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Leroy A. Richardson, 

Chief, Information Collection Review Office, 

Office of Scientific Integrity, Office of the 

Associate Director for Science, Office of the 

Director, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

Advisory Board on Radiation and 

Worker Health (ABRWH or the 

Advisory Board), Subcommittee for 

Dose Reconstruction Reviews (SDRR), 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health (NIOSH) 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), announces the 

following meeting for the 

aforementioned subcommittee. This 

meeting is open to the public, but 

without a public comment period. The 

public is welcome to submit written 

comments in advance of the meeting, to 

the contact person below. Written 

comments received in advance of the 

meeting will be included in the official 

record of the meeting. The public is also 

welcome to listen to the meeting by 

joining the teleconference at the USA 

toll-free, dial-in number at 1–866–659– 

0537 and the pass code is 9933701. The 

conference line has 150 ports for callers. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

September 28, 2017, 10:30 a.m.–5:00 

p.m., EDT. 

ADDRESSES: Audio Conference Call via 

FTS Conferencing. The USA toll-free 

dial-in number is 1–866–659–0537 and 

the pass code is 9933701. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Theodore Katz, MPA, Designated 

Federal Officer, NIOSH, CDC, 1600 

Clifton Road, Mailstop E–20, Atlanta, 

Georgia 30333, Telephone (513) 533– 

6800, Toll Free 1 (800) CDC–INFO, 

Email ocas@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Advisory Board was 

established under the Energy Employees 

Occupational Illness Compensation 

Program Act of 2000 to advise the 

President on a variety of policy and 

technical functions required to 

implement and effectively manage the 

new compensation program. Key 

functions of the Advisory Board include 

providing advice on the development of 

probability of causation guidelines, 

which have been promulgated by the 

Department of Health and Human 

Services (HHS) as a final rule; advice on 

methods of dose reconstruction, which 

have also been promulgated by HHS as 

a final rule; advice on the scientific 

validity and quality of dose estimation 

and reconstruction efforts being 

performed for purposes of the 

compensation program; and advice on 

petitions to add classes of workers to the 

Special Exposure Cohort (SEC). 

In December 2000, the President 

delegated responsibility for funding, 

staffing, and operating the Advisory 

Board to HHS, which subsequently 

delegated this authority to the CDC. 

NIOSH implements this responsibility 

for CDC. The charter was issued on 

August 3, 2001, renewed at appropriate 

intervals, rechartered on March 22, 2016 

pursuant to Executive Order 13708, and 

will expire on September 30, 2017. 

Purpose: The Advisory Board is 

charged with (a) providing advice to the 

Secretary, HHS, on the development of 

guidelines under Executive Order 

13179; (b) providing advice to the 

Secretary, HHS, on the scientific 

validity and quality of dose 

reconstruction efforts performed for this 

program; and (c) upon request by the 

Secretary, HHS, advise the Secretary on 

whether there is a class of employees at 

any Department of Energy facility who 

were exposed to radiation but for whom 

it is not feasible to estimate their 

radiation dose, and on whether there is 

reasonable likelihood that such 

radiation doses may have endangered 

the health of members of this class. The 

Subcommittee for Dose Reconstruction 

Reviews was established to aid the 

Advisory Board in carrying out its duty 

to advise the Secretary, HHS, on dose 

reconstruction. 

Matters To Be Considered: The agenda 

for the Subcommittee meeting includes 

the following dose reconstruction 

program quality management and 

assurance activities: Dose reconstruction 

cases under review from Sets 14–23, 

including the Oak Ridge sites (Y–12, K– 

25, Oak Ridge National Laboratory), 

Hanford, Feed Materials Production 

Center (‘‘Fernald’’), Lawrence Livermore 

National Laboratory, Mound Plant, 

Rocky Flats Plant, Nevada Test Site, 

Idaho National Laboratory, Savannah 

River Site, Brookhaven National 

Laboratory, Westinghouse, W.R. Grace, 

Uranium Mill in Monticello, Ventron 

Corporation, Weldon Springs Plant, and 

other Department of Energy and 

‘‘Atomic Weapons Employer’’ facilities. 

The agenda is subject to change as 

priorities dictate. 

