Pub. L. 108-7, div. B, tit. VI, sec. 625

Sec. 625. For additional amounts under the heading “Small Business Administration, Salaries and Expenses”, $2,000,000 shall be available for a grant to the Innovation and Commercialization Center; $2,000,000 shall be available for the Mississippi State University MAF/TIGER database project; $1,000,000 shall be for the Black Hills Rural Tourism Marketing Program; $1,500,000 shall be for the Center for Tourism Research; $3,125,000 shall be for the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame; $3,175,000 shall be for the Boston Museum of Science; $2,000,000 shall be for the Tuck School and Minority Business Development Agency Partnership; $2,000,000 shall be for the Oklahoma International Trade Processing Center; $300,000 shall be for the Providence, Rhode Island Center for Women and Enterprise; $500,000 shall be for the Ogontz Revitalization Corporation; $500,000 shall be for the Idaho Virtual Incubator, Phase III; $1,600,000 shall be for the Adelante grant; $300,000 shall be for the Immigration Services project in Iowa; $2,000,000 shall be for the Microdevice Fabrication Facility; $700,000 shall be for the Carvers Bay Library; $1,000,000 shall be for technical upgrades for the Northwest Center for Engineering, Science, and Technology; $200,000 shall be for the Southern New Mexico High Technology Consortium; $1,000,000 shall be for the American Museum of Natural History; $200,000 shall be for the Program for International Education and Training; $2,000,000 shall be available for a grant to the St. Louis Enterprise Center in 117 STAT. 104 St. Louis County, Missouri to expand programs, operations and facilities to assist in business incubation; $400,000 shall be available for a grant for the Promesa Enterprises to provide back office services and infrastructure support to community-based organizations in the Bronx, New York; $700,000 shall be available for a grant to the New York City Department of Parks, working in conjunction with Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, for developing a facility in New York City’s Starlight Park; $300,000 shall be available for a grant to the Urban Justice Center to provide legal assistance to groups engaged in community development in low-income neighborhoods; $650,000 shall be available for a grant to CAP Services of Stevens Point, Wisconsin to purchase and renovate property; $200,000 shall be available for a grant for the Promesa Foundation in South Bronx, New York to provide community growth funding; $400,000 shall be available for a grant to the Lower East Side Girls Club of New York to provide for facility development; $1,100,000 shall be available for a grant to J.F. Drake State Technical College in Huntsville, Alabama to construct and equip a media center in support of local business needs; $1,100,000 shall be available for a grant to the City of Los Angeles, California to develop a facility to support downtown business development; $1,100,000 shall be available for a grant to the MountainMade Foundation to fulfill its charter purposes and to continue the initiative developed by the NTTC for outreach and promotion, business and sites development, the education of artists and craftspeople, and to promote small businesses, artisans and their products through market development, advertisement, commercial sale and other promotional means; $700,000 shall be available for a grant to Lord Fairfax Community College for workforce development programs; $700,000 shall be available for a grant to the Village of Edgar, Wisconsin to purchase and redevelop property as a small business park to support local agriculture; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to the West Virginia High Technology Consortium to develop a small business commercialization grant program; $250,000 shall be available for a grant to Johnstown Area Regional Industries in Pennsylvania to develop small business technology centers; $250,000 shall be available for a grant to the Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland to establish a Paperless Procurement grant program; $350,000 shall be available for a grant to the Fayette County, Pennsylvania Community Action Agency for the Republic Incubator Project; $1,000,000 shall be available for a grant to the Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum to establish a new facility; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga for the Riverbend Technology Institute for the technology incubator project; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to the California State University, San Bernardino for development of the Center for the Commercialization of Advanced Technology; $1,000,000 shall be available for a grant to the Rhode Island School of Design for the modernization of a building to establish a small business incubator; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to the University of Scranton to establish an Electronic Business Technology Center; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to Experience Works!, Incorporated for small business program activities; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to Wilberforce University to improve technology systems; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to Millikin University for facilities development for the Business and Technology Center; $500,000 117 STAT. 105 shall be available for a grant to the Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural and Sports Center for facilities development; $2,600,000 shall be available for a grant to Iowa State University for the development of a research park biologics facility; $1,000,000 shall be available for a grant to the Southern Kentucky Tourism Development Association for continuation of a regional tourism promotion initiative; $450,000 shall be available for a grant to the Bronx Council on the Arts to help promote stabilization of small arts organizations; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to Southern Kentucky Rehabilitation Industries for internal development; $250,000 shall be available for a grant to Johnstown Area Regional Industries in Pennsylvania to continue the workforce development training program; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to the City of Monticello, Kentucky for commercial revitalization activities; $1,500,000 shall be available for a grant to Shenandoah University to develop a historical and tourism development facility; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to the City of Merrill, Wisconsin to purchase and redevelop industrial property to support economic growth; $2,500,000 shall be available for a grant to the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) for improvement of distance learning programs; $750,000 shall be available for a grant to Soundview Community in Action for a technology access and business improvement project; $100,000 shall be available for a grant to the Gospel Rescue Ministries for facilities renovation; $450,000 shall be available for a grant to the Pregones Theater in the South Bronx, New York for construction improvements; $100,000 shall be available for a grant to the Atoka Preservation Society for facility restoration activities; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to the Virginia Science Museum for marine science and other environmental program activities at Belmont Bay; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to the Infotonics Center of Excellence for small business incubation activities; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to the Chicago Field Museum to renovate and develop a facility; $500,000 shall be available for a grant to the Cedarbridge Development Urban Renewal Corporation for office complex development activities; and $500,000 shall be available for a grant to the City of Belvidere, Illinois to establish a Small Business Agriculture-Technology Incubator and New Use Economy Information Center: Provided, That section 629 of Public Law 107–77 is amended with respect to a grant of: (1) $500,000 to Johnstown Area Regional Industries for the High Technology Initiative and Wireless/Digital Technology Program by deleting the word “for” after “Industries” and inserting the words “to provide technical and financial assistance under a High Technology Initiative and Wireless Digital Technology Program.”; (2) $2,000,000 to the Los Angeles Conservancy by adding the phrase “, including the use of subgrants and other forms of financial assistance” after “rebuilding and revitalization.”; (3) $500,000 for a grant to Yonkers, New York by deleting “Yonkers, New York” and inserting “the Yonkers Industrial Development Agency”; and (4) $450,000 to the Southern Kentucky Rehabilitation Industries by deleting the words “financial assistance and small business development” after “for” and inserting “technology upgrades”: Provided further, That, any grant made by the Small Business Administration to the MountainMade Foundation during fiscal year 2002 or to the NTTC at Wheeling Jesuit University during fiscal years 1998 through 2002 may be used by such entity to promote small businesses 117 STAT. 106 and artisans, and their products, through market development, advertisement, commercial sale, and other promotional means: Provided further, That the preceding proviso shall apply to promotional activities occurring on or after October 1, 1997.