Office of Management and Budget Governmentwide Guidance for Grants and Agreements (Parts 100-199) II. ���}Ȧ��V�����J�{�0�n!J 7v���W�'. To this end, the interim final rule enumerates a list of services that may be provided using Fiscal Recovery Funds in low-income areas to address the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic in these communities; establishes the characteristics of essential workers eligible for premium pay and encouragement to serve workers based on financial need; provides that recipients may use Fiscal Recovery Funds to restore (to pre-pandemic levels) state and local workforces, where women and people of color are disproportionately represented; [186] the CWSRF provides financial assistance for a wide range of water infrastructure projects to improve water quality and address water pollution in a way that enables each State to address and prioritize the needs of their populations. 2292, 2293 If necessary, States and territories may use the Fiscal Recovery Funds under section 602(c)(1)(A) to fund expenses related to administering payments to NEUs and units of general local government, as disbursing these funds itself is a response to the public health emergency and its negative economic impacts. 151. 175. (2) Any reports required to be filed by that date pursuant to this subpart that have not yet been filed. Covered change. In households with more members, the demands may be greater, and in households with fewer members, the demands may be less. 105. Question 19: What additional water and sewer infrastructure categories, if any, should Treasury consider to address and respond to the needs of unserved, undeserved, or rural communities? These and related periodic reporting requirements are under consideration and will be submitted to OMB for approval under the PRA emergency provisions in the near future. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID Data Tracker: Trends in Number of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in the US Reported to CDC, by State/Territory, https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases (last visited May 8, 2021). U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Labor Force Participation Rate—20 Yrs. Assistance to nonprofit organizations, including loans, grants, in-kind assistance, technical assistance or other services, that responds to the negative economic impacts of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Why or why not? 166. [106] Subrecipients are entities that receive a subaward from a recipient to carry out a program or project on behalf of the recipient with the recipient's Federal award funding. Accordingly, and to better measure the funds available for the provision of government services, the definition of general revenue would include intergovernmental transfers from States or local governments other than funds transferred pursuant to ARPA, CRF, or another Federal program. 162. The recipient government will next calculate the total value of all covered changes in the reporting year resulting in revenue reductions, identified in Step 1. Payroll and covered benefit expenses for public safety, public health, health care, human services, and similar employees to the extent that the employee's time is spent mitigating or responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
Additional data and detail on increases in the amount of data users consume and the broadband speeds they are using is provided in OpenVault Broadband Insights Report Q4, Quarterly Advisory (Feb. 10, 2021), available at https://openvault.com/complimentary-report-4q20/. Additional extensions may be granted at the discretion of the Secretary. 57. Lisa R. Fortuna et al., Inequity and the Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Communities of Color in the United States: The Need for Trauma-Informed Social Justice Response, Psychological Trauma Vol. 156. Public Law 111-5. Question 23: Would setting such a minimum be impractical for particular types of projects? If actual tax revenue is greater than the baseline, Treasury will deem the recipient government not to have any recognized net reduction for the reporting year, and therefore to be in a safe harbor and outside the ambit of the offset provision.
It is important that necessary investments in water, sewer, or broadband infrastructure be carried out in ways that produce high-quality infrastructure, avert disruptive and costly delays, and promote efficiency. Each annual Recovery Plan Performance report must be posted on the public-facing website of the recipient.
Treasury also may consider other information in identifying a violation, such as information provided by members of the public. Subject to §§ 35.7 and 35.8, a recipient may use funds for one or more of the purposes described in paragraphs (b) through (e) of this section. The public health emergency, including the necessary measures taken to protect public health, resulted in significant economic and financial hardship for many Americans. As when identifying and valuing covered changes that reduce tax revenue, the value of revenue-raising changes may be reported based on estimated values produced by a budget model, incorporating reasonable assumptions, aligned with the recipient government's existing approach for measuring the effects of fiscal policies, and measured relative to a current law baseline, or based on actual values using a statistical methodology to isolate the change in year-over-year revenue attributable to the covered change(s). The interim final rule provides that eligible investments in broadband are those that are designed to provide services meeting adequate speeds and are provided to unserved and underserved households and businesses. on establishing the XML-based Federal Register as an ACFR-sanctioned 79. [91] This approach minimizes the administrative burden for recipients, provides for greater consistency across recipients, and presents a more accurate representation of the overall impact of Start Printed Page 26800the COVID-19 public health emergency on a recipient's revenue, rather than relying on financial reporting prepared by each recipient, which vary in methodology used and which generally aggregates revenue by purpose rather than by source.[117]. 0000000704 00000 n 147. Fiscal Recovery Funds payments may be used by recipients to provide premium pay to eligible workers performing essential work during the COVID-19 public health emergency or to provide grants to third-party employers with eligible workers performing essential work. 32.
