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Introduction to American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Process 

 Below is a summary of the process used to generate the proposed activities for the narrative section of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant application.  

• Projects submitted into the State of Ohio’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act website, http://recovery.ohio.gov/,were directed to specific program as self-selected by applicants.  Reassignments, when appropriate, were initially made by teams of participants throughout state government and completed by the Ohio Department of Development’s Energy Office.

• Ohio Department of Development staff then analyzed each proposal, resulting in categorization of entries into Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant-fundable activities.  There are more than one hundred seventy-one (171) potential projects for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant funding, for a total request of $1.02 billion by state agencies and higher education entities. Three hundred forty eight (348) proposed projects, totaling $939 Million, have been submitted by quasi-governmental entities or township, village, city or county governments located in the seventy-eight (78) counties that did not receive direct allocated funding from the federal government.   

• A working group was spearheaded by Executive Sponsors Mark Shanahan, Energy Advisor to Governor Ted Strickland and Lisa Patt-McDaniel, Director for the Ohio Department of Development to provide input into creation of priorities and fundable activities for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program. The group considered project ideas submitted into http://recovery.ohio.gov/.  
  
• The Ohio Department of Development submitted the State of Ohio’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant proposal to the United States Department of Energy by the deadline of June 25, 2009, for review and approval.
   
• Within 120 days of filing (no later than October 23, 2009), the United States Department of Energy must review and respond to State of Ohio on the submitted proposal.
   
• Within 180 days from the approval by the United States Department of Energy (no later than April 23, 2010), the State of Ohio must provide sub-grants for the 60 percent, or $15 Million, to eligible local governments.

• Within 18 months after approval by the United States Department of Energy, the State of Ohio must encumber the remaining 40 percent.

• Within 36 months after the approval by the United States Department of Energy (no later than October 23, 2012), the State of Ohio must spend the remaining 40 percent, or $8.2. Million, to eligible state facilities and institutions of higher education.