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K. Executive Order 12898: Federal
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Low-Income Populations
The EPA believes the human health or
environmental risk addressed by this
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human health or environmental effects
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populations because it does not affect
the level of protection provided to
human health or the environment. As
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PART 300—NATIONAL OIL AND
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
POLLUTION CONTINGENCY PLAN
1. The authority citation for part 300
continues to read as follows:
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List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 300
Environmental protection, Air
pollution control, Chemicals, Hazardous
substances, Hazardous waste,
Intergovernmental relations, Natural
resources, Oil pollution, Penalties,
Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Superfund, Water
pollution control, Water supply.
Barry N. Breen,
Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of
Land and Emergency Management.
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.; 42 U.S.C.
9601–9657; E.O. 13626, 77 FR 56749, 3 CFR,
2013 Comp., p. 306; E.O. 12777, 56 FR 54757,
3 CFR, 1991 Comp., p. 351; E.O. 12580, 52
FR 2923, 3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 193.
2. Amend appendix B of part 300 in
Table 1, by adding entries for ‘‘DE,
Georgetown North Groundwater’’, ‘‘IA,
Highway 3 PCE’’, ‘‘MS, Hercules Inc’’,
‘‘NJ, Lower Hackensack River’’, and
‘‘NY, Brillo Landfill’’ in alphabetical
order by state to read as follows:
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Priorities List
For the reasons set forth in the
preamble, EPA proposes to amend 40
CFR part 300 as follows:
TABLE 1—GENERAL SUPERFUND SECTION
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
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National Institute on Disability,
Independent Living, and Rehabilitation
Research
Administration for Community
Living, Department of Health and
Human Services.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
AGENCY:
The Administration for
Community Living (ACL) within the
Department of Health and Human
SUMMARY:
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Services (HHS or the Department) is
proposing to amend its regulations for
the National Institute on Disability,
Independent Living and Rehabilitation
Research (NIDILRR). These minor
amendments to NIDILRR’s peer review
criteria will allow NIDILRR to better
evaluate the extent to which grant
applicants conduct outreach to and hire
people with disabilities and people from
other groups that traditionally have
been underserved and
underrepresented, and emphasize the
need for engineering research and
development activities within
NIDILRR’s Rehabilitation Engineering
Research Centers (RERC) program.
To be assured consideration,
comments must be received at the
DATES:
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11:59 p.m. April 18, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
through the Federal eRulemaking Portal:
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
‘‘Submit a comment’’ instructions.
Warning: Do not include any
personally identifiable information
(such as name, address, or other contact
information) or confidential business
information that you do not want
publicly disclosed. All comments may
be posted on the internet and can be
retrieved by most internet search
engines. No deletions, modifications, or
redactions will be made to comments
received.
Inspection of Public Comments: All
comments received before the close of
the comment period will be available for
viewing by the public, including
personally identifiable or confidential
business information that is included in
a comment. You may wish to consider
limiting the amount of personal
information that you provide in any
voluntary public comment submission
you make. HHS may withhold
information provided in comments from
public viewing that it determines may
impact the privacy of an individual or
is offensive. For additional information,
please read the Privacy Act notice that
is available via the link in the footer of
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
search instructions on that Website to
view the public comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Phillip Beatty, Director, NIDILRR Office
of Research Sciences, Administration
for Community Living, Department of
Health and Human Services, 330 C
Street SW, Washington, DC 20201.
Email: phillip.beatty@acl.hhs.gov,
Telephone: (202) 795–7305.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The HHS regulation for National
Institute on Disability, Independent
Living, and Rehabilitation Research
(NIDILRR) programs was developed and
finalized in 2016 following the transfer
of NIDILRR to ACL and HHS from the
Department of Education, as required by
the Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014.
NIDILRR’s mission is to generate new
knowledge and to promote its effective
use to improve the abilities of
individuals with disabilities to perform
activities of their choice in the
community and to expand society’s
capacity to provide full opportunities
and accommodations for individuals
with disabilities. As the primary
research enterprise within ACL,
NIDILRR’s mission is highly
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complementary to the overarching
mission of ACL to maximize the
independence, well-being, and health of
older adults, people with disabilities
across the lifespan, and their families
and caregivers. NIDILRR programs
address a wide range of disabilities and
impairments across all age groups and
promote health and function,
community living and participation,
and employment. To accomplish these
goals, NIDILRR invests in research,
knowledge translation, and capacitybuilding activities through its
discretionary grant-funding authorities.
