(b) ADJUSTMENT
AND DIVERSIFICATION ASSIST-
ANCE.— 
(1) ASSISTANCE
AVAILABLE
UNDER
OTHER 
PROGRAMS.—The Secretary may make grants, con-
clude cooperative agreements, and supplement funds 
available under Federal programs administered by 
agencies other than the Department in order to as-
sist State, Tribal, and local governments in planning 
community adjustments and economic diversification 
required by— 
(A) the proposed or actual establishment, 
realignment, or closure of an electric generating 
station owned in part or whole by the Depart-
ment; and 
(B) a publicly announced planned major 
reduction in Department spending that would 
directly and adversely affect a community, if 
the Secretary determines that an action de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) or this subpara-
graph is likely to have a direct and significantly 
adverse consequence on the affected community. 
(2) CONDITIONS.—In the case of a publicly an-
nounced planned reduction in the Department 
spending, the closure or realignment of an electric 
generating station, assistance may be made under 
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paragraph (1) only if the reduction, closure or re-
alignment, cancellation or termination, or failure will 
have a direct and significant adverse impact on a 
community or its residents. 
(3) COMMUNITY ADJUSTMENT AND ECONOMIC 
DIVERSIFICATION PROGRAM.—(A) In the case of a 
State or local government eligible for assistance 
under paragraph (1), the Secretary may also make 
grants, conclude cooperative agreements, and supple-
ment other Federal funds in order to assist the 
State, Tribal, county, or local government to carry 
out a community adjustment and economic diver-
sification program (including State industrial exten-
sion or modernization efforts to facilitate the eco-
nomic diversification of displaced workers) in addi-
tion to planning such a program. 
(B) The Secretary shall establish criteria for 
the selection of community adjustment and economic 
diversification programs to receive assistance under 
subparagraph (A). Such criteria shall include a re-
quirement that the State, Tribal, county, or local 
government agree— 
(i) to provide not less than 10 percent of 
the funding for the program from non-Federal 
sources; 
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(ii) to provide business planning and mar-
ket exploration services under the program to 
displaced workers that seek modernization or 
diversification assistance; and 
(iii) to provide training, counseling, and 
placement services for dislocated workers. 
(C) The Secretary shall carry out this para-
graph in coordination with the Secretary of Com-
merce. 
(4) COMMUNITY ADJUSTMENTS AND ECONOMIC 
DIVERSIFICATION
PLANNING.—(A) The Secretary 
may also make grants, conclude cooperative agree-
ments, and supplement other Federal funds in order 
to assist a State, Tribal, county government or local 
government in planning community adjustments and 
economic diversification even though the State, Trib-
al, county government or local government is not 
currently eligible for assistance under paragraph (1) 
if the Secretary determines that a substantial por-
tion of the economic activity or population of the ge-
ographic area to be subject to the advance planning 
is dependent on expenditures of the Department. 
(B) The Secretary may also make grants, con-
clude cooperative agreements, and supplement other 
Federal funds in order to assist a State, Tribal, 
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county, or local government in enhancing its capac-
ities— 
(i) to assist communities, businesses, and 
workers adversely affected by an action de-
scribed in paragraph (1); 
(ii) to support local adjustment and diver-
sification initiatives; and 
(iii) to stimulate cooperation between 
statewide and local adjustment and diversifica-
tion efforts. 
(C) The Secretary may also make grants, con-
clude cooperative agreements, and supplement other 
Federal funds in order to assist a State, Tribal, 
county, or local government in enhancing the capa-
bilities of the government to support efforts of the 
Department to privatize, contract for, or diversify 
the performance of family support services of the 
Department in cases in which the capability of the 
Department to provide such services is adversely af-
fected by an action described in paragraph (1). 
(5) USE OF FUNDS FOR NON-FEDERAL CON-
TRIBUTION.—Funds provided to State, County, 
Tribal, and local governments and regional organiza-
tions under this section may be used as part or all 
of any required non-Federal contribution to a Fed-
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eral grant-in-aid program for the purposes stated in 
paragraph (1). 
(6) TIMELINE FOR APPROVAL OR REJECTION.— 
(A) To the extent practicable, the Sec-
retary shall inform a State, Tribal, county, or 
local government applying for assistance under 
this subsection of the approval or rejection by 
the Secretary of the application for such assist-
ance as follows: 
(i) Before the end of the 7-day period 
beginning on the date on which the Sec-
retary receives the application, in the case 
of an application for a planning grant. 
(ii) Before the end of the 30-day pe-
riod beginning on such date, in the case of 
an application for assistance to carry out a 
community adjustments and economic di-
versifications program. 
