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FY 2011 Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP)

Total Funding Available in FY 2011: $200,079,000

Purpose: TSGP provides funds to owners and operators of transit systems (which include intracity bus, commuter bus, ferries, and all forms of passenger rail) to protect critical surface transportation infrastructure and the traveling public from acts of terrorism and to increase the resilience of transit infrastructure. 

Eligible Applicants: Eligible transit agencies were determined based on daily unlinked passenger trips (ridership) and transit systems that serve historically eligible Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) jurisdictions.  Certain ferry systems were eligible to participate in the FY 2011 TSGP and receive funds.   However, any ferry system electing to participate and receive funds under the FY 2011 TSGP cannot participate in the FY 2011 Port Security Grant Program (PSGP), and were not considered for funding under the FY 2011 PSGP.  Likewise, any ferry system that participates in the PSGP cannot be considered for funding under the TSGP.  

Program Awards: DHS focused available transit security grant dollars on the highest-risk systems through a competitive process.

DHS identified Operational Deterrence projects as the top funding priority for FY 2011 TSGP. In addition, DHS identified critical infrastructure assets of national concern through the Top Transit Asset List (TTAL).  Critical infrastructure assets were those vital to the functionality and continuity of a major transit system and their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, public health or safety, or any combination thereof.  With the creation of the TTAL, DHS can now target funding to the remediation of those assets on the list in an informed and risk-based approach.

DHS also identified priority project types and placed them into groups based on their effectiveness to reduce risk.  These groups were prioritized based upon departmental priorities and their ability to strengthen security on a system-wide level, to strengthen security to critical infrastructure assets, and to reduce the risk of catastrophic events and consequences.

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Last Modified: Tuesday, 23-Aug-2011 11:12:56 EDT