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2	2	118THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION S. 3425
5	5	To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to establish a Resilient Communities
6	6	Program to provide communities impacted by trade with grants for
7	7	economic development, and for other purposes.
8	8	IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
9	9	DECEMBER6, 2023
10	10	Ms. B
11	11	ALDWIN(for herself and Mr. CASSIDY) introduced the following bill;
12	12	which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and
13	13	Public Works
14	14	A BILL
15	15	To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to establish a Resil-
16	16	ient Communities Program to provide communities im-
17	17	pacted by trade with grants for economic development,
18	18	and for other purposes.
19	19	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
20	20	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
21	21	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
22	22	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Resilient Communities 4
23	23	Act of 2023’’. 5
24	24	SEC. 2. RESILIENT COMMUNITIES PROGRAM. 6
25	25	(a) A
26	26	WARD OFGRANTS.—The Secretary of Com-7
27	27	merce shall establish a program to be known as the Resil-8
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30	30	ient Communities Program under which the Secretary 1
31	31	may award grants to eligible recipients representing af-2
32	32	fected communities— 3
33	33	(1) to encourage the continued production of 4
34	34	certain goods in those communities, including the 5
35	35	employment of individuals involved in the production 6
36	36	of those goods; or 7
37	37	(2) for the conduct of economic development in 8
38	38	those communities. 9
39	39	(b) U
40	40	SES OFFUNDS.— 10
41	41	(1) S
42	42	UBSEQUENT GRANTS .—An eligible recipi-11
43	43	ent awarded a grant under subsection (a) may use 12
44	44	the amount of the grant to award subsequent grants 13
45	45	to covered domestic producers in affected commu-14
46	46	nities. 15
47	47	(2) P
48	48	RIORITY.—An eligible recipient in an af-16
49	49	fected community shall prioritize the award of subse-17
50	50	quent grants under paragraph (1) to covered domes-18
51	51	tic producers that are determined by the eligible re-19
52	52	cipient to be most likely to increase production and 20
53	53	employment at a facility of the covered domestic pro-21
54	54	ducer located within the affected community as a re-22
55	55	sult of the grant provided. 23
56	56	(3) E
57	57	CONOMIC DEVELOPMENT .—If there is no 24
58	58	covered domestic producer in an affected community, 25
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61	61	an eligible recipient representing that community 1
62	62	that is in receipt of a grant under subsection (a) 2
63	63	shall use the amounts awarded under that grant for 3
64	64	economic development within that community. 4
65	65	(c) R
66	66	ESILIENTCOMMUNITIESFUND.— 5
67	67	(1) E
68	68	STABLISHMENT.—There is established in 6
69	69	the Treasury of the United States a trust fund (to 7
70	70	be known as the ‘‘Resilient Communities Fund’’), 8
71	71	consisting of— 9
72	72	(A) amounts transferred to the trust fund 10
73	73	under paragraph (2); and 11
74	74	(B) any amounts that may be credited to 12
75	75	the trust fund under paragraph (3). 13
76	76	(2) T
77	77	RANSFER OF AMOUNTS .— 14
78	78	(A) I
79	79	N GENERAL.—The Secretary of the 15
80	80	Treasury shall transfer to the trust fund estab-16
81	81	lished under paragraph (1), from the general 17
82	82	fund of the Treasury, for fiscal year 2024 and 18
83	83	each fiscal year thereafter, an amount equiva-19
84	84	lent to the amount received into the general 20
85	85	fund during that fiscal year and attributable to 21
86	86	duties collected pursuant to an antidumping or 22
87	87	countervailing duty order under title VII of the 23
88	88	Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.). 24
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91	91	(B) FREQUENCY OF TRANSFERS .—The 1
92	92	Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer 2
93	93	amounts required by subparagraph (A) to be 3
94	94	transferred to the trust fund established under 4
95	95	paragraph (1) not less frequently than quar-5
96	96	terly. 6
97	97	(3) I
98	98	NVESTMENT OF AMOUNTS .— 7
99	99	(A) I
100	100	NVESTMENT OF AMOUNTS .—The Sec-8
101	101	retary of the Treasury shall invest such portion 9
102	102	of the trust fund established under paragraph 10
103	103	(1) as is not required to meet current with-11
104	104	drawals in interest-bearing obligations of the 12
105	105	United States or in obligations guaranteed as to 13
106	106	both principal and interest by the United 14
107	107	States. 15
108	108	(B) I
109	109	NTEREST AND PROCEEDS .—The in-16
110	110	terest on, and the proceeds from the sale or re-17
111	111	demption of, any obligations held in the trust 18
112	112	fund established under paragraph (1) shall be 19
113	113	credited to and form a part of the trust fund. 20
114	114	(4) A
115	115	VAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS IN TRUST 21
116	116	FUND.—Amounts in the trust fund established 22
117	117	under paragraph (1) shall be available to the Sec-23
118	118	retary of Commerce, as provided in advance in an 24
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121	121	appropriations Act, to award grants to eligible re-1
122	122	cipients under subsection (a). 2
123	123	(d) D
124	124	EFINITIONS.—In this section: 3
125	125	(1) A
126	126	FFECTED COMMUNITY .—The term ‘‘af-4
127	127	fected community’’ means an area in which a domes-5
128	128	tic producer or worker located in that area has expe-6
