42 U.S.C. § 4368a — Utilization of talents of older Americans in projects of pollution prevention, abatement, and control

(a) Technical assistance. Despite any other Federal grant or cooperative-agreement law, the EPA Administrator may make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements with, private nonprofit organizations that the Labor Secretary designates under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965. Those organizations may use older Americans’ talents in programs that other laws authorize and that the Administrator administers, consistent with those laws, to provide technical assistance to Federal, State, and local environmental agencies for pollution-prevention, pollution-abatement, and pollution-control projects. Funding for the grants or agreements may come from those programs, title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965, or subtitle D of title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. (b) Certifications before an award. Before awarding a grant or agreement under subsection (a), the applicable Federal, State, or local environmental agency must certify to the Administrator that the grant or agreement will not— (1) displace people currently employed by that environmental agency, including partially displacing them by reducing nonovertime hours, wages, or employment benefits; (2) employ a person while another person is laid off from the same or a substantially equivalent job within that environmental agency’s jurisdiction; or (3) affect existing contracts for services. (c) Prior appropriations. Grants and agreements awarded under this section are subject to prior appropriation Acts.