(B) making capital improvements to exist-
ing library facilities, including buildings, facili-
ties, grounds, and bookmobiles; 
(C) enhancing library facilities to improve 
the overall safety and health of library patrons 
and staff, including improvements directly re-
lated to reducing the risk of community spread 
of COVID–19; and 
(D) addressing the vulnerability of library 
facilities to natural disasters and hazards. 
(2) Investing in infrastructure projects related 
to improving internet access and connectivity in li-
brary facilities and for library patrons, including 
projects related to high-speed broadband, technology 
hardware, and mobile hotspots and similar equip-
ment. 
(3) Improving energy and water efficiency and 
addressing the environmental impacts of library fa-
cilities. 
(4) Improving indoor air quality and ventilation 
in library facilities, including mechanical and non- 
mechanical heating, ventilation, and air conditioning 
systems, filtering and other air cleaning, fans, con-
trol systems, and window and door repair and re-
placement. 
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(5) Reducing or eliminating the presence in li-
brary facilities of potential hazards to library staff 
and patrons, including— 
(A) toxic substances, including mercury, 
radon, PCBs, lead, and asbestos; or 
(B) mold and mildew. 
(6) Ensuring the safety of drinking water at 
the tap in library facilities, which may include test-
ing of the potability of water at the tap for the pres-
ence of lead and other contaminants. 
(7) Ensuring that library facilities are— 
(A) accessible to people with disabilities, 
including by implementing universal and inclu-
sive design; and 
(B) in compliance with the Architectural 
Barriers Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4151 et seq.), 
the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 
U.S.C. 12101 et seq.), and section 504 of the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794). 
(8) Improving library facilities for the purposes 
of supporting place-based services or community- 
based partnerships that provide library patrons with 
access to educational, workforce, behavioral health, 
mental health, and social services. 
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(9) Assessing the condition of existing library 
facilities and the need for new or improved library 
facilities and developing facilities master plans. 
SEC. 6. NEED-BASED GRANTS TO LIBRARIES. 
(a) GRANTS TO LIBRARIES.—From the amounts allo-
cated to a State under section 5(a), the State library ad-
ministrative agency shall award grants to libraries, on a 
competitive basis, to carry out the activities described in 
paragraphs (1) through (9) of section 5(c). 
(b) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under this section, a library shall be— 
(1) a public library; 
(2) a tribal library; or 
(3) a State library or a State archive, with re-
spect to outlets and facilities that provide library 
service directly to the general public. 
(c) APPLICATION.—A library described in subsection 
(b) that desires to receive a grant under this section shall 
submit an application to the State library administrative 
agency at such time, in such manner, and containing such 
information as the State library administrative agency 
may require, including— 
(1) the information necessary for the State to 
make a determination of the library’s eligibility for 
the grant and priority under subsection (d); and 
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(2) a description of the projects that the library 
plans to carry out with the grant, in accordance with 
paragraphs (1) through (9) of section 5(c), includ-
ing— 
(A) the rationale the library used to select 
such project; and 
(B) a description of how the library took 
into consideration the impacts of such projects 
on underserved or marginalized communities, 
including families with incomes below the pov-
erty line (as defined under section 673(2) of the 
Community Services Block Grant Act (42 
U.S.C. 9902(2)). 
(d) PRIORITY
OF GRANTS.—In awarding grants 
under this section, the State— 
(1) shall give first priority to eligible libraries 
that demonstrate the greatest need for such a grant 
in order to plan for, and make long-term improve-
ments to, library facilities that predominantly pro-
vide service to underserved or marginalized commu-
nities, including families with incomes below the pov-
erty line (as defined under section 673(2) of the 
Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 
9902(2)); and 
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(2) may additionally give priority to eligible li-
braries that will use the grant to replace, renovate, 
modernize, or retrofit existing library facilities in 
order to— 
(A) make health, safety, resiliency, hazard 
mitigation, or emergency preparedness improve-
ments to existing library facilities that pose a 
severe health or safety threat to library patrons 
or staff, which may include a threat posed by 
the proximity of the facilities to toxic sites or 
the vulnerability of the facilities to natural dis-
asters; 
(B) install or upgrade hardware that will 
improve access to high-speed broadband for li-
brary patrons of the library facilities; 
(C) improve access for library patrons or 
staff with disabilities to use the library facilities 
and its equipment; or 
(D) improve the energy efficiency of or re-
duce the carbon emissions or negative environ-
mental impacts resulting from the existing li-
brary facilities. 
(e) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—A library shall 
use a grant received under this section only to supplement 
the level of Federal, State, and local public funds that 
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