that owns the land on which the project will be a 
carried out. 
‘‘(2) NON-FEDERAL CONTRIBUTIONS.—A Fed-
eral agency carrying out a project described in sub-
section (c) may accept contributions of funds from 
non-Federal entities to carry out that project. 
‘‘(3) PROJECTS WITHIN THE COMPREHENSIVE 
MISSISSIPPI RIVER CORRIDOR RESTORATION PLAN.— 
The Program Office shall identify and carry-out 
projects that implement and satisfy the aims of the 
Plan in such a manner that involves States, local 
governments, institutions of higher learning, non- 
profit organizations, and private sector stakeholders 
through the holding of annual or biannual (two in-
stances a year) regional conferences. These con-
ferences may be held in conjunction with other ger-
mane gatherings within the region such as those 
conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the 
UMRBA, or the MRCTI. 
‘‘(A) During these conferences, the Pro-
gram Office shall share planned project designs 
and priority geographic sites of repetitive loss 
where a severe compelling human need exists. 
The Program Office shall elicit from partici-
pants official testimony on how to structure, 
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prioritize, and implement projects in an effi-
cient and timely manner. 
‘‘(B) The Program Office shall begin at 
least one new project a year for the first five 
years from the publishing of the Comprehensive 
Mississippi River Restoration Plan that works 
to implement the Plan as approved by the Com-
mittee. 
‘‘(4) PROJECTS OUTSIDE THE COMPREHENSIVE 
MISSISSIPPI RIVER CORRIDOR RESTORATION PLAN.— 
‘‘(A) Congress recognizes there will be an 
on-going need for projects that cannot be 
planned for, may arise out of emergency cir-
cumstances or developments, and/or may meet 
compelling needs congruent to this Act, but are 
best carried-out under the auspices of other or-
gans of government or the private sector in part 
or entirely. 
‘‘(B) GRANTS.—In providing grants under 
this subsection, the Program Office shall con-
duct a transparent and competitive regional so-
licitation process to select eligible projects to re-
ceive grants under this subsection. This Act 
shall provide for extra-provisional projects 
through the following schedule of grants to 
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States, local governments and non-profit orga-
nizations whom have a State or local govern-
ment partner— 
‘‘(i) INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIR, RESIL-
IENCE AND ADAPTATION GRANT.—Commu-
nities who have vital built and/or natural 
infrastructure assets that require repair, 
restoration, and/or replacement due to re-
petitive loss events may apply to the Pro-
gram Office for this grant. 
‘‘(I) PURPOSE.—The purpose of 
the grant is to provide funds for resil-
ience improvements through— 
‘‘(aa) competitive planning 
grants to enable communities to 
assess vulnerabilities to current 
and future weather events and 
natural disasters and changing 
conditions, 
including 
drought, 
and plan infrastructure improve-
ments and emergency response 
strategies 
to 
address 
those 
vulnerabilities so that infrastruc-
ture can be built back more resil-
ient and sustainable; 
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‘‘(bb) competitive resilience 
improvement grants to protect 
infrastructure assets by making 
the assets more resilient to cur-
rent and future weather events 
and natural disasters, such as se-
vere storms, flooding, drought, 
levee and dam failures, wildfire, 
extreme weather, including ex-
treme temperature, and earth-
quakes; 
‘‘(cc) natural infrastructure 
including 
regenerative 
agricul-
tural lands designed to provide 
co-benefits such as natural flood 
storage that protect and enhance 
built assets while improving eco-
system conditions, including cul-
verts that ensure adequate flows 
in rivers and estuarine systems; 
‘‘(dd) using build-back-bet-
ter practices, this grant may used 
toward the acquisition of better 
or best technology as well as the 
installation and deployment of 
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new infrastructure assets to im-
prove older ones or their entire 
systems. This subsection also al-
lows for the acquisition of prop-
erty to expand natural infrastruc-
ture assets allowing them to per-
form at higher capacity providing 
protection for more severe events 
over a larger service area. Expan-
sion of natural infrastructure for 
the purposes of this subsection 
may include the removal outdated 
built infrastructure such as dams 
that pose risk; and 
‘‘(ee) this grant is also de-
signed to address both minority 
and disadvantaged community in-
clusion, access, and equity. Appli-
cants 
under 
this 
subsection 
should provide structural guaran-
tees that minority communities 
will be made part of the decision 
process 
through 
which 
grant 
funds are obligated and expended 
toward infrastructure. 
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‘‘(II) ELIGIBILITY.—Project area 
must reside within a State or federally 
designated disaster area within the 
last 5 years of the time of application; 
Infrastructure asset or assets must 
have sustained a minimum of 30 per-
cent loss from at least one of the dis-
aster events stipulated in this sub-
section; in the event that an infra-
structure system is the subject of the 
application than this subsection ap-
plies to the entire system in question. 
‘‘(III) 
DISTRIBUTION.—Grant 
awards under subsection (e)(4)(B)(i) 
are direct allocations to States or local 
governments. Non-profit organizations 
may apply for grants under this sub-
section if their application includes a 
State or local government partner. All 
funds will be distributed directly to 
State or local governments who may 
then suballocate to non-profit part-
ners. Sixty percent of all grants under 
this subsection must be allocated di-
rectly to local governments. 
