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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Dated at Washington, DC, on August 4,
2021.
James P. Sheesley,
Assistant Executive Secretary.
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System, August 5, 2021.
Ann Misback,
Secretary of the Board.
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A. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(Colette A. Fried, Assistant Vice
President) 230 South LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60690–1414:
1. Cheryl Allen, Sterling, Illinois;
Gregg DeVries, Byron, Illinois; and
Sandra K. DeVries Trust, Sandra K.
Devries, as trustee, and Roger P. DeVries
Trust, Roger P. DeVries, as trustee, all of
Milledgeville, Illinois; as the DeVries
Family Control Group, a group acting in
concert; and Edward M. Tyne, Kay F.
Tyne, and Margaret A. Tyne, all of Polo,
Illinois; and Courtney Tyne,
Washington, DC; as the Tyne Family
Control Group, a group acting in
concert, to acquire additional voting
shares of Milledgeville Bancorp, Inc.,
and thereby indirectly acquire voting
shares of Milledgeville State Bank, both
of Milledgeville, Illinois.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, August 5, 2021.
Ann Misback,
Secretary of the Board.
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The companies listed in this notice
have given notice under section 4 of the
Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C.
1843) (BHC Act) and Regulation Y, (12
CFR part 225) to engage de novo, or to
acquire or control voting securities or
assets of a company, including the
companies listed below, that engages
either directly or through a subsidiary or
other company, in a nonbanking activity
that is listed in § 225.28 of Regulation Y
(12 CFR 225.28) or that the Board has
determined by Order to be closely
related to banking and permissible for
bank holding companies. Unless
otherwise noted, these activities will be
conducted throughout the United States.
The public portions of the
applications listed below, as well as
other related filings required by the
Board, if any, are available for
immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at
the offices of the Board of Governors.
This information may also be obtained
on an expedited basis, upon request, by
contacting the appropriate Federal
Reserve Bank and from the Board’s
Freedom of Information Office at
https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/
request.htm. Interested persons may
express their views in writing on the
question whether the proposal complies
with the standards of section 4 of the
BHC Act.
Unless otherwise noted, comments
regarding the applications must be
received at the Reserve Bank indicated
or the offices of the Board of Governors,
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Ann E. Misback, Secretary of the Board,
20th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20551–0001, not
later than September 9, 2021.
A. Federal Reserve Bank of
Philadelphia (William Spaniel, Senior
Vice President) 100 North 6th Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105–
1521. Comments can also be sent
electronically to
Comments.applications@phil.frb.org:
1. Columbia Bank MHC and Columbia
Financial, Inc., both of Fair Lawn, New
Jersey; to acquire Freehold MHC and
Freehold Bancorp, and indirectly
acquire Freehold Bank, all of Freehold,
New Jersey, and thereby engage in
operating a savings association pursuant
to Section 225.28(b)(4)(ii) of Regulation
Y.
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Change in Bank Control Notices;
Acquisitions of Shares of a Bank or
Bank Holding Company
The notificants listed below have
applied under the Change in Bank
Control Act (Act) (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)) and
§ 225.41 of the Board’s Regulation Y (12
CFR 225.41) to acquire shares of a bank
or bank holding company. The factors
that are considered in acting on the
applications are set forth in paragraph 7
of the Act (12 U.S.C. 1817(j)(7)).
The public portions of the
applications listed below, as well as
other related filings required by the
Board, if any, are available for
immediate inspection at the Federal
Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at
the offices of the Board of Governors.
This information may also be obtained
on an expedited basis, upon request, by
contacting the appropriate Federal
Reserve Bank and from the Board’s
Freedom of Information Office at
https://www.federalreserve.gov/foia/
request.htm. Interested persons may
express their views in writing on the
standards enumerated in paragraph 7 of
the Act.
Comments regarding each of these
applications must be received at the
Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of
the Board of Governors, Ann E.
