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DHS Issues Guidance For $2.7 Billion FY ’10 Grant Programs

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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) yesterday released its FY '10 grant application guidance kits for 13 grant programs totaling more than $2.7 billion that will be sought by state, local, tribal and territorial governments and private sector entities. The planned FY '10 grant distribution is about $384 million less than FY '09. The largest grant programs, the State Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) and the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI), have $842 million and $832.5 million, respectively, to dole…

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