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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6492 
To establish a climate resilience workforce, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 25, 2022 
Ms. JAYAPAL (for herself, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. BASS, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. 
BOWMAN, Ms. BUSH, Mr. CARSON, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. 
CLEAVER, Mr. CONNOLLY, Ms. ESCOBAR, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Mr. 
GRIJALVA, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. JONES, Ms. 
LEE of California, Mr. LEVIN of Michigan, Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY 
of New York, Mr. NADLER, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. NEWMAN, Ms. NOR-
TON, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. PRESSLEY, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SMITH 
of Washington, Mr. SUOZZI, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. TLAIB, and Mrs. WATSON 
COLEMAN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on 
Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, the Judiciary, Transpor-
tation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Agriculture, Natural Re-
sources, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish a climate resilience workforce, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Climate Resilience 
Workforce Act’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents for this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
Sec. 4. Office of Climate Resilience. 
Sec. 5. Climate Resilience Equity Advisory Board. 
Sec. 6. Center for the Climate Resilience Workforce. 
Sec. 7. Defining climate resilience sectors. 
Sec. 8. Disaggregation of data. 
TITLE I—NATIONAL CLIMATE RESILIENCE ACTION PLANNING 
Sec. 101. Interagency workgroup. 
Sec. 102. Climate Resilience Task Force. 
Sec. 103. Process and outcomes for development of national climate resilience 
action plan. 
Sec. 104. Federal agency climate resilience action plans. 
TITLE II—STATE, TRIBAL, LOCAL, AND COMMUNITY CLIMATE 
RESILIENCE ACTION PLANNING 
Sec. 201. Climate resilience planning grants. 
TITLE III—CLIMATE RESILIENCE WORKFORCE GRANTS 
Sec. 301. Job creation grants. 
Sec. 302. Workforce development training and hiring grants. 
Sec. 303. Virtual technical assistance and capacity building. 
TITLE IV—LABOR STANDARDS AND ENFORCEMENT 
Sec. 401. Minimum labor standards for climate resilience workers. 
Sec. 402. Good Climate Resilience Jobs Grant Program. 
Sec. 403. Climate Resilience Workers Commission. 
Sec. 404. Workers employed using Stafford Act funds. 
Sec. 405. Paid leave for Federal employees who are victims of domestic vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking. 
Sec. 406. GAO Report on Federal Prison Industry. 
TITLE V—REMOVING BARRIERS TO EMPLOYMENT 
Sec. 501. Immigration barriers. 
Sec. 502. Criminal justice barriers. 
Sec. 503. Drug testing barriers. 
Sec. 504. Taskforce on Worker Inclusion. 
TITLE VI—PROVISIONS RELATED TO CLIMATE RESILIENCE 
WORKERS INVOLVED IN DISASTER RECOVERY AND REBUILDING 
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Sec. 601. Supports for disaster recovery workers. 
Sec. 602. Pilot program providing Federal employment opportunities for for-
merly incarcerated firefighters. 
Sec. 603. Direct employment in FEMA CORE. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
APPRENTICE.—The 
term 
‘‘apprentice’’ 
means a participant in an apprenticeship program. 
(2) APPRENTICESHIP
PROGRAM.—The term 
‘‘apprenticeship program’’ means an apprenticeship 
registered under the Act of August 16, 1937 (com-
monly known as the ‘‘National Apprenticeship Act’’; 
50 Stat. 664, chapter 663; 29 U.S.C. 50 et seq.) 
that meets the standards of subpart A of part 29 
and part 30 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations 
(or any successor regulations on registered pro-
grams). 
(3) CLIMATE RESILIENCE.—The term ‘‘climate 
resilience’’— 
(A) means the ability and capacity of so-
cial, economic, and environmental systems, or-
ganized as natural ecosystems and human com-
munities, to anticipate, prepare for, adapt to, 
respond to, and recover from hazardous events, 
trends, or disturbances related to climate 
change; and 
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(B) includes the ability to engage in an 
iterative process of— 
(i) assessing how climate change will 
create new, or alter current climate related 
risks, and how such risks are distributed 
within and across natural ecosystems and 
human communities, including— 
(I) for human communities, risks 
shall be assessed by geography, race, 
ethnicity, socioeconomic status, health 
and other demographic and social fac-
tors, as applicable; and 
(II) for natural ecosystems, risks 
shall be assessed by geography, spe-
cies and ecosystem services, as appli-
cable; 
(ii) identifying human populations, 
animal and plant species, ecosystem serv-
ices and habitats that face disproportionate 
risks and impacts of climate change, in-
cluding— 
(I) for human populations, iden-
tifying risks due to historic and ongo-
ing systemic racism, economic in-
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equity, and environmental degradation 
and pollution; and 
(II) for natural species and eco-
system services, identifying risks due 
to environmental degradation, pollu-
tion and other anthropogenic impacts; 
(iii) working to address the root 
causes that lead the entities identified in 
clause (ii) to be disproportionately vulner-
able to the risks and impacts of climate 
change; and 
(iv) prioritizing the natural species, 
ecosystem services and human populations 
identified in clause (ii) in taking steps to— 
(I) mitigate climate change by 
addressing its causes and impacts to 
the greatest extent possible as quickly 
as possible; 
(II) prepare for and adapt to the 
unavoidable impacts of climate change 
by ensuring that effective risk reduc-
tion and management and adaptation 
strategies can be implemented and 
maintained; and 
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(III) recover from and rebuild 
after climate disasters in ways that 
minimize future risks and increase the 
ability of natural ecosystems and 
human communities to face future 
risks with less harm. 
(4) CO-OPERATIVE.—The term ‘‘co-operative’’ 
has the meaning given such term in section 1381 of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 
(5) COMMUNITY OF COLOR.—The term ‘‘com-
munity of color’’ means a census block group or se-
ries of geographically contiguous blocks in which the 
population of any of the following categories of indi-
viduals, individually or in combination, comprises 30 
percent or more of the population of persons in the 
census block group or series of geographically con-
tiguous blocks: 
(A) Black. 
(B) African American. 
(C) Asian. 
(D) Pacific Islander. 
(E) Other non-White race. 
(F) Hispanic. 
(G) Latino. 
(H) Linguistically isolated. 
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(6) COVERED PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT.— 
The term covered project labor agreement means a 
project labor agreement that— 
(A) binds all contractors and subcontrac-
tors on the project through the inclusion of ap-
propriate specifications in all relevant solicita-
tion provisions and contract documents; 
(B) allows all contractors and subcontrac-
tors to compete for contracts and subcontracts 
without regard to whether they are otherwise a 
party to a collective bargaining agreement; 
(C) contains guarantees against strikes, 
lockouts, and other similar job disruptions; 
(D) sets forth effective, prompt, and mutu-
ally binding procedures for resolving labor dis-
putes arising during the covered project labor 
agreement; and 
(E) provides other mechanisms for labor- 
management cooperation on matters of mutual 
interest and concern, including productivity, 
quality of work, safety, and health. 
(7) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 
the director of the Office of Climate Resilience es-
tablished under section 4 of this Act. 
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(8) 
FRONTLINE
COMMUNITY.—The 
term 
‘‘frontline community’’ means— 
(A) a community or population that, due 
to systemic racial or economic injustice, has 
been made vulnerable to experience dispropor-
tionate exposure to environmental hazards, in-
cluding— 
(i) a low-income community; 
(ii) a community of color; and 
(iii) a Tribal or indigenous commu-
nity; 
(B) a community that has been primarily 
economically dependent on fossil fuel industries; 
and 
(C) a community or population that is vul-
nerable or systematically disadvantaged and 
therefore has a higher likelihood of being im-
pacted by environmental and climate injustice 
and inequitable climate actions, including— 
(i) linguistically isolated communities; 
(ii) individuals with limited English 
proficiency; 
(iii) immigrants and refugees; 
(iv) individuals with limited mobility; 
(v) individuals who are ill; 
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(vi) vulnerable elderly populations; 
(vii) children, youth, and pregnant 
women; 
(viii) individuals with disabilities; 
(ix) LGBTQ+ individuals; 
(x) institutionalized populations; 
(xi) individuals living in isolated rural 
areas; 
(xii) unhoused populations; and 
(xiii) workers whose job requires such 
worker to work outdoors. 
(9) GRASSROOTS
COMMUNITY
GROUP.—The 
term ‘‘grassroots community group’’ means a group 
of organized or connected individuals residing in the 
same census block group or series of geographically 
contiguous blocks that face the same or similar risks 
and impacts of climate change or other social, eco-
nomic, and environmental risks and impacts. 
(10) INTERIM
CREDENTIAL.—The term ‘‘in-
terim credential’’ means a credential issued by a reg-
istration agency, upon request of the appropriate 
sponsor, as certification of competency attainment 
by a program participant during participation in a 
program under the national apprenticeship system. 
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(11) LABOR ORGANIZATION.—The term ‘‘labor 
organization’’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 2(5) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 
U.S.C. 152(5)). 
