; and (v) with respect to any other processes that the Assistant Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, determines to be appropriate. (b) Termination of regulations (1) In general Subject to paragraph (2), the regulations promulgated under subsection (a) shall terminate on the date that is 60 days after the date on which the public health emergency declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247d ) with respect to COVID–19, or any renewal of that declaration, terminates. (2) Continuity of funding If, during the period in which the regulations promulgated under subsection (a) are in effect, the Assistant Secretary makes a commitment to provide support to an institution of higher education under those regulations, the Assistant Secretary may make a payment with respect to that commitment on any date that is on or before September 30, 2021. (c) Exemptions (1) Notice and comment rulemaking requirements Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 553 of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply with respect to a regulation promulgated under subsection (a) of this section or a rulemaking to promulgate such a regulation. (2) Paperwork Reduction Act requirements A collection of information conducted or sponsored under the regulations promulgated under subsection (a) shall not constitute a collection of information for the purposes of subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Paperwork Reduction Act ). (d) Emergency Higher Education Con­nectivity Fund (1) Establishment There is established in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the Emergency Higher Education Con­nec­tiv­ity Fund . (2) Appropriation There is appropriated to the Emergency Higher Education Connectivity Fund, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2020, to remain available through fiscal year 2021. (3) Use of funds Amounts in the Emergency Higher