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Some helpful Websites

Thompson Hine’s infrastructure/stimulus package website:

http://www.ThompsonHine.com/practices/infrastructure/

• Federal government’s stimulus package website:

http://www.recovery.gov/

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009:

http://fdsys.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr1ENR/pdf/BILLS-111hr1ENR.pdf
• ARRA with House/Senate conference report:
http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2009_record&docid=cr12fe09-146.pdf
http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2009_record&docid=cr12fe09-147.pdf
http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2009_record&docid=cr12fe09-148.pdf
http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2009_record&docid=cr12fe09-149.pdf
http://frwebgate3.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2009_record&docid=cr12fe09-150.pdf

• White House ARRA fact sheets:
•  ARRA overview http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Recovery_Act_Overview_2-17.pdf
• Infrastructure http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Recovery_Act_Infrastructure_2-17.pdf
• Energy http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Recovery_Act_Energy_2-17.pdf
• Health care http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Recovery_Act_Health_Care_2-17.pdf
• Education http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Recovery_Act_Education_2-17.pdf
• Impact on working families
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Recovery_Act_Working_Families_2-17.pdf
• Job impact by congressional district
http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Recovery_Act_congressional_district_jobs_2-17.pdf
• Job impact by state http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Recovery_Act_state-by-state_jobs_2-131.pdf

• State-by-state list of “shovel-ready” projects:
• http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state
• http://www.usmayors.org/mser/documents/mser-report-200901.pdf
• OMB’s Feb. 18 initial implementing guidance to federal agencies on stimulus package:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/memoranda_fy2009/m09-10.pdf
• Stimulus package contract opportunities and notices:
• http://www.fedbizopps.gov
• http://www.usaspending.gov
• Grant and cooperative agreement opportunities and notices:
http://www.grants.gov
http://www.usaspending.gov
Loan and loan guarantee opportunities and notices:
http://www.govloans.gov
http://www.usaspending.gov
• U.S. Department of Transportation: http://www.dot.gov
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.gov
• U.S. Department of Energy: http://www.energy.gov
• U.S. Department of Defense: http://www.defenselink.mil/
• U.S. Department of Heath and Human Services: http://www.hhs.gov/
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security: http://www.dhs.gov/

• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: http://www.hud.gov/
• U.S. Department of the Interior: http://www.doi.gov/
• U.S. Department of Agriculture: http://www.usda.gov
• U.S. Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov
• U.S. Department of Commerce: http://www.commerce.gov
• U.S. Department of the Treasury: http://www.ustreas.gov
• Small Business Administration: http://www.sba.gov
• U.S. Department of Labor: http://www.dol.gov