U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY | HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT PROGRAM 
Examples of Allowable Planning Costs 

Following are examples of allowable FY 2008 HSGP planning costs: 

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Developing scenario plans that incorporate the range of prevention, protection, 
response, and recovery activities for a scenario 
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Developing and implementing homeland security support programs and adopting 
DHS national initiatives including but not limited to the following: 
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Implementing the National Preparedness Guidelines 
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Costs associated with the adoption, implementation and adherence to 
NIMS compliance requirements; including implementing the NIMS 
National Credentialing Framework. 
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Modifying existing incident management and EOPs to ensure proper 
alignment with the NRF coordinating structures, processes, and protocols 
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Establishing or enhancing mutual aid agreements 
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Developing communications and interoperability protocols and solutions 
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Conducting local, regional, and Tribal program implementation meetings 
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Developing or updating resource inventory assets in accordance to typed 
resource definitions issued by the NIMS Integration Center (NIC) 
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Designing State and local geospatial data systems 
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Conducting public education and outreach campaigns, including 
promoting individual, family and business emergency preparedness; alerts 
and warnings education; and evacuation plans as well as IED or bombing 
prevention awareness 
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Preparing materials for the State Preparedness Report (SPR) 
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Developing related terrorism prevention activities including: 
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Developing law enforcement prevention activities, to include establishing 
and/or enhancing a fusion center 
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Hiring an IT specialist to plan, develop, and implement the IT applications 
necessary for a fusion center 
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Developing and planning for information/intelligence sharing groups 
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Hiring contractors and consultants to make recommendations on the 
development of a fusion center 
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Integrating and coordinating private sector participation with fusion center 
activities 
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Acquiring systems allowing connectivity to State, local, and Federal data 
networks, such as the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and 
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), as 
appropriate 
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Planning to enhance security during heightened alerts, during terrorist 
incidents, and/or during mitigation and recovery 
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Multi-discipline preparation across first responder community, including 
EMS for response to catastrophic events and acts of terrorism 
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Public information/education: printed and electronic materials, public 
service announcements, seminars/town hall meetings, web postings 
coordinated through local Citizen Corps Councils 
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Citizen Corps volunteer programs and other activities to strengthen citizen 
participation 
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Conducting public education campaigns, including promoting individual, 
family and business emergency preparedness; promoting the Ready 
campaign; and/or creating State, regional or local emergency 
preparedness efforts that build upon the Ready campaign 
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Evaluating CIP security equipment and/or personnel requirements to 
protect and secure sites 
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CIP cost assessments, including resources (e.g., financial, personnel) 
required for security enhancements/deployments 
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Multi-Jurisdiction Bombing Prevention Plans (MJBPP)1 
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Underwater Terrorist Protection Plans 
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Developing and enhancing plans and protocols, including but not limited to: 
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Developing or enhancing EOPs and operating procedures 
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Developing terrorism prevention/deterrence plans 
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Developing plans, procedures, and requirements for the management of 
infrastructure and resources related to HSGP and implementation of State 
or Urban Area Homeland Security Strategies 
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Developing or enhancing border security plans 
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Developing or enhancing cyber security plans 
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Developing or enhancing cyber risk mitigation plans 
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Developing or enhancing agriculture/food security risk mitigation, 
response, and recovery plans 
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Developing public/private sector partnership emergency response, 
assessment, and resource sharing plans 
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Developing or enhancing plans to engage and interface with, and to 
increase the capacity of, private sector/non-governmental entitites working 
to meet the human service response and recovery needs of victims 
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Developing or updating local or regional communications plans 
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Developing plans to support and assist special needs jurisdictions, such 
as port authorities and rail and mass transit agencies 
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Developing or enhancing continuity of operations and continuity of 
government plans 
1 The SAA should examine current bombing prevention and explosive device response capabilities as an 
import risk reduction activity. An explosive devise recognition capability analysis can assist in determining 
their opportunities for increasing the capability to execute steady state and threat initiated tasks to prevent 
and respond to a bombing incident. 

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Developing or enhancing existing catastrophic incident response and 
recovery plans to include and integrate Federal assets provided under the 
NRF 
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Developing or enhancing evacuation plans 
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Developing or enhancing citizen surge capacity 
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Developing or enhancing plans for donations and volunteer management 
and the engagement/integration of private sector/non-governmental 
entities in preparedness, response, and recovery activities 
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Developing or enhancing Bombing Prevention Plans 
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Developing school preparedness plans 
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Ensuring jurisdiction EOPs adequately address warnings, emergency 
public information, evacuation, mass care, resource management from 
non-governmental sources, unaffiliated volunteer and donations 
management, and volunteer resource integration to support each 
Emergency Support Function, to include appropriate considerations for 
special needs populations 
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Developing and implementing civil rights, civil liberties and privacy 
policies, procedures, and protocols 
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Designing and developing State and local geospatial data systems 
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Developing or conducting assessments, including but not limited to: 
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Conducting point vulnerability assessments at critical infrastructure 
sites/key assets and develop remediation/security plans 
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Developing border security operations plans in coordination with CBP 
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Developing, implementing, and reviewing Area Maritime Security Plans for 
ports, waterways, and coastal areas 
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Updating and refining threat matrices 
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Conducting cyber risk and vulnerability assessments 
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Conducting assessments and exercising existing catastrophic incident 
response and recovery plans and capabilities to identify critical gaps that 
cannot be met by existing local and State resources 
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Conducting Bombing Prevention Capability Analysis 
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Activities that directly support the identification of specific catastrophic 
incident priority response and recovery projected needs across disciplines 
(e.g. law enforcement, fire, EMS, public health, behavioral health, public 
works, agriculture, information technology, and citizen preparedness) 
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Activities that directly support the identification of pre-designated 
temporary housing sites 
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Conducting community assessments, surveys, and research of 
vulnerabilities and resource needs, and determine citizen education and 
participation to meet the needs 
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Conducting Citizen Corps program assessments and evaluations, citizen 
preparedness surveys, volunteer impact studies, and cost/benefit analysis 
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Soft target security planning (public gatherings) 
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