§5340 Apportionments Based on Growing States and High Density States Formula Factors

Summary

It tells how the money from a special pot is split between States. A "State" means each of the 50 States. The Secretary must divide the funds two ways: one for "growing State" needs and one for "high density" needs. For the growing-State share, each State gets a piece based on its forecasted population 15 years after the most recent decennial census. The forecast uses the trend from that census to the latest Commerce Department population estimate. Each State’s share = total growing-State money × (that State’s forecasted pop ÷ total forecasted pop for all States). Then each State’s amount is split between urbanized areas and the rest of the State by the forecasted urbanized-pop share; if the State has no forecast, the Secretary uses the last decennial census figures. Any money left for non-urban areas is added to funds for section 5311 grants. The urbanized-area money is further split among urbanized areas by their population share and added to amounts for section 5336 so it can be used for section 5307 grants. For the high-density share, States with more than 370 people per square mile are eligible. For each eligible State the Secretary computes: State land area × 370 × (urbanized pop ÷ total pop). That number is subtracted from the State’s total population to make a State apportionment factor. Each eligible State’s share = total high-density money × (that State’s apportionment factor ÷ sum of all such factors). The State’s amount is then split among its urbanized areas by population share and added to amounts for section 5336 and use under section 5307.