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U.s. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY <br /> Aid tc Impacted Industries <br /> Recipients may use SLFRF funding to provide aid to industries impacted by the COVID-19 pandernic. <br /> Recipients should first designate an impacted industry and then provide aid to address the impacted <br /> industn/s negative economic impact. <br /> This sub-category of eligible uses does not separately identify disproportionate impacts and <br /> corresponding responsive services. <br /> 1. Designating an impacted industry.There are two main ways an industry can be designated as <br /> "impacted." <br /> l. If the industry is in the travel,tourism, or hospitality sectors (including Tribal development <br /> districts),the industry isimpacted. <br /> 2. If the industry is outside the travel, tourism, or hospitality sectors,the industry is impacted <br /> if/ <br /> e. The industry experienced at least O percent employment loss from pre-pandemic <br /> levels,por <br /> b. The industry is experiencing comparable or worse economic impacts as the national <br /> tourism,travel, and hospitality industries as of the date of the final rule, based on <br /> the totality of economic indicators or qualitative data (if quantitative data is <br /> unavailable),and if the impacts were generally due to the[OV|D'19 public health <br /> emergency. <br /> Recipients have flexibility to define industries broadly or narrowly, but Treasury encourages <br /> recipients to define narrow and discrete industries eligible for aid. State and territory recipients <br /> also have flexibility to define the industries with greater geographic precision;for example, a <br /> state may identify a particular industry in a certain region of state as impacted. <br /> 2. Providing eligible aid to the impacted industry.Aid may only be provided to support <br /> businesses, attractions,and Tribal development districts operating prior to the pandemic and <br /> affected by required closures and other efforts to contain the pandemic. Further, aid should be <br /> generally broadly available to all businesses within the impacted industry to avoid potential <br /> conflicts of interest, and Treasury encourages aid to be first used for operational expenses, such <br /> as payroll, before being used on other types ofcosts. <br /> 9 Specifically,a recipient should compare the percent change in the number of employees of the recipient's identified industry <br /> and the national Leisure&Hospitality sector in the three months before the pandemic's most severe impacts began(a straight <br /> three-month average of seasonally-adjusted employment data from December 2019,January 2020,and February 2020)with <br /> the latest data asof the final rule(astraight three-month average of seasonally-adjusted employment data from September <br /> zoz1,October zo21'and November zo2z).For parity and simplicity,smaller recipients without employment data that measure <br /> industries in their specific jurisdiction may use data available for a broader unit of government for this calculation(e.g.,a <br /> mumv may use data from the state in which it i,located;a city may use data for the county,if available,or state in which it is <br /> located)solely for purposes ofdetermining whether a particular industry iaan impacted industry. <br /> [oronovirusJtate&Local Fiscal Recovery Funds:Overview nƒthe Final Rule <br />