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‘‘(IV) COST
SHARE.—The Fed-
eral share of the cost of a project car-
ried out using funds made available 
under paragraph (i) shall not exceed 
80 percent of the total project cost. A 
locality may use Federal funds other 
than Federal funds made available 
under this subsection to meet the non- 
Federal cost share requirement for a 
project under this subsection. 
‘‘(ii) SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVEL-
OPMENT
GRANT.—Communities and re-
gions that have sustained significant repet-
itive loss over the past ten years from the 
date of application for this grant may seek 
relief through the Program Office pursuant 
to this subsection. 
‘‘(I) PURPOSE.—The purpose of 
the grant is to provide funds for eco-
nomic revitalization through— 
‘‘(aa) competitive economic 
planning grants to enable com-
munities and regions to shift 
and/or expand their economies 
from environmentally costly in-
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dustrial to clean manufacturing, 
service, global commodity supply 
chain movement and/or tourism 
as well as other low-impact eco-
nomic development; and 
‘‘(bb) competitive economic 
improvement grants that include 
strategies to make a region’s 
economies more resilient and 
adaptive to increased and more 
persistent disaster events as well 
as shocks due to degradation of 
essential environmental services; 
‘‘(cc) 
the 
off-loading 
of 
major infrastructure assets from 
local governments to special serv-
ice vehicles or private sector enti-
ties in such a way that ensures 
continued environmental health, 
natural resource protection, and 
ecological health of the region; 
‘‘(II) ELIGIBILITY.—Applying lo-
cality must have sustained an eco-
nomic loss of at least 30 percent over 
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the last ten years at the time of appli-
cation to this grant. 
‘‘(III) 
DISTRIBUTION.—Grant 
awards under subsection (e)(4)(B)(i) 
are direct allocations to States or local 
governments. Non-profit organizations 
may apply for grants under this sub-
section if their application includes a 
State or local government partner. All 
funds will be distributed directly to 
State or local governments who may 
then suballocate to non-profit part-
ners. All grants under this subsection 
must be allocated directly to local gov-
ernments. 
‘‘(IV) COST
SHARE.—The Fed-
eral share of the cost of a project car-
ried out using funds made available 
under paragraph (ii) shall not exceed 
50 percent of the total project cost. A 
locality may use Federal funds other 
than Federal funds made available 
under this subsection to meet the non- 
Federal cost share requirement for a 
project under this subsection. 
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‘‘(V) STRUCTURE.—A community 
seeking relief under this subsection 
must demonstrate a restructuring of 
their economy through a pivot from a 
‘funding’ model to a ‘financing’ model 
by providing the following structure to 
their application. 
‘‘(aa) 
Communities 
shall 
provide a strategic financing plan 
for their economy assessing their 
development needs demonstrating 
allocation of capital prioritized to 
fit those needs. 
‘‘(bb) Localities must strate-
gically mobilize private capital by 
aligning the allocation processes 
to their development goals and 
gaps of their current economy in 
many sectors including, but not 
limited to infrastructure, health, 
education, and energy; this re-
quires a critical collaboration ef-
fort. 
‘‘(cc) 
Local 
governments 
must demonstrate a priority for 
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minority inclusion, access, and 
equity in applying for funds 
made available under subsection 
(e)(4)(B)(ii) and provide struc-
tural guarantees that minority 
communities will be made part of 
the 
decision 
process 
through 
grant funds are obligated and ex-
pended. 
‘‘(iii) STATE
SEDIMENTATION, 
ER-
RAND NUTRIENT & REGENERATIVE AGRI-
CULTURE
ASSISTANCE
GRANT 
(SSENRAAG).—States that wish to pursue 
their nutrient reduction strategies more 
aggressively and have determined a com-
pelling need to do so in compliment to and 
beyond what is called for through the Com-
prehensive Mississippi River Restoration 
Plan may apply to the Program Office for 
assistance. 
‘‘(I) PURPOSE.—The purpose of 
the grant is to provide funds for 
States to achieve their nutrient reduc-
tion strategies through a truncated 
timeline with greater activity and ur-
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gency due to an emergency event such 
as a disaster, crisis, or unique oppor-
tunity/discovery through— 
‘‘(aa) competitive planning 
grants to enable States to achieve 
their enacted goals and timelines 
for reductions in phosphorus and 
nitrogen at a more impactful 
level and at a faster pace; 
‘‘(bb) 
competitive 
water 
quality improvement grants to 
protect the States’ fresh water 
resources that flow into the Mis-
sissippi River; 
‘‘(cc) innovative approach 
grants that implement new ways 
of achieving nutrient reduction 
goals such as, but not limited to 
nutrient trading regimes, estab-
lishment of investment funds to 
assist in the capitalization of best 
technology acquisition for water 
treatment facilities, deployment 
of 
on-field 
regenerative 
agri-
culture practices, and/or the cap-
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