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information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information; (c) the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. Consideration will be given 

to comments and suggestions submitted 

within 60 days of this publication. 

Authority: 6 U.S.C. 279; 8 U.S.C. 

1232; Flores v. Reno Settlement 

Agreement, No. CV85–4544–RJK (C.D. 

Cal. 1996). 

Mary B. Jones, 

ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

Request for Information: Technical 

Assistance Needs and Priorities on 

Implementation and Coordination of 

Early Childhood Development 

Programs in American Indian and 

Alaska Native Communities 

AGENCY: Administration for Children 

and Families, U.S. Department of Health 

and Human Services. 

ACTION: Request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: Through this Request for 

Information (RFI), the Administration 

for Children and Families (ACF), in the 

U.S. Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS), seeks to further the 

development, implementation, and 

coordination of early childhood 

development programs in American 

Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) 

communities, by soliciting information 

and recommendations from a broad 

array of individuals and organizations 

with knowledge and expertise around 

the context and needs of tribal 

communities and early childhood 

programs. ACF will analyze information 

received from this RFI to support the 

development, improvement, and 

implementation of technical assistance 

(TA) (i.e., information, tools, training, 

and other supports) efforts and 

strategies to support tribal communities 

and programs in carrying out and 

coordinating early childhood services 

and initiatives. 

DATES: Send comments on or before 

April 5, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit questions, 

comments, and supplementary 

documents to OCCTribal@acf.hhs.gov 

with ‘‘Tribal TA RFI’’ in the subject line. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, please contact 

Moushumi Beltangady at 

Moushumi.beltangady@acf.hhs.gov or 

202–260–3613. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Invitation to Comment: HHS invites 

comments regarding this notice. You do 

not need to address every question and 

should focus on those where you have 

relevant expertise or experience. In your 

response, please provide a brief 

description of yourself and your role or 

organization before addressing the 

questions. To ensure that your 

comments are clearly stated, please 

identify the questions you are 

responding to when submitting your 

response. 

1.0 Background 

Ensuring high-quality, culturally 

appropriate, birth-to-age 5 early 

childhood services to children from AI/ 

AN communities has long been a critical 

priority for Native communities 

throughout the United States. Health 

care and education are considered a 

fundamental treaty right by tribes, and 

the fact that AI/AN populations 

experience disparities in health and 

well-being relative to other population 

groups highlights a significant need for 

targeted services. Building on 

neuroscience findings indicating that 

interventions in the first few years of a 

child’s life have significant impacts on 

their lifelong health and well-being, 

tribal early childhood programs show 

promise in mitigating disparities. 

Programs like Head Start (https:// 

eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov), child care 

(https://www.acf.hhs.gov/occ), and 

home visiting (https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ 

ecd/tribal/tribal-home-visiting) are key 

resources for children and families in 

diverse tribal communities. In addition, 

in recent years, there has been growing 

recognition of the need to support 

collaboration across these and other 

programs and develop more coordinated 

early childhood systems in AI/AN 

communities. 

The federal government has increased 

its focus on supporting the 

implementation and coordination of 

tribal early childhood programs over the 

past year through various efforts to bring 

together and learn from tribal 

communities and highlight innovative 

and promising practices, as well as 

significantly increased funding to tribes 

through the American Rescue Plan Act. 

In addition, there are current 

collaborative federal efforts in place to 

promote collaboration and coordination 

of TA for tribal programs. There is also 

the potential for new or expanded early 

childhood programs to be implemented 

in tribal communities in the coming 

years, making a focus on supportive 

effective implementation and 

coordination of programs even more. 

2.0 Request for Information 

Through this Request for Information 

(RFI), ACF is seeking input from tribal 

leaders, tribal program administrators, 

service providers, current federal and 

non-federal TA providers, potential TA 

providers, national organizations, 

researchers, philanthropy, families and 

community members, states, and others 

about the TA needs and priorities of 

tribal communities around 

implementing and providing early 

childhood services (including Head 

Start, child care, home visiting, 

preschool, and early intervention and 

special education), as well as needs 

around coordination of services and 

supporting stronger early childhood 

systems at the tribal level. 

Responses to this RFI will inform 

ongoing and future efforts to provide 

training and TA to tribal communities. 

We are not only interested in feedback 

about current TA needs and priorities, 

but also the needs, capacity, and 

potential of the system to support 

implementation and coordination of any 

new or expanded early childhood 

initiatives. This RFI is for information 

and planning purposes only and should 

not be construed as a solicitation or as 

an obligation on the part of ACF or 

HHS. 

3.0 Key Questions 

3.1 In your opinion, what are the 

key topics or areas where tribal 

communities want or need TA or 

support to effectively implement or 

coordinate tribal early childhood 

programs (e.g., Head Start, child care, 

home visiting, preschool, early 

intervention, and special education)? 

• What TA would be helpful to 

support tribal communities to 

implement their priorities around 

integration of language and culture, 

including language preservation and 

maintenance, in their early childhood 

programs and systems? 

• What TA would be helpful to 

support tribal communities in 

conducting needs assessments and 

strategic planning activities to support 

effective and coordinated early 

childhood programs and systems? 

• What TA would be helpful to 

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fiscal and administrative management of 

early childhood programs and grants? 

• Given existing challenges with 

recruiting, hiring, and retaining 

qualified tribal early childhood program 

staff, what TA would be helpful to 

support tribal communities in building, 

supporting, strengthening, and 

maintaining an effective early childhood 

workforce? 

