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(1) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle E of title IX of the 
Energy Policy Act of 2005 is further amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 959C. UNIVERSITY ZERO-EMISSION ENERGY LEADER-
SHIP PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary of Energy 
shall establish a program, to be known as the ‘University 
Zero-Emission Energy Leadership Program’. 
‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts made available to 
carry out the University Zero-Emission Energy Leader-
ship Program— 
‘‘(1) shall be used to provide financial assist-
ance for scholarships, fellowships, and research and 
development projects at institutions of higher edu-
cation in areas relevant to departmental missions in 
research, development, demonstration, and deploy-
ment activities for zero-emission technologies; 
‘‘(2) may be used to provide financial assistance 
to businesses to offset the costs of a partnership 
with, or investments in, institutions of higher edu-
cation in areas relevant to departmental missions in 
research, development, demonstration, and deploy-
ment activities for zero-emission technologies; and 
‘‘(3) may be used to provide financial assistance 
for a scholarship, fellowship, or multiyear research 
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and development project that does not align directly 
with a departmental mission, if the activity for 
which assistance is provided promotes a zero-emis-
sion energy transition.’’. 
(2) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con-
tents for the Energy Policy Act of 2005 is further 
amended by adding after the item relating to section 
959B the following: 
‘‘Sec. 959C. University Zero-Emission Energy Leadership Program.’’. 
(b) REPEAL.—The Energy and Water Development 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009 is amend-
ed by striking section 313. 
SEC. 525. CLIMATE RESILIENCY CORPS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ENERGY TRANSITION WORKERS.—The term 
‘‘energy transition workers’’ means workers, includ-
ing workers employed by contractors or subcontrac-
tors, terminated, laid off from employment, or whose 
work-hours have been reduced, on or after the date 
of enactment of this Act, from a coal-related facility, 
coal-related industry, or other energy-related entity. 
(2) MEMBERS OF THE RESERVE COMPONENTS 
OF THE ARMED FORCES.—The term ‘‘members of 
the reserve components of the Armed Forces’’ means 
members of the— 
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(A) Army National Guard of the United 
States; 
(B) Army Reserve; 
(C) Navy Reserve; 
(D) Marine Corps Reserve; 
(E) Air National Guard of the United 
States; 
(F) Air Force Reserve; and 
(G) Coast Guard Reserve. 
(3) 
UNDEREMPLOYED.—The 
term 
‘‘under-
employed’’ means individuals who are employed at 
less than full-time because they are unable to obtain 
full time employment or who are employed at jobs 
inadequate to their training or economic needs. 
(4) VETERANS OF THE ARMED FORCES.—The 
term ‘‘veterans of the Armed Forces’’ means a per-
son who served in the active military, naval, or air 
service and who was discharged or released under 
conditions other than dishonorable. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT.—In order to relieve distress 
and unemployment in the United States and to provide 
for the restoration of depleted natural resources in the 
United States and the advancement of an orderly program 
of useful public works, the President shall establish and 
operate a Climate Resiliency Corps to employ residents of 
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the United States, who are unemployed or underemployed, 
in the construction, maintenance, and carrying out of 
works of a public nature in connection with, but not lim-
ited to— 
(1) coastal restoration, including— 
(A) adaptive management; 
(B) exposed element relocation, elevation, 
or removal; 
(C) flood and storm surge barrier; 
(D) sea dikes; 
(E) seawall or revetment; 
(F) spatial planning and integrated coastal 
zone management planning; 
(G) temporary and demountable flood de-
fenses; 
(H) rainwater harvesting; 
(I) sustainable urban drainage systems; 
and 
(J) wet and dry proofing; 
(2) resilient infrastructure, including— 
(A) deployment and management of resil-
ient transportation and other infrastructure 
systems; 
(B) sustainable urban underground struc-
tures development; and 
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(C) earthquake resiliency and interaction 
of above- and below-ground infrastructure; 
(3) natural solutions, including— 
(A) restoration of wetlands, mangroves, 
marshes, seagrasses, and oyster reefs, and the 
installation of living shorelines; 
(B) green roofs; 
(C) rain gardens; 
(D) bioswales; 
(E) urban tree canopies; and 
(F) permeable pavements; and 
(4) other activities that are deemed necessary 
by the President, with guidance from the Secretary 
of Energy, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Sec-
retary of the Interior, the Administrator of the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency, or other relevant 
agency leaders. 
