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AS OF JUNE 24, 2021 <br />3 <br /> <br />1.5. My county is a unit of general local government with population under 50,000. Will <br />my county receive funds directly from Treasury? [5/27] <br /> <br />Yes. All counties that are units of general local government will receive funds directly <br />from Treasury and should apply via the online portal. The list of county allocations is <br />available here. <br /> <br />1.6. My local government expected to be classified as a non-entitlement unit. Instead, it <br />was classified as a metropolitan city. Why? [5/27] <br /> <br />The American Rescue Plan Act defines, for purposes of the Coronavirus Local Fiscal <br />Recovery Fund (CLFRF), metropolitan cities to include those that are currently <br />metropolitan cities under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program <br />but also those cities that relinquish or defer their status as a metropolitan city for purposes <br />of the CDBG program. This would include, by way of example, cities that are principal <br />cities of their metropolitan statistical area, even if their population is less than 50,000. In <br />other words, a city that is eligible to be a metropolitan city under the CDBG program is <br />eligible as a metropolitan city under the CLFRF, regardless of how that city has elected to <br />participate in the CDBG program. <br /> <br />Unofficial allocation estimates produced by other organizations may have classified <br />certain local governments as non-entitlement units of local government. However, based <br />on the statutory definitions, some of these local governments should have been classified <br />as metropolitan cities. <br /> <br />1.7. In order to receive and use Fiscal Recovery Funds, must a recipient government <br />maintain a declaration of emergency relating to COVID-19? [6/23] <br /> <br />No. Neither the statute establishing the CSFRF/CLFRF nor the Interim Final Rule <br />requires recipients to maintain a local declaration of emergency relating to COVID-19. <br /> <br /> <br />2. Eligible Uses – Responding to the Public Health Emergency / Negative <br />Economic Impacts <br /> <br />2.1. What types of COVID-19 response, mitigation, and prevention activities are <br />eligible? <br /> <br />A broad range of services are needed to contain COVID-19 and are eligible uses, <br />including vaccination programs; medical care; testing; contact tracing; support for <br />isolation or quarantine; supports for vulnerable populations to access medical or public <br />health services; public health surveillance (e.g., monitoring case trends, genomic <br />sequencing for variants); enforcement of public health orders; public communication <br />efforts; enhancement to health care capacity, including through alternative care facilities; <br />purchases of personal protective equipment; support for prevention, mitigation, or other <br />services in congregate living facilities (e.g., nursing homes, incarceration settings,