GAO-04-1009 Homeland Security: Effective Regional Coordination Can Enhance Emergency Preparedness

From FY 2003 through FY 2009, the Dept. of Homeland Security allocated about $5 billion for the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant program to enhance regional preparedness capabilities in the highest risk urban areas. FEMA administers this program. The 9/11 Comm. Act of 2007 required FEMA to change the size of the geographical areas used to assess UASI regions' risk. This report assesses FEMA's efforts to build regional prepared., and determines how the 9/11 Act change affected UASI regions and addresses: the extent to which FEMA assesses how UASI regions' collaborative efforts build prepared. capabilities; and how UASI officials described their collaboration efforts and changes resulting from the 9/11 Act. Illustrations.

Although each main-set volume of Terrorism: 1st Series contains its own volume-specific index, this comprehensive Index places all the Index info from the last fifty main-set volumes into one index volume. Furthermore, the volume-specific indexes are only subject indexes, whereas five different indexes appear within this one comprehensive index: the subject index, an index organized according to the title of the document, an index based on the name of the document's author, an index correlated to the document's year, and a subject-by-year index. This one all-encompassing Index thus provides users with multiple ways to conduct research into four years' worth of Terrorism: 1st Series volumes.

GAO-04-586 Homeland Security: First Phase of Visitor and Immigration Status Program Operating, but Improvements Needed