Washington State Department of Commerce — Mike Fong, Director (January 9, 2024) — Housing and Infrastructure and Small Business
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A slide presentation by the Washington State Department of Commerce dated January 9, 2024, listing Director Mike Fong among its presenters, on federal funding opportunities and the small business economy. A table lists federal programs under IIJA and IRA with amounts awarded or sought, including $1 Billion for the PNW Hydrogen Hub and $1.2 Billion for WA broadband deployment (BEAD). The slides set out the Governor's Supplemental Budget Request 2024, including $136.5 million to leverage federal funding for green jobs and infrastructure and $100 million for a Clean Communities program. Later slides describe Commerce's role as a coordination hub and the Small Business Resiliency Network (SBRN), with state funding of $2.7M per year and a one-time federal funding proviso of $15M.
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“Washington State Department of Commerce — Mike Fong, Director (January 9, 2024) — Housing and Infrastructure and Small Business.”
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Mike Fong
DIRECTOR
JANUARY 9, 2024
v1.4
HOUSING AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND SMALL BUSINESS
HOMELESSNESS BROADBAND ASSISTANCE ENERGY
PLANNING AND TECH COMMUNITY CRIME VICTIMS AND ECONOMIC
ASSISTANCE SERVICES AND FACILITIES PUBLIC SAFETY DEVELOPMENT
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 2
Mike Fong, Director
Michael Furze, Assistant Director Energy
Mark Barkley, Assistant Director Local
Government & Infrastructure
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 4
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 5
Program Law/Federal Agency Description
Hydrogen Hubs IIJA / Dept. of Energy Awarded $1 Billion to support PNW Hydrogen Hub
IIJA / National
Broadband Equity, Access and
Telecommunications & Awarded $1.2 Billion for WA
Deployment (BEAD)
Information Admin.
Climate Pollution IRA / Environmental
Awarded $3 Million for WA
Reduction Planning Grant Protection Agency
Grid Resilience Formula Grants IIJA / Dept. of Energy Awarded $23+ Million for grid resilience projects
Enhancements to Formula Funds IIJA / Dept. of Energy Awarded additional allocations to existing energy formula funds
Awaiting Award of $1.8 Million to develop revolving loan fund for
Energy Efficiency Revolving Loan Fund IIJA / Dept. of Energy
residential energy retrofits
IIJA / Joint Office of Awaiting Result of ~$1.5 Million competitive application to support
Joint Office Ride and Drive Electric
Energy & Transportation EV infrastructure training
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund Solar IRA / Environmental Awaiting Result of $250 Million to support 4 new solar programs -
for All Protection Agency competitive
Applying for formula funds - $166 million to support home energy
Home Energy Rebates IRA / Dept. of Energy
improvements
Climate Pollution Reduction IRA / Environmental Applying for competitive award - $500 million or more to support
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 6
Implementation Grant Protection Agency Washington climate projects
More formula
allocations expected
under IIJA
More competitive
opportunities expected
under both IIJA and IRA
Most funding has not Analysis by Atlas Public Policy on national data, September 2023
been awarded
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 7
Potential Funding Impact on Washingtonians
Enormous Opportunity: Significant Challenges:
• New/expanded federal grants • Federal grant
for WA communities, local process (timelines,
governments, organizations, applications,
and businesses award management) prevent
• Clean energy tax credits are some from applying
newly available to previously • Tax incentives
non-eligible entities (e.g., local are complicated; risks of WA
government, nonprofits) communities not accessing
• Strong focus on Justice40, them and leaving money on
aligning with WA's EJ goals the table
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 8
Governor’s Supplemental Budget Request 2024
• $136.5 million to leverage federal funding for green jobs and infrastructure
• $84 million for direct state matching funds for federal grants that support
projects demonstrating high-wage, clean job creation in Washington.
• $52.5 million for investments in public and private infrastructure to enhance
industrial lands to increase a community’s capacity for clean manufacturing
and workforce development to attract and train the workforce required to grow
the clean energy economy.
• $100 million to create Clean Communities program aimed at developing
community-driven, neighborhood-scale sustainability projects in low income
and overburdened communities.
• $11 million increase to $50 million broadband infrastructure match
• Intended $246 million match total in next biennial budget
• $2 million for Tribal Clean Energy and Innovation Training Center
• $800,000 in administrative support to develop a green bank
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 10
• $3.86 million to provide tax assistance for organizations, local governments
and communities utilizing federal tax breaks for clean energy
• $1.1 million for green hydrogen technical assistance aligned with Pacific
Northwest Hydrogen Association $1 billion Hydrogen Hub
• $4 million to develop a project portal and outreach for project support
• $2.5 million to assist counties and Tribes in Broadband planning
• $7.5 million to enhance current digital navigator grant program to assist
communities in internet adoption
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 11
• $2.6 million to expand Innovation
Cluster Accelerator Program (ICAP) to provide industries
and new innovation clusters support
• $10 million for ambassadors to help government and
community leaders of vulnerable and overburdened
communities develop and implement clean energy projects,
including energy efficiency improvements and renewable
energy generation
• $8.14 million for grant writing support for state agencies
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 12
Federal submission requirements and timeline
Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program and Digital Equity (DE)
Program – complementary programs running in parallel
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 13
• Commerce serves as a coordination hub with business,
community, associations and funders
• Focus on building technical assistance to bring projects to the
fund resources
• Current efforts:
• Securing Federal Funding Initiative with local partners
• CHIPS and Science Act
• Broadband Project funding
• Digital Equity Coordination
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 14
Mike Fong, Director
Cheryl Smith, Director of Community Engagement and Outreach
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 16
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 17
State Funding $2.7M per year
One-time Federal funding proviso $15M
30 Community Partner
Increase Partner Orgs Credit Building Loan Program
Organizations
• Increase partner • Businesses farthest from opportunity
• In language & culturally funding to approx. • Reduce qualification barriers
relevant support 1 FTE per partner • Wrap around Technical Assistance
• Ongoing outreach • Operational & • Banking Relationship
• Training, navigation, financial mgt tools • Improve credit scores
coaching, business
assistance through
business life cycles
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 18
The Resiliency Network is made up trusted community nonprofit organizations across the state that
provide culturally appropriate and in-language case management style technical assistance to
historically marginalized and underserved persons – at no cost.
SBRN BUSINESSES
PARTNERS RECEIVED TA
HOURS DOING PEOPLE REACHED VIA
SBRN WORK OUTREACH EFFORTS
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 19
What it Means to be an SBRN Partner
TIME
40-80
HOURS OF WRAP AROUND
SUPPORT PER BUSINESS
TRUST
LONG-TERM INVOLVEMENT IN
COMMUNTY AND SHARED
LIVED EXPERIENCE
TECHNOLOGY
ACCESS TO BROADBAND AND
DIGITAL TOOLS
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 20
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 21
SBRN Pilot Programs—Food Based Businesses
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 22
WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 23
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