 The LLEBG program was enacted by the 104th Congress on April 26, 1996 after it was attached to the FY 2006 omnibus appropriations bill.Program funding was high initially, reaching $1.2 billion over the first three fiscal years of its existence, and supporting a wide variety of locally initiated programs.Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, LLEBG funding was deprecated in favor of counter-terrorism programs such as those funded by the new Department of Homeland Security.