HR 1 – The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Summary of spending programs by funding mechanism:
- Funds allocated by formula directly to local or regional entities;
- Funds allocated to the states for 1) discretionary pass through or 2) competitive grants; and
- Funds do be distributed at the Federal level by competitive process.
FORMULA ALLOCATIONS DIRECTLY TO THE LOCAL LEVEL
PROGRAM / AGENCY / OVERALL FUNDING LEVEL / PURPOSE – ADDITIONAL CRITERIA / DECISION-MAKING BODY / ELIGIBLE FUNDING RECIPIENTS
BYRNE JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANTS / Justice / $2 billion / Funds can be used forbroad-based public safety prevention,intervention, and suppression activities; law enforcement personnel;equipment and facilities (including crime laboratories); communitypolicing;prosecution and court programs; corrections andcommunity corrections programs; drug treatment and enforcement;planning and evaluation; technology improvements; crime victim andwitness programs, etc.
These funds areextremely flexible and can be utilized to pay for programs, equipment, and even somesalaries-prevention programs, drug enforcement programs, and buying equipment tosupport law enforcement are all permitted.
Funds are distributed 60/40 between state and local recipients. / Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) / Local Law Enforcement Agencies and States
ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION BLOCK GRANT (EECBG) / Energy / $2.8 billion / Funds will assist States, local governments, and tribes reduce fossil fuelemissions and total energy use, and improve energy efficiency in thetransportation, building, and other appropriate sectors, fundingfinancial incentives, grants for retrofits, transportation conservation,building codes, energy distribution technologies, landfill gas capture,etc.
Requires the local government allocation be based equally on (1) resident population;and (2) daytime populations and factors such as amount of commercial or officespace / Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy / Local governments over 35,000 in population – 68% of the funds
States – 28 %
Tribes – 2%
HIGHWAY INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT / Transportation (DOT) / $27.5 billion / Funds can be used for restoration, repair, construction, otheractivities eligible under the Surface Transportation Program (STP),passenger and freight rail and port infrastructure projects eligible forinnovative financing
-No matching funds required.
-Priority is to be given to projects in economically distressed areas.
-Priority is to be given to projects that can be completed within three (3) years.
-Funds cannot supplant existing funding, and states must certify within 30 days ofapportionment that existing funding is maintained.
-Fifty percent of funding to states (excludessuballocation to MPOs) must beobligated with 120 after apportionment Any funds not obligated within 120 dayswill be withdrawn and reapportioned to other states that are able to obligate thefunds.
-All funds must be obligated within one (1) year of apportionment. Any funds notobligated within one (1) year will be withdrawn and reapportioned to other statesthat are able to obligate the funds. The Secretary of the Federal Highway
Administration can grant an extension of one (1) year if a state is experiencing“extreme conditions” that create an “unworkable bidding environment”.
Funds will be apportioned within 21 days after enactment of the legislation to the state and MPOs. MPOs have been compiling lists of eligible projects, and it will be up to the Boards to allocate the funding. Cities should immediately contact their MPO to determine if their project is eligible and work with Board members to secure necessary funding. / US DOT
State DOTs
Local Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) / 50 % apportionedto States under STP formula;
50 % apportioned to metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) using Fiscal year 2008 obligation ratio
TRANSIT CAPITAL ASSISTANCE / Transportation (DOT) / $6.9 billion / Transit Capital Assistance may be used forbus, rail, and related capitalassistance.
This program contains the same restrictions listed above for Highway Infrastructure Grants.
$100 million set-aside for discretionarygrants to public transit agencies for capitalimprovements to assist in reducing energy consumption or greenhouse gas emissions of public transportation systems. Priority shall be given to projects based on totalenergy savings projected to result from theinvestment and projected energy savingsas a percentage of the total energy usage of the public transit agency; 80 percent apportioned to urbanized areas;10% to growing States and highdensity States, 10% to rural and non urban areas of which 2.5% of whichis for tribes / Federal Transit Administration / Local Transit Agencies
State DOTs
PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND / HUD / $3billion / Funds are for the development, financing, and modernization ofpublic housing.
