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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 375 

To require the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor to establish 

the Make It In America Incentive Grant Program, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 23, 2013 

Mr. CICILLINE (for himself, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. YARMUTH, Ms. NORTON, Mr. 

GRIJALVA, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, and Mr. LIPINSKI) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 

and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for 

a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 

consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To require the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary 

of Labor to establish the Make It In America Incentive 

Grant Program, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Make It In America 

5 Manufacturing Act of 2013’’. 

6 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 

7 In this Act: 


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1 (1) INDUSTRY CLUSTER.—The term ‘‘industry 

2 cluster’’ means a concentration of interconnected 

3 businesses, suppliers, research and development enti4 ties, service providers, and associated institutions in 

5 a particular field that are linked by common manu6 facturing and workforce needs. 

7 (2) MANUFACTURER.—The term ‘‘manufac8 turer’’ shall be defined by the Secretary of Com9 merce in accordance with the North American In10 dustry Classification System. 

11 (3) NATIONALLY PORTABLE.—The term ‘‘na12 tionally portable’’, with respect to a credential, 

13 means a credential that is sought or accepted by 

14 businesses within the industry sector involved, across 

15 multiple States, as a recognized, preferred, or re16 quired credential for recruitment, screening, ad17 vancement, or hiring purposes. 

18 (4) PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘Program’’ means 

19 the program established under section 3(a). 

20 (5) REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP.—The term ‘‘re21 gional partnership’’ means a collaborative group 

22 that— 

23 (A) organizes key stakeholders in a tar24 geted industry cluster or broader manufac25 turing partnership into a working group that 


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1 focuses on the needs of manufacturers in order 

2 to implement a manufacturing enhancement 

3 strategy; 

4 (B) includes, at the appropriate stage of 

5 development of the partnership— 

6 (i) representatives of multiple firms or 

7 employers in the targeted industry cluster, 

8 including small- or medium-sized manufac9 turers and large manufacturers when prac10 ticable; 

11 (ii) one or more representatives of 

12 State labor organizations, central labor 

13 coalitions, or other labor organizations, ex14 cept in instances where no labor represen15 tation exists; 

16 (iii) one or more representatives of 

17 postsecondary educational institutions or 

18 other training providers; 

19 (iv) one or more representatives of 

20 State workforce agencies or other entities 

21 providing employment services; and 

22 (v) one or more representatives of a 

23 State or local government or Indian tribe 

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1 Determination and Education Assistance 

2 Act (25 U.S.C. 450b)); 

3 (C) may include representatives of— 

4 (i) State or local economic develop5 ment agencies; 

6 (ii) other State or local agencies; 

7 (iii) chambers of commerce; 

8 (iv) nonprofit organizations; 

9 (v) philanthropic organizations; 

10 (vi) economic development organiza11 tions; 

12 (vii) industry associations; 

13 (viii) a local or regional Hollings Man14 ufacturing Extension Center; and 

15 (ix) other organizations, as deter16 mined necessary by the members com17 prising the industry or sector partnership; 

18 and 

19 (D) designates as the fiscal agent for the 

20 collaborative group a not-for-profit organization 

21 or government entity that is a member of the 

22 collaborative group. 

23 (6) SMALL-SIZED MANUFACTURER.—The term 

24 ‘‘small-sized manufacturer’’ means a manufacturer 

25 that is a small business concern. 


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1 (7) SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN.—The term 

2 ‘‘small business concern’’ has the meaning given 

3 such term under section 3 of the Small Business Act 

4 (15 U.S.C. 632). 

5 (8) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 

6 the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and any ter7 ritory or possession of the United States. 

8 SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MAKE IT IN AMERICA IN9 CENTIVE GRANT PROGRAM. 

10 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 180 days after 

11 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 

12 Commerce and the Secretary of Labor shall jointly estab13 lish a program under which the secretaries shall jointly 

14 award incentive grants to eligible entities to support the 

15 manufacturing industry in the United States. 

16 (b) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary of Labor shall 

17 administer the Program with respect to all matters relat18 ing to the use of incentive grants for job training and the 

19 Secretary of Commerce shall administer the Program with 

20 respect to all other matters. 

21 (c) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—For purposes of the Pro22 gram, an eligible entity is any of the following: 

23 (1) A State. 

