Chapter 23G of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting in section 46 the following new subsection:-

(n) The fund director shall allocate a portion of the original capitalization of the fund, not to exceed ten percent, to provide technical assistance to revitalize and support development in rural municipalities with a median household income below the commonwealth’s average by utilizing any of the following methods of providing technical assistance: (i) grants to support the hiring of professional staff or professional services by a rural municipality, an instrumentality of a rural municipality, or a regional planning authority; (ii) reimbursement for professional staff employed by the agency and embedded in a rural municipality, an instrumentality of a rural municipality, or a regional planning authority; (iii) grants to pay third-party professional services managed by the agency; and (iv) any other variation on the provision of technical assistance consistent with this section.