March 18, 2014
Las Vegas, NV – Today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded the Las Vegas Urban Area (LVUA) $1 million as part of the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) grant program. Following Las Vegas’s omission from the program last year, Congresswoman Dina Titus has been actively working with officials from the Department of Homeland Security to restore lost UASI funding for the Las Vegas metropolitan area:
“I have been calling on DHS to include Las Vegas on the UASI list since our community was unwisely omitted from the program last year. I am pleased that we will receive this important counter-terrorism funding, and I will continue to press DHS to improve their risk analysis to better reflect the needs of Southern Nevada.”