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encouraged Treasury to focus on industries most negatively impacted by the pandemic, including <br />disallowing across-the-board business subsidies to businesses that were not negatively impacted <br />by the pandemic and saw revenue or profit growth. Other commenters asked for flexibility for <br />recipients to determine impacted industries based on their local knowledge of the economic <br />landscape. <br />Treasury Response: The final rule maintains the interim final rule's approach of allowing <br />recipients to designate impacted industries outside the travel, tourism, and hospitality industries, <br />and, in response to comments, provides greater clarity as to how recipients may designate such <br />impacted industries. <br />Sections 602(c)(1)(A) and 603(c)(1)(A) recognize that the tourism, travel, and hospitality <br />industries are severely negatively impacted by the pandemic. Under the final rule, recipients may <br />provide eligible aid (described in further detail herein) to the tourism, travel, and hospitality <br />industries. Treasury considers Tribal development districts, which are commercial centers for <br />Tribal hospitality, gaming, tourism, and entertainment and can include Tribal enterprises, as part <br />of the tourism, travel, and hospitality industries that have been severely hit by the pandemic. <br />Therefore, Treasury reaffirms that Tribal development districts are considered impacted <br />industries and recipients may provide eligible aid to them. <br />To identify other industries comparably impacted to the tourism, travel, and hospitality <br />industries, recipients should undertake a two-step process: identifying an industry and <br />determining whether that industry is comparably impacted. <br />163 <br />