Provisions include

1. Enhanced information sharing between different branches of government and between federal,state,county and local governments.

2. Interoperable Communications-provides funding to ensure that different branches of first responders (.i.e. firefighters and police) can communicate with each other. Their inability to do cost lives on 9/11.

3. Cracks down on loopholes in visa waiver law that enable terrorist travel.

4. Strengthens biosurveillance,private sector preparedness

5. Enhanced disclosure

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/13/18248/4412

In re: Item #2, I can cite four or five sources off the top of my head that will tell you that, while new radios are nice, the money is better spent on teaching people how to communicate in a disaster than giving them the radio on which they can still refuse to talk to others.

and bush will find a way to parse all those words in each step to use to his heart's content

I can think of a dozen evil new things just from those sentences above