Sec. 6. Deadlines and reporting
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Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish and make publicly available an application form for the competitive grant process under section 4(c)(2). Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall begin disbursing amounts made available to carry out this Act to States, units of general local governments, Indian Tribes, and insular areas in accordance with the allocation formulas under sections 4(c) and 5(c).
Of the amounts that a State elects under section 5(d)(2)(A)(ii) to reserve for use by the State under this paragraph— any amounts that the State provides to a civil unrest business recovery fund under section 5(e)(1) shall be obligated by the civil unrest business recovery fund for expenditure not later than 75 days after the date on which the State received the amounts from the Secretary; and any amounts that the State chooses to provide to a support organization under section 5(e)(2), or to use to pay for administrative costs under section 5(e)(3), shall be obligated by the State for expenditure not later than 75 days after the date on which the State received the amounts from the Secretary.
Of the amounts that an entitlement community receives from the Secretary under section 5(c)(1)(A)— any amounts that the entitlement community provides to a civil unrest business recovery fund under section 5(e)(1) shall be obligated by the civil unrest business recovery fund for expenditure not later than 75 days after the date on which the entitlement community received the amounts; and any amounts that the entitlement community chooses to provide to a support organization under section 5(e)(2), or to use to pay for administrative costs under section 5(e)(3), shall be obligated by the entitlement community for expenditure not later than 75 days after the date on which the entitlement community received the amounts.
Of the amounts that a unit of general local government, or an entity designated thereby, located in a nonentitlement area receives from a State under section 5(d)(2)(A)(i)— any amounts that the unit of general local government entity provides to a civil unrest business recovery fund under section 5(e)(1) shall be obligated by the civil unrest business recovery fund for expenditure not later than 60 days after the date on which the unit of general local government or entity received the amounts; and any amounts that the unit of general local government or entity community chooses to provide to a support organization under section 5(e)(2), or to use to pay for administrative costs under section 5(e)(3), shall be obligated by the unit of general local government or entity for expenditure not later than 60 days after the date on which the unit of general local government or entity received the amounts.
If a State, entitlement community, other unit of general local government, entity designated by a unit of general local government, or civil unrest business recovery fund fails to obligate amounts by the applicable deadline under paragraph (1), (2), or (3), the Secretary shall recover the portion of such amounts that remain unobligated as of such deadline. It is the sense of the Congress that— an entitlement community that receives amount allocated under section 5(c)(1) should collaborate with the applicable local entity responsible for economic development and small business development in establishing and administering a civil unrest business recovery fund; and States, units of general local government (including units of general local government located within and outside of nonentitlement areas), Indian Tribes, and insular areas that receive amounts under section 5(c)(2) and are located in the same region should collaborate in establishing and administering civil unrest business recovery funds.
When providing assistance to an eligible entity with amounts received from an allocation made under section 4 or 5, the entity providing the assistance shall— inquire— in the case of an eligible entity that is a business entity or a nonprofit organization, whether the entity is a minority-owned entity or a women-owned entity; and in the case of an eligible entity who is an individual, whether the individual is a minority or a woman; collect, in the case of an eligible entity that is a business entity or a nonprofit organization, demographic information, including race and ethnicity, gender, disability status, housing status, family composition, and income level, regarding the households being served by economic development activities and other activities funded with amounts made available pursuant to this Act; and maintain a record of the responses to each inquiry conducted under paragraph (1), which the entity shall promptly submit to the applicable State, unit of general local government, Indian Tribe, or insular area.
Not later than 30 days after the date on which a State, unit of general local government, Indian Tribe, or insular area initially receives an allocation made under section 4 or 5, and not later than 14 days after the date on which that State, unit of general local government, Indian Tribe, or insular area completes the full expenditure of amounts from such allocation, such State, unit of general local government, Indian Tribe, or insular area shall submit to the Secretary a report that includes information setting forth— the number of recipients of assistance made available from the allocation, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, and income and assets; the total amount, and type, of assistance made available from the allocation; to the extent applicable, with respect to each recipient described in subparagraph (A), information regarding the industry of the recipient, the amount of assistance received by the recipient, the annual sales of the recipient, and the number of employees of the recipient; to the extent available from the information collected under subsection (d), demographic information of the households receiving direct anti-poverty programming, such as cash assistance, disaggregated by race and ethnicity, gender, disability status, housing status, family composition, and income level as a percentage of the Federal poverty level; the zip code of each recipient described in subparagraph (A); and any other information that the Secretary, in the sole discretion of the Secretary, determines to be necessary to carry out this Act.
As soon as is practicable after receiving each report submitted under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall make the information contained in the report, including all of the information described in subparagraph
(A)through
(F)of such paragraph, publicly available. Not later than September 30, 2022, the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a report analyzing and assessing the program carried out under this Act, which shall identify any advantages and disadvantages of the program, include comments and assessments from localities and communities assisted, and include any recommendations for legislative changes to improve more equitable outcomes under the program, such as additional technical assistance, planning requirements, and administrative support. Of amounts available under section 3(d), the Secretary may use such amounts as may be necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of activities funded through grants under section 4, using a methodology that— includes a random assignment whenever feasible, or other research methods that allow for the strongest possible casual inferences when random assignment is not feasible; and generates evidence on impact of specific projects, or groups with identical (or nearly identical) service components and protocols. The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, shall issue any rules and guidance that are necessary to carry out this Act, including by establishing appropriate compliance and reporting requirements, in addition to the reporting requirements under subsection (e).