Public safety likely didn’t receive $13 billion in grants from...
Public safety likely didn’t receive $13 billion in grants from 2001 to 2010, as estimated in a March 18 report by the Congressional Research Service, said the National Emergency Management Association. Some members of the House Communications Subcommittee cited the…
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$13 billion estimate in a hearing last week (CD May 28 p1). In a letter Friday, NEMA President Jim Mullen urged CRS to file a correction. The CRS report said it’s likely “that federal grants to improve emergency communications have exceeded $13 billion over the period 2001-2010, using the $11 billion for 2001-2006 reported by NEMA as the baseline.” The NEMA survey data cited from fiscal years 2006 and 2008 and represented an “estimate of funds necessary to achieve an undefined and nonspecific degree of interoperability, not estimates of funds actually received or expended,” Mullen wrote CRS. “Furthermore, the interoperability priorities of 2011 are incongruent to the priorities of Fiscal Years 2006 and 2008. The spectrum allocation creating the D-Block was not complete until 2007, likely well after many of our members completed this survey request.” CRS didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.