SEC. 103. COMMUNITY PARKS REVITALIZATION PROGRAM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development shall carry out a community parks 
revitalization program under this title under which the 
Secretary shall, from amounts appropriated pursuant to 
section 114, award the following grants on a competitive 
basis: 
(1) 
REHABILITATION
AND
CONSTRUCTION 
GRANTS.—The Secretary shall make rehabilitation 
and construction capital grants in accordance with 
the criteria established pursuant to section 104(a) to 
eligible local governments for the purpose of— 
(A) rebuilding, remodeling, expanding, in-
tegrating, or developing existing or building new 
recreational areas and facilities, including im-
provements in park landscapes, infrastructure, 
buildings, and support facilities; and 
(B) the provision of lighting, emergency 
phones, or other capital improvements to im-
prove the security of urban parks, but not in-
cluding routine maintenance and upkeep activi-
ties. 
(2) INNOVATION
AND
RECREATION
PROGRAM 
GRANTS.—The Secretary shall make innovation and 
recreation program grants in accordance with the 
criteria established pursuant to section 105(a) to eli-
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gible local governments to cover costs of personnel, 
facilities, equipment, supplies, or services designed 
to demonstrate innovative and cost effective ways to 
augment park and recreation opportunities, or sup-
port new or existing programs, that increase access 
to recreation opportunities for returning veterans 
and active duty military and their families or provide 
constructive alternatives for youth at risk for engag-
ing in criminal behavior. 
(3) RECOVERY
ACTION
PROGRAM
GRANTS.— 
The Secretary shall make recovery action program 
grants to eligible local governments for planning and 
development of local park and recreation recovery 
action programs required under section 106, includ-
ing for resource and needs assessment, coordination, 
citizen involvement and planning, and program de-
velopment activities to encourage public definition of 
goals and develop priorities and strategies for overall 
recreation system recovery. 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—For the purposes of this 
title, any local government located within a standard 
metropolitan statistical area, as determined in ac-
cordance with the most recent decennial Census, 
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shall be eligible to apply for and receive grant 
awards pursuant to subsection (a). 
(2) PARTIAL ELIGIBILITY WAIVER.— 
(A) DESIGNATION.—The Secretary may 
designate local governments not located within 
standard metropolitan statistical areas, as de-
termined in accordance with the most recent de-
cennial Census, as eligible to receive grant 
awards pursuant to subsection (a). 
(B) LIMITATION ON AMOUNTS.—The ag-
gregate amount of grants made to eligible local 
governments that receive such status pursuant 
to subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall not 
exceed 15 percent of the total amounts appro-
priated pursuant to this title for all grants 
under subsection (a). 
(c) MATCHING REQUIREMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall ensure 
that each eligible local government that receives a 
grant pursuant to subsection (a) shall supplement, 
in accordance with this subsection, the amount re-
ceived under such grant with an amount that is not 
less than 3⁄7 of such grant amount; except that, in 
the case of grants under subsection (a)(3), the Sec-
retary shall ensure that each eligible local govern-
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ment shall supplement the amount received under 
such grant with amount that is not less than such 
grant amount. 
(2) USE.—Supplemental amounts made avail-
able in accordance with paragraph (1) shall be used 
only for projects and activities for which grant 
amounts are eligible to be used. 
(3) SOURCES FOR SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDS.— 
(A) LIMITATION
ON
FEDERAL
FUNDS.— 
Supplemental funds required by paragraph (1) 
may not include any amounts made available 
from a Federal grant program, other than— 
(i) the community development block 
grant program under title I of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1974 
(42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.); 
(ii) any Federal program for general 
revenue sharing with local governments; or 
(iii) any Federal program that pro-
vides block grants to States and localities 
to develop, promote, implement, and man-
age energy efficiency and conservation 
projects and programs designed to reduce 
fossil fuel emissions, reduce energy use, 
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improve energy efficiency, and create and 
retain jobs. 
(B) STATE AND PRIVATE AMOUNTS.—The 
Secretary may require that a portion of the 
supplemental funds required by paragraph (1) 
come from the State or private sources. 
(C) NON-FEDERAL FUNDS.—Supplemental 
funds required by paragraph (1) may include— 
(i) general or specific purpose State or 
local revenues; 
(ii) State categorical grants; 
(iii) 
special 
appropriations 
under 
State law; 
(iv) donations of land, building, or 
building materials; 
(v) in-kind construction, technical, 
and planning services; and 
(vi) any combination of funds de-
scribed in this subparagraph. 
(d) TRANSFER.—At the discretion of an eligible local 
government receiving a rehabilitation and construction 
grant under subsection (a)(1) or an innovation and recre-
ation program grant under subsection (a)(2), and if con-
sistent with the approved application for such grant, the 
a grant may be transferred in whole or in part to private 
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nonprofit agencies, provided that assisted recreational 
areas and facilities owned or managed by such private 
nonprofit agencies offer recreation opportunities to the 
general population within the jurisdictional boundaries of 
the local government. 
(e) PAYMENTS.—Grant payments may be made only 
for rehabilitation and construction or innovation and 
recreation projects and programs approved by the Sec-
retary. In the case of rehabilitation and construction and 
innovation projects, such payments may be made periodi-
cally consistent with the rate of progress toward the satis-
factory completion of a project, except that the Secretary 
may, when appropriate, make advance payments on ap-
proved rehabilitation and construction and innovation 
projects in an amount not to exceed 20 percent of the total 
project cost. 
