The Peru Gazette

Albany, June 10, 2026 – Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that nearly $140 million in federal funding is available to support counterterrorism and emergency preparedness efforts across the state. The funding, provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency through its FY 2025 Homeland Security Grant Program and its Emergency Management Performance Grant, supports regional homeland security preparedness efforts, including planning, organization, equipment, training and exercise activities which are critical to sustaining and improving community prevention, protection, response, and recovery capabilities. The New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services manages these programs in close coordination with local stakeholders.

FEMA’s Homeland Security Grant Program is comprised of three separate risk-based grants aimed at assisting state, local and tribal efforts in preventing, preparing for, protecting against and responding to acts of terrorism. Those programs are the State Homeland Security Program, the Urban Area Security Initiative and Operation Stonegarden.

Note – Clinton County awarded three grants. Scroll down to see the exact amounts. 

Award amounts are listed below:

Urban Area Security Initiative – $92.2 million

This funding is awarded to jurisdictions in the New York City metropolitan area under the Urban Area Security Initiative grant. The region will use this money to sustain and enhance their critical anti-terrorism programs. Based on federal guidelines, 80% of the award is allocated to partners in the region’s Urban Area Working Group (UAWG), using a consensus-based process. The UAWG partners include: New York City; Nassau, Suffolk, and Westchester counties; the City of Yonkers; and the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey. The remaining 20 percent of funding is used by the state to further enhance New York’s counterterrorism and emergency preparedness posture within the urban area.

Operation Stonegarden Grant Program – $2.7 million

This grant provides critical funding to enhance cooperation and coordination between federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies through the support of joint operations which are conducted along the northern border.

Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) – $6.6 million

Governor Hochul also announced $6.6 million in federal funding was awarded to county emergency management agencies in New York State to support planning and operational readiness for disaster response. Through the annual federal Emergency Management Performance Grant provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, this funding assists efforts ranging from development and implementation of training and exercises to acquiring emergency response resources at the county level.

Funding may be used to support:

• Management and administration activities.
• Planning.
• Staffing for Emergency Management Agencies.
• Equipment.
• Training and exercises.
• Construction and renovation of Emergency Operations Centers.
• Maintenance and sustainment of GIS and interoperable communications systems.

Award amounts available to local emergency management agencies are listed below: