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. There are also other eligibility requirements that further limit the applicants for the FY 2012 competition.

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.

The application would be eligible under Priority 2; however, due to a lack of funding, we have not been able to fund beyond the Priority 1 applications as mandated by law. As a result, we are not accepting Priority 2 applications.

Should additional funds become available and we solicit Priority 2 applications, this LEA could submit an application. An LEA may apply on behalf of an individual building in which there are at least 40 percent federally connected children in average daily attendance, even if the LEA as a whole does not meet those criteria. The LEA as a whole 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 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 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 will be considered under the fourth priority.

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.

This decision is made on a case by case basis. These grants are subject to supplement-not-supplant regulations (see 222.174). In general, 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 details regarding 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.

No, an LEA may only submit one application, detailing its emergency needs for one facility. This is a change from prior years’ competitions due to a regulatory change in section 222.183 published April 28, 2011.

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 (assuming Congress appropriates funding for the 8007(b) program). Section 222.189 of the regulations provides additional detail for this procedure.