24 (2) A regional partnership. 


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1 (d) DESIGNATION.—The program established under 

2 subsection (a) shall be known as the ‘‘Make It In America 

3 Incentive Grant Program’’. 

4 (e) COORDINATION.—In carrying out the Program, 

5 the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor 

6 shall coordinate with such other heads of Federal agencies 

7 as the secretaries consider appropriate. 

8 SEC. 4. INCENTIVE GRANTS. 

9 (a) MAXIMUM AMOUNT.—An incentive grant award10 ed by the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of 

11 Labor under the Program may not exceed $20,000,000. 

12 (b) USE OF FUNDS.—An incentive grant awarded by 

13 the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor 

14 under the Program shall be used by the recipient of the 

15 incentive grant to carry out a manufacturing enhancement 

16 strategy through the following: 

17 (1) Establishing a revolving loan fund to issue 

18 loans to manufacturers to finance the cost of any of 

19 the following: 

20 (A) Retooling, retrofitting, expanding, or 

21 establishing (including applicable engineering 

22 costs) a manufacturer in the United States, in23 cluding with respect to equipment, facilities, in24 frastructure, or capital. 


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1 (B) Activities relating to improving the en2 ergy or process efficiency of a manufacturer, 

3 but not relating to or involving training. 

4 (2) Retraining the employees of the manufac5 turers, including through the awarding of grants to 

6 not-for-profit third-parties— 

7 (A) to provide skills necessary to operate 

8 new or advanced manufacturing equipment; or 

9 (B) to sustain or improve the processes of 

10 the manufacturer. 

11 (3) Training new employees of the manufactur12 ers, including through the awarding of grants to not13 for-profit third-parties— 

14 (A) to provide on-the-job training; 

15 (B) to provide off-site training; 

16 (C) for classroom and on-site experiential 

17 learning; 

18 (D) for the development and implementa19 tion of registered apprenticeship programs; and 

20 (E) for such other activities as the Sec21 retary of Labor considers appropriate for train22 ing new employees of the manufacturers. 

23 (4) Creating or expanding export activity and 

24 domestic supply chain opportunities by providing 


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1 capital and technical expertise to the manufactur2 ers— 

3 (A) to facilitate new connections in domes4 tic supply chains between small-sized manufac5 turers and other manufacturers; and 

6 (B) for such other activities as the Sec7 retary of Commerce considers appropriate. 

8 (5) Such other activities as the Secretary of 

9 Commerce and the Secretary of Labor consider ap10 propriate to carry out a manufacturing enhancement 

11 strategy. 

12 (c) INTEREST RATES.—Loans issued under sub13 section (b)(1) shall bear an interest rate determined by 

14 the entity receiving the incentive grant as follows: 

15 (1) The interest rate shall enable the loan re16 cipient to accomplish the activities described in sub17 paragraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (b)(1). 

18 (2) The interest rate may be set below market 

19 interest rates. 

20 (3) The interest rate may not be less than zero 

21 percent. 

22 (4) The interest rate may not exceed the cur23 rent prime rate plus 500 basis points. 

24 (d) USE OF FUNDS IN UNITED STATES.—A recipient 

25 of an incentive grant under the Program may only use 


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1 such grant to carry out activities in the United States and 

2 to improve manufacturing in the United States. 

3 SEC. 5. REQUIREMENTS FOR INCENTIVE GRANT RECIPI4 ENTS. 

5 (a) APPLICATION.— 

6 (1) IN GENERAL.—An entity seeking an incen7 tive grant under the Program shall submit to the 

8 Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor 

9 an application therefor at such time, in such form, 

10 and in such manner as the Secretary of Commerce 

11 and the Secretary of Labor may require. 

12 (2) ELEMENTS.—Each application submitted 

13 under paragraph (1) shall include the following: 

14 (A) The manufacturing enhancement strat15 egy for which the entity is seeking an incentive 

16 grant under the Program. 

17 (B) Such other information as the Sec18 retary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor 

19 consider appropriate. 

20 (3) PROPOSED MANUFACTURING ENHANCE21 MENT STRATEGY.—Each manufacturing enhance22 ment strategy submitted under paragraph (2)(A) by 

23 an entity for an incentive grant shall include the fol24 lowing: 


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1 (A) A description of the plans of the entity 

2 to make loans or grants to third parties with 

3 funds from the incentive grant and how such 

4 plans will improve the competitiveness of a par5 ticular industry cluster identified by the entity 

6 and of manufacturing in the United States in 

7 one or more industries. 