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and Services Office, has been delegated 

the authority to sign Federal Register 

notices pertaining to announcements of 

meetings and other committee 

management activities, for both the 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention and the Agency for Toxic 

Substances and Disease Registry. 

Elaine L. Baker, 

Director, Management Analysis and Services 

Office, Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Administration for Children and 

Families 

[CFDA Numbers: 93.581, 93.587, 93.612] 

Request for Public Comment on the 

Proposed Adoption of Administration 

for Native Americans Program Policies 

and Procedures 

AGENCY: Administration for Native 

Americans, ACF, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice for public comment. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 814 of the 

Native American Programs Act of 1974 

(NAPA), as amended, the 

Administration for Native Americans 

(ANA) is required to provide members 

of the public an opportunity to 

comment on proposed changes in 

interpretive rules and general 

statements of policy and to give notice 

of the final adoption of such changes no 

less than 30 days before such changes 

become effective. In accordance with 

notice requirements of NAPA, ANA 

herein describes proposed interpretive 

rules and general statements of policy 

that relate to ANA’s funding 

opportunities beginning in Fiscal Year 

(FY) 2018. Changes to FY 2018 Funding 

Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) 

will be based on the following 

previously published programs: 

Environmental Regulatory Enhancement 

(ERE) HHS–2017–ACF–ANA–NR–1221, 

Native American Language Preservation 

and Maintenance-Esther Martinez 

Immersion (EMI) HHS–2017–ACF– 

ANA–NB–1226, Native American 

Language Preservation and Maintenance 

(P&M) HHS–2017–ACF–ANA–NL–1235, 

Social and Economic Development 

Strategies (SEDS) HHS–2017–ACF– 

ANA–NA–1236, Social and Economic 

Development Strategies-Alaska (SEDS– 

AK) HHS–2015–ACF–ANA–NK–0960, 


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and Native Youth Initiative for 

Leadership, Empowerment, and 

Development (ILEAD) HHS–2017–ACF– 

ANA–NC–1263. This notice of public 

comment also provides additional 

information about ANA’s plan for 

administering grant programs. 

DATES: The deadline for receipt of 

comments is 30 days from the date of 

publication in the Federal Register. No 

FOA will be published prior to 30 days 

from publication of this Notice. 

ADDRESSES: Comments in response to 

this notice should be addressed to 

Carmelia Strickland, Director of 

Program Operations, Administration for 

Native Americans, 330 C Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20201. Delays may 

occur in mail delivery to federal offices; 

therefore, a copy of comments should be 

emailed to ANAComments@acf.hhs.gov. 

Comments will be available for 

inspection by members of the public at 

the Administration for Native 

Americans, 330 C Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20201. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carmelia Strickland, Director, Division 

of Program Operations, Administration 

for Native Americans (877) 922–9262. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

814 of NAPA, as amended, incorporates 

provisions of the Administrative 

Procedure Act (APA) that require ANA 

to provide notice of its proposed 

interpretive rules and statements of 

policy and to seek public comment on 

such proposals. This notice serves to 

fulfill the statutory notice and public 

comment requirement. ANA has also 

chosen to provide notice of its proposed 

rules of agency practice and procedure. 

The proposed interpretive rules, 

statements of policy, and rules of ANA 

practice and procedure reflected in 

clarifications, modifications, and new 

text will appear in the six FY 2018 

FOAs: Environmental Regulatory 

Enhancement (ERE), Native American 

Language Preservation and 

Maintenance-Esther Martinez 

Immersion (EMI), Native American 

Language Preservation and Maintenance 

(P&M), Social and Economic 

Development Strategies (SEDS), Social 

and Economic Development StrategiesAlaska (SEDS–AK), and Native Youth 

Initiative for Leadership, Empowerment, 

and Development (ILEAD). This notice 

also reflects ANA’s elimination of the 

Sustainable Employment and Economic 

Strategies (SEEDS) FOA. 

For information on the types of 

projects funded by ANA, please refer to 

the following for information on current 

and previously funded ANA grants at 

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ana/grants. 

