Notice2024-08414
Minority Business Development Agency's Request for Public Comment and Notice of Tribal Consultation Meetings
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April 19, 2024
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Commerce DepartmentMinority Business Development Agency
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The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) plans to establish a period for the submission and acceptance of written comments from the public through Sunday, June 16, 2024 and conduct virtual Tribal consultation meetings on Friday, May 17, 2024.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 77 (Friday, April 19, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28748-28749]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-08414]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Minority Business Development Agency
[Docket No.: 240229-0064]
Minority Business Development Agency's Request for Public Comment
and Notice of Tribal Consultation Meetings
AGENCY: Minority Business Development Agency, Department of Commerce
ACTION: Notice of meeting and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) plans to
establish a period for the submission and acceptance of written
comments from the public through Sunday, June 16, 2024 and conduct
virtual Tribal consultation meetings on Friday, May 17, 2024.
DATES: The Tribal consultation meetings will be held virtually on
Friday, May 17, 2024. Additional information regarding the consultation
meetings will be posted on MBDA's website at <a href="https://www.mbda.gov/tribalconsult2024">https://www.mbda.gov/tribalconsult2024</a>. The Tribal consultation meetings will be recorded
and transcribed so that MBDA can retain valuable input and feedback.
ADDRESSES: Please submit all comments in response to the questions
presented in this notice at <a href="http://www.regualtions.gov">www.regualtions.gov</a>. To access the docket
where comments may be submitted, please enter ``DOC-2024-0003'' in the
search bar. Written comments must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m.
EDT, June 16, 2024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Curtis Doster, Jr., Associate
Director, Office of Legislative, Education and Intergovernmental
Affairs, Minority Business Development Agency, at (202) 482-2332; or by
email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5f121d1b1e721013161e1f323d3b3e71383029"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d499969095f99b989d9594b9b6b0b5fab3bba2">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Pursuant to Executive Order 13175, ``Consultation and Coordination
with Indian Tribal Governments,'' the Federal government has
established a practice of conducting consultations with Tribal
governments that are designed to provide ``regular and meaningful
consultation and collaboration with Tribal officials in the development
of Federal policies that have Tribal implications[.]'' The requirements
under E.O. 13175 are currently implemented by the United States
Department of Commerce under Department Administrative Order (DAO) 218-
8, effective April 26, 2012. The Department of Commerce further sets
out its policy in the Tribal Consultation Policy of the U.S. Department
of Commerce, available at: <a href="https://www.commerce.gov/files/tribal-consultation-and-coordination-policy-us-department-commerce">https://www.commerce.gov/files/tribal-consultation-and-coordination-policy-us-department-commerce</a>. The U.S.
Government has additionally reiterated its commitment to improving
accountable consultation processes in Executive Order 14112,
``Reforming Federal Funding and Support for Tribal Nations to Better
Embrace Our Trust Responsibilities and Promote the Next Era of Tribal
Self-Determination,'' the Presidential Memorandum of November 30, 2022
(Uniform Standards for Tribal Consultation), and the Presidential
Memorandum of January 26, 2021 (Tribal Consultation and Strengthening
Nation-to-Nation Relationships).
MBDA's Office of Legislative, Education, and Intergovernmental
Affairs (OLEIA) serves as the focal point for Tribal consultation on
policy, regulatory and legislative issues that will have a direct
impact on American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian (AIANNH)
communities. The Tribal consultation meetings will be conducted in
conjunction with MBDA's Office of Business Centers, Office of Data,
Research and Evaluation and Office of Grants Management which document
evidence and design and manage business development services, including
services that may be of interest to Native American, Alaska Native and
Native Hawaiian entrepreneurs and Tribe-owned businesses. Outreach
specific to the AIANNH populations is one part of the overall efforts
of MBDA to ensure members of Native communities are able to learn about
and access programs and services.
MBDA is the only Federal agency created specifically to foster the
growth and global competitiveness of minority business enterprises
(MBEs). MBDA actively promotes the growth and expansion of MBEs by
offering management and technical assistance, including through a
nationwide network of AIANNH projects.
AIANNH projects address strategic initiatives that may include
innovation and entrepreneurship (e.g., business training, access to
capital, incubators, accelerators, Federal program coaching); strategic
planning (e.g., fostering, developing and/or implementing
entrepreneurial and economic development); and transformative projects
(e.g., support for MBEs involved in infrastructure focused public-
private partnerships, and broadband).
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MBDA awarded thirteen AIANNH projects during the 2021 competition
cycle under funding opportunity number MBDA-OBD-2021-2006916. MBDA
designated at least one award in each of these service locations: (1)
Alaska; (2) California; (3) Northwest Area (Idaho, Oregon and
Washington); (4) Rocky Mountain Area (Montana and Wyoming); (5) Western
Area (Arizona, Nevada, and Utah); (6) Southwest Area (Colorado and New
Mexico); (7) Great Plains Area (Nebraska, North Dakota and South
Dakota); (8) Southern Plains Area (Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas); (9)
Midwest Area (Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin); (10) Eastern
Area (Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri,
Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont,
Virginia, West Virginia); and (11) Hawaii.
The AIANNH project cycle spanned from September 2021 through August
2023 and was extended through August 2024. The one-year extension
allowed MBDA to conduct an analysis of current AIANNH projects,
outcomes, and impact and to obtain public feedback through Tribal
consultation and open comment period for future program design. The
current AIANNH project awards will expire in August 2024.
II. Consultation Meetings
The purpose of the consultation meetings is, consistent with E.O.
13175 and DAO 218-8, to provide an accountable and transparent process
that ensures meaningful and timely input from Tribal officials
regarding MBDA's business development and entrepreneurial services in
Indian Country, Alaska, and Hawaii and the implications that these
programs have in these communities. The consultation meetings are
closed to the public.
III. Questions for Public Comment
Members of the general public are invited to submit responses to
the following questions. Please provide comments on any or all of the
following issues and identify the specific AIANNH community addressed
by these comments:
1. What is the primary challenge (or top three challenges)
businesses encounter in AIANNH communities? What solutions do you think
would help to address the challenge(s)?
2. What are some best practices that you have seen implemented that
positively address the business challenges experienced by your AIANNH
community through self-funded and/or externally funded programs (e.g.,
Federal, State, local government, foundations, etc.)?
3. If you have direct or indirect experience with a MBDA AIANNH
project, please provide your thoughts on which services and activities
were most beneficial and which could have been more effective.
For comments to be considered, they must include the following
identification of the commenter: name; title (if applicable); Tribe,
Alaska Native Corporation, or native community (if applicable);
organization or business (if applicable); city and state; and they must
be submitted in written form at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>. To access the
docket where comments may be submitted, please enter ``DOC-2024-0003''
in the search bar. Comments must be received no later than 11:59 p.m.,
EDT, Sunday, June 16, 2024.
Dated: April 16, 2024.
Eric Morrissette,
Acting Under Secretary, Minority Business Development Agency, U.S.
Department of Commerce.
[FR Doc. 2024-08414 Filed 4-17-24; 11:15 am]
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