Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Guidebook for State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Governments

A guidebook to help state, local, Tribal and territorial governments unlock the benefits from the historic investments in US infrastructure. The guidebook is a roadmap to the funding available under the law, as well as an explanatory document that shows direct federal spending at the program level. The White House has also published an accompanying data file that allows users to quickly sort programs funded under the law by fields like agency, amount, recipient, or program name. The guidebook contains 12 chapters grouping Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act programs by issue area. Each chapter contains a cover note explaining how to get ready to receive this funding, and these memoranda also identify additional resources our partners can and should utilize to prepare, while the federal government gets ready to distribute Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funds from new and existing programs.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act invests roughly $65 billion to help ensure that every American has access to reliable high-speed internet through a historic investment in broadband infrastructure deployment. The legislation will also help lower prices for internet service and help close the digital divide, so that more Americans can make full use of internet access. This funding falls into 7 major program areas: (1) the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program ($42.45 billion), (2) the Affordable Connectivity Program ($14.2 billion); (3) Digital Equity Planning, Capacity and Competitive Grants ($2.75 billion); (4) the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program ($2 billion), (5) Rural Broadband Programs at the Department of Agriculture ($2 billion); (6) the Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program ($1 billion); and (7) Private Activity Bonds ( ~$600 million) [ the law allows states and local governments to issue private activity bonds to support broadband deployment in rural areas].