Sec. 804.
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From the amount made available under this heading in this Act, the Secretary shall make elementary and secondary school emergency facilities grants to each State educational agency with an approved application. The Secretary shall issue a notice inviting applications not later than 30 days of enactment of this Act and approve or deny applications not later than 30 days after receipt. For purposes of this section, a State designated agency shall mean the State educational agency, unless the Governor of a State designates a State agency other than the educational agency as responsible for school facilities improvement under this section and informs the Secretary of such designation and the term State means each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico .
The amount of each grant under subsection
(a)shall be allocated by the Secretary to each State in the same proportion as each State received under part A of title I of the ESEA of 1965 in the most recent fiscal year. A State may reserve not more than ½ of 1 percent for administration costs. The Secretary shall reserve from the amount made available under this heading in this Act— one-half of 1 percent, to provide assistance to the outlying areas; and one-half of 1 percent, for payments to the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance to Bureau of Indian Education-funded schools. Within 60 days of the State’s approved application under paragraph (a), each State shall allocate the remaining grant funds awarded to the State under this section as subgrants to local educational agencies in the State, with the grant funds allocated to the local educational agencies with the highest percentages of students eligible for a free or reduced price lunch under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42. U.S.C. 1751 et. seq.) with the public school facilities with the highest needs related to the coronavirus as determined by the State. The State educational agency shall make subgrant information available to the public on the State educational agency website, including the local educational agencies that received subgrant awards and the amounts provided to each local educational agency. To be considered for a subgrant under this section, a qualified local educational agency shall submit an application to the State educational agency that shall include at minimum— a description of the coronavirus-related school facility needs within the local educational agency; and an estimate of how much addressing the coronavirus-related facility needs will cost. A local educational agency that receives funds under this section may use the funds for any of the following: School facility repairs and improvements to enable operation of schools to reduce risk of virus transmission and exposure to environmental health hazards, and to support student health needs. Inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, replacement, and upgrade projects to improve the indoor air quality in school facilities, including mechanical and non-mechanical heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, filtering, purification and other air cleaning, fans, control systems, and window and door repair and replacement. School facility repairs and improvements to support improved personal hygiene, such as repair, replacement, and installation of sinks for hand washing and touchless water dispensers for drinking, and health isolation areas. Inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, and replacement of school facility potable water systems to provide safe drinking water after prolonged shutoffs. Improvements to finishes, such as painting and other surface repair, needed to enable effective sanitizing. Improvements to school grounds needed to enable outdoor instruction and other physically distanced school activities. Training of school facility staff in association with the above uses of funds. Planning, assessment, management, design, renovation, repair and construction activities in association with the above uses of funds. Inspection, testing, maintenance, repair, replacement, and upgrade projects to electrical systems to allow or improve information technology to provide virtual education. A local educational agency that receives funds under this section shall prioritize funds for its school facilities that have the most significant facility improvement needs with respect to responding to covid-19, including those identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The local educational agency shall include the following information in a report to the State educational agency within 60 days of receipt of grant funds— which schools benefitted from the funds in this section; how much funding each selected school received; and a description of how the grant funds were used. The State educational agency shall include the following information in a report to the Secretary within 6 months of receipt of grant funds— which local educational agencies received funding; how much funding was awarded to each receiving local educational agency; and a summary on the uses of funds for projects receiving funds under this section, including the amount of local or state funds, if any, applied to projects. The Secretary shall prepare and submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of the Senate within 10 months of the date of enactment of this Act, that includes a summary of the types of projects that were funded with the grants.