Sec. 3. National Climate Service Corps
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Section 122(a) of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12572(a) ) is amended— by redesignating paragraphs
(4)and
(5)as paragraphs
(5)and (6), respectively; and by inserting after paragraph
(3)the following new paragraph: The recipient may carry out national service projects through a National Climate Service Corps that improves community adaptation, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery from natural disaster and other trends related to climate change through activities such as those described in subparagraph
(B)and improves performance on the indicators described in subparagraph (C). The recipient shall, where appropriate, identify and select projects from communities that are disproportionately impacted by climate and severe weather events, including from communities of color, low-income communities, and Tribal communities. A Climate Service Corps described in this paragraph may carry out activities, including— assessing community resilience to the effects of climate change; supporting climate adaptation and mitigation of the negative effects of climate change; environmental sustainability and resiliency; emergency preparedness; promoting sustainable and resilient communities; assisting with recovery from disasters to rebuild in a manner that provides improved resilience or adaptation for future climate impacts; assisting with prevention, recovery, or restoration of wildland, rangeland, and wildland-urban interface areas from the effects of wildfire and associated impacts due to the effects of climate change; or other relevant activities, as determined by the Corporation. In addition to the requirements for participants under section 137, in carrying out national service projects under this paragraph, the recipient shall, to the extent practicable— select as participants— individuals who are at least 17 but not more than 30 years of age at the time of beginning the term of service, including out of-school youth, disadvantaged youth (such as individuals who are aging out of foster care, individuals who have limited English proficiency, homeless individuals, and individuals with disabilities), and youth from communities of color and Tribal communities; or veterans who have not reached the age of 36, at the time of beginning the term of service; and provide each participant with team-based, highly structured, and adult-supervised service experience, education, career guidance, and counseling, and employment training, support services, and mentoring. The indicators for a National Climate Service Corps program described in this paragraph are— the number of acres, homes, buildings or infrastructure projects built, retrofitted, improved, treated, or restored for improved resilience, adaptation, or current and future disaster recovery; the number of individuals educated about, prepared for, and receiving training about natural disasters, other trends related to climate change, or environmentally conscious practices; the number of individuals assisted, including those rescued, evacuated, or provided shelter; the number of homes or buildings treated, including those boarded up, tarped, mucked, or gutted during disaster response; the number of trees and plants planted; the number of new technologies that participants receive training on, and that are utilized and incorporated into resiliency projects; any additional indicator relating to natural disaster and other trends that the Corporation establishes, in consultation (as appropriate), with the Secretaries of the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Defense, the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and any additional local indicator applicable to a particular recipient and on which an improvement in performance is needed related to climate change. . Section 122 of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12572 ), as amended by subsection (a), is further amended— in paragraph (b)(3), by striking or
(5)and inserting (5), or
(6); and in paragraph (c)(1), by striking
(5)and inserting
(6).
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