transit security grants. as far as the 2012, the transit security grant program, there is only $87 millionprram. that's down from the previous year of 2011 where there was 200 million. and that's down from previous years. so the amount of funding needs to increase. in 2013, the elimination or the reduction of the time to finish performance on projects goes from three to five to two years. congressman price mentioned a project like that you wouldn't be able to do. essentially what will happen is you'll be eliminating any major capital projects at all. it will all just be for operating expenses. and finally, we believe that the going through the states for funding believes just adds another step to the process. and it's not that's. most transit systems are already prepared to be able to accept grants directly, and there is no need to go through the states and just add additional administration to the program. >> thank you. mr. price? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank all of you for some very useful te

and 27% from doj grants. flexibility from urban areas to determine how center is supported is an essential element of the national network. simply put, the decentralized network is a national asset and it's the same as a shared responsibility among all levels of government. there is no other mechanism to leveraging more than two million public safety practitioners and the private sector in every corner of the country to protect the homeland. let me conclude with a story that shows the value of the national network. recently a local police officer in alabama made a traffic stop. based on plain sight observations, the officer asked to see the contents of a duffel bag in the backseat. inside the duffle back were four police uniforms and four police badges. when reviewed, each of them stated they were headed to a location in colorado and the occupants were allowed on their way. what happens next shows how far we've come in taking proactive measures to protect the homeland. the officer completed a report and click

on the grant system. i wanted to highlight that to you as a grant that is a source for the equipment for the project and the future and i am happy to answer any questions that you may have. supervisor chu: i believe that we have no budget analysts report. let's open this up for public comment. other members of the public that wish to speak on this item, number three? >> good morning, supervisors. my name is douglas. i have lived in san francisco for 60 years. i speak in support of this ordinance. in my opinion, the city and county of san francisco has underestimated the potential dangers from different sources, especially overseas. this type of workmen's would increase the vigilance of the different departments inside the san francisco. being a longtime resident, i do not look forward to being vaporized by whichever enemy you want to call our enemy. i think that anything resembling something like this needs to be accepted and needs to be recognized as something that is actually real in the sense that in t

are grants and firefighters grants but not much else. you have 16 programs consolidated here. and you lay down a couple of criteria which will govern your grant-making. one is the utilization of a competitive-risk based model to make these decision and also, requiring grantees to develop and sustain core capabilities and those criteria on the face of it raise certain issues because you're consolidating programs here that that have had somewhat different rationales and different criteria for funding decisions. the two largest are the state homeland security security program and the urban area security initiative. these are two very different programs. one is intended to build corp capacity across the country. the other is intended to protect the most at-risk areas of the country. i wonder if you could indicate up front, your estimate of how much money will go toward those two basic programs. and then, how are some of the current guidelines likely to apply when you're providing -- you're going to still provide as the 9/11 act requires, you

doj grants. flexibility to determine how center is composed is an essential part of the network. the centers are a national asset. it is a shared responsibility among all levels of government. there's no other mechanism for leveraging public and private sectors to protect the land. let me conclude with a story that shows the value of the national network. recently a police officer in alabama may traffic stop. based on observations, the officer asked to see the contents of a bag in the back seat. inside the bag were police uniforms and badges. when interviewed, each document stated they were headed to colorado and were allowed to go on their way. what happened next shows how far we have come and taking corrective measures to protect the land. the officer completed a report and injured in the alabama reporting system. the suspicious report went immediately to the alabama fusion center. it analyzed the information and contact of the colorado fusion center. the fbi has brought both centers. -- preppe

with respect to the planning grant and as we're finalizing the planning grant if this grant then resultse successful funding at the federal level. you're talking about $30 million which is where this figure comes in. so with that i'll turn it over to mr. coral. you've -- you can bhadge it would mean to the neighborhood. >> thank you but yeah, i was going to zpweet a little bit of the detail as to whereer we are in the process and specifically who has the balls. yeah, the supervisor has been instrumental. as well as a whole host of community partners. this is really hard to read but it's in your packet. and you can see the whole most of community involvement. the proposal that we submitted to receive the planning grant was submitted in accept of last year. and so we are not in the planning page for the next year. but we will be submitting our proposal in july. >> when the application is available. we have a treasure, commissioner mendoza, the supersbhen dent. timo thee guerrero. the prinpls of four schools which i'll talk about in a little bit. we have a core project team made up of metta