The proposed rule would provide
minor but important updates to
provisions within §§ 1330.23 and
1330.24 of the NIDILRR rule (45 CFR
part 1330).
The first update to 45 CFR part 1330
is directly responsive to Executive
Order 13985 Advancing Racial Equity
and Support for Underserved
Communities Through the Federal
Government. The purpose of the update
is to better evaluate, through the peer
review of grant applications, the extent
to which grant applicants conduct
outreach to and hire people who are
members of specific groups that have
traditionally been underserved and
underrepresented in research. Applicant
refers to organizations such as
universities or other organizations that
apply for NIDILRR grants. NIDILRR’s
criterion that focuses on applicants’
proposed ‘‘Project Staff’’ (45 CFR
1330.24(n)) currently combines a
significant number of underrepresented
groups into one list (‘‘. . . based on
race, color, national origin, gender, age,
or disability), and asks reviewers to
broadly evaluate the extent to which the
grant applicant encourages applications
for employment from people who are
members of those groups in the list.
This format does not allow reviewers to
distinctly evaluate applicants’ outreach
and hiring practices for people with
disabilities, or for other populations
highlighted in the existing list.
To better promote applicants’ hiring
of people with disabilities, and people
from other underserved communities,
45 CFR 1330.24(n) will be revised to
separate these populations into two
distinct peer review subcriteria. This
disaggregation of people with
disabilities and people from
underserved communities into separate
subcriteria will allow peer reviewers to
more directly evaluate and score the
extent to which grant applicants
encourage the hiring of people in each
of these distinct groups. ACL will make
a conforming amendment to 45 CFR
1330.23(b) reflecting this revision to the
selection criteria. While individuals live
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at the intersection of multiple
populations or groups, ACL’s planned
disaggregated review of hiring practices
will compel applicants to describe their
outreach and hiring practices for people
with disabilities and other specific
groups, separately and distinctly. ACL
intends for grant applicants to respond
to these disaggregated subcriteria with
quantitative and/or qualitative
information in the narrative of their
proposal, and for peer reviewers to
accordingly use this information to
evaluate and score each individual
application.
The second update to 45 CFR part
1330 is to better emphasize the need for
engineering research and development
(R&D) activities in NIDILRR’s
Rehabilitation Engineering Research
Centers (RERC) program funding
opportunities. The update will add a
subcriterion under both the ‘‘Design of
Research Activities’’ (45 CFR
1330.24(c)) and ‘‘Design of Development
Activities’’ (45 CFR 1330.24(d)) that
allow reviewers to evaluate the extent to
which applicants are proposing
engineering knowledge and methods as
part of their RERC applications. The
absence of such engineering-focused
criteria have led to some RERC grants
that are not optimally using the
engineering R&D methods envisioned in
the program’s title and statute.
II. Required Regulatory Analyses
A. Executive Orders 12866 and 13563
E.O. 12866, ‘‘Regulatory Planning and
Review,’’ and E.O. 13563, ‘‘Improving
Regulation and Regulatory Review,’’
direct agencies to assess all costs and
benefits of available regulatory
alternatives and, if the regulation is
necessary, to select regulatory
approaches that maximize net benefits.
OMB determined that this rulemaking
is not an economically significant
regulatory action under these E.O.s. The
preamble to this proposed rule describes
that it is primarily procedural changes
that would require Department
expenditures to implement.
B. Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Department has examined the
economic implications of this proposed
rule as required by the Regulatory
Flexibility Act (RFA), 5 U.S.C. 601 et
seq. The RFA requires an agency to
describe the impact of a proposed
rulemaking on small entities by
providing an initial regulatory flexibility
analysis, unless the agency determines
that the proposed rule will not have a
significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities,
provides a factual basis for this
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determination, and proposes to certify
the statement. 5 U.S.C. 603(a) and
605(b). The Department considers a
proposed or final rule to have a
significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities if it
has at least a three percent impact on
revenue of at least five percent of small
entities. The Department has
determined, and the Secretary certifies,
that this proposed rule would not have
a significant economic impact on the
operations of a substantial number of
small entities.
C. Executive Order 13132 (Federalism)
E.O. 13132, ‘‘Federalism,’’ establishes
certain requirements that an agency
must meet when it promulgates a rule
that imposes substantial direct
requirement costs on State and local
governments or has Federalism
implications. The Department has
determined that this proposed rule
would not impose such costs or have
any Federalism implications.