129	129	rienced an injury from trade. 7
130	130	(2) C
131	131	OVERED DOMESTIC PRODUCER .—The term 8
132	132	‘‘covered domestic producer’’ means a domestic pro-9
133	133	ducer who can provide recent evidence of any of the 10
134	134	following: 11
135	135	(A) A significant idling of production fa-12
136	136	cilities, plant closings, or underutilization of 13
137	137	productive capacity of the producer. 14
138	138	(B) The inability of the producer to carry 15
139	139	out production operations in the United States 16
140	140	at a reasonable level of profit. 17
141	141	(C) A decline in sales or market share, 18
142	142	higher or growing inventory, or a downward 19
143	143	trend in production, profits, wages, produc-20
144	144	tivity, or employment of the producer. 21
145	145	(D) Difficulty of the producer in gener-22
146	146	ating adequate capital to finance the mod-23
147	147	ernization of plants, property, or equipment in 24
148	148	the United States. 25
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151	151	(E) The inability of the producer to main-1
152	152	tain existing levels for research and develop-2
153	153	ment. 3
154	154	(3) D
155	155	OMESTIC PRODUCER .—The term ‘‘domes-4
156	156	tic producer’’ means a United States person that 5
157	157	produces a good within the United States. 6
158	158	(4) E
159	159	CONOMIC DEVELOPMENT .—The term 7
160	160	‘‘economic development’’ means— 8
161	161	(A) improving workforce development; 9
162	162	(B) building public infrastructure; 10
163	163	(C) improving access to health care, social 11
164	164	services, healthy food, or education; 12
165	165	(D) complying with environmental stand-13
166	166	ards set forth by the Federal Government; 14
167	167	(E) building affordable housing; or 15
168	168	(F) expanding access to broadband. 16
169	169	(5) E
170	170	LIGIBLE RECIPIENT.—The term ‘‘eligible 17
171	171	recipient’’ means a political subdivision of a State in 18
172	172	which an affected community is located. 19
173	173	(6) I
174	174	NJURY FROM TRADE .—The term ‘‘injury 20
175	175	from trade’’ means— 21
176	176	(A) an injury that has been determined to 22
177	177	have occurred by the United States Inter-23
178	178	national Trade Commission— 24
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181	181	(i) in the course of an investigation by 1
182	182	the Commission into dumping or subsidiza-2
183	183	tion under section 701 or 731 of the Tariff 3
184	184	Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 and 1673); 4
185	185	or 5
186	186	(ii) under section 202(b) of the Trade 6
187	187	Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2252(b)); 7
188	188	(B) with respect to a domestic producer or 8
189	189	a worker at a workplace of that producer, the 9
190	190	Secretary of Commerce determines that— 10
191	191	(i) a significant number or proportion 11
192	192	of the workers at that workplace have be-12
193	193	come totally or partially separated, or are 13
194	194	threatened to become totally or partially 14
195	195	separated; and 15
196	196	(ii)(I)(aa) the sales or production, or 16
197	197	both, of that producer have decreased ab-17
198	198	solutely at that workplace; 18
199	199	(bb)(AA) imports of articles or serv-19
200	200	ices like or directly competitive with arti-20
201	201	cles produced or services supplied by that 21
202	202	producer at that workplace have increased; 22
203	203	(BB) imports of articles like or di-23
204	204	rectly competitive with articles into which 24
205	205	one or more component parts produced by 25
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208	208	that producer at that workplace are incor-1
209	209	porated have increased; 2
210	210	(CC) imports of articles like or di-3
211	211	rectly competitive with articles that are 4
212	212	produced using services supplied by that 5
213	213	producer at that workplace have increased; 6
214	214	or 7
215	215	(DD) imports of articles incorporating 8
216	216	one or more component parts produced 9
217	217	outside the United States that are like or 10
218	218	directly competitive with imports of articles 11
219	219	incorporating one or more component parts 12
220	220	produced by that producer at that work-13
221	221	place have increased; and 14
222	222	(cc) the increase in imports described 15
223	223	in item (bb) contributed importantly to the 16
224	224	separation or threat of separation by work-17
225	225	ers at that workplace and to the decline in 18
226	226	the sales or production of that producer at 19
227	227	that workplace; or 20
228	228	(II)(aa)(AA) there has been a shift by 21
229	229	that producer to a foreign country in the 22
230	230	production of articles or the supply of serv-23
231	231	ices like or directly competitive with arti-24
232	232	cles that are produced or services that are 25
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235	235	supplied by that producer at that work-1
236	236	place; or 2
237	237	(BB) that producer has acquired from 3
238	238	a foreign country articles or services that 4
239	239	are like or directly competitive with articles 5
240	240	that are produced or services that are sup-6
241	241	plied by that producer at that workplace; 7
242	242	and 8
243	243	(bb) the shift described in item 9
244	244	(aa)(AA) or the acquisition of articles or 10
245	245	services described in item (aa)(BB) con-11
246	246	tributed importantly to the separation or 12
247	247	threat of separation by workers at that 13
248	248	workplace; or 14
249	249	(C) any other trade-related injury to a do-15
250	250	mestic producer or worker as determined by the 16
251	251	Secretary of Commerce. 17
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