next, we have more grants, more grants that have either been spent in the last fiscal year, or more grants them -- that we will be spending in this fiscal year. coming from a line item down to the regional development authority spending. we also have $146,000 that we are adding to to the designation that has been accepted to run the transportation island transportation program. that item was approved back in october 2011. as we are going down the schedule, we have other avenues. a large revenue projects that consists of $707,000 a dpw because -- for dpw and the federal highway administration emergency release grant for a great highway project. we also have some refunds from projects like tjpa . below that, we have the $750,000 addition to the budget. the $2.5 million that we will be receiving to move to the new building at market street. telling them the list, we still have expenditures. unfortunately, most of the revenues is the bit -- vehicle registration fee. it should cost about $10 for the people of san francisco. there has been a delay in the expenditures in the 2011 crop b expenditu

with his respect to the comments that all the grants should be together, i can't speak for all the grants, but i can speak, as you well know, ports historically in this country as a nation are largely federally controlled. our biggest partner is the u.s. coast guard. and i think one of the things that has been done well in this system is the coast guard system of having the area maritime security committees review grant proposals and try to determine where the vulnerabilities are and where the needs are. so if you're looking at the relationship between a city and a state and a port and a state, they're very, very different. ports are very federally focused. port facilities are federally regulated facilities. so i think there is a very good reason why the port funding should be separate from the other funding. you know, with respect to suggestions, i think as i said first of all, the funding has been woefully decreased. it's authorized at $400 million. and this year it's been recommended at $97.5 million. that's a 75% decrease over a few years. i think the second thing, as i also said in m

and those three were granted -- were granted jurisdiction requests for the reason that the standard of review is not whether or not the process was followed. the department of public works did follow the old process. but the granting of the request is a broader-based request of whether the city did something intentionally or not intentionally to provide notice. when you look at an ordinance that did not provide notice, even if it was unintentional oversight, there still was not as for those permits. >> i am understand that, but i do not feel that is responsive to the request that you feel every time there has been a jurisdiction requested where a 11.09b ruled, we have granted it. >> for next gen, yes. there has been a denial of the appeal a ultimately. >> i remember one that had to do with whether or not it was a good view. to me, that was a very different situation. but you have given your answer and you have granted that you are willing to stipulate jurisdiction. that pretty much closes that off. if any of you want to make a comment, if it is very brief, we will entertain it. >> all

what i see here is that you're getting a grant. we have at three or 4000 women, mostly teenagers who are pregnant who could use this grant so what i am encouraging the people who gave the presentation is to have a website where the empirical data is posted said that we can see exactly what is done. normally what happens is even though the presenters don't look like anybody who lives in the community, we need people who look like the people who live in the community who sympathize with them and understand the conditions to be part of this program. these type of grants do not benefit and there is a lot of dictation. you will see 650,000 that are there trying to employ three or four people from this grant. maybe they should employ one or two people from this grant and put more money to serve more women in the disadvantaged areas. this is a very very deep issue that cannot be addressed in two minutes but this is what happens. people come here, speak arbitrarily in general terms. some questions were asked, not a very deep questions. i w

literally a transit grant, a port grant, urban security area, a state. if we're looking at national preparedness and identify gaps, how do we get the funds to address those if we're so bifurcated and how we're identifying how the money is being spent in different programs which, again, oftentimes local jurgs dictions are working together already. as we look at fy-12, we're funding the urban security grandz and doing grants for transit and port which are being addressed on those grants. and as we look at the combined of those grants, we see similar process within overall grant structure. but would identify in that grant application process the priorities for the urban areas, the priorities for those things as a national priority. but not necessarily put them into separate pots of money or identify separate funding streams and give more flexibility to the states and their partners to address how we would fund that within the jurisdictio jurisdictions. >> thank you, i now recognize mr. rogers. >> can you hear me okay? >> yes, sir. >> mr. chairman, thank you

