United South & Eastern Tribes

HHS/IHS Tribal Consultation on CSC
2024-10-03 11:30 - 14:30, 2024-10-09 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | 123 Easy Street, Nashville, TN, 37211, United States
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
September 25 at 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
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Location: Virtual
September 26 at 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Central
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Location: Dallas, Texas
October 1 at 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Eastern
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Location: Washington, DC
October 3 at 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Pacific
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Location: Seattle, Washington
October 9 at 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
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Location: Virtual
Please email your written comments and recommendations for this Tribal Consultation to
consultation@ihs.gov. Use the SUBJECT LINE: CSC Methodology for Program Income.
The deadline for transmitting written comments for this Tribal Consultation is
Friday, October 11, 2024.
Over the past 60 days, the Contract Support Cost Advisory Group (CSCAG), made up of Federal
and Tribal members met three times, to discuss needed changes to the existing funding
methodology to address the calculation of CSC on expenditures of program income. The
CSCAG’s charge includes providing advice and recommendations on the Indian Health Service
(IHS) CSC policy, as well as identifying priorities and issues for improvement.
The principles that have been agreed upon by CSCAG members are to take an approach with the
broadest applicability, which aligns as much as feasible with the current CSC policy. During this
timeframe, CSCAG members identified a few areas of agreement, as well as a few areas for
additional discussion. Overall, there remains a considerable amount of work to be accomplished
by the CSCAG and IHS staff to implement a modified methodology.
The IHS is requesting input from all Tribal Leaders, as the implementation of a modified
methodology to negotiate and pay CSC on expenditures of program income can have broad
budgetary implications for Tribes that receive direct services, as well as compacting and
contracting Tribal Nations.
During this Tribal Consultation, they plan to convene three in-person Consultation sessions and
two virtual Consultation sessions to allow multiple opportunities to provide feedback on the
Agency’s proposals to calculate CSC related to expenditures of program income. Details about
the Consultation sessions are provided in the Dear Tribal Leader Letter.
Throughout the CSCAG’s discussions, there were a few recurring topics of particular interest to
this Tribal Consultation. The IHS invites your recommendations and feedback broadly on the
expansion of the CSC policy, as well as the necessary changes required to implement CSC
calculations on expenditures of program income.
Due to the variability of how T/TOs collect program income expenditure data, the IHS is seeking
your recommendations on how to estimate initial amounts, as well as reconcile CSC annually.

White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council Public Meeting
2024-10-09 09:00 - 20:00 | The Jackson Center, 6001 Moquin Drive NW, Huntsville, AL, 35806, United States
October 9 at 9:00 am – 8:00 pm Central
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The WHEJAC will convene an in-person public meeting with a virtual option on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, from approximately 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Central Time. Meeting discussions will focus on several topics including, but not limited to, workgroup activities, panel discussions, updates from the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and other federal agencies, and new formal charges for the WHEJAC.

FEMA Tribal Consultation to Discuss the NFIP's Community Rating System Redesign
2024-10-10 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-10-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
Framing Paper
Thursday, October 10 at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
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Wednesday, October 16 at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
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FEMA will host virtual Tribal consultations with Tribal Nations to discuss suggested approaches for a redesigned CRS.
The purpose of the redesign is to enhance the CRS’s effectiveness, promote resilience, and mitigate the financial impacts of flooding on communities. CRS Redesign is a multi-year effort intended to take a comprehensive look at the CRS program, exploring both incremental improvements and bold shifts in approach.
FEMA is exploring the future of the CRS with a focus on ways the agency can improve the CRS to:

Incentivize communities to take measurable actions and make sustained progress that reduces current and future flood risk;
Embed equity as a foundation of the Community Rating System program;
Incentivize communities to promote property owners to purchase flood insurance to reduce their financial exposure to flood risk; and
Deliver a community participant-centered and modernized program.

