National Emergency Authority To Temporarily Extend Deadlines for Certain Estimated Payments

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 79 (Thursday, April 23, 2020)]

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[FR Doc No: 2020-08846]

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Executive Order 13916 of April 18, 2020

National Emergency Authority To Temporarily

Extend Deadlines for Certain Estimated Payments

By the authority vested in me as President by the

Constitution and the laws of the United States of

America, including the National Emergencies Act (50

U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and in furtherance of

Proclamation 9994 of March 13, 2020 (Declaring a

National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus

Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak), which declared a national

emergency by reason of the threat that the novel (new)

coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 poses to our Nation's

healthcare systems, I hereby order as follows:

Section 1. Emergency Authority. (a) To provide

additional authority to the Secretary of the Treasury

(Secretary) to respond to the national emergency

declared by Proclamation 9994, the authority at section

1318(a) of title 19, United States Code, to extend

during the continuance of such emergency the time

prescribed therein for the performance of any act is

invoked and made available, according to its terms, to

the Secretary.

national emergency

declared by Proclamation 9994, the authority at section

1318(a) of title 19, United States Code, to extend

during the continuance of such emergency the time

prescribed therein for the performance of any act is

invoked and made available, according to its terms, to

the Secretary.

(b) The Secretary shall consider taking appropriate

action under section 1318(a) of title 19, United States

Code, to temporarily extend deadlines, for importers

suffering significant financial hardship because of

COVID-19, for the estimated payments described therein,

other than those assessed pursuant to sections 1671,

1673, 1862, 2251, and 2411 of title 19, United States

Code.

(c) The Secretary shall consult with the Secretary

of Homeland Security or his designee before exercising,

as invoked and made available under this order, any of

the authority set forth in section 1318(a) of title 19,

United States Code.

Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order

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 order shall be implemented consistent with

applicable law and subject to the availability of

appropriations.

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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 order shall be implemented consistent with

applicable law and subject to the availability of

appropriations.

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(c) This order 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.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

April 18, 2020.

[FR Doc. 2020-08846

Filed 4-22-20; 11:15 am]

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