Misback, Secretary of the Board, 20th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20551–0001, not later
than August 25, 2021.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
[CFDA Numbers: 93.581, 93.587, 93.612]
Notice of Final Issuance on the
Administration for Native Americans
Program Policies and Procedures
Administration for Native
Americans, (ANA), Administration for
Children and Families (ACF),
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of final issuance.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to section 814 of the
Native American Programs Act of 1974
(NAPA), as amended, 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 proposed changes no less
than 30 days before such changes
become effective. On February 19, 2021,
ANA published a Notice of Public
Comment (NOPC) in the Federal
Register regarding its proposed
interpretive rules and general
statements of policy relative to its six
FY 2021 Funding Opportunity
Announcements (FOAs): Environmental
Regulatory Enhancement (HHS–2021–
ACF–ANA–NR–1907); Native American
Language Preservation and
Maintenance—Esther Martinez
SUMMARY:
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Immersion (HHS–2021–ACF–ANA–NB–
1958); Native American Language
Preservation and Maintenance (HHS–
2021–ACF–ANA–NL–1924); Social and
Economic Development Strategies
(HHS–2021–ACF–ANA–NA–1906);
Social and Economic Development
Strategies—Alaska (HHS–2021–ACF–
ANA–NK–1902); and Social and
Economic Strategies—Growing
Organizations (HHS–2021–ACF–ANA–
NN–1918). This Notice of Issuance
responds to the public comments
received from the NOPC.
DATES: The FY 2021 FOAs have been
published, and these FOAs serve as the
final notice of ANA’s proposed changes.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carmelia Strickland, Director, Division
of Program Operations, Administration
for Native Americans, (877) 922–9262,
anacomments@acf.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to section 814 of NAPA, as amended,
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 proposed
changes no less than 30 days before
such changes become effective.
ANA published a NOPC (86 FR
10283) on February 19, 2021, with
proposed policy and program
clarifications, modifications, and
activities for the FY 2021 FOAs. The
NOPC provided proposed clarifications,
modifications, and new text for six FY
2021 FOAs. During the 30-day comment
period, ANA received three responses to
the NOPC. ANA reviewed the comments
and determined them non-substantive
and therefore would not require changes
to the FOAs.
The following are the public
comments received in response to the
NOPC and ANA’s responses:
Comment: My comment is that I hope
to have ANA implement a requirement
that all data collected in Indian Country
by non-Indigenous and Indigenous
entities are collected in a manner that
ensures the tribe and community will
have ownership, guardianship, and
access to that data.
Response: ANA highly encourages
tribes to be aware of their rights to
intellectual property rights and data
sovereignty. In the past, ANA has
provided trainings at grantee meetings
and webinars through ANA’s training
and technical assistance centers. In
addition, ANA included a statement in
all FY 2021 FOAs that encouraged
applicants to educate themselves on
intellectual property rights and the
protection of ownership of Native
language materials, ceremonies, music
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and dance, and other forms of
knowledge and cultural practices that
originate from Native communities.
However, due to the variety of laws,
rights, and jurisdictions of these
matters, ANA leaves this up to the
discretion of grantees and applicants.
Comment: We urge ANA to
discontinue the use of ‘‘normalized
scoring.’’ While the intent of this
practice is to normalize scoring across
all review panels, it has had a negative
impact on applications that obtain high
scores in their review panels, but end
up with a much lower scaled score,
unjustly knocking them out of the
competitive range for a funding award.
Response: ANA may use the statistical
technique of ‘‘normalization’’ to convert
raw scores from review panels to a
standardized scale to negate any
differences or biases in scoring
behaviors among different panels and
numerous reviewers. The decision to
normalize scores occurs in advance of
the panel session so as not to prejudice
any specific competition and that all
awards are made consistently across the
different funding competitions when
there are three or more panels. ANA has
left the option for using normalized
scores in the FY 2021 FOAs but will
keep this comment in mind for planning
the FY 2022 competitions.
Comment: We would like clarification
about whether training and technical
assistance information will still be
available and accessible on the websites
of the regional training and technical
assistance providers, and that applicants
who do not provide a letter of intent
will be able to access such services.
Response: ANA provides technical
assistance throughout all stages of the
application process, regardless of
providing a letter of intent.
Comment: Project-specific funding
does not clearly define ‘‘essentially
identical or similar in whole or in part.’’
It is not clear if the development of
resources, like textbooks, would count
as ‘‘essentially identical or similar’’
projects if they build on previous work
and use similar project designs.
