[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 5 (Friday, January 8, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 1585]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-00164]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY


Emergency Rental Assistance

AGENCY: Department of the Treasury.

ACTION: Notification.

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SUMMARY: This notification announces that information about the 
Emergency Rental Assistance Program for States, U.S. Territories, 
certain local governments, and tribal communities is available on the 
U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) website, https://www.treasury.gov/policy-issues/cares/emergency-rental-assistance-program. The website includes the grantee payment information form, 
instructions for submitting payment information, a list of eligible 
local governments, and a copy of the award terms to which grantees must 
agree in order to receive payments from Treasury.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hannah Resig, Senior Policy Analyst, 
Domestic Finance, 202-622-1407, or Stephen T. Milligan, Deputy 
Assistant General Counsel (Banking & Finance), 202-622-4051.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 27, 2020, the President signed 
into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the ``Act''), 
Public Law 116-260. Division N, Section 501(a) of the Act provides $25 
billion for Treasury to make payments directly to States (including the 
District of Columbia), U.S. Territories (Puerto Rico, the United States 
Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, 
and American Samoa), local governments with more than 200,000 
residents, the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and Indian tribes 
(defined to include Alaska native corporations) or the tribally 
designated housing entity of an Indian tribe, as applicable. Division 
N, Section 501(c) of the Act requires that grantees use at least 90 
percent of the funds to provide financial assistance such as the 
payment of rent, rental arrears, utilities and home energy costs, and 
utility and home energy cost arrears on behalf of eligible households 
and permits grantees to use no more than ten percent of the funds to 
provide housing stability services to eligible households and cover 
administrative costs. More information is available at https://www.treasury.gov/policy-issues/cares/emergency-rental-assistance-program.

    Dated: January 4, 2021.
Daniel Kowalski,
Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
[FR Doc. 2021-00164 Filed 1-7-21; 8:45 am]
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