unteer, and combination fire departments through 
the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Re-
sponse grant program (SAFER) and in accordance 
with the procedures set forth in section 34 of the 
Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974, 
except that grants awarded pursuant to this sub-
section shall be for a 3-year period and fire depart-
ments shall not be required to contribute non-Fed-
eral funds for such period. Any fire department 
seeking a grant under this subsection shall commit 
to retaining for at least 1 year beyond the termi-
nation of the grant any firefighters hired with funds 
provided pursuant to this subsection. 
(2) USE OF FUNDS.—A fire department receiv-
ing a grant pursuant to this subsection may use 
such funds only for the following purposes: 
(A) To hire new firefighters, which in-
cludes filling existing vacancies that are no 
longer funded in department budgets. 
(B) To rehire firefighters who have been 
laid-off during the year prior to the date of en-
actment of this Act as a result of reduced de-
partment budgets. 
(C) To continue to employ firefighters who 
are scheduled to be laid-off on a future date as 
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a result of reduced department budgets. Such 
departments may not pay a firefighter with 
funds provided under this subsection until the 
date of that firefighter’s scheduled lay-off. 
(D) To prevent furloughs that are sched-
uled as a result of reduced department budgets. 
(3) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—No fund-
ing under this subsection can be used to layoff, fur-
lough, terminate, or reduce the working hours of any 
existing employee. 
(4) FEDERAL
FUNDS
TO
SUPPLEMENT, NOT 
SUPPLANT, NON-FEDERAL FUNDS.—A fire depart-
ment shall use Federal funds received under this 
subsection only to supplement the funds that would, 
in the absence of such Federal funds, be made avail-
able from non-Federal sources to hire new fire-
fighters, and not to supplant such funds. 
(d) DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.— 
(1) PUBLIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOP-
MENT
GRANTS.—From amounts made available 
under section 9(4), the Secretary of Commerce shall 
award grants to States, cities or other political sub-
divisions of a State or a consortium of political sub-
divisions, or Indian tribes based on the procedures 
and criteria set forth in section 201 of the Public 
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Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 (42 
U.S.C. 3141) to assist such States, cities or other 
political subdivisions of a State, or Indian tribes in 
maintaining the basic services of government by pre-
venting lay-offs and assisting in the hiring of essen-
tial government employees such as sanitation work-
ers, administration workers, public health and emer-
gency service providers, corrections, probation, and 
parole officers, and social workers. 
(2) USE OF FUNDS.—A State, city, or Indian 
tribe receiving an allocation under paragraph (1) 
may use such funds only for the following purposes: 
(A) To hire new employees, which includes 
filling existing vacancies that are no longer 
funded in the budgets of the State, city, or In-
dian tribe. 
(B) To rehire employees who have been 
laid-off during the year prior to the date of en-
actment of this Act as a result of reduced budg-
ets of the State, city, or Indian tribe. 
(C) To continue to employ employees who 
are scheduled to be laid-off on a future date as 
a result of reduced budgets of the State, city, 
or Indian tribe. The State, city, or Indian tribe 
may not pay an employee with funds provided 
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under this subsection until the date of that em-
ployee’s scheduled lay-off. 
(D) To prevent furloughs that are sched-
uled as a result reduced budgets of the State, 
city, or Indian tribe. 
(3) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—No funding under this 
subsection can be used to layoff, furlough, ter-
minate, or reduce the working hours of any ex-
isting employee. 
(B) CERTAIN
WORKERS
INELIGIBLE.— 
Consistent with subsection (a), (b), and (c), 
grants made under this subsection may not be 
used to hire or pay the salary or wages of an 
employee who is a teacher, police officer, or 
firefighter. 
(4) FEDERAL
FUNDS
TO
SUPPLEMENT, NOT 
SUPPLANT, NON-FEDERAL FUNDS.—A fire depart-
ment shall use Federal funds received under this 
subsection only to supplement the funds that would, 
in the absence of such Federal funds, be made avail-
able from non-Federal sources to hire new fire-
fighters, and not to supplant such funds. 
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SEC. 3. NEW ECONOMY GRANT PROGRAM. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 
Department of Labor a New Economy Grant Program 
through which the Secretary of Labor is authorized to pro-
vide grants for the creation of new jobs on specific public 
works projects carried out by State or local governments, 
and community-based public interest projects carried out 
by nonprofit organizations. 
(b) SPECIFIC PROJECT GRANTS.—From the amounts 
made available under section 9(5)— 
(1) set aside an amount for each State based on 
the population of each State and the relative unem-
ployment rate in each such State; and 
(2) from such amounts set aside for each State 
under paragraph (1), award grants directly to eligi-
ble entities described in subsection (c) in each such 
State on the basis of applications submitted by such 
entities for specific public works projects outlined in 
such applications. 
(c) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—Entities eligible for a di-
rect grant under this section include the following: 
(1) STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.—Units 
of State or local governments that demonstrate in 
the application under subsection (b) an ability to 
promptly hire new employees for work on specific 
public works projects carried out by such units of 
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(2) the date on which the project shall be ready 
to commence and the expected duration of the 
project; and 
(3) the number of new individuals that such 
project will employ and the duration of such employ-
ment. 
(e) NONDISCRIMINATION
AND WORKPLACE SAFE-
TY.—In hiring employees and carrying out projects funded 
under this section, an eligible entity receiving a grant 
under this section shall comply with all applicable Federal, 
State, and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and 
workplace safety. 
