American Rescue Plan (ARPA) Funding

The American Rescue Plan (ARP) is a federal law that was signed by President Biden on March 11, 2021. The ARP focuses on supporting the most vulnerable communities and businesses. The law grants about $1.85 trillion in relief funding for individuals and local governments.

The City of Cambridge’s ARPA allocation is $88,119,387

These are the other ARPA related Federal Funds the City is receiving:

• State ARPA funding through Middlesex County
  • $11,550,087
• Home Investment Partnership (HOME) HOME-ARP
  • $2,325,483
• Mass DOT Public Realm Improvement/Shared Streets and Spaces
  • $199,736

Funds may be used to cover eligible costs incurred during the period that begins on March 3, 2021 and ends on December 31, 2024, as long as the award funds for the obligations incurred by December 31, 2024 are expended by December 31, 2026.

Costs for projects incurred by the recipient State, territorial, local, or Tribal government prior to March 3, 2021 are not eligible, as provided for in Treasury’s Interim Final Rule.

This is a Federal Grant and is subject to all rules, guidelines, regulations and requirements like all other federal grants received by the City and is subject to Single Audit requirements.

The Expenditure Categories (EC) listed below must be used to categorize each project. The term “Expenditure Category” refers to the detailed level (e.g., 1.1 COVID-19 Vaccination). When referred to as a category (e.g., EC 1) it includes all Expenditure Categories within that level.

1. Public Health
   1.1 COVID-19 Vaccination ^
   1.2 COVID-19 Testing ^
   1.3 COVID-19 Contact Tracing
   1.4 Prevention in Congregate Settings (Nursing Homes, Prisons/Jails, Dense Work Sites,
   Schools, etc.)*
   1.5 Personal Protective Equipment
   1.6 Medical Expenses (including Alternative Care Facilities)
   1.7 Capital Investments or Physical Plant Changes to Public Facilities that respond to the
   COVID-19 public health emergency
   1.8 Other COVID-19 Public Health Expenses (including Communications, Enforcement,
   Isolation/Quarantine)
   1.9 Payroll Costs for Public Health, Safety, and Other Public Sector Staff Responding to
   COVID-19
   1.10 Mental Health Services*
   1.11 Substance Use Services*
   1.12 Other Public Health Services
2. Negative Economic Impacts
   2.1 Household Assistance: Food Programs* ^
   2.2 Household Assistance: Rent, Mortgage, and Utility Aid* ^
   2.3 Household Assistance: Cash Transfers* ^
   2.4 Household Assistance: Internet Access Programs* ^
   2.5 Household Assistance: Eviction Prevention* ^
   2.6 Unemployment Benefits or Cash Assistance to Unemployed Workers*
   2.7 Job Training Assistance (e.g., Sectoral job-training, Subsidized Employment,
   Employment Supports or Incentives)* ^
   2.8 Contributions to UI Trust Funds
   2.9 Small Business Economic Assistance (General)* ^
   2.10 Aid to Nonprofit Organizations*
   2.11 Aid to Tourism, Travel, or Hospitality
   2.12 Aid to Other Impacted Industries
   2.13 Other Economic Support* ^
   2.14 Rehiring Public Sector Staff
3. Services to Disproportionately Impacted Communities
   3.1 Education Assistance: Early Learning* ^
   3.2 Education Assistance: Aid to High-Poverty Districts ^
   3.3 Education Assistance: Academic Services* ^
   3.4 Education Assistance: Social, Emotional, and Mental Health Services* ^
   3.5 Education Assistance: Other* ^
   3.6 Healthy Childhood Environments: Child Care* ^
   3.7 Healthy Childhood Environments: Home Visiting* ^
   3.8 Healthy Childhood Environments: Services to Foster Youth or Families Involved in
   Child Welfare System* ^
   3.9 Healthy Childhood Environments: Other* ^
   3.10 Housing Support: Affordable Housing* ^
   3.11 Housing Support: Services for Unhoused Persons* ^
   3.12 Housing Support: Other Housing Assistance* ^
   3.13 Social Determinants of Health: Other* ^
   3.14 Social Determinants of Health: Community Health Workers or Benefits Navigators* ^
   3.15 Social Determinants of Health: Lead Remediation ^
   3.16 Social Determinants of Health: Community Violence Interventions* ^
4. Premium Pay
   4.1 Public Sector Employees
   4.2 Private Sector: Grants to Other Employers
5. Infrastructure27
   5.1 Clean Water: Centralized Wastewater Treatment
   5.2 Clean Water: Centralized Wastewater Collection and Conveyance
   5.3 Clean Water: Decentralized Wastewater
   5.4 Clean Water: Combined Sewer Overflows
   5.5 Clean Water: Other Sewer Infrastructure
   5.6 Clean Water: Stormwater
   5.7 Clean Water: Energy Conservation
   5.8 Clean Water: Water Conservation
   5.9 Clean Water: Nonpoint Source
   5.10 Drinking water: Treatment
   5.11 Drinking water: Transmission & Distribution
   5.12 Drinking water: Transmission & Distribution: Lead Remediation
   5.13 Drinking water: Source
   5.14 Drinking water: Storage
   5.15 Drinking water: Other water infrastructure
   5.16 Broadband: “Last Mile” projects
   5.17 Broadband: Other projects
6. Revenue Replacement
   6.1 Provision of Government Services
7. Administrative
   7.1 Administrative Expenses
   7.2 Evaluation and Data Analysis
   7.3 Transfers to Other Units of Government
   7.4 Transfers to Non-entitlement Units (States and territories only)

*Denotes areas where recipients must identify the amount of the total funds that are allocated to evidence-based interventions.

^Denotes areas where recipients must report on whether projects are primarily serving disadvantaged communities (see Project Demographic Distribution section above for details)