The CRS is a voluntary incentive program that recognizes and encourages floodplain management practices that exceed the minimum requirements in the NFIP. The agency is evaluating the CRS’s potential to provide ongoing support for state, local, tribal, and territorial governments’ goals and needs around floodplain management.

Social Security Administration Tribal Consultation
2024-10-15 13:00, 2024-10-17 09:00 | Virtual Event
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
October 15 at 2:00 pm Eastern and
October 17 at 10:00 am Eastern
RSVP to AIAN.EC@ssa.gov and let them know which date (October 15th or October 17th) you plan to attend. You will receive the Framing Questions and Agenda documents as an attachment with your calendar invite.
Their Tribal Consultation Call to Action Plan expanded partnerships across federal agencies to Urban Indian Organizations sharing their objective to increase Video Service Delivery sites, promoting Native language initiatives, and providing free monthly training webinars on SSA programs and policies. They seek to learn the pros and cons of the proposed framing questions to provide direct input into SSA policies, procedures, and priorities and to assist in providing strong consultations, round table discussions, and listening sessions.
If you wish to provide comments in writing, by November 29, 2024, please send written comments to Social Security Administration at AIAN.EC@ssa.gov.

Department of Justice Tribal Consultation on funding for Tribal public safety and criminal justice systems
2024-10-22 17:30 - 19:00, 2024-10-30 14:45 - 16:15, 2024-11-04 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-11-06 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-11-19 08:00 - 2024-11-21 17:00 | Multiple Locations
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
Framing Paper
Register for one of the sessions below.
October 22 at 2:30-4:00 pm Alaska Time
Southcentral Foundation, Mt. Ahklun Building Gathering Room
4501 Diplomacy Dr.
Anchorage, AK 99508
This consultation session will be held in coordination with the Alaska Intertribal Technical Assistance Working Group meeting. Up-to-date information can be found on the meeting information page, linked above.
October 30 at 12:45-2:15 pm Pacific
MGM Grand Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
This consultation session will be held in coordination with the National Congress of American Indians 81st Annual Convention & Marketplace, please check above link for up-to-date information.
November 4 at 3:00-5:00 pm Eastern
Virtual
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Meeting ID: 992 705 570 911
Passcode: [REDACTED]
November 6 at 3:00-5:00 pm Eastern
Virtual
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Meeting ID: 992 641 662 771
Passcode: [REDACTED]
November 19-21, 2024
Tribal leaders have the option of addressing the enclosed framing paper in their oral testimony at this annual consultation under the Violence Against Women Act.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This consultation session will be held in coordination with the 19th Annual Government-to-Government Violence Against Women Tribal Consultation. In addition to oral testimony at the event, Tribal leaders may provide written comments by the deadline below.

OVC Tribal Consultation on Tribal Set-Aside from the Crime Victims Fund
2024-10-23 12:00 - 16:00, 2024-10-24 12:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
Framing Paper
October 23 and 24 at 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm each day
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The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) will host a virtual Tribal Consultation on the Tribal Set-Aside from the Crime Victims Fund for Fiscal Year 2025 on Wednesday, October 23, 2024, and Thursday, October 24, 2024, from 1:00−5:00 p.m. eastern time each day.
OVC invites Consultation testimony from representatives of Federally recognized Tribes, including:

elected Tribal leaders;
appointed Tribal leaders; or
individuals authorized to testify by an elected or appointed Tribal leader.

If you have been designated by a Tribal Leader to testify, OVC asks that you email a Delegation of Authority letter on Tribal letterhead signed by the elected or appointed Tribal leader to ovctribalsetaside@usdoj.gov.
All participants who plan to testify will receive instructions for how to deliver your testimony after you register. During the Consultation, Tribal leaders will be called on to testify in the order in which their registration was received.
Each registrant will receive a reminder email the week before, and day before, the Consultation session.

