Title: Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2021
Policy area: Health

Summary:
Preventing Health Emergencies And Temperature-related Illness and Deaths Act of 2021 or the Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2021
This bill provides statutory authority for, and otherwise revises, the National Integrated Heat Health Information System Program to improve the capacity of the United States to prepare for, adapt to, and mitigate health risks of extreme heat. The Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) must carry out this program. (Currently, the program is jointly administered by NOAA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)
Under the bill, the program may provide financial assistance for projects to increase awareness, education, and research about extreme heat events and mitigate the human health impacts of those events. In awarding the assistance, the program must prioritize historically disadvantaged communities and communities with significant heat disparities associated with race or income. Other components of the program include grants for research on climate and health and a study of relevant policy, research, and data gaps concerning extreme heat information and response.
The bill also establishes an interagency committee within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a strategic plan and otherwise coordinate federal activities related to the program.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5296 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5296

    To reduce the health risks of heat by establishing the National 
 Integrated Heat Health Information System Program within the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Integrated Heat 
Health Information System Interagency Committee to improve extreme heat 
     preparedness, planning, and response, requiring a study, and 
establishing financial assistance programs to address heat effects, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2021

Mr. Crist (for himself and Ms. Bonamici) introduced the following bill; 
  which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in 
  addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To reduce the health risks of heat by establishing the National 
 Integrated Heat Health Information System Program within the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Integrated Heat 
Health Information System Interagency Committee to improve extreme heat 
     preparedness, planning, and response, requiring a study, and 
establishing financial assistance programs to address heat effects, 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 cited as the ``Preventing Health Emergencies And 
Temperature-related Illness and Deaths Act of 2021'' or the 
``Preventing HEAT Illness and Deaths Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Environmental justice community.--The term 
        ``environmental justice community'' means a community with 
        significant representation of communities of color, low-income 
        communities, or Tribal and indigenous communities, that 
        experiences, or is at risk of experiencing, higher or more 
        adverse human health or environmental effects, as compared to 
        other communities.
            (2) Extreme heat.--The term ``extreme heat'' means heat 
        that exceeds local climatological norms in terms of any 
        combination of the following:
                    (A) Duration.
                    (B) Intensity.
                    (C) Season length.
                    (D) Frequency.
            (3) Heat.--The term ``heat'' means any combination of the 
        parameters associated with modulating human thermal regulation, 
        such as air temperature, humidity, solar exposure, and wind 
        speed.
            (4) Heat event.--The term ``heat event'' means an 
        occurrence of extreme heat that may have heat-health 
        implications.
            (5) Heat-health.--The term ``heat-health'' means health 
        effects to humans from heat, during or outside of heat events, 
        including from vulnerability and exposure, or the risk of such 
        effects.
            (6) Planning.--The term ``planning'' means activities 
        performed across timescales (including days, weeks, months, 
        years, and decades) with scenario-based, probabilistic or 
        deterministic information to identify and take actions to 
        proactively mitigate heat-health risks from increased frequency 
        and intensity of heat waves and increased ambient temperature.
            (7) Preparedness.--The term ``preparedness'' means 
        activities performed across timescales (including days, weeks, 
        months, years, and decades) with probabilistic or deterministic 
        information to manage risk in advance of a heat event.
            (8) Urban heat island.--The term ``urban heat island'' 
        means the phenomenon observed in urbanized areas in which heat 
        is more extreme than in the surrounding exurban areas and heat 
        is heterogeneously distributed within urbanized areas, due to 
        factors including--
                    (A) low albedo and impervious surfaces;
                    (B) low vegetation coverage; and
                    (C) waste heat produced in urban areas.

