Question: My city/town/county received an AZ SMART award for design and other engineering services for a project we intended to submit for a federal discretionary grant for construction. Subsequently, we received construction funding through another avenue (such as a legislative appropriation, private funds, federal earmark, formula federal aid, etc.). Do we need to repay the AZ SMART award?
Answer: Yes. Projects receive design funding from the AZ SMART Fund to facilitate a construction application for an applicable federal discretionary grant. If a federal discretionary grant is no longer needed to fund construction, the AZ SMART award must be repaid.