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How US ports can make their way up the queue for federal grants.
(From Lloyds List)
CUT-THROAT jockeying is set to begin among US ports for some $175m of federal grant money expected to be doled out during fiscal 2006 under the port security grants programme, writes Rajesh Joshi in New York .
A potent method to make your begging bowl appear the most deserving is punctiliously to hew your grant demand to the format and guidelines laid out in the federal application packet, a senior Washington official advised the MarineLog conference audience in Washington.
It would also help to establish how closely your own fiscal need matches federal anti-terror goals. Thomas Robison, director of transport and intermodal security at the US Department of Homeland Security's Office of Domestic Preparedness, recounted how the $150m disbursed towards port security in fiscal 2005 was parcelled out under a revised scheme that took into account a risk matrix that ranked ports.
Only 66 ports out of some 361 said to exist in the US qualified as risky enough and thus eligible for the largesse, leaving several players with heavy axes to grind. The fact that there is no US federal definition of a port only compounded the issue, Mr Robison said.
Jay Grant, director of the lobbying coalition Port Security Council of America, told the audience that the $175m available in this year's funding round, the sixth since September 11, 2001, is expected to be disbursed among a set of 100 'most critical' ports as against 66.
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