(c) ROLE OF FEDERAL AGENCIES.—To operate the 
Climate Resiliency Corps, the President may utilize exist-
ing Federal departments and agencies, including the De-
partment of Labor, the Department of Defense, the Na-
tional Guard Bureau, the Department of the Interior, the 
Department of Agriculture, the Army Corps of Engineers, 
the Department of Transportation, the Department of En-
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ergy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Federal 
governmental corporations. 
(d) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—(1) For the purpose of 
carrying out this section, the President may enter into 
such contracts or agreements with States as may be nec-
essary, including provisions for utilization of existing State 
administrative agencies. 
(2) States entering into such contracts or agreements 
shall provide written assurances to the President that all 
laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or sub-
contractors in the performance of construction work fi-
nanced in whole or in part with assistance under this sec-
tion shall be paid wages at rates not less than those pre-
vailing on similar work in the locality as determined by 
the Secretary of Labor in accordance with subchapter IV 
of chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code. 
(e) ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY.—The Presi-
dent, or the head of any department or agency authorized 
by the President to construct any project or to carry on 
any public works under this Act, may acquire real prop-
erty for such project or public work by purchase, donation, 
condemnation, or otherwise. 
(f) ADMINISTRATION.— 
(1) EMPLOYMENT PREFERENCE.—If the Presi-
dent determines that amounts appropriated to carry 
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out a Climate Resiliency Corps under this Act for a 
fiscal year will be insufficient to employ all of the 
citizens of the United States described in section (b) 
who are seeking or likely to seek employment in the 
Climate Resiliency Corps and continue the employ-
ment of current employees who desire to remain in 
the Climate Resiliency Corps, the President shall 
give priority to the hiring of additional persons in 
the Climate Resiliency Corps to— 
(A) energy transition workers; 
(B) unemployed veterans of the Armed 
Forces and unemployed members of the reserve 
components of the Armed Forces; 
(C) unemployed citizens who have ex-
hausted their entitlement to unemployment 
compensation; 
(D) unemployed citizens, who immediately 
before employment in the Climate Resiliency 
Corps, are eligible for unemployment compensa-
tion payable under any State law or Federal 
unemployment compensation law, including any 
additional compensation or extended compensa-
tion under such laws; and 
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(E) other citizens from minority groups, 
including, religious and ethnic minorities, 
women, and individuals with disabilities. 
(2) HOUSING AND CARE OF EMPLOYEES.—The 
President may provide housing for persons employed 
in the Climate Resiliency Corps and furnish them 
with such subsistence, clothing, medical attendance 
and hospitalization, and cash allowance, as may be 
necessary, during the period they are so employed. 
(3) TRANSPORTATION.—The President may 
provide for the transportation of persons employed 
in the Climate Resiliency Corps to and from the 
places of employment. 
(4) NON-DISCRIMINATION.—In employing citi-
zens for the Climate Resiliency Corps, no discrimina-
tion shall occur, in accordance with Federal employ-
ment law, except that no individual under conviction 
for crime and serving sentence therefore shall be em-
ployed under the provisions of this Act. 
(g) USE OF UNOBLIGATED FUNDS APPROPRIATED 
FOR PUBLIC WORKS.— 
(1) USE OF EXISTING FUNDS.—The President 
may use any moneys previously appropriated for 
public works and unobligated as of the date of the 
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enactment of this Act to establish and operate a Cli-
mate Resiliency Corps under this section. 
(2) USE
TO
RELIEVE
UNEMPLOYMENT.—Not 
less than 80 percent of the funds utilized pursuant 
to this subsection must be used to provide for the 
employment of individuals under this section. 
(3) EXCEPTIONS.—Paragraph (1) shall not 
apply to— 
(A) unobligated moneys appropriated for 
public works on which actual construction has 
been commenced as of the date of the enact-
ment of this Act or may be commenced within 
90 days after that date; and 
(B) maintenance funds for river and har-
bor improvements already allocated as of the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
(h) TERMINATION.—The authority of the President 
to establish and operate a Climate Resilience Corps under 
this section expires on September 30, 2035. 
SEC. 526. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this subtitle such sums as may be necessary for each of 
fiscal years 2021 through 2035. 
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