(3) are not part of an area designated as non-
attainment under the Clean Air Act for the air pol-
lutant or pollutants to be monitored. 
(d) CONTRACTS.—The Administrator shall contract 
with qualified nonprofit organizations and State and local 
air pollution control agencies to execute deployment of the 
monitors in a manner that will ensure representative 
measurement of ambient air quality, and provide the pub-
lic with real-time online access to the data collected. 
(e) DETERMINATION AND INSTALLATION.—Not later 
than 6 months after one year of monitoring with sensors 
deployed pursuant to subsection (a) has been completed, 
the Administrator shall determine whether data from the 
sensor or sensors deployed in a census track or county 
show air pollution levels during such year reached 98 per-
cent of the national ambient air quality standard for any 
of the air pollutants described in subsection (b), and not 
later than 6 months after such determination, the Admin-
istrator shall ensure that Federal Reference Method mon-
itors or Federal Equivalent Method monitors are installed 
and in operation within the census tract or county for each 
pollutant that reached or exceeded the 98 percent level. 
(f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$2,500,000. 
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SEC. 6. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH 
GRANT PROGRAMS. 
(a) CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL 
HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH GRANTS.—The Direc-
tor of the National Institutes of Health, in coordination 
with the National Center for Environmental Research at 
the Environmental Protection Agency, shall carry out a 
Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Dispari-
ties Research grant program. Such program shall estab-
lish and support no fewer than 10 research centers with 
5 year awards to— 
(1) conduct basic and applied research on envi-
ronmentally driven health disparities; 
(2) establish, develop, or expand collaborations 
with other researchers and organizations involved in 
environmental health disparities and affected com-
munities; 
(3) disseminate scientific knowledge to other re-
searchers and members of affected communities; 
(4) recruit and mentor investigators to conduct 
environmental health disparities research, including 
investigators from health disparities populations; 
and 
(5) other activities, as determined by the Direc-
tor. 
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(b) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this pro-
gram $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 
2026. 
SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency. 
(2) ACCIDENTAL
RELEASE.—The term ‘‘acci-
dental release’’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 
7412(r)). 
(3) AREA
SOURCE; EXISTING
SOURCE; HAZ-
ARDOUS
AIR
POLLUTANT; MAJOR
SOURCE; NEW 
SOURCE; STATIONARY SOURCE.—Except as otherwise 
provided, 
the 
terms 
‘‘area 
source’’, 
‘‘existing 
source’’, ‘‘hazardous air pollutant’’, ‘‘major source’’, 
‘‘new source’’, and ‘‘stationary source’’ have the 
meaning given such terms in section 112(a) of the 
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7412(a)). 
(4) 
COVID–19.—The 
term 
‘‘COVID–19’’ 
means the novel coronavirus disease 2019 that is the 
subject of the declaration of a public health emer-
gency by the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
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ices pursuant to section 319 of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d) on January 27, 2020. 
(5) METHOD 325A.—The term ‘‘Method 325A’’ 
means the Air Emission Measurement Center pro-
mulgated test method titled ‘‘Volatile Organic Com-
pounds from Fugitive and Area Sources: Sampler 
Deployment and VOC Sample Collection’’. 
(6) METHOD 325B.—The term ‘‘Method 325B’’ 
means the Air Emission Measurement Center pro-
mulgated test method titled ‘‘Volatile Organic Com-
pounds from Fugitive and Area Sources: Sampler 
Preparation and Analysis.’’ 
(7) METHOD TO–15.—The term ‘‘Method TO– 
15’’ means the test method titled ‘‘Determination of 
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) In Air Col-
lected In Specially-Prepared Canisters And Analyzed 
By Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/ 
MS)’’ published in Compendium of Methods for the 
Determination of Toxic Organic Compounds in Am-
bient Air, Second Edition. 
(8) NCORE AND SLAMS.—The terms ‘‘NCore’’ 
and ‘‘SLAMS’’ have the meaning given such terms 
in section 58.1 of title 40, Code of Federal Regula-
tions (as in effect on the date of enactment of this 
Act). 
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(9) SYNTHETIC
AREA
SOURCE.—The term 
‘‘synthetic area source’’ has the meaning given ‘‘syn-
thetic minor HAP source’’ in section 49.152 of title 
40, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regu-
lations). 
Æ 
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