Sec. 3. Definitions
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In this Act: The term administering agency means a Federal department or agency with administrative jurisdiction over a qualified investment program. The term Board means the Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vibrant Economy Recovery Board established under section 4(a). The term care worker means any individual who provides paid or unpaid child care or dependent adult care, including— a domestic worker; a health care worker; a home health aide; and a nanny. The term environmental justice community means a low-income or low-wealth community facing environmental injustice.
The term environmental justice community includes any community that, as determined by the Board, in consultation with the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council— is located nearest to an existing area of grave environmental pollution and degradation; bears a burden of negative public health effects of pollution; includes 1 or more sites of— a facility that is a part of a polluting industry; a waste dump; or a facility for resource extraction; experiences a high incidence of climate change impacts and extreme weather disasters; has been excluded or harmed by racist or discriminatory policies that have resulted in economic or health disparities; has a land-based or food subsistence culture that is experiencing ecosystem disruption and devastation; faces relocation and resettlement resulting from— climate change; impacts to the environment and ecosystems; or impacts associated with economic inequities; or is an Indigenous community.
The term equity assessment , with respect to an investment, program, plan, regulation, or operational decision, mean an assessment (which may include the assignment of an equity score)— to evaluate the social, economic, and environmental impacts of the investment, program, plan, regulation, or decision on— impacted communities; and environmental justice communities; and the goals of which are— to address historic inequality; to ensure an equitable outcome; to prevent further concentration of pollution in areas experiencing an already high concentration of a pollutant or other toxic substance; and to minimize inadvertent disproportionate social, economic, and environmental effects of the investment, program, plan, regulation, or decision.
The term family-sustaining job means an employment opportunity that provides an individual with a wage that is sufficient to cover necessary expenses for the family of the individual, such as food, medical care, child care, housing, and transportation, without requiring reliance by the family on financial assistance from any other source. The term Federal spending program means any program, project, or other activity— carried out by, or pursuant to a contract with, a Federal department or agency; and for which Federal funds are made available.
The term high-road labor, equity, or environmental condition means any condition on the provision of Federal funding for a qualified investment program, as established by the President, based on advice of the Board, under section 5(d)(3)(A). The term impacted community means a community that is harmed by environmental, economic, or socioeconomic injustice. The term impacted community includes— an environmental justice community; and a community that, as determined by the Board, in consultation with the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council— has a high concentration of low-income and low-wealth households, including households comprised primarily of members of groups that have historically experienced discrimination on the basis of race, gender, national origin, or ethnicity (including Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Arab, Asian, and Pacific Islander communities); or faces economic transition, deindustrialization, historic underinvestment, and poverty.
The term implementing entity means any public or private entity (including any Federal, Tribal, State, or local agency and any firm, supplier, or subcontractor throughout the supply chain) that carries out a qualified investment program using public support. The term Indian Tribe means an Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, or community that the Secretary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an Indian Tribe pursuant to the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 ( 25 U.S.C. 5130 et seq.).
The term Indigenous community means— an Indian Tribe; a Native Hawaiian organization; a State-recognized Indian tribe; any reservation-based, urban Indigenous, or intertribal community, group, organization, or coalition; and an Alaska Native village. The term public support means any financial or in-kind contribution provided by the President under section 5 for the administration, development, or implementation of a qualified investment program carried out under this Act. The term public support includes— technical support; grants; loans; investments; and equity stakes.
The term qualified investment program means any Federal spending program certified by the President pursuant to section 5(c). The term State means— a State; the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and any other territory or possession of the United States.
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