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(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (a) shall apply
with respect to all civil actions that commence on or after
the date of enactment of this Act.
SEC. 528. FUNDS FOR TEACH FOR AMERICA.—Of the
funds provided in this Act for the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, under the heading ‘‘SCIENCE, AERO-
NAUTICS, AND EXPLORATION’’, $3,000,000 may be for Teach
for America for science, technology, engineering, and mathe-
matics related activities.
SEC. 529. Not later than 30 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Departments, agencies, and com-
missions funded under this Act, shall establish and main-
tain on the homepages of their Internet websites—
(1) a direct link to the Internet websites of their
Offices of Inspectors General; and
(2) a mechanism on the Offices of Inspectors
General website by which individuals may anony-
mously report cases of waste, fraud, or abuse with re-
spect to those Departments, agencies, and commis-
sions.
SEC. 530. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act may be used to enter into a
contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award
a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective con-
tractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency award-
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ing the contract or grant that, to the best of its knowledge
and belief, the contractor or grantee has filed all Federal
tax returns required during the three years preceding the
certification, has not been convicted of a criminal offense
under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and has not, more
than 90 days prior to certification, been notified of any
unpaid Federal tax assessment for which the liability re-
mains unsatisfied, unless the assessment is the subject of
an installment agreement or offer in compromise that has
been approved by the Internal Revenue Service and is not
in default, or the assessment is the subject of a non-frivolous
administrative or judicial proceeding.
SEC. 531. DIGITAL AND WIRELESS NETWORKS FOR
HIGHER
EDUCATION
PILOT
PROGRAM. 
(a) 
SHORT
TITLE.—This section may be cited as the ‘‘ED 1.0 Act’’.
(b) APPROPRIATIONS.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Act, from the amount appropriated under
title I under the heading ‘‘Technology Opportunities Pro-
gram’’, $4,500,000 may be available for the pilot program
under this section, to remain available until expended.
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) 
ADMINISTRATOR.—The 
term 
‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the National Tele-
communications and Information Administration.
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(2) ELIGIBLE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.—The
term ‘‘eligible educational institution’’ means an in-
stitution that is—
(A) a historically Black college or univer-
sity;
(B) a Hispanic-serving institution as that
term is defined in section 502(a)(5) of the High-
er 
Education 
Act 
of 
1965 
(20 
U.S.C.
1101a(a)(5));
(C) a tribally controlled college or univer-
sity as that term is defined in section 2(a)(4) of
the Tribally Controlled College or University As-
sistance Act of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 1801(a)(4));
(D) an Alaska Native-serving institution as
that term is defined in section 317(b)(2) of the
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1059d(b)(2)); or
(E) a Native Hawaiian-serving institution
as that term is defined in section 317(b)(4) of the
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
1059d(b)(4)).
(3) HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE OR UNIVER-
SITY.—The term ‘‘historically Black college or univer-
sity’’ means a part B institution as that term is de-
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fined in section 322(2) of the Higher Education Act
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061(2)).
(d) MINORITY ONLINE DEGREE PILOT PROGRAM.—
(1) PILOT PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.—
(A) IN
GENERAL.—There is established
within the National Telecommunications and In-
formation Administration a pilot program under
which the Administrator shall award 9 grants to
eligible educational institutions to enable the eli-
gible educational institutions to develop digital
and wireless networks for online educational pro-
grams of study within the eligible educational
institutions. The Administrator shall award not
less than 1 grant to each type of eligible edu-
cational institution, enumerated under sub-
section (c)(2).
(B) GRANT NUMBER AND AMOUNT.—
(i) NUMBER.—The Administrator shall
award a total of 9 grants under this sub-
section.
(ii) GRANT PAYMENT AMOUNTS.—The
Administrator shall make grant payments
under this subsection in the amount of
$500,000.
(2) PRIORITY.—