States slowly spending first responder funding
Emergency Management Alert, April 12, 2004
A federal report released last week says states aren't spending first responder funding, according to the Associated Press.
In many cases, the states blame the federal government's failure to provide spending guidelines as the reason for the delays.
The Homeland Security Department's inspector general described "bureaucratic logjams" over the money at every level in the government.
"State officials told us that they prefer to go slow to get it right," DHS Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin wrote in the 52-page report. The agency's Office of Domestic Preparedness oversees and funds the local plans.
The states cite overly tight deadlines to consider federal grant programs and unclear federal guidelines among reasons for the delays.
Of the $124 million funding, 82 percent sat unspent in the federal Treasury, the report noted. However, a third of the funding was not immediately available because states had not completed necessary grant applications to accept it.
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