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 19 CFR Parts 10, 102, 132, 134, 163, 182, and 190 [USCBP-2021-0026] [CBP Dec. 21-10] . 68. Federal Communications Commission, Fixed Broadband Deployment, https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/#/ (last visited May 9, 2021).
25. As discussed in Section VIII of this SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION, recipients of Fiscal Recovery Funds will be required to submit one interim report and thereafter quarterly Project and Expenditure reports until the end of the award period.
Nothing in this subpart shall limit the authority of the Secretary to take action to enforce conditions or violations of law, including actions necessary to prevent evasions of this subpart. This approach ensures that recipient governments have the information they need to understand the implications of their decisions regarding the use of the Fiscal Recovery Funds—and, in particular, whether they are using the funds to directly or indirectly offset a reduction in net tax revenue, making them potentially subject to recoupment. 33. In addition to the labor market consequences for unemployed workers, recessions can also cause longer-term economic challenges through, among other factors, damaged consumer credit scores [62] board of education: title ix. Non-profits, which provide vital services to communities, have similarly faced Start Printed Page 26793economic and financial challenges due to the pandemic.[72]. [98] Qualified census tract has the same meaning given in 26 U.S.C. (d) Additional conditions. See infra Section II.B of this Supplementary Information. To cite the regulations in this volume use title, part and section . U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Level [LNU02000000], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU02000000, May 3, 2021. States, territories, metropolitan cities, and counties with a population that exceeds 250,000 residents will also be required to submit an annual Recovery Plan Performance report to Treasury. [142] PERSONAL TRANSACTIONS BY TREASURY SHARE MANAGERS 15 Article 15. Title VI / Nondiscrimination Posted Statement: Santa Rosa County assures state and federal agencies that no person shall on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, family, sex or religious status as provided by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, the Florida Civil Rights Act of . DATA STANDARDS.
The 100 Mbps upload and download speeds will support the increased and growing needs of households and businesses. (5) Identify and assess available alternatives to direct regulation, including providing economic incentives—such as user fees or marketable permits—to encourage the desired behavior, or providing information that enables the public to make choices. The interim final rule implements statutory conditions on the eligible uses of the Fiscal Recovery Funds grants, and addresses the payment of those funds, the reporting on uses of funds, and potential consequences of ineligible uses. Social distancing measures in response to the pandemic may have also exacerbated pre-existing public health challenges. Sections 602(c)(1)(A) and 603(c)(1)(A) provide significant resources for State, territorial, Tribal governments, and counties, metropolitan cities, and nonentitlement units of local governments (each referred to as a recipient) to meet the wide range of public health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Sebastian D. Romano et al., Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Hospitalizations, by Region—United States, March-December 2020, MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2021, 70:560-565 (Apr. As provided under sections 602(g)(2) and 603(g)(2), the chief executive of each recipient has discretion to add additional sectors to this list, so long as additional sectors are deemed critical to protect the health and well-being of residents. [136] The contents of these volumes represent all of the current regulations codified under this title of the CFR as of January 1, 2017. For purposes of measuring a reduction in net tax revenue, the interim final rule measures actual changes in tax revenue relative to a revenue baseline (baseline). 28. Environmental Protection Agency, Drinking Water State Revolving fund, https://www.epa.gov/dwsrf (last visited Apr. 601.
