FY 2009 Recovery Act – Combating Criminal Narcotics Activity Stemming from the Southern Border of the U.S.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (“Recovery Act”). The Recovery Act - Combating Criminal Narcotics Activity Stemming from the Southern Border of the U.S. (Southern Border/HIDTA) Competitive Grant Program provides support to initiatives that combat criminal narcotics activity in the U. S. southern border. For purposes of this solicitation, the southern border of the United States is limited to the following states: California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. Applications submitted under this solicitation must address job creation and retention in support of one of the following goals: 1) control, reduce, and/or prevent criminal narcotics activity along the southern border of the United States; or 2) control, reduce, and/or prevent criminal narcotics activity in High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTAs) in order to combat criminal narcotics activity stemming from the southern border of the United States. Applications will be submitted in categories that target the southern border and that include the following: combating criminal narcotics activity; enhancing southern border jails and community corrections; facilitating justice information sharing, collaboration, and problem solving; and training and technical assistance. The Southern Border/HIDTA Competitive Grant Program will solicit applications primarily from law enforcement agencies in the southern border or in HIDTAs combating criminal narcotics activity stemming from the southern border, as well as from national, state, regional, or local public and private entities, including for-profit (commercial) and nonprofit organizations, faith-based and community organizations, institutions of higher education, tribal jurisdictions, units of local government that provide needed assistance and equipment to law enforcement along the southern border of the United States. Applications for funding should be submitted through the on-line OJP Grants Management System (GMS). For additional information on the Office of Justice Programs’ Recovery Act Grant Programs, please visit the OJP website at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/recovery/.