Homeland Security Grant Review Act

Homeland Security Grant Review Act - Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), one year after this Act's enactment and every two years thereafter, to review the grants management and oversight practices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with respect to the Urban Area Security Initiative grant program, the State Homeland Security Grant Program, public transportation security grants, railroad security grants, over-the-road bus security grants, and maritime transportation and facility security grants.

Requires such review to assess: (1) the FEMA workforce that administers such grants; (2) any additional resources and staff necessary to carry out management and oversight; (3) coordination with other DHS components with a role in assisting FEMA in managing and administering the grants; and (4) the procedures that grant recipients must follow to obligate and expend their grant awards.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5573 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5573

To require the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security 
 to biennially review and evaluate the grants management and oversight 
         practices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 22, 2010

  Mr. Carney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Homeland Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security 
 to biennially review and evaluate the grants management and oversight 
         practices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

    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 ``Homeland Security Grant Review 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF GRANTS MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT 
              PRACTICES OF THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY.

    (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, and every two years thereafter, the Inspector 
General of the Department of Homeland Security shall review and 
evaluate the grants management and oversight practices of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency with respect to the grants authorized 
under--
            (1) sections 2003 and 2004 of the Homeland Security Act (6 
        U.S.C. 604 and 605);
            (2) sections 1406, 1513, and 1532 of the National Transit 
        Systems Security Act of 2007 (6 U.S.C. 1135, 1163, and 1182); 
        and
            (3) section 70107 of title 46, United States Code.
    (b) Components.--The review under subsection (a) shall include an 
assessment of and recommendations relating to--
            (1) the skills, resources, and capabilities of the Federal 
        Emergency Management Agency workforce that administers such 
        grants, both at Federal Emergency Management Agency 
        headquarters and in the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
        regional offices as appropriate;
            (2) any additional resources and staff necessary to carry 
        out such management and oversight;
            (3) coordination with other components of the Department of 
        Homeland Security with a role in assisting the Federal 
        Emergency Management Agency manage and administer the grants 
        referred to in subsection (a); and
            (4) the procedures that recipients of grants referred to in 
        subsection (a) must follow in order to obligate and expend 
        their grant awards.
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