1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Community Driven Recovery for Puerto Rico Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Recovery from the devastation caused by natural disasters should be agile, effective, and promote resiliency for future disasters. Other priorities include promoting accountability and transparency in the use of Federal funds that will be spent in these efforts and implementing mechanisms to ensure those ends. (2) The current systems of the agencies in charge of recovery in Puerto Rico are over-centralized and do not serve the purpose of agile and effective planning and implementation or of effective monitoring and accounting. (3) The centralized system of Federal recovery spending for Puerto Rico excludes most communities from program design and program implementation prioritization, does not take advantage of the local historical and institutional knowledge on the use of Federal recovery funds, and is not as flexible and responsive as the local implementation network. (4) An Office for Equitable, Transparent, and Accountable Puerto Rico Reconstruction should be established so that diverse civil society leaders in Puerto Rico are in positions to help ensure equitable, effective, transparent, and accountable recovery and development of Puerto Rico. (5) The work of the Office for Equitable, Transparent, and Accountable Puerto Rico Reconstruction should be guided by the following principles: (A) Equitable and resilient recovery and development that is responsive to under-served populations and vulnerable groups as well as applies innovative and sustainable investments. (B) An empowered civil society in Puerto Rico that does not substitute State or local government, but that is protected from abuse and that can participate in the decision making processes through effective participation mechanisms, as through their local organizations and government representatives. (C) Effective and agile spending of Federal funds for the recovery and long-term resiliency of families,