SEC. 3. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Extreme heat events have been the leading cause of 
        weather-related death in the United States over the last 30 
        years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and 
        Prevention and the National Weather Service.
            (2) The fourth National Climate Assessment, mandated by the 
        Global Change Research Act of 1990 (15 U.S.C. 2921 et seq.), 
        finds that during the next few decades, annual average 
        temperature over the contiguous United States is projected to 
        increase by a further 2.2F relative to current temperatures, 
        regardless of future scenarios. The National Climate Assessment 
        projects that the frequency and intensity of extreme heat 
        events will increase in the future as global temperature 
        increases.
            (3) Exposure to extreme heat can cause acute heat-related 
        illnesses, such as heat stroke, which result in more than 
        65,000 emergency room visits each year and exacerbate 
        respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses.
            (4) Heat poses the greatest health risks for adults older 
        than 65 years of age, pregnant people, young children, low-
        income communities, urban communities, communities with low air 
        conditioning prevalence, socially isolated individuals, people 
        with mental or physical disabilities, people with underlying 
        medical conditions, agricultural or other outdoor workers, 
        workers without sufficient access to cooling, athletes, 
        incarcerated individuals, people experiencing homelessness, and 
        military personnel.
            (5) Increasingly common environmental exposures exacerbated 
        by climate change, such as extreme heat, are significantly 
        associated with serious adverse pregnancy outcomes across the 
        United States. Those adverse pregnancy outcomes 
        disproportionately impact Black mothers.
            (6) Heat exposure is an issue of environmental justice, as 
        people living in low-income communities, communities of color, 
        and Tribal communities face a number of interacting factors 
        that render them more vulnerable to extreme heat.
            (7) The impacts of heat on human health are more severe in 
        urban areas where land surface properties create an urban heat 
        island, particularly in neighborhoods with limited availability 
        of or access to green spaces, shade, and tree cover, higher 
        density of building structures, and more vehicular traffic.
            (8) Limited availability of tree cover and higher 
        temperatures are correlated with low-income neighborhoods in 
        urban areas. In Richmond, Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland, and 
        Washington, DC, researchers found that heat risk is 
        disproportionately distributed to communities of color in 
        patterns associated with segregation and redlining.
            (9) Researchers have found that few communities in the 
        United States have sufficient climate and health information, 
        guidance, and resources for heat planning, preparedness, and 
        response.
            (10) The risks associated with extreme heat have complex 
        interactions and impacts, and the management of those risks 
        requires a transdisciplinary approach.
            (11) Regions, communities, and populations that face the 
        greatest health consequences of extreme heat often may 
        experience the lowest heat risk perceptions, have limited 
        incentives, or have access to the fewest resources for 
        responding to extreme heat, and as such, may be less likely to 
        take precautions.
            (12) Research on the impacts of extreme heat on human 
        health and the effectiveness of solutions under varying 
        climate, social, and other contexts is stymied by a lack of 
        access to reliable, timely health observations and surveillance 
        due to proprietary data rights, expense, privacy and security 
        concerns, inconsistent reporting of health outcomes and 
        contributory factors, poor data integration and 
        interoperability, few incentives and little systematic 
        coordination to address those problems, and a lack of adequate 
        climate observation, modeling, and assessment in urban, indoor, 
        and occupational settings.
            (13) Integrated climate and health research and 
        information, when developed in a collaborative, 
        transdisciplinary manner, can inform long- and medium-range 
        scenario-based planning and decision making to protect 
        vulnerable communities and populations from extreme heat, 
        reduce exposure to extreme heat, and address factors that 
        increase vulnerability.
            (14) Heat action plans and early warning systems can reduce 
        heat-related morbidity and mortality by clearly identifying 
        roles and responsibilities as well as evidence-based actions 
        and thresholds to enhance preparedness, and by promoting 
        behavior changes and actions taken by local governments, 
        communities, and individuals through awareness and increased 
        risk perception among those most vulnerable to the health 
        impacts of heat.

SEC. 4. NATIONAL INTEGRATED HEAT HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM INTERAGENCY 
              COMMITTEE.