8 (B) A description of the expected economic 

9 return on investment of the entity’s manufac10 turing enhancement strategy with respect to the 

11 incentive grant, including the following: 

12 (i) The number of jobs to be created 

13 or retained by third-party recipients of 

14 loans or grants issued or awarded by the 

15 entity under the Program. 

16 (ii) The sales to be increased or re17 tained by such third-party recipients. 

18 (iii) The cost savings to be achieved 

19 by such third-party recipients due to en20 ergy efficiency savings or other activities 

21 supported by loans issued or grants award22 ed by the entity under the Program. 

23 (iv) The workforce training invest24 ments to be made by the entity or such 

25 third-party recipients, including— 


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1 (I) the number of training hours 

2 to be provided; and 

3 (II) a description of the nation4 ally portable, industry recognized cre5 dentials or, if not available, other cre6 dentials, related to the targeted indus7 try cluster that the entity proposes to 

8 support, develop, or use as a perform9 ance measure, in order to carry out 

10 the goals of the entity with respect to 

11 the proposed manufacturing enhance12 ment strategy. 

13 (v) The amount of capital and tech14 nical assistance to be provided to manufac15 turers to expand the export opportunities, 

16 facilitate new domestic supply chains, or 

17 carry out other authorized activities. 

18 (vi) Private investments from the 

19 third party recipients or affiliated private 

20 investors leveraged by grant funding. 

21 (vii) How the entity will address, to 

22 the extent practicable, economic distress, 

23 including high rates of unemployment, sit24 uations of sudden and severe economic dis25 location, in particular where mass layoffs 


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1 result in a precipitous increase in unem2 ployment, and such other similar issues of 

3 economic distress as the Secretary of Com4 merce considers appropriate. 

5 (C) A description of how the entity intends 

6 to establish a Make It In America Partnership 

7 Board— 

8 (i) to assist the entity in issuing loans 

9 and awarding grants to third parties; 

10 (ii) to ensure the coordination and 

11 best use of Federal, State, regional, and 

12 local assets and resources for the imple13 mentation of the proposed manufacturing 

14 enhancement strategy; and 

15 (iii) which shall be comprised of, to 

16 the extent practicable, representatives of— 

17 (I) economic development agen18 cies of State and local governments; 

19 (II) departments of labor; 

20 (III) workforce investment 

21 boards and agencies; 

22 (IV) institutions of higher edu23 cation, including community colleges 

24 run by a State; 


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1 (V) economic development orga2 nizations; 

3 (VI) chambers of commerce; 

4 (VII) nonprofit organizations; 

5 (VIII) philanthropic organiza6 tions; 

7 (IX) industry associations; 

8 (X) labor organizations; 

9 (XI) a local or regional Hollings 

10 Manufacturing Extension Center; and 

11 (XII) such other organizations or 

12 entities as the entity considers appro13 priate. 

14 (D) A description of the plans of the entity 

15 to foster, through the Make It In America Part16 nership Board established by the entity, collabo17 ration between Federal entities, State and local 

18 economic development organizations and agen19 cies, State and local workforce development or20 ganizations and agencies, manufacturers, and 

21 institutions of higher education (including com22 munity colleges run by a State)— 

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1 eral, State, and local funding sources to 

2 improve intended results; 

3 (ii) to identify opportunities to lever4 age additional public and private funding 

5 for the purposes of implementing the man6 ufacturing enhancement strategy; and 

7 (iii) to ensure comprehensive coun8 seling, technical assistance, workforce de9 velopment, and export assistance are pro10 vided to manufacturers. 

11 (b) PRIORITY FOR ENTITIES WITH MATCHING

12 FUNDS.— 

13 (1) IN GENERAL.—In awarding incentive grants 

14 under the Program to entities to carry out manufac15 turing enhancement strategies, the Secretary of 

16 Commerce and the Secretary of Labor shall give pri17 ority to an entity that, with respect to the costs to 

18 be incurred by the entity in carrying out a manufac19 turing enhancement strategy under the Program, 

20 the entity identifies and commits contributions in an 

21 amount equal to not less than 50 percent of Federal 

22 funds provided under the incentive grant. 

