How Funding Is Allocated

NIJ expects to award a total of up to $ 65 million under the FY 2009 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program. In general, the aggregate amount of FY 2009 funds allocated to eligible applicants from a particular State (including both the State and its units of local government) will be based on:

1. The number of UCR, Part 1 Violent Crimes reported to the FBI for 2006 (the most current year for which such data are available).
2. The minimum aggregate amount available to eligible applicants from each State. For FY 2009, if the aggregate amount, based on the number of UCR, Part 1 iolent Crimes reported to the FBI, would have been less than $100,000, that ggregate amount has been increased to $100,000.[1]
3. The number of qualifying State and local applicants also may affect award amounts.

See "Appendix: Estimated Allocation of Funds—FY 2009" for a chart of estimated aggregate amounts available for awards, by State.

Units of local government must specify in their applications the proportion of the State's total number of UCR, Part 1 Violent Crimes they reported to the FBI for 2007. If 2007 data is not available, the most recent data may be submitted in its stead. In general, funds will be allocated among the eligible applicants within a particular State on the basis of UCR, Part 1 Violent Crimes.

To avoid delay in the processing of applications and release of award funds, all eligible applicants within each State (including units of local government) that seek FY 2009 Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program funds are encouraged to coordinate to ensure that the total amount of funds sought by the applicants does not exceed the total aggregate amount available to that State as shown in the chart in the appendix.

Notes

1 This minimum aggregate amount is intended, among other things, to provide funds for purchase of items such as expert systems, laboratory information management systems, or robotic workstations (should eligible applicants have needs for such items). Back to text.