    (a) Establishment of Committee.--There is established within the 
Office of Science and Technology Policy an interagency committee, to be 
known as the ``National Integrated Heat Health Information System 
Interagency Committee'' (in this section referred to as the 
``Committee'').
    (b) Purpose.--The Committee shall coordinate, plan, and direct 
agencies represented on the Committee to execute, as appropriate, 
activities across such agencies to ensure the National Integrated Heat 
Health Information System Program established by section 5 provides a 
united Federal approach to reducing health risks from heat across 
timescales (including days, weeks, months, years, and decades).
    (c) Membership.--
            (1) In general.--In order to carry out and achieve the 
        purpose described in subsection (b), the Committee shall 
        include the following:
                    (A) The Director of the National Integrated Heat 
                Health Information System Program.
                    (B) Not fewer than 1 representative from each of 
                the following:
                            (i) From the Department of Commerce, the 
                        following:
                                    (I) From the National Oceanic and 
                                Atmospheric Administration, the 
                                following:
                                            (aa) The National Weather 
                                        Service.
                                            (bb) The Office of Oceanic 
                                        and Atmospheric Research, 
                                        including the Climate Program 
                                        Office.
                                    (II) The National Institute of 
                                Standards and Technology.
                                    (III) The Bureau of the Census.
                            (ii) From the Department of Health and 
                        Human Services, the following:
                                    (I) The Centers for Disease Control 
                                and Prevention, including the National 
                                Institute for Occupational Safety and 
                                Health.
                                    (II) The Office of the Assistant 
                                Secretary of Health and Human Services 
                                for Preparedness and Response.
                                    (III) The Substance Abuse and 
                                Mental Health Services Administration.
                                    (IV) The National Institutes of 
                                Health.
                            (iii) From the Department of the Interior, 
                        the following:
                                    (I) The Bureau of Indian Affairs.
                                    (II) The Bureau of Land Management.
                            (iv) From the Environmental Protection 
                        Agency, the following:
                                    (I) The Office of Environmental 
                                Justice.
                                    (II) The Office of Air and 
                                Radiation, if the Administrator of the 
                                Environmental Protection Agency 
                                determines appropriate.
                                    (III) The Office of Research and 
                                Development, if the Administrator 
                                determines appropriate.
                            (v) The Federal Emergency Management 
                        Agency.
                            (vi) The Department of Defense.
                            (vii) The Occupational Safety and Health 
                        Administration.
                            (viii) The Department of Agriculture.
                            (ix) The Department of Housing and Urban 
                        Development.
                            (x) The Department of Transportation.
                            (xi) The Department of Energy.
                            (xii) Such other Federal agencies as the 
                        Director of the Office of Science and 
                        Technology Policy considers appropriate.
            (2) Selection of representatives.--The head of an agency 
        specified in paragraph (1)(B) shall, in appointing 
        representatives of the agency to the Committee, select 
        representatives who have expertise in areas relevant to the 
        responsibilities of the Committee, such as weather and climate 
        prediction, health impacts, environmental justice, behavioral 
        science, public health hazard preparedness and response, or 
        mental health services.
            (3) Co-chairs.--
                    (A) In general.--The members of the Committee shall 
                select 2 individuals from among such members to serve 
                as co-chairs of the Committee, subject to the approval 
                of the Director of the Office of Science and Technology 
                Policy.
                    (B) Selection.--
                            (i) Initial selection.--Of the co-chairs 
                        first selected, one co-chair shall be from the 
                        National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
                        and one co-chair shall be from the Centers for 
                        Disease Control and Prevention.
                            (ii) Subsequent selection.--Subsequent co-
                        chairs shall be selected from among the members 
                        of the Committee.
                    (C) Terms.--Each co-chair shall serve for a term of 
                not more than 5 years.
                    (D) Responsibilities of co-chairs.--The co-chairs 
                of the Committee shall--
                            (i) determine the agenda of the Committee, 
                        in consultation with other members of the 
                        Committee;
                            (ii) direct the work of the Committee;
                            (iii) convene meetings of the Committee not 
                        less frequently than once each fiscal quarter; 
                        and
                            (iv) if necessary, establish a coordination 
                        office for the Committee within the National 
                        Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
    (d) Responsibilities of Committee.--The Committee shall promote an 
integrated, Federal Government-wide approach to reducing health risks 
and impacts of heat, including by--
            (1) developing the strategic plan required by subsection 
        (e);
            (2) overseeing the study required by section 6(a)(1);
            (3) coordinating across Federal agencies on heat-health 
        communication, research, service delivery, and workforce 
        development;
            (4) building capacity and partnerships with Federal and 
        non-Federal entities; and
            (5) annually preparing a budget for the financial 
        assistance program under section 7 specifying how funds will be 
        awarded by the Director of the National Integrated Heat Health 
        Information System Program in alignment with the strategic plan 
        required by subsection (e)(1) and in coordination with the 
        climate and health research grant program under section 
        5(d)(2).
    (e) Strategic Plan.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 2 years after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Committee shall submit to 
        Congress a 5-year integrated strategic plan that outlines the 
        goals and projects of the Committee, including how the 
        Committee will--
                    (A) improve coordination and integration of 
                interagency Federal actions to address health risks of 
                heat;
                    (B) conduct the study required by section 6(a)(1); 
                and
                    (C) oversee the program for providing financial 
                assistance under section 7.
            (2) Updates.--Not later than 5 years after the submission 
        of the strategic plan required by paragraph (1), and every 5 
        years thereafter, the Committee shall submit to Congress an 
        update of the plan, which shall include progress made toward 
        goals outlined in the plan and new priorities that emerge.
            (3) Public availability.--The Committee shall make the 
        strategic plan required by paragraph (1) and updates to the 
        plan required by paragraph (2) available to the public on an 
        internet website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
        Administration, with clear visuals indicating progress toward 
        goals.
    (f) Administrative Support.--The Administrator of the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall provide technical and 
administrative support to the Committee, using amounts authorized to be 
appropriated to the Administration.
    (g) Consultation.--In carrying out the responsibilities of the 
Committee, the Committee shall consult with relevant regional, State, 
Tribal, and local government agencies, international organizations and 
partners, research institutions, nongovernmental organizations and 
associations, and medical experts with expertise in emergency response, 
environmental health, economic or business development, or community 
engagement.