(B) If an application under this paragraph 
is rejected by the Secretary, the Secretary shall 
promptly inform the State, county, Tribal or 
local government of the reasons for the rejec-
tion of the application. 
(c) RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The 
Secretary may make grants to, or conclude cooperative 
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agreements or enter into contracts with, another Federal 
agency, a State, Tribal, county, or local government, or 
any private entity to conduct research and provide tech-
nical assistance in support of activities under this section. 
(d) INTERIOR PILOT PROGRAM.— 
(1) ASSISTANCE FOR DEFICIENCIES IN COMMU-
NITY INFRASTRUCTURE.—The Secretary may make 
grants, conclude cooperative agreements, and supple-
ment funds available under Federal programs ad-
ministered by agencies other than the Department to 
assist State, Tribal, county, and local governments 
to address deficiencies in community infrastructure 
supportive of economic development if the Secretary 
determines that such assistance will enhance the 
economy of the area affected by the closure of an 
electric generating station owned in part or whole by 
the Department. 
(2) CRITERIA.—The Secretary shall establish 
criteria for the selection of community infrastructure 
projects to receive assistance under paragraph (1). 
The criteria shall include a requirement that the 
State, Tribal, county, or local government agree to 
contribute not less than 30 percent of the funding 
for the community infrastructure project, unless the 
community infrastructure project is located in a 
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rural area, in which case the Secretary may waive 
the requirement for a State, Tribal, or local govern-
ment contribution. 
(3) FUNDS
AVAILABLE
UNTIL
EXPENDED.— 
Amounts appropriated or otherwise made available 
for assistance under paragraph (1) shall remain 
available until expended. 
(4) SUNSET.—The authority under this sub-
section shall expire 10 years after the date of the en-
actment of this Act. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COMMUNITY
ADJUSTMENT.—The terms 
‘‘community adjustment’’ and ‘‘economic diversifica-
tion’’ include the development of feasibility studies 
and business plans for market diversification within 
a community that is located or residing, as the case 
may be, not more than 100 miles from an electric 
generating facility, owned in part by the Department 
or which the Department has rights to, or a coal 
mine associated with such a facility, one or both of 
which has closed adversely affected by an action de-
scribed in subsection (b)(1) by adversely affected 
businesses and labor organizations located in the 
community. 
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(2) COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE.—The term 
‘‘community infrastructure’’ means any transpor-
tation project; school, hospital, police, fire, emer-
gency response, or other community support facility; 
or water, waste-water, telecommunications, electric, 
gas, or other utility infrastructure project that has 
a significant nexus to the closed electric generating 
station and owned by a State, Tribal, county, or 
local government. 
(3) RURAL
AREA.—The term ‘‘rural area’’ 
means a city, town, or unincorporated area that has 
a population of not more than 150,000 inhabitants. 
TITLE II—WORKFORCE INNOVA-
TION AND OPPORTUNITY ACT 
SEC. 201. DISLOCATED WORKER PROJECT. 
Not later than 60 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor, in consultation 
with the Secretary of the Interior, shall establish a dis-
located worker demonstration project under section 169(c) 
of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3224(c)) to assist communities impacted by the 
electric generating station owned in part by the Depart-
ment. 
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TITLE III—FUNDS FOR LOSS OF 
REVENUES 
SEC. 301. FUNDS FOR LOSS OF REVENUES. 
(a) PAYMENT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENTITIES.— 
To the extent funds are made available for this purpose, 
the Secretary may make annual payments under this sec-
tion to an eligible State, Tribal, or local government entity 
reflecting the loss of revenues due to the cessation of oper-
ations of an electric generating facility, owned in part by 
the Department, located within such State, Tribal, or local 
government entity, on a first-come, first-served basis, as 
follows: 
Award Year 
Maximum Potential Award 
no more than eighty percent of the 5-year average of revenue 
no more than seventy percent of the 5-year average of revenue 
no more than sixty percent of the 5-year average of revenue 
no more than fifty percent of the 5-year average of revenue 
no more than forty percent of the 5-year average of revenue 
no more than thirty percent of the 5-year average of revenue 
no more than twenty percent of the 5-year average of revenue 
(b) ELIGIBLE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENTITY.—The 
term ‘‘eligible local government entity’’ means a Tribal 
government, county, municipality, school district or special 
district, where an electric generating facility owned in part 
by the Department, or the mine soley associated with such 
an electric generation facility, located within such local 
government entity— 
(1) has ceased operations; and 
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(2) the closing of the facility or mine has 
caused a reduction in the real property tax collec-
tions, royalties, lease payments, transaction privilege 
taxes and sales taxes, or payments in lieu of taxes 
owed by the electric generating facility or the mine 
solely associated with the electric generating facility. 
