---
kind: "section"
citation: "13 C.F.R. § 305.2"
title: "13"
number: "305.2"
heading: "Award requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/13/305.2"
---

# §305.2. Award requirements.

- (a) **Project scope.** Public Works Investments may fund the following activities:
  - (1) Acquisition or development of land and improvements for use in a public works, public service or other type of development facility; or
  - (2) Acquisition, design and engineering, construction, rehabilitation, alteration, expansion, or improvement of such a facility, including related machinery and equipment.
- (b) **Requirements.** A Public Works Investment may be made if EDA determines that:
  - (1) **The Project will, directly or indirectly—**
    - (i) Improve the opportunities for the successful establishment or expansion of industrial or commercial plants or facilities in the Region where the Project is located;
    - (ii) Assist in the creation of additional long-term employment opportunities in the Region; or
    - (iii) Primarily benefit the long-term unemployed and members of low-income families in the Region;
  - (2) The Project will fulfill a pressing need of the Region, or a part of the Region, in which the Project is located; and
  - (3) **The Region in which the Project is located has a CEDS and the Project is consistent with the CEDS.**
- (c) Not more than 15 percent of the annual appropriations made available to EDA to fund Public Works Investments may be made in any one State.

## Notes

### Amendments

[71 FR 56675, Sept. 27, 2006, as amended at 79 FR 76131, Dec. 19, 2014]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 3211; 42 U.S.C. 3141; Department of Commerce Organization Order 10-4.

### Source

Source: 71 FR 56675, Sept. 27, 2006, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[71 FR 56675, Sept. 27, 2006, as amended at 79 FR 76131, Dec. 19, 2014]