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their determination that the pandemic resulted in disproportionate public health or economic <br />outcomes to the specific populations, households, or geographic areas to be served. <br />Throughout this final rule, Treasury refers to those households, communities, small <br />businesses, and nonprofits that experienced disproportionate public health or negative economic <br />impacts of the pandemic as "disproportionately impacted." The third category in the interim final <br />rule under this eligible use included public health responses and responses to the negative <br />economic impacts for these disproportionately impacted classes. <br />The interim final rule provided significant flexibility for recipients to determine which <br />households, populations, communities, or small businesses have been impacted and/or <br />disproportionately impacted by the pandemic and to identify appropriate responses. The interim <br />final rule included several provisions to provide simple methods for recipients to identify <br />impacts and design programs to address those impacts. First, the interim final rule allowed <br />recipients to demonstrate a negative economic impact on a population or class and provide <br />assistance to households or small businesses that fall within that population or class. In such <br />cases, the recipient need only demonstrate that an individual household or business is within the <br />class that experienced a negative economic impact, rather than requiring a recipient to <br />demonstrate that each individual household or small business experienced a negative economic <br />impact, because the impact was already identified for the class. <br />Second, in the interim final rule, Treasury presumed that certain populations have been <br />impacted or disproportionately impacted and are thus eligible for services that respond to these <br />impacts or disproportionate impacts. Specifically, the interim final rule permitted recipients to <br />presume that households that experienced unemployment, increased food or housing insecurity, <br />or are low- or moderate -income experienced a negative economic impact from the pandemic. <br />17 <br />