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Attachment A Part Two - Program Specific Information Program Overview Definition of Core City and Core County Points of Contact The FY04 UASI program provides financial assistance to address the unique planning, equipment, training, and exercise needs of large urban areas, and to assist them in building an enhanced and sustainable capacity to prevent, respond to and recover from threats or acts ofterrorism. This program also provides funding to specific mass transit authorities to address security needs at these high risk critical infrastructure facilities and to promote comprehensive regional planning and coordination. Urban areas must: . allocate all funding in support of goals and objectives identified in their Urban Area Homeland Security Strategy or the State Homeland Security Strategy; and, . take a regional metropolitan area approach to the development and implementation of this program by involving core cities, core counties, contiguous jurisdictions and mutual aid partners. Additionally, urban areas are encouraged to employ regional approaches to planning and preparedness and to adopt regional response structures whenever appropriate to meet the needs identified in the assessments and the urban area strategy. It is ODP's intent to steer urban area security and preparedness efforts toward a project-oriented process to address common, measurable objectives. Mass transit authorities must allocate all funding in support of their Transit Security and Emergency Preparedness Plan developed through this program. Allowable activities for both the urban areas and the mass transit authorities can complement the FY04 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP). More information on FY04 HSGP can be found on the OES webpage. The core city is defined as the 10 cities to which urban area funds are allocated. The core county is defined as the county within which the core city is geographically located. Points of Contact (POC) must be identified for each transit agency, and each urban area's core city and associated core county. Continued on next page FY04 Urban Areas Security Initiative Page 12