The new department would also give state and local agencies one point of contact for homeland security issues.
In addition, State and local agencies have different acquisition requirements, planning cycles and technical requirements.
So for the past five years, federal, state and local agencies have been trying to fix the problem.
While positive in intent, the House Bill incorrectly places full responsibility for security on government, state and local agencies.
More than 35 federal, state and local agencies have been involved in planning for the event, which began a year ago.
Over the past several years 66 state and local agencies have signed up, from the Missouri Highway Patrol to the police department of Framingham, Massachusetts.
Bush is expected to say the proposed new department is crucial to improving coordination, not only within the federal government but also with state and local agencies.
The official said the warning was sent in a weekly bulletin to 18, 000 state and local agencies, a lightly classified alert that outlines possible tactics terrorists could use.
The service will continue to investigate this situation and will work with the other federal, state and local agencies and organizations involved to help identify the cause and possible remediation.
According to the IG, plans called for these items to be transferred or sold to the DOD Humanitarian Assistance Program, the Indian Health Service, state and local agencies and the general public.
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Justice Department officials say the 8, 000 state and local agencies in the equitable-sharing program have greatly expanded the federal government's ability to go after criminal activities, particularly the movement of drugs and drug cash along the nation's highways.
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According to the FBI compilation of hate crime statistics in the U.S., drawn from between eleven and fifteen thousand participating federal, state, and local agencies, since and including 2001, hate crimes against Muslims in the United States have averaged about 2% of all reported hate crimes each year.
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Subsequently, I found my way into private practice and have enjoyed a rewarding career helping out and advocating on behalf of state and local governmental agencies, consumer oriented groups and smaller private entities in their battles against the larger corporations and government agencies, too, primarily in the energy industry.
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The public safety community believes that the block of spectrum it had been allocated is not enough to enable the type of interoperable data, video, and future voice services needed to ensure that all public safety organizations including federal, state, and local agencies could communicate during incidents.
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Tuesday marked the first 24 hours that state and local law agencies began enforcing the state immigration law since Monday's court ruling, and law agencies were either engaged in training or rolling out the mandatory immigration checks, said Amy Rezzonico, a spokeswoman for Arizona attorney general's office.
The bill also requires all federal, state, and local agencies to run existing employees through E-Verify.
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Federal, state and local government agencies can support that work, but they don't lead it.
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State and local government agencies, such as the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning in this fleet management example, can help spur innovation through free market competition.
Ashcroft told the audience of about 150 federal members of the counterterrorism task force that he expects them to coordinate the interviews but that state and local police agencies will conduct most of the questioning.
As a result of the tax preference for munis, the federal government not only forgoes the revenue that it would otherwise be collecting from the interest income, but more importantly, it effectively subsidizes greater spending and debt by state and local government agencies.
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Bush signed a federal disaster declaration Wednesday, freeing money to help residents rent temporary homes and repair damaged homes and businesses and to help local and state agencies pay for the emergency response.
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Additionally, it is available to federal, state, and local governmental agencies and departments via GammaTech's GSA contract.
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That means there will likely be a greater role for state and local law enforcement agencies, but state budgets are already constrained.
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To its credit (and the consternation of the New York Times), the NYPD has not only created active intelligence-sharing arrangements with a number of other U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
Security will be tight during the six-day visit, with 27 state, local and federal agencies protecting the pope as he meets with religious leaders, celebrates Mass at two baseball stadiums and makes his way around in the popemobile.
In addition to medical devices, the Defense Information Systems Agency and the Defense Logistics Agency sold or donated more than 77, 900 pieces of computer equipment to various federal, state and local law enforcement agencies that also may be at risk of Year 2000 failures.
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We've set up a violent crimes task force that is up and running, and coordinates between the FBI and all the various local and state agencies.
Federal partners continue to work closely with first responders and firefighters from local, state, and tribal agencies to combat and monitor large wildfires throughout the country.
The alert is intended to put the public and the nation's 18, 000 local and state law enforcement agencies on notice of potential trouble.
By adding climate change adaptation and fish and wildlife benefits to their highway projects, local and state agencies can stretch their highway budgets further by tapping into federal wildlife funds, said Corrie Miller, executive director of the Ausable River Association in the northeastern Adirondacks.
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