DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20220
State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Final Rule Tribal Government Fact Sheet
The State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program (SLFRF), authorized in the American Rescue Plan, allocates $20 billion for Tribal governments to support their response to and recovery from the COVID-19 public health emergency. After carefully considering feedback through Tribal consultations and written comments from Tribal governments, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has made the following revisions to the SLFRF program in a Final Rule adopted on January 6, 2022. Treasury also published a user-friendly overview of many of the major provisions of the final rule.
Replacing Lost Public Sector Revenue
• The final rule provides a standard allowance for revenue loss of $10 million, allowing recipients to select between a standard amount of revenue loss or complete a full revenue loss calculation. Recipients that select the standard allowance may use those funds for government services, with streamlined reporting requirements.
Public Health and Negative Economic Impacts
• Households and communities served by Tribal governments are presumed to be disproportionately impacted by the public health and negative economic impacts of the pandemic, thereby allowing Tribal governments to provide them with a wide range of services without requiring additional analysis. o Eligible uses include, but are not limited to, cash and food assistance, health insurance coverage expansion and paid sick and family leave, financial services for the unbanked and underbanked, affordable housing development and permanent supportive housing, childcare, early learning services, addressing learning loss for K-12 students, and improvements to vacant or abandoned property. • The final rule clarifies that recipients can use funds for capital expenditures that support an eligible COVID-19 public health or economic response. For example, recipients may build certain affordable housing, childcare facilities, schools, hospitals, and other projects consistent with final rule requirements.
o Tribal governments are exempt from the requirement to complete a written justification for capital expenditures.
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