Aug 1, 2007,
A USA Today report in June said that nearly one-third of homeland security grants doled out to states since 9/11 remained unspent.
The report said that nearly $5 billion of the $16.04 billion approved by Congress from 2002 to 2007 remained in federal coffers, which suggests to the Bush administration that the federal government is dishing out money faster than states can spend.
Reasons for the backlog vary, according to the report and in some cases equipment has been back-ordered, in other cases money has been allotted for multiyear projects, such as upgrading communications systems. Some states said some of the money is unspent because communities can't come up with the matching funds required to spend the federal money.
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