; or (B) is disadvantaged with respect to geographic, socioeconomic, public health, or environmental hazard criteria, as determined by the Assistant Secretary. (b) Authorization of appropriations (1) In general There is authorized to be appropriated to the Assistant Secretary to assist in the economic development of nuclear closure communities $35,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2029. (2) Use of funds Of any amounts appropriated under paragraph (1), the Assistant Secretary shall use— (A) 15 percent to provide technical assistance to nuclear closure communities under the Research and National Technical Assistance Program of the Administration; and (B) 85 percent for implementation projects in nuclear closure communities under the Economic Adjustment Assistance Program of the Administration established under section 209 of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 ( 42 U.S.C. 3149 ). (3) Cost sharing Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with respect to any amounts appropriated under paragraph (1), the Assistant Secretary may not impose a cost-sharing requirement with respect to— (A) any technical assistance described in paragraph (2)(A) that is provided to a nuclear closure community that is a small, rural, or disadvantaged community; or (B) any implementation project described in paragraph (2)(B) in a nuclear closure community that is a small, rural, or disadvantaged community. 5. Financial assistance for communities with stranded nuclear waste (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Affected community The term affected community means a unit of local government, including a county, city, town, village, school district, or special district, that contains stranded nuclear waste within the boundaries of the unit of local government, as determined by the Secretary. (2) Eligible civilian nuclear power plant The term eligible civilian nuclear power plant means a nuclear power plant that— (A) has been decommissioned