Response: ANA has a long-standing
policy that it will not fund projects that
are essentially identical or similar in
whole or in part to previously funded
projects proposed by the same
applicant. While an applicant can have
previously developed materials, the new
project cannot duplicate the same
materials and must address different
subjects, populations, etc. If an
applicant has concerns about whether
ANA has funded them in the past for a
project ‘‘essentially identical or similar
in whole or in part,’’ ANA encourages
them to reach out to ANA or an ANA
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technical assistance center for
clarification.
Comment: ANA is requiring
applicants to the Esther Martinez
Immersion (EMI) language FOA to
submit ‘‘an official document that
certifies the applicant has at least 3
years of experience in operating and
administering’’ an immersion school or
language nest as required by the statute.
As it stands, there are very few
immersion schools and language nests
in the United States where applicants
could gain experience. We propose that
this be modified to provide a training
alternative for applicants without access
to existing immersion programs. We
recommend that ANA provide examples
of certifications that will be accepted.
Response: The requirement of a
certification by the applicant having not
less than 3 years of experience in
operating and administering a Native
American language survival school or a
Native American language nest is in the
authorizing legislation of the Native
American Programs Act for the EMI.
ANA only clarified in the FOA that this
was a requirement. In the EMI FOA, it
states that the application should
include an official document signed by
the authorized representative that
certifies that the applicant has at least
3 years of experience operating and
administering a Native American
language nest, Native American
language survival school, or any other
education program in which instruction
is conducted in a Native American
language in accordance with Public Law
109–394 (42 U.S.C. 2991b–3(c)(7)).
ANA’s training and technical assistance
centers are available to help applicants
meet the requirements of the EMI FOA.
Comment: We would like to
commend ANA for the proposed
changes to the FY 2021 FOAs. We
appreciate the revision resulting from
the Indian Community Economic
Enhancement Act (ICEEA) of 2020,
which added Native community
development financial institutions
(CDFIs) as eligible entities. Similarly,
we strongly support the new economic
development legislative priorities that
will be incorporated into the program
areas of interest for the SEDS FOA. We
encourage ANA to make it clear that
these economic development priority
points are available for applications
from existing Native CDFIs that
proposed economic development
projects as well as from eligible
applicants who propose to develop new
Native CDFIs. In addition, we applaud
the proposed efforts to reduce the
redundancy and the number of scoring
criteria in the FY 2021 FOAs.
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Response: Thank you for your
comment. The new ICEEA law does
allow for the development of existing
Native CDFIs. Therefore, should a
Native CDFI submit an application that
proposes a project for any of the
following projects: (1) The development
of a tribal code or courts system for
purposes of economic development,
including commercial codes, training
for court personnel, (2) the development
of non-profit subsidiaries or other tribal
business structures; or ‘‘(3) the
development of a tribal master plan for
community and economic development
and infrastructure’’ and the application
includes the economic priority area(s) in
the project goal, all objectives and
indicators as reflected in the project’s
framework, project approach, OWP, and
outcome tracker, they will be awarded
points. ANA will instruct reviewers to
provide all bonus points for
applications that propose an economic
priority project that expands or creates
a Native CDFI.
Elizabeth Leo,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Office of
Grants Policy, Administration for Children
and Families.
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publication of this document in the
Federal Register. Therefore, a comment
is best assured of having its full effect
if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and
Families
Submission for OMB Review; Survey
of the National Survey of Child and
Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW)
Adopted Youth, Young Adults, and
Adoptive Parents (0970–0555)
Office of Planning, Research,
and Evaluation, Administration for
Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:
The Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) seeks approval for an
extension with no changes to a one-time
study to examine familial outcomes 8
years or more after a child’s adoption
from the child welfare system. The
primary objective of this study is to
estimate the prevalence of instability
events that occur in families who have
adopted children who have exited the
foster care system. The second objective
is to understand risk and protective
factors associated with post adoption
instability. Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval expires
September 30, 2021, and this request is
to extend approval to allow for the
completion of data collection.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of
publication. OMB must make a decision
about the collection of information
between 30 and 60 days after
SUMMARY:
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: Through this study, ACF
is conducting web or telephone surveys
with adopted youth, young adults, and
adults as well as adoptive parents who
were participants in the first or second
cohort of NSCAW (NSCAW I, II; OMB
#0970–0202). The surveys are designed
to collect information about instability
events (such as foster care re-entry or
running away that occurred after a
child’s adoption) as well as family
functioning, perceptions of the adoption
relationship, and services and support
received after adoption. Due to the
COVID–19 pandemic, initial activities to
contact potential respondents were
delayed. As a result, ACF is requesting
an extension to collect data beyond the
current OMB expiration date of
September 30, 2021.