>>grant: the kron4 is at 8:00 p.m. is just getting started. >> here at sfo look for the number of passengers to nearly double over the next 20 years. what does that mean for passengers and what about air fare? as story is coming up. >> to grey whales have been spotted, stated, i will get reactions from people hoping to get a glance of the giant marine mammals. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] offering four distinct driving modes and lexus' dynamic handling, the next generation of lexus will not be contained. the all-new 2013 lexus gs. there's no going back. ♪ >>grant: to grey whales have been spotted swimming around in the san francisco bay. jeff bush spoke with people flocking to the water hoping to get a peek at the majestic marine mammals. saw them i have been here 21 years and i have never seen a whale. >> i think they are magnificent creatures did >>grant: the adults can grow 45-50 ft. here is a little bit of perspective. it is even to get within 300 ft. of a wheel. >> it has been one day since it has been announced and the

right off the grant grant would be unemployed. he'd be working back at his tannery, his farmer's tannery. >> grant was relieved of command after donelson, some trumped up stuff. w

grant was -- as you know, grant was relieved of the command after donelson. he was relieved when he was victorious. if he was not victorious, he would have been fired, too, certainly. the effect of the long term, what i would suspect is that they would have -- the union would ve another competent decision, they might have done it differently. it might have been

the drinking problem that grant had left to one side. first of all, they were both brilliant generals and successful generals, victorious generals. and grant's strategy was the winning strategy for the union in 1854 and 1855. that strategy very much formed what ike did when he landed in europe in 1944. he was an admirer of grant. they were both small town boys. they both grew up poor. they both went to west point and were uncomfortable there for some time and didn't rise and shine in the west point cadet hierarchy. their approach to war was very similar, and they were both two-term presidents who two terms are in my opinion vastly underrated. i think they were both good presidents. ike a better president than grant. ike i think was one of our best presidents. so, the more i began to think about ike and read about ike, the more i discovered i didn't know and wanted to know and the more i liked him. in 1951 irving berlin musical, a famous song "they like ike." and that became ike's political theme song through no choice of his own. but the

it was a 2006 care level grant. earth keepers partnership included 140 congregations, 25 regional pharmacies, police departments, the indian community. dental offices and financial community. all coming together to protect their environment. >> great program. thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman's time has expired. i thought you may grab my question when you were talking about the cooling tower issue, bobby. otherwise, we could work together on that. i'd like to recognize myself for five minutes ago. i have four i'm doing to try to rush through. it's very difficult as you know. but my colleague from georgia is in the front row and we were e-mailing over the weekend based upon the budget submission. so i represent rural america. he represents rural america. so in your spending guidance for the $212 million, it will distribute tech assistance. do you agree it does not include the prioritizing the funding that's most beneficial to small communities? >> i don't agree, sir, but i would have to

disaster grants, i'm not saying we're not going to be granting more extensions. part of that is the authority to grant the extensions and also i found that as much people hate deadlines, they get stuff done. but we also recognize that in giving them the mission to get those moneys drawn down on projects, as much as it already work is under way. getting it drown dawn, is we looked at what was eligible for funding and where we had inconsistencies, we were actually able to go back and provide additional eligibility so they can get those funds drawn down based upon expanding what was eligible in that scope of work. so woehr doog two things there. one is working really hard so people knew where they were at, what time lines were and also looking at ---en that is based upon their request for more flexibility. we were able to go back to the secretary and authorize us to provide that flexibility so that they have more ability to get those grants drawn down quicker on that work. but no extensions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. fema moved along with their flood map moderniza

of grants issued by epa. my question to you this morning would be do you know the total amount of the grants given by epa to foreign entities? foreign companies? foreign charitable organizations, ngos? do you know the dollar amount of those grants? >> i believe we have. give me one second, please, mr. chairman. i know it's less than 2/3rd of 1%. >> do you have a dollar amount? >> i can give you the amount of foreign activities, because very little of what is for foreign activity actually goes outside the country. that is $844,985. >> repeat that, it's for what? >> for programs that have to do with the international programs, sir. >> the reason i'm asking the question is when we do have a $16 trillion federal debt and most economists believe it's going to be a serious obstacle for economic development in the future. you said that $800,000 or something for international. and we have found, for example, that epa gave us $17,800 grant to help china comply with stockholm convention agreements. we found $700,000 to