Pre-publication information on ANA’s 

FOAs is available at https://

www.grants.gov/web/grants/searchgrants.html by clicking on ‘Forecasted’ 

under Opportunity Status and 

‘Administration for Children and 

Families—ANA [HHS–ACF–ANA]’ on 

the left side of the page. ANA’s FOAs 

can be accessed at: http://

www.acf.hhs.gov/grants/open/foa/ 

office/ana or http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ 

grants/open/foa/. Synopses and 

application forms will be available on 

https://www.grants.gov/. 

A. Interpretive rules, statements of 

policy, procedures, and practice. The 

proposals below reflect ANA’s proposed 

changes in rules, policy, or procedure 

which will take effect in the FY 2018 

FOAs. 

1. Application periods. ANA proposes 

to provide an open application period of 

no less than 90 days to respond to 

FOAs. ANA is increasing the open 

application period to provide applicants 

with additional time to review proposed 

changes that are actualized in the FY 

2018 FOAs, and to develop their 

applications according to FOA 

requirements. ANA intends to maintain 

the 90 day open application period for 

subsequent years. 

2. Two-File Upload Requirement. 

ANA proposes to include the grant 

application submission requirement 

established by the Administration for 

Children and Families (ACF), which 

specifies ‘‘applicants submitting their 

applications electronically are required 

to upload only two electronic files. No 

more than two files will be accepted for 

the review and additional files will be 

removed. Standard Forms will not be 

considered as additional files.’’ ANA 

requested to deviate from this policy in 

order to provide rural communities and 

lower capacity organizations an 

opportunity to adjust to any 

technological, or bandwidth 

requirements that go along with transfer 

and upload of large files. The policy has 

now been in existence for several years 

for other ACF Programs, therefore ANA 

will no longer request a deviation from 

this standard ACF policy. 

3. Reduced project period for ILEAD. 

ANA proposes to maintain the reduced 

maximum project period for awards 

made under the ILEAD FOA from four 

years (four 12- month budget periods) to 

three years (three 12-month budget 

periods). The reduced project period 

was made in FY 2017 FOAs to align the 

program with ANA’s Social and 

Economic Development Strategies 

(SEDS) program, which is published 

under the same CFDA number as 

ILEAD. 

4. FY 2018 FOA—Project Description. 

ANA proposes to modify the 

information requested in the project 

description for FY 2018 application 

submissions. Modifications are being 

proposed to reflect a shift away from a 

deficit approach, towards a strengthbased approach to defining projects and 

addressing long-term community goals, 

and to align the application request for 

information with common terminology 

related to program evaluation. The 

following is applicable to project 

description requests, and evaluation 

criterion for all ANA FOAs published 

beginning in FY 2018: 

(a) ANA will no longer require the 

‘‘Problem Statement’’ or include the 

section titled ‘‘Objectives and Need for 

Assistance’’. Instead, ANA proposes to 

focus on long term community goals, 

the community condition, and how the 

project outcomes relate to the 

community condition. Information will 

be requested under the Expected 

Outcomes section of the Project 

Description request. 

(b) To shift terms included in the FOA 

towards commonly used evaluation 

terminology, objectives will no longer 

be referred to as Specific, Measureable, 

Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound 

(SMART). ANA proposes to define 

objectives with population, targets, 

indicators, and timelines. In addition 

the terms ‘‘results’’ and ‘‘benefits’’ will 

be replaced with ‘‘outcomes’’ and 

‘‘outputs.’’ 

(c) ANA proposes to require 

information that addresses elements of a 

‘‘Project Framework’’. The project 

framework will include the following 

elements: Long-term community goal, 

current community condition, 

outcomes; project goal, objectives, 

indicators, and outputs. The project 

framework includes elements 

previously requested in ANA FOAs, in 

combination with new elements, to fully 

identify the project in relation to overall 

community goals; identify project 

outcomes related to the enhancement of 

a current community condition; and 

establish a framework for monitoring 

changes and identifying tangible results 

from the project. 

(d) ANA will no longer require the 

identification of impact or an impact 

indicator; instead, ANA proposes the 

requirement of an outcome tracking 

strategy. The outcome tracking strategy 

will require applicants to identify an 

indicator and outcome for each 

objective; a means for measuring change 

to the indicator, which includes data 

points and establishes targets to be met 

throughout project implementation; and 

a list of project outputs related to each 

project objective. Within the FY 2018 


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FOAs, ANA intends to include a 

suggested format for organizing the 

information included in the outcome 

tracking strategy, similar to the 

suggestion included in the FY 2017 

FOAs for organizing impact indicators. 

