Notice2022-23876
Announcement of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Meeting and Solicitation for Written Comment
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November 3, 2022
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As required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is hereby giving notice that the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders will hold a virtual, two-day meeting on December 5 and December 6, 2022.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 212 (Thursday, November 3, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66312-66314]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-23876]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Announcement of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Meeting and
Solicitation for Written Comment
AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the
Secretary, Office for Civil Rights, White House Initiative on Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
ACTION: Notice of meeting and solicitation for written comment.
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SUMMARY: As required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is hereby giving notice
that the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders will hold a virtual, two-day meeting
on December 5 and December 6, 2022.
DATES: The Commission will meet on December 5, 2022, and December 6,
2022, from 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET) to approximately 7:00 p.m. ET on
both days. The confirmed time and agenda will be posted on the website
for the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/whiaanhpi/commission/index.html">https://www.hhs.gov/about/whiaanhpi/commission/index.html</a> when this information becomes available.
Written comments, in response to the questions listed below, will
be accepted via email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e3a2a2adabb3aaa08c8e8e8a90908a8c8da38b8b90cd848c95"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7f3e3e31372f363c101212160c0c1610113f17170c51181009">[email protected]</span></a> with the subject line
``PACAANHPI: Response to <insert the issue and question>.'' To be
assured consideration in the development of future recommendations,
written comments must be submitted and received at the email address
provided above, no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on Thursday, December 1,
2022. Submissions received after the deadline will not be reviewed.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be live streamed. Registration is required
through the following link: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of-the-presidents-advisory-commission-on-aa-and-nhpis-registration-449829250397">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of-the-presidents-advisory-commission-on-aa-and-nhpis-registration-449829250397</a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caroline Goon, Designated Federal
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Officer, President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Office of the Secretary, Office for Civil Rights, Hubert H.
Humphrey Building, Room 515F, 200 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC
20201; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0e4f4f40465e474d616363677d7d6761604e66667d20696178"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="9edfdfd0d6ced7ddf1f3f3f7ededf7f1f0def6f6edb0f9f1e8">[email protected]</span></a>; telephone: (202) 619-0403, fax:
(202) 619-3818.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting is the fourth in a series of
Federal advisory committee meetings regarding the development of
recommendations to promote equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian
American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI)
communities. The meeting is open to the public and will be live
streamed. The Commission, co-chaired by HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra
and the U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai, will advise
the President on: the development, monitoring, and coordination of
executive branch efforts to advance equity, justice, and opportunity
for AA and NHPI communities in the United States, including efforts to
close gaps in health, socioeconomic, employment, and educational
outcomes; policies to address and end anti-Asian bias, xenophobia,
racism, and nativism, and opportunities for the executive branch to
advance inclusion, belonging, and public awareness of the diversity and
accomplishments of AA and NHPI people, cultures, and histories;
policies, programs, and initiatives to prevent, report, respond to, and
track anti-Asian hate crimes and hate incidents; ways in which the
Federal Government can build on the capacity and contributions of AA
and NHPI communities through equitable Federal funding, grantmaking,
and employment opportunities; policies and practices to improve
research and equitable data disaggregation regarding AA and NHPI
communities; policies and practices to improve language access services
to ensure AA and NHPI communities can access Federal programs and
services; and strategies to increase public-and private-sector
collaboration, and community involvement in improving the safety and
socioeconomic, health, educational, occupational, and environmental
well-being of AA and NHPI communities.
Information is available on the President's Advisory Commission on
Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders website at
<a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/whiaanhpi/commission/index.html">https://www.hhs.gov/about/whiaanhpi/commission/index.html</a>. The names of
the 25 members of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders are available at
<a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/whiaanhpi/commission/commissioners/index.html">https://www.hhs.gov/about/whiaanhpi/commission/commissioners/index.html</a>.
Purpose of Meeting: The President's Advisory Commission on Asian
Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, authorized by
Executive Order 14031, will meet to discuss full and draft
recommendations by the Commission's six Subcommittees on ways to
advance equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian American, Native
Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities. The Subcommittees are:
Belonging, Inclusion, Anti-Asian Hate, Anti-Discrimination; Data
Disaggregation; Language Access; Economic Equity; Health Equity; and
Immigration and Citizenship Status.
Background: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander
communities are among the fastest growing racial and ethnic populations
in the United States according to the U.S. Census Bureau. However, in
recent years, AA and NHPI individuals have faced increasing hate crimes
and incidents that threaten their safety, as well as harmful
stereotypes that often ignore socioeconomic, health, and educational
disparities impacting these diverse communities.
Tragic acts of anti-Asian violence increased during the COVID-19
pandemic, casting a shadow of fear and grief over many AA and NHPI
communities, in particular East Asian communities. Long before this
pandemic, AA and NHPI communities in the United States, including South
Asian and Southeast Asian communities, have faced persistent
xenophobia, religious discrimination, racism, and violence. At the same
time, AA and NHPI communities are overrepresented in the pandemic's
essential workforce in healthcare, food supply, education, and
childcare, with more than four million AA and NHPIs manning the
frontlines throughout the pandemic.
Many AA and NHPI communities, and in particular Native Hawaiian and
Pacific Islander communities, have also been disproportionately
burdened by the COVID-19 public health crisis. Evidence suggests that
Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are three times more likely to
contract COVID-19 compared to white people and nearly twice as likely
to die from the disease. On top of these health inequities, many AA and
NHPI workers, families, and small businesses have faced devastating
economic losses during this crisis, which must be addressed.
