Presidential Document2021-28520
Maximizing Assistance to Respond to COVID-19
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Published
January 3, 2022
Signed
December 27, 2021
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Executive Office of the President
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 1 (Monday, January 3, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 27-28]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-28520]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 1 / Monday, January 3, 2022 /
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Memorandum of December 27, 2021
Maximizing Assistance to Respond to COVID-19
Memorandum for the Secretary of Health and Human
Services[,] 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. It is the policy of my
Administration to combat and respond to the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic 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. This policy includes the
use of emergency and disaster assistance available from
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to get
COVID-19 testing to the places that need it most.
Sec. 2. Assistance for COVID-19 Screening as an
Emergency Protective Measure. (a) With respect to a
request to FEMA from any State, Tribal, or territorial
government for direct Federal assistance to establish
or expand COVID-19 testing sites, the Administrator of
FEMA shall issue a mission assignment to the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS), on a fully
reimbursable basis, to provide testing sites, launched
and operated by HHS in close coordination with State,
local, Tribal, and territorial public health
departments.
(b) FEMA's mission assignments will require HHS to
adjudicate State, Tribal, and territorial requests
through the Emergency Support Function <greek-i>8
Advisory Council.
(c) FEMA shall fund 100 percent of the cost of
activities associated with the mission assignments to
HHS to provide COVID-19 testing sites as described in
section 2(a) of this memorandum, as authorized by
sections 403 (42 U.S.C. 5170b), 502 (42 U.S.C. 5192),
and 503 (42 U.S.C. 5193) of the Stafford Act.
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.
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(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, December 27, 2021
[FR Doc. 2021-28520
Filed 12-30-21; 8:45 am]
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