(12) LABOR, WORKER, AND WORKFORCE DE-
VELOPMENT
STAKEHOLDERS.—The term ‘‘labor, 
worker, and workforce development stakeholders’’ 
shall include— 
(A) individuals who are members of popu-
lations facing barriers to employment who have 
shown leadership in addressing such barriers; 
(B) worker-driven entities dedicated to en-
suring collective worker voice and representa-
tion, including— 
(i) labor unions; 
(ii) worker centers; and 
(iii) worker associations; 
(C) organizations that advocate for im-
provement to worker rights and working condi-
tions, including organizations that work to ex-
pand collective bargaining, raise worker wages, 
improve workplace safety, reduce and end dis-
crimination and increase workplace equity; 
(D) individuals and organizations, includ-
ing potential employers, that possess knowledge 
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of the jobs, skills, and occupations that pertain 
to climate resilience work, in order to inform 
workforce and training needs; and 
(E) entities with proven track records in 
designing and participating in workforce devel-
opment and training programs resulting in 
higher wages and improved job security for 
workers, including— 
(i) community colleges; 
(ii) nonprofit organizations; and 
(iii) joint labor management partner-
ships. 
(13) LOCAL
GOVERNMENT.—The term ‘‘local 
government’’ means— 
(A) a county, municipality, city, town, 
township, local public authority, school district, 
special district, intrastate district, council of 
governments (regardless of whether the council 
of governments is incorporated as a nonprofit 
corporation under State law), regional or inter-
state governmental entity, or agency or instru-
mentality of a local government; or 
(B) an Indian Tribe or authorized Tribal 
organization, or Alaska Native village or organi-
zation that is not a Tribal Government. 
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(14) LOW-INCOME
COMMUNITY.—The term 
‘‘low-income community’’ means any census block 
group in which 30 percent or more of the population 
of such block group are individuals with an annual 
household income equal to, or less than, the greater 
of— 
(A) an amount equal to 80 percent of the 
median income of the area in which the house-
hold is located, as reported by the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development; and 
(B) 200 percent of the Federal poverty 
line. 
(15) NON-PROFIT
ORGANIZATION.—The term 
‘‘non-profit organization’’ means an organization 
under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986. 
(16) POPULATION.—The term ‘‘population’’ 
means a census block group or series of geographi-
cally contiguous blocks representing certain common 
characteristics, including race, ethnicity, national or-
igin, income-level, health disparities, or other public 
health or socioeconomic attributes. 
(17) POPULATIONS FACING BARRIERS TO EM-
PLOYMENT.—The term ‘‘populations facing barriers 
to employment’’ means populations that have faced 
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systemic barriers to employment, significant, sys-
temic job losses, or chronic underemployment or in-
secure employment due to failed economic policies, 
including— 
(A) undocumented individuals; 
(B) individuals with criminal records; 
(C) individuals who are formerly incarcer-
ated; 
(D) deindustrialized communities; and 
(E) demographic populations with unem-
ployment levels higher than the national aver-
age. 
(18) 
PRE-APPRENTICESHIP
PROGRAM.—The 
term ‘‘pre-apprenticeship program’’ means a train-
ing model or program that— 
(A) prepares individuals, focusing on 
underrepresented populations, to enter and suc-
ceed in a registered apprenticeship program; 
(B) has an articulation agreement with one 
or more registered apprenticeship programs; 
(C) that teaches a curriculum based on in-
dustry standards; and 
(D) that offers hands on training opportu-
nities that do not displace paid workers. 
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(19) PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT.—The term 
‘‘project labor agreement’’ means a pre-hire collec-
tive bargaining agreement with one or more labor 
organizations that establishes the terms and condi-
tions of employment for a specific project and is de-
scribed in section 8(f) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act (29 U.S.C. 158(f)). 
(20) RECOGNIZED
POST-SECONDARY
CREDEN-
TIAL.—The term ‘‘recognized post-secondary creden-
tial’’ has the meaning given the term in section 3 of 
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3102), except that such term does not in-
clude a certificate of completion of an apprentice-
ship. 
(21) REGIONAL GOVERNMENTAL GROUP.—The 
term ‘‘regional governmental group’’ means a group 
of States that share borders or are in close prox-
imity to one another and share similar social, eco-
nomic, and environmental systems and risks and im-
pacts of climate change. 
(22) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ includes each 
of the several States, the District of Columbia, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of 
the United States, the Commonwealth of the North-
ern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micro-
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nesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Re-
public of Palau, and the territories and possessions 
of the United States. 
(23) TRIBAL GOVERNMENT.—The term ‘‘Tribal 
government’’ means the governing body of an Indian 
Tribe. 
(24) TRIBAL
OR
INDIGENOUS
COMMUNITY.— 
The term ‘‘Tribal or indigenous community’’ means 
a population of people who are members of— 
(A) a federally recognized Indian Tribe; 
(B) a State recognized Indian Tribe; 
(C) an Alaskan Native or Native Hawaiian 
community or organization; and 
(D) any other community of indigenous 
people located in a State. 
(25) WORKER
CENTER.—The term ‘‘worker 
center’’ means a non-profit organization or a co-op-
erative that— 
(A) has as one if its primary goals the im-
provement of worker rights, workplace safety, 
wages, working conditions, or employment ac-
cess, or the promotion of enhanced worker 
voice; and 
(B) which has some kind of formal mecha-
nism by which workers who stand to benefit 
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from these improvements may directly partici-
pate in organizational decision-making. 
SEC. 4. OFFICE OF CLIMATE RESILIENCE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 60 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall es-
tablish an Office of Climate Resilience (hereinafter re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Office’’) within the White House. 
(b) DIRECTOR.— 
(1) APPOINTMENT.—The President shall ap-
point a Director of the Office. 
(2) TERM.—The Director shall serve for a pe-
riod of 5 years. 
(3) TERMINATION.—The President may termi-
nate the Director prior to the end of the term de-
scribed in paragraph (2) for issues with perform-
ance. 
(c) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Office shall be to 
use information from all sectors involved in climate resil-
ience, including frontline community experience, scientific 
expertise, and labor organization input to coordinate Fed-
eral actions to support a climate resilient nation and oper-
ate as a Secretariat. 
(d) FUNCTIONS.—The Office shall— 
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(1) convene the necessary Federal and external 
stakeholders to inform and develop a national cli-
mate resilience action plan; 
(2) revise the plan described in paragraph (1) 
every 5 years, or more frequently if determined nec-
essary by the Director based on science; 
(3) support Federal agencies in developing and 
revising agency-specific climate resilience actions 
plans and compile such plans into a Federal Govern-
ment climate resilience action plan; 
(4) administer grants established under section 
201 of this Act; 
(5) coordinate with the Climate Resilience 
Workers Commission established under section 403 
of this Act to support compliance with the require-
ments of this Act; 
(6) coordinate with other Federal activities re-
lated to climate resilience, including efforts made by 
the National Environmental Justice Advisory Coun-
cil and the White House Environmental Justice Ad-
visory Council; and 
(7) evaluate the effectiveness of the national cli-
mate resilience action plan in achieving a climate re-
silient nation through annual assessments and an-
nual reporting to Congress. 
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(e) STAFFING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office 
shall appoint staff to organize the activities of and 
provide support for the members of the Climate Re-
silience Equity Advisory Board established under 
section 5 of this Act, the interagency working group, 
and the Climate Resilience Task Force. 
(2) ADDITIONAL
EMPLOYEES.—The Director 
may hire other employees as needed to exercise and 
fulfil the function and purpose of the Office. 
SEC. 5. CLIMATE RESILIENCE EQUITY ADVISORY BOARD. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 6 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Of-
fice of Climate Resilience shall establish a Climate Resil-
ience Equity Advisory Board (herein after referred to as 
the ‘‘Advisory Board’’). 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Advisory Board 
shall be to advise and make recommendations to the Office 
of Climate Resilience to ensure that the knowledge, experi-
ences, and priorities of frontline communities are incor-
porated into Federal climate resilience efforts. 
(c) FUNCTIONS.—The Advisory Board shall— 
(1) participate in the planning process to de-
velop a national climate resilience action plan, in-
cluding by advising and making recommendations to 
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the interagency workgroup, Climate Resilience Task 
Force, and labor, worker, and workforce develop-
ment stakeholders to ensure that— 
(A) the knowledge, lived experiences, and 
priorities of frontline communities are incor-
porated into the strategies, actions, and 
projects proposed in the national climate resil-
ience action plan and agency climate resilience 
plans; and 
(B) climate resilience jobs and training op-
portunities prioritize and are accessible to 
frontline communities; 
(2) advise and make recommendations to the 
Office of Climate Resilience on ongoing climate resil-
ience activities; and 
(3) collaborate with, advise, and make rec-
ommendations to the Center for the Climate Resil-
ience Workforce on the activities of such Center. 
(d) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Members of the Advisory 
Board shall be representatives of frontline commu-
nities. 
(2) APPLICATION
PROCESS.—The Director of 
the Office shall develop an application process and 
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criteria that, at minimum, shall require applicants 
for the Advisory Board to provide— 
(A) letters of support from 3 individuals 
who are members of the community they rep-
resent, highlighting the qualifications and rel-
evant lived, volunteer, or paid work experience 
the individual possesses to serve on the Advi-
sory Board; and 
(B) demographic information about the 
community represented by the individual includ-
ing data on population size, income, race, edu-
cation level, geographic location, and health, cli-
mate, and environmental risks faced. 