SEC. 5. NATIONAL INTEGRATED HEAT HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM PROGRAM OF 
              THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established within the Office of 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration a program, to be known as the ``National 
Integrated Heat Health Information System Program''.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of the program established by subsection 
(a) is to improve the capacity of the United States to plan, prepare 
for, adapt to, and mitigate health risks of extreme heat across 
multiple timescales.
    (c) Director.--The Program shall be headed by a Director.
    (d) Responsibilities.--In carrying out the purpose described in 
subsection (b), the Director shall carry out the following 
responsibilities:
            (1) Implementation plan.--
                    (A) In general.--The Director shall implement the 
                strategic plan required by section 4(e)(1) by 
                developing and implementing a multi-year implementation 
                plan.
                    (B) Elements.--In developing and implementing the 
                implementation plan under subparagraph (A), the 
                Director shall focus on the following:
                            (i) Developing and sustaining robust 
                        relationships with climate, public health, and 
                        other Federal and non-Federal partners and 
                        decisionmakers--
                                    (I) to respond to the demand for 
                                actionable information that reduces 
                                health risks on multiple timescales; 
                                and
                                    (II) to develop and deliver timely 
                                and accessible decision support 
                                services, tools, and information to 
                                inform planning, preparedness, and 
                                risk-reducing actions across 
                                timescales.
                            (ii) Coordinating and collaborating with 
                        the international community and global partners 
                        to conduct research and learn from, leverage, 
                        and contribute to global knowledge.
                            (iii) Enhancing observations, surveillance, 
                        and monitoring necessary for the activities 
                        described in clauses (i) and (ii).
                            (iv) Communicating, educating, and building 
                        awareness and capacity to address heat risk 
                        across communities, sectors, and timescales.
                            (v) Implementing and executing the grant 
                        program under paragraph (2) and the financial 
                        assistance program under section (7).
                            (vi) Conducting the study required by 
                        section 6(a)(1).
            (2) Grant program.--The Director shall develop and 
        implement a climate and health research grant program, in 
        coordination with the financial assistance program under 
        section 7 and other Federal programs--
                    (A) to improve understanding of--
                            (i) the climate epidemiology and social 
                        drivers of heat-health vulnerability and risk;
                            (ii) the drivers of climate variability, 
                        predictability, and changes in extreme heat; 
                        and
                            (iii) the impacts of extreme heat and 
                        compound hazards across timescales;
                    (B) to investigate and evaluate the effectiveness 
                of risk management actions, interventions, policies, 
                standards, codes, and guidelines; and
                    (C) to address other topics as appropriate, 
                including topics outlined in the strategic plan 
                required by section 4(e)(1) and relevant to the study 
                required by section 6(a)(1) and the financial 
                assistance program under section 7.
            (3) Additional activities.--The Director shall carry out 
        such other activities as the Committee considers appropriate.

