; and (II) supporting such providers in sustaining child care quality, including supporting increased wages for staff and supporting payment of fixed costs. (iii) Facilities grants From a portion of the quality child care amount, a State shall provide support, including through awarding facilities grants, for an activity (referred to in this subparagraph as a covered activity ) consisting of remodeling, renovation, or repair of a building or facility, or for construction, permanent improvement, or major renovation of a building or facility primarily used for providing direct child care services, in accordance with the following: (I) Recipients The facilities grants shall be awarded to eligible child care providers with submitted or approved applications under subsection (f) or (g) or to intermediaries with experience supporting child care providers in order to enable the intermediaries to assist such eligible child care providers with covered activities. (II) Eligibility To be eligible to receive funds through a facilities grant under this clause, a child care provider shall enter into an agreement with the State in which the provider commits to use the funds only after obtaining approval of an application under subsection (f) or (g) and commits to provide child care services to children receiving assistance under this section on an ongoing basis. (III) Federal interest application Provisions of Federal law relating to a Federal interest in a building or facility shall not apply to a covered activity for privately owned family child care homes under this clause. (IV) Federal interest duration The Secretary shall not retain a Federal interest after a period of 10 years in any building, or facility, at which a covered activity was carried out with funds awarded under this clause. (V) Religious buildings and facilities Eligible child care providers may not use funds for buildings or facilities that are used primarily for sectarian instruction or religious worship. (VI) Family child care homes The Secretary shall