(3) SIZE OF BOARD.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Advisory Board 
shall be comprised of not less than 12 members 
that provide diverse and fair representation of 
frontline communities. 
(B) ADDITIONAL MEMBERS.—The Director 
may select additional members representing 
frontline communities for the Advisory Board 
on an interim or permanent basis. 
(4) TERM.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—A member shall serve 
on the Advisory Board for a term of 3 years. 
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(B) TERM LIMIT.—A member may serve 
on the Advisory Board for not more than 2 
terms. 
(e) COMPENSATION.—The Director of the Office shall 
establish guidelines and a process for providing compensa-
tion to individuals who would otherwise not be able to par-
ticipate or who would experience financial hardship with-
out such compensation. 
(f) PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND TRANSPARENCY.— 
The Board shall make every effort, consistent with appli-
cable law, including section 552 of title 5, United States 
Code, and section 552a of title 5, United States Code, to 
maximize public participation and transparency, including 
making the advice of the Board publicly available in elec-
tronic form, including video streaming, on the website of 
the Office. 
(g) APPLICABILITY OF LAW.—Section 14(a)(2) of the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not 
apply to the Advisory Committee. 
SEC. 6. CENTER FOR THE CLIMATE RESILIENCE WORK-
FORCE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 3 months after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor 
shall establish a Center for the Climate Resilience Work-
force. 
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(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Center for the 
Climate Resilience Workforce shall be to— 
(1) serve as a public resource to support job 
quality, worker voice, job training and job creation 
for the climate resilience workforce; and 
(2) disseminate information, conduct research, 
and celebrate the contributions of the climate resil-
ience workforce. 
(c) STAFFING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Center shall be com-
prised of staff with sufficient knowledge and exper-
tise to carry out the functions under subsection (d). 
(2) CONSULTATION.—The Center shall consult 
with Federal agencies as needed to carry out the 
functions under subsection (d), including the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency, the Department of In-
terior, the Department of Agriculture, and the De-
partment of Commerce. 
(d) FUNCTIONS.—The Center shall— 
(1) define the occupational sectors that pertain 
to climate resilience, as indicated in section 7, revise 
such definition as needed based on the latest science 
and labor market and worker data, and maintain an 
updated list of such sectors on the Center’s website; 
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(2) contact annually, at a minimum, the United 
States Global Change Research Program regarding 
key shifts and emerging challenges in social, eco-
nomic and environmental systems due to climate 
change to inform the identification of priority sec-
tors, skills and geographies of focus for the climate 
resilience workforce; 
(3) take into account any research that identi-
fies frontline communities by tracking the nation-
wide geographic distribution of cumulative environ-
mental impacts, pollution hotspots, and vulnerability 
to various environmental risks through the Environ-
mental Justice Screen tool of the Environmental 
Protection Agency and other Federal environmental 
justice mapping efforts to ensure that job creation 
and hiring prioritize the communities that are most 
likely to face disproportionate risks and impacts of 
climate change; 
(4) conduct research on the climate resilience 
workforce to— 
(A) track the growth of the climate resil-
ience workforce; 
(B) track labor market trends in the sup-
ply and demand of climate resilience workers by 
sector, geography, occupation, skills, and train-
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ing level, highlighting areas of greatest demand 
and supply so as to inform job creation and 
training investments; 
(C) identify effective strategies in job cre-
ation, training, recruitment, employment and 
provision of ongoing support for climate resil-
ience workers; 
(D) identify the successes, challenges, op-
portunities and needs of the climate resilience 
workforce; and 
(E) collect data (through reliance on BLS 
statistics and United States Energy and Em-
ployment Report data) on the demographic dis-
tribution of jobs created through the programs 
in this legislation, as well as wages of new jobs 
by worker demographics; 
(5) evaluate— 
(A) the effectiveness of the various funding 
streams created by this Act in supporting the 
growth of a well-equipped, skilled, and demo-
graphically representative climate resilience 
workforce; 
(B) the current minimum labor standards 
of climate resilience workers, barriers to im-
proved safety, wages and worker voice, and po-
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tential regulatory and operational adjustments 
to improve those labor standards; 
(C) the relative job quality of climate resil-
ience jobs, including wage and benefit levels, 
union density, and other relevant metrics; and 
(D) the Department of Labor’s role in di-
verse and equitable job creation for the climate 
resilience workforce, especially regarding race, 
ethnicity and gender for the programs created 
or supported through this Act; 
(6) highlight and make recommendations to ad-
dress disparities and barriers in— 
(A) the hiring, retention or income of 
workers from frontline communities and popu-
lations facing barriers to employment; 
(B) achieving minimum labor standards 
specified in this Act for all climate resilience 
workers; 
(C) the creation of living-wage jobs in the 
climate resilience sector; 
(D) barriers to worker voice, whistle-
blowers and collective bargaining in the climate 
resilience workforce and means by which to 
overcome these barriers using improved enforce-
ment, education and regulatory changes; and 
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(E) addressing the immigration, criminal 
justice and drug testing barriers to employment 
specified in this Act; 
(7) collaborate with the Office of Climate Resil-
ience, the Climate Resilience Equity Advisory Board 
and labor, worker and workforce stakeholders in 
conducting research, sharing findings, and devel-
oping recommendations; 
(8) publish the findings of its research on its 
website and maintain a monthly newsletter with the 
latest data on the climate resilience workforce and 
research findings; and 
(9) honor the climate resilience workforce by 
publicly recognizing the achievements of the climate 
resilience workforce. 
SEC. 7. DEFINING CLIMATE RESILIENCE SECTORS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 6 months after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Center for the Climate 
Resilience Workforce shall define climate resilience sectors 
for the purposes of this Act. 
(b) REVISION.—The Center for the Climate Resil-
ience Workforce shall revise the definition under sub-
section (a) as needed to reflect the full scope of the sec-
tors, occupations, and skills needed to achieve a climate 
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resilient nation, and maintain an updated list of sectors 
on the Center’s website. 
(c) INCLUSIONS.—In defining climate resilience sec-
tors under subsection (a), the Center shall include, at a 
minimum, all employment sectors in which workers per-
form activities related to the following: 
(1) MITIGATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE.—Efforts 
focused on achieving absolute reductions in green-
house gas emissions in the sectors producing the 
greatest emissions, including— 
(A) transportation; 
(B) electricity generation; 
(C) industry; 
(D) commercial and residential buildings; 
and 
(E) agriculture. 
(2) PREPARATION
FOR
AND
ADAPTATION
TO 
CLIMATE CHANGE.—Efforts focused on activities in-
volved in preparing for, adapting to, and addressing 
risks related to climate change, including the fol-
lowing: 
(A) SOCIAL SYSTEMS.— 
(i) CARE INFRASTRUCTURE.—To en-
sure adequate, reliable access to and avail-
ability of formal services and informal, 
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community-based support for healthcare, 
childcare, elder care, home care, domestic 
care, and other related care functions as 
climate change impacts increase and to 
protect vulnerable populations in times of 
disaster. 
(ii) HUMAN
HEALTH.—To prevent 
and address increased injury, illness, and 
death due to increased exposure to heat 
waves, floods, droughts, extreme weather 
events and vector-, food-, and waterborne 
infectious diseases and to changes in the 
quality and safety of air, food and water, 
and stresses to mental health. 
(iii) COMMUNITIES.— 
(I) 
URBAN
COMMUNITIES.— 
Strengthen vulnerable infrastructure 
and prevent and address concentrated 
heat and air pollution. 
(II) 
RURAL
COMMUNITIES.— 
Strengthen infrastructure and in-
crease resources for resilience. 
(III) TRIBAL
AND
INDIGENOUS 
COMMUNITIES.—Preparing 
for 
and 
adapting to threats to livelihoods and 
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economies in agriculture, hunting and 
gathering, fishing, forestry, energy, 
recreation and tourism, threats to 
sites, practices and relationships with 
cultural, spiritual and ceremonial im-
portance, loss of cultural heritage and 
identity, and loss of sovereignty and 
self-determination. 
(B) ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS.— 
(i) WATER.—Changes in water quan-
tity and quality, deteriorating water infra-
structure, flood and drought management, 
extreme precipitation and rising sea levels, 
ensuring access to clean drinking water, 
and ensuring adequate water storage and 
availability. 
(ii) AIR.—Worsening air quality, res-
piratory and cardiovascular illness and 
death, injury due to reduced visibility, 
damage to agricultural crops and forests, 
increased wildfire smoke, increased fre-
quency and severity of allergic illnesses, 
and minimizing air pollutants to improve 
air quality. 
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(iii) LAND.—Loss of land cover and 
impact on agriculture, wildfires, coastal 
wetlands and vegetation, mitigating the 
impacts of deforestation and urbanization, 
and considering climate change risks in 
land use decisions. 
(iv) 
FORESTS.—Decreased 
tree 
growth and carbon storage. 