(c) CONDITIONS ON PAYMENTS AND ASSISTANCE.— 
An eligible local government entity— 
(1) shall be eligible for not more than one pay-
ment each fiscal year; and 
(2) may not receive payments for more than 7 
fiscal years. 
(d) ORDER OF PAYMENT.—The date of submission 
of an eligible local government entity’s application for as-
sistance shall establish the order in which assistance is 
paid to program applicants, except that in no event shall 
assistance be paid to an eligible local government entity 
until such time that an electric generating facility has 
been closed. For purposes of this section, any local govern-
mental entity seeking assistance under the electric gener-
ating facility cessation mitigation fund must submit an af-
fidavit to the Secretary that a facility is no longer pro-
ducing electricity. 
(e) DETERMINATION OF PAYMENT AMOUNT.—After 
receipt of such an affidavit under subsection (d), the Sec-
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retary shall confirm such information. In the case that the 
facility and its solely associated mine is no longer pro-
ducing electricity and contributing to or participating in 
electricity markets it shall be deemed that the electric gen-
erating facility located within the local government entity 
has ceased operation. The determination of the amount 
of such annual payment shall be determined by the Sec-
retary on the amount of the differential between the an-
nual real property taxes, royalty or lease payments, trans-
action privilege taxes and sales taxes, or payments in lieu 
of taxes imposed upon the facility, exclusive of interest and 
penalties, during the most recent year of operations and 
the current real property taxes and payments in lieu of 
taxes imposed upon the facility, exclusive of interest and 
penalties. 
TITLE 
IV—SIGNIFICANTLY 
IM-
PACTED 
FEDERAL 
COMMU-
NITY 
ECONOMIC 
ADJUST-
MENT PROGRAM 
SEC. 401. FUNCTION OF THE SECRETARY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting through the 
Economic Adjustment Committee established under this 
title, shall design and establish a Significantly Impacted 
Federal Community Economic Adjustment Program to as-
sist substantially and seriously affected communities, busi-
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nesses, and workers from the effects of major federally 
owned, in part or whole, energy infrastructure closures 
taking place on Federal lands. 
(b) SUBSTANTIALLY
AND SERIOUSLY AFFECTED 
COMMUNITIES, BUSINESSES, AND WORKERS.—For the 
purposes of this title, ‘‘substantially and seriously affected 
communities, businesses, and workers’’ includes commu-
nities, businesses, and persons located or residing, as the 
case may be, not more than 100 miles from an electric 
generating facility, owned in part by the Department, or 
a coal mine associated with such a facility, one or both 
of which has closed. 
SEC. 402. FUNCTIONS OF PROGRAM. 
The Significantly Impacted Federal Community Eco-
nomic Adjustment Program shall— 
(1) identify problems of counties, regions, met-
ropolitan areas, Tribal governments or communities 
that result from major federally owned, in part or 
whole, energy infrastructure closures taking place on 
Federal lands. and that require Federal assistance; 
(2) use and maintain a uniform socioeconomic 
impact analysis to justify the use of Federal eco-
nomic adjustment resources; 
(3) apply consistent policies, practices, and pro-
cedures in the administration of Federal programs 
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that are used to assist significantly Federal affected 
counties, Tribal governments, regions, metropolitan 
areas, communities, and businesses; 
(4) identify and strengthen existing agency 
mechanisms to coordinate employment opportunities 
for displaced agency personnel; 
(5) identify and strengthen existing agency 
mechanisms to improve reemployment opportunities 
for dislocated Energy production industry personnel; 
(6) assure timely consultation and cooperation 
with Federal, State, regional, Tribal, county, metro-
politan, and community officials concerning Federal 
energy production-related impacts on affected com-
munities’ problems; 
(7) prepare, facilitate, and implement cost-ef-
fective strategies and action plans to coordinate 
interagency and intergovernmental economic adjust-
ment efforts; 
(8) encourage effective Federal, State, Tribal, 
county, regional, metropolitan, and community co-
operation and concerted involvement of public inter-
est groups and private sector organizations in eco-
nomic adjustment activities; 
(9) serve as a clearinghouse to exchange infor-
mation among Federal, State, County, Tribal, re-
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gional, metropolitan, and community officials in-
volved in the resolution of community economic ad-
justment problems. Such information may include, 
for example, previous studies, technical information, 
and sources of public and private financing; 
(10) assist in the diversification of local econo-
mies to lessen dependence on Federal activities; 
(11) encourage and facilitate private sector and 
Tribal interim use of lands and buildings to generate 
jobs as Federal activities diminish; 
(12) develop ways to streamline property dis-
posal procedures to enable communities to acquire 
former energy production property to generate jobs 
as Federal energy production activities diminish; and 
(13) encourage resolution of regulatory issues 
that impede encroachment prevention and local eco-
nomic adjustment efforts. 
