‘‘(C) take such other action as may be pro-
vided by law. 
‘‘(3) ACTION OF ATTORNEY GENERAL.—When a 
matter is referred to the Attorney General pursuant 
to paragraph (2), or whenever the Attorney General 
has reason to believe that the State is engaged in a 
pattern or practice of discrimination in violation of 
the provisions of this subsection, the Attorney Gen-
eral may bring a civil action in any appropriate 
United States district court for such relief as may 
be appropriate, including injunctive relief. 
‘‘SEC. 688. CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES AND REFERRALS. 
‘‘During each fiscal year for which an eligible entity 
receives a subgrant under section 679(a), such entity 
shall— 
‘‘(1) inform custodial parents in single-parent 
families that participate in programs, projects, or 
services carried out or provided under this subtitle 
about the availability of child support services; and 
‘‘(2) refer eligible parents to the child support 
offices of State and local governments. 
‘‘SEC. 689. REGULATIONS. 
‘‘(a) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall promulgate 
regulations implementing this subtitle, by administrative 
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hearing open to the public, including regulations regard-
ing— 
‘‘(1) State plans and community action plans, 
including the form and information required for 
State plans submitted to the Secretary and commu-
nity action plans submitted to States; 
‘‘(2) State monitoring of eligible entities; and 
‘‘(3) reports to the Secretary described in sec-
tion 686. 
‘‘(b) GUIDANCE.— 
‘‘(1) PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT.—The Sec-
retary shall issue guidance regarding State and local 
performance measurement systems. Guidance may 
include one or more model performance measure-
ment systems, facilitated by the Secretary, that 
States and eligible entities may use to measure their 
performance in carrying out the requirements of this 
subtitle and in achieving the goals of their commu-
nity action plans. 
‘‘(2) COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF POVERTY 
CONDITIONS.—The Secretary shall provide guidance 
(including models) for comprehensive community 
needs assessments described in section 678(e)(1). 
The guidance shall include methods for preparing an 
analysis of all poverty conditions affecting a commu-
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nity and of local and regional assets for alleviating 
such conditions. 
‘‘SEC. 690. DISCRETIONARY COMMUNITY PROGRAMS. 
‘‘(a) GRANTS, CONTRACTS, ARRANGEMENTS, LOANS, 
AND GUARANTEES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall, from 
funds appropriated under section 691(b), make 
grants, loans, or guarantees to States and public 
agencies and private, nonprofit organizations, or 
enter into contracts or jointly financed cooperative 
arrangements with States and public agencies and 
private, nonprofit organizations (and for-profit orga-
nizations, to the extent specified in paragraph 
(2)(E)) for each of the objectives described in para-
graphs (2) through (4). 
‘‘(2) COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.— 
‘‘(A) ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
ACTIVI-
TIES.—The Secretary shall make grants de-
scribed in paragraph (1) on a competitive basis 
to private, nonprofit organizations that are 
community development corporations to provide 
technical and financial assistance for economic 
development activities designed to address the 
economic needs of low-income individuals and 
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families by creating employment and business 
development opportunities. 
‘‘(B) 
CONSULTATION.—The 
Secretary 
shall exercise the authority provided under sub-
paragraph (A) after consultation with other rel-
evant Federal officials. 
‘‘(C) GOVERNING BOARDS.—For a commu-
nity development corporation to receive funds to 
carry out this paragraph, the corporation shall 
be governed by a board that shall— 
‘‘(i) consist of residents of the com-
munity and business and civic leaders; and 
‘‘(ii) have as a principal purpose plan-
ning, developing, or managing low-income 
housing 
or 
community 
development 
projects. 
‘‘(D) 
GEOGRAPHIC
DISTRIBUTION.—In 
making grants to carry out this paragraph, the 
Secretary shall take into consideration the geo-
graphic distribution of funding among States 
and the relative proportion of funding among 
rural and urban areas. 
‘‘(E) RESERVATION.—Of the amounts 
made available to carry out this paragraph, the 
Secretary may reserve not more than 1 percent 
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for each fiscal year to make grants to private, 
nonprofit organizations or to enter into con-
tracts with private, nonprofit, or for-profit orga-
nizations to provide technical assistance to aid 
community development corporations in devel-
oping or implementing activities funded to carry 
out this paragraph and to evaluate activities 
funded to carry out this paragraph. 
‘‘(3) RURAL
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
AC-
TIVITIES.—The Secretary shall provide the assist-
ance described in paragraph (1) for rural community 
development activities, which shall include pro-
viding— 
‘‘(A) grants to private, nonprofit corpora-
tions to enable the corporations to provide as-
sistance concerning home repair to rural low-in-
come families and concerning planning and de-
veloping low-income rural rental housing units; 
and 
‘‘(B) grants to multistate, regional, pri-
vate, nonprofit organizations to enable the orga-
nizations to provide training and technical as-
sistance to small, rural communities concerning 
meeting their community facility needs. 
‘‘(4) BROADBAND NAVIGATOR PROJECTS.— 
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‘‘(A) NAVIGATOR PROJECT AUTHORITY.— 
The Secretary is authorized to provide assist-
ance described in paragraph (1) for broadband 
navigator projects consistent with the purposes 
of this Act to address the educational and eco-
nomic needs of low-income individuals and com-
munities. 
‘‘(B) NAVIGATOR GRANTS.—The Secretary 
shall make grants consistent with subparagraph 
(A) to community action agencies (as defined in 
section 673(2)) to enable them to provide as-
sistance through trained navigators to low-in-
come individuals and communities to help facili-
tate access to affordable high-speed broadband 
service, internet-enabled devices, digital literacy 
training, technical support and other services to 
meet the broadband and digital needs of such 
individuals and communities. 
‘‘(C) PRIORITY.—Priority in the awarding 
of such grants under paragraph (4) shall be 
given to community action agencies serving un-
derserved areas with the most significant unmet 
broadband and digital needs. 
‘‘(b) EVALUATION.—The Secretary shall require all 
activities receiving assistance under this section to be eval-
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(2) may require that certain regulations, proce-
dures, and reporting requirements be adopted before 
other regulations, procedures, or reporting require-
ments. 
SEC. 4. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 
Section 306(a)(6)(C)(ii) of the Older Americans Act 
of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3026(a)(6)(C)(ii)) is amended by in-
serting ‘‘or subsequent years’’ after ‘‘fiscal year 1982’’ 
and by striking ‘‘section 676B of the Community Services 
Block Grant Act’’ and inserting ‘‘section 680(c) of the 
Community Services Block Grant Act’’. 
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