(v) 
ECOSYSTEMS
AND
BIODIVER-
SITY.—Altered or deteriorated ecosystem 
functions, altered individual characteristics 
of organisms, timing of biological events 
and geographic ranges of terrestrial, fresh-
water and marine organisms, spread of 
invasive 
species, 
loss 
of 
biodiversity, 
endangerment and extinction of organisms, 
and changes in agricultural and fisheries 
production, supply of clean water, protec-
tion from extreme events, and culturally 
valuable resources. 
(vi) COASTS.—Higher storm surges 
and sea level rise, chronic high-tide flood-
ing, threatened investments along coasts, 
economic losses in tourism and fishing, in-
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creased pace and extent of coastal flooding 
and erosion, and forced relocation. 
(vii) OCEANS.—Ecosystem disruption, 
loss of habitat, ocean warming, acidifica-
tion, and deoxygenation, and losses to fish-
eries and fishing communities. 
(C) ECONOMIC SYSTEMS.— 
(i) PUBLIC
SECTOR.—Activities fo-
cused on ensuring stable governance and 
provision of critical safety net services and 
supports, adopting new policies to address 
emerging threats, risks and needs and pro-
vide specific protections for vulnerable pop-
ulations, and expanding services to ensure 
that emerging and increasing needs are 
met. 
(ii) BUILDINGS
AND
BUILT
INFRA-
STRUCTURE.—Activities 
focused 
on 
strengthening buildings and built infra-
structure to climate risks, weatherization 
to account for shifting and increasing tem-
peratures, preparing for and adapting to 
changing patterns of energy use and peak 
demands, ensuring good indoor air quality, 
and ensuring affordable housing. 
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(iii) TRANSPORTATION.—Higher tem-
peratures, increased precipitation, rising 
sea levels and extreme weather events on 
ports, vehicles and transportation infra-
structure, preparing for travel disruptions, 
ensuring passenger safety, preparing for 
and adapting to fluctuations in fuel and 
electricity supply and communications dis-
ruptions, and demographic shifts and 
shifts in flows of goods and services that 
alter transport networks. 
(iv) MANUFACTURING
AND
INDUS-
TRY.—Supply chain shocks, new regulatory 
requirements and price shocks, and the im-
pact of increasing temperatures on manu-
facturing processes. 
(v) COMMUNICATIONS
AND
TECH-
NOLOGY.—Damage to communications in-
frastructure and service interruptions and 
outages. 
(vi) FINANCIAL
SYSTEMS.—Physical 
risks associated with more frequent severe 
weather events and lasting environmental 
changes to insurance and banking sectors 
and local economies, preparing for, adapt-
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ing to and addressing the transition risks 
posed by policy and technological changes 
to a reduced-carbon economy, and fluctua-
tions in global markets, stranded assets. 
(vii) 
COMMERCE.—Mitigation 
of 
threats to small, locally owned businesses. 
(viii) ENERGY SYSTEMS.—Impacts of 
increasing temperatures, severity of ex-
treme weather events and increased pre-
cipitation on energy production and deliv-
ery, shifts in energy demand and supply, 
and growing population driving an increase 
in overall energy demand. 
(ix) AGRICULTURE
AND
FOOD
SYS-
TEMS.—Disruptions to food availability, 
access, and quality due to reduced agricul-
tural productivity, changes in temperature 
and precipitation patterns resulting in 
floods, droughts, changes in crop and live-
stock viability, new pests, pathogens and 
weed problems, depletion of water supplies 
for irrigation, soil degradation, illness and 
death in farm workers and livestock due to 
heat, economic losses, instability of food 
supply, closure of smaller farms with lim-
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ited safety nets to deal with disrupting fac-
tors, economic losses for farming and rural 
communities, and increased food prices 
and greater food insecurity. 
(x) LABOR.—Impact of increased tem-
peratures on workers, particularly those in 
high-risk industries where workers are 
doing physical labor and have a direct ex-
posure to outdoor temperatures, and work-
ers with limited labor protections such as 
incarcerated workers and undocumented 
and immigrant workers, preparing for and 
providing adequate protections for disaster 
recovery workers as the frequency of cli-
mate disasters increases, financial and eco-
nomic disruption resulting in labor market 
shifts and potential job losses, and eco-
nomic impact of disasters and long-term 
climate shifts on businesses, workers and 
local economies. 
(xi) EDUCATION.—Activities focused 
on minimizing disruptions to educational 
systems, addressing disparate impacts of 
heat and other climate impacts on student 
achievement and learning, ensuring the 
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physical safety and psychosocial well-being 
of students and teachers, planning for the 
use of schools as shelters during climate 
disasters, strengthening the infrastructure 
of school buildings, revising curricula to 
ensure that the public is well-educated and 
informed to be prepared for the risks posed 
by climate change, and creating new pro-
grams to ensure that individuals are 
trained with relevant skills to contribute to 
the climate resilience workforce. 
(xii) FOREIGN
AFFAIRS.—Increased 
need to provide foreign aid and assistance, 
increased migration, increased conflict, 
war, famine and political and economic in-
stability, economic losses in trade and 
overseas operations, and shocks to global 
supply chains. 
(3) DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, RECOVERY, AND 
REBUILDING.—Activities shall include— 
(A) preparing for, recovering from, and re-
building after climate-related disasters, includ-
ing— 
(i) wildfires and any resulting land-
slides and debris; 
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(ii) 
extreme 
precipitation 
events, 
storm surges, and floods; 
(iii) hurricanes; 
(iv) heat waves and resulting fires; 
(v) droughts; 
(vi) permafrost thawing; and 
(vii) coastal erosion; and 
(B) securing the right of communities dis-
placed by disasters to return and supporting 
the relocation of communities located in areas 
where safe habitation is no longer possible. 
(d) INTERIM DEFINITION.—In this Act, until the 
date on which the Center for the Climate Resilience Work-
force defines climate resilience sectors for the purposes of 
this Act, the term ‘‘climate resilience sectors’’ shall include 
the employment sectors described in subsection (c). 
SEC. 8. DISAGGREGATION OF DATA. 
With respect to any data collection under this Act, 
the disaggregation of data under this Act shall not be re-
quired when the number of program participants in a cat-
egory is insufficient to yield statistically reliable informa-
tion or when the results would reveal personally identifi-
able information about a program participant or would re-
veal such information when combined with other released 
information. 
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TITLE I—NATIONAL CLIMATE 
RESILIENCE ACTION PLANNING 
SEC. 101. INTERAGENCY WORKGROUP. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director of the Office of 
Climate 
Resilience 
shall 
convene 
an 
interagency 
workgroup of Federal agencies for which such agency’s 
mission relates to climate resilience. 
(b) FUNCTIONS.—The interagency workgroup con-
vened under subsection (a) shall— 
(1) inform a national climate resilience action 
plan that includes the Federal Government and ex-
tends beyond the scope of the Federal Government; 
and 
(2) develop agency specific climate resilience ac-
tion plans. 
(c) COMPOSITION.—The interagency workgroup con-
vened under subsection (a) shall include at least 1 rep-
resentative from, at a minimum— 
(1) the Department of Agriculture; 
(2) the Department of Commerce; 
(3) the Department of Defense; 
(4) the Department of Education; 
(5) the Department of Energy; 
(6) the Department of Health and Human 
Services; 
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(7) the Department of Homeland Security; 
(8) the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment; 
(9) the Department of Labor; 
(10) the Department of the Interior; 
(11) the Department of State; 
(12) the Department of Transportation; 
(13) the Environmental Protection Agency; 
(14) the Council on Environmental Quality; 
(15) the Office of the United States Trade Rep-
resentative; 
(16) the Office of Management and Budget; 
and 
(17) the National Economic Council. 
SEC. 102. CLIMATE RESILIENCE TASK FORCE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director of the Office of 
Climate Resilience shall convene a Task Force of external 
stakeholders who possess expertise related to climate resil-
ience to inform a national climate resilience action plan. 
(b) APPOINTMENT PROCESS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office of 
Climate Resilience shall establish a public nomina-
tion and appointment process for individuals with 
expertise in the activities described in section 7(c) of 
this Act. 
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(2) REVISION OF SCOPE.—As the Center for 
the Climate Resilience Workforce updates the defini-
tion of climate resilience sectors under section 7 of 
this Act, the Director may appoint additional mem-
bers to, expand the scope of, and alter the structure 
of the Task Force as needed to fulfill the purpose 
of the Task Force. 
(c) SIZE OF TASK FORCE.—The task force shall be 
comprised of not less than 20 members. The Director shall 
appoint as many members as determined necessary to en-
sure that the Task Force possesses sufficient knowledge 
and expertise to make recommendations of sufficient 
depth and breadth to inform the development of a robust 
national climate action plan. 
(d) STRUCTURE OF TASK FORCE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Task Force members 
shall appoint a Chair who will serve as the liaison 
between the Task Force and the Office. 
(2) COMMITTEES.—Members of the Task Force 
shall establish issue-specific committees to focus on 
mitigation, preparation and adaptation, and disaster 
preparedness, recovery, and rebuilding activities as 
described in section 7(c) of this Act. 
