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Uses of funds can include loans, grants, or in -kind assistance to small businesses, <br />nonprofits, or other entities to implement COVID-19 prevention or mitigation tactics, such as <br />vaccination; testing; contact tracing programs; physical plant changes to enable greater use of <br />outdoor spaces or ventilation improvements; enhanced cleaning efforts; and barriers or partitions. <br />For example, this would include assistance to a restaurant to establish an outdoor patio, given <br />evidence showing much lower risk of COVID-19 transmission outdoors.76 Uses of funds can also <br />include aid to travel, tourism, hospitality, and other impacted industries to implement COVID-19 <br />mitigation and prevention measures to enable safe reopening, for example, vaccination or testing <br />programs, improvements to ventilation, physical barriers or partitions, signage to facilitate social <br />distancing, provision of masks or personal protective equipment, or consultation with infection <br />prevention professionals to develop safe reopening plans. <br />Recipients providing assistance to small businesses, nonprofits, or impacted industries <br />that includes capital expenditures (i.e., expenditures on property, facilities, or equipment) should <br />also review the section Capital Expenditures in General Provisions: Other, which describes <br />eligibility standards for these expenditures. Recipients providing assistances in the form of loans <br />should review the section Treatment of Loans Made with SLFRF Funds in General Provisions: <br />Other. <br />Recipients should also be aware of the difference between beneficiaries of assistance and <br />subrecipients when working with small businesses, nonprofits, or impacted industries. As noted <br />above, Treasury presumes that the general public, as well as small businesses, nonprofits, and <br />impacted industries in general, has been impacted by the COVID-19 disease itself and is eligible <br />76 See Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Participate in Outdoor and Indoor Activities, <br />https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/outdoor-activities.html (last visited November 8, <br />2021). <br />64 <br />