Recipients must submit their interim report to Treasury by August 31, 2021. Mixed income communities, with a significant share of tribal members at the lowest levels of income, are often not included as eligible QCTs yet tribal residents are experiencing disproportionate impacts due to the pandemic. See also, Michael Dalton et al., The K-Shaped Recovery: Examining the Diverging Fortunes of Workers in the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic using Business and Household Survey Microdata, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Working Paper Series (Feb. 2021), https://www.bls.gov/osmr/research-papers/2021/pdf/ec210020.pdf. Med. Finally, though schools in all areas faced challenges, those in high poverty areas had fewer resources to adapt to remote and hybrid learning models. See, e.g., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Risk of Severe Illness or Death from COVID-19 (Dec. 10, 2020), https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/health-equity/racial-ethnic-disparities/disparities-illness.html (last visited Apr. Because postal mail may be subject to processing delay, it is recommended that comments be submitted electronically. 58.
4 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title I of the Finan- . Funds means, with respect to a recipient, amounts provided to the recipient pursuant to a payment made under section 602(b) or 603(b) of the Social Security Act or transferred to the recipient pursuant to section 603(c)(4) of the Social Security Act. Rules that are exempt from notice and comment under the APA are also exempt from the RFA requirements, including the requirement to conduct a regulatory flexibility analysis, when among other things the agency for good cause finds that notice and public procedure are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest. 26, 2021); U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Early Childhood Development and Education, https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/social-determinants-health/interventions-resources/early-childhood-development-and-education (last visited Apr. Third, a recipient government will consider the amount of actual tax revenue recorded in the year for which they are reporting. Environmental Protection Agency, Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (Nov. 2019), https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2019-11/documents/fact_sheet_-_dwsrf_overview_final_0.pdf; Environmental Protection Agency, National Benefits Analysis for Drinking Water Regulations, https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/national-benefits-analysis-drinking-water-regulations (last visited Apr. 120. [77] This feature is not available for this document. U.S. Department of the Treasury: Authorized Representative: Title: Date: . Over the course of the pandemic, inequities also manifested along gender lines, as schools closed to in-person activities, leaving many working families without child care during the day. Although as discussed above the eligible uses of payments from the Fiscal Recovery Funds are all prospective in nature, Treasury considers the beginning of the covered period for purposes of determining compliance with section 602(c)(2)(A) to be the relevant reference point for this purpose. Low-income communities, people of color, and Tribal communities have faced higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and death,[10] (2) Violations of § 35.8. This approach offers recipient governments the flexibility to determine their reporting methodology based on their existing budget scoring practices and capabilities. Recipients may use Fiscal Recovery Funds to invest in a broad range of projects that improve drinking water infrastructure, such as building or upgrading facilities and transmission, distribution, and storage systems, including replacement of lead service lines.
While the U.S. economy has been recovering and adding jobs in aggregate, there is still considerable uncertainty in the economic outlook and the interaction between the pandemic and the economy. Nonentitlement units of local government are not required to submit an interim report. 41. ○ Spending cuts in areas not being replaced by Fiscal Recovery Funds. In addition, the interim final rule establishes certain regular reporting requirements, including by requiring State, local, and Tribal governments to publish information regarding uses of Fiscal Recovery Funds payments in their local jurisdiction. . Thereafter, Recovery Plan Performance reports will cover a 12-month period, and recipients will be required to submit the report to Treasury within 30 days after the end of the 12-month period. As such, these funds are intended to provide economic stimulus in areas still recovering from the economic effects of the pandemic. 42. When attributing revenue to a unit of government, the Census Bureau's methodology considers which unit of government imposes, collects, and retains the revenue and assigns the revenue to the unit of government that meets at least two of those three factors. Mortal. (a) Restriction. For example, more frequent and extreme precipitation events combined with construction and development trends have led to increased instances of stormwater runoff, water pollution, and flooding. What other measures or presumptions might Treasury consider to assess the extent to which public sector staff are engaged in COVID-19 response, and therefore reimbursable, in an easily-administrable manner? (e) Final amount subject to recoupment. Small business means a business concern or other organization that: (1) Has no more than 500 employees, or if applicable, the size standard in number of employees established by the Administrator of the Small Business Administration for the industry in which the business concern or organization operates; and, (2) Is a small business concern as defined in section 3 of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. This subpart applies to States, territories, Tribal governments, metropolitan cities, nonentitlement units of local government, counties, and units of general local government that accept a payment or transfer of funds made under section 602 or 603 of the Social Security Act. Adam Service consents to the assessment of a civil money penalty and enters the Prior to February 13, 2020, the . Id. The Department of Commerce's BBIP also considers households to be “unserved” generally if they lack access to broadband service Start Printed Page 26806with a download speed of not less than 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload, among other conditions. U.S. gross domestic product is projected to rebound to pre-pandemic levels in 2021,[165] Question 1: Are there other types of services or costs that Treasury should consider as eligible uses to respond to the public health impacts of COVID-19? . As provided for in the award terms, payments from the Fiscal Recovery Funds as a general matter will be subject to the provisions of the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (2 CFR part 200) (the Uniform Guidance), including the cost principles and restrictions on general provisions for selected items of cost. Treasury also has determined that this regulatory action does not unduly interfere with States, territories, Tribal governments, and localities in the exercise of their governmental functions. Mitigating the impact of COVID-19, including taking actions to control its spread and support hospitals and health care workers caring for the sick, continues to require a major public health response from State, local and Tribal governments. Welcome to the City of Pompano Beach Finance Department.