(e) To prioritize community based 

projects, ANA proposes to require 

information to identify a communitybased strategy for project 

implementation. The requirement will 

include information to describe how the 

proposed project relates to community 

based priorities, how the community 

was involved in project development, 

and how the community will be 

involved in implementation and 

sustainability. 

(f) The ANA Objective Work Plan 

(OWP) [current OMB form 0970–0452] 

will be modified. The terms ‘‘results’’ 

and ‘‘benefits’’ will no longer be used; 

instead, applicants will be required to 

identify outcomes and outputs. Key 

project activities will be included 

separately from administrative 

activities. Requirements for key 

activities will include alignment to 

outputs that are created by project 

implementation and a maximum of 25 

key activities per objective during each 

year of implementation. 

(a) To accommodate modifications to 

ANA’s application information request, 

ANA proposes the following evaluation 

criteria headings and scoring values: 

Outcomes Expected (0–25 points), 

Outcome Tracking Strategy (0–10 

points), Approach (0–25 points), 

Organizational Capacity (0–15 points), 

OWP (0–15 points), and Budget (0–10 

points). 

(b) A scoring table will be included in 

all FOAs to provide additional guidance 

to panel reviewers regarding the 

allocation of points in relation to the 

quality of information provided in the 

application. 

5. ANA Administrative Policies. The 

following modifications are applicable 

to the ANA Administrative Policies 

included in all FY 2018 FOAs: 

(a) ANA proposes to add an 

administrative policy to prioritize the 

award of funds to applicant 

organizations that are local, community 

based organizations. In the case of 

national, regional, or non-local based 

organizations, ANA may provide 

support to organizations that have 

provided information to justify they are 

the appropriate applicant organization 

to administer the proposed project in 

support of the community and project 

beneficiaries being served. The policy is 

proposed as follows: 

Prioritized Funding for Local, Native 

American Community Based Organizations: 

ANA reserves the right to prioritize 

funding to local Native American 

community-based organizations serving their 

local communities and populations. 

Applications from national and regional 

organizations that propose projects that are 

performed in a different geographic location 

must clearly demonstrate how the target 

community was selected. They must also 

demonstrate a need for the project, explain 

how the project originated, discuss the 

community-based delivery strategy of the 

project, identify and describe the intended 

beneficiaries, describe and relate the actual 

project benefits to the community and 

organization, and describe a communitybased delivery system. National and regional 

organizations must describe their 

membership, define how the organization 

operates and demonstrate Native community 

and/or Tribal government involvement in the 

development of the project and support for 

the project. The type of community to be 

served will determine the type of 

documentation necessary to support the 

project. 

This proposed administrative policy 

is based on the priority for selfsufficiency for Native American 

communities, and follows the premise 

that self-sufficiency is best obtained 

when local organizations are leading 

efforts to achieve community goals. The 

policy will state ANA’s priority for 

community local, community based 

organizations, and describe information 

requirements for national, regional, or 

non-local based organizations. 

(b) Limitation on Number of Awards 

Based on Two Consecutively Funded 

Projects: ANA proposes to edit language 

for this policy to clarify that a no cost 

extension (NCE) will be included as a 

period of project implementation, 

towards consecutively funded projects. 

The policy is proposed as follows: 

Limitation on Number of Awards Based on 

Two Consecutively Funded Projects: 

ANA will maximize the reach of its limited 

funding. Therefore, applicants that have 

implemented at least two consecutive 

projects within one CFDA number may not 

be funded for a third consecutive project 

within the same CFDA number if other 

applicants who have not received ANA 

funding in the past 3 years are within the 

scoring range to be funded. Project 

implementation periods are comprised of 

newly awarded first year project periods, 

Non Competing Continuation (NCC) periods, 

and any No Cost Extensions (NCE) periods. 

