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<h3>Stimulus Money Remains<o:p></o:p></h3>
<p>There are indications that a substantial portion of American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds remain unexpended. The suggestion that money is
still available has come to light through speeches made by agency
representatives and through conversations with agency insiders. The GRC staff
has studied Recovery.gov, agency websites, and independent reports to compile
the following agency-by-agency updates. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Consider these caveats when reviewing the data below: the funds remaining
may include some dollars allocated to current competitions for which there have
been no funding commitments; some of these unexpended amounts may be channeled
through the states for distribution, and this will require further inquiries at
the state level; and the accuracy of any report like this is dependent on the
timeliness and validity of agency reporting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>In any event, the current status of unexpended funds indicates that
opportunities for support remain in the total ARRA allocation. This report is
an attempt to give you an advantage in your grants and contract development
efforts between now and October 1, 2010, the date by which all federal ARRA
obligations must be made.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>Corporation for National and Community Service</strong> (CNS) has
$168 million remaining, which is approximately 84 percent of its $200 million
allocation. In FY 09, only current grantees of AmeriCorps state and national
programs were awarded funding. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Additional ARRA funding opportunities, particularly for Learn and Serve
America and CNS special initiatives such as challenge grants and faith-based
grants, are expected to be available in FY 10. Also in FY 10, CNS may
begin allocating $40 million from its National Service Trust to education
awards for AmeriCorps volunteers upon the completion of their service
requirement. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)</strong> has
$682 million remaining, or 68 percent of its $1 billion ARRA allocation. Most of
NASA's recovery money will fund in-house research and facilities renovations.
Funding will be available in FY 10 for institutions to submit proposals for
NASA's Earth Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Programs.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>National Endowment of the Arts</strong> has awarded its entire $50
million ARRA allocation, with 60 percent supporting competitive awards to
nonprofit arts and related organizations and 40 percent provided to state and
regional arts organizations for awarding sub-grants. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>National Institutes of Health</strong> has spent 45 percent, or
$4.73 billion, of its $10.4 billion ARRA allocation. Approximately $4.35
billion has supported 12,788 grants, and $379 million has supported contracts.
In FY 09, nearly 60 percent of ARRA funds supported new projects and nearly 40
percent supplemented existing projects. Over the summers of 2009 and 2010,
approximately 5,000 students and science educators will gain hands-on
experience in top research laboratories. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>National Science Foundation (NSF)</strong> has $2.43 billion remaining,
which is 81 percent of its $3 billion ARRA allocation. As of the first of this
year, the agency had made 2,000 ARRA awards.<br>
<br>
The total ARRA allocation provided $400 million for Major Research Equipment
and Facilities Construction to support three non-competitive projects. It also
supported three new competitions (now closed) totaling $515 million: Academic
Research Infrastructure-Recovery and Reinvestment; Major Research
Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment; and the Science Master's Program.
Another $85 million was reserved to make additional awards under regular
competitions of the Noyce Teacher Scholarship and Math Science Partnership
programs. These competitions are also now closed. <br>
<br>
Most of the remaining $2 billion was earmarked to support meritorious proposals
submitted from October 2008 through September 2009, with a particular emphasis
on CAREER and Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship awards.
In an August 2009 meeting with GRC, the Office of Science and Technology Policy's
Kei Koizumi expressed the view that NSF would need to hold additional ARRA
competitions in order to identify a sufficient number of meritorious proposals.
NSF has not yet made any announcements to that effect.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)</strong> has $10.5 billion
remaining, which is 38 percent of its $28 billon ARRA allocation. Most ARRA
grants in FY 09 were awarded directly to state governments for initiatives to
eliminate hunger, such as the National School Lunch, Food Stamp, and Women
Infants and Children programs. ARRA grants were also awarded to institutions
last year to expand broadband access to rural areas. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>In FY 10, USDA's remaining funds will continue loan programs for farmers and
small business owners in rural areas through its Rural Development Business and
Industry Guaranteed Loan Program and 502 Direct Loan Programs. ARRA funding
will also assist in renovating USDA research facilities. Institutions will be
able to apply under the Water and Waste Disposal program, the Rural Utilities
Service Broadband Investment Program, and other USDA programs that have been
supplemented by recovery funds, such as the Agriculture and Food Research
Initiative, which began accepting proposals this month.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)</strong> has $1.3 billion remaining,
or 16 percent, of its $7.9 billion allocation remaining. In FY 10, DOC will
continue to provide grants that expand broadband access, construct research
facilities, provide economic development assistance to struggling states, and
help administer the 2010 census. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology will use its remaining
recovery funds for additional awards for the Technology Innovation Program,
Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and Small Business Innovation Research
Program.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The Economic Development Administration has disbursed most of its ARRA
funding for institutions, except for its Economic Adjustment Assistance
program, but is considering continuing other ARRA-created grant programs with
general operating funds.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)</strong> has $3.9 billion
remaining, which is 52 percent of its $7.4 billion ARRA allocation. In FY 09,
the majority of grant funding focused on U.S. service members and their
families through programs such as DoD's Homeowners Assistance Program.
