Rural Development has significant responsibilities related to the Recovery Act. The Agency has been charged with deploying $4.36 billion in recovery funds, that when implemented will deliver more than $20 billion in loans and grants to improve economic opportunity and the quality of life in rural America. In addition to the goals set in the Recovery Act (View Rural Development’s ARRA Implementation Plan), deployment of these funds will further the Agency’s strategic goals and objectives. Loans and grants will be awarded to build high-speed broadband infrastructure, construct or improve rural water and waste disposal systems, finance homes for rural families, build critical community facilities, such as rural hospitals, community centers and public safety facilities, and to fund new rural business ventures. All of the programs receiving Recovery Act funding are listed in the chart to the right.
Through our implementation of the Recovery Act, Rural Development is committed to achieving the following goals:
- Create or save jobs
- Ensure that funds are available for communities hardest hit by the economic downturn
- Give priority to projects that are ready to proceed
- Deploy programs in a swift, transparent, and merit-based manner.
RD ARRA Program Funding*
| Total RD Program-Level ARRA Funding: | $21,482,204,278 |
| Business and Industry: | $1,601,540,819 |
| Broadband Initiatives: | $3,539,536,525 |
| Community Facilities: | $1,393,608,041 |
| Rural Business Enterprise Grant: | $19,400,000 |
| Single Family Housing Direct: | $1,562,971,449 |
| Single Family Housing Guaranteed: | $10,093,671,103 |
| Water and Waste Disposal: | $3,271,476,341 |
| Total RD Program-Level ARRA Funding*: | $21,482,204,278 |
| Obligated: | $21,261,925,163 |
*Note: Funding has been calculated based on a total agency budget authority using conversion rates for loans, grants, and loan/grant combinations.
| Number of RD ARRA Obligated Projects: | 96,251 |
| Number of States and Territories Obligated: | 56 |
| From: | To: | |
|---|---|---|
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$0 | $0 |
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$1 | $190,636,431 |
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$190,636,432 | $324,024,790 |
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$324,024,791 | $549,780,644 |
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$549,780,645 | $1,305,007,257 |
| State | Number of ARRA Grants | Number of ARRA Loans | Funding Obligated |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 16 | 2,344 | $361,927,304 | |
| Alaska | 26 | 254 | $250,093,802 | |
| American Samoa | 1 | 2 | $107,706,763 | |
| Arizona | 14 | 2,454 | $405,106,997 | |
| Arkansas | 109 | 2,215 | $529,886,452 | |
| California | 122 | 2,622 | $659,182,900 | |
| Colorado | 47 | 957 | $232,008,529 | |
| Connecticut | 20 | 325 | $175,997,074 | |
| Delaware | 13 | 350 | $93,522,140 | |
| Florida | 18 | 3,391 | $550,258,049 | |
| Georgia | 49 | 3,252 | $623,381,075 | |
| Guam | 4 | 81 | $18,866,042 | |
| Hawaii | 5 | 239 | $132,249,694 | |
| Idaho | 22 | 1,643 | $288,959,201 | |
| Illinois | 40 | 4,012 | $457,672,900 | |
| Indiana | 43 | 2,349 | $399,115,291 | |
| Iowa | 105 | 1,213 | $324,024,791 | |
| Kansas | 46 | 1,771 | $418,154,461 | |
| Kentucky | 67 | 2,462 | $770,039,979 | |
| Louisiana | 22 | 2,269 | $453,064,070 | |
| Maine | 51 | 1,458 | $267,160,822 | |
| Marshall Islands | 1 | 0 | $257,576 | |
| Maryland | 51 | 1,019 | $334,789,046 | |
| Massachusetts | 17 | 575 | $207,870,190 | |
| Michigan | 111 | 5,426 | $999,119,429 | |
| Minnesota | 73 | 2,876 | $674,660,311 | |
| Mississippi | 76 | 1,437 | $256,622,101 | |
| Missouri | 161 | 3,325 | $764,205,537 | |
| State | Number of ARRA Grants | Number of ARRA Loans | Funding Obligated |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 26 | 965 | $303,531,728 | |
| Nebraska | 21 | 805 | $190,636,432 | |
| Nevada | 16 | 360 | $93,358,173 | |
| New Hampshire | 31 | 696 | $175,843,603 | |
| New Jersey | 15 | 523 | $134,533,528 | |
| New Mexico | 15 | 228 | $192,453,352 | |
| New York | 88 | 1,404 | $405,514,064 | |
| North Carolina | 117 | 5,641 | $1,305,007,257 | |
| North Dakota | 21 | 365 | $199,443,380 | |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 1 | 0 | $47,499 | |
| Ohio | 52 | 3,724 | $554,041,941 | |
| Oklahoma | 64 | 2,299 | $537,241,470 | |
| Oregon | 24 | 1,836 | $421,789,020 | |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | 2,729 | $579,275,180 | |
| Puerto Rico | 6 | 1,772 | $251,782,695 | |
| Rhode Island | 1 | 96 | $32,670,388 | |
| South Carolina | 46 | 2,409 | $549,780,645 | |
| South Dakota | 55 | 1,020 | $215,185,568 | |
| Tennessee | 154 | 3,242 | $705,446,613 | |
| Texas | 56 | 4,155 | $921,145,877 | |
| Utah | 18 | 1,735 | $333,033,703 | |
| Vermont | 34 | 339 | $228,837,261 | |
| Virgin Islands | 0 | 8 | $4,762,000 | |
| Virginia | 124 | 2,476 | $660,430,335 | |
| Washington | 31 | 1,803 | $518,432,981 | |
| West Virginia | 49 | 1,236 | $297,734,215 | |
| Wisconsin | 64 | 2,363 | $565,197,042 | |
| Wyoming | 2 | 579 | $114,586,688 | |