• What TA would be helpful to 

support tribal communities in planning 

for, developing, building, maintaining, 

and improving appropriate early care 

and education facilities? 

• What TA supports do tribal 

communities need or want around data 

collection and management, data 

systems, and data sovereignty in their 

early childhood programs and systems? 

• What TA would be helpful to 

support tribal communities in 

implementing continuous quality 

improvement and evaluation initiatives 

in their early childhood programs and 

systems? 

• What TA would be helpful to 

support tribal communities directly 

implementing high-quality early 

childhood programs and services 

(including evidence-based, 

developmentally appropriate practices, 

as well as infant and toddler programs 

and services to children with 

disabilities)? 

• What TA would be helpful to 

support tribal early childhood programs 

in implementation of health, behavioral 

health, nutrition services, as 

appropriate? 

• What TA would be helpful to 

support tribal early childhood programs 

and communities in effectively engaging 

families, elders, and community 

members and promoting family 

leadership (i.e., empowering families to 

have a voice in program planning, 

implementation, and evaluation and 

advocate for their children)? 

• What TA would be helpful to 

support tribal communities in 

developing, implementing, and 

overseeing (1) subsidy and certificate 

programs, (2) licensing programs, and 

(3) grants and contracts for early 

childhood services? 

• What TA would be helpful to better 

support (1) tribal-level coordination and 

integration of early childhood programs 

and supports and (2) development of 

early childhood systems? 

• What TA would be helpful to 

support tribes, when they desire, to 

collaborative effectively with states on 

implementation of early childhood 

programs and services? 

• Are there any other key topic areas 

where TA would be helpful to support 

tribal communities in implementation 

and coordination of early childhood 

programs and systems? Are there any 

specific considerations around 

implementing possible new child care 

or preschool programs? 

3.2 In your opinion, what is the 

ability and capacity of the current 

federal early childhood TA system to 

support tribal communities in the areas 

where TA is needed? 

• What are the strengths of the 

existing TA system? 

• Where are the gaps in the existing 

TA system? 

• What existing resources could be 

more fully leveraged or tailored to be 

responsive to tribal early childhood 

programs and the needs of tribal 

communities? 

3.3 In your opinion, what is the 

ideal structure of a TA network to 

provide support to tribal communities 

around implementation and 

coordination of early childhood 

programs and systems? 

• What is the ideal overall 

organization of a federal tribal early 

childhood TA system (e.g., national 

coordinating centers, regional-specific 

centers, topic-specific centers)? 

• What are the best ways to ensure 

that federal TA is well-coordinated? 

• What are the needed skills, 

background, capacities, experiences, 

and resources of entities and 

individuals providing TA to tribal 

communities implementing early 

childhood programs and systems? 

• What are the best strategies for 

providing TA to tribal communities to 

implement coordinated early childhood 

programs and supports (e.g., universal, 

targeted, intensive)? 

• What are the ideal methods for 

providing TA to tribal communities on 

early childhood programs (e.g., written 

resources, tools, webinars, trainings, 

meetings, site visits, peer learning and 

collaboration, coaching)? 

3.4 If new or expanded TA supports 

are needed to support tribal early 

childhood program implementation and 

coordination, in your opinion, in what 

ways can the field (including TA 

providers) build capacity to provide the 

needed TA to tribal communities? 

• Are there organizations or entities 

that are capable to serve as TA 

providers? 

• Is there a pool of people who have 

the skills and experience necessary, 

including understanding the context of 

tribal communities, tribal sovereignty, 

culture and language, and tribal early 

childhood programs, to provide the TA 

that is needed? 

• How can the TA system build 

capacity without negatively impacting 

tribal communities themselves (e.g., by 

hiring away experienced staff)? 

• How could potential new TA 

investments be integrated into the 

existing network of federal tribal early 

childhood TA providers? 

3.5 In your opinion, do different 

types of tribal communities have 

different TA needs and priorities 

(topics, methods, strategies)? 

• Larger tribal communities? 

• Smaller tribal communities? 

• Alaska Native communities? 

• Urban Indian communities? 

• Tribes that are consolidating child 

care into their 102–477 employment, 

training, and related services plans? 

3.6 In your opinion, what are key 

challenges and lessons learned in 

providing effective TA to tribal 

communities to implement coordinated 

early childhood programs and systems? 

• What are the primary challenges or 

barriers? 

• For entities that have provided TA 

to tribal communities on these topics, 

what are some key lessons learned? 

Authority: Section 511, Title V of the 

Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 711); 

Head Start Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 

9801 et seq.); CCDB Act of 2014, as 

amended (Pub. L. 113–186). 

Katie Hamm, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early 

Childhood Development Administration for 

Children and Families U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services. 

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HUMAN SERVICES 

Food and Drug Administration 

[Docket No. FDA–2020–N–1584] 

Authorization of Emergency Use of 

Certain Medical Devices During 

COVID–19; Availability 

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, 

HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug 

Administration (FDA or Agency) is 

announcing the issuance of Emergency 

Use Authorizations (EUAs) (the 

Authorizations) for certain medical 

devices related to the Coronavirus 

Disease 2019 (COVID–19) public health 

emergency. FDA has issued the 

Authorizations listed in this document 

under the Federal Food, Drug, and 

Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). These 

Authorizations contain, among other 

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