; and (8) monitor project success and maintaining the project into the future. (e) Existing initiatives The Secretary may encourage and give priority to climate resiliency plans or climate resiliency projects that integrate with and inform existing sustainability initiatives, such as the Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools program. (f) Environmental health The Secretary may develop and encourage metrics to support consistent reporting of environmental health best practices and other outcomes. (g) Coordination (1) Environmental protection agency and agriculture The Secretary shall coordinate with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Secretary of Agriculture to provide technical guidance or assistance to State educational agencies in designing and carrying out climate resiliency plans or climate resiliency projects funded by the grant program as they relate to healthy schools. (2) Department of energy The Secretary shall coordinate with the Secretary of Energy to develop metrics to evaluate grant applications and provide technical assistance to State and local educational agencies in designing and carrying out climate resiliency plans or climate resiliency projects. (h) Partners A recipient of a grant under this section to carry out a project described in subsection (b)(1)(K) shall, to the extent practicable, partner with local government and other public or nonprofit entities to support internet access, and all service providers shall use open access infrastructure. (i) Environmental justice communities The Secretary shall ensure that not less than 50 percent of funds awarded under this section are used for projects located in environmental justice communities. (j) Wage rate requirements (1) In general Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors and subcontractors on projects funded directly by a grant under this section shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on projects of a similar character in the