Sec. 8. Grant program to increase sustainable low-income community development capacity
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The Secretary may make grants to nonprofit organizations to use for any of the following purposes: Training, educating, supporting, or advising an eligible community development organization or qualified youth service and conservation corps in improving energy efficiency, resource conservation and reuse, design strategies to maximize energy efficiency, installing or constructing renewable energy improvements (such as wind, wave, solar, biomass, and geothermal energy sources), and effective use of existing infrastructure in affordable housing and economic development activities in low-income communities, taking into consideration energy efficiency standards under section 3(a) of this Act and with the enhanced energy efficiency and conservation standards, and the green building standards, under section 3(b) of this Act.
Providing loans, grants, or predevelopment assistance to eligible community development organizations or qualified youth service and conservation corps to carry out energy efficiency improvements that comply with the energy efficiency standards under section 3(a) of this Act, resource conservation and reuse, and effective use of existing infrastructure in affordable housing and economic development activities in low-income communities. In providing assistance under this paragraph, the Secretary shall give more preference to activities based on the extent to which the activities will result in compliance with the enhanced energy efficiency and conservation standards, and the green building standards, under section 3(b) of this Act.
Such other purposes as the Secretary determines are in accordance with the purposes of this subsection. To be eligible for a grant under this section, a nonprofit organization shall prepare and submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary may require. Contracts for architectural or engineering services funded with amounts from grants made under this section shall be awarded in accordance with chapter 11 of title 40, United States Code (relating to selection of architects and engineers).
A grant made under this section may not exceed the amount that the nonprofit organization receiving the grant certifies, to the Secretary, will be provided (in cash or in-kind) from nongovernmental sources to carry out the purposes for which the grant is made. For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: The term nonprofit organization has the meaning given such term in section 104 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ( 42 U.S.C. 12704 ).
The term eligible community development organization means— a unit of general local government (as defined in section 104 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ( 42 U.S.C. 12704 )); a community housing development organization (as defined in section 104 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act ( 42 U.S.C. 12704 )); an Indian tribe or tribally designated housing entity (as such terms are defined in section 4 of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 ( 25 U.S.C. 4103 )); or a public housing agency, as such term is defined in section 3(b) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437(b) ).
The term low-income community means a census tract in which 50 percent or more of the households have an income which is less than 80 percent of the greater of— the median gross income for such year for the area in which such census tract is located; or the median gross income for such year for the State in which such census tract is located. There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025.
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