NAFOA Listening Session on GWE
2024-10-24 13:00 - 14:15 | Virtual Event
On October 24th from 2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Eastern Time, NAFOA will host a listening session to discuss the Tribal General Welfare Exclusion (GWE) Act’s recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). NAFOA actively encourages tribal leaders and stakeholders to participate and share feedback in preparation for the Treasury’s Tribal Consultations scheduled for next month. You may submit advance questions or comments on the proposed GWE rules via the registration form.
The listening session will begin with introductions from members of the Treasury Tribal Advisory Committee (TTAC) and their advisors, who will give brief updates on the NPRM. Following the updates, NAFOA will host a listening session to answer questions and receive comments from tribal leaders on the proposed rules and regulatory changes.
Live comments during the listening session are preferred, but attendees may use the Q&A function. Anyone who cannot attend the listening session may also submit comments or questions to nicholas@nafoa.org.

ACF Early Childhood Development Virtual Listening Session
2024-10-24 14:30 | Virtual Event
October 24 at 3:30 pm Eastern
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ACF, through the Office of Early Childhood Development, is gathering input on the Tribal Integrated Early Education Services (TIEES) legislative proposal. It would give Tribal Nations more flexibility to integrate early childhood funding streams into a single coordinated, culturally grounded, and Tribally driven program (Child Care and Development Fund, Head Start, and Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting).

FERC Consultations with Federally Recognized Tribes on Whether to Conduct a Rulemaking to Revise the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Procedures
2024-10-28 13:00 - 15:00, 2024-11-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event
FERC Notice of Tribal Consultation
FERC Notice of Petition for Rulemaking
AITCE Petition for Expedited Rulemaking to Adopt Commercial Readiness and Withdrawal Penalty Rules for Tribal Energy Development

FERC Consultations with Federally Recognized Tribes on Whether to Conduct a Rulemaking to Revise the pro forma Large Generator Interconnection Procedures

Dates/Times: Monday, October 28, 2024 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm ET, and Monday November 4, 2024 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm ET
Comments Due on Notice of Petition for Rulemaking: Monday, November 4, 2024

Tribal Nation Transmission Program Listening Session
2024-11-06 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
November 6 at 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is hosting several virtual listening sessions with multiple sectors including communities, Tribal Representatives, Independent System Operators (ISOs), Regional Transmission Operators (RTOs), Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), utilities, and state agencies to solicit diverse perspectives and feedback about the intersection of transmission planning processes and energy equity. These listening sessions are part of the Inclusive Transmission Planning Project, an initiative by DOE’s Grid Deployment Office. For more information on the project, listening sessions, and other available dates visit the project website.

SAMHSA Tribal Consultation on its Tribal Consultation Policy
2024-11-06 14:00 - 15:30 | Virtual Event
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
November 6 at 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Eastern
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December 5 at 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Eastern
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SAMHSA is seeking input from Tribal leaders to modernize its Tribal Consultation Policy. SAMHSA will also align the policy with the reorganization of the agency under the 21st Century Cures Act and the updated HHS Tribal Consultation Policy.
Written comments are welcome through January 6 and may be submitted to otap@samhsa.hhs.gov.

Tribal Consultation and Urban Confer Health IT Modernization Program: Site Readiness and Training
2024-11-07 12:30 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
November 7 at 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern
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Comments due on December 7, 2024

FDA Tribal Consultation to discuss sodium reduction in the food supply
2024-11-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
November 7 at 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern
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**Please note that each registrant will receive a confirmation email with a unique sign in for the call. Please remember to save this link to attend the call.
Please feel free to contact me or FDA’s IGA staff at IGA@fda.hhs.gov if you have any questions or visit the FDA Tribal Affairs webpage to view the letter of invitation.

USDA FDPIR Supply Chain Disruptions Follow-Up Consultation
2024-11-09 11:00 - 17:00 | 123 Easy Street, Nashville, TN, 37211, United States
Where: Intertribal Agriculture Council Annual Conference, Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
When: Monday, December 9, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 pm Pacific Time
RSVP: Whether attending in person or remotely, please register.

