In 2020, the WIFIA FCRA Criteria were published in the Federal Register in response to a Congressional Directive to clarify FCRA loan program budgeting requirements for financing non-federal cost shares in federally involved infrastructure projects. The Criteria significantly restrict statutory eligibility for loans to cost shares at the WIFIA program and especially at the Corps’ section of the program, CWIFP. Stakeholders have objected that the Criteria are not valid and should be replaced or overridden by amendment.
This page summarizes links to this site’s analyses and conclusions about the FCRA non-federal issue, starting in November 2022.
Short Overviews
FCRA Non-Federal Essay Series
This is an in-depth essay series examining the relevant sources.
- Introduction
- The Congressional Directive
- 1967 Budget Commission Report
- 2017 CBO Report
- 2022 GAO Report
- The WIFIA Criteria
- HR 8127
- Tax Code Precedent
- Conclusion
- FCRA Non-Federal Addendum: Section 3908 (b)(8)
Articles and Papers
- What Is WIFIA’s FCRA Budgeting Issue?
- Long-term federal financing is critical for US dam rehabilitation
- Six FCRA Criteria for Federally Involved Projects
Posts and Letters
- Putting the FCRA Non-Federal Issue in Perspective
- A Possible Sequence for WIFIA FCRA Fix
- Email to OMB on ‘Or Assets’ Omission
- FCRA Plan C: Directive to Update the Criteria
- The Current Criteria’s Smoking Gun?
- The Background Section of OMB’s WIFIA Criteria, Line-by-Line
- WIFIA FCRA Criteria: Narratives and New Criteria
- FCRA Non-Federal: Truth, Narratives, and the New Criteria
- FCRA Non-Federal: CBO’s 2021 Scoring for S.914 and the Core of the Issue
- FCRA Non-Federal: Revisiting CBO’s 2020 Scoring for S.3591
- Crooks, Imbeciles and Non-Federal Repayment Sources
- Paying for a Non-Federal Share in Pictures
- FCRA Non-Federal Issue: A New Approach
- Letter to GAO on WIFIA FCRA Criteria
- OMB’s FCRA Criteria Didn’t Comply with the Directive
- Per Criteria Obscura, Convicta et Combusta
- Federal Facility vs. Federal Project, Non-Federal Interests