Summary: At least 24 federal organizations provided or planned to provide about $2.1 billion in 1999 dollars for Olympic projects and activities for the Los Angeles and Atlanta Summer Olympic Games and the upcoming Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games. About $530 million was reported to have been provided or planned for projects and activities solely related to the planning and staging of the Olympics, including safety and security as well as transportation services. The remaining $1.6 billion was spent or planned for projects, such as highway construction, transit system development, and other capital projects, that the host cities of Atlanta and Salt Lake City wanted to have completed in time for the Olympic Games. Federal and state officials said that they identified these projects as Olympic-related because their completion was generally accelerated to improve transportation services and avoid construction during the Olympic Games. These officials said that most of the federal funding for these projects would have been eventually provided to the host city regardless of the Olympic Games. Concerning the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, federal funding and support totaled about $75 million and involved 11 federal organizations. Unlike the federal support for later Olympics, the federal organizations reported little funding and support for capital projects to prepare Los Angeles for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games. Most of the federal funding and support that agencies reported providing to the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta and planned for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games is reported to be for infrastructure projects to prepare the host city for the Olympics?projects that will also benefit the host city and state after the Games have ended.
