Section 604 of the Social Security Act
(the “Act”), as added by section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan
Act of 2021, Pub. L. No. 117-2 (Mar. 11, 2021) authorized the
Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (“CPF”). The CPF provides $10
billion in funding for the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”)
to provide grant payments to States (defined to include the
District of Columbia and Puerto Rico), seven territories and freely
associated states (including the United States Virgin Islands,
Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States
of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau), and Tribal governments
to carry out critical capital projects directly enabling work,
education, and health monitoring, including remote options, in
response to the public health emergency with respect to the
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)”. Section 604(b) of the Act
prescribes that the $10 billion be allocated to eligible grant
recipients according to a formula provided in the statute. Treasury
has used this formula to calculate the CPF grant fund allocations
for each eligible recipient and has posted these allocations on its
website . In general, each state (including the District of
Columbia and Puerto Rico) will receive between approximately $107
million and $500 million, each of the seven named territories and
freely associated states will receive approximately $14 million,
and each Tribal government will receive approximately
$167,000.
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