(f) MODIFICATION OF PROJECT.—The Secretary may 
authorize modification of an approved rehabilitation and 
construction or innovation project only when a grantee has 
adequately demonstrated that such modification is nec-
essary because of circumstances not foreseeable at the 
time such project was proposed. 
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SEC. 104. REQUIREMENTS FOR REHABILITATION AND CON-
STRUCTION GRANTS. 
(a) PRIORITY CRITERIA.—The Secretary shall estab-
lish priority criteria for the selection and approval of 
projects to be funded by a rehabilitation and construction 
grant made pursuant to section 103(a)(1), which shall in-
clude whether and the extent to which the project would— 
(1) serve a community with a high population 
density; 
(2) address demonstrated deficiencies in the 
condition of existing recreational areas and facilities 
in the project neighborhood; 
(3) address demonstrated deficiencies in access 
to neighborhood recreation opportunities, particu-
larly for minority and low- and moderate-income 
residents, veterans or active duty military families, 
and residents with physical or mental disabilities; 
(4) serve a community with a higher than aver-
age number of unemployed people as a percentage of 
the civilian labor force of the project neighborhood; 
(5) include public participation in determining 
rehabilitation or development needs and the extent 
to which a project supports or complements target 
activities undertaken as part of a local government’s 
overall community development and urban revitaliza-
tion program; 
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(6) provide employment opportunities for mi-
norities, youth, and low- and moderate-income resi-
dents in the project neighborhood; 
(7) provide for participation of neighborhood, 
nonprofit, or tenant organizations in the proposed 
rehabilitation and construction activity or in subse-
quent maintenance, staffing, or supervision of rec-
reational areas and facilities; 
(8) demonstrate State, local, and private sup-
port for the project, as evidenced by commitments of 
non-Federal resources to project construction or op-
eration; 
(9) build recreational areas and facilities in 
areas that are located within one-half of a mile of 
public housing or a school and do not currently have 
indoor or outdoor facilities; 
(10) create, maintain, or revitalize playgrounds 
or active play areas for children; 
(11) connect children to the outdoors for phys-
ical activity and access to nature; 
(12) promote physical activity for individuals 
and the community at large; 
(13) work collaboratively with local govern-
ments, colleges, and universities, and other institu-
tions to track the longitudinal rates of chronic dis-
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eases in the community such as cardiovascular dis-
ease, diabetes, depression, and obesity; 
(14) use environmentally beneficial components 
such as sustainable landscape features and upcycled 
and recycled materials; 
(15) provide environmental benefits to urban 
areas, by including— 
(A) updating lighting; 
(B) planting trees; 
(C) increasing the urban forestry canopy; 
(D) improving stormwater management; 
(E) increasing green infrastructure; 
(F) employing water conservation meas-
ures; or 
(G) adding green spaces; 
(16) connect to public transportation; 
(17) apply the LEED Green Building Guide-
lines of the U.S. Green Building Council or other 
sustainability benchmarks that incorporate energy 
efficiency components, such as energy efficient light-
ing and heating ventilation and air conditioning 
(HVAC) systems and apply the SITES sustainable 
landscape guidelines of the Sustainable Sites Initia-
tive; 
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(18) contain safe trails or routes, such as trails, 
bikeways, and sidewalks that connect to neighbor-
hoods and enhance access to parks and recreational 
areas and facilities; and 
(19) update existing equipment or facilities or 
construct new facilities or sites, to comply with the 
most recent accessibility guidelines published by the 
United States Access Board, specifically by removing 
architectural barriers so that sites comply or exceed 
the requirements of the final guidelines for the ac-
cessibility of recreational areas and facilities. 
(b) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—Not more than 
10 percent of any amounts made available pursuant to 
section 114 for rehabilitation and construction grants 
under section 103(a)(1) in any fiscal year may be used 
for the acquisition of lands or interests in land. 
SEC. 105. REQUIREMENTS FOR INNOVATION AND RECRE-
ATION PROGRAM GRANTS. 
(a) PRIORITY CRITERIA.—The Secretary shall estab-
lish priority criteria for the selection and approval of 
projects and programs to be funded by an innovation and 
recreation program grant made pursuant to section 
103(a)(2), including whether and the extent to which the 
project or program— 
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(1) promotes the unique integration of recre-
ation with other community services, such as trans-
portation, public housing and public safety, either to 
expand or update current services or to link pro-
grams within the social service structure of a neigh-
borhood or between neighborhoods; 
(2) utilizes new management and cost-saving or 
service-efficient approaches for improving the deliv-
ery of recreation services; 
(3) serves communities with a high population 
of active military families or veterans; 
(4) ensures accessibility to therapeutic recre-
ation services and provides recreation opportunities 
for injured or disabled members of the Armed 
Forces; 
(5) employs veterans or youth, or uses youth 
volunteers; 
(6) enhances or expands youth development in 
neighborhoods and communities by engaging youth 
in environmental stewardship, conservation, and 
service projects; 
(7) targets youth that are at the greatest risk 
of becoming involved in violence and crime; 
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