FEMA Tribal Consultation on Implementation of the Build America, Buy America Act (BABAA)
2022-12-08 13:30 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Virtual Event
FEMA will host a virtual consultation with Tribal Nations to discuss FEMA’s implementation of the Build America, Buy America Act (BABAA) on December 8, 2022, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Eastern. More information and the registration for the virtual meeting is linked below.
Virtual Tribal Consultation to Discuss Build America, Buy America Act | FEMA.gov

USDA Tribal Consultation on Multiple Programs
2022-12-13 12:00 | TN, United States
December 13 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Agenda
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is going to hold a consultation with tribal leaders at 1:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, that will focus on collecting input on rule revisions in the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR), Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), Child Nutrition Programs (CNP), and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). According to USDA’s Dear Tribal Leader Letter, this session will “focus on the [Food and Nutrition Service] rulemaking process”.

DOI Tribal Consultation on Inflation Reduction Act
2022-12-13 14:00 - 16:00, 2022-12-15 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
Tuesday, December 13 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
Register in advance
Thursday, December 15 at 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern
Register in advance

In addition to joining one of the consultation sessions listed above, you may submit written comments to consultation@bia.gov by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, January 17, 2023.

OPC: Ocean Climate Action Plan Consultation (virtual)
2022-12-13 14:00 - 17:00 | Virtual Event
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm Eastern
Location: Virtual
Please register in advance.
The Ocean Policy Committee (OPC) is developing an Ocean Climate Action Plan (OCAP), which will promote ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes-based activities that can provide climate solutions. The OCAP will focus on topics like green shipping, blue carbon, biodiversity conservation and protection, ecosystem restoration, nature-based solutions, marine renewable energy, ocean-based carbon dioxide removal and sequestration, climate-ready aquaculture and fisheries, and other ocean-climate related actions. The OCAP will include current and planned federal, ocean-based climate mitigation and adaptation activities, identify gaps in climate and ocean science and management capabilities, and recommend new or enhanced ocean science and policy actions to tackle climate change. For more information about the OCAP and for details on a Federal Register Notice that was recently published seeking public input for developing the OCAP, see: https://www.noaa.gov/interagency-ocean-policy/OCAP_Information.
The OPC is interested in hearing from Tribal Nations on this initiative, including feedback on place-based solutions and opportunities to improve engagement on these efforts. To gather input on the OCAP, we are scheduling the following Tribal consultation session. We welcome input on all aspects of the OCAP, and are specifically seeking input on the following topics. You may provide information related to as many of the following questions as you like; these questions are intended to inform the consultation and identify information that will help shape the OCAP:

How has climate change impacted your relationship with the ocean, coasts, or Great Lakes?
What ocean-based climate solutions should be addressed in OCAP and over what timescales?
What are specific examples of ocean-based climate mitigation and adaptation activities led by Tribal Nations that the federal government can learn from and support?
What are important questions, issues, and unknowns that need to be addressed?
How can the benefits of ocean-based climate solutions be shared more equitably?
What elements or ideas can the OCAP include to strengthen government-to-governmentrelations with Federally-recognized Tribal Nations in developing and implementing theplan?

In addition to or instead of joining the Tribal consultation session above, you may provide your written input by December 20, 2022. Please send your written submissions to Brendan Philip, Ocean Policy Fellow at the Council on Environmental Quality, at Brendan.T.Philip@ceq.eop.gov. Please identify your submission as “OCAP Tribal consultation.” If you have any questions regarding this effort, please feel free to contact Brendan Philip by email or by phone at (202) 881-9998.

Consultations on the Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act of 2014
2022-12-14 13:00 - 16:00, 2022-12-15 13:00 - 16:00, 2022-12-16 13:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
The Treasurer of the United States invites you to consultations on the Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act of 2014 and the attached Treasury Tribal Advisory Committee’s (TTAC) report on the Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act.
These consultations will be held virtually on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 2pm-5pm EDT, Thursday, December 15, 2022, 2pm-5pm EDT, and Friday, December 16, 2022, 2pm-5pm EDT.
Register here for one or more days of the consultation.
For more information and proposed questions, please see the Dear Tribal Leader Letter or visit the Tribal Consultation page on Treasury’s website.
Please send questions or comments to tribal.consult@treasury.gov.

