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Fiscal Year 2024 Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) Requests

As a Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Peters is responsible for helping write the legislation that allocates federal resources to local, state, and national government agencies and organizations on an annual basis. Senator Peters’ membership on the Appropriations Committee presents an opportunity to advocate for the priorities of Michiganders. Constituents can help determine these priorities by submitting proposed federal appropriations requests.

In FY2024. Senator Peters will accept requests for congressionally directed spending (CDS) items. Sen. Peters will accept requests for high-impact public local projects in Michigan that can benefit from the federal government’s assistance. To be considered, the project must be eligible for federal funding within its respective appropriations bill account and comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations. Only local government entities, such as municipalities, villages, townships, counties, tribal governments and public institutions funded through public funding sources, including state-funded universities, are eligible to apply. The office will not consider requests from nonprofit organizations, trade organizations or for-profit entities. 

Deadline

Fiscal Year 2024 CDS requests must be submitted by March 15 at 5 PM EST.

Form

Please sign in at left to fill out a form for your CDS request. You are able to make multiple appropriations requests. Please fill out a separate application for each request. The application’s name must be unique and cannot be edited. If you have questions, please contact appropriations@peters.senate.gov.

Important Reminders

As you draft your CDS request, please keep the following reminders in mind:

• Funding is limited; not all requests will be funded and funded projects can only count on one year of funding.
• Projects must fall under eligible accounts (see below).
• Submitted requests will be publicly disclosed by Senator Peters and are subject to Government Accountability Office audits.
• Several CDS accounts have a “nonsupplanting rule,” which dictates that if a municipality or other public entity has already appropriated funding for a specific purpose, applicants cannot request CDS funding from Congress for that exact same purpose – i.e., applicants cannot seek to “supplant” already-established local funding with federal funding.
• Many CDS accounts require a local funding match – i.e., the entire project cannot be funded solely through CDS funds from Congress. These local funding match requirements are listed below in the Subcommittee/Account information section.
• This process takes significant time. In past years, the President did not sign a final government funding bill into law until nearly a year after CDS requests were submitted – and even after the final bill was signed, it took several months – and additional paperwork – for CDS requesters to receive funding.
• If Congress does not pass a FY2024 government funding bill – but instead passes a year-long continuing resolution – it is unlikely that any CDS requests will be funded.
• It is absolutely critical that the point of contact listed on your application form be responsive to outreach from Senator Peters’ office and/or government agencies throughout the CDS process. If your point of contact needs to be changed, please contact appropriations@peters.senate.gov immediately.