[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 510 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 510

To specify that the 100 most populous urban areas of the United States, 
as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall be eligible 
 for grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative of the Department 
             of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 7, 2007

  Mrs. Boxer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To specify that the 100 most populous urban areas of the United States, 
as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall be eligible 
 for grants under the Urban Area Security Initiative of the Department 
             of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Urban Area Security Initiative 
Improvement Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act--
            (1) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Homeland 
        Security; and
            (2) the term ``Urban Area Security Initiative'' means the 
        Urban Area Security Initiative grant program administered by 
        the Department of Homeland Security from funds appropriated for 
        discretionary grants to high-threat, high-density urban areas.

SEC. 3. GRANTS UNDER URBAN AREA SECURITY INITIATIVE.

    (a) Eligibility.--
            (1) In general.--Each of the 100 most populous urban areas 
        of the United States shall be eligible for a grant under the 
        Urban Area Security Initiative.
            (2) Determination.--For purposes of this subsection, the 
        Secretary shall determine the urban areas referred to in 
        paragraph (1) in accordance with the data collected in the most 
        recent census of the United States.
    (b) Sensitivity Analysis.--The Secretary shall award grants under 
the Urban Area Security Initiative after conducting a study of how the 
variation in the output of models (numerical or otherwise) used for 
such awards can be apportioned, qualitatively or quantitatively, to 
different sources of variation (commonly referred to as sensitivity 
analysis).
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