(1) The department focuses on three funding priorities for FY 2008: (1.a) measuring progress against the National Preparedness Guidelines (1.b) strengthening preparedness planning (1.c) strengthen IED prevention, protection and recovery (2) Law Enforcement Activities will become part of both the State Homeland Security Program (SHSP) and Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) programs, with a requirement to spend at least 25 percent of each award on these important prevention and protection activities. This will result in an increase of more than $66 million dollars from FY 2007 on prevention activities alone (3) The department is more narrowly focusing the funding priorities this year, with the goal of targeting funding where the largest gaps reside (4) As a result of the Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, the 10 FEMA regions will have an enhanced role in grant activities (5) The burden on grantees will be reduced as the Enhancement Plan portion of the application has been replaced by the State Preparedness Report (6) The department's risk methodology for the grants has been revised to reflect input from the 9/11 Act, including the use of Metropolitan Statistical Areas (7) The department's port-wide risk management activities have expanded this year, and include ports in Group 2, instead of only Group 1. (DHS, Fact Sheet FY08 Grants)