SEC. 6. STUDY ON EXTREME HEAT INFORMATION AND RESPONSE.

    (a) Study.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 2 years after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Director of the National 
        Integrated Heat Health Information System Program shall, in 
        consultation with the entities described in section 4(g), 
        complete a study on extreme heat information and response.
            (2) Oversight.--The National Integrated Heat Health 
        Information System Interagency Committee shall oversee the 
        study required by paragraph (1).
            (3) Elements.--The study required by paragraph (1) shall--
                    (A) identify policy and research gaps, which may 
                include--
                            (i) regions of the United States with the 
                        largest gaps between awareness, preparedness, 
                        and capacity to address extreme heat; and
                            (ii) heat-related gaps in data, such as--
                                    (I) the number of schools, prisons, 
                                and other public facilities that lack 
                                air conditioning; and
                                    (II) the demographic breakdown of 
                                people affected by heat events, 
                                including by race, age, gender, 
                                occupation, and income; and
                    (B) provide recommendations for addressing gaps 
                with respect to policy, research, operations, 
                communications, and data, including the gaps identified 
                under subparagraph (A), affecting heat-health planning, 
                preparedness, response, resilience, adaptation, and 
                environmental justice and equity;
                    (C) provide such other recommendations as the 
                Director considers appropriate, which may include 
                strategies for--
                            (i) communicating warnings to and promoting 
                        resilience of populations vulnerable to extreme 
                        heat;
                            (ii) effectively distributing extreme heat 
                        warnings, including to individuals with limited 
                        English proficiency and individuals who are 
                        socially isolated or have other established 
                        barriers to such information;
                            (iii) designing warnings described in 
                        clause (ii) to convey the urgency and severity 
                        of heat events and achieve behavior changes 
                        that reduce the mortality and morbidity of 
                        extreme heat effects, without creating warning 
                        fatigue or confusion with other types of 
                        weather disaster warnings;
                            (iv) understanding compound and cascading 
                        risks, and implementing alternative heat-health 
                        risk reduction interventions to manage those 
                        risks collectively, such as reducing risk of 
                        the transmission of infectious diseases during 
                        heat waves by creating outdoor cooling 
                        locations or increasing ventilation and 
                        filtration in indoor cooling centers;
                            (v) promoting community resilience to heat 
                        events and incorporating principles of 
                        environmental justice in community response to 
                        heat waves;
                            (vi) addressing the impacts of extreme heat 
                        on energy cost and availability; and
                            (vii) establishing labor and other 
                        standards for workers and heat;
                    (D) consider such other subjects as the Committee 
                considers appropriate, which may include--
                            (i) the feasibility of enhancing existing 
                        nationwide data collection on heat-related 
                        illnesses and mortalities to improve and ensure 
                        consistent collection of national-level heat 
                        illness data across all 50 States, territories, 
                        and local jurisdictions of the United States;
                            (ii) mechanisms for financing heat 
                        preparedness; and
                            (iii) the effectiveness of county- or 
                        local-level heat awareness and communication 
                        tools, preparedness plans, or mitigation.
            (4) Development of definitions.--In conducting the study 
        required by paragraph (1), the Director shall work with heat 
        and health experts to identify consistent and agreed upon 
        definitions for heat events, heat waves, and other relevant 
        terms.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 90 days after completing the study 
required by subsection (a)(1), the Committee shall--
            (1) make available to the public on an internet website of 
        the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a report on 
        the findings and conclusions of the study; and
            (2) submit the report to--
                    (A) the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
                Transportation of the Senate;
                    (B) the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
                Pensions of the Senate;
                    (C) the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology 
                of the House of Representatives;
                    (D) the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the 
                House of Representatives; and
                    (E) the Committee on Education and Labor of the 
                House of Representatives.