The challenges AA and NHPI communities face are often exacerbated
by a lack of adequate data disaggregation and language access. The
President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians,
and Pacific Islanders works to advise the President on executive branch
efforts to address these challenges and advance equity, justice, and
opportunity for AA and NHPI communities.
Public Participation at Meeting: Members of the public are invited
to view the Commission meeting. Registration is required through the
following link: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of-the-presidents-advisory-commission-on-aa-and-nhpis-registration-449829250397">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meeting-of-the-presidents-advisory-commission-on-aa-and-nhpis-registration-449829250397</a>. Please
note that there will be no opportunity for oral public comments during
the meeting of the Commission. However, written comments are welcomed
throughout the development of the Commission's recommendations to
promote equity, justice, and opportunity for Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders and may be emailed to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#edacaca3a5bda4ae828080849e9e848283ad85859ec38a829b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3170707f796178725e5c5c584242585e5f715959421f565e47">[email protected]</span></a> at any time. Respond concisely and in plain
language. You may use any structure or layout that presents your
information well. You may respond to some or all of our questions, and
you can suggest other factors or relevant questions. You may also
include links to online material or interactive presentations. Clearly
mark any proprietary information and place it in its own section or
file. Your response will become Government property, and we may publish
some of its non-proprietary content.
The Commission is particularly interested in soliciting written
comments on the following questions:
1. Belonging, Inclusion, Anti-Asian Hate, Anti-Discrimination
Subcommittee Questions:
a. Please describe policies, programs, models, or best practices
that have been effective in reducing race-based violence or bias
targeting AA and NHPI communities, including any programs geared toward
children or youth.
b. What policies, programs, models, or best practices, if any, have
reduced incidents of gun violence in AA and NHPI communities?
c. What barriers have AA and NHPI military servicemembers faced in
seeking religious accommodations from their respective branch of the
U.S. military?
2. Data Disaggregation Subcommittee Questions:
a. What datasets do AA and NHPI communities identify as being
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particularly important for the Federal Government to prioritize for
disaggregated data collection, analysis, and reporting?
b. How can existing Federal Government datasets be improved in
terms of questions, survey structures, categories, collection
methodology, data accessibility, and more in order to better serve
community-based organizations and ensure that AA and NHPI population
data is useful for further analysis?
c. What are some ideas on how the Federal Government can better
partner with community-based organizations, think tanks, and academic
institutions for secondary data analysis?
3. Language Access Subcommittee Questions:
a. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires recipients of
Federal financial assistance to provide meaningful access to their
programs to people who are limited English proficient (LEP). How can
the Federal Government ensure that recipients of Federal financial
assistance conduct effective outreach to LEP communities, provide
language access and support AAPI LEP communities, including those that
speak languages of lesser diffusion? Examples, models, or promising
practices are welcomed.
b. Executive Order 13166, Improving Access to Services for Persons
with Limited English Proficiency, requires the Federal Government to
provide LEP individuals with meaningful access to federally-conducted
programs and activities. Each Federal agency was also asked under
Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for
Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, to identify
potential barriers that underserved communities and individuals may
face to enrollment in and access to benefits and services in Federal
programs. Given the Federal Government's commitment to language access
and racial equity, how can the Federal Government better conduct
outreach to and address the needs of AA and NHPI LEP communities,
including those that speak languages of lesser diffusion? Examples,
models, or promising practices are welcomed.
c. How can the Federal Government promote the preservation,
teaching, learning of, maintenance and utilization of AA and NHPI
languages?
4. Immigration and Citizenship Status Subcommittee Questions:
a. What information should the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) prioritize
for translation, and what Asian and Pacific Islander languages should
be prioritized?
b. What are some ways for the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to improve
cultural sensitivity, equity, and language access in their interactions
with the AAPI community?
c. How should the Federal Government improve access to humanitarian
protections, such as asylum and victim protections for AAPI community
members?
d. The citizens of the Freely Associated States of Palau, the
Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia may live,
study, and work in the United States and its territories without a
visa. This arrangement is pursuant to compact treaties signed with
these countries and in recognition of the special relationship they
have with the United States. They are lawful residents and do not have
immigrant status nor are they eligible to apply for permanent resident
status. They are currently eligible for some Federal programs but not
others. For example, they are eligible for the Women Infant and
Children's Program (WIC), but not SNAP (Food Stamps). Please provide
examples of the ways in which this lack of access to Federal benefits
and programs has impacted citizens from the Freely Associated States?
e. Please provide input and recommendations on ways to reduce the
burden on individuals and families subject to long-term orders of
supervision following final orders of removal. Many Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders have final orders of removal and continue to live in
the United States on orders of supervision. For example, some
individuals have been required to check-in with U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE), sometimes yearly or more frequently, for
over 20 years. Each ICE field office has the authority to decide the
frequency of check-ins for an individual on an order of supervision,
resulting in often burdensome and traumatic, non-uniform check-in
schedules.
i. How do the current validity periods for Employment Authorization
Documents (EAD) affect individuals with a long-term order of
supervision? How would extending the validity period for EADs issued to
this population impact their livelihood?
ii. What positive equities should ICE consider in determining
removals and in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion?
Authority: Executive Order 14031. The President's Advisory
Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
(Commission) is governed by provisions of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA), Public Law 92-463, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.),
which sets forth standards for the formation and use of Federal
advisory committees.
Krystal Ka`ai,
Executive Director, White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native
Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, President's Advisory Commission on
Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.
[FR Doc. 2022-23876 Filed 11-2-22; 8:45 am]
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