and the date of the grant. would you be able to do that for us? >> i would be happy to do that. >> thank you. thank you very much. now, one of the things that is a little bit troublesome to me in the president's 2013 budget is that he, in essence, eliminates part of the anti-lobbying provisions of the use of federal funds. as you know, in the appropriation bills, since the mid '70s, we had prohibitions using federal funds for lobbying. to define it more specifically, prohibits using federal funds being used to influence in any manner, an official to favor or adopt by vote or otherwise, any legislation, law, ratification or policy. why would the president want to omit that from his fy '13 budget? >> mr. whitfield, i have to confess. i'm not sure exactly what is being referred to. i know that our fy '12 budget, our budget, and there may be other statements in other budgets that i'm not familiar with. our fy '12 budget included additional lobbying restrictions which we are actively working to comply with which not

and he's dealing directly with grant. so yes, it can be a possibility -- a problem with micromanaging. but grant was able to correctly, selectively ignore some things. but he got the tone of what halleck wanted and was able to operate successfully. yes, sir. >> could you speak about columbus and belmont and how that impacted -- defenses. in '61 and '62. the mississippi river had about seven major fortifications starting at columbus, working all the way down past memphis, to vicksburg. there was about seven of them. and they're all fairly substantial works. if you ever get to columbus, kentucky, it's well worth the trip. if you see what they have built there and what's still around them you see these walls that are 20, 30 feet high. they're 30 to 40 feet wide. they're massive constructionses. then you see the little chicken scratchings out here in the water battery in the little fort donelson, you could see where the confederate majority of effort was. where they were concentrating was on the mississippi river. because the

do you know how much of the money that is granted -- that is grant money for states that have not yet been distributed? any idea on that money? >> there are large unobligated balances and unliquidated balances. there are two different things in the state revolving funds. the states, we give them money once a year. i think on time to the states. how quickly they draw that money down. >> do you have any idea how much money was budgeted for state grants? >> there's a number of grants. the state revolving funds are about $2 billion. we have the categorical grants, which are $1.2 billion. about 40% of our budget goes to state and travel grants. >> thank you very much. mr. chairman my time is expired and i yield back. >> at this time i recognize the gentlelady from colorado. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman. administrator, thank you for coming here to talk to us. as you know and there's been little discussion about this, we've had great advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the last few years which has enabled to us have oil and gas production in many, many new are

none of our organizations could have secured this grant by results. one of the things that is most impressive about this effort is it was a collaboration of all these groups that came together, and now more than 1800 people in our city, many of whom have been unemployed for way too long in this economy, now have new opportunities for career training and internships to be launched, new successful careers. we are really proud to be part of that. we, wested, will be the managing partner project manager of this initiative. most of the people you see here will be the on the ground trainers, working with all of you. i want to take a minute to introduce people. i am not sure i know where everyone is. rhonda simmons is here, the director of work-force development for the office of economic and workforce development. phyllis mcguire, vice chancellor for city college. carol burnie is the executive director for -- we have not met. i am sure i'm not supposed to say that. nice to meet you. billy wong, the executive director here. of course, jay, who you know. and

disaster grants, i'm not saying we're not going to be granting more extensions. we looked at what was eligible for funding, had inconsistencies, were able to go back and provide additional eligibility so they could get those funds drawndown based on expending bhafs ewhat was eligi that scope of work. making sure people knew where they were at, what the time lines were on those grants. this is based upon their request for more flexibility. we were able to go back and the secretary authorized us to provide that flexibility so they had the ability to get those grants drawn down quicker on that work. but no extensions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. fema moved along with their flood map modernization efforts, there have been some complaints. i'm sure you're well aware of the process and the cost, localities to try to meet the standards especially for the levees. and this is a big deal, again, obviously with the flooding and on the missouri there. can you tell us what some of the complaints are and the accreditation and the cost part of it and tell me any suggestions you