SEC. 7. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR RESILIENCE IN ADDRESSING EXTREME HEAT 
              AND HEALTH RISKS.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Establishment.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Director of the National 
        Integrated Heat Health Information System Program may, in 
        coordination with the National Integrated Heat Health 
        Information System Interagency Committee, establish and 
        administer a community heat resilience program to provide 
        financial assistance to eligible entities to carry out projects 
        described in subsection (e) to ameliorate human health impacts 
        of extreme heat events.
            (2) Revision.--Upon completion of the strategic plan 
        required by section 4(e)(1), the Committee may revise the 
        community heat resilience program to ensure the program aligns 
        with the strategic plan and is administered in accordance with 
        the plan.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of the financial assistance provided 
under this section is to improve community resilience to heat and heat-
health impacts and further scientific research to address adaptation 
gaps and priorities.
    (c) Forms of Assistance.--Financial assistance provided under this 
section may be in the form of contracts, grants, or cooperative 
agreements.
    (d) Eligible Entities.--Entities eligible to receive financial 
assistance under this section to carry out projects described in 
subsection (e) include--
            (1) nonprofit entities;
            (2) States;
            (3) Tribes;
            (4) local governments; and
            (5) such other entities as the Director determines to be 
        eligible.
    (e) Eligible Projects.--Projects described in this subsection 
include the following:
            (1) Projects for cool roofs, cool pavements, urban forestry 
        or tree plantings and maintenance, the provision of shade, 
        cooling centers, retrofitting buildings for cooling, and 
        acquisitions or upgrades of filtration systems or high-
        efficiency air conditioning systems.
            (2) Training programs to support the development and 
        integration of education and training programs for identifying 
        and addressing risks associated with climate change for 
        vulnerable individuals.
            (3) Projects--
                    (A) to expand public awareness of heat risks;
                    (B) to communicate risks and warnings to isolated 
                communities;
                    (C) to educate such communities about how to 
                respond to extreme heat events; and
                    (D) to further scientific research regarding 
                extreme heat events.
            (4) Other projects that the Director determines will 
        achieve a significant reduction in heat exposure or increased 
        resilience to extreme heat events.
    (f) Priorities.--In selecting eligible entities to receive 
financial assistance under this section, the Director shall prioritize 
entities that will carry out projects that provide benefits for 
historically disadvantaged communities and communities with significant 
heat disparities associated with race or income.
    (g) Distribution of Assistance.--
            (1) Environmental justice and low-income communities.--Not 
        less than 40 percent of the amount of financial assistance 
        provided under this section in any fiscal year shall be 
        provided to eligible entities to implement projects described 
        in subsection (e) in environmental justice communities or low-
        income communities.
            (2) Equitable distribution.--The Director shall seek to 
        equitably distribute financial assistance provided under this 
        section based on geographic location or such other factors as 
        the Director determines appropriate.
    (h) Matching Requirement.--
            (1) In general.--An entity that receives financial 
        assistance to carry out a project under this section shall 
        contribute, from non-Federal sources, funds for the project in 
        such amount as the Director determines appropriate.
            (2) Waiver.--The Director may waive the requirement under 
        paragraph (1) for an entity if the Director determines that the 
        entity does not have adequate resources to meet the 
        requirement.
    (i) Reports.--The Committee shall require the Director to submit to 
the Committee, on an annual basis, a report on actions, outcomes, 
research needs, and data gaps under this section.

SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) National Integrated Heat Health Information System Interagency 
Committee; National Integrated Heat Health Information System Program; 
Study on Extreme Heat Information and Response.--There are authorized 
to be appropriated to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration to carry out sections 4, 5, and 6, including for any 
administrative costs for the National Integrated Heat Health 
Information System Interagency Committee and the National Integrated 
Heat Health Information System Program, the following:
            (1) For fiscal year 2022, $20,000,000.
            (2) For fiscal year 2023, $20,000,000.
            (3) For fiscal year 2024, $20,000,000.
            (4) For fiscal year 2025, $20,000,000.
            (5) For fiscal year 2026, $20,000,000.
    (b) Financial Assistance for Resilience in Addressing Extreme Heat 
and Health Risks.--There are authorized to be appropriated to the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to carry out section 7 
the following:
            (1) For fiscal year 2022, $10,000,000.
            (2) For fiscal year 2023, $10,000,000.
            (3) For fiscal year 2024, $20,000,000.
            (4) For fiscal year 2025, $30,000,000.
            (5) For fiscal year 2026, $30,000,000.
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