specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Appalachian Regional Commission
providerId: appalachian-regional-commission
generated: '2026-09-07'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.arc.gov/ and its research, data, applicant-resources and grantee-resources sections,
  read on 2026-09-07, plus live calls to both machine-readable surfaces.
description: >-
  ARC publishes no plans, no pricing and no API terms, and there is nothing to buy. Both of its
  machine-readable surfaces are open to anonymous callers at no cost — which is the correct posture
  for a federal-state commission whose statutory job is to publish regional data. This file replaces
  a scaffold written by a 2026-05-04 bulk sweep that had invented Free, Professional and Enterprise
  tiers with request quotas, overage pricing, SLA targets and a dedicated account manager. None of
  that existed.
plan_count: 0
pricing_model: free-and-open
requires_signup: false
requires_api_key: false
plans: []
evidence:
  - url: https://www.arc.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/report?per_page=1
    status: 200
    note: Answered anonymously with no key and no signup.
  - url: https://services.arcgis.com/nkunl3y8FDxPkXDl/arcgis/rest/services/arc_counties/FeatureServer/0/query?where=1%3D1&returnCountOnly=true&f=json
    status: 200
    note: Answered anonymously; returned 423 features.
  - url: https://www.arc.gov/
    status: 200
    note: No pricing, plans, developer or API page exists anywhere in the site navigation.
note: >-
  ARC does award money — Area Development, POWER, ARISE, SUD and other grant programs at
  https://www.arc.gov/grants-and-opportunities/ — but those are grants ARC pays out, not plans a
  consumer buys, and they have no relationship to API access.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com