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110th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 510
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
February 7, 2007
Mrs. Boxer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
A BILL
To specify that the 100 most populous urban areas of the United States, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall be eligible for grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the
Urban Area Security Initiative
Improvement Act of 2007
.
Definitions
In this Act—
the term Secretary means the Secretary of Homeland Security; and
the term Urban Area Security Initiative means the Urban Area Security Initiative grant program administered by the Department of Homeland Security from funds appropriated for discretionary grants to high-threat, high-density urban areas.
Grants under Urban Area Security Initiative
Eligibility
In general
Each of the 100 most populous urban areas of the United States shall be eligible for a grant under the Urban Area Security Initiative.
Determination
For purposes of this subsection, the Secretary shall determine the urban areas referred to in paragraph (1) in accordance with the data collected in the most recent census of the United States.
Sensitivity analysis
The Secretary shall award grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative after conducting a study of how the variation in the output of models (numerical or otherwise) used for such awards can be apportioned, qualitatively or quantitatively, to different sources of variation (commonly referred to as sensitivity analysis).