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OMB Control No: 1505-0271	ICR Reference No: 202306-1505-002
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 202209-1505-001
Agency/Subagency: TREAS/DO	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Program
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Emergency	Approval Requested By: 06/05/2023
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 06/02/2023
	Date Received in OIRA: 06/02/2023
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	12/31/2023	6 Months From Approved	04/30/2025
Responses	78,980	0	78,980
Time Burden (Hours)	269,235	0	269,235
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	0

Abstract: Sections 602 and 603 of the Social Security Act as added by section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “Act”), 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 “Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds” or “SLFRF”), 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 “eligible entities”) 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.

Emergency Justfication: 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 “fabric”, a database of all serviceable locations. The Fabric ID is assigned to every “broadband serviceable location” 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.

Authorizing Statute(s): PL: Pub.L. 117 - 2 9901 Name of Law: American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? No

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved
Annual Number of Responses	78,980	78,980
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	269,235	269,235
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement:

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $0

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Yes

Agency Contact: Alicia Henson 999 999-9999 alicia.henson@treasury.gov

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