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2009 Federal Economic Stimulus Funding
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (signed February 17, 2009)
Last Updated: April 5, 2009
Program Description/Purpose Funds Awarded to Anaheim Anaheim Project(s)
Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund The Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended in 1996, established the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to make funds available to correct public water system deficiencies because of water quality and health risks and/or significant water shortages. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD

On 2/27/09 successfully submitted three pre-applications to the SWRCB. Waiting on invitation to submit fill application.

Water Main Corrosion Control Project: $2M for PVC pipelines to replace corroded ductile iron pipes.

Reservoir Mixers Project: $800K for mixers and chlorine analyzers at 7 finished water reservoirs.

Linda Vista Reservoir Seismic Upgrades Project: $13M for two new reservoirs and other upgrades at LV.

Clean Water State Revolving Fund The Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) is a self-perpetuating loan assistance authority for water quality improvement projects. The CWSRF provides loans for the construction of municipal wastewater facilities and projects that address water quality problems and prevent pollution to water. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
On 3/20/09 successfully submitted pre-application for the Anaheim Recycled Water Demonstration Project. $6 million requested. Developing full application.
Bureau of Reclamation
RECOVERY ACT
The Bureau of Reclamation will be accepting new applications for RECOVERY ACT Funding under the Challenge Grant Program for Water Marketing and Efficiency Grants. The objective of this Announcement will be to invite entities with water delivery authority to leverage their money and resources by cost sharing with Reclamation on water reclamation and reuse projects and construction of water delivery systems. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants
(EECBG)

The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program provides federal grants to units of local government to fund projects such as: 1) developing strategies, 2) conducting energy audits for homes and businesses, 3) establishing incentive/rebate programs, 4) conserve transportation (flex time programs, satellite work centers, synchronized traffic signals, bike lanes, etc.), 5) building code inspections, 6) public education, 7) landfill greenhouse gas technology, 8) installing light emitting diodes, and 9) onsite renewable energy for government buildings.

$3,254,800 TBD
Electric Delivery and Energy Reliability The mission of the Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Program is to lead national efforts to modernize the electric grid; enhance security and reliability of the energy infrastructure; and facilitate recovery from disruptions to energy supply. Funding will be used for research, development demonstration and deployment activities to accelerate the development of technologies that will diversify the nation’s energy portfolio, including biofuels, geothermal, water, wind, and solar. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
Broadband Technology Opportunities Program The Broadband Technology Opportunities Program provides access to broadband service to consumers residing in underserved areas; provide broadband education, awareness, training, access, equipment, and support; improve access to, and use of, broadband service by public safety agencies; and stimulate the demand for broadband, economic growth, and job creation. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
Energy Efficiency Housing Retrofits The Energy Efficiency Housing Retrofits program is offered by the Department of Social Development in partnership with Efficiency New Brunswick and provides financial assistance to improve the energy efficiency of housing occupied by low income households. Specifically, it aids owners of HUD-sponsored low-income housing to increase energy efficiency, including new insulation, windows, and furnaces. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), one of the longest-running programs of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, funds local community development activities such as affordable housing, anti-poverty programs, infrastructure development, and jobs for low- and moderate-income persons. $1,338,767 TBD
Section 8 Project-Based Stability Section 8 Project-based rental assistance is attached to the unit where an eligible family lives.  If the family moves, the subsidy stays with the unit and a new eligible family can move in and utilize the rental assistance. Eligible low-income tenants pay 30% of their gross adjusted income for rent.  The Section 8 Project-Based Stability Program will provide full year payments to owners receiving Section 8 project-based rental assistance.

Funding has been allocated to the State.

Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD

TBD
Homelessness Prevention Fund The Homelessness Prevention Fund will provide financial assistance and services to prevent individuals and families from becoming homeless and help those who are experiencing homelessness to be quickly re-housed and stabilized. The funds will provide for a variety of assistance, including:  short-term or medium-term rental assistance and housing relocation and stabilization services, including such activities as mediation, credit counseling, security or utility deposits, utility payments, moving cost assistance, and case management.  Click here for more information $2,046,908 Funds allocated 2/25/09.
The Anaheim Community Development Department is currently
Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) provides U.S. federal funding for Local Community Action Agencies to offer services to low-income families hurt by economic crisis. The CSBG formula determines each jurisdiction's funding level based on poverty population; once disbursed, most of the money is passed by the states and other jurisdictions to CAAs and other designated organizations to be spent on employment, education, income management, housing, nutrition, emergency services, and health. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) The Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) provides emergency assistance to state and local governments to acquire and redevelop foreclosed properties that might otherwise become sources of abandonment and blight within their communities. The NSP offers grants to every state and certain local communities to purchase foreclosed or abandoned homes and to rehabilitate, resell, or redevelop these homes in order to stabilize neighborhoods and stem the decline of house values of neighboring homes. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
Transportation Highway Infrastructure Investments The highway infrastructure funding will be apportioned to states and can be used for any project eligible under the surface transportation program, passenger and freight rail, and port infrastructure. Funding categories include: 1) Surface Transportation Program, 2) Highway Bridge Program, 3) National Highway System, 4) Interstate Maintenance, 5) Metropolitan Planning, 6) Highway Safety Improvement Program, and 7) Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
Four priority "reconstruction" projects were submitted to the OCTA requesting $3,171,258:
  1. Magnolia Ave.: South City Limits to Ball Road, $1,025,629
  2. East Street: Santa Ana to Cypress Street, $925,629
  3. East City Limits to west of Tustin, $610,000
  4. Broadway: East Street to Bond, $610,000
Competitive Surface Transportation Program The Competitive Surface Transportation Program includes competitive grants to state and local governments and transit agencies for surface transportation projects that will have a significant impact on the nation, a metropolitan area, or region. Funding can be used for any eligible program under the federal surface transportation program, including highway, transit, freight and passenger rail, and port infrastructure projects. Grants will range from $20 million to $300 million, with some waivers for smaller cities. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
High Speed Rail Corridors and Intercity Rail Passenger Services Transportation is a great enabler of economic growth, the lifeblood of commerce.  It moves people to jobs and goods to the marketplace. Without strong transportation arteries, economies stagnate.  The purpose of the High Speed Rail Corridors and Intercity Rail Passenger Services is to improve the speed and capacity of intercity passenger rail and high speed rail corridors. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
Byrne Justice Assistance Formula Grants (JAG) The Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program is a partnership among federal, state, and local governments to create safer communities. JAG awards grants to states for use by states and units of local government to improve the functioning of the criminal justice system—with emphasis on violent crime and serious offenders—and enforce state and local laws that establish offenses similar to those in the federal Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(6) et seq.). $723,162 Funds allocated March 2, 2009.
Anaheim Projects are being finalized and will be announced shortly.
Byrne Justice Assistance Competitive Grants The Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Competitive Grants focus on job creation and retention in support of evidence-based and data-driven programs in the following areas: 1) preventing and reducing violent crime; 2) providing funding for neighborhood-based probation and parole officers, as a compliment to the COPS program; 3) reducing mortgage fraud and crime related to vacant properties; 4) hiring of civilian support personnel in law enforcement (training staff, analysts, dispatchers, etc.); 5) enhancing forensic and crime scene investigations; 6) improving resources and services for victims of crime; 7) supporting problem-solving courts; and 8) national training and technical assistance partnerships. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) The primary goal of the Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) is to meet the firefighting and emergency response needs of fire departments and nonaffiliated emergency medical services organizations. Since 2001, AFG has helped firefighters and other first responders to obtain critically needed equipment, protective gear, emergency vehicles, training, and other resources needed to protect the public and emergency personnel from fire and related hazards. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
 
Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) The COPS funding helps law enforcement agencies across America meet an ever-increasing range of challenges with community policing. The purpose of this program is to hire and train community policing professionals, acquire and deploy cutting edge technologies and develop and test policing strategies. The funds cover the actual cost of an officer for three years. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
 
Workforce Investment Act (WIA) The U.S. Department of Labor, through the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), is providing funding to states and outlying areas their allotment levels for Labor Department-administered employment and training programs funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The workforce investment system will use funds to help Americans get back to work through the national network of One-Stop Career Centers. The purpose of the local funds is for worker training in high growth and merging industry sectors. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
Anaheim Estimated: Adult WIA program, $452,122; Dislocated Worker, $867,646; Youth programs $975,918; Total estimated allocation for Anaheim WIA $2,295,686.
Economic Development Administration (EDA) Under the Economic Development Administration (EDA) American Recovery Program, EDA will help restore, replace and expand economic activity in regions that have experienced sudden and severe economic dislocation and job loss due to corporate restructuring, and prioritize projects that will diversify the economic base and lead to a stronger, more globally competitive and resilient regional economy. EDA’s economic development activities help create jobs by encouraging business inception and growth, as well as capital improvement projects necessary to attract private sector development. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
Senior Meal Program The Senior Meal Program was created by Congress to help meet the needs of hungry and homeless people throughout the United States and its territories by allocating federal funds for the provision of food and shelter. This program will help senior meal programs cope with steep increases in food and fuel costs. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
Brownfields Brownfields are real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. Cleaning up and reinvesting in these properties takes development pressures off of undeveloped, open-land, and both improves and protects the environment. Brownfields funding is for the cleanup, revitalization, and sustainable reuse of contaminated properties and job training. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
Hazardous Substance Superfund Superfund is the federal government's program to clean up the nation's uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. The program is committed to ensuring that remaining National Priorities List hazardous waste sites are cleaned up to protect the environment and the health of all Americans. Funding will go towards long-term clean-up of abandoned hazardous toxic waste sites. Competitive Grant
Allocations TBD
TBD
Total Funds Awarded/Allocated
as of 4/6/09
  $9,659,323