(e) QUALIFICATIONS.—Each member of the Task 
Force shall be qualified by education, training, or lived, 
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volunteer, or paid work experience in the activities speci-
fied in section 7(c) of this Act to evaluate information and 
make recommendations on matters referred to the Task 
Force under this Act. Individuals appointed to the Task 
Force shall include— 
(1) individuals with experience implementing 
strategies to achieve absolute reductions in green-
house gas emissions from the transportation, elec-
tricity generation, industrial, commercial and resi-
dential building and agricultural sectors, including 
experience as a community organizer on climate 
mitigation issues or a frontline worker in such sec-
tors; 
(2) individuals with experience in preparation 
and adaptation, including— 
(A) workers from care industries, including 
healthcare, childcare, elder care, home care and 
other related occupations; 
(B) community organizers with expertise in 
disaster preparedness and recovery and building 
robust grassroots community support networks, 
mutual aid networks, and emergency hubs; 
(C) public sector leaders and employees 
from Federal, State, local, and Tribal govern-
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ments with experience in administering social 
safety net programs; 
(D) individuals with scientific, technical, 
programmatic, and community expertise in im-
plementing measures to address the risks to 
each of the environmental systems mentioned in 
section 7(c); 
(E) individuals with scientific, technical, 
programmatic, and community expertise in im-
plementing measures to address the risks to 
each of the economic systems mentioned in sec-
tion 7(c); 
(F) individuals with experience in orga-
nized labor and labor-management partner-
ships; 
(G) individuals with expertise in climate- 
related disaster preparedness, response, recov-
ery, and rebuilding from both the public and 
private sector; and 
(H) emergency managers at local and 
State government emergency management of-
fices. 
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SEC. 103. PROCESS AND OUTCOMES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF 
NATIONAL 
CLIMATE 
RESILIENCE 
ACTION 
PLAN. 
(a) PROCESS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office of 
Climate Resilience shall convene the following groups 
to engage in the development of a national climate 
resilience action plan: 
(A) The Interagency Workgroup estab-
lished under section 101 of this Act. 
(B) The Climate Resilience Equity Advi-
sory Board established under section 5 of this 
Act. 
(C) The Climate Resilience Task Force es-
tablished under section 102 of this Act. 
(D) Labor, worker, and workforce develop-
ment stakeholders. 
(E) The Center for the Climate Resilience 
Workforce established under section 6 of this 
Act. 
(2) SUBGROUPS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Director may con-
vene subgroups of the groups convened under 
paragraph (1) to facilitate depth of discussion 
and planning related to specific issue areas or 
topics. 
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(B) REQUIREMENT.—In convening a sub-
group pursuant to subparagraph (A), the Direc-
tor shall ensure that at least 2 members of the 
Climate Resilience Equity Advisory Board are 
included in such subgroup to ensure that the 
knowledge, lived experiences, and priorities of 
frontline communities are integrated into deci-
sions around climate resilience strategies. 
(C) RECOMMENDATIONS.—In carrying out 
functions under a subgroup convened pursuant 
to subparagraph (A), the Climate Resilience 
Equity Advisory Board may issue recommenda-
tions to any subgroup convened. 
(b) OUTCOMES.—The national climate resilience ac-
tion plan developed under this section shall— 
(1) detail goals and priority strategies that shall 
be taken to achieve a climate resilient nation and in-
clude specific actions, timelines, targets, evaluation 
metrics, and stakeholders responsible for implemen-
tation and oversight, including goals, strategies, and 
actions that— 
(A) encompass the entirety of climate resil-
ience; 
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(B) focus on mitigation, preparation, adap-
tation, and disaster recovery and rebuilding ac-
tivities as described in section 7(c) of this Act; 
(C) prioritize frontline communities; and 
(D) address the underlying and systemic 
factors of systemic racism, economic inequity, 
and environmental degradation and pollution 
that have led to inequitable climate risks and 
impacts; 
(2) identify current and projected national 
workforce needs to carry out the strategies and ac-
tions described in paragraph (1), including— 
(A) the existing jobs, skills, and occupa-
tions that pertain to climate resilience work; 
(B) the additional number of jobs that 
need to be created to carry out such strategies 
and actions and the projected cost of such jobs; 
(C) emerging skills and occupations that 
are needed and new training requirements to 
ensure that the United States has a sufficiently 
skilled workforce to achieve climate resilience; 
(D) strategies to achieve racial and gender 
equity in job creation and training, including 
strategies to ensure equity and prioritization in 
training and hiring members of frontline com-
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munities and populations facing barriers to em-
ployment; and 
(E) future projections for growth of the 
climate resilience workforce, including demand 
data by job, skill, and occupation; and 
(3) identify regional variation in risks, strate-
gies, and workforce needs. 
(c) CONSULTATION OF RESOURCES.—In developing 
the national climate resilience action plan under this sec-
tion, the groups convened under subsection (a)(1) may 
consult the following resources to inform the identification 
of strategies and actions under subsection (b): 
(1) Studies and policy guidance drafted by 
frontline communities and advocates, including— 
(A) the People’s Orientation for a Regen-
erative Economy; 
(B) Movement for Black Lives policy guid-
ance; 
(C) Gulf South for a Green New Deal pol-
icy platform; 
(D) Equitable and Just National Climate 
platform; 
(E) various platforms of the BlueGreen Al-
liance; 
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(F) United States Climate Action Net-
work’s vision for equitable climate action; and 
(G) Union of Concerned Scientists climate 
resilience framework. 
(2) Governmental and intergovernmental data, 
reports, studies, and tools, including— 
(A) the reports of the Intergovernmental 
Panel on Climate Change; 
(B) the United States Global Change Re-
search Program’s 4th National Climate Assess-
ment; 
(C) the United States Climate Resilience 
Toolkit; 
(D) Center for Climate and Energy Solu-
tions Resilience Portal; 
(E) various platforms of Resilience Force; 
and 
(F) Bureau of Labor Statistics and United 
States Energy and Employment report data, in-
cluding data on gender, race, ethnicity, and 
union representation. 
(d) CONSULTATION
OF STAKEHOLDERS.—In con-
vening the groups under subsection (a)(1) to identify cur-
rent and projected national workforce needs under sub-
section (b)(2)— 
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(1) labor, worker, and workforce development 
stakeholders shall be consulted to provide input and 
recommendations on labor, worker, workforce devel-
opment, and training needs; and 
(2) the Climate Equity Advisory Board shall be 
consulted to identify the skills and sectors of priority 
for frontline communities. 
(e) REPORT TO CONGRESS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Director shall 
submit to Congress a progress report on the develop-
ment of a national climate resilience action plan. 
(2) REPORT OF DIRECTOR.—Not later than 2 
years after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Director shall submit to Congress a copy of the na-
tional climate resilience action plan developed under 
this section. 
(3) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 
1 year after the date of the submission of the na-
tional climate resilience action plan under paragraph 
(1), and each year thereafter, the Office of Climate 
Resilience shall submit to Congress a report describ-
ing the progress towards achieving climate resilience 
described in such plan. 
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(f) REVISION.—Not later than once every 5 years 
after the date on which the national climate resilience ac-
tion plan is submitted under subsection (e)(1), the groups 
convened under subsection (a)(1) shall update such plan. 
SEC. 104. FEDERAL AGENCY CLIMATE RESILIENCE ACTION 
PLANS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the head of each Federal 
agency shall submit to the Director a progress report on 
the development of agency-specific climate action plans. 
(b) DEVELOPMENT.—Not later than 2 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the head of each Federal 
agency shall develop a climate resilience action plan for 
such agency that details the actions that each Federal 
agency shall take to support national climate resilience. 
(c) CONTENTS.—Each agency climate resilience ac-
tion plan developed under subsection (a) shall— 
(1) align with the goals and strategies of the 
national climate resilience action plan developed 
under section 103; 
(2) include agency-specific targets and evalua-
tion metrics, in line with the plan’s general goals, 
strategies, targets, and evaluation metrics; 
(3) detail the changes that the agency will make 
to any existing activities that threaten climate resil-
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ience and any new activities the agency will take to 
support climate resilience; 
(4) detail how the agency will integrate climate 
resilience into current or future agency strategic 
plans; 
(5) list clear actions the agency will take, the 
entities responsible for such actions, and timelines 
for implementation; 
(6) be developed in consultation with labor, 
worker, and workforce development stakeholders; 
(7) ensure that frontline communities are 
prioritized in each agency’s efforts towards climate 
resilience; 
(8) be reviewed by the Climate Resilience Eq-
uity Advisory Board and either incorporate, or pro-
vide justification for excluding, any recommenda-
tions made by the Board; 
(9) build on any existing agency climate adap-
tation and sustainability plans; 
(10) reflect the definition of climate resilience 
under this Act; 
(11) ensure resilience of the agency in the face 
of climate change risks to ensure the agency’s ability 
to accomplish its mission and protect the value of its 
assets and people; 
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(12) include current and projected Federal 
workforce needs, including necessary skills and 
training, to carry out the actions outlined in the 
plan; 
(13) highlight limitations in statutory authority, 
resource constraints, data gaps, and personnel train-
ing needs that are hindering the agency’s ability to 
fully undertake the activities needed to support cli-
mate resilience; 
(14) be submitted to the appropriate commit-
tees of jurisdiction within the House of Representa-
tives and Senate not later than 2 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act to allow Congress to 
act accordingly to— 
(A) provide funding and to ensure Federal 
agencies, departments, and offices have ade-
quate resources to carry out the activities out-
lined in the agency plan; 
(B) support existing jobs, create new jobs, 
and support personnel training that are critical 
to the Federal Government’s activities to sup-
port climate resilience; 
(C) conduct oversight to ensure each agen-
cy is carrying out the plan for such agency; and 
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(D) address limitations in statutory au-
thority through legislation; and 
(15) be revised not less frequently than every 5 
years. 