SEC. 403. ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT COMMITTEE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established an ‘‘Eco-
nomic Adjustment Committee’’ (hereafter in the title re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Committee’’) composed of the following 
or a designee or representative of the following, and such 
other individuals from the executive branch as the Presi-
dent may designate: 
(1) Secretary of Agriculture. 
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(2) Attorney General. 
(3) Secretary of Commerce. 
(4) Secretary of Defense. 
(5) Secretary of Education. 
(6) Secretary of Energy. 
(7) Secretary of Health and Human Services. 
(8) Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment. 
(9) Secretary of the Interior. 
(10) Secretary of Labor. 
(11) Secretary of State. 
(12) Secretary of Transportation. 
(13) Secretary of Treasury. 
(14) Secretary of Veterans Affairs. 
(15) Secretary of Homeland Security. 
(16) Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers. 
(17) Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget. 
(18) Director of the Office of Personnel Man-
agement. 
(19) Administrator of the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency. 
(20) Administrator of General Services. 
(21) Administrator of the Small Business Ad-
ministration. 
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(22) Postmaster General. 
(23) Each impacted County Board of Super-
visors. 
(24) Each impacted Tribal legislature. 
(25) Each impacted Tribal executive. 
(26) Each impacted town or city. 
(27) Each local union representing workers the 
electric generating facility or mine. 
(28) The Governor of the State in which the 
electric generating facility or mine is located. 
(b) CHAIR.—The Secretary, or the Secretary’s des-
ignee, shall chair the Committee. 
(c) VICE CHAIRS.—The Secretaries of Labor and 
Commerce shall serve as Vice Chairmen of the Committee. 
The Vice Chairmen shall co-chair the Committee in the 
absence of both the Chairman and the Chairman’s des-
ignee and may also preside over meetings of designated 
representatives of the concerned executive agencies. 
(d) DUTIES.—The Committee shall— 
(1) advise, assist, and support the Significantly 
Impacted Federal Community Economic Adjustment 
Program; 
(2) develop procedures to ensure that substan-
tially and seriously affected communities, businesses, 
and workers and representatives of thereof are noti-
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fied of available Federal economic adjustment pro-
grams; and 
(3) report annually to the President and Con-
gress on the work of the Economic Adjustment Com-
mittee during the preceding fiscal year. 
SEC. 404. OFFICE OF ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT OF THE DE-
PARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established in 
the Department of the Interior the Office of Economic Ad-
justment. 
(b) DUTIES.—The head of the Office of Economic 
Adjustment established by subsection (a) shall— 
(1) provide all necessary policy and administra-
tive support to the Committee; and 
(2) coordinate the Significantly Impacted Fed-
eral Community Economic Adjustment Program es-
tablished pursuant to this title. 
SEC. 405. RESPONSIBILITIES OF EXECUTIVE AGENCIES. 
(a) AGENCY REPRESENTATIVES.—The head of each 
agency represented on the Committee shall designate an 
agency representative to— 
(1) serve as a liaison with the Secretary’s eco-
nomic adjustment staff; 
(2) coordinate agency support and participation 
in economic adjustment assistance projects; and 
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(3) assist in resolving impacts on substantially 
and seriously affected communities, businesses, and 
workers related to the closure of an electric gener-
ating facility, owned in part by the Department, or 
a coal mine associated with such a facility. 
(b) AGENCY SUPPORT.—All Federal executive agen-
cies shall support, to the extent permitted by law, the eco-
nomic adjustment assistance activities of the Secretary 
under this title. Such support may include the following: 
(1) Use and application of personnel, technical 
expertise, legal authorities, and available financial 
resources. 
(2) Providing a coordinated Federal response to 
the needs of substantially and seriously affected 
communities, businesses, and workers related to the 
closure of an electric generating facility an electric 
generating facility, owned in part by the Depart-
ment, or a coal mine associated with such a facility. 
(3) Giving priority consideration to requests 
from substantially and seriously affected commu-
nities, businesses, and workers for Federal technical 
assistance, financial resources, excess or surplus 
property, or other requirements, that are part of a 
comprehensive plan used by the Committee. 
Æ 
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