Formula funds must be allocated within 30 days of enactment; Competitive funds must be allocated by September 30, 2009; PHAs must obligate 100 percent of funds within 1 year of availability;expend 60 percent within 2 years, and 100 percent within 3 years – failure tocomply with 1-year (or other) obligation requirement will result in
recapturing all remaining unobligated funds for reallocation / Public and Indian Housing / Office of Capital Improvements / Public Housing Agencies (PHAs)
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT / HUD / $1 billion / Funds are for standard CDBG activities; property acquisition; code enforcement;clearance/rehab/reconstruction/construction of buildings; publicand social services (15 percent limit); planning and capacity building;development activities through nonprofits; economic developmentassistance; relocation; technical assistance; housing services and
homeownership assistance
Grantees must obligate all funding in one year; then spend 60 percent of funds within 2 years and 100 percent of the funds in 3 years. Secretary can recapture funds if timelines are not met. Funds must be used to supplement, not supplant, other funding sources. Priority is given to projects that can award contracts in 120 days. / Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) / Entitlement Communities that received a grant in FY08
HOMELESSNESS PREVENTION FUND
(Emergency Shelter Grants) / HUD / $1.5 billion / Funds will be provided for foreclosure prevention and re-housing efforts; casemanagement and social services; renovation, majorrehabilitation, orconversion of buildings for use as emergency shelters or transitionalhousing; shelter operating costs; and related activities / Office of Community Planning and Development (CPD) / Bigger cities designated pursuant to the McKinney-Vento Act, urban counties, states
ALLOCATIONS TO STATES FOR PASS THROUGH OR INTRA-STATE COMPETITION
PROGRAM / AGENCY / OVERALL FUNDING LEVEL / PURPOSE – ADDITIONAL CRITERIA / DECISION-MAKING BODY / ELIGIBLE FUNDING RECIPIENTS
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN GRANTS / Justice / $175 million / Funds are available for law enforcement, prosecution, and victimservicesenhancements, such as training public safety and court relatedpersonnel, expandingspecialized units, enhancing technology,etc.
Each state andterritory must allocate 25 percent of the grant funds for lawenforcement, 25 percent forprosecution, 5 percent for courts, and 30 percent for victimservices. / Office of Violence Against Women / States – but there are suballocation requirements
WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM / Energy / $5 billion / Funding is intended for energy efficiency improvements in low income housing.
Eligibility for services increased to 200% of poverty, up from 150%; Costs allowed per housing unit increased to $6,500 from $2,500; Further assistance allowed for units partially weatherized between 1975 and 1994; Priority allowance given to use of funds for the most cost-effective efficiencyactivities, such as insulation of attics; Training and technical assistance funding permitted up to 20% of totalappropriation. / State Energy / Environmental Departments / States, with funds intended for suballocation to local agencies
STATE ENERGY PROGRAM / Energy / $3.1 billion / This program, run by the Dept. of Energy (DOE) provides grants to states and directs funding to state energy offices from technology programs in DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. States use grants to address their energy priorities and program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
States often combine many sources of funding for their projects, including DOE and private industry. / State Energy / Environmental Departments / States will fund ongoing statewide initiatives, in addition to state and local utilities
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS (Clean & Safe Drinking SRFs) / EPA / $4 billion (Clean Water SRF)
$2 billion (Safe Drinking Water SRF) / Funding is provided to State environmental protection departments, with specific guidance to direct funding to priority projects that are ready to proceed within 12 months of enactment and provisions indicating funds may be reallocated from projects that are not under contract or construction after the 12 month timeframe. The bill waives the 20% matching requirement. The bill also mandates that, for Clean Water SRF projects, 20% of the funds be used for projects addressing green infrastructure, water or energy efficiency, innovative water quality improvements, decentralized wastewater treatment, stormwater runoff mitigation, and water conservation.
