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Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-110

§9073 Procedures for Providing Payroll Support

Title 15 › CHAPTER 116 — CORONAVIRUS ECONOMIC STABILIZATION (CARES ACT) › SUBCHAPTER III — ECONOMIC STABILIZATION AND ASSISTANCE TO SEVERELY DISTRESSED SECTORS OF THE UNITED STATES ECONOMY › Part B — Air Carrier Worker Support › § 9073

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must give payroll help to passenger and cargo airlines and to their contractors based on what they paid from April 1, 2019, through September 30, 2019. If an airline filed pay reports with the Department of Transportation, the Secretary will use those reported numbers. If not, the airline or contractor can certify the amount with sworn financial statements or other proper records. The Secretary will set the forms, rules, and conditions (including audits and repayment if recipients break required promises) and must publish fast application steps within 5 days after March 27, 2020. Initial approved payments must be made no later than 10 days after March 27, 2020, and later payments come from any remaining funds as the Secretary decides. The Secretary can reduce payments evenly if money is short. The Treasury Department’s Inspector General will audit the certifications.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §9073

Commerce and Trade, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Awardable amounts
The Secretary shall provide financial assistance under this part—
(1)to an air carrier in an amount equal to the salaries and benefits reported by the air carrier to the Department of Transportation pursuant to part 241 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, for the period from April 1, 2019, through September 30, 2019; and
(2)to an air carrier that does not transmit reports under such part 241, in an amount that such air carrier certifies, using sworn financial statements or other appropriate data, as the amount of wages, salaries, benefits, and other compensation that such air carrier paid the employees of such air carrier during the period from April 1, 2019, through September 30, 2019; and
(3)to a contractor, in an amount that the contractor certifies, using sworn financial statements or other appropriate data, as the amount of wages, salaries, benefits, and other compensation that such contractor paid the employees of such contractor during the period from April 1, 2019, through September 30, 2019.
(b)Deadlines and procedures
(1)In general
(A)Forms; terms and conditions
Financial assistance provided to an air carrier or contractor under this part shall be in such form, on such terms and conditions (including requirements for audits and the clawback of any financial assistance provided upon failure by a passenger air carrier, cargo air carrier, or contractor to honor the assurances specified in section 9074 of this title), as the Secretary determines appropriate.
(B)Procedures
The Secretary shall publish streamlined and expedited procedures not later than 5 days after March 27, 2020, for air carriers and contractors to submit requests for financial assistance under this part.
(2)Deadline for immediate payroll assistance
Not later than 10 days after March 27, 2020, the Secretary shall make initial payments to air carriers and contractors that submit requests for financial assistance approved by to the Secretary.
(3)Subsequent payments
The Secretary shall determine an appropriate method for timely distribution of payments to air carriers and contractors with approved requests for financial assistance from any funds remaining available after providing initial financial assistance payments under paragraph (2).
(c)Pro rata authority
The Secretary shall have the authority to reduce, on a pro rata basis, the amounts due to air carriers and contractors under the applicable paragraph of section 9072 of this title in order to address any shortfall in assistance that would otherwise be provided under such section.
(d)Audits
The Inspector General of the Department of the Treasury shall audit certifications made under subsection (a).

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 9073

Title 15, Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110