accounts or activities, 10 percent of such funds shall be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty counties: (1) Department of Agriculture, Rural Development Programs . (2) Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, Economic Development Assistance Programs . (3) Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Construction . (4) Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Education . (5) Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education . (6) Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, Training and Employment Services . (7) Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration . (8) Department of Housing and Urban Development, Economic Development Initiative . (9) Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs . (10) Environmental Protection Agency, State and Tribal Assistance Grants, Water and Wastewater . (11) Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Transportation Community and System Preservation . (12) Department of the Treasury, Community Development Financial Institutions . (b) Determination of persistent poverty counties For purposes of this section, the term persistent poverty counties means any county with a poverty rate of at least 20 percent, as determined in each of the 1990, 2000, and 2010 decennial censuses and the Bureau of the Census’s Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates ( SAIPE ) for the most recent year for which SAIPE data is available. (c) Reports Not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this Act, each department or agency listed in subsection (a) shall submit to Congress a progress report on the implementation of this section. B EITC Modernization 30201. Short title This subtitle may be cited as the EITC Modernization Act of 2020 . 30202. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Federal earned income tax credit is a refundable tax credit for lower- and middle-income working individuals and families whose