The bill directs priority funding to projects on State priority lists that are ready to proceedto construction within 12 months of enactment. It also prohibits the use of both Revolving Funds for the purchase of land easements andto prohibit other set asides under section 1452 (k) of the Safe Drinking Water Actthat do not directly create jobs. / State Environmental Departments / Grants are distributed by each State’s SRF to: wastewater treatment facilities; local governments; tribes; and other State programs.
SUPERFUND / EPA / $600 million / Funds are intended to supplement the existing Superfund program. / EPA – Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology; Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response / State governments – for use at existing sites on the National Priorities List (NPL)
ADULT EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS
- Adult Employment and Training
- Dislocated Worker Grants
- Youth Grants
$500 million
$1.25 billion
$1.2 billion / Funding is provided for activities eligible under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). / Employment and Training Administration / State governments – with 85% of the funds being suballocated to local Workforce Investment Boards
EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED / Education / $13 billion / Funds will be made available to State Departments of Education to help schools mitigate the effects of recent reductions in local revenues and State support for education.
Each LEA receiving funds must file a school-by-school listing of per-pupileducational expenditures from State and local sources during the 2008-2009academic year to its State education agency no later than December 1, 2009. / Department of Education – Office of Elementary and Secondary Education / State Education Agencies – with a pass through requirement to local educational authorities (LEAs)
TITLE I / Education / $10 billion / Funds will be made available to State Departments of Education to distribute to schools and school districts with a high percentage of low-income families. $5 billion of these funds are provided through Title 1 formula grants, and $5 billion are to be allocated through the education finance incentive grant formula.
A portion of the funds must be spent on early childhood programs and activities. / State Education Agencies / LEAs with 40% or more students from families qualifying as low-income.
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT / Education / $3 billion / Funds provided for academic assessment and school improvement.
The legislation requires 40 % be used for middle and high schools / State Education Agencies / LEAs
ENHANCING EDUCATION THROUGH TECHNOLOGY / Education / $650 million / Funding is for technology improvements in elementary and secondary schools. / DOEd– Office of Elementary and Secondary Education; School Support and Technology Programs / State Education Agencies – with no clear guidance regarding a pass through
EDUCATION OF HOMELESS CHILDREN AND YOUTH / Education / $70 million / Funding to assist in providing equal access to public education for homeless youth, including preschoolers. / DOEd – Office of Elementary and Secondary Education; Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs / State Education Agencies – with awards going to LEAs on a competitive basis, or by formula based on the # of homeless students identified in each school district.
SPECIAL EDUCATION Individuals with Disabilities Act, Part B, Section 611 / Education / $11.3 billion / Funds will assist States in providing special education etc. for disabled students ages 3-21 / DOEd – Office of Special Education Programs / State Education Agencies – with a pass through requirement to LEAs
SPECIAL EDUCATION Individuals with Disabilities Act, Part B, Section 619 / Education / $400 million / Funds will assist States with special ed for children with disabilities ages 3-5 / DOEd – Office of Special Education Programs / State Education Agencies – with a pass through requirement to LEAs
SPECIAL EDUCATION Individuals with Disabilities Act, Part B, Section 619 / Education / $500 million / Funds will assist States in maintaining and implement a statewide system toprovide early intervention services for infants and toddlers withdisabilities and their families / DOEd – Office of Special Education Programs / State Education Agencies
HIGHER EDUCATION Teacher Quality Enhancement / Education / $100 million / Funding will assist in improving teacher recruitment to reduce shortages of teachers in high-need school districts. / DOEd – Office of Postsecondary Education / State Education Agencies; institution of higher education, LEAs
STATE FISCAL STABILIZATION FUND / Education / $53.6 billion / Funds will be provided to State governments. Of that amount, approximately $39.5 billion would be sent to the states explicitly for elementary, secondary, and public higher education, and as applicable, early education. Nearly $8.8 billion would be allocated for "other government services." / DOEd – Office of the Secretary / State Governments
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS / HUD / $2.25 billion / Funds will assist States and developers in making capital investments in low-income housing tax credit projects. / State Housing Credit Agencies / Affordable housing developers that receive a Low Income Housing Tax Credit, within an agency-prescribed time-frame.
