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Investments for Public Works and Economic Development Facilities

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

11.300

Program objective

EDA’s Public Works program helps distressed communities revitalize, expand, and upgrade their physical infrastructure. This program enables communities to attract new industry, encourage business expansion, diversify local economies, generate local investment, and create or retain long-term jobs through land acquisition, development, and infrastructure improvement projects that establish or expand industrial or commercial enterprises.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2025

    https://www.eda.gov/funding/programs/public-works

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

Title 13 CFR Chapter III, Parts 300-302, 305, 310, and 314.

  1. The statutory authorities for EDA’s Public Works and EAA programs are Sections 201 (42 U.S.C. § 3141) and 209 (42 U.S.C. § 3149) of PWEDA.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Federal
  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Interstate
  • Intrastate
  • Local
  • Major Metropolis (over 250,000)
  • Other Urban
  • Other public institution/organization
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Quasi-public nonprofit organization
  • Rural
  • State
  • Suburban
  • U.S. Territories

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