; and (2) sums as are necessary to the Secretary for the administrative expenses and provision of technical assistance in carrying out this section. 104. Educational equity planning grants (a) Program established (1) In General The Secretary shall facilitate an inclusive, regional equity planning process and award grants to eligible consortia to eliminate intra-region education inequities by providing Federal funds to assist the eligible consortia in planning and carrying out regional education equity plans, in accordance with this section. (2) Planning grant The Secretary shall award a planning grant under this section, for a period of not longer than 1 year, to each eligible consortium with an approved application to enable the eligible consortium to develop a regional education equity plan. (3) Implementation grant The Secretary shall award an implementation grant under this section to each eligible consortium with an approved regional education equity plan to enable the consortium to carry out activities to implement such plan. (b) Eligible consortium In this section, the term eligible consortium means 2 or more local educational agencies that are located within the same metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area and that have formed a regional consortium. (c) Provision of data The Secretary, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Secretary of Transportation shall provide each eligible consortium that receives a planning grant under this section with data relevant to that particular eligible consortium about demographic trends, the spatial distribution of poverty, environmental hazards, and access to education, transportation, and economic opportunities across the consortium’s region, to assist the eligible consortium in developing the regional education equity plan. (d) Community outreach Each eligible consortium that receives a planning grant shall engage in extensive community outreach to solicit comments from diverse