ney will go to the budget of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The money will to hiring trained epidemiologists and public health advisors in all 50 states. This money will also improve the state and local laboratory facilities to test suspected biological and chemical agents and to enhance communication networks. Included in this fund will be insurances that medicines such as Citpro and the small pox vaccine are being produced in case there becomes a widespread need for them. Next is the issue of airport security. The budget will allocate $7.5 billion dollars to help advance airport security in the next 5 years. $1 billion dollars of this will go to employ 25,000 federal airport security workers. These workers will be paid approximately $30,000 dollars a year plus benefits. This enhanced security will help reduce the risk of more airborne attacks by making it more difficult for hi-jackers to board plans. The other $6.5 billion in airport security will go to tightening FAA regulations in regards to such things as cockpit security and matching baggage on airplanes with the passengers. The FAA has not previously required baggage to be matched because of an executive order issued by President Ronald Reagan, which stated that federal agencies imposing regulations on businesses must demonstrate that the benefits justify the cost. Before the attack on September 11th the FAA estimated that the cost of a bombing would be approximately $200 million dollars, which did not justify the $6.5 billion needed to establish the matching baggage program. However, the actual costs of the attack dwarfed the FAAs assumptions seeing as how the property damage alone in New York City has been estimated upwards of $30 billion dollars. The remaining $1.5 billion dollars will go to help major cities across the US prepare for and prevent terrorist attacks. This program includes counter-terrorism training for local police and fire departmen...
