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Office of Economic and Demographic Research Reinvestment Act, which was signed into law in February 2009, were not expended by September 30, 2009 (i.e., the end of the 2009 federal fiscal year). Many federal grant obligations will eventually translate into expenditures by local governments, which are addressed in the former Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations’ (LCIR) report Review of Local Government Federal Grant Expenditures in Fiscal Year 2008 and prior editions. 2 These reports profile grant expenditures reported to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse by local governments and were part of the former LCIR’s effort to assist local governments in increasing their drawdown of federal awards. Furthermore, local government expenditures sorted by grant program were compiled by the former LCIR and are available for download via the EDR’s website. 3 C. Federal Grants by Department or Agency The tables in this part provide more detailed summaries of federal grant expenditures to Florida by department or agency. In the FAS report, these federal grant expenditures are reported by program categories. It is important to note that the majority of these program categories reflect the sum total of numerous individual grant programs. In the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA), federal grants are classified into one of two types: formula grants and project grants. 4 Formula grants are allocations of money to states or their subdivisions in accordance with distribution formulas prescribed by law or administrative regulation for activities of a continuing nature not confined to a specific project. Project grants fund specific projects for fixed or known periods of time and can include fellowships, scholarships, research grants, training grants, traineeships, experimental and demonstration grants, evaluation grants, planning grants, technical assistance grants, survey grants, and construction grants. Currently, the CFDA lists 241 formula grant programs and 1,420 project grant programs. In total, 1,661 separate federal grant programs are listed in the CFDA. Data on states’ participation in each of these individual grant programs is not part of the FAS report. Utilizing the data published in the FAS report, the following tables summarize federal grant expenditures to Florida by agency or department. Table 3-2: U.S. Department of Agriculture (page 44) Table 3-3: U.S. Department of Commerce (page 45) Table 3-4: U.S. Department of Defense (page 46) 2 www.floridalcir.gov/UserContent/docs/File/reports/localgrantexp08.pdf 3 edr.state.fl.us/Content/local-government/data/data-a-to-z/a-f.cfm 4 The purpose of the CFDA is to provide a database of all federal programs available to state and local governments, including the District of Columbia; federally-recognized Indian tribal governments; territories and possessions of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals. The Catalog is available online at www.cfda.gov. Programs in the Catalog are classified into 15 types of assistance, seven of which are financial types of assistance and eight are non-financial types of assistance. 40 Review of Federal Funding to Florida in Fiscal Year 2009
Office of Economic and Demographic Research Table 3-5: U.S. Department of Education (page 47) Table 3-6: U.S. Department of Energy (page 48) Table 3-7: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (page 49) Table 3-8: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (page 50) Table 3-9: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (page 51) Table 3-10: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (page 52) Table 3-11: U.S. Department of Interior (page 53) Table 3-12: U.S. Department of Justice (page 54) Table 3-13: U.S. Department of Labor (page 55) Table 3-14: U.S. Department of Transportation (page 56) Table 3-15: U.S. Department of the Treasury (page 57) Two additional tables summarize changes in federal grant expenditures to Florida by agency or department for the period of 1996 through 2009. Table 3-16 on pages 58-61 lists the total expenditures, the percentage change in total expenditures from one year to the next, and Florida’s rankings among the fifty states. Table 3-17 on pages 62-63 lists the per capita expenditures and Florida’s rankings among the fifty states. Table 3-18 on pages 64-65 provides a comparison of each state’s proportional receipt of federal grants by agency in 2009. If the state’s proportional share by agency is roughly equivalent to the state’s share of the national population, then one measure of equality has been satisfied. Supplemental information describing each federal agency or department and many of the grant programs can be obtained from their respective websites. A list of those websites can be found in the Appendix B. Chart 3-1 on page 66 illustrates total federal grant expenditures to states and their respective local governments plotted against the states’ populations. A trend line is utilized to visually illustrate the expenditure level predicted by an individual state’s population. Although this analysis does not consider the numerous other factors that affect states’ receipts of grant funding, it does allow for a comparison similar to the analysis of per capita measures utilized in this report. Federal grant expenditures to state and local governments generally cluster around the trend line, indicating a high level of dependence on population. However, expenditures to a few states differ substantially, indicating that they receive more or less grant funding than would be predicted by population alone. Louisiana, Massachusetts, and New York illustrate expenditures in 2009 that were substantially above their predicted levels while Florida, Texas, and Virginia illustrate those substantially below their predicted levels. D. Conclusion For reporting purposes, the federal government aggregates expenditures of hundreds of separate grant programs into broad program categories. Consequently, it is difficult to determine why the state ranks so low, on a per capita basis, relative to other states in many program categories. Review of Federal Funding to Florida in Fiscal Year 2009 41
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