89. Evidence-based community violence intervention programs to prevent violence and mitigate the increase in violence during the pandemic. On January 6, 2021, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final . A lock (LockA locked padlock) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. and Treasury's implementing regulations at 31 C.F.R. . This rule is necessary to implement the ARPA in order to provide economic relief to State, local, and Tribal governments adversely impacted by the COVID-19 public health emergency. The HHS-only regulations that apply to health care providers, facilities, and providers of air ambulance services are . A recipient using the three-year average to calculate their growth adjustment must be based on the definition of general revenue, including treatment of intergovernmental transfers. Money and Finance: Treasury. documents in the last year, by the Land Management Bureau
More specifically, the interim final rule does not permit this assistance to be used to make a payment into a pension fund if both: 1. (3) Hiring State and local government staff.
How should the interim final rule take into consideration differences in approaches? Question 8: Are there other services or costs that Treasury should consider as eligible uses to respond to the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on low-income populations and communities? Part 3 - CLAIMS REGULATIONS AND INDEMNIFICATION OF DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY EMPLOYEES. The following table summarizes the relevant regulations: The Fiscal Recovery Funds provide resources to not only respond to the immediate harms of the pandemic but also to mitigate its longer-term impact in compounding the systemic public health and economic challenges of disproportionately impacted populations. Stay-at-home orders and other pandemic responses may have also reduced the ability of individuals affected by domestic violence to access services. Nonprofit means a nonprofit organization that is exempt from Federal income taxation and that is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Internal Revenue Service 26 CFR Part 1 [TD 8842] RIN 1545-AW32 Acquisition of an S Corporation by a Member of a Consolidated Group AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury. department of services for the elderly: title xxiv. revenue) in arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation, and food services has fallen by approximately 24 percent. 84. Understanding that State, local, and Tribal governments have a broad range of water and sewer infrastructure needs, the interim final rule provides these governments with wide latitude to identify investments in water and sewer infrastructure that are of the highest priority for their own communities, which may include projects on privately-owned infrastructure. ASSURANCES OF COMPLIANCE WITH TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 As a condition of receipt of federal financial assistance from the Department of the Treasury, the recipient named below (hereinafter referred to as the "Recipient") provides the assurances stated herein. 158. Among data users observed by OpenVault, per-subscriber average data usage for the fourth quarter of 2020 was 482.6 gigabytes per month, representing a 40 percent increase over the 344 gigabytes consumed in the fourth quarter of 2019 and a 26 percent increase over the third quarter 2020 average of 383.8 gigabytes.
