[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 159 (Friday, August 20, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 46759-46760]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-18100]


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                Memorandum of August 17, 2021

                
Maximizing Assistance To Respond to COVID-19

                Memorandum for the Secretary of Homeland Security [and] 
                the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
                Agency

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
                Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121-
                5207 (the ``Stafford Act''), I hereby order as follows:

                Section 1. Policy. Consistent with the nationwide 
                emergency declaration of March 13, 2020, concerning the 
                coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it is the 
                policy of my Administration to combat and respond to 
                COVID-19 with the full capacity and capability of the 
                Federal Government to protect and support our families, 
                schools, and businesses, and to assist State, local, 
                Tribal, and territorial governments to do the same, 
                including through emergency and disaster assistance 
                available from the Federal Emergency Management Agency 
                (FEMA).

                Sec. 2. Assistance for Category B COVID-19 Emergency 
                Protective Measures. FEMA shall provide a 100 percent 
                Federal cost share for all work eligible for assistance 
                under Public Assistance Category B, pursuant to 
                sections 403 (42 U.S.C. 5170b), 502 (42 U.S.C. 5192), 
                and 503 (42 U.S.C. 5193) of the Stafford Act, including 
                work described in section 3(a) of the Presidential 
                Memorandum of January 21, 2021 (Memorandum to Extend 
                Federal Support to Governors' Use of the National Guard 
                to Respond to COVID-19 and to Increase Reimbursement 
                and Other Assistance Provided to States), and in 
                section 2 of that memorandum on the Governors' use of 
                the National Guard, performed from January 20, 2020, 
                through December 31, 2021.

                Sec. 3. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this 
                memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise 
                affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent 
                with applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) This memorandum is not intended to, and does 
                not, create any right or benefit, substantive or 
                procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any 
                party against the United States, its departments, 
                agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or 
                agents, or any other person.

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                    (d) The Administrator of FEMA is authorized and 
                directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal 
                Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, August 17, 2021

[FR Doc. 2021-18100
Filed 8-19-21; 8:45 am]
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