Assistance program
Investments for Public Works and Economic Development Facilities
$894.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2025
- Agency
- Economic Development Administration, Commerce, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants
- CFDA number
- 11.300
- What it does
- EDA’s Public Works program helps distressed communities revitalize, expand, and upgrade their physical infrastructure. This program enables communities to attract new industry, encourage business expansion, diversify local economies, generate local investment, and create or retain long-term jobs through land acquisition, development, and infrastructure improvement projects that establish or expand industrial or commercial enterprises.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants for investment assistance under this NOFO include a(n): • District Organization; • Indian Tribe or a consortium of Indian Tribes; • State, county, city, or other political subdivision of a State, including a special purpose unit of a State or local government engaged in economic or infrastructure development activities, or a consortium of political subdivisions; • Institution of higher education or a consortium of institutions of higher education; or 4 Under section 3(10) of PWEDA (42 U.S.C. § 3122), the term “State†includes any State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. • Public or private non-profit organization or association acting in cooperation with officials of a political subdivision of a State. Under the Public Works and EAA programs, EDA is not authorized to provide grants or cooperative agreements to individuals or to for-profit entities, and such requests will not be considered for funding.
- Authorized by
- The statutory authorities for EDA’s Public Works and EAA programs are Sections 201 (42 U.S.C. § 3141) and 209 (42 U.S.C. § 3149) of PWEDA
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- Committed through this program
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- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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Direct payments