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officials or their authorized 

representatives. This Request for 

Comments also will be posted to the 

agency’s website. 

Subject issues for consultation and 

related questions are listed below. 

1. NEA Resources 

The NEA, established by Congress in 

1965, is an independent federal agency 

that is the largest funder of the arts and 

arts education in communities 

nationwide and a catalyst of public and 

private support for the arts. By 

advancing equitable opportunities for 

arts participation and practice, the NEA 

aims to foster and sustain an 

environment in which the arts benefit 

everyone in the United States. This is 

accomplished primarily by providing 

resources to support the creative lives of 

all communities in the United States. 

Grants are awarded for specific 

projects to 501(c)(3) nonprofit 

organizations, federally recognized 

tribes, or units of state or local 

government. Individual makers, artists, 

and culture bearers are recognized and 

supported through programs such as the 

NEA National Heritage Fellowships, 

NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships, and 

Creative Writing Fellowships. Forty 

percent of the NEA’s program budget is 

granted to State Arts Agencies and 

Regional Arts Organizations, which 

make subgrants to support additional 

arts activities across the nation. 

i. What is your awareness of our 

agency’s efforts in your community and 

nationally? 

ii. Have NEA resources affected your 

tribal community? If so, how? 

iii. To what extent do you see the arts 

and cultural activities of your tribal 

community reflected in the resources 

we offer? 

iv. The review criteria for our primary 

grant program, Grants for Arts Projects, 

includes artistic excellence, which is 

defined as ‘‘The quality of the artists 

and other key individuals, creative 

process, works of art, organizations, arts 

education providers, artistic partners, 

and/or services involved in the project 

and their relevance to the audience or 

communities the project aims to serve.’’ 

Does this definition of artistic 

excellence resonate with the artistic and 

cultural activities of your tribal 

community? How could this criteria 

better assess the creative projects of 

applicants from your community? 

2. Executive Order 14112 

The NEA is committed to adhering to 

the provisions outlined in E.O. 14112: 

Reforming Federal Funding and Support 

for Tribal Nations To Better Embrace 

Our Trust Responsibilities and Promote 

the Next Era of Tribal SelfDetermination, dated December 11, 

2023. The NEA has made progress on 

those commitments as outlined in our 

Equity Action Plan, outreach to Native 

communities to participate in our 

Grants for Arts Projects grant 

opportunities, and our overall tribal 

consultation approach. As we continue 

to improve our outreach to Native 

communities, we will provide updates 

on changes that are implemented to 

better serve Native constituents. The 

NEA is in the process of recruiting a 

new NEA Director of Native Arts & 

Tribal Affairs to lead agency efforts to 

better reach and serve the tribal 

communities. 

i. How can the NEA best prioritize its 

support for tribal sovereignty and selfgovernance? 

ii. How can NEA programs provide 

your community with the flexibility to 

improve its economic growth and 

address your community’s specific 

needs? 

iii. What funding and programmatic 

needs do you have? 

3. Tribal Engagement 

In recent years, the NEA has made 

grants to tribal governments and Tribal 

Colleges & Universities (TCUs). We also 

have recognized Indigenous artists with 

NEA National Heritage Fellowships. 

These direct grants to tribes, tribal 

citizens, and TCUs are in addition to the 

grants we make to Native-serving 

nonprofits. 

i. How can the NEA expand on this 

engagement with tribes and increase 

awareness of these opportunities? 

ii. If the NEA has the resources to 

send staff representatives to in-person 

events (e.g. national conferences and 

regional convenings of importance to 

tribal communities), where would our 

participation be most effective? Can you 

provide a point-of-contact for follow up? 

4. Federal Resources for Native Arts & 

Cultural Activities 

The NEA has previously provided 

annual updates of the Federal Resources 

for Native Arts & Cultural Activities, 

which is a consolidation of 

opportunities offered by federal 

agencies for organizations looking for 

funding and other resources to support 

Native arts and cultural activities. 

i. Have you ever accessed this 

publication? Is this publication a useful 

resource to make available to tribal 

communities? 

5. Tribal Consultation 

The NEA’s Tribal Consultation Policy, 

formally established in October 2021, is 

being reviewed for any necessary 

updates. In order to assist us in our 

review of the Policy, please share your 

thoughts on the following questions: 

i. What recommendations do you 

have regarding the NEA’s Tribal 

Consultation Policy? 

Dated: December 20, 2024. 

RaShaunda Thomas, 

Deputy Director, Office of Administrative 

Services & Contracts, National Endowment 

for the Arts. 

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BILLING CODE 7537–01–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the 

Humanities 

Civil Penalty Adjustments for 2025 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Humanities; National Foundation on the 

Arts and the Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of civil penalty 

adjustments for 2025. 

SUMMARY: The National Endowment for 

the Humanities (NEH) is giving notice of 

the adjusted maximum and minimum 

civil monetary penalties that may be 

imposed for violations of its New 

Restrictions on Lobbying and Program 

Fraud Civil Remedies Act regulations to 

reflect the requirements of the Federal 

Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act 

of 1990, as amended by the Federal 

Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act 

Improvements Act of 2015. The updated 

penalty amounts are adjusted for 

inflation and are effective from January 

15, 2025, through January 14, 2026. 

DATES: The updated civil penalties in 

this notice are applicable to penalties 

assessed on or after January 15, 2025, if 

the associated violations occurred after 

November 2, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth Voyatzis, Deputy General 

Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, 

National Endowment for the 

Humanities, 400 7th Street SW, Room 

4060, Washington, DC 20506; (202) 606– 

8322; gencounsel@neh.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Background 

The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation 

Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by 

the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation 

Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 

2015 (the Inflation Adjustment Act) 1

directs each Executive agency to make 

an annual inflation adjustment for each 


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2 45 CFR 1168.400(a), (b), (e). 

