Federal and state public agencies experienced at managing federal construction grants can be approved as a Registered State Basic Agency (RSBA) or a federal Basic Agency (BA) to administer ARC grants. These entities administer in accordance with the provisions of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ARC.
Generally, RSBAs and BAs follow their own grants management policies and procedures for the administration of other federal grants that are not inconsistent with ARC’s authorizing statute (the Appalachian Regional Development Act or ARDA), the ARC Code and ARC Project Guidelines. RSBAs and BAs also follow appropriate OMB guidance and other requirements approved by the ARC Federal Co-Chair and State Alternates.
When ARC grants are administered by federal Basic Agencies, the federal agency will sign a grant agreement with the grantee, instead of ARC. Federal Basic Agencies may also require additional paperwork of their own to be filled out by the grantee, consistent with their agency’s policies and procedures.
ARC currently partners with the following federal and state basic agencies to administer and manage construction projects in the Appalachian Region.
Federal Basic Agency Partners
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
- U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration
- U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration
Registered State Basic Agency Partners
- Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs
- Georgia Department of Community Affairs
- Georgia Environmental Finance Authority
- Kentucky Department for Local Government
- Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development
- Mississippi Development Authority
- New York Housing Trust Fund Corporation (NY HTFC)
- New York State Department of Economic Development
- North Carolina Department of Commerce
- Ohio Department of Development (ODOC)
- Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
- Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (PA DCED)
- South Carolina Department of Commerce
- Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development
- Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
- West Virginia Department of Economic Development (WVDED)
