(I) terminate the contract; 
(II) make a referral to the Office 
of Federal Contract Compliance Pro-
grams of the Department of Labor; or 
(III) take other appropriate ac-
tion. 
(d) REPORTS.—The Secretary shall submit to Con-
gress an annual report regarding the actions taken by the 
Department of the Interior agency and the Office pursu-
ant to this section, which shall include— 
(1) a statement of the total amounts paid by 
the Department to contractors since the previous re-
port; 
(2) the percentage of the amounts described in 
paragraph (1) that were paid to contractors de-
scribed in subsection (c)(1); 
(3) the successes achieved and challenges faced 
by the Department in operating minority and women 
outreach programs; 
(4) the challenges the Department may face in 
hiring minority and women employees and con-
tracting with minority-owned and women-owned 
businesses; and 
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(5) any other information, findings, conclusions, 
and recommendations for legislative or Department 
action, as the Director determines appropriate. 
(e) DIVERSITY IN DEPARTMENT WORKFORCE.—The 
Secretary shall take affirmative steps to seek diversity in 
the workforce of the Department at all levels of the De-
partment in a manner consistent with applicable law. Such 
steps shall include— 
(1) recruiting at historically black colleges and 
universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, women’s 
colleges, and colleges that typically serve majority 
minority populations; 
(2) sponsoring and recruiting at job fairs in 
urban communities; 
(3) placing employment advertisements in news-
papers and magazines oriented toward minorities 
and women; 
(4) partnering with organizations that are fo-
cused on developing opportunities for minorities and 
women to be placed in energy industry internships, 
summer employment, and full-time positions; 
(5) where feasible, partnering with inner-city 
high schools, girls’ high schools, and high schools 
with majority minority populations to establish or 
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enhance financial literacy programs and provide 
mentoring; and 
(6) any other mass media communications that 
the Office determines necessary. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 
following definitions shall apply: 
(1) MINORITY.—The term ‘‘minority’’ means 
United States citizens who are Asian Indian Amer-
ican, Asian Pacific American, Black American, His-
panic American, or Native American. 
(2) MINORITY-OWNED
BUSINESS.—The term 
‘‘minority-owned business’’ means a for-profit enter-
prise, regardless of size, physically located in the 
United States or its trust territories, which is 
owned, operated, and controlled by minority group 
members. ‘‘Minority group members’’ are United 
States citizens who are Asian Indian American, 
Asian Pacific American, Black American, Hispanic 
American, or Native American (terminology in 
NMSDC categories). Ownership by minority individ-
uals means the business is at least 51 percent owned 
by such individuals or, in the case of a publicly 
owned business, at least 51 percent of the stock is 
owned by one or more such individuals. Further, the 
management and daily operations are controlled by 
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those minority group members. For purposes of 
NMSDC’s program, a minority group member is an 
individual who is a United States citizen with at 
least 1⁄4 or 25 percent minimum (documentation to 
support claim of 25 percent required from applicant) 
of one or more of the following: 
(A) Asian Indian American, which is a 
United States citizen whose origins are from 
India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh. 
(B) Asian Pacific American, which is a 
United States citizen whose origins are from 
Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, 
Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the Phil-
ippines, Thailand, Samoa, Guam, the United 
States Trust Territories of the Pacific, or the 
Northern Marianas. 
(C) Black American, which is a United 
States citizen having origins in any of the Black 
racial groups of Africa. 
(D) Hispanic American, which is a United 
States citizen of true-born Hispanic heritage, 
from any of the Spanish-speaking areas of the 
following regions: Mexico, Central America, 
South America, and the Caribbean Basin only. 
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(E) Native American, which is a person 
who is an American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut or 
Native Hawaiian, and regarded as such by the 
community of which the person claims to be a 
part. Native Americans must be documented 
members of a North American tribe, band, or 
otherwise organized group of native people who 
are indigenous to the continental United States 
and proof can be provided through a Native. 
(3) NMSDC.—The term ‘‘NMSDC’’ means the 
National Minority Supplier Development Council. 
(4) OFFICE.—The term ‘‘Office’’ means the Of-
fice of Minority and Women Inclusion established 
under subsection (a). 
(5) 
WOMEN-OWNED
BUSINESS.—The 
term 
‘‘women-owned business’’ means a business that can 
verify through evidence documentation that 51 per-
cent or more is women-owned, managed, and con-
trolled. The business must be open for at least 6 
months. The business owner must be a United 
States citizen or legal resident alien. Evidence must 
indicate that— 
(A) the contribution of capital or expertise 
by the woman business owner is real and sub-
stantial and in proportion to the interest owned; 
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