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Likely Respondents: HRSA applicants 

applying for federal loan guarantees, 

federal construction grants, and 

cooperative agreements. 

Burden Statement: Burden in this 

context means the time expended by 

persons to generate, maintain, retain, 

disclose, or provide the information 

requested. This includes the time 

needed to review instructions; to 

develop, acquire, install, and utilize 

technology and systems for the purpose 

of collecting, validating, and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information, and disclosing 

and providing information; to train 

personnel and to be able to respond to 

a collection of information; to search 

data sources; to complete and review 

the collection of information; and to 

transmit or otherwise disclose the 

information. The total annual burden 

hours estimated for this ICR are 

summarized in the table below. 

Total Estimated Annualized Burden 

Hours: 

Form name Number of 

respondents 

Number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total 

responses 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(in hours) 

Total 

burden 

hours 

NEPA EID Checklist ............................................................ 1,500 1 1,500 1 1,500 

Total .............................................................................. 1,500 ........................ 1,500 ........................ 1,500 

Maria G. Button, 

Director, Executive Secretariat. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Meeting of the Advisory Committee on 

Heritable Disorders in Newborns and 

Children 

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services 

Administration (HRSA), Department of 

Health and Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, this 

notice announces that the Advisory 

Committee on Heritable Disorders in 

Newborns and Children (ACHDNC or 

Committee) has scheduled a public 

meeting. Information about ACHDNC 

and the agenda for this meeting can be 

found on the ACHDNC website at 

https://www.hrsa.gov/advisorycommittees/heritable-disorders/ 

index.html. 

DATES: Thursday, February 13, 2025, 

from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. eastern time (ET) 

and Friday, February 14, 2025, from 10 

a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held 

via webinar. While this meeting is open 

to the public, advance registration is 

required. Please visit the ACHDNC 

website for information on registration, 

https://www.hrsa.gov/advisorycommittees/heritable-disorders/ 

index.html, not later than 12 p.m. ET on 

February 12, 2025. Instructions on how 

to access the meeting via webcast will 

be provided upon registration. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: CDR 

Leticia Manning, Maternal and Child 

Health Bureau, HRSA, 5600 Fishers 

Lane, Room, Rockville, Maryland 20857; 

301–443–8335; or ACHDNC@hrsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ACHDNC 

provides advice and recommendations 

to the Secretary of Health and Human 

Services (Secretary) on the development 

of newborn screening activities, 

technologies, policies, guidelines, and 

programs for effectively reducing 

morbidity and mortality in newborns 

and children having, or at risk for, 

heritable disorders. The ACHDNC 

reviews and reports regularly on 

newborn and childhood screening 

practices, recommends improvements in 

the national newborn and childhood 

screening programs, and fulfills 

requirements stated in the authorizing 

legislation. In addition, ACHDNC’s 

recommendations regarding inclusion of 

additional conditions for screening on 

the Recommended Uniform Screening 

Panel, following adoption by the 

Secretary, are evidence-informed 

preventive health services provided for 

in the comprehensive guidelines 

supported by HRSA pursuant to section 

2713 of the Public Health Service Act 

(42 U.S.C. 300gg–13). Under this 

provision, non-grandfathered group 

health plans and health insurance 

issuers offering non-grandfathered 

group or individual health insurance are 

required to provide insurance coverage 

without cost-sharing (a co-payment, coinsurance, or deductible) for preventive 

services for plan years (i.e., policy years) 

beginning on or after the date that is 1 

year from the Secretary’s adoption of the 

condition for screening. 

During the February 13–14, 2025, 

meeting, ACHDNC will hear from 

experts in the fields of public health, 

medicine, heritable disorders, rare 

disorders, and newborn screening. 

Possible agenda items may include the 

following topics: 

(1) An interim update on the evidence 

review of metachromatic 

leukodystrophy, 

(2) A presentation on the Newborn 

Screening Contingency Plan framework, 

(3) A panel discussion on genomic 

sequencing in newborns, 

(4) A presentation on the National 

Institutes of Health Newborn Screening 

by Whole Genome Sequencing 

Collaboratory, and 

(5) An update from the ACHDNC 

Naming and Counting Condition ad hoc 

topic group and potential Committee 

vote on a list of conditions that should 

be considered for evidence review. 

Although the agenda includes updates 

relating to evidence review of 

conditions that may lead to future votes, 

the meeting will not include any 

Committee votes to add conditions to 

the Recommended Uniform Screening 

Panel. Agenda items are subject to 

change as priorities dictate. Information 

about ACHDNC, including a roster of 

members and past meeting summaries, 

is also available on the ACHDNC 

website. 

Members of the public will have the 

opportunity to provide comments on 

any or all of the above agenda items. 

Public participants may request to 

provide general oral comments and may 

submit written statements in advance of 

the scheduled meeting. Oral comments 

will be honored in the order they are 

requested and may be limited as time 

allows. Requests to provide a written 

statement or make oral comments to 

ACHDNC must be submitted via the 

registration website by 12 p.m. ET on 

Thursday, January 30, 2025. Written 

comments will be shared with the 

Committee prior to the meeting so that 

they have an opportunity to consider 

them in advance of the meeting. 

Individuals who need special 

assistance or another reasonable 

accommodation should notify CDR 

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phone number listed above at least 10 

business days prior to the meeting. 