3 45 CFR 1174.3(a), (b). 

4 85 FR 22025. 

5 86 FR 44626. 

6 88 FR 18998. 

7 45 CFR 1168.400(g), (h), 1174.3(f), (g). 

8Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 

Memorandum M–25–02 (December 17, 2024). 

9 Id. 

civil monetary penalty provided by law 

within the jurisdiction of the agency, 

and to publish notice of each such 

adjustment in the Federal Register. An 

agency adjusts a civil monetary penalty 

by increasing the maximum amount of 

such penalty (or the range of minimum 

and maximum amounts, as applicable) 

by the percentage by which the 

Consumer Price Index for All Urban 

Consumers (CPI–U) for the month of 

October preceding the date of 

adjustment (in this case, October 2024) 

exceeds the CPI–U for the October one 

year prior to the October immediately 

preceding the date of the adjustment (in 

this case, October 2023), then rounding 

each amount to the nearest dollar. 

NEH administers two civil monetary 

penalties subject to adjustment pursuant 

to the Inflation Adjustment Act: A civil 

monetary penalty that NEH may impose 

for violation of its New Restrictions on 

Lobbying regulation (the Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty) 2 and a civil 

monetary penalty that NEH may impose 

under its Program Fraud Civil Remedies 

Act Regulations (the PFCRA Civil 

Monetary Penalty).3 NEH made the 

initial ‘‘catch-up’’ adjustments to the 

Lobbying Civil Monetary Penalty for 

years 2016–2020 when it amended its 

New Restrictions on Lobbying 

regulation on April 21, 2020,4 and to the 

PFCRA Civil Monetary Penalty for years 

2016–2021 when it adopted its Program 

Fraud Civil Monetary Penalties Act 

regulations on August 13, 2021.5 NEH 

then adjusted the amount of those civil 

monetary penalties accordingly when it 

codified the statutory formula for 

inflation adjustments in NEH’s New 

Restrictions on Lobbying and Program 

Fraud Civil Remedies Act regulations on 

March 30, 2023.6 Each regulation 

provides for subsequent annual 

adjustment of its respective civil 

monetary penalty by notice in the 

Federal Register.7

2. 2025 Adjustments for Inflation 

OMB has issued guidance on 

implementing and calculating the 2025 

adjustment under the Inflation 

Adjustment Act.8 Per this guidance, the 

CPI–U adjustment multiplier for this 

annual adjustment is 1.02598.9 The 

post-adjustment penalty or range is 

obtained by multiplying the preadjustment penalty or range by the 

percent change in the CPI–U over the 

relevant time period and rounding to 

the nearest dollar. Between October 

2023 and October 2024, the CPI–U 

increased by a multiplier of 102.598% 

Therefore, NEH will adjust each civil 

monetary penalty amount by 

multiplying it by 1.02598 and rounding 

to the nearest dollar. 

A. 2025 Adjustment to Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty 

For 2024, the Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty had a minimum 

amount of $24,496 and a maximum 

amount of $244,958. Therefore, the 

adjusted minimum Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty for 2025 is $25,132 

($24,496 multiplied by 1.02598) and the 

adjusted maximum Lobbying Civil 

Monetary Penalty for 2025 is $251,322 

($244,958 multiplied by 1.02598). 

Thus, the Lobbying Civil Monetary 

Penalty, following the 2025 adjustment, 

has a minimum amount of $25,132 and 

a maximum amount of $251,322. 

B. 2025 Adjustment to PFCRA Civil 

Monetary Penalty 

For 2024, the PFCRA Civil Monetary 

Penalty had a maximum amount of 

$13,946. Therefore, the new, postadjustment maximum penalty for 2025 

under NEH’s PFCRA regulation is 

$14,308 ($13,946 multiplied by 

1.02598). 

Dated: December 20, 2024. 

Jessica Graves, 

Paralegal Specialist, National Endowment for 

the Humanities. 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

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of the Networking and Information 

Technology Research and 

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Technology Research and Development 

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ACTION: Notice of public meetings. 

SUMMARY: The NITRD Joint Engineering 

Team (JET) and Middleware And Grid 

Interagency Coordination (MAGIC) 

Communities of Practice (COPs) hold 

meetings that are open to the public to 

attend. The JET and MAGIC COPs 

provide an opportunity for the public to 

engage and participate in information 

sharing with federal agencies. The JET 

and MAGIC COPs report to the NITRD 

Large Scale Networking Interagency 

Working Group. 

DATES: January 2025–December 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

Love for the JET COP and Mallory Hinks 

for the MAGIC COP at nco@nitrd.gov or 

(202) 459–9674. Mail: Attn: Paul Love or 

Mallory Hinks, 2415 Eisenhower 

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Monday through Friday, except for U.S. 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Joint 

Engineering Team (JET) COP, 

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interest in high-performance research 

and engineering or research and 

education networking (REN) and 

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applications. 

The MAGIC COP, established in 2002, 

provides an opportunity for information 

sharing among Federal agencies and 

non-Federal participants involved in 

middleware, grid, and cloud research 

and infrastructure; implementing or 

operating grids and clouds; or the use of 

grids, clouds, and middleware. 

The JET and MAGIC COPs’ meetings 

are hosted by the NITRD NCO with 

Zoom participation available for each 

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Please reference the NITRD Public 

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