Rep. 69(19):591-93 (May 8, 2020), https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6919e2.htm; Marisa Langdon-Embry et al., Notes from the Field: Rebound in Routine Childhood Vaccine Administration Following Decline During the COVID-19 Pandemic—New York City, March 1-June 27, 2020, Morb. 37. U.S. Census Bureau, Government Finance and Employment Classification Manual (Dec. 2000), https://www2.census.gov/govs/class/classfull.pdf. . Found inside – Page 286... Department of the Interior ( Parts 1200—1299 ) VII XII Title 31 - Money and Finance : Treasury I II IV V VI SUBTITLE A - OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY ( PARTS 050 ) SUBTITLE B - REGULATIONS RELATING TO MONEY AND FINANCE ... us laws, statutes & codes on-line. 63. The FY 2019 baseline revenue will be adjusted annually for inflation to allow for direct comparison of actual tax revenue in each year (reported in nominal terms) to baseline revenue in common units of measurement; without inflation adjustment, each dollar of reported actual tax revenue would be worth less than each dollar of baseline revenue expressed in 2019 terms. The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
Given the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on low-income households discussed above, there is a risk that the current pandemic-induced recession could further increase concentrated poverty and cause long-term damage to economic prospects in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty. County means a county, parish, or other equivalent county division (as defined by the Census Bureau). Nonentitlement unit recipients will be required to submit annual Project and Expenditure reports until the end of the award period. The required documents to be signed, a general information document with FAQs, and a job aid will be attached to the funding opportunity.
See e.g., Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Report to Congress on the Availability of Credit to Small Businesses (Sept. 2017), available at https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2017-september-availability-of-credit-to-small-businesses.htm. Document Drafting Handbook 150.
What, if any, conditions should be considered to ensure that funds repair economic impacts of the pandemic and strengthen unemployment insurance systems? Eligible Public Health Uses. Analysis of Costs. Covered benefits include, but are not limited to, the costs of all types of leave (vacation, family-related, sick, military, bereavement, sabbatical, jury duty), employee insurance (health, life, dental, vision), retirement (pensions, 401(k)), unemployment benefit plans (Federal and State), workers' compensation insurance, and Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes (which includes Social Security and Medicare taxes). 19-126 (filed Jan. 3, 2020), including an Appendix with research from RVA LLC, Data Review Of The Importance of Upload Speeds (Jan. 2020), and Ookla speed test data, available at https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/101030085118517/FCC%20RDOF%20Jan%203%20Ex%20Parte.pdf. In the few years preceding the pandemic, market research data showed that average upload speeds in the United States surpassed over 10 Mbps in 2017 [146] State, local, and Tribal governments also may use the Fiscal Recovery Funds under sections 602(c)(1)(C) or 603(c)(1)(C) to provide “government services” broadly to the extent of their reduction in revenue. The disease has impacted every part of life: As social distancing became a necessity, businesses closed, schools transitioned to remote education, travel was sharply reduced, and millions of Americans lost their jobs. It has done so by aiming to target relief in key areas according to the congressional mandate; offering clarity to States, territories, Tribal governments, and localities while maintaining their flexibility to respond to local needs; and limiting administrative burdens. [108] A recipient may use funds to respond to the public health emergency or its negative economic impacts, including for one or more of the following purposes: (1) COVID-19 response and prevention. ).Start Printed Page 26820. This interim final rule is primarily a transfer rule: It transfers $350 billion in aid from the Federal Government to states, territories, Tribal governments, and localities, generating a significant macroeconomic effect on the U.S. economy. informational resource until the Administrative Committee of the Federal
The interim final rule implements these provisions by establishing a definition of “general revenue” for purposes of calculating a loss in revenue and by providing a methodology for calculating revenue lost due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies » . In general and where possible, reporting should be produced by the agency of the recipient government responsible for estimating the costs and effects of fiscal policy changes. should verify the contents of the documents against a final, official Sections 602(c)(1)(B), 603(c)(1)(B) of the Act. documents in the last year, 1441 [38] 67. U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances, https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/gov-finances.html (last visited Apr. Premium pay means an amount of up to $13 per hour that is paid to an eligible worker, in addition to wages or remuneration the eligible worker otherwise receives, for all work performed by the eligible worker during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Title 31.
[7] The OFR/GPO partnership is committed to presenting accurate and reliable (2) Public health and safety staff. 126. [27]
For purposes of the Fiscal Recovery Funds, covered benefits include costs of all types of leave (vacation, family-related, sick, military, bereavement, sabbatical, jury duty), employee insurance (health, life, dental, vision), retirement (pensions, 401(k)), unemployment benefit plans Start Printed Page 26807(Federal and State), workers' compensation insurance, and Federal Insurance Contributions Act taxes (which includes Social Security and Medicare taxes).
While economic impacts may either be immediate or delayed, assistance or aid to individuals or businesses that did not experience a negative economic impact from the public health emergency would not be an eligible use under this category. 62. 70.
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