Maria G. Button, 

Director, Executive Secretariat. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Annual Update of the HHS Poverty 

Guidelines 

AGENCY: Department of Health and 

Human Services. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides an 

update of the Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) poverty 

guidelines to account for last calendar 

year’s increase in prices as measured by 

the Consumer Price Index. 

DATES: January 15, 2025 unless an office 

administering a program using the 

guidelines specifies a different effective 

date for that particular program. 

ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, 

Room 404E, Humphrey Building, 

Department of Health and Human 

Services, Washington, DC 20201. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information about how the guidelines 

are used or how income is defined in a 

particular program, contact the Federal, 

State, or local office that is responsible 

for that program. For information about 

poverty figures for immigration forms, 

the Hill-Burton Uncompensated 

Services Program, and the number of 

people in poverty, use the specific 

telephone numbers and addresses given 

below. 

For general questions about the 

poverty guidelines themselves, contact 

Kendall Swenson, Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Planning and 

Evaluation, Room 404E.3, Humphrey 

Building, Department of Health and 

Human Services, Washington, DC 

20201—telephone: (202) 795–7309—or 

visit http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/. 

For general questions about the 

poverty guidelines themselves, visit 

https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/. 

For information about the percentage 

multiple of the poverty guidelines to be 

used on immigration forms such as 

USCIS Form I–864, Affidavit of Support, 

contact U.S. Citizenship and 

Immigration Services at 1–800–375– 

5283. You also may visit https://

www.uscis.gov/i-864. 

For information about the Hill-Burton 

Uncompensated Services Program (free 

or reduced-fee health care services at 

certain hospitals and other facilities for 

persons meeting eligibility criteria 

involving the poverty guidelines), visit 

https://www.hrsa.gov/get-health-care/ 

affordable/hill-burton/index.html. 

For information about the number of 

people in poverty, visit the Poverty 

section of the Census Bureau’s website 

at https://www.census.gov/topics/ 

income-poverty/poverty.html or contact 

the Census Bureau’s Customer Service 

Center at 1–800–923–8282 (toll-free) or 

visit https://ask.census.gov for further 

information. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Section 673(2) of the Community 

Services Block Grant (42 U.S.C. 9902(2)) 

requires the Secretary of the Department 

of Health and Human Services to update 

the poverty guidelines at least annually, 

adjusting them on the basis of the 

Consumer Price Index for All Urban 

Consumers (CPI–U). The poverty 

guidelines are used by Medicaid and a 

number of other Federal programs as a 

criterion for some or all eligibility 

determinations. The poverty guidelines 

issued here are a simplified version of 

the poverty thresholds that the Census 

Bureau uses to prepare its estimates of 

the number of individuals and families 

in poverty. 

As required by law, this update is 

accomplished by increasing the latest 

published Census Bureau poverty 

thresholds by the applicable percentage 

change in the Consumer Price Index for 

All Urban Consumers (CPI–U). The 

guidelines in this 2025 notice reflect the 

2.9 percent price increase between 

calendar years 2023 and 2024. After 

updating for inflation, the guidelines are 

rounded and standardized to establish 

the same interval between each family 

size. In rare circumstances, rounding 

and standardizing in the formula result 

in small decreases in the poverty 

guidelines for some household sizes 

even when the inflation factor is not 

negative. In cases where the year-to-year 

change in inflation is not negative and 

rounding and standardizing in the 

formula result in reductions to the 

guidelines from the previous year for 

some household sizes, the guidelines for 

the affected household sizes are fixed at 

the prior year’s guidelines. As in prior 

years, these 2025 guidelines are roughly 

equal to the poverty thresholds for 

calendar year 2024, which the Census 

Bureau expects to publish in final form 

in September 2025. 

The poverty guidelines continue to be 

derived from the Census Bureau’s 

current official poverty thresholds; they 

are not derived from the Census 

Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure 

(SPM). 

The following guideline figures 

represent annual income. 

2025 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR THE

48 CONTIGUOUS STATES AND THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Persons in family/household Poverty 

guideline 

1 ............................................ $15,650 

2 ............................................ 21,150 

3 ............................................ 26,650 

4 ............................................ 32,150 

5 ............................................ 37,650 

6 ............................................ 43,150 

7 ............................................ 48,650 

8 ............................................ 54,150 

For families/households with more 

than 8 persons, add $5,500 for each 

additional person. 

2025 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

ALASKA

Persons in family/household Poverty 

guideline 

1 ............................................ $19,550 

2 ............................................ 26,430 

3 ............................................ 33,310 

4 ............................................ 40,190 

5 ............................................ 47,070 

6 ............................................ 53,950 

7 ............................................ 60,830 

8 ............................................ 67,710 

For families/households with more 

than 8 persons, add $6,880 for each 

additional person. 

2025 POVERTY GUIDELINES FOR

HAWAII

Persons in family/household Poverty 

guideline 

1 ............................................ $17,990 

2 ............................................ 24,320 

3 ............................................ 30,650 

4 ............................................ 36,980 

5 ............................................ 43,310 

6 ............................................ 49,640 

7 ............................................ 55,970 

8 ............................................ 62,300 

For families/households with more 

than 8 persons, add $6,330 for each 

additional person. 

Separate poverty guideline figures for 

Alaska and Hawaii reflect Office of 

Economic Opportunity administrative 

practice beginning in the 1966–1970 

period. (Note that the Census Bureau 

poverty thresholds—the version of the 

poverty measure used for statistical 

purposes—have never had separate 

figures for Alaska and Hawaii.) The 


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