D. Executive Order 13175 (Consultation
and Coordination With Indian Tribal
Governments)
HHS has analyzed this proposed rule
in accordance with the principles set
forth in E.O. 13175. HHS has tentatively
determined that the proposed rule does
not contain policies that would have a
substantial direct effect on one or more
Indian Tribes, on the relationship
between the Federal Government and
Indian Tribes, or on the distribution of
power and responsibilities between the
Federal Government and Indian Tribes.
In accordance with the Department’s
Tribal consultation policy, the
Department solicits comments from
tribal officials on any potential impact
on Indian Tribes from this proposed
action.
E. National Environmental Policy Act
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HHS had determined that this
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significant impact on the environment.
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F. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
In accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 and its
implementing regulations, 44 U.S.C.
3501–3521; 5 CFR part 1320, appendix
A.1, the Department has reviewed this
proposed rule and has determined that
it proposes no new collections of
information.
List of Subjects in 45 CFR Part 1330
Disability, Grant programs, Research.
Accordingly, ACL proposes to revise
45 CFR 1330.23 and 1330.24, to read as
follows:
PART 1330—NATIONAL INSTITUTE
FOR DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT
LIVING, AND REHABILITATION
RESEARCH
1. The authority citation for part 1330
continues to read as follows:
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Authority: 29 U.S.C. 709, 3343.
2. Amend § 1330.23 by revising
paragraph (b) to read as follows:
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§ 1330.23
Evaluation process.
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(b) In considering selection criteria in
§ 1330.24, the Director selects one or
more of the factors listed in the criteria,
but always considers the factors in
§ 1330.24(n) regarding people with
disabilities, and members of groups that
have traditionally been
underrepresented based on race,
ethnicity, national origin, sex (including
sexual orientation and gender identity),
or age.
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■ 2. Amend § 1330.24 by adding
paragraphs (c)(5) and (d)(4) and revising
paragraph (n) to read as follows:
§ 1330.24
Selection criteria.
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(5) The extent to which research
activities use engineering knowledge
and techniques to collect, analyze, or
synthesize research data.
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(4) The extent to which development
activities apply engineering knowledge
and techniques to achieve development
objectives.
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(n) Project staff. In determining the
quality of the applicant’s project staff,
the Director considers one or more of
the following factors:
(1) The extent to which the applicant
encourages applications for employment
from and hires people with disabilities.
(2) The extent to which the applicant
encourages applications from, and hires
people who are members of groups that
have traditionally been
underrepresented in research
professions based on race, ethnicity,
national origin, sex (including sexual
orientation and gender identity), or age.
(3) The extent to which the key
personnel and other key staff have
appropriate training and experience in
disciplines required to conduct all
proposed activities.
(4) The extent to which the
commitment of staff time is adequate to
accomplish all the proposed activities of
the project.
(5) The extent to which the key
personnel are knowledgeable about the
methodology and literature of pertinent
subject areas.
(6) The extent to which the project
staff includes outstanding scientists in
the field.
(7) The extent to which key personnel
have up-to-date knowledge from
research or effective practice in the
subject area covered in the priority.
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Dated: March 2, 2022.
Alison Barkoff,
Principal Deputy Administrator,
Administration for Community Living
Approved:
Xavier Becerra,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Community Living
45 CFR Part 1330
RIN 0985-AA16
National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and
Rehabilitation Research
AGENCY: Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and
Human Services.
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Community Living (ACL) within the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS or the Department) is
proposing to amend its regulations for the National Institute on
Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).
These minor amendments to NIDILRR's peer review criteria will allow
NIDILRR to better evaluate the extent to which grant applicants conduct
outreach to and hire people with disabilities and people from other
groups that traditionally have been underserved and underrepresented,
and emphasize the need for engineering research and development
activities within NIDILRR's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers
(RERC) program.
DATES: To be assured consideration, comments must be received at the
[[Page 15356]]
address provided below, no later than 11:59 p.m. April 18, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments through the Federal eRulemaking
Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the ``Submit a comment''
instructions.
Warning: Do not include any personally identifiable information
(such as name, address, or other contact information) or confidential
business information that you do not want publicly disclosed. All
comments may be posted on the internet and can be retrieved by most
internet search engines. No deletions, modifications, or redactions
will be made to comments received.
