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FY 2006 HOMELAND SECURrTY GRANT PROGRAM - DECEMBER 2,2005 VII. URBAN AREAS SECURITY INITIATIVE A. Program Overview The FY 2006 VASI program provides financial assistance to address the unique multi-discipline planning, operations, equipment, training, and exercise needs of high-threat, high- density Vrban Areas, and to assist them in building and sustaining capabilities to prevent, protect against, respond to, and recover from threats or acts of terrorism. FY 2006 VASI funding remains primarily focused on enhancing capabilities to prevent, protect against, respond to, or recover from CBRNE, agriculture, and cyber terrorism incidents. However, in light of several major new national planning priorities, which address such issues as pandemic influenza and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the allowable scope of VASI activities including catastrophic events, provided that these activities also build capabilities that relate to terrorism. Many of the capabilities included within the TCL are dual- use in nature, in that they can apply to both terrorism preparedness as well as other hazards. Activities implemented under VASI must support terrorism preparedness and build or enhance capabilities that relate to terrorism in order to be considered eligible, even if the capabilities themselves do not focus exclusively on terrorism. For example, mass evacuation planning supports terrorism preparedness but also other types of catastrophic events. Planning for pandemic influenza and linking that effort to a larger bioterrorism preparedness effort offers another example. Grantees must demonstrate the dual-use nature of any activities implemented under this program that are not explicitly focused on terrorism preparedness. As defined in the Catastrophic Incident Supplement to the NRP, a catastrophic incident is any natural, technical, or manmade incident, including terrorism, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or destruction severely affecting the population, infrastructure, environment, economy, national morale, and/or government functions. A catastrophic event could result in sustained national impacts over a prolonged period of time; almost immediately exceeds resources normally available to State, local, Tribal, and private sector authorities in the impacted area; and significantly interrupts governmental operations Tan!et Capabilities . Planning . Community Preparedness and Participation . Communications . Risk Management . Info Gathering & Recognition of Indicators & Warnings . Law Enforcement Investigation and Operations . Intelligence Analysis & Production . CBRNE Detection . Intelligence/Information Sharing & Dissemination . Critical Infrastructure Protection . Epidemiological Surveillance & Investigation . Public Health Laboratory Testing . Food & Ag. Safety & Defense . On-Site Incident Management . Citizen Protection: Evacuation and/or In-Place Protection . Emergency Operations Center Management . Isolation & Quarantine . Critical Resource Logistics & Distribution . Urban Search & Rescue . Volunteer Management & Donations . Emergency Public Info & Warning . Responder Safety & Health . Triage & Pre-Hospital Treatment . Public Safety & Security Response . Medical Surge . Animal Health Emergency Support . Medical Supplies Management & Distribution . Environmental Health . Mass Prophylaxis . Explosive Device Response Operations . Mass Care . Firefighting Operations/Support . Fatality Management . WMDlHazMat Response & Decon . Structural Damage Assessment & Mitigation . Economic & Community Recovery . Restoration of Lifelines PREPARE:DNESS D1RE:CTORA TE'S OFFICE OF GRANTS AND TRAINING 76