Sec. 7. Agency enforcement; GAO report
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Not later than 2 years after the date on which public support is initially provided to an administering agency under this Act, the head of the administering agency shall promulgate regulations, in consultation with the Board, to ensure that each qualified investment program of the administering agency achieves compliance with applicable high-road labor, equity, and environmental conditions, in accordance with existing authorities, by— including in any contract with an implementing entity those high-road labor, equity, and environmental conditions; ensuring that public implementing entities receive funding to adequately ensure compliance with applicable implementation, monitoring, compliance, and enforcement requirements in a manner that avoids establishing any unfunded mandate for a Tribal, State, or local government agency; certifying, on an annual basis, that all implementing entities throughout the supply chain that benefit from support under the qualified investment program achieve compliance with all applicable high-road labor, equity, and environmental conditions; issuing a warning and directives for corrective action relating to instances of noncompliance with applicable high-road labor, equity, and environmental conditions; establishing a process for implementing entities to appeal the classification of an action as noncompliant with an applicable high-road labor, equity, or environmental condition; and revoking public support from any implementing entity that fails to rectify an instance of noncompliance with a high-road labor, equity, or environmental condition, as applicable— for a major instance of noncompliance, by the date that is 60 days after the date of receipt of a warning relating to that instance under paragraph (4); or for a minor instance of noncompliance, by such deadline as the head of the administering agency, in consultation with the Board, may establish.
Not less frequently than once every 3 years, the Comptroller General of the United States shall prepare and publish a report assessing— the degree of compliance by implementing entities with high-road labor, equity, and environmental conditions; and the relative efficacy of enforcement by administering agencies of those high-road labor, equity, and environmental conditions.