Register (ACFR) issues a regulation granting it official legal status. %PDF-1.6 % If a State determines that expanding meat processing capacity, including by paying overtime to USDA meat inspectors, is a necessary expense incurred due to the public health emergency, such as if increased capacity is necessary to allow farmers and processors to donate meat to food banks, then such expenses are eligible expenses, provided that the expenses satisfy the other requirements set forth in section 601(d) of the Social Security Act outlined in the Guidance. that agencies use to create their documents. Governments have discretion to determine how to tailor assistance programs they establish in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. After receiving feedback from tribal leaders through formal consultations and comment letters, the Treasury Department announced that it will allocate the $19 billion based on tribal enrollment and employment numbers. You will need to be able to document your claim. The CARES Act established the Coronavirus Relief Fund (the Fund) and appropriated $150 billion to the Fund. 44. COVID-19. On September 2, 2020, the Supplemental Guidance on Use of Funds to Cover Payroll and Benefits of Public Employees and Supplemental Guidance on Use of Funds to Cover Administrative Costs sections were added. $290 million was allocated directly to First . Winds ENE at 5 to 10 mph. Email . For example, a per capita payment to residents of a particular jurisdiction without an assessment of individual need would not be an appropriate use of payments from the Fund. All costs of such employees may be covered using payments from the Fund for services provided during the period that begins on March 1, 2020, and ends on December 31, 2021. Tribal governments whose submissions were complete were notified of their status. Once the email address is confirmed please provide your Account Number to activate your Print Subscription Service. These include: Although tribes have broad discretion within the above categories of infrastructure, the Treasury Department clarified in the Interim Final Rule that general infrastructure spending (roads, energy, etc.) County Board Meetings Increased workers compensation cost to the government due to the COVID-19 public health emergency incurred during the period beginning March 1, 2020, and ending December 31, 2021, is an eligible expense. The purpose of the Montana Homeowner Assistance Fund, in accordance with federal legislation and U.S. Treasury guidance, is to mitigate financial hardships associated with the coronavirus pandemic by providing funds to prevent homeowner mortgage delinquencies, defaults, foreclosures, loss of utilities or home energy services, and displacements . Yes, if the loans otherwise qualify as eligible expenditures under section 601(d) of the Social Security Act as implemented by the Guidance. electronic version on GPOs govinfo.gov. developer tools pages. In recognition of the particular importance of public health and public safety workers to State, local, and tribal government responses to the public health emergency, Treasury has provided, as an administrative accommodation, that a State, local, or tribal government may presume that public health and public safety employees meet the substantially dedicated test, unless the chief executive (or equivalent) of the relevant government determines that specific circumstances indicate otherwise. May recipients use Fund payments to facilitate livestock depopulation incurred by producers due to supply chain disruptions? Territories (the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands); and Tribal governments (collectively governments). 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L. No. This includes, but is not limited to, costs related to disbursing payments from the Fund and managing new grant programs established using payments from the Fund. Hazard pay means additional pay for performing hazardous duty or work involving physical hardship, in each case that is related to COVID-19. 14. Sault Ste. Hazard pay means additional pay for performing hazardous duty or work involving physical hardship, in each case that is related to COVID-19. documents in the last year, by the Coast Guard Any amounts repaid by the borrower before December 31, 2021, must be either returned to Treasury upon receipt by the unit of government providing the loan or used for another expense that qualifies as an eligible expenditure under section 601(d) of the Social Start Printed Page 4191Security Act. As stated in the Guidance above, Treasury considers the requirement that payments from the Fund be used only to cover costs that were not accounted for in the budget most recently approved as of March 27, 2020, to be met if either (a) the cost cannot lawfully be funded using a line item, allotment, or allocation within that budget or (b) the cost is for a substantially different use from any expected use of funds in such a line item, allotment, or allocation. Just four days later, on March 22, 2020, the Hopi Tribe received notification of three confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Tuba City. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act allocated $20 billion in Fiscal Recovery Funds (FRF) to tribes. Are recipients permitted to use Fund payments to pay for unemployment insurance costs incurred by the recipient as an employer? With respect to personnel expenses, though the Fund was not intended to be used to cover government payroll expenses generally, the Fund was intended to provide assistance to address increased expenses, such as the expense of hiring new personnel as needed to assist with the government's response to the public health emergency and to allow recipients facing budget pressures not to have to lay off or furlough employees who would be needed to assist with that purpose. In the Interim Final Rule and Frequently Asked Questions, the Treasury Department elaborated on the four categories of permissible uses of FRF as set forth in the American Rescue Plan. rendition of the daily Federal Register on FederalRegister.gov does not The payments constitute other financial assistance under 2 CFR 200.40. The CARES Act requires that the payments from the Coronavirus Relief Fund only be used to cover expenses that. Avery Street A3-G, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, P.O. COVID-19-related expenses of public hospitals, clinics, and similar facilities. 