(d) RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE OFFICE OF CLIMATE 
RESILIENCE.—In carrying out this section, the Office of 
Climate Resilience shall— 
(1) not later than 90 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, develop and issue specific guide-
lines for planning; 
(2) compile each plan developed by each Fed-
eral agency under this section into a cohesive Fed-
eral Government climate resilience action plan; 
(3) select the agency that has made the great-
est contributions to climate resilience to receive an 
annual award, that shall include additional funding 
to carry out climate resilience work; and 
(4) provide technical assistance, coordination, 
and support for agencies in carrying out each agen-
cy’s action plan developed under this section. 
(e) CONSULTATION OF RESOURCES.—In developing 
an action plan under this section, a Federal agency may 
consult— 
(1) the United States Council on Climate Pre-
paredness and Resilience’s 2016 report titled ‘‘Op-
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portunities to Enhance the Nation’s Resilience to 
Climate Change’’; 
(2) the 2014 recommendations from the State, 
Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate 
Preparedness and Resilience; 
(3) Executive Order 13514, ‘‘Federal Leader-
ship in Environmental, Energy and Economic Per-
formance’’; 
(4) Executive Order 13653, ‘‘Preparing the 
United States for the Impacts of Climate Change’’; 
and 
(5) the Climate and Natural Resource Working 
Group (CNRWG), Priority Agenda: ‘‘Enhancing the 
Climate Resilience of America’s Natural Resources’’, 
Washington, DC, Council on Climate Preparedness 
and Resilience, 2014. 
TITLE 
II—STATE, 
TRIBAL, 
LOCAL, AND COMMUNITY CLI-
MATE 
RESILIENCE 
ACTION 
PLANNING 
SEC. 201. CLIMATE RESILIENCE PLANNING GRANTS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Of-
fice of Climate Resilience shall establish a Climate Resil-
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ience Planning grant program (hereinafter referred to as 
the ‘‘grant program’’). 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the grant program is 
to support States, Tribes, localities, regional groups, non-
profit organizations, and community groups in conducting 
climate change risk assessments and developing climate 
resilience action plans. 
(c) ELIGIBILITY.—The following entities are eligible 
for a grant under this section: 
(1) State governments. 
(2) Tribal governments. 
(3) Local governments. 
(4) Regional governmental groups. 
(5) Nonprofit organizations. 
(6) Grassroots community groups that partner 
with a fiscal sponsor that is exempt from taxation 
under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986. 
(d) INITIAL APPLICATIONS.—Not later than 120 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director 
shall publish a request for applications for a grant under 
this section. 
(e) APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS.—To be eligible for 
a grant under this section, an applicant shall submit to 
the Director an application at such time, in such manner, 
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and containing such information as the Director may re-
quire, including, at a minimum— 
(1) a certification that such applicant has 
formed an advisory board that— 
(A) has majority representation from 
frontline communities; 
(B) has at least 1 individual who possesses 
scientific knowledge or experience in conducting 
risk assessments pertaining to climate change; 
(C) has labor, worker, and workforce devel-
opment stakeholders, including at least 1 rep-
resentative of a labor union and 1 individual 
representing populations facing barriers to em-
ployment; and 
(D) allows advisory board members to re-
ceive compensation for participation on such 
board if it is determined that the individual 
serving would incur financial hardship or other-
wise be unable to participate without such com-
pensation; 
(2) details on the population represented by the 
entity, including demographic information on popu-
lation size, income, race, education level, and pri-
mary sectors of employment; 
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(3) reasons for seeking grant funding to sup-
port climate resilience planning; 
(4) details on advisory board members including 
name, organizational affiliation (if applicable), quali-
fications, and letters of support from 3 local commu-
nity-based nonprofit organizations verifying the ac-
curacy of the information presented; 
(5) a list of the stakeholders that will be in-
volved in the planning process; 
(6) details on how the advisory board will be in-
corporated into the planning process; 
(7) the identity of the individual who will lead 
the planning process and whether an external entity 
will be hired to facilitate the planning process; 
(8) the expected timeline for how long the plan-
ning process is expected to take; 
(9) expected data sources for local employment 
and worker data; 
(10) a community engagement plan detailing— 
(A) steps that will be taken to ensure that 
frontline communities are informed about the 
planning process; and 
(B) accommodations that will be made to 
ensure that such groups have the opportunity to 
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participate in the planning process and provide 
public comment before the plan is finalized; and 
(11) a detailed budget for the planning process. 
(f) PRIORITIZATION.—Grants under this section will 
be prioritized for proposals submitted by entities that rep-
resent frontline communities. 
(g) ELIGIBLE USE OF FUNDS.—A grant under this 
section may be used for— 
(1) compensation for advisory board members; 
(2) facilitation costs; 
(3) materials and supplies; 
(4) community engagement and outreach ex-
penses; and 
(5) compensation for technical assistance or 
support. 
(h) GRANT DURATION.—A grant under this section 
shall be for a period of 2 years, unless the Director ex-
tends such period. 
(i) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of the 
costs of an activity carried out using a grant under this 
section shall be 100 percent. 
(j) RESOURCE CONSULTATION.—Entities receiving a 
grant under this section may consult with the resources 
described in section 103(c) of this Act to carry out plan-
ning efforts under this section. 
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(k) PLANNING REQUIREMENTS.—Entities shall en-
sure that plans meet the following requirements: 
(1) Using data, assess how climate change will 
create new, or alter current climate related risks, 
and how such risks are distributed within and across 
natural ecosystems and human communities, includ-
ing— 
(A) with respect to human communities, 
risks should be assessed by geography, race, 
ethnicity, socioeconomic status, health and 
other demographic and social factors; and 
(B) with respect to natural ecosystems, 
risks should be assessed by geography, species 
and ecosystem services. 
(2) Identify natural species, ecosystem services 
and human populations that face disproportionate 
risks and impacts of climate change, including— 
(A) with respect to human populations, 
identifying risks due to historic and ongoing 
systemic racism, economic inequity, and envi-
ronmental degradation and pollution; and 
(B) with respect to natural species and 
ecosystem services, identifying risks due to envi-
ronmental degradation, pollution and other an-
thropogenic impacts. 
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(3) Identify goals and priority strategies, spe-
cific actions, targets, timelines, and evaluation 
metrics to achieve a climate resilient community that 
shall— 
(A) encompass the full definition of climate 
resilience to include strategies pertaining to 
mitigation, preparation and adaptation, and 
disaster preparedness, recovery, and rebuilding; 
(B) prioritize frontline communities; 
(C) address the underlying and systemic 
factors of systemic racism, economic inequity, 
and environmental degradation and pollution 
that have led to inequitable climate risks and 
impacts; and 
(D) align with the goals, strategies, ac-
tions, targets and evaluation metrics detailed in 
the National Climate Resilience Action plan, if 
available. 
(4) Identify stakeholders responsible for imple-
mentation and oversight. 
(5) Government entities must involve every rel-
evant agency or office in the planning process and 
detail the actions each agency or office will take as 
relevant to the agency or office’s mission to protect 
the jurisdiction from identified risks. 
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(6) The advisory board must be meaningfully 
included and consulted in the development of the 
plan and offer recommendations. 
(7) Identify workforce needs to implement the 
climate resilience strategies and actions identified in 
the plan, per the requirements in section 103(b)(2) 
of this Act. 
TITLE III—CLIMATE RESILIENCE 
WORKFORCE GRANTS 
SEC. 301. JOB CREATION GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office 
of Climate Resilience shall, in coordination with the Sec-
retary of Labor, establish a Climate Resilience Job Cre-
ation grant program. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the grant program es-
tablished under this section shall be to fund projects to 
be carried out by eligible entities for the purpose of— 
(1) creating local jobs to build the nation’s cli-
mate resilience workforce; 
(2) implementing the strategies, actions, and 
projects laid out in climate resilience action plans 
that meet the criteria specified in section 201(k) of 
this Act; and 
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(3) 
halving 
unemployment 
by 
creating 
1,000,000 jobs annually that last not less than 4 
years and provide benefits, pathways to family-sus-
taining careers, a living wage, worker safety and 
voice to United States workers. 