DoD recovery funds were also used as supplemental funding for long-standing
grant programs. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>In FY 10, DoD will accept proposals for energy-related grant programs such
as the Energy Conversation Investment Program and the Near-Term Energy
Efficient Technologies (NTEET) program using remaining recovery dollars. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of Education (ED)</strong> has $69 billion
remaining, which is 69 percent of its $100 billion allocation. All of the money
released in FY 09 went directly to the states through the State Fiscal
Stabilization Fund.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>In early FY 10, ED held competitions to spend down the remaining ARRA
allocations. The first competitions in FY 10 included Statewide Longitudinal
Data Systems and Teacher Quality Partnerships, which, at a combined $350
million, accounted for just a fraction of ED's ARRA allocation. The
recently-released Race to the Top Fund accounts for over four percent of ED's
ARRA allocation at $4.3 billion. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Other competitions expected in FY 10 include the Enhancing Education through
Technology (Ed-Tech) State Program, Investing in Innovation, and Teacher
Incentive Fund. These programs combined will account for almost two percent of
ED's ARRA allocation. Funded at $650 million, Investing in Innovation has been
the only ARRA-supported program so far that institutions of higher education
can apply to directly. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)</strong> has $23.6 billion
remaining, which is 60 percent of its $40 billion allocation. As in FY
09, funding will continue to focus on transformative alternative fuel
development research that will reduce American dependency on foreign sources.
Funding will also focus on grants for professional development in STEM fields
such as the Office of Science Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists
program. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Launched with funding from the ARRA, DOE currently has open competitions
through the Advance Research Projects Agency- Energy (ARPA-E) and expect to
have additional calls for proposals this year. The department will also
award $427 million through Recovery Act Energy Efficiency and Conservation
Block Grants.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)</strong> has
$58.23 billion remaining, or 35 percent of its $167 billion ARRA allocation. An
overwhelming majority (75 percent) of the funds, a total of $43.31 billion, was
allocated to states for Medicare and Medicaid. States have also received
funds for the Child Care and Development Block Grant ($426 million out of an
available $1.99 billion), foster care and adoption assistance programs ($358.2
million out of an available $446.9 million), and child support enforcement and
family assistance support ($550.2 million out of an available $815.7 million).
Community health centers received nearly $1.9 billion to expand health care
services for the economically disadvantaged and medically vulnerable. The
Health Resources and Services Administration's Bureau of Health Professions
spent the majority of its $500 million on previous years' awardees or
applicants, forgoing new competitions with a few exceptions, and the Administration
for Children and Families (ACF) spent $619 million for Head Start and Early
Start.<br>
<br>
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC),
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA) still have funds to distribute through both
recently announced and upcoming grant competitions for which colleges and
universities will be eligible. AHRQ and HRSA are likely to announce more
opportunities for comparative effectiveness and healthcare research, training,
and service delivery, while the ONC has just closed several health information
technology related competitions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)</strong> has $1.4 billion
remaining, or 50 percent of its $2.8 billion ARRA allocation. As it did in FY
09, DHS funding in FY 10 will continue to support grants to state and local
governments to strengthen border, port, air, and rail security, as well as
local emergency preparedness.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)</strong> has
$11 billion remaining, which is approximately 85 percent of its $13 billion
allocation. The bulk of HUD's ARRA funds will be allocated to states and
pre-determined community entities, including $4 billion for the Public Housing
Capital Fund. The Neighborhood Stabilization Fund ($2 billion) and Community
Development Block Grants ($1 billion), for which colleges and universities can
partner with community entities, are two of HUD's largest ARRA programs and
most likely will continue to receive the majority of HUD's ARRA funds in FY 10.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)</strong> has $1.2 billion
remaining, or 40 percent of its $3 billion ARRA allocation. In FY 10, ARRA
grant programs will focus on job creation, national park renovation and
construction, and loan programs for Indian tribes. DOI will also use recovery
funding to help universities replace earthquake-monitoring equipment through
its Seismic Upgrades Program. ARRA will continue to fund environmental
internships that allow students and faculty to gain hands-on experience at DOI
offices.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)</strong> has $3 billion remaining,
which is approximately 75 percent of its $4 billion allocation. In FY 09, over
half of DOJ's portion of the ARRA was slated for the Office of Justice Programs
for various programs funded directly to state and local jurisdictions. Although
all of DOJ's ARRA programs were competed throughout FY 09, the agency is still
in the process of allocating funds. No new ARRA-related competitions are
expected in FY 10. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)</strong> has $33 billion
remaining, which is 69 percent of its $48.1 billion ARRA allocation. Similar to
last year, FY 10 grants will continue to be awarded to state governments for
infrastructure improvement projects.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)</strong> has $7 billion
remaining, which is 96 percent of its $7.22 billion ARRA allocation. In
FY 10, the majority of EPA's recovery funding will provide infrastructure
assistance to local governments and Indian tribes. It is unclear if
institutions will be able to submit proposals for the Recovery Act Superfund
and Recovery Act Brownfield's grant programs or if EPA will provide funding
through general operating funds. Also, the Brownfields Job Training Grant
Program could request proposals for new awards as early as this spring.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)</strong> has $60 billion remaining,
which is 60 percent of its $100 billion allocation. The majority of the funds
have been for job creation, training, and green/energy initiatives. In FY
09, DOL held competitions for several ARRA programs, including Health Care
Sector and Other High Growth and Emerging Industries ($220 million), Pathways
out of Poverty ($150 million), and Energy Training Partnership Grants ($100
million). Although all of DOL's ARRA programs were competed throughout FY
09, the agency is still in the process of allocating funds. No new ARRA-related
competitions are expected in FY 10. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong>U.S. Department of State</strong> received almost $300 million in ARRA
dollars, but the funds are reserved for the enhancement of department-wide
facilities.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Natalie Henderson<br>
Sponsored Programs Coordinator<br>
Texas A&M University-Commerce<br>
Graduate Studies & Research<br>
P O Box 3011<br>
Commerce, TX 75429-3011<br>
Phone: 903/886-5161<br>
Fax: 903/468-8784</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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