the demands of the grant’s operational intent . Sector approved campaign plans must be submitted to USBP Headquarters no later than four months after the official awards announcement has been made. Investment Modifications - Changes in Scope or Objective: Changes in scope or objective of the award – including those resulting from intended actions by the recipient or subrecipients – require FEMA’s prior written approval, in accordance with 2 C.F.R. §§ 200.308(c)(1), 200.407.