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| | FEMA: FEMA Awards $1.66 Million To California For Local Homeland Security Efforts, Including Citizen Corps And CERT ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | President Bush established the Citizen Corps initiative (www.citizencorps.gov), a component of the USA Freedom Corps, to provide individuals with opportunities to volunteer in a range of homeland security measures within their communities. |
 | | Citizen Corps' mission is to make communities safer, stronger and better prepared to respond to threats of terrorism, crime, public health issues, and disasters of all kinds by engaging individuals in emergency preparedness and response through education, training, and volunteer service. |
 | | FEMA Region IX serves the states of Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada, as well as the territories of American Samoa and Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia. |
| www.fema.gov /regions/ix/2002/r9_18.shtm (371 words) |
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