Sec. 301. Community gardening grant program
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From the amounts appropriated to carry out this section, the Secretary of Agriculture shall award grants to eligible entities to expand, establish, or maintain urban and Native American community gardens. In order to receive a grant under this section, an eligible entity shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require, including— an assurance that priority for hiring for jobs created by the expansion, establishment, or maintenance of an urban community garden funded with a grant received under this section will be given to individuals who reside in the community where the garden is located; and a demonstration that the eligible entity is committed to providing non-Federal financial or in-kind support (such as, but not limited to, providing a water supply) for the community garden for which the entity receives funds under this section.
In this section: The term eligible entity means— a for profit or nonprofit organization; or a unit of general local government, or tribal government, located on tribal land or in a low-income community. The term low-income community has the meaning given such term by the Secretary of Agriculture. The term unit of general local government means any city, county, town, township, parish, village, or other general purpose political subdivision of a State. The term State includes, in addition to the several States of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.