Respondents: Adopted youth, young
adults, adults, and their associated
adoptive parents who participated in
NSCAW I or II.
ADDRESSES:
ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of
respondents
(total over
request
period)
Instrument
Survey of NSCAW Adopted Youth, Young Adults, and
Adults ................................................................................
Survey of NSCAW Adoptive Parents ..................................
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Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 571.
Authority: Child Abuse Prevention
and Treatment and Adoption Reform
Act of 1978.
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
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Number of
responses per
respondent
(total over
request
period)
588
554
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket Nos. FDA–2010–N–0190; FDA–
2012–N–0197; FDA–2014–N–1414; and
FDA–2014–N–0913]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Announcement of Office of
Management and Budget Approvals
Food and Drug Administration,
HHS.
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burden per
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(in hours)
Total burden
(in hours)
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.5
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Annual burden
(in hours)
294
277
294
277
Notice.
The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) is publishing a
list of information collections that have
been approved by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) under
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
SUMMARY:
Ila
S. Mizrachi, Office of Operations, Food
and Drug Administration, Three White
Flint North, 10A–12M, 11601
Landsdown St., North Bethesda, MD
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[CFDA Numbers: 93.581, 93.587, 93.612]
Notice of Final Issuance on the Administration for Native
Americans Program Policies and Procedures
AGENCY: Administration for Native Americans, (ANA), Administration for
Children and Families (ACF), Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS).
ACTION: Notice of final issuance.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 814 of the Native American Programs Act of
1974 (NAPA), as amended, 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
proposed changes no less than 30 days before such changes become
effective. On February 19, 2021, ANA published a Notice of Public
Comment (NOPC) in the Federal Register regarding its proposed
interpretive rules and general statements of policy relative to its six
FY 2021 Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs): Environmental
Regulatory Enhancement (HHS-2021-ACF-ANA-NR-1907); Native American
Language Preservation and Maintenance--Esther Martinez
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Immersion (HHS-2021-ACF-ANA-NB-1958); Native American Language
Preservation and Maintenance (HHS-2021-ACF-ANA-NL-1924); Social and
Economic Development Strategies (HHS-2021-ACF-ANA-NA-1906); Social and
Economic Development Strategies--Alaska (HHS-2021-ACF-ANA-NK-1902); and
Social and Economic Strategies--Growing Organizations (HHS-2021-ACF-
ANA-NN-1918). This Notice of Issuance responds to the public comments
received from the NOPC.
DATES: The FY 2021 FOAs have been published, and these FOAs serve as
the final notice of ANA's proposed changes.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carmelia Strickland, Director,
Division of Program Operations, Administration for Native Americans,
(877) 922-9262, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to section 814 of NAPA, as amended,
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 proposed changes no less
than 30 days before such changes become effective.
ANA published a NOPC (86 FR 10283) on February 19, 2021, with
proposed policy and program clarifications, modifications, and
activities for the FY 2021 FOAs. The NOPC provided proposed
clarifications, modifications, and new text for six FY 2021 FOAs.
During the 30-day comment period, ANA received three responses to the
NOPC. ANA reviewed the comments and determined them non-substantive and
therefore would not require changes to the FOAs.
The following are the public comments received in response to the
NOPC and ANA's responses:
Comment: My comment is that I hope to have ANA implement a
requirement that all data collected in Indian Country by non-Indigenous
and Indigenous entities are collected in a manner that ensures the
tribe and community will have ownership, guardianship, and access to
that data.
Response: ANA highly encourages tribes to be aware of their rights
to intellectual property rights and data sovereignty. In the past, ANA
has provided trainings at grantee meetings and webinars through ANA's
training and technical assistance centers. In addition, ANA included a
statement in all FY 2021 FOAs that encouraged applicants to educate
themselves on intellectual property rights and the protection of
ownership of Native language materials, ceremonies, music and dance,
and other forms of knowledge and cultural practices that originate from
Native communities. However, due to the variety of laws, rights, and
jurisdictions of these matters, ANA leaves this up to the discretion of
grantees and applicants.
