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<br />Attachment A <br /> <br />Program Changes, Continued <br /> <br />National <br />Initiatives <br /> <br />Employee <br />Labor - <br />Redirected <br />Staff <br /> <br />Operational <br />Costs and <br />Border Secnrity <br /> <br />Management <br />and <br />Administrative <br />Costs <br /> <br />National Initiatives include: <br /> <br />· Implementing the National Incident Management System (NlMS) <br />. Implementing HSPD (Homeland Security Presidential Directive) 8 <br />. Implementing the National Response Plan (NRP), including the <br />Catastrophic Incident Response Annex (CIRA) to the NRP <br />. Achieving tactical interopernble communications <br />. Institutionalizing awareness training <br />. Public awareness and citizen participation <br /> <br />Section IV of the U.S. DHS Program Guidelines and Application Kit (v 2.0), <br />beginning on page 47, provides details on these National Initiatives. <br /> <br />On Page 41 of DHS' Program Guidelines and Application Kit, it is <br />stated that it is allowable to redirect "public safety officers" from <br />their normal duties to HSGP 05 allowable activities. This appeared to <br />imply that non-"public safety officers", however, could not be redirected <br />from their normal duties to HSGP 05 allowable activities. That is not <br />the case. Since the release ofDHS' Program Guidelines and Application <br />Kit, ODP has confIrmed that both "public safety officers" and <br />"non-public safety officers" can be redirected from their normal duties <br />to allowable HSGP 05 activities. In doing so, however, DHS does caution <br />subgrantees to follow all non- supplanting requirements. <br /> <br />The federal DHS now allows up to 25% of the UASI and LEll'P fimds to be <br />used for certain operational expenses. See pages 26 and 72 of the U.S. DHS <br />Program Guidelines and Application Kit (v 2.0), for a full description of <br />allowable Operational costs. <br /> <br />Additionally, UASI and LEll'P fimding may be used for certain operational <br />costs in support of federal agencies for increased border security. See page <br />28 of the U.S. DHS Program Guidelines and Application Kit (v 2.0), for a full <br />description of allowable Border Security costs. <br /> <br />The federal DHS has reduced the subgrantee Management and Administrative <br />(M&A) allowance to a maximum of2.5% of their subgrant on all HSGP 05 <br />programs. <br /> <br />Continued on next page <br /> <br />FY05 Homeland Security Grant Program <br /> <br />Page 15 <br />