Title: Increasing Community Access to Resiliency Grants Act of 2021
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Increasing Community Access to Resiliency Grants Act of 2021
This bill directs the National and Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish and regularly update a publicly available website that includes
NOAA shall conduct outreach activities to inform state, tribal, and local governments of the resiliency, adaptation, and mitigation grants.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3431 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3431

To require the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator 
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a 
 website providing information about grants available to assist State, 
 Tribal, and local governments with climate resiliency, adaptation and 
                  mitigation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 2021

  Mr. Pappas (for himself and Mr. Webster of Florida) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator 
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to establish a 
 website providing information about grants available to assist State, 
 Tribal, and local governments with climate resiliency, adaptation and 
                  mitigation, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be referred to as the ``Increasing Community Access to 
Resiliency Grants Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. CENTRALIZED WEBSITE FOR RESILIENCY GRANTS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this subsection, the Administrator shall establish and 
regularly update a publicly available website that includes--
            (1) hyperlinks to all grants administered by the National 
        Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and hyperlinks to other 
        Federal agencies that offer similar grants to assist State, 
        Tribal, and local governments with resiliency, adaptation, and 
        mitigation of climate change and sea level rise; and
            (2) with respect to each such grant, the contact 
        information for an individual who can offer assistance to 
        State, Tribal, and local governments.
    (b) Outreach.--The Administrator shall conduct outreach activities 
to inform State, Tribal, and local governments of the resiliency, 
adaptation, and mitigation grants.
    (c) Administrator.--In this section, the term ``Administrator'' 
means the Secretary of Commerce acting through the Administrator of the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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