Therefore grantees that have been 

approved for a NCE must complete a 

year after the end of the NCE period 

without implementing an ANA project 

under the same CFDA number before 

they are considered to be exempt from 

this policy. This specific issue has 

raised several questions during the 

implementation period for ANA 

projects. Editing the policy is meant to 

clarify its application prior to the start 

of an award. 

6. Ineligible Activities. ANA proposes 

to revise language describing ineligible 

third party training and technical 

assistance, which is included in the list 

of Projects Ineligible for Funding in all 

FY 2018 FOAs. The revision will 

remove the statement that describes 

third party training and technical 

assistance as activities that duplicate 

training and technical assistance 

provided by ANA T/TA providers, and 

the language will directly align the 

ineligible activity with language in 

Subchapter D—The Administration for 

Native Americans, Native American 

programs, 45 CFR 1336.33(b). 

Ineligible Third Party Training and 

Technical Assistance activities will be 

stated in the FOAs as follows: 

Projects for which a grantee will provide 

training and technical assistance to other 

tribes or Native American organizations or to 

non-members of the grantee organization 

(third party training or technical assistance). 

7. Disqualification Factors. ANA 

proposes the following edits to the ANA 

Disqualification Factors included in all 

FY 2018 FOAs: 

(a) ANA will include language to 

clarify that Tribal Colleges and public 

agencies serving native peoples from 

Guam, American Samoa, or the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands, are required to submit 

Assurance of Community 

Representation and Governing Body 

Documentation from the governing body 

of the Tribal College. Documentation 

from the governing body of the Tribe 

will not fulfill the requirements for this 

documentation. This clarification is 

proposed to reduce the number of 

applications that are disqualified due to 

misunderstanding the requirements. 

(b) ANA will revise the categories for 

community representation, as described 

under the Assurance of Community 

Representation on Board of Directors. 

ANA proposes to remove the second 

category of affiliation/relationship to the 

community being served. This category 

was listed as: ‘‘persons eligible to be a 

participant in, or beneficiary of the 

project.’’ The Assurance of Community 

Representation is included to ensure 

ANA funds are awarded to 

organizations that directly represent the 

Native American community that will 

be served (See 45 CFR 1336.33). 

However, ANA does not limit project 

participants or beneficiaries to 

individuals that represent the 

community being served. Therefore 

ANA has determined that the inclusion 

of this category does not support the 

intention of this policy. 


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The revised policy is proposed as 

follows: 

Assurance of Community Representation 

on Board of Directors 

Applicants other than tribes or Alaska 

Native Villages applying for funding must 

show that a majority of board members are 

representative of a Native American 

community to be served. Applicants must 

submit documentation that identifies each 

board member by name and indicates his/her 

affiliation or relationship to at least one of 

ANA’s three categories of community 

representation, which include: (1) Members 

of federally or state-recognized tribes; (2) 

persons who are recognized by members of 

the eligible Native American community to 

be served as having a cultural relationship 

with that community; or (3) persons 

considered to be Native American as defined 

in 45 CFR 1336.10 and Native American 

Pacific Islanders as defined in Section 815 of 

the Native American Programs Act. 

Applicants that do not include this 

documentation will be considered nonresponsive, and the application will not be 

considered for competition. See Section IV.2. 

Project Description, Additional Eligibility 

Documentation. 

Public agencies serving native peoples 

from Guam, American Samoa, or the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands, and Tribal Colleges governed by a 

board that is separate from the governing 

body of a tribe, must include Assurance of 

Community Representation from the 

governing body of the Tribal College, and not 

from the governing body of the Tribe. If the 

documentation is not included by the 

submission deadline, the application will be 

considered unresponsive and will be 

disqualified from the competition. 

8. Review and Selection Process. ANA 

will modify the implementation of the 

Review and Selection process, as stated 

in all FY 2018 FOAs as follows: 

(a) ANA’s commissioner has the 

discretion to make all final funding 

decisions. In exercising this discretion, 

the commissioner includes a list in 

Section V.2. Review and Selection 

Process of projects that may not be 

chosen for funding. For the FY 2018 

FOAs, ANA proposes the following: 

Additions: 

• Projects that have not demonstrated 

a community-based strategy as 

described in Section I. Program 

Description, Key Project Features. 