(c) ELIGIBILITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—An entity may be eligible for 
a grant under this section if such entity— 
(A) is a State, Tribe, locality, regional 
group, nonprofit organization, labor organiza-
tion and labor-management organization, or 
community group; and 
(B) includes in the application a climate 
resilience action plan that— 
(i) has been approved under section 
201(k) of this Act; or 
(ii) meets the requirements for a plan 
in such section. 
(2) PRIOR GRANT.—An entity may be eligible 
under paragraph (1) regardless of whether the entity 
received a grant under section 201 of this Act. 
(d) PRIORITY.—The Director shall prioritize grant 
funding for any entity that— 
(1) represents a frontline community; 
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(2) demonstrates a history of or commitment to 
hiring graduates of— 
(A) the programs funded by the workforce 
development training grants in section 302; or 
(B) any pre-apprenticeship or registered 
apprenticeship program; 
(3) commits to ensuring that at least 40 per-
cent of jobs created under a grant under this section 
will be held by individuals from— 
(A) frontline communities; and 
(B) populations facing barriers to employ-
ment; 
(4) proposes a project that serves a frontline 
community; or 
(5) demonstrates strong support from a front-
line community. 
(e) REQUIREMENTS.—An entity carrying out a 
project funded under this section shall do the following: 
(1) Support or create climate resilience jobs 
specified in local climate resilience action plans. 
(2) Support or create jobs that meet the labor 
standards specified in title IV. 
(3) Eliminate barriers to employment as speci-
fied in title V. 
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(f) APPLICATIONS.—The Director shall require an el-
igible entity to submit an application that includes— 
(1) a description of the applicant’s plan to meet 
the requirements for priority under subsection (d); 
(2) an attestation that the applicant will adhere 
to the minimum labor standards specified in section 
401, and provide the Director at such time, in such 
manner, and containing such information as the Di-
rector may reasonably require, to demonstrate com-
pliance 
with 
the 
requirements 
under 
section 
401(a)(3); 
(3) a plan to report to the Office aggregate 
data on the sustainable jobs with community sup-
porting wages supported by grant funding and de-
mographic statistics of jobs created, disaggregated 
by gender, race, age, education level, and number of 
sustainable jobs with community supporting wages 
hired from frontline communities and populations 
facing barriers to employment; and 
(4) a detailed budget for positions to be sup-
ported by the grant. 
(g) REPORTING.—Not later than 6 months after re-
ceipt of a grant under this section, and every 6 months 
thereafter until the termination of such grant, the recipi-
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ent of such grant shall submit to the Director a report 
that includes— 
(1) aggregate data on workers and demographic 
statistics of jobs created under this section, includ-
ing— 
(A) the number of workers hired; 
(B) non-identifying data on the race, gen-
der, and ZIP Code for workers hired; and 
(C) the wages and benefits paid in those 
jobs including income broken out by race and 
gender, other benefits provided to persons em-
ployed in those jobs, broken out by race and 
gender, weekly hours worked by workers em-
ployed through jobs created, and, if jobs are 
time-limited, duration of employment; 
(2) progress on the climate resilience projects, 
strategies and actions being implemented by workers 
in relation to timelines laid out in plan; 
(3) expenditures to date; and 
(4) plan for securing other funds to support the 
jobs supported or created by this grant. 
(h) GRANT DURATION.—A grant under this section 
may be terminated with 30 days notice if the grantee— 
(1) has failed to meet the labor and employ-
ment baseline requirements of this bill; or 
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(2) has had more than one substantiated com-
plaint against them for a violation of a provision 
under the jurisdiction of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board, Equal Employment Opportunity Com-
mission, Wage and Hour Division, Department of 
Justice’s Civil Rights Division, Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration, Department of Labor’s 
Climate Resilience Workers Commission or the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency. 
(i) REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS.—Not later than 
120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Of-
fice shall publish a request for applications for grants 
under this section. 
SEC. 302. WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TRAINING AND HIR-
ING GRANTS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Of-
fice of Climate Resilience shall, in coordination with the 
Secretary of Labor, establish a Climate Resilience Work-
force Development, Apprenticeship and Pre-Apprentice-
ship Grant Program. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the grant program is 
to provide funds to eligible entities to— 
(1) establish new apprenticeship, pre-appren-
ticeship and workforce development programs that 
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prepare workers to immediately train for and access 
jobs created through section 301 of this Act; 
(2) maintain or expand existing apprenticeship, 
pre-apprenticeship and workforce development pro-
grams that provide training for climate resilience in-
dustries, jobs, and career paths; 
(3) support national industry and equity inter-
mediaries in establishing or expanding sector-based 
partnerships and labor-management partnerships to 
support the delivery or expansion of climate resil-
ience-related programs under the national appren-
ticeship system to significant scale in the United 
States; 
(4) provide direct financial assistance to ap-
prentices, pre-apprentices, or youth apprentices 
through emergency grants to support their financial 
needs to enter, remain enrolled in, and complete 
such programs, such as support for the related costs 
of supplies and equipment, courses, transportation, 
child care, and housing; 
(5) establish or expand partnerships with orga-
nizations that provide program participants access 
to financial planning, mentoring, and supportive 
services that are necessary to enable an individual to 
participate in and complete a program under the na-
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tional apprenticeship system or the national work-
force development system; 
(6) conduct targeted outreach and recruitment 
to frontline communities and populations facing bar-
riers to employment; 
(7) provide training services and workforce in-
vestment activities that expand the climate resilience 
workforce; 
(8) assist workers to obtain interim credentials 
and recognized post-secondary credentials that build 
proficiency for climate resilience-related careers; 
(9) provide assistance in creating and obtaining 
accreditations and licenses that demonstrate pro-
ficiency or specialized skills related to climate resil-
ience careers; and 
(10) carry out the activities described in section 
601(a) of this Act. 
(c) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—The following entities are 
eligible to apply for a grant under this section: 
(1) A State workforce development board or 
State workforce agency, a local government, or a 
local workforce development board or local workforce 
development agency. 
(2) An education and training provider. 
(3) A State apprenticeship agency. 
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(4) An Indian Tribe or Tribal organization. 
(5) An industry or sector partnership, a group 
of employers, a trade association, or a professional 
association that sponsors or participates in a pro-
gram under the national apprenticeship system. 
(6) A Governor of a State. 
(7) A labor organization or joint labor-manage-
ment organization. 
(8) A qualified intermediary. 
(9) A nonprofit organization. 
(10) A co-operative. 
(11) A public institution of higher education at 
which the highest degree that is predominantly 
awarded to students is an associate’s degree, includ-
ing 2-year tribally controlled colleges under section 
316 of the Higher Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1059c) 
and public 2-year State institutions of higher edu-
cation. 
(12) A consortium or partnership among any of 
the entities under this subsection. 
(d) REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—A recipient of a grant under 
this section shall use such funds to do the following: 
(A) Train individuals to work in climate 
resilience jobs with community supporting 
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wages specified in local climate resilience plans 
or for climate resilience disaster recovery and 
rebuilding jobs, including through pre-appren-
ticeship or apprenticeship programs. 
(B) Provide job placement assistance. 
(C) Develop a plan to publish aggregate 
demographic statistics for program entrants 
and graduates. 
(D) Provide wraparound support services 
to eliminate barriers to employment, as relevant 
to the specific populations served by the pro-
gram, including case management assistance, 
stipends, tools, and equipment or other support 
needed for success in completing the training 
and in subsequent employment. 
(2) PARTNERSHIPS.—A recipient of a grant 
under this section may partner with other eligible 
entities to ensure that the activities under paragraph 
(1) are carried out. 
(e) PRIORITY CONSIDERATIONS.—Priority shall be 
given to an eligible entity that— 
(1) demonstrates success serving populations 
facing barriers to employment and frontline commu-
nities; 
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(2) is a partnership among 2 or more eligible 
entities; 
(3) is a joint labor-management organization; 
and 
(4) provides a wide and flexible range of sup-
portive services to participants including direct fi-
nancial assistance, quality childcare services, housing 
assistance, case management, and other assistance 
that successfully addresses barriers to program com-
pletion. 
(f) GRANT DURATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—A grant under this section 
shall last for a period of 5 years. 
(2) RENEWAL.—The Director may renew 
grants under this section as the Director determines 
appropriate. 
(g) PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS.—No funds 
under this section may be used— 
(1) to carry out an industry recognized appren-
ticeship program that is not an apprenticeship pro-
gram under section 3 of this Act; or 
(2) to recognize a program described in para-
graph (1). 
(h) FEDERAL SHARE.—Not later than 120 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Office shall publish 
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a request for applications that, at minimum, reflects the 
above requirements. There shall be no matching require-
ment for grants. 
(i) REPORTING.—Not later than 6 months after re-
ceipt of a grant under this section, and every 6 months 
thereafter until termination of such grant, the recipient 
of such grant shall submit to the Director a report that 
includes aggregate demographic statistics for program en-
trants and graduates, rates of program completion and job 
placement, and demographics of populations enrolled in 
and completing the program, including rates of recruit-
ment, program completion and job placement for popu-
lations facing barriers to employment. 
SEC. 303. VIRTUAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND CAPACITY 
BUILDING. 
