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turn to the Federal taxpayers, minimize opportuni-
ties for fraud or collusion, and ensure the security 
and integrity of the leasing process. 
TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS 
PROVISIONS 
SEC. 30101. ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE OF ENERGY EM-
PLOYMENT AND TRAINING. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of the Interior 
shall establish an Office of Energy Employment and 
Training, which shall oversee the hiring and training ef-
forts of the Department of the Interior’s energy planning, 
permitting, and regulatory agencies. 
(b) DIRECTOR.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Office shall be under 
the direction of a Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Energy Employment and Training, who shall report 
directly to the Assistant Secretary for Energy, 
Lands and Minerals Management, and shall be fully 
employed to carry out the functions of the Office. 
(2) DUTIES.—The Deputy Assistant Secretary 
for Energy Employment and Training shall perform 
the following functions: 
(A) Develop and implement systems to 
track the Department’s hiring of trained skilled 
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workers in the energy permitting and inspection 
agencies. 
(B) Design and recommend to the Sec-
retary programs and policies aimed at expand-
ing the Department’s hiring of women, minori-
ties, and veterans into the Department’s work-
force dealing with energy permitting and in-
spection programs. Such programs and policies 
shall include— 
(i) recruiting at historically black col-
leges and universities, Hispanic-serving in-
stitutions, women’s colleges, and colleges 
that typically serve majority minority pop-
ulations; 
(ii) sponsoring and recruiting at job 
fairs in urban communities; 
(iii) placing employment advertise-
ments in newspapers and magazines ori-
ented toward minorities, veterans, and 
women; 
(iv) partnering with organizations that 
are focused on developing opportunities for 
minorities, veterans, and women to be 
placed in Departmental internships, sum-
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mer employment, and full-time positions 
relating to energy; 
(v) where feasible, partnering with 
inner-city high schools, girls’ high schools, 
and high schools with majority minority 
populations to demonstrate career opportu-
nities and the path to those opportunities 
available at the Department; 
(vi) coordinating with the Department 
of Veterans Affairs and the Department of 
Defense in the hiring of veterans; and 
(vii) any other mass media commu-
nications that the Deputy Assistant Sec-
retary determines necessary to advertise, 
promote, or educate about opportunities at 
the Department. 
(C) Develop standards for— 
(i) equal employment opportunity and 
the racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of 
the workforce and senior management of 
the Department; and 
(ii) increased participation of minor-
ity-owned, veteran-owned, and women- 
owned businesses in the programs and con-
tracts with the Department. 
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(D) Review and propose for adoption the 
best practices of entities regulated by the De-
partment with regards to hiring and diversity 
policies, and publish those best practices for 
public review. 
(c) REPORTS.—The Secretary shall submit to Con-
gress an annual report regarding the actions taken by the 
Department of the Interior agency and the Office pursu-
ant to this section, which shall include— 
(1) a statement of the total amounts paid by 
the Department to minority contractors; 
(2) the successes achieved and challenges faced 
by the Department in operating minority, veteran or 
service-disabled veteran, and women outreach pro-
grams; 
(3) the challenges the Department may face in 
hiring minority, veteran, and women employees and 
contracting with veteran or service-disabled veteran, 
minority-owned, and women-owned businesses; and 
(4) any other information, findings, conclusions, 
and recommendations for legislative or Department 
action, as the Director determines appropriate. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 
following definitions shall apply: 
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(1) MINORITY.—The term ‘‘minority’’ means 
United States citizens who are Asian Indian Amer-
ican, Asian Pacific American, Black American, His-
panic American, or Native American. 
(2) MINORITY-OWNED
BUSINESS.—The term 
‘‘minority-owned business’’ means a for-profit enter-
prise, regardless of size, physically located in the 
United States or its trust territories, that is owned, 
operated, and controlled by minority group members. 
‘‘Minority group members’’ are United States citi-
zens who are Asian Indian American, Asian Pacific 
American, Black American, Hispanic American, or 
Native American (terminology in NMSDC cat-
egories). Ownership by minority individuals means 
the business is at least 51 percent owned by such in-
dividuals or, in the case of a publicly owned busi-
ness, at least 51 percent of the stock is owned by 
one or more such individuals. Further, the manage-
ment and daily operations are controlled by those 
minority group members. For purposes of NMSDC’s 
program, a minority group member is an individual 
who is a United States citizen with at least 1⁄4 or 
25 percent minimum (documentation to support 
claim of 25 percent required from applicant) of one 
or more of the following: 
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(A) Asian Indian American, which is a 
United States citizen whose origins are from 
India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh. 
(B) Asian Pacific American, which is a 
United States citizen whose origins are from 
Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, 
Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Phil-
ippines, Thailand, Samoa, Guam, the United 
States Trust Territories of the Pacific, or the 
Northern Marianas. 
(C) Black American, which is a United 
States citizen having origins in any of the Black 
racial groups of Africa. 
(D) Hispanic American, which is a United 
States citizen of true-born Hispanic heritage, 
from any of the Spanish-speaking areas of the 
following regions: Mexico, Central America, 
South America, and the Caribbean Basin only. 
(E) Native American, which means a 
United States citizen enrolled to a federally rec-
ognized tribe, or a Native as defined under the 
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. 
(3) NMSDC.—The term ‘‘NMSDC’’ means the 
National Minority Supplier Development Council. 
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(4) 
WOMEN-OWNED
BUSINESS.—The 
term 
‘‘women-owned business’’ means a business that can 
verify through evidence documentation that 51 per-
cent or more is women-owned, managed, and con-
trolled. The business must be open for at least 6 
months. The business owner must be a United 
States citizen or legal resident alien. Evidence must 
indicate that— 
(A) the contribution of capital or expertise 
by the woman business owner is real and sub-
stantial and in proportion to the interest owned; 
(B) the woman business owner directs or 
causes the direction of management, policy, fis-
cal, and operational matters; and 
(C) the woman business owner has the 
ability to perform in the area of specialty or ex-
pertise without reliance on either the finances 
or resources of a firm that is not owned by a 
woman. 
(5) SERVICE DISABLED VETERAN.—The term 
‘‘Service Disabled Veteran’’ must have a service-con-
nected disability that has been determined by the 
Department of Veterans Affairs or Department of 
Defense. The SDVOSBC must be small under the 
North American Industry Classification System 
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(NAICS) code assigned to the procurement; the 
SDV must unconditionally own 51 percent of the 
SDVOSBC; the SDVO must control the manage-
ment and daily operations of the SDVOSBC; and 
the SDV must hold the highest officer position in 
the SDVOSBC. 
(6) VETERAN-OWNED
BUSINESS.—The term 
‘‘veteran-owned business’’ means a business that can 
verify through evidence documentation that 51 per-
cent or more is veteran-owned, managed, and con-
trolled. The business must be open for at least 6 
months. The business owner must be a United 
States citizen or legal resident alien and honorably 
or service-connected disability discharged from serv-
ice. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 26, 2014. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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