Comment: We urge ANA to discontinue the use of ``normalized
scoring.'' While the intent of this practice is to normalize scoring
across all review panels, it has had a negative impact on applications
that obtain high scores in their review panels, but end up with a much
lower scaled score, unjustly knocking them out of the competitive range
for a funding award.
Response: ANA may use the statistical technique of
``normalization'' to convert raw scores from review panels to a
standardized scale to negate any differences or biases in scoring
behaviors among different panels and numerous reviewers. The decision
to normalize scores occurs in advance of the panel session so as not to
prejudice any specific competition and that all awards are made
consistently across the different funding competitions when there are
three or more panels. ANA has left the option for using normalized
scores in the FY 2021 FOAs but will keep this comment in mind for
planning the FY 2022 competitions.
Comment: We would like clarification about whether training and
technical assistance information will still be available and accessible
on the websites of the regional training and technical assistance
providers, and that applicants who do not provide a letter of intent
will be able to access such services.
Response: ANA provides technical assistance throughout all stages
of the application process, regardless of providing a letter of intent.
Comment: Project-specific funding does not clearly define
``essentially identical or similar in whole or in part.'' It is not
clear if the development of resources, like textbooks, would count as
``essentially identical or similar'' projects if they build on previous
work and use similar project designs.
Response: ANA has a long-standing policy that it will not fund
projects that are essentially identical or similar in whole or in part
to previously funded projects proposed by the same applicant. While an
applicant can have previously developed materials, the new project
cannot duplicate the same materials and must address different
subjects, populations, etc. If an applicant has concerns about whether
ANA has funded them in the past for a project ``essentially identical
or similar in whole or in part,'' ANA encourages them to reach out to
ANA or an ANA technical assistance center for clarification.
Comment: ANA is requiring applicants to the Esther Martinez
Immersion (EMI) language FOA to submit ``an official document that
certifies the applicant has at least 3 years of experience in operating
and administering'' an immersion school or language nest as required by
the statute. As it stands, there are very few immersion schools and
language nests in the United States where applicants could gain
experience. We propose that this be modified to provide a training
alternative for applicants without access to existing immersion
programs. We recommend that ANA provide examples of certifications that
will be accepted.
Response: The requirement of a certification by the applicant
having not less than 3 years of experience in operating and
administering a Native American language survival school or a Native
American language nest is in the authorizing legislation of the Native
American Programs Act for the EMI. ANA only clarified in the FOA that
this was a requirement. In the EMI FOA, it states that the application
should include an official document signed by the authorized
representative that certifies that the applicant has at least 3 years
of experience operating and administering a Native American language
nest, Native American language survival school, or any other education
program in which instruction is conducted in a Native American language
in accordance with Public Law 109-394 (42 U.S.C. 2991b-3(c)(7)). ANA's
training and technical assistance centers are available to help
applicants meet the requirements of the EMI FOA.
Comment: We would like to commend ANA for the proposed changes to
the FY 2021 FOAs. We appreciate the revision resulting from the Indian
Community Economic Enhancement Act (ICEEA) of 2020, which added Native
community development financial institutions (CDFIs) as eligible
entities. Similarly, we strongly support the new economic development
legislative priorities that will be incorporated into the program areas
of interest for the SEDS FOA. We encourage ANA to make it clear that
these economic development priority points are available for
applications from existing Native CDFIs that proposed economic
development projects as well as from eligible applicants who propose to
develop new Native CDFIs. In addition, we applaud the proposed efforts
to reduce the redundancy and the number of scoring criteria in the FY
2021 FOAs.
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Response: Thank you for your comment. The new ICEEA law does allow
for the development of existing Native CDFIs. Therefore, should a
Native CDFI submit an application that proposes a project for any of
the following projects: (1) The development of a tribal code or courts
system for purposes of economic development, including commercial
codes, training for court personnel, (2) the development of non-profit
subsidiaries or other tribal business structures; or ``(3) the
development of a tribal master plan for community and economic
development and infrastructure'' and the application includes the
economic priority area(s) in the project goal, all objectives and
indicators as reflected in the project's framework, project approach,
OWP, and outcome tracker, they will be awarded points. ANA will
instruct reviewers to provide all bonus points for applications that
propose an economic priority project that expands or creates a Native
CDFI.
Elizabeth Leo,
Senior Grants Policy Specialist, Office of Grants Policy,
Administration for Children and Families.
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