SEC. 4. EMPLOYMENT PROJECTS BY DEPARTMENTS OF IN-
TERIOR AND AGRICULTURE. 
(a) NATIONAL PARKS PROJECTS.—From amounts 
made available under section 9(6), the Secretary of the 
Interior shall fund specific public works projects in na-
tional parks. Such projects must be ready to commence 
work no later than 2 months after being approved by the 
Secretary of the Interior and require the contract hiring 
of new employees for a period of not less than 6 months. 
(b) NATIONAL FOREST SERVICE PROJECTS.—From 
amounts made available under section 9(7), the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall fund specific public works projects 
through the National Forest Service. Such projects must 
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be ready to commence work no later than 2 months after 
being approved by the Secretary of the Interior and re-
quire the contract hiring of new employees for a period 
of not less than 6 months. 
SEC. 5. PROJECTS ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING. 
Only projects for which new employees are to be hired 
shall be eligible for funding under sections 3 and 4 of this 
Act. The Secretary of Labor shall determine the types 
public works and community-based public interest projects 
that shall be eligible for grants under this Act. 
SEC. 6. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR EMPLOYMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—To be employed in a position 
funded under section 3 or 4 of this Act, an individual— 
(1) must be otherwise unemployed; 
(2) must be a citizen or legal permanent resi-
dent of the United States; 
(3) must be physically capable of performing 
the work required by the specific project, subject to 
any reasonable accommodations that may be made 
for such individual in accordance with the Americans 
with Disabilities Act; 
(4) must be at least 18 years of age; and 
(5) may not be enrolled as a full-time student 
in any institution of higher education, vocational or 
job training school or program and may not pre-
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maturely terminate such enrollment to obtain em-
ployment under this Act. 
(b) NO DISPLACEMENT OF EXISTING EMPLOYEES OR 
POSITIONS OF PERMANENT EMPLOYMENT.—Employees 
whose positions are funded under this Act may not dis-
place other employees whose positions are not funded 
under this Act. An eligible entity receiving a grant under 
this Act may not hire an employee or employees with funds 
under this Act for any position which the eligible entity 
would otherwise hire a permanent employee. 
(c) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—No funds pro-
vided under this Act may be used to compensate any indi-
vidual employed by an eligible entity prior to that entity 
receiving a grant under this Act. Funds made available 
under this Act may only be used to pay wages of employ-
ees hired for the specific project for which the grant was 
awarded. 
(d) MAXIMUM PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT.—Employ-
ment in a position funded under section 3 or 4 of this 
Act shall be for a maximum period of 1 year. 
(e) WAGE.—Individuals employed on projects funded 
directly by or assisted in whole or in part by and through 
the Federal Government pursuant to section 3 or 4 of this 
Act shall be paid wages at rates not less than those pre-
vailing on projects of a character similar in the locality 
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as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance 
with subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States 
Code (commonly referred to as the Davis-Bacon Act). 
(f) NOT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.—Individuals em-
ployed in positions funded under any grant or allocation 
made under this Act shall not be considered employees of 
the Federal government. 
SEC. 7. REPORTING REQUIREMENT. 
Any entity receiving funding under section 3 of this 
Act, shall transmit to the Secretary a report at the conclu-
sion of the project that was the basis of such funding. 
The report shall include a description of the number of 
individuals hired to work on the project, the length of their 
employment and assessment of the success of the project 
in light of the anticipated outcome and outlines the bene-
fits to the community from the project. 
SEC. 8. DEFINITIONS. 
As used in this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘community-based nonprofit orga-
nization’’ means an organization exempt from tax-
ation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code (26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3)) but does not in-
clude an organization that— 
(A) is a religious corporation, association, 
educational institution, or society; or 
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(B) is engaged in political advocacy on be-
half of any political issue, candidate, or party; 
and 
(2) the term ‘‘State’’ includes the several 
States, the District of Columbia, the territories of 
the United States, and Indian Tribes and tribal gov-
ernments. 
SEC. 9. FUNDING FROM THE EMERGENCY ECONOMIC STA-
BILIZATION ACT. 
Of funds made available to the Secretary of the 
Treasury under title I of the Emergency Economic Sta-
bilization Act of 2008 (12 U.S.C. 5211 et seq.) that re-
main unobligated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall— 
(1) make available to the Secretary of Edu-
cation $14,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 
through 2012 for allocations to be made under sec-
tion 2(a); 
(2) make available to the Attorney General 
$2,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 
through 2012 for allocations to be made under sec-
tion 2(b); 
(3) make available to the Secretary of Home-
land Security $2,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2010 through 2012 for allocations to be made under 
section 2(c); 
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(4) make available to the Secretary of Com-
merce $2,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 
through 2012 for allocations to be made under sec-
tion 2(d); 
(5) make available to the Secretary of Labor 
$31,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 
through 2012 for grants to be awarded under sec-
tion 3; 
(6) make available to the Secretary of the Inte-
rior $4,500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 
through 2012 for grants to be awarded under sec-
tion 4(a); and 
(7) make available to the Secretary of Agri-
culture $4,500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 
through 2012 for grants to be awarded under sec-
tion 4(b). 
SEC. 10. EXPEDITIED ADMINISTRATION. 
Each Secretary or Department to which funds are 
made available under section 9 shall expedite the adminis-
tration and carrying out of the programs authorized for 
that respective Department in this Act in order that funds 
provided by this Act are allocated or awarded to eligible 
entities as soon as possible after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
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