Inspection of Public Comments: All comments received before the
close of the comment period will be available for viewing by the
public, including personally identifiable or confidential business
information that is included in a comment. You may wish to consider
limiting the amount of personal information that you provide in any
voluntary public comment submission you make. HHS may withhold
information provided in comments from public viewing that it determines
may impact the privacy of an individual or is offensive. For additional
information, please read the Privacy Act notice that is available via
the link in the footer of https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
search instructions on that Website to view the public comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Phillip Beatty, Director, NIDILRR
Office of Research Sciences, Administration for Community Living,
Department of Health and Human Services, 330 C Street SW, Washington,
DC 20201. Email: [email protected], Telephone: (202) 795-7305.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The HHS regulation for National Institute on Disability,
Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) programs was
developed and finalized in 2016 following the transfer of NIDILRR to
ACL and HHS from the Department of Education, as required by the
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) of 2014. NIDILRR's
mission is to generate new knowledge and to promote its effective use
to improve the abilities of individuals with disabilities to perform
activities of their choice in the community and to expand society's
capacity to provide full opportunities and accommodations for
individuals with disabilities. As the primary research enterprise
within ACL, NIDILRR's mission is highly complementary to the
overarching mission of ACL to maximize the independence, well-being,
and health of older adults, people with disabilities across the
lifespan, and their families and caregivers. NIDILRR programs address a
wide range of disabilities and impairments across all age groups and
promote health and function, community living and participation, and
employment. To accomplish these goals, NIDILRR invests in research,
knowledge translation, and capacity-building activities through its
discretionary grant-funding authorities.
The proposed rule would provide minor but important updates to
provisions within Sec. Sec. 1330.23 and 1330.24 of the NIDILRR rule
(45 CFR part 1330).
The first update to 45 CFR part 1330 is directly responsive to
Executive Order 13985 Advancing Racial Equity and Support for
Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government. The purpose of
the update is to better evaluate, through the peer review of grant
applications, the extent to which grant applicants conduct outreach to
and hire people who are members of specific groups that have
traditionally been underserved and underrepresented in research.
Applicant refers to organizations such as universities or other
organizations that apply for NIDILRR grants. NIDILRR's criterion that
focuses on applicants' proposed ``Project Staff'' (45 CFR 1330.24(n))
currently combines a significant number of underrepresented groups into
one list (``. . . based on race, color, national origin, gender, age,
or disability), and asks reviewers to broadly evaluate the extent to
which the grant applicant encourages applications for employment from
people who are members of those groups in the list. This format does
not allow reviewers to distinctly evaluate applicants' outreach and
hiring practices for people with disabilities, or for other populations
highlighted in the existing list.
To better promote applicants' hiring of people with disabilities,
and people from other underserved communities, 45 CFR 1330.24(n) will
be revised to separate these populations into two distinct peer review
subcriteria. This disaggregation of people with disabilities and people
from underserved communities into separate subcriteria will allow peer
reviewers to more directly evaluate and score the extent to which grant
applicants encourage the hiring of people in each of these distinct
groups. ACL will make a conforming amendment to 45 CFR 1330.23(b)
reflecting this revision to the selection criteria. While individuals
live at the intersection of multiple populations or groups, ACL's
planned disaggregated review of hiring practices will compel applicants
to describe their outreach and hiring practices for people with
disabilities and other specific groups, separately and distinctly. ACL
intends for grant applicants to respond to these disaggregated
subcriteria with quantitative and/or qualitative information in the
narrative of their proposal, and for peer reviewers to accordingly use
this information to evaluate and score each individual application.
The second update to 45 CFR part 1330 is to better emphasize the
need for engineering research and development (R&D) activities in
NIDILRR's Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERC) program
funding opportunities. The update will add a subcriterion under both
the ``Design of Research Activities'' (45 CFR 1330.24(c)) and ``Design
of Development Activities'' (45 CFR 1330.24(d)) that allow reviewers to
evaluate the extent to which applicants are proposing engineering
knowledge and methods as part of their RERC applications. The absence
of such engineering-focused criteria have led to some RERC grants that
are not optimally using the engineering R&D methods envisioned in the
program's title and statute.
II. Required Regulatory Analyses
A. Executive Orders 12866 and 13563
E.O. 12866, ``Regulatory Planning and Review,'' and E.O. 13563,
``Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review,'' direct agencies to
assess all costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and,
if the regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that
maximize net benefits.
