Encouraged by the new act, the NCTA recommended the formation of a private entity or a multi-state authority to operate the system using more non-federal funds.

Through 2008, some of the non-Federal funds received include:

Authorizes the Secretary to make expenditures from non-Federal funds deposited in the fund as advances against construction costs.

In the 2009-10 award year, $222 million was used to fund community service jobs-and that sum doesn't include a much larger pot of non-federal matching funds.

Clinics that want to use non-Federal funds to provide abortion counseling may do so only in physically separate facilities using separate personnel, accounting and record-keeping.

The importance of the state's new law is mostly symbolic, in that nothing prevented such research from being conducted with non-federal funds.

The grants must be matched by non-Federal funds, either state and local money or private financing.

This multiyear project received $250,000, the highest amount available under the special artistic initiative category, to be matched 3 to 1 with non-Federal funds.

The county could use non-Federal funds to make changes, but this would go against the spirit of the law.

The Federal funds will be matched with $1.98 million of non-federal funds and the project has over two dozen local partners.