FDPIR Supply Chain Disruptions Follow-Up Consultation(PDF, 199 KB)
Proxy Letter Template (DOCX, 28.1 KB)

HRSA Virtual Tribal Consultation on the Uniform Data System
2024-11-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
November 13 at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
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HRSA encourages all Tribal Leaders to participate in this timely discussion to help ensure valuable input representing American Indians and Alaska Natives. If you are unable to attend, you are encouraged to send any written testimony or comments to tribalconsultation@hrsa.gov by December 13, 2024.

HRSA Tribal Consultation on the Uniform Data System Modernization Initiative (UDS+):
2024-11-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual Event
November 13 at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern
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HRSA encourages all Tribal leaders to participate in this timely discussion to help ensure valuable input representing American Indians and Alaska Natives. Those unable to attend are encouraged to send written comments to tribalconsultation@hrsa.gov by December 13.

Social Security Administration Virtual Tribal Consultation
2024-11-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual Event
November 14 at 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern
Please RSVP to AIAN.EC@ssa.gov and you will receive the Agenda and Framing Questions with your calendar invite.
This consultation will focus on the draft Tribal Action Plan for SSA including consultations, listening sessions, enhancing video connectivity, providing guides and training on SSA policy, recognition efforts for Native Languages and more.

IHS Virtual Tribal Consultation on Proposed Reorganization of DDIGA Offices
2024-11-14 13:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
DRAFT IHS Headquarters Office of the Director Organizational Chart
November 14 at 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Eastern
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A key component of the proposed reorganization is the initiative of One IHS, which aims to improve effectiveness and efficiency across the Agency through greater coordination and collaboration. There are five primary objectives of the proposed reorganization, which adopts a One IHS model that: 1) strengthens our relationship with Indian Tribes and UIOs by streamlining operations and enhancing communications; 2) enhances the business relationships with Indian Tribes through self-determination and self-governance; 3) amplifies the work of the Agency with all partners by cultivating intergovernmental partnerships and furthering external relationships; 4) modernizes the way the Agency supports Tribes pursuing ISDEAA opportunities by supporting ISDEAA negotiation teams across the Agency working under a One ISDEAA model; and 5) fosters education and training throughout the entire IHS system on how ISDEAA interfaces with our everyday work.

Treasury Tribal Consultation on NPRM to implement section 139E of the Internal Revenue Code
2024-11-18 12:00, 2024-11-19 12:00 | Virtual Event
Dear Tribal Leader Letter
Fact Sheet
November 18, 19, and 20 at 1:00 pm Eastern
You may register for one or more of the Tribal consultations here.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to implement section 139E of the Internal Revenue Code, created by the Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act of 2014 (Act). Additionally, Treasury announced it will hold Tribal consultations on the proposed rule on November 18, 19, and 20, 2024, at 1 p.m. ET.
These rules incorporate a historic level of pre-Tribal consultation and Treasury Tribal Advisory Committee feedback and support Tribal self-determination and self-governance in the implementation of the Act. To learn more about the proposed rule, please see Treasury’s Press Release, the Tribal Consultation and Federal Feedback Summary, Dear Tribal Leader Letter, and the Fact Sheet.
Treasury is accepting written comments received by December 17, 2024, 11:59 p.m. Alaska Time. Please submit written comments at tribal.consult@treasury.gov.

Homeland Security Tribal Consultation on Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act - Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
2024-11-18 12:00 | Virtual Event
Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act – Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

Tribal Consultation – Session 1

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Start Date Mon, Nov 18, 2024 – 1:00 PM Eastern (ET)

Tribal consultation session: Online

Tribal Consultation – Session 2

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Start Date Tue, Nov 19, 2024 – 3:00 PM Eastern (ET)

Tribal consultation session: Online
