The bulk of it is for improving disease tracking, especially through computer networks, hiring and training. States can use some of the money for their particular circumstances.
A new law adds more than $4 billion for stockpiling vaccines, improving food inspections, boosting security for water systems and more. It's unclear when those funds will get to the states.
Here's a breakdown of what will go to the states and four cities directly once all the money is disbursed, and some examples of planned bioterror defenses.
Alabama -- $16,873,276.
Alaska -- $6,888,597. A new security office oversees threats to ferries, ports, airports, roads and bridges in this state of far-flung communities, and has proposed stockpiling replacement parts and temporary spans in case bridges are hit by terrorists.
Arizona -- $18,659,807.
Arkansas - $12,237,400.
California -- $70,779,150.
Chicago -- $12,819,246.
Colorado -- $16,492,100. Colorado's acute-care hospitals have received new protective ``moon suits,'' and the state will hire 14 epidemiologists to improve disease tracking and identification.
Connecticut -- $14,151,041.
Delaware -- $7,298,076.
District of Columbia -- $11,995,177.
Florida -- $47,022,750. Florida's computer network, which will be coordinated with Georgia and Alabama, will also reach some of the region's Indian tribes.
Georgia -- $26,646,732.
Hawaii -- $8,416,564.
Idaho -- $8,631,973.
Illinois -- $30,140,755. Four communities will receive money to assess the vulnerability of their drinking water.
Indiana -- $21,142,415. The state veterinarian and Purdue University will get money to prepare for responses to outbreaks of livestock diseases like foot and mouth and avian influenza, as well as the detection of plant pests and diseases.
Iowa -- $12,898,461.
Kansas -- $12,276,652.
Kentucky -- $15,813,872. Kentucky is enhancing two veterinary labs to track agro-terror.
Los Angeles -- $28,250,343.
Louisiana -- $16,930,453.
Maine -- $8,582,235.
Maryland -- $19,093,295. A hospital and the state stadium authority plan a bioterror drill in July in which hundreds of volunteers will evacuate the Baltimore Ravens football stadium.
Massachusetts -- $21,844,479.
Michigan -- $31,225,867.
Minnesota -- $18,107,921.
Mississippi -- $12,685,012.
Missouri -- $19,874,066.
Montana -- $7,608,045.
Nebraska -- $9,722,687.
Nevada -- $10,472,795. Nevada is building a lab in the state's south. Officials were disconcerted in October when it took hours to deliver samples from an anthrax scare in Las Vegas to the only state lab, in Reno.
New Hampshire -- $8,479,944. The Legislature has mandated broad quarantine powers but backed away from mandating vaccines after protests from civil liberties groups.
New Jersey -- $27,242,380.
New Mexico -- $10,004,395. Officials hope to train Mexican medical personnel to identify an outbreak across the border.
New York -- $33,917,260. Officials plan to spend more than $1 million to protect reservoirs.
New York City -- $26,181,040.
North Carolina -- $26,288,291.
North Dakota -- $6,928,502.
Ohio -- $34,923,424.
Oklahoma -- $14,268,890.
Oregon -- $14,192,426. Oregon will hire a mental health professional to draw up plans to deal with the ``demoralization'' of a population in case of a bioterror attack.
Pennsylvania -- $37,348,690. Pennsylvania has set aside money for drug and alcohol treatment services, because abuse tends to increase after a trauma.
Rhode Island -- $7,989,965. Rhode Island has staged biological attack drills involving hundreds of volunteers at a naval war college, an airport, a mall and a convention center. The drills discovered that hospitals lacked the proper surgical masks to stop airborne infiltration and that officials used confusing and often meaningless acronyms during a crisis.
South Carolina -- $15,736,097.
South Dakota -- $7,222,917. South Dakota is outfitting a semitrailer as a mobile bioterror lab. It is also securing likely targets, such as dams and Mount Rushmore.
Tennessee -- $20,119,939. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency has created a CD-ROM series to train local rescue workers in how to handle nuclear, biological and chemical attacks or accidents.
Texas -- $59,749,890. Texas is the only state to include the stockpiling of antibiotics specifically for children.
Utah -- $11,086,779. Utah wants to expand the ``Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance'' system it tested during the Winter Olympics.
Vermont -- $6,841,277.
Virginia -- $23,750,941.
Washington -- $20,655,319.
West Virginia -- $9,976,425.
Wisconsin -- $19,268,906.
Wyoming -- $6,540,590. The state has plans to counter a livestock disease outbreak that might be caused by a terrorist. Officials tracked the sale of animals from one area of the state to 30 states within 24 hours, showing how quickly infected livestock might be scattered around the country.
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