Department of Labor Environmental Justice Tribal Listening Session
2022-12-15 12:00 | Virtual Event
The Department of Labor is in the process of updating its Environmental Justice Strategy and is seeking feedback on how the Department could improve services and better service environmental justice (EJ) communities. On December 15, 2022, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time, DOL will be hosting an EJ Listening Session with tribal stakeholders to inform DOL’s efforts to advance environmental justice through equitable investments in workforce development and training. During this listening session, the Department will seek public input on what the greatest needs and/or barriers facing disadvantaged and/or environmentally-impacted communities are as it relates to employment, worker protections, and worker rights.
DOL Environmental Justice Tribal Listening Session
December 15, 2022
1:00 PM Eastern Time
Please use this link to register for the listening session.
If you have any questions, please contact me directly at Jackson.Jack.C@dol.gov.

USDA Tribal Consultation on Advancing Clean Energy for Tribal Communities Through the Inflation Reduction Act
2022-12-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
USDA Seeks Input from Tribal Leaders on Advancing Clean Energy for Tribal Communities Through the Inflation Reduction Act
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2022 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small today announced that USDA will host a Tribal consultation on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET.
Tribal leaders and their proxies are invited to give input on new funding authorities under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that will help advance clean energy for people living in Tribal communities. Tribes, Tribal enterprises, Tribal utilities and other non-Tribal applicants may be eligible for funding under the IRA programs offered by USDA.
To attend the consultation, visit the Tribal Consultation on the IRA webinar registration page.
To learn more, read the full Tribal Consultation Notification.

DOI Tribal Leaders consultation on Proposed Rule to NAGPRA
2022-12-15 14:00 - 16:00 | TN, United States
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
The Department of the Interior (Department) proposes to revise its Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) regulations at 43 CFR part 10 and invites Tribal Leaders to consult on the proposed rule.
The proposed regulations would clarify and improve upon the systematic process for the disposition and repatriation of Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony. In August 2021, the Department hosted consultation sessions with Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations on a draft proposal and incorporated that input to the maximum extent possible. A summary of the over 700 comments received and the Department’s response to each comment is attached for your review. The proposed rule published in the Federal Register on October, 18, 2022 and is available here.
December 15, 2022, from 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
December 19, 2022, from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Eastern
January 12, 2023, from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Mountain (meeting in person at the Bureau of Land Management National Training Center; 9828 North 31st Ave.; Phoenix, Arizona 85051)
Click here to register

NAGPRA Regulations Public Listening Session
2022-12-16 15:00, 2023-01-13 15:00 | Virtual Event
NAGPRA Regulations Public Listening Session
Friday, December 16, 2022, 04:00 p.m. EST (Register to join the webinar)Friday, January 13, 2023, 04:00 p.m. EST (Register to join the webinar)

DOI Tribal Leaders consultation on Proposed Rule to NAGRPA
2022-12-19 12:00 - 15:00, 2023-01-12 11:00 - 14:00 | TN, United States

OMB Tribal Briefing
2023-01-09 13:30 | Virtual Event
Dear Tribal Leaders,
You are invited to join a Tribal briefing with OMB Director Shalanda Young on Monday, January 9th at 2:30 PM ET.
Please register here: https://pitc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_5Yja3U1aTAiQw4ccfgWzqg
Best,
White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs

Tribal Consultation on U.S. Department of Education Planning for a National Native American Language
2023-01-10 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
January 10, 2023 | 3:00 — 5:00 p.m. ET
Register
On January 10, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) will conduct a Tribal Consultation to inform the development of a National Native American Language Resource Center. The purpose of this consultation will be to receive meaningful input from American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities to ensure that Tribal leader views drive future planning. The consultation will advance the Department’s commitment to uphold the federal trust responsibility as described in Executive Order 13175.

