Federal Register/Vol. 86, No. 93/Monday, May 17, 2021/Rules
26786 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 93 / Monday, May 17, 2021 / Rules and Regulations DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY over 32 million and killed over 575,000 COVID–19, including testing, contact Americans.1 The disease has impacted tracing, isolation and quarantine, public 31 CFR Part 35 every part of life: As social distancing communications, issuance and RIN 1505–AC77 became a necessity, businesses closed, enforcement of health orders, schools transitioned to remote expansions to health system capacity Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal education, travel was sharply reduced, like alternative care facilities, and in Recovery Funds and millions of Americans lost their recent months, a massive nationwide jobs. In April 2020, the national mobilization around vaccinations. AGENCY: Department of the Treasury. unemployment rate reached its highest Governments also have supported major ACTION: Interim final rule. level in over seventy years following the efforts to prevent COVID–19 spread most severe month-over-month decline through safety measures in settings like SUMMARY: The Secretary of the Treasury in employment on record.2 As of April nursing homes, schools, congregate (Treasury) is issuing this interim final 2021, there were still 8.2 million fewer living settings, dense worksites, rule to implement the Coronavirus State jobs than before the pandemic.3 During incarceration settings, and public Fiscal Recovery Fund and the this time, a significant share of facilities. The pandemic’s impacts on Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund households have faced food and behavioral health, including the toll of established under the American Rescue housing insecurity.4 Economic pandemic-related stress, have increased Plan Act.
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