OMB determined that this rulemaking is not an economically
significant regulatory action under these E.O.s. The preamble to this
proposed rule describes that it is primarily procedural changes that
would require Department expenditures to implement.
B. Regulatory Flexibility Act
The Department has examined the economic implications of this
proposed rule as required by the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), 5
U.S.C. 601 et seq. The RFA requires an agency to describe the impact of
a proposed rulemaking on small entities by providing an initial
regulatory flexibility analysis, unless the agency determines that the
proposed rule will not have a significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities, provides a factual basis for this
[[Page 15357]]
determination, and proposes to certify the statement. 5 U.S.C. 603(a)
and 605(b). The Department considers a proposed or final rule to have a
significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities
if it has at least a three percent impact on revenue of at least five
percent of small entities. The Department has determined, and the
Secretary certifies, that this proposed rule would not have a
significant economic impact on the operations of a substantial number
of small entities.
C. Executive Order 13132 (Federalism)
E.O. 13132, ``Federalism,'' establishes certain requirements that
an agency must meet when it promulgates a rule that imposes substantial
direct requirement costs on State and local governments or has
Federalism implications. The Department has determined that this
proposed rule would not impose such costs or have any Federalism
implications.
D. Executive Order 13175 (Consultation and Coordination With Indian
Tribal Governments)
HHS has analyzed this proposed rule in accordance with the
principles set forth in E.O. 13175. HHS has tentatively determined that
the proposed rule does not contain policies that would have a
substantial direct effect on one or more Indian Tribes, on the
relationship between the Federal Government and Indian Tribes, or on
the distribution of power and responsibilities between the Federal
Government and Indian Tribes. In accordance with the Department's
Tribal consultation policy, the Department solicits comments from
tribal officials on any potential impact on Indian Tribes from this
proposed action.
E. National Environmental Policy Act
HHS had determined that this proposed rule would not have a
significant impact on the environment.
F. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and its
implementing regulations, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3521; 5 CFR part 1320,
appendix A.1, the Department has reviewed this proposed rule and has
determined that it proposes no new collections of information.
List of Subjects in 45 CFR Part 1330
Disability, Grant programs, Research.
Accordingly, ACL proposes to revise 45 CFR 1330.23 and 1330.24, to
read as follows:
PART 1330--NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DISABILITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING,
AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH
0
1. The authority citation for part 1330 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 29 U.S.C. 709, 3343.
0
2. Amend Sec. 1330.23 by revising paragraph (b) to read as follows:
Sec. 1330.23 Evaluation process.
* * * * *
(b) In considering selection criteria in Sec. 1330.24, the
Director selects one or more of the factors listed in the criteria, but
always considers the factors in Sec. 1330.24(n) regarding people with
disabilities, and members of groups that have traditionally been
underrepresented based on race, ethnicity, national origin, sex
(including sexual orientation and gender identity), or age.
* * * * *
0
2. Amend Sec. 1330.24 by adding paragraphs (c)(5) and (d)(4) and
revising paragraph (n) to read as follows:
Sec. 1330.24 Selection criteria.
* * * * *
(c) * * *
(5) The extent to which research activities use engineering
knowledge and techniques to collect, analyze, or synthesize research
data.
* * * * *
(d) * * *
(4) The extent to which development activities apply engineering
knowledge and techniques to achieve development objectives.
* * * * *
(n) Project staff. In determining the quality of the applicant's
project staff, the Director considers one or more of the following
factors:
(1) The extent to which the applicant encourages applications for
employment from and hires people with disabilities.
(2) The extent to which the applicant encourages applications from,
and hires people who are members of groups that have traditionally been
underrepresented in research professions based on race, ethnicity,
national origin, sex (including sexual orientation and gender
identity), or age.
(3) The extent to which the key personnel and other key staff have
appropriate training and experience in disciplines required to conduct
all proposed activities.
(4) The extent to which the commitment of staff time is adequate to
accomplish all the proposed activities of the project.
(5) The extent to which the key personnel are knowledgeable about
the methodology and literature of pertinent subject areas.
(6) The extent to which the project staff includes outstanding
scientists in the field.
(7) The extent to which key personnel have up-to-date knowledge
from research or effective practice in the subject area covered in the
priority.
* * * * *
Dated: March 2, 2022.
Alison Barkoff,
Principal Deputy Administrator, Administration for Community Living
Approved:
Xavier Becerra,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-05665 Filed 3-17-22; 8:45 am]
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