a grant reform. we want to know how will grant reform work and how will fema allocate funding under the new framework? will you provide funding to high-risk urban areas, port authority's and transit agencies as you have in the past, or will it be provided solely to states for distribution? further per more, if allegations are dependent upon a state's threat and risk assessment, will you provide data on the process that you announce over a year ago. these questions and others must be answered as you're proposal is considered. and as you continue to engage congress on this matter i strongly encourage you to reach out to the states and the local stakeholders that will be impacted by these proposed changes. mr. fugate, these are some issues which you're very familiar. you have seen these issues from the local, state and now federal level. i look forward to your thoughts and your, on these issues and problems, and what progress you have made in the last year as well as the challenges that remain. i'll --

partnership grants and protection and advocacy grants. state department grant partnerers nepartner es need assessment. with these tools states have made progress in accessing to tbi screenings and support through screenings and coordination. there are specialized legally based services to help recipients understand laws for self-advocacy. training and self-advocacy ensures that individuals can get service. the primary responsibility for tbi research. the breast of research reflects complexity that is presented. nih support study for develop of diagnostics and therapy and corri clinical trials. they lead a broad range of research related to tbi rehabilitation, falls in disorderly and disabilities that offer occur with tbi. they are response for surveillance. they implement evidence based tbi educational material and clinical guidelines, informed evidence based policy through activities like the heads-up initiative and educates departments on shaken baby syndrome. cdc works with national experts to produce the field triage guidelines for th

the permit is to be granted. president garcia: 02 apologies, we are going to take a short break. >> we will start with the appellant, you have seven minutes. >> president garcia, commissioners -- >> if you will pull the microphone, we will use that one. >> sorry. i'ma member -- i'm a member of the chinese-american voters education committee that is seeking a reversal of the entertainment commissioned of the decision to grant the applicant in after hours permit. the entertainment commission's position must be reversed because it was impermissibly in effect and with procedural irregularities and is totally unsupported by the records. stipulated fax including the high volume of volume associated with this neighborhood restaurant [unintelligible] there is no basis to grant this application. there is no right to operate a fast food restaurant 24 hours a day. furthermore, the commission's decision isn't in deference to this body. this body must give no regard to the decision except the fact that we point out, procedura

granting pntr is crucial for u.s. manufacturers, service providers, and agricultural producers to receive the full benefits of russia's wto accession. it is essential to enable to compete on a level playing field for russian customers. the reasons are clear. first, pntr will ensure equal treatment for u.s. companies doing business in russia. here is a concrete example. russia has committed upon ascension to significantly reduce its tariffs on imported agricultural equipment from 15% to 5%. however, it is likely that russia would not extend the lower tariff rates to u.s.-made products until it's granted pntr. u.s. companies like john deere thus would be at a competitive disadvantage relative to our foreign competitors, and we would have no recourse to the wto should disputes arise. this would negatively affect our u.s. operations because many of the products we sell in russia utilize components closely connected to jobs at our facilities in the american midwest. second, pntr will strengthen commercial ties between the

grant not part of that because hallic is looking at grant as a subordinate. you do my bidding, no more, no less. and he's dealing directly with grant. so, yes, it can be a possibility, a problem with micromanaging. but grant was able to correctly selectively ignore some things, but he got the tone of what hallic wanted out of that, so he was able to operate successfully. yes, sir. >> couldabore about columb columbus, belmont, how that impacted this area when the war came to ft. henry. >> sure. if you look at the map of confederate defenses in '61 and '62, the mississippi river had about seven major fort fictions, starting at columbus down past memphis to vicksburg. there was about seven of them. and they're all fairly substantial works. if you get to columbus, kentucky, it's well worth the trip. if you see what they have built there and what's still around there, you see these walls that are 20, 30 feet high. they're 30 to 40 feet wide. they're massive construction. then you see the little chicken scratchings in the water battery at ft. donelson. you can see