DOI Non-BIA Programs List Eigible for SG Funding Agreements (Jan 2023) Consultation
2023-01-12 15:00 - 18:00, 2023-01-17 16:00, 2023-01-20 13:00 | TN, United States
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
Thursday, January 12 at 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Mountain
In-Person at BLM National Training Center, 9828 North 31st Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85051
Tuesday, January 17 at 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Mountain
Virtual | Register in advance
Friday, January 20 at 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Mountain
Virtual | Register in advance
The Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs proposes to consult on the List of Programs Eligible for Inclusion in Funding Agreements Negotiated with Self-Governance Tribes by Interior Bureaus Other than the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) (the “List”) that is prepared annually pursuant to section 412(c) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (the “ISDEAA”). A copy of the List for Fiscal Year 2022 can be found here:
https://www.federalregister.gov/ d/2022-025 84.
It is important to note the list is NOT a definitive list of all potentially c:ontractable programs and there may be many more that have yet to be identified. Prior versions of the List have included non-BIA programs or portions of programs that are eligible for inclusion in self-governance funding agreements with Indian Tribes. Past Lists have also included Fiscal Year programmatic targets for non-BIA bureaus under Title IV of the ISDEAA. We seek feedback on what information would be most helpful to Indian Tribes.
Joint Secretarial Order 3403 directs the Department’s bureaus to “[m]ake agreements with Indian Tribes to collaborate in the co-stewardship of Federal lands and waters under the Departments’ jurisdiction, including for wildlife and its habitat.” The Department views the ISDEAA as an importanrmeans for fulfilling the goals of Joint Secretarial Order 3403, and the List as a valuable resource for Indian Tribes seeking ways to develop collaborative arrangements in the co-stewardship of Federal lands and waters.
A listening session on this issue was previously held at the 2022 Self Governance Conference on August 2, 2022, at which non-BIA program staff were available for questions and answers. The results indicated that further consultation on the format and content of the List would be helpful. Indian Affairs invites you to consult on three topics:

the value of the current format of the List to Indian Tribes seeking contracting, selfgovernance agreement(s), and/or compacting under ISDEAA;
whether adding to the List a list of all contracts, self-governance agreements, and/or compacts, entered into by Department bureaus other than the BIA would be helpful for Tribes seeking to contract or compact with non-BIA Department bureaus; and
whether general guidance on the principles governing contracting, self-governance agreement(s), and/or compacting under the ISDEAA should be included in the List.

Written comments should be submitted by email to consultations@bia.gov by 11:59 Eastern on Monday, February 20, 2023.
If you have any questions regarding this effort, please contact Samuel Kohn, Senior Counselor to the Assistant Secretruy -Indian Affairs, via email at samuel.kohn@bia.gov, or by phone at (202) 208-7163.

DOI Tribal Consultation on NPRM for the Department's Land Acquisition regulations, 25 C.F .R. Part 151, and the NPRM for the Department's Class III Tribal State Gaming Compact Process, 25 C.F.R. Part 293
2023-01-13 14:00, 2023-01-19 12:00 - 15:00 | TN, United States
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
The Department of Interior will conduct two virtual consultation sessions and one in-person consultation to obtain further Tribal input on the Part 151 NPRM and the Part 293 NPRM. The consultation sessions will be open to Tribal leadership and representatives of federally recognized Indian Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations. Please join one or more of the following consultations sessions:
In-Person

January 12 at 11:00 am Eastern
January 13, 2023 at 3:00 pm Eastern

BLM National Training Center (NTC)
9828 N. 31st Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85051
9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. MST (Part 151)
I:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m. MST (Part 293)

Virtual

January 19, 2023
I:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m. EST
Please register in advance
January 30, 2023
2:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m. EST
Please register in advance

If you would like to provide written comments, please email them to consultation@bia.gov by 11:59 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
For further information about these consultation sessions, you may contact Oliver Whaley, Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs and Collaborative Action (RACA), Office of the Assistant Secretary -Indian Affairs, by telephone at (202) 738-6065, or email at RACA@bia.gov.

U.S. Department of State | Roundtable Discussion for US Engagement at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
2023-01-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual Event
U.S. Department of State | Roundtable Discussion for US Engagement at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs is having a Roundtable with Representatives of the U.S. Government, U.S. Federally Recognized Tribal Nations, and other U.S. Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations.
The discussion will focus on U.S. government activities during the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFII) April 17 – 28, 2023 session. They welcome hearing about Tribal leaders’ and indigenous NGO’s expectations for the session. Please note that due to time limitations they have 30 speaking slots available during this roundtable.
Date: Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
Time: 11:00AM – 12:00 PM ET
Location: The roundtable will be held virtually via WebEx, which has a limit on the number of individuals who can connect, after which individuals will be turned away. An invitation with the specific link for the roundtable will be sent to those who have registered.
Register by sending an email to ScottKR@state.gov. Please include your name, title, e-mail address, and the name of your Tribal Nation, organization, or U.S. federal agency. Please register by COB Tuesday, January 10th, 2023.

