Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Program
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Emergency
06/05/2023
Approved without change
06/02/2023
06/02/2023
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Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
12/31/2023
6 Months From Approved
04/30/2025
78,980
0
78,980
269,235
0
269,235
0
0
0
Sections 602 and 603 of the Social Security Act as added by section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the âActâ), Pub. L. No. 117-2 (Mar. 11, 2021) authorizes the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund (CSFRF) and Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (CLFRF) respectively (referred to as the âCoronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fundsâ or âSLFRFâ), which provides $350 billion in total funding to Treasury to make payments generally to States (defined to include the District of Columbia), U.S. Territories (defined to include, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa), Tribes, Metropolitan cities, Counties, Consolidated Governments, and Nonentitlement units of local government (through States) (collectively the âeligible entitiesâ) to respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency or its negative economic impact, including provide assistance to households, small business, nonprofits, and impacted industries, such as tourism, travel, and hospitality; respond to workers performing essential work during the COVID-19 pandemic by providing premium pay to eligible workers of the State, territory, tribal government, metropolitan city, county, or nonentitlement units of local government performing essential work or by providing grants to eligible employers that have eligible workers; provide government services, to the extent COVID-19 caused a reduction of revenues collected in the most recent full fiscal year of the State, territory, tribal government, metropolitan city, county, or nonentitlement units of local government; or make necessary investments in water, sewer, or broadband infrastructure.
Section 602(b) of the Act prescribes that $219.8 billion must be allocated as follows: (1) $4.5 billion reserved for making payments to the U.S. Territories; (2) $20 billion reserved for making payments to Tribal governments; and (3) $195.3 billion reserved for making payments to the 50 States and the District of Columbia.
Section 603(b) of the Act prescribes that $130.2 billion must be allocated as follows: (1) $45.57 billion reserved for making payments to Metropolitan cities; (2) $19.53 billion reserved for making payments to States for distribution to Nonentitlement units of local government; and (3) $65.1 billion reserved for making payments to Counties. A unit of general local government that has formed a consolidated government or is geographically (in full or in part) within the boundaries of another unit of general local government may receive a distribution from the funds reserved for making payment to a metropolitan city, nonentitlement unit of local government or county, as applicable based on the respective formula for such allocation to a metropolitan city, nonentitlement unit of local government or county.
Section 602(b)(6)(A)(i) provides that Treasury shall make payments to States and U.S. Territories no later than 60 days after receipt of the required certification. Payments to tribal governments are to be distributed no later than 60 days after March 11, 2021 pursuant to section 602(b)(6)(B).
Section 603(b)(7)(A) provides that Treasury shall make the first tranche of payments to metropolitan cities, counties, and States for distribution to nonentitlement units of local government no later than 60 days after March 11, 2021.
Pursuant to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) procedures established at 5 C.F.R. § 1320.13, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) requests emergency processing for a revision of the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Program (SLFRF) information collection (OMB Control Number 1505-0271).
The revision is to make two additions to the SLFRF reporting requirements. The new fields request that award recipients provide Federal Communications Commission (FCC) identifiers in order to uniquely identify the precise location of broadband projects receiving funding. We expect our recipients to have these FCC identifiers on-hand already, and so there is no change in the estimated burden.
⢠Provider ID. The Provider ID is the identifier that the FCC assigns to every Internet service Provider (ISP). Any entity responsible for a broadband implementation project already has this number, and Treasury is collecting those numbers to comply with FCC requirements.
⢠Fabric ID. The Broadband DATA Act required the FCC to make a national map of broadband service at the location level. FCC licensees have access to the so-called âfabricâ, a database of all serviceable locations. The Fabric ID is assigned to every âbroadband serviceable locationâ in the fabric. For example, an apartment building which is broadband serviceable will have a unique Fabric ID assigned by the FCC. CPF recipients who are completing broadband projects are required to provide the Fabric IDs for the locations that they are serving.
Section 60105 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (P.L. 117-58) required the FCC to establish an online mapping tool with broadband locations funded by Federal agencies. The FCC first provided agencies with specifications for submitting data to this map in March 2023, which indicated that the Provider ID and Fabric ID would be required (and that latitude/longitude could not be used as a substitute to the Fabric ID for identifying location). As a result, SLFRF reporting guidance has to be updated to match those specifications for Q2 reporting, which is due by July 1, 2023. CPF award recipients must receive sufficient information about their reporting requirements in advance of the deadline, so approval of this revision is requested by June 5, 2023.
Treasury cannot reasonably comply with the normal clearance procedures under 5 CFR 1320.13(a)(2) because of the need to comply with recently issued FCC guidance when collecting the next quarterly reports. Given the inability to seek public comment during such a short timeframe, Treasury requests a waiver from the requirement to publish notice in the Federal Register seeking public comment.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.