FEDERAL GRANT COMPETITIONS
PROGRAM / AGENCY / OVERALL FUNDING LEVEL / PURPOSE – ADDITIONAL CRITERIA / DECISION-MAKING BODY / ELIGIBLE FUNDING RECIPIENTS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE GRANTS / Commerce / $150 million / Grants will be for traditional EDA fundable activities, with priority being given to areas hardest hit by the current economic downturn. Applicants submit an Investment Assistance proposal, which will be reviewed on a competitive basis. In addition, up to $50 million of funds may be transferred to federally authorized regionaleconomic development commissions. / Economic Development Administration / Cities,Counties, States, public or private non-profit organizations or associations
BYRNE JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANTS / Justice / $225 million / Funds can be used forbroad-based public safety prevention,intervention, and suppression activities; law enforcement personnel;equipment and facilities (including crime laboratories); communitypolicing;prosecution and court programs; corrections andcommunity corrections programs; drug treatment and enforcement;planning and evaluation; technology improvements; crime victim andwitness programs, etc.
These funds areextremely flexible and can be utilized to pay for programs, equipment, and even somesalaries-prevention programs, drug enforcement programs, and buying equipment tosupport law enforcement are all permitted. / Bureau of Justice Assistance / Cities, Counties, States or non-profit organizations
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES (COPS) HIRING GRANTS / Justice / $1 billion / Funds are used for hiring of career law enforcement personnel. Waivers included in the bill: Elimination of the $75,000 cap on salary and benefits per officer and the 25% local match requirement.Funds will remain available until September 30, 2010 / Office of Community Oriented Policing Services / Cities, Counties, States and multi-jurisdictional or regional consortia.
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING GRANTS FOR VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN / Justice / $50 million / Funds are to provide temporary housing assistance for victims, as well ascase management, counseling, and logistical assistance such as child care and transportation. / Office of Violence Against Women / Cities, Counties, and qualified non-profit organizations
INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN / Justice / $50 million / Funds are provided to assist in the apprehension of persons who use computer technology tosexually exploit children.
NOTE: DOJ hasn’t decided with finality on this program. The more likely option is that funds will go by formula to states, but they could decide to do it competitively from the Federal agency level. / Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) / Local Law Enforcement Agencies
States
FEMA STATE AND LOCAL ASSISTANCE
- Public Transportation and Railroad Security
- Port Security
$150 million
$150 million / Funds are provided for security measures involving public transportation and critical port infrastructure, including risk management capabilities, training and exercises, and capabilities to prevent, detect,respond to, and recover from attacks. / FEMA / Public Transit security is open to any entity providing public transit.
Port security funds are by invitation to specified port facilities and authorities.
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS (STAG)
- Brownfields
- Diesel Emission Reduction Act Grants
$300 million / The brownfield competitive grants are for existing legislatively defined brownfield sites. The legislation waives all matching requirements.
