Federal Assistance e311 Knowledge Base

Our team of experts has already answered over 200 questions from cities across the country—about the streams of federal funding available to support your city’s COVID recovery, best-in-class strategies and practices for accessing and spending it, technical requirements for compliance, and more. Browse the questions and answers, or search for a topic or keyword to get straight to the information your city needs.

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Expenditure

Expenditure
Program Administration, American Rescue Plan Act

Would an incentive program for residents to connect to existing sewer lines be considered an eligible use of ARP funding?

Fund Planning & Allocation, Infrastructure & Maintenance Investments, Program Administration, American Rescue Plan Act

May a city use ARP funds for public-private partnerships for infrastructure or economic recovery programs, such as community benefit agreements?

Fund Planning & Allocation, Infrastructure & Maintenance Investments, Program Administration, American Rescue Plan Act

May cities use ARP funds to finance a previous infrastructure project?

Program Administration, American Rescue Plan Act

Are municipalities permitted to use ARP funds to pay for death services? If yes, what restrictions are there?

Program Administration, American Rescue Plan Act

Can a municipality that charges property owners an annual Sewer and Storm Water Fee use ARP funds to pay for sewer and stormwater capital projects?

Fund Planning & Allocation, Program Administration, American Rescue Plan Act

Are costs to build facilities and establish programs for job training eligible for ARP funding?

Program Administration, American Rescue Plan Act

What guidance should a municipality consider regarding the use of ARP funds to cover administrative costs?

Program Administration, Workforce & Economic Development, American Rescue Plan Act

May cities expend ARP funds to support events aimed at economic recovery, including tourism or supporting small businesses?

Program Administration, American Rescue Plan Act

Are legal fees or the cost of an in-house lawyer utilized by a municipality to ensure the proper administration of ARP programs reimbursable?

Compliance & Reporting, Program Administration, American Rescue Plan Act

Has Treasury put together a list of evidence-based practices (“EBPs”) for use of CSLFRF that it affirmatively approves? How should a municipality articulate that a proposed project is an EBP and tailor an EBP to its local community and circumstances?

 

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