No, only those local educational agencies (LEAs) eligible for Impact Aid under Title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act are eligible to apply.

No, only eligible LEAs may apply. Your LEA's authorized representative must sign the application. Applications from individual schools, individuals, or other entities will be discarded.

An LEA is required to provide a 50 percent match for an emergency repair or modernization grant award, unless the LEA has "no practical capacity to issue bonds."

An LEA is deemed to have "no practical capacity to issue bonds" if the total assessed value of real property in the LEA that may be taxed for school purposes is les than $25,000,000.

Yes, an LEA may apply on behalf of an individual building in which the attendance is at least 40 percent federally connected children, even if the LEA as a whole does not meet those criteria. The LEA must also be eligible for Impact Aid. In general, the individual building must have children living on Indian lands or children with a parent in the U.S. uniformed services equal to at least 40 percent of the total number of children in average daily attendance (ADA) in the building.

In addition, the LEA must have used at least 75 percent of its bonding capacity and have an average per-student assessed value of real property taxable for school purposes that is below its State average. Applicants that meet these criteria and apply for an emergency repair grant for an individual building fall within the second priority and will be considered if funds are available after all fundable first priority applications are awarded. Applicants that apply for a modernization grant for an individual building fall within the fourth priority.

If your LEA is considering applying on behalf of an individual school, you should carefully review sections 222.179 (Emergency grants) and 222.182 (Modernization grants) of the regulations.

The period of availability will be specified in the grant award documents, and will depend on the scope of the individual project. In general, we expect emergency grants will be expended within a short time period.

No, Federal funds for emergency repair and modernization grants cannot be used to supplant other state or local funds that are available for a project. You should review section 222.174 of the regulations for further detail about supplanting.

No, reimbursing another source of funds is considered supplanting, and is not permitted. You should review section 222.174 for further detail about supplanting.

Your LEA may submit more than one application for an emergency repair or modernization grant, depending on the scope of your needs. Because of the limited funds available, we believe that most awards will be made to LEAs for emergency repair grants under the first priority described in section 222.177 of the regulations.

Photographs or other materials will not be considered. You should describe your project in a concise narrative within the grant application forms. Other materials submitted will be discarded before applications are presented to the reviewers.

The Department will retain applications that are not funded, and include those applications for consideration along with new applications received for the following year. Section 222.189 of the regulation provides additional detail for this procedure.