Sec. 321. Assistance to displaced workers in the energy sector
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For a period of 10 years after the enactment of the Modernizing America with Rebuilding to Kickstart the Economy of the Twenty-first Century with a Historic Infrastructure-Centered Expansion Act, from amounts made available under section 202 of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall carry out a program to assist workers in the energy sector. For purposes of this section, the term workers in the energy sector means— workers in fossil energy sectors that may be displaced as a result of the enactment of this Act; and workers in the nuclear power sector that work at a nuclear power plant— that ceased operation in the two years preceding the date of enactment of this Act; or the owner of which announced prior to the date of enactment of this Act its intent to cease the operation of the plant at a future date.
Such assistance may take the form of the following: Worker retraining. Relocation expenses for those who move to find new employment. Early retirement. Health benefits. Block grants to affected communities for economic redevelopment and infrastructure investments. Transfers to the trustees of the 1974 United Mine Workers of America Pension Plan to pay benefits required under that plan. No such transfer shall be made in a first fiscal year beginning after a plan year for which the funded percentage (as defined in section 432(j)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) of the 1974 United Mine Workers of America Pension Plan is at least 100 percent.