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1 tributions of space, equipment, services, and such 

2 other kinds of funds and contributions as the Sec3 retary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor con4 sider appropriate. 

5 (c) COORDINATION WITH HOLLINGS MANUFAC6 TURING EXTENSION CENTERS.—Each recipient of an in7 centive grant under the Program shall coordinate with a 

8 Hollings Manufacturing Extension Center as a preferred 

9 provider of services to implement the manufacturing en10 hancement strategy of the recipient as determined by the 

11 Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor. 

12 (d) WORKFORCE TRAINING INVESTMENTS.— 

13 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not more than half of 

14 amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to 

15 carry out the Program may be used as described in 

16 paragraphs (2) and (3) of section 4(b). 

17 (2) TRAINING AND RETRAINING OF EMPLOY18 EES.—Each recipient of an incentive grant under 

19 the Program shall, with respect to training new em20 ployees and retraining employees of manufacturers, 

21 help postsecondary educational institutions, training 

22 institutions, apprenticeship programs, and other 

23 training programs align curricula, entrance require24 ments, and programs to industry demand and na25 tionally portable, industry-recognized credentials (or, 


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1 if not available for the targeted industry, other cre2 dentials, as the Secretary of Labor considers appro3 priate), particularly for higher skill, high-priority oc4 cupations (as determined by the Secretary of 

5 Labor). 

6 (e) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—A recipient of an 

7 incentive grant under the Program may only use such 

8 amount of the incentive grant for costs associated with 

9 administering the incentive grant as the Secretary of Com10 merce and the Secretary of Labor shall specify in solicita11 tions for applications for incentive grants. 

12 (f) ANNUAL REPORTS.—For each recipient of an in13 centive grant awarded under the Program, not later than 

14 1 year after the date on which the recipient first receives 

15 funds under the Program, and not less frequently than 

16 once each year thereafter, the recipient shall submit to the 

17 Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor a re18 port describing— 

19 (1) the loans and grants issued and awarded by 

20 the recipient to third parties using incentive grant 

21 funds; 

22 (2) the achievements with respect to the goals 

23 identified in the proposed manufacturing enhance24 ment strategy of the grant recipient; 


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1 (3) for each third party recipient, the achieve2 ments of such third party with respect to relevant 

3 goals specified in the proposed manufacturing en4 hancement strategy of the grant recipient; and 

5 (4) in the case of a recipient who used grants 

6 amounts as described in paragraphs (2) and (3) of 

7 section 4(b), common employment outcomes using 

8 measures established by the Secretary of Labor. 

9 SEC. 6. ESTABLISHMENT OF STATE AND LOCAL ADVISORY 

10 COMMITTEE REQUIRED. 

11 The Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of 

12 Labor shall jointly establish an advisory committee to ad13 vise the secretaries with respect to implementing and eval14 uating the Program, which shall be comprised of the fol15 lowing: 

16 (1) One or more individuals who represent a 

17 State government. 

18 (2) One or more individuals who represent a 

19 local government. 

20 (3) One or more individuals who represent a re21 gional planning organization or economic develop22 ment organization. 

23 (4) One or more individuals who represent the 

24 education sector. 


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1 (5) One or more individuals who represent the 

2 manufacturing sector. 

3 (6) One or more individuals who represent a 

4 labor organization. 

5 (7) Such other individuals as the Secretary con6 siders appropriate. 

7 SEC. 7. REVIEW AND EVALUATION. 

8 (a) GRANT RECIPIENTS.—The Secretary of Com9 merce and the Secretary of Labor may review and evaluate 

10 the performance of a recipient of an incentive grant under 

11 the Program as the secretaries consider appropriate. 

12 (b) INELIGIBILITY FOR FUTURE GRANTS.—The Sec13 retary of Commerce and the Secretary of Labor may de14 termine a recipient of an incentive grant under the Pro15 gram to be ineligible to receive additional incentive grants 

16 under the Program if the Secretary determines that the 

17 recipient has failed to achieve compliance with— 

18 (1) any applicable guideline or regulation of the 

19 Secretary relating to the Program, including with re20 spect to the misuse or misappropriation of funds 

21 provided under the Program; or 

22 (2) the proposed manufacturing enhancement 

23 strategy of the recipient. 

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