the community is located, on the first day of
fiscal year 2001.’’.
(d) FUNDING.—Section 2007(a)(4) of such Act (42
U.S.C. 1397f(a)(4)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘(4) FUNDING.—$1,000,000’’
and inserting the following:
‘‘(4) FUNDING.—
‘‘(A) ORIGINAL GRANTS.—$1,000,000’’;
(2) by inserting ‘‘for empowerment zones and
enterprise communities described in subparagraphs
(A) and (B) of paragraph (1)’’ before the period;
and
(3) by adding after and below the end the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(B) ADDITIONAL
EMPOWERMENT
ZONE
GRANTS.—$1,585,000,000 shall be made avail-
able to the Secretary for grants under this sec-
tion for empowerment zones referred to in para-
graph (1)(C).
‘‘(C) ADDITIONAL
ENTERPRISE
COMMU-
NITY
GRANTS.—$55,000,000 shall be made
available to the Secretary for grants under this
section for enterprise communities referred to
in paragraph (1)(D).
‘‘(D) STRATEGIC
PLANNING
COMMUNITY
GRANTS.—$45,000,000 shall be made available
to the Secretary for grants under this section
for strategic planning communities.’’.
(e) DIRECT FUNDING FOR INDIAN TRIBES.—Section
2007(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1397f(a)) is amended by
adding at the end the following:
‘‘(5) DIRECT FUNDING FOR INDIAN TRIBES.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may
make a grant under this section directly to the
governing body of an Indian tribe if—
‘‘(i) the tribe is identified in the stra-
tegic plan of a qualified empowerment zone
or qualified enterprise community as the
entity that assumes sole or primary re-
sponsibility for carrying out activities and
projects under the grant; and
‘‘(ii) the grant is to be used for activi-
ties and projects that are—
‘‘(I) included in the strategic
plan of the qualified empowerment
zone or qualified enterprise commu-
nity, consistent with this section; and
‘‘(II) approved by the Secretary
of Agriculture, in the case of a quali-
fied empowerment zone or qualified
enterprise community in a rural area,
or the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development, in the case of a
qualified empowerment zone or quali-
fied enterprise community in an urban
area.
‘‘(B) RULES OF INTERPRETATION.—
‘‘(i) If grant under this section is
made directly to the governing body of an
Indian tribe under subparagraph (A), the
tribe shall be considered a State for pur-
poses of this section.
‘‘(ii) This subparagraph shall not be
construed as making applicable to this sec-
tion the provisions of the Indian Self-De-
termination 
and 
Education 
Assistance
Act.’’.
(f) DEFINITIONS.—
(1) QUALIFIED ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY.—Sec-
tion 
2007(f)(2)(A) 
of 
such 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C.
1397f(f)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting ‘‘or under
section 766 of the Agriculture, Rural Development,
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 1999’’ before the semicolon.
(2) STRATEGIC
PLAN.—Section 2007(f)(3) of
such Act (42 U.S.C. 1397f(f)(3)) is amended by in-
serting ‘‘or under section 766 of the Agriculture,
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration,
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999’’ be-
fore the period.
(3) STRATEGIC
PLANNING
COMMUNITY.—Sec-
tion 2007(f) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1397f(f)) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(8) STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMUNITY.—The
term ‘strategic planning community’ means a re-
spondent to the Notice Inviting Applications at 63
Federal Register 19162 (April 16, 1998) whose ap-
plication was ranked 16th through 30th in the com-
petition that concluded Decembr 1998.’’.
(4) INDIAN
TRIBE.—Section 2007(f) of such
Act (42 U.S.C. 1397f(f)) is further amended by add-
ing at the end the following:
‘‘(9) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘Indian tribe’
means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other orga-
nized group or community, including any Alaska Na-
tive village or regional or village corporation as de-
fined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Na-
tive Claims Settlement Act, which is recognized as
eligible for the special programs and services pro-
vided by the United States to Indians because of
their status as Indians.’’.
SEC. 4. USE OF GRANT FUNDS.
(a) REVOLVING LOAN ACTIVITIES.—Section 2007(b)
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397f(b)) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(5) REVOLVING LOAN ACTIVITIES.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In order to assist dis-
advantaged adults and youths in achieving and
maintaining economic self-support, a State may
use amounts paid under this section to fund re-
volving loan funds or similar arrangements for
the purpose of making loans to residents, insti-
tutions, organizations, or businesses that hire
disadvantaged adults and youths.
‘‘(B) 
RULES
FOR
DISBURSEMENT.—
Amounts to be used as described in subpara-
graph (A) shall be disbursed by the Secretary,
consistent with the provisions of the Cash Man-
agement Improvement Act and its implementing
rules, regulations, and procedures issued by the
Secretary of the Treasury—
‘‘(i) in the case of a grant to a revolv-
ing loan fund—
‘‘(I) pursuant to a written irrev-
ocable grant commitment; and
‘‘(II) at such time or times as the
Secretary determines that the funds
are needed to meet the purposes of
such commitment; or
‘‘(ii) in the case of a grant for pur-
poses of capitalizing an insured depository
institution (as defined in section 3 of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C.
1813)) or an insured credit union (as de-
fined in section 101 of the Federal Credit
Union Act (12 U.S.C. 1742)), at such time
or times as the Secretary determines that
funds are needed for such capitalization.’’.
(b) USE AS NON-FEDERAL SHARE.—Section 2007(b)
of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1397f(b)), as amended by sub-
section (a) of this section, is amended by adding at the
end the following:
‘‘(6) A State may use amounts received from a
grant under this section to pay all or part of the
non-Federal share of expenditures under any other
Federal grant to a local public or nonprofit private
agency or organization for activities consistent with
the purposes of this section, unless the statutory au-
thority for such other grant expressly prohibits
counting of Federal grant funds as such non-Federal
share.’’.
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