The Diesel Emissions Reduction funds are supplemental funding for ongoing initiatives authorized in the original legislation. / Brownfields:Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization, Office of Solid Wasteand Emergency Response
Diesel Emission Reduction:Office of Air and Radiation / Browfields: State and local governments, quasi-governmental
authorities, universities andcolleges, industry, and other public andprivate institutionsand individuals
Diesel Emission Reduction:State and local governments, MPOs and other entities with control over regional air quality
TEACHER INCENTIVE FUND / Education / $200 million / Funds are for developing and implementing performance-based teacher and principalcompensation systems in high-need schools. / Office ofElementary andSecondary Education; Academic
Improvement and Teacher QualityPrograms / State Education Agencies, Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and non-profit organizations
INNOVATION FUND / Education / $650 million / Funds are for academic achievement awards to schools that have made achievement gains, for the purpose of enabling them to expandtheir work and/or work in partnership with theprivate sector. / Office of the Secretary of Education / LEAs or partnerships between non-profits and States or LEAs
DISCRETIONARY GRANTS FOR SURFACE TRANSPORTATION / Transportation / $1.5 billion / This is a new discretionary grant program established to fund projects of regional or national significance. Highway, bridge and transit projects are all eligible and no match is required. Grantsare a minimum of $20 million and maximum of $300 million, although the Secretary can waive the minimum requirement. In addition, no more than 20 percent of the funds can be awarded to a single State. / Office of the Secretary of Transportation / States, localgovernments, transitagencies
FAA - AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT GRANTS / Transportation / $1.1 billion / Funds are provided for eligible airport improvements andprocurement, installationand commissioning of runway incursiondevices and systems. Priority is given to projects that can be completed within 2 yearsof enactment and serve tosupplement, notsupplant planned expenditures from airport-generated revenues orfrom sources. No match is required. / FAA / Airports
FAA – FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT GRANTS / Transportation / $200 million / Funds are to supplement existing facilities and equipment funding. $50 million to be used to upgrade FAA power systems. $50 million for modernization of en route air traffic control centers. $80 million for replacing air traffic control towers andTRACONs. $20 million for installation of lighting, navigation and landing equipment. / FAA / Airports and private entities
PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND / HUD / $1 billion / Funds are for the development or modernization of public Housing, with the competitive program focusing on projects involving the leveraging ofprivate sector funding for renovations and energyconservation retrofits. / Office of Public and Indian Housing; Office of CapitalImprovements / Public Housing Agencies (PHAs)
ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION BLOCK GRANTS (EECBG) / Energy / $400 million / Funds will assist States, local governments, and tribes reduce fossil fuelemissions and total energy use, and improve energy efficiency in thetransportation, building, and other appropriate sectors, fundingfinancial incentives, grants for retrofits, transportation conservation,building codes, energy distribution technologies, landfill gas capture,etc. / Office of Energy Efficiency and RenewableEnergy / State and local governments
TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIFICATION / Energy / $400 million / Funds will be distributed as grants that either encourage the use of plug-in electric drive vehicles or for projects that implement electric transportation technologies that would significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the use of petroleum. / Undetermined, but probably the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy / States, local governments, air pollution control districts, metropolitan transportationauthorities, or non-profits; however, a minimum of one-third of the funding must go to local governments
NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROGRAM / HUD / $2 billion / Funding is for the purchase, rehabilitation, and re-occupancyof foreclosed homes, including financing mechanisms, andallowingland banking and demolition.
While funding distributed by this program in 2008 was through a formula process, the legislation mandates that all stimulus NSP funds will be distributed through a competitive, HUD-based process. / Office ofCommunityPlanning andDevelopment / Local governments, States, and non-profits
ENERGY RETROFITS AND GREENING PROJECTS FOR FEDERALLY-ASSISTED HOUSING / HUD / $250 million / Funds are to be used for energyimprovements to housing assistedunder the Section 8, Section 202 (Elderly), and Section811(Disabled) programs / Office ofAffordableHousing Preservation / Private and non-profit organizationsparticipating in Section 8,Section 202, andSection 811 programs
LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION PROGRAM / HUD / $100 million / Funds may be used to abate lead-based hazards in eligible privatelyownedrental or owner-occupied housing, with varioustargetingfactors by program.
Awards will be made to all applicants that qualified for a grant under the Fiscal Year2008 Lead Hazard Reduction Program NOFA, but did not receive one dueto insufficient overall program funding. The remaining amounts to be awarded under regular Fiscal Year 2009 grantsolicitation, including a detailed plan and strategy demonstrating capacity tocarry out purposes / Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control / Local governments,States, housingauthorities, institutions ofhigher education and some for-profit entities.
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