Sec. 4. Urban agriculture outreach program
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The Secretary shall establish an urban agriculture outreach program under which the Secretary shall award grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities to support outreach activities for any of the following: Infrastructure, including production and distribution systems, to support urban agriculture. Land acquisition, land conversion, and soil and growing mechanism assistance to support urban agriculture, including in and around brownfields, vacant lots, or other underutilized tracts of land.
Education and training to enhance urban agriculture. Technical and financial assistance to farmers, producers, or ranchers in urban areas for— the aggregation of the farmers’, producers’, or ranchers’ products and supplies for purposes of transportation to market; and managing urban agriculture farm operations in accordance with local laws and practices. Other activities that support urban agriculture, as determined by the Secretary. The term of a grant awarded under this section shall be not less than one year.
A grant awarded under this section may be extended at the discretion of the Secretary. The Secretary shall provide technical assistance to eligible entities that are awarded a grant under this section. In awarding grants under this section, the Secretary shall give a preference to an eligible entity seeking a grant for outreach activities to be carried out in a historically underserved community. In this section: The term eligible entity means— a community organization with experience in urban agriculture; a nonprofit or charitable organization; a historically underserved community; a local governmental entity or local park system; a local educational agency (as defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 )); an institution of higher education (as defined in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001(a) )); or any other entity as determined appropriate by the Secretary.
The term historically underserved farmers, producers, or ranchers means farmers, producers, or ranchers who engage in urban agriculture and who are— beginning farmers, producers, or ranchers; limited resource beginning farmers, producers, or ranchers (as defined by the Secretary); or socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers (as such term is defined in section 2501(e) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 ( 7 U.S.C. 2279(e) )). The term historically underserved community means a community— comprised of at-risk populations (as defined by the Secretary), such as historically underserved farmers, producers, or ranchers, the economically disadvantaged, racial and ethnic minorities, the uninsured, low-income children, the elderly, the homeless, and individuals with chronic health conditions, including severe mental illness; with a high rate of obesity and obesity-related disease; or with few or no grocery stores or other retail food establishments.
The term underutilized tract of land means a tract of land that is not utilized fully (as determined by the Secretary in consultation with the Governor of the State involved and the local governmental entity involved), including a tract of land— that is undeveloped, or where only a percentage of the land is developed; in the case of public land, land with low or decreasing public use; or with unused recreation facilities. The term vacant lot means a tract of land without buildings.
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $50,000,000 for fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal year thereafter.
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