Sec. 110019. Recompete Pilot Program
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In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is appropriated for fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $4,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2031, to the Department of Commerce for economic adjustment assistance as authorized by section 209 of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 ( 42 U.S.C. 3149 ) to establish a pilot program, to be known as the Recompete Pilot Program , to provide grants to specified entities to carry out activities in eligible areas and Tribal lands for which a specified entity has jurisdiction or otherwise serves to support local labor markets, local communities, and Tribal governments to alleviate persistent economic distress and labor market dislocation, except that sections 204 and 301 of such Act shall not apply to a grant provided under this section.
A grant shall have a term of 10 fiscal years and be disbursed at such time and in such manner as determined by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with benchmarking requirements established by the Secretary. Of the funds provided by this section— not less than $3,855,000,000 shall be used for grants to be awarded to at least 15 specified entities representing eligible areas to carry out activities described in a recompete plan approved by the Secretary of Commerce; not more than $25,000,000 may be used for planning and technical assistance grants to be awarded to not more than 50 specified entities representing eligible areas to develop a recompete plan and carry out predevelopment activities; and not more than 3 percent shall be used for the administrative costs of carrying out this section.
An eligible area may not benefit from more than 1 grant and 1 grant described in subsection (c)(2). For purposes of the program under this section, a specified entity may not receive a grant on behalf of more than 1 eligible area. In determining the maximum amount of a grant that a specified entity may be awarded, the Secretary shall use the product obtained by multiplying— the prime-age employment gap of the eligible area; the prime-age population of the eligible area; and either— $70,585 for local labor markets; or $53,600 for local communities.
In this section: The term eligible area means either of the following: A local labor market that— has a prime-age employment gap equal to not less than 2.5 percent; and meets additional criteria as the Secretary may establish. A local community that— has a prime-age employment gap equal to not less than 5 percent; is not located within an eligible local labor market that meets the criteria described in subparagraph (A); and has a median annual household income of not more than $75,000.
The term local labor market means any of the following areas that contains 1 or more specified entities described in subparagraphs
(A)through
(D)of paragraph (5): A commuting zone, as defined by the Economic Research Service of the Department of Agriculture, excluding all core-based statistical areas within the commuting zone described in subparagraph (B). Subject to subparagraph (C), if 1 or more discrete metropolitan statistical areas or micropolitan statistical areas, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget (collectively referred to as core-based statistical areas ), exists within a commuting zone described in subparagraph (A), each such core-based statistical area. If the remaining area of a commuting zone described in subparagraph (A), excluding all core-based statistical areas within the commuting zone described in subparagraph (B), contains 1 or fewer counties and has a population of 7,500 or fewer residents, that remaining area combined with an adjacent core-based statistical area within the commuting zone. The Tribal land with a Tribal prime-age population represented by a Tribal government. The term local community means the area served by a specified entity described in subparagraphs
(A)through
(C)of paragraph
(5)that— is located within a local labor market or partial local labor market that is not eligible; or is not coexistent with, or encompassing the entirety of, a local labor market; and meets such additional criteria, including a minimum population requirement, as the Secretary may establish. The term prime-age employment gap means the difference (expressed as a percentage) between— the national 5-year average prime-age employment rate; and the 5-year average prime-age employment rate of the eligible area. For the purposes of subparagraph (A), an individual is prime-age if such individual between the ages of 25 years and 54 years. The term recompete plan means a comprehensive 10-year economic development plan that— includes— proposed programs and activities to be carried out with a grant awarded under this section to address the economic challenges of the eligible area in a manner that promotes long-term, sustained economic growth and reduction in the prime-age employment gap of the eligible area; projected costs and annual expenditures and proposed disbursement schedule; and other information as the Secretary determines appropriate; is developed by a specified entity that is the recipient of a planning and technical assistance grant described in subsection (c)(2); and is submitted to the Secretary for approval for a specified entity to be considered for a grant under this section. The term specified entity means— a unit of local government; the District of Columbia; a territory or possession of the United States; a Tribal government; a State-authorized political subdivision or other entity, including a special-purpose entity engaged in economic development activities; a public entity or nonprofit organization, acting in cooperation with the officials of a political subdivision or entity described in subparagraph (E); an economic development district (as defined in section 3 of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 ( 42 U.S.C. 3122 ); and a consortium of any of the specified entities described in this paragraph which serve or are contained within the same eligible area. The term Tribal government means the recognized governing body of any Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, community, component band, or component reservation, individually identified (including parenthetically) in the list published by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on January 29, 2021, pursuant to section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe List Act of 1994 ( 25 U.S.C. 5131 ). The term Tribal land means any land— any land located within the boundaries of an Indian reservation, pueblo, or rancheria; or any land not located within the boundaries of an Indian reservation, pueblo, or rancheria, the title to which is held— in trust by the United States for the benefit of an Indian Tribe or an individual Indian; by an Indian Tribe or an individual Indian, subject to restriction against alienation under laws of the United States; or by a dependent Indian community. The term Tribal prime-age population shall be equal to the sum obtained by adding— the product obtained by multiplying— the total number of individuals ages 25 through 54 residing on the Tribal land of the Tribal government; and 0.65; and the product obtained by multiplying— the total number of individuals ages 25 through 54 included on the membership roll of the Tribal government; and 0.35. A calculation under subparagraph
(A)shall be determined based on data provided by the applicable Tribal government to the Department of the Treasury under the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund programs under title VI of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 801 et seq. ).
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