---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3148"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3148"
heading: "Investment priorities"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3148"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Public Works and Economic Development"
  - "Subchapter II — Grants for Public Works and Economic Development"
---

# §3148. Investment priorities

- (a) **In general—** Subject to [subsection (b)](#b), for a [project](/usc/42/11360.md?p=20) to be eligible for assistance under this subchapter, the [project](/usc/42/11360.md?p=20) shall be consistent with 1 or more of the following investment priorities:
  - (1) **Critical infrastructure—** Economic development planning or implementation [projects](/usc/42/11360.md?p=20) that support development of public [facilities](/usc/42/11049.md?p=4), including basic public infrastructure, transportation infrastructure, or telecommunications infrastructure.
  - (2) **Workforce—** Economic development planning or implementation [projects](/usc/42/11360.md?p=20) that—
    - (A) support job skills [training](/usc/42/285e–2.md?p=b-2) to meet the hiring needs of the area in which the [project](/usc/42/11360.md?p=20) is to be carried out and that result in well-paying jobs; or
    - (B) otherwise promote labor force participation.
  - (3) **Innovation and entrepreneurship—** Economic development planning or implementation [projects](/usc/42/11360.md?p=20) that—
    - (A) support the development of innovation and entrepreneurship-related infrastructure;
    - (B) promote business development and lending; or
    - (C) foster the commercialization of new technologies that are creating technology-driven businesses and high-skilled, well-paying jobs of the future.
  - (4) **Economic recovery resilience—** Economic development planning or implementation [projects](/usc/42/11360.md?p=20) that enhance the ability of an area to withstand and recover from adverse short-term or long-term changes in economic conditions, including effects from industry contractions or economic impacts from [natural disasters](/usc/42/18711.md?p=a-3).
  - (5) **Manufacturing—** Economic development planning or implementation [projects](/usc/42/11360.md?p=20) that encourage job creation, business expansion, technology and capital upgrades, and productivity growth in manufacturing, including efforts that contribute to the competitiveness and growth of domestic [suppliers](/usc/42/1395cc–4.md?p=a-2-I) or the domestic production of innovative, high-value products and production technologies.
- (b) **Conditions—** If the [Secretary](/usc/42/3122.md?p=13) plans to use an investment priority that is not described in [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/42/3122.md?p=13) shall submit to the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of [Representatives](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=5) a written notification that explains the basis for using that investment priority.
- (c) **Savings clause—** Nothing in this section waives any other requirement of this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–136, title II, § 208, as added Pub. L. 118–272, div. B, title II, § 2218, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 3182.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3148, Pub. L. 89–136, title II, § 208, as added Pub. L. 105–393, title I, § 102(a), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3605, related to prevention of unfair competition, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 108–373, title II, § 206(a), Oct. 27, 2004, 118 Stat. 1761.