• Projects proposed by national, 

regional, and non-local organization that 

have not justified their position as the 

best applicant organization to address 

long term community goals for a local 

community. Please see Section I. 

Administrative Policies, Prioritized 

Funding for Local, Native American 

Community Based Organizations. 

• Projects proposing activities that 

were previously implemented without 

Federal Assistance. 

Because ANA funding is limited, 

ANA proposes adding these items to the 

list in order to align with new language 

emphasizing community-based 

strategies, and to highlight the priority 

for funding these projects. ANA also 

wants to ensure that its limited funding 

is being used for projects that are not 

able to secure other sources of funding 

for activities that were being previously 

implemented without support from the 

Federal Government. 

Deletion: 

• Projects that provide couples or 

family counseling activities that are 

medically-based. 

ANA has stated in other 

administrative policies that it will not 

fund human research, or projects that 

may cause unintended harm to project 

participants. Outside of these 

limitations, and in an effort to support 

the Native American community’s 

ability to determine if these activities 

are actually beneficially to achievement 

of their long-term goals, ANA will no 

longer limit the proposal of projects that 

include medically-based couples or 

family counseling activities. 

9. Native American Preservation and 

Maintenance Program. The following 

modifications are being proposed to the 

‘‘Native American Languages 

Preservation and Maintenance,’’ and 

‘‘Native American Languages 

Preservation and Maintenance Esther 

Martinez Immersion’’ FOAs only: 

(a) ANA proposes the identification of 

language specific outcomes that relate to 

one of the following categories: 

Language fluency, increased community 

member use of language learning 

resources; certified language teachers; or 

increased capacity to implement a 

language program. The categories are 

being proposed in order to further 

define the outcomes for ANA language 

projects, and to support the monitoring 

and evaluation of ANA’s language and 

preservation program. 

(b) ANA will include language in the 

FY 2018 FOAs to restate application 

requirements included in Section 

803C(c)(5–6) of the Native American 

Programs Act (NAPA) of 1974. The 

requirements are as follows: 

(5) if appropriate, an identification of 

opportunities for the replication of such 

project or the modification of such project for 

use by other Native Americans; and 

(6) a plan for the preservation of the 

products of the Native American language 

project for the benefit of future generations of 

Native Americans and other interested 

persons’’ 

This language will be added directly as 

stated in ANA’s authorizing legislation to 

ensure that applications meet the 

requirements of NAPA. 

Statutory Authority: Section 814 of the 

Native American Programs Act of 1974 

(NAPA), as amended. 

Kimberly Romaine, 

Deputy Commissioner, Administration for 

Native Americans. 

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Administration for Children and 

Families 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

Title: Social Services Block Grant 

(SSBG) Post-Expenditure Report. 

OMB No.: 0970–0234. 

Description: The purpose of this is to 

request approval to: (1) Reinstate and 

extend the collection of postexpenditure data using the current OMB 

approved Post-Expenditure Reporting 

form (OMB No. 0970–0234) with 

modification past the current expiration 

date of November 30, 2017; (2) propose 

8 minor additions to the current PostExpenditure Reporting form; and (3) to 

request that grantees continue to 

voluntarily submit estimated preexpenditure data using the PostExpenditure Reporting form, as part of 

the required annual Intended Use Plan. 

The Social Services Block Grant 

(SSBG) is authorized under Title XX of 

the Social Security Act, as amended, 

and is codified at 42 U.S.C § 1397 

through § 1397e. SSBG provides funds 

to States, the District of Columbia, 

Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, 

the Virgin Islands, and the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands (hereinafter referred to as States 

and Territories or grantees) to assist in 

delivering critical services to vulnerable 

older adults, persons with disabilities, 

at-risk adolescents and young adults, 

and children and families. SSBG funds 

are distributed to each State and the 

District of Columbia based on each 

State’s population relative to all other 

States. Distributions are made to Puerto 

Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the 

Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth 

of the Northern Mariana Islands based 

on the same ratio allotted to them in 

1981 as compared to the total 1981 

appropriation. 

Each State or Territory is responsible 

for designing and implementing its own 

use of SSBG funds to meet the 

specialized needs of their most 

vulnerable populations. States and 

Territories may determine what services 

will be provided, who will be eligible, 


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