7. Yes, to the extent that the restrictions facilitate the State's compliance with the requirements set forth in section 601(d) of the Social Security Act outlined in the Guidance and other applicable requirements such as the Single Audit Act, discussed below. Information about this document as published in the Federal Register. The CARES Act directs Treasury to use U.S. Census Bureau data for the most recent year for which data is available. As previously stated in FAQ B.11, recipients are permitted to use payments from the Fund to cover the expenses of an audit conducted under the Single Audit Act, subject to the limitations set forth in 2 CFR 200.425. Exact payments to individual tribes were allocated out of that fund by the United States Department of the Treasury. Are recipients required to use other federal funds or seek reimbursement under other federal programs before using Fund payments to satisfy eligible expenses? for 1 day, $16.00 As previous guidance has stated, payments from the Fund may be used to meet the non-federal matching requirements for Stafford Act assistance to the extent such matching requirements entail COVID-19-related costs that otherwise satisfy the Fund's eligibility criteria and the Stafford Act. Tribal governments do not want to miss the upcoming deadlines of. If the grant is being provided to the small business to assist with particular expenditures, the business must not have already used the PPP or EIDL loan or grant for those expenditures. and services, go to by the Foreign Assets Control Office These are Covid-19@oneidanation.org and (920) 869-4481. staff at nursing homes, hospitals and home-care settings, childcare workers, educators and school staff. Subrecipients are subject to a single audit or program-specific audit pursuant to 2 CFR 200.501(a) when the subrecipients spend $750,000 or more in federal awards during their fiscal year. person will not be tolerated. Court Records; Reporting Fraud; Alternative Courts; Reporting Crimes; Resolving Ordinance Violations; Open and Participatory Government. The law directed Treasury to disburse the money "not later than 30 days" after its enactment, which was on March 27. Fund payments made by Treasury to State, territorial, local, and Tribal governments do not entail grant agreements and thus the provisions of the Uniform Guidance (2 CFR part 200) applicable to grant agreements do not apply. If a small business received a Small Business Administration (SBA) Payment Protection Program (PPP) or Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) grant or loan due to COVID-19, may the small business also receive a grant from a unit of government using payments from the Fund? Yes. In assessing the business' need for assistance, the recipient would need to take into account the business' receipt of the PPP or EIDL loan or grant. In response to questions regarding which employees are within the scope of this accommodation, Treasury is supplementing this guidance to clarify that public safety employees would include police officers (including state police officers), sheriffs and deputy sheriffs, firefighters, emergency medical responders, correctional and detention officers, and those who directly support such employees such as dispatchers and supervisory personnel. Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2020, $70,674) The Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding (CESF) Program allows States, U.S. The requirement that expenditures be incurred due to the public health emergency means that expenditures must be used for actions taken to respond to the public health emergency. 11. Expenses associated with conducting a recovery planning project or operating a recovery coordination office would be eligible, if the expenses otherwise meet the criteria set forth in section 601(d) of the Social Security Act outlined in the Guidance. Section 601 of the Social Security Act, as added by section 5001 (a) of Division A of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("CARES Act") established the Coronavirus Relief Fund (the "Fund") and appropriated $150 billion for payments by Treasury to States, tribal governments, and certain local governments. In a long-awaited decision, Canada's Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Sinixt people, part of the twelve Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, have constitutionally protected. 42 U.S.C. These tools are designed to help you understand the official document B. Contact the Eviction Defense Screening Line at 855-657-8387 or apply online at the Northwest Justice Project . In particular, a government must (i) determine that it is not able to meet the need arising from the public health emergency in a cost-effective manner by leasing property or equipment or by improving property already owned and (ii) maintain documentation to support this determination. hbbd```b``v@$X( &H`@$ Vj` D:I v{Ha`bd]v# >U The Treasury Department will finalize the interim rules and continue to publish additional FAQs on FRF that will require monitoring. Please provide the following instructions to your Financial Institution for the remittance of Automated Clearing House (ACH) credits to the Department of the Treasury. Counts are subject to sampling, reprocessing and revision (up or down) throughout the day. Virtual . Box 167 Concho, OK 73022 Phone: (405) 422-7580 Fax: (405) 422-8246 Email: HOPE@cheyenneandarapaho-nsn.gov. States and local governments will have significant leeway in deciding how to spend the $350 billion in Covid-19 relief funds, according to the Treasury Department. 553 do not apply to the extent that there is involved . Federal Register provide legal notice to the public and judicial notice 15. See Section 601(d) of the Social Security Act, as added by section 5001 of the CARES Act and as amended by section 1001 of Division N of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. For example, the cost of a good that must be delivered in December in order to be available for use in January could be covered using payments from the Fund. The expenses of acquiring or improving real property and of acquiring equipment (e.g., vehicles) may be covered with payments from the Fund in certain cases. on FederalRegister.gov The Treasury Inspector General could perform audits and retains the right to recoup FRF that is unspent or improperly used. Expenditures related to the provision of grants to small businesses to reimburse the costs of business interruption caused by required closures. First, we estimate the state will receive about $9.5 billion from the Coronavirus Relief Fund (CRF) . Box 1328, Parkersburg, WV 26106-1328. But COVID-19 cases are hitting record highs throughout the state. Winds light and variable.. Clear skies. Be Truthful. Fund payments may be used for subsidy payments to electricity account holders to the extent that the subsidy payments are deemed by the recipient to be necessary expenditures incurred due to the COVID-19 public health emergency and meet the other criteria of section 601(d) of the Social Security Act outlined in the Guidance. The deadline to request funding for the first payment is June 7, 2021. Treasury provided (in FAQ A.3) that costs incurred for a substantially different use would include, for example, the costs of redeploying educational support staff or faculty to develop online learning capabilities, such as through providing information technology support that is not part of the staff or faculty's ordinary responsibilities.