Rural Utilities Service Inflation Reduction Act Round Tables
2023-01-24 14:00 | Virtual Event
January 24 – 3pm ET – USDA Rural Development, RUS IRA Roundtable aimed at promoting renewable energy development in tribal communities through Tribes, Tribal Utilities and Tribal Organizations and Entities
You may register for one of the Round Tables by clicking on the Inflation Reduction Act Web Page. This will take you to the registration links.
Inflation Reduction Act Web page.

Department of Education Tribal Consultation on the Department's FY 24 Comprehensive Center Grant Competition
2023-01-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
January 24, 2023, at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
Register
On January 24, 2023, the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) will conduct a Tribal Consultation to inform the development of the Department’s FY 2024 Comprehensive Center grant competition. The purpose of this consultation will be to receive meaningful input from American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities to ensure that Tribal leader views are addressed. The consultation will advance the Department’s commitment to upholding the federal trust responsibility as described in Executive Order 13175.

NAGPRA Regulations Public Listening Session
2023-01-25 15:00 | Virtual Event
Due to technical difficulties with the last listening session, the Department of Interior has scheduled an additional listening session on January 25, 2023, at 4:00 PM Eastern. They have also posted recordings of the last two public listening sessions. Register for the next meeting or watch recordings of past meetings here: https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1335/events.htm
Please note the deadline to submit comments on the proposed regulations has been extended until January 31. For more information, see https://www.regulations.gov/document/NPS-2022-0004-0001

NAGPRA Listening Session
2023-01-25 15:00 | Virtual Event
NAGPRA Listening Session
Due to technical difficulties with the last listening session, the Department of the Interior, National Park Service (NPS) has scheduled an additional Listening Session on January 25, 2023, at 4:00 PM ET. To register for this Listening Session and view the past recordings, please click here. The comment deadline is January 31, 2023 and can be submitted to regulations.gov.

Tribal Consultation on the National Nature Assessment
2023-01-27 14:00 | Virtual Event
Friday, January 27 at 3:00 pm Eastern
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
Register
On Friday, January 27, 2023, the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is hosting a virtual tribal consultation session to discuss the development of the National Nature Assessment (NNA). In response to Executive Order 14072 on “Strengthening the Nation’s Forests, Communities, and Local Economies,” USGCRP is planning to develop the first NNA, which will assess the status, observed trends, and future projections of America’s lands, waters, wildlife, biodiversity and ecosystems, and the benefits they provide including connections to the economy, public health, equity, climate mitigation and adaptation, and national security.

Commission on Native Children for a Virtual Hearing on Wellness and Unintentional Injury Prevention
2023-01-27 14:00 | Virtual Event
The Commission on Native Children extends an invitation to join the Friday, January 27, 2023, for a two-hour virtual hearing via ZOOM beginning at 2:00 PM Central Time.
Virtual Hearing Overview
This panel will examine trends in accidental injuries and prevention in Native communities, and innovative opportunities to promote wellness for Native children and youth.  Successful community-based approaches to reduce accidental injuries and holistic approaches to wellness within the healthcare contest will be highlighted as effective means to address these issues. The panelists will provide practice-based, academic and research perspectives on opportunities and challenges to improve health outcomes for Native children.
Panelists –

Dr. Daniel Calac, Chief Medical Officer of Indian Health Council, Inc., Principal Investigator with the California Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH), Committee on Native American Child Health
Holly Billie, retired Indian Health Service and Center for Disease Control Subject Matter Expert on Injury Prevention
Dr. Amy Elliott, Chief Clinical Research Officer, Avera Research Institute, Joint Appointment with University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine

Register Today
Please register in advance by clicking on the link below. Once registered, you will receive information on how to join. The virtual hearing is designed for the Commissioners to engage with the panelists and their presentations. Attendees will be in listen-in only mode. Please share this invitation with your colleagues.
When: January 27, 2023, 02:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) – Copy and paste links into the web browser.
https://doitalent.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_03gcrEYISkGW8fK5Yiya5A
