II 110th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 510 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 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.

1.

Short title

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

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.

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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).