Memorandum to Emergency Managers 

From:        Martha Braddock

                   Policy Advisor

                   International Association of Emergency Managers

 Subject:     Highlights of President’s Budget Request for FY 2009 for FEMA/DHS

 Date:          February 4, 2008    4:30 AM EST

The President’s Budget request for FY 2009 is being released today. The information below is based on the budget documents provided by the Office of Management and Budget, particularly the Budget Appendix.  The FY 2009 documents have been posted on the White House/OMB website and I have listed that information at the end of this memo.

I will be attending a budget briefing this afternoon by the Department of Homeland Security. If there is clarifying information, I will provide it later.

Emergency Management Performance Grants.

• $200 million.  (The same amount requested in FY 08.  However Congress appropriated $300 in FY 08 and also provided $50 million in FY 07 Supplemental.)
• Was not retained as a separate account; was included in State and Local Programs account.

 Other Highlights

You will notice reductions of $750,000,000 in the State Homeland Security Grant Program and $400,000,000 in the Firefighter grants. No funding was included for Emergency Operations Centers. The United States Fire Administration is not a separate account. No funding is requested for the Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS).

FEDERAL EMERGENCY, MANAGEMENT AGENCY

State and Local Programs

$1,900,000,000 (FY 08 $3,177,800,000)

• $200,000,000 for State Homeland Security Grant Program ($950,000,000 in FY 08)
• $825,000,000 for Urban Area Security Initiative ( $820,000,000 in FY 08)
• $15,000,000 for Citizen Corps (FY 08 same)
• $200,000,000 for Emergency Management Performance Grants ($300,000,000 in FY 08)
• $175,000,000 for Public Transportation Security Assistance ($400,000,000 in FY 08)
• $210,000,000 for Port Security Grants ($400,000,000 in FY 08)
• $12,000,000 for Over-the-Road Bus Security Assistance ($11,500,000 in FY 08)
• $8,000,000 for Trucking Industry Security Grants ($16,000,000 in FY 08)
• $110,000,000 for National Security and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program to provide competitive grant award for projects which address national risks and vulnerabilities identified by the Secretary. (will invite state applications to support REAL ID implementation and buffer zone protection)

• $145,000,000 for training, exercises, technical assistance and other programs ($299,300,000 in FY 08)
  •  $40,000,000 for National Exercise Program
  •  $79,000,000 for Center for Domestic Preparedness and other members of the national Domestic Preparedness Consortium)
  • $10,000,000 Technical assistance. Supports technical assistance for grantees in catastrophic planning and other key areas
  • $16,000,000 Evaluations and Assessments

Firefighter Assistance Grants

$300,000,000.  ($750,000,000 in FY 08)

• For subsections (b)(3)(B), (H), and (I) of Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act

National Predisaster Mitigation Fund

$75,000,000 ($114,000,000 in FY 08). To be awarded subject to criteria in section 203(g) of Stafford Act.

Flood Map Modernization

$150,000,000 ($220,000,000 in FY 08)

National Flood Insurance Fund

$125,700,000 from the Fund for flood mitigation actions

• $80,000,000 for flood mitigation actions for severe repetitive loss properties under Sec. 1361A National Flood Mitigation Fund
• $10,000,000 for repetitive insurance claims properties under section 1323 of National Flood Insurance Act
• $35,700,000 for flood mitigation expenses under section 1366. Funds are derived from the NFIF.

Operations, Management and Administration

$957,405,000 ($664,000,000 in FY 08)

• $40,913,000 for United States Fire Administration , no longer a separate account ($43,300,000 in FY 08)
• $25,000,000 for Urban Search and Rescue ($32,500,000 in FY 08)
• $6,342,000 (no less than) for Office of National Capital Region Coordination
• Includes funds to enable the conversion of all remaining Cadre-On-Call Regional Employees (COREs) to permanent positions
• Last year’s Readiness, Mitigation, Response and Recovery account and the Administrative and Regional Operations Account are now included in this account.

Disaster Relief

$1,900,000,000($1,400,000,000 in FY 2008)

Disaster Readiness and Support Activities

$200,000,000

• Will fund advanced readiness initiatives. Resources are not disaster specific but will provide support across FEMA
• This is a new account.

Emergency Food and Shelter

$100,000,000 ($153,000,000 in FY 2008)  

NATIONAL PROTECTION AND PROGRAMS DIRECTORATE

• $54,000,000 for Salaries and Expenses  (includes Office of Under Secretary and Office of  Intergovernmental Programs, and other offices) ($47,346,000 in FY 2008)
• $390,300,000 for  US Visit  ($475,000,000 in FY 08)
• $841,200,000 for Infrastructure Protection and Information Security ($654,730,000 in FY 08)
• $161,330,000 for Office of Health Affairs ($116,500,000 in FY 2008)

Internet Site for the Office of Management and Budget FY 2009 budget documents follows:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/

The key document is the Appendix.

To go directly to DHS section of the Appendix—

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/pdf/appendix/dhs.pdf 

DHS starts on page 475 FEMA starts on page 514.

Note:  In the budget document all items enclosed in  [  ]   are deleted; all language in italics is new.                                                     -