These reporting categories provide a good general overview of the kinds of services, programs, and projects intended for the ARPA funds.
1: Public Health
1.1 COVID-19 Vaccination ^
1.2 COVID-19 Testing ^
1.3 COVID-19 Contact Tracing
1.4 Prevention in Congregate Settings (Nursing Homes, Prisons/Jails, Dense Work Sites, Schools, etc.)*
1.5 Personal Protective Equipment
1.6 Medical Expenses (including Alternative Care Facilities)
1.7 Capital Investments or Physical Plant Changes to Public Facilities that respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency
1.8 Other COVID-19 Public Health Expenses (including Communications, Enforcement, Isolation/Quarantine)
1.9 Payroll Costs for Public Health, Safety, and Other Public Sector Staff Responding to COVID-19
1.10 Mental Health Services*
1.11 Substance Use Services*
1.12 Other Public Health Services
2: Negative Economic Impacts
2.1 Household Assistance: Food Programs* ^
2.2 Household Assistance: Rent, Mortgage, and Utility Aid* ^
2.3 Household Assistance: Cash Transfers* ^
2.4 Household Assistance: Internet Access Programs* ^
2.5 Household Assistance: Eviction Prevention* ^
2.6 Unemployment Benefits or Cash Assistance to Unemployed Workers*
2.7 Job Training Assistance (e.g., Sectoral job-training, Subsidized Employment, Employment Supports or Incentives)* ^
2.8 Contributions to UI Trust Funds
2.9 Small Business Economic Assistance (General)* ^
2.10 Aid to Nonprofit Organizations*
2.11 Aid to Tourism, Travel, or Hospitality
2.12 Aid to Other Impacted Industries
2.13 Other Economic Support* ^
2.14 Rehiring Public Sector Staff
3: Services to Disproportionately Impacted Communities
3.1 Education Assistance: Early Learning* ^
3.2 Education Assistance: Aid to High-Poverty Districts ^
3.3 Education Assistance: Academic Services* ^
3.4 Education Assistance: Social, Emotional, and Mental Health Services* ^
3.5 Education Assistance: Other* ^
3.6 Healthy Childhood Environments: Child Care* ^
3.7 Healthy Childhood Environments: Home Visiting* ^
3.8 Healthy Childhood Environments: Services to Foster Youth or Families Involved in Child Welfare System* ^
3.9 Healthy Childhood Environments: Other* ^
3.10 Housing Support: Affordable Housing* ^
3.11 Housing Support: Services for Unhoused Persons* ^
3.12 Housing Support: Other Housing Assistance* ^
3.13 Social Determinants of Health: Other* ^
3.14 Social Determinants of Health: Community Health Workers or Benefits Navigators* ^
3.15 Social Determinants of Health: Lead Remediation ^
3.16 Social Determinants of Health: Community Violence Interventions* ^
4: Premium Pay
4.1 Public Sector Employees
4.2 Private Sector: Grants to Other Employers
5: Infrastructure24
5.1 Clean Water: Centralized Wastewater Treatment
5.2 Clean Water: Centralized Wastewater Collection and Conveyance
5.3 Clean Water: Decentralized Wastewater
5.4 Clean Water: Combined Sewer Overflows
5.5 Clean Water: Other Sewer Infrastructure
5.6 Clean Water: Stormwater
5.7 Clean Water: Energy Conservation
5.8 Clean Water: Water Conservation
5.9 Clean Water: Nonpoint Source
5.10 Drinking water: Treatment
5.11 Drinking water: Transmission & Distribution
5.12 Drinking water: Transmission & Distribution: Lead Remediation
5.13 Drinking water: Source
5.14 Drinking water: Storage
5.15 Drinking water: Other water infrastructure
5.16 Broadband: “Last Mile” projects
5.17 Broadband: Other projects
6: Revenue Replacement
6.1 Provision of Government Services
7: Administrative
7.1 Administrative Expenses
7.2 Evaluation and Data Analysis
7.3 Transfers to Other Units of Government
7.4 Transfers to Non-entitlement Units (States and territories only)
Source: Extracted from Compliance and Reporting Guidance: State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds
* Denotes areas where recipients must identify the amount of the total funds that are allocated to evidence-based interventions (see Use of Evidence section above for details)
^ Denotes areas where recipients must report on whether projects are primarily serving disadvantaged communities (see Project Demographic Distribution section above for details