Sec. 303. Low-income weatherization and retrofit assistance

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There is established in the Treasury a fund, to be known as the Community Assistance Fund (in this section referred to as the Fund ). In each fiscal year, there shall be deposited in the Fund amounts made available in section 701. Amounts deposited in the Fund shall be available without further appropriation in a fiscal year, as follows: Amounts as needed, shall be made available to the Secretary of Commerce for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership under section 25 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act ( 15 U.S.C. 278k ).

Twenty percent of such amounts shall be made available to the Secretary of Energy, to be used, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, for activities of the Advanced Manufacturing Office of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Thirty percent of such amounts shall be made available to the Secretary of Energy for the State Energy Program, to be used exclusively by energy offices of States and territories to promote energy efficiency projects at industrial facilities within the jurisdiction of such States and territories.

Any of such amounts remaining after distributions under subparagraphs (1), (2), and

(3)shall be made available to the Secretary of Energy for industrial energy efficiency programs authorized under part E of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act ( 42 U.S.C. 6341 et seq.) or subtitle D of title IV of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 ( Public Law 110–140 ; 121 Stat. 1623). Part A of title IV of the Energy Conservation and Production Act is amended by striking section 422 ( 42 U.S.C. 6872 ) and inserting the following: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on October 1, 2018, and on each October 1 thereafter, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer to the Secretary for the cost of grants to carry out this part $1,500,000,000, to remain available until expended. The Secretary shall be entitled to receive, shall accept, and shall use to carry out this part funds made available in section 701 of the Off Fossil Fuels for a Better Future Act. . Section 415 of the Energy Conservation and Production Act ( 42 U.S.C. 6865 ) is amended, in subsections

(d)and (e)(1)(A), by striking section 422(b) each place it appears and inserting section 422 . Section 548 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 ( 42 U.S.C. 17158 ) is amended by striking subsection

(a)and inserting the following: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on October 1, 2018, and on each October 1 thereafter, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer to the Secretary for the cost of grants to carry out this section $30,000,000, to remain available until expended. The Secretary shall be entitled to receive, shall accept, and shall use to carry out this section the funds transferred under paragraph (1), without further appropriation. .

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