(a) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall provide 
virtual and remote technical assistance support to 
entities that seek to apply for the grant programs 
specified in sections 201, 301, and 302 and require 
assistance navigating the Federal grants process and 
that are— 
(A) a community-based nonprofit organiza-
tion with fewer than 20 employees; 
(B) a grassroots community group; 
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(C) a co-operative; 
(D) a Tribal government or Tribal organi-
zations; or 
(E) a locality with a population of not 
greater than 50,000. 
(2) LETTER
OF
INTENT.—Entities seeking 
technical assistance support with the grant applica-
tion process must submit a letter of intent to the Of-
fice detailing the grant for which they wish to apply, 
along with proof of tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status, 
worker co-op status or proof of population size of 
municipality. 
(3) RECRUITMENT.—Not later than 90 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director 
shall hire and train full time employees to carry out 
paragraph (1). 
(4) PHONE
OR
WEB
CONFERENCE
ASSIST-
ANCE.—Technical assistance support may be pro-
vided by phone or web conferencing. 
(b) CAPACITY BUILDING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director may provide 
entities seeking to apply for grants under sections 
201, 301, and 302 up to 10 percent of grant funds 
to build the capacity of the organization to apply for 
Federal grants, conduct the administrative and fi-
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nancial management of grants, and conduct nec-
essary reporting. 
(2) REQUIREMENT.—An entity seeking funds 
under paragraph (1) must include in the letter of in-
tent under subsection (a)(2) a statement of need for 
capacity building support in their application and re-
flect expected expenses in the budget submitted with 
the application. 
TITLE IV—LABOR STANDARDS 
AND ENFORCEMENT 
SEC. 401. MINIMUM LABOR STANDARDS FOR CLIMATE RE-
SILIENCE WORKERS. 
(a) ENTITIES FUNDED THROUGH GRANT PROGRAMS 
CREATED BY THIS ACT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, an entity that, directly or indi-
rectly, receives funds under section 301 or 302, 
without regard to the form or type of Federal assist-
ance provided under such section or part, shall com-
ply with labor standards under this section. 
(2) MONITORING COMPLIANCE.—Not later than 
90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Director, in coordination with the Secretary, shall— 
(A) develop a process to monitor compli-
ance with the labor standards specified in this 
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section, including coordination with the Climate 
Resilience Workers Commission, that requires 
entities receiving funding through the grant 
program established in section 301 to provide 
information to demonstrate compliance at any 
time during the grant period; 
(B) issue rules to determine penalties for 
noncompliance; and 
(C) notify the Office of any entity that is 
determined to be noncompliant. 
(3) LABOR STANDARDS REQUIREMENTS.—The 
Director shall require an entity, as a condition of eli-
gibility to receive funding under sections 301 to sat-
isfy each of the following requirements: 
(A) The entity shall ensure that— 
(i) all laborers and mechanics em-
ployed on projects funded directly, or as-
sisted in whole or in part, by this Act shall 
be paid wages at rates not less than those 
prevailing on projects of a character simi-
lar in the locality as determined by the 
Secretary of Labor in accordance with sub-
chapter IV of chapter 31 of part A of sub-
title II of title 40, United States Code 
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(commonly referred to as the ‘‘Davis- 
Bacon Act’’); 
(ii) all individuals employed using 
funds under this Act in the manufacture or 
furnishing of materials, supplies, articles, 
or equipment under the contract will be 
paid wages at rates not less than employ-
ees performing similar work or in the par-
ticular or similar industries or groups of 
industries currently operating in the local-
ity in which the materials, supplies, arti-
cles, or equipment are to be manufactured 
or furnished as determined by the Sec-
retary of Labor in accordance with sections 
6501 through 6511 of title 41, United 
States Code (commonly referred to as the 
‘‘Public Contracts Act’’); and 
(iii) all individuals employed in the 
various classes of service employees using 
funds under this Act are paid wages at 
rates not less than the employees per-
forming similar work in the locality as de-
termined by the Secretary under chapter 
67 of title 41, United States Code (com-
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monly known as the ‘‘Service Contract 
Act’’). 
(B) In the case of any project for which 
the total cost exceeds $25,000,000, the entity 
shall be a party to, or require contractors and 
subcontractors in the performance of such 
project to be a party to a covered project labor 
agreement. 
(C) The entity, and all contractors and 
subcontractors in performance of any project, 
shall represent in the application submitted 
under sections 301 of this Act (and periodically 
thereafter during the performance of the project 
as the Director may require) whether there has 
been any administrative merits determination, 
arbitral award or decision, or civil judgment, as 
defined in guidance issued by the Director, ren-
dered against the entity in the preceding 3 
years (or, in the case of disclosures after the 
initial disclosure, during such period as the Di-
rector may provide) for violations of— 
(i) the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938 (29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.); 
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(ii) the Occupational Safety and 
Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 651 et 
seq.); 
(iii) the Migrant and Seasonal Agri-
cultural Worker Protection Act (29 U.S.C. 
1801 et seq.); 
(iv) the National Labor Relations Act 
(29 U.S.C. 151 et seq.); 
(v) subchapter IV of chapter 31 of 
title 40, United States Code (commonly re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Davis-Bacon Act’’); 
(vi) chapter 67 of title 41, United 
States Code (commonly known as the 
‘‘Service Contract Act’’); 
(vii) sections 6501 through 6511 of 
title 41, United States Code (commonly re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Public Contracts Act’’); 
(viii) Executive Order 11246 (relating 
to equal employment opportunity); 
(ix) section 503 of the Rehabilitation 
Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 793); 
(x) section 4212 of title 38, United 
States Code; 
(xi) the Family and Medical Leave 
Act of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.); 
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(xii) title VII of the Civil Rights Act 
of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.); 
(xiii) the Americans with Disabilities 
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.); 
(xiv) the Age Discrimination in Em-
ployment Act of 1967 (29 U.S.C. 621 et 
seq.); 
(xv) sick leave for Federal contractors 
Executive order; 
(xvi) leave provided under section 
5102 of the Emergency Paid Sick Leave 
Act (29 U.S.C. 2601 note); 
(xvii) Executive Order 14026 (relating 
to the minimum wage for Federal contrac-
tors); or 
(xviii) State laws with protections 
equivalent to the protections listed under 
this subparagraph, as defined in guidance 
issued by the Secretary of Labor not later 
than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
(D) The entity, and all contractors and 
subcontractors in the performance of the 
project, may not require arbitration for any dis-
pute involving an employee described in sub-
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paragraph (E) engaged in a service for the enti-
ty or any contractor and subcontractor, or enter 
into any agreement with such employee requir-
ing arbitration of any such dispute, unless such 
employee is covered by a collective bargaining 
agreement that provides otherwise. 
(E) For purposes of compliance with the 
National Labor Relations Act (29 U.S.C. 151 
et seq.), the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 
(29 U.S.C. 201 et seq.), and the requirements 
under this section, the entity, and all contrac-
tors and subcontractors in the performance of 
any project, shall consider an individual per-
forming any service in such performance as an 
employee (and not an independent contractor) 
of the entity, contractor, or subcontractor, re-
spectively, unless— 
(i) the individual is free from control 
and direction in connection with the per-
formance of the service, both under the 
contract for the performance of the service 
and in fact; 
(ii) the service is performed outside 
the usual course of the business of the en-
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TITLE VI—PROVISIONS RELATED 
TO 
CLIMATE 
RESILIENCE 
WORKERS INVOLVED IN DIS-
ASTER RECOVERY AND RE-
BUILDING 
SEC. 601. SUPPORTS FOR DISASTER RECOVERY WORKERS. 
(a) GRANTS
FOR DISASTER RECOVERY
AND RE-
BUILDING TRAINING AND HIRING HALLS.— 
(1) TRAINING.—Entities receiving grants in 
section 302 to support the training of disaster recov-
ery and rebuilding workers must ensure that such 
training includes the following components, as the 
Secretary determines relevant to such workers: 
(A) Ten-hour training provided by the Oc-
cupational Safety and Health Administration. 
(B) Basic health and safety training on 
mold exposure, lead paint, asbestos and heat 
exposure. 
(C) Basic first aid and CPR, following the 
American Red Cross model. 
(D) Training with respect to preservation 
of mental health, including self-care. 
(E) Basic workplace rights. 
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(F) Any other training that the Secretary 
determines appropriate to the circumstances of 
climate-related disasters. 
(G) Skill-based training focused on com-
munity recovery and rebuilding after disasters 
must include training on rebuilding techniques 
that increase community resilience. 
(H) Training must be: 
(i) Accessible to various levels of lit-
eracy. 
(ii) Provided in languages other than 
English, as relevant to the population of 
individuals seeking training. 
(iii) Available during evenings and 
weekends. 
(2) HIRING HALLS.—Grant funds under section 
302 to benefit climate resilience workers may be 
used for the following purposes: 
(A) To operate worker hiring halls with set 
wages and working conditions. 
(B) To cover workers compensation, unem-
ployment, health insurance and bonding with 
respect to workers hired through hiring halls to 
incentivize employers to come to and use the 
hiring halls. 
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