Notice2025-15517
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August 14, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 155 (Thursday, August 14, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39226-39227]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15517]
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NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY
Sunshine Act Meetings
TIME AND DATE: The Members of the National Council on Disability (NCD)
will hold a two-day in-person Council meeting on Thursday, August 28,
2025, 9:30 a.m.- 3:40 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and Friday,
August 29, 2025, 9:30-11:55 a.m., EDT.
PLACE: This meeting will occur at the U.S. Access Board Conference
Room, 1331 F Street NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20004. The event will
also be streamed live via Zoom videoconference for those not able to
attend in person. Details are available on NCD's event page at <a href="https://www.ncd.gov/meeting/2025-08-28-aug-28-29-2025-council-meeting/">https://www.ncd.gov/meeting/2025-08-28-aug-28-29-2025-council-meeting/</a>.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
Day 1--Following welcome remarks and introductions, the Council
will receive a policy update; panel discussion on the current state of
ground transportation for people with mobility disabilities including
taxis, rideshares, microtransit, and shuttles; and a lunch break;
followed by a panel discussion on access to autonomous vehicles for
people with mobility disabilities; a break; and a public comment
period; before adjourning.
Day 2--Following welcoming remarks, the Council will receive the
Chairman's report; council member reports; Executive Committee report;
and a panel discussion on improving state and local disaster
preparation plans for people with disabilities; before adjourning.
Agenda: The times provided below are approximations for when each
agenda item is anticipated to be discussed (all Eastern Daylight Time):
Thursday, August 28, 2025
9:30-9:45 a.m.--Welcome Greetings, Roll Call, Acceptance of Agenda
9:45-10:00 a.m.--Policy Update
10:00-11:45 a.m.--Current State of Ground Transportation for People
with Mobility Disabilities: Taxis, Rideshares, Paratransit,
Microtransit, Shuttles
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.--Lunch Break
1:00-2:45 p.m.--Access to Autonomous Vehicles for People with Mobility
Disabilities: Today and the Future
2:45-3:00 p.m.--Break
3:00-3:40 p.m.--Public Comment Period and Staff Overview of Online
Public Comments
3:40 p.m.--Adjourn until August 29 at 9:30 a.m.
Friday, August 29, 2025
9:30-9:40 a.m.--Welcome and Call to Order
9:40-9:55 a.m.--Chairman's Report
9:55-10:10 a.m.--Council Member Reports
10:10-10:25 a.m.--Executive Committee Report
10:25-11:55 a.m.--Improving State and Local Disaster Preparation Plans
for People with Disabilities
11:55 a.m.--Adjourn
Public Comment: Your participation during the public comment period
provides an opportunity for us to hear from you--individuals,
businesses, providers, educators, parents and advocates. Your comments
are important in bringing to the Council's attention the issues and
priorities of the disability community.
For the August 28 Council meeting, NCD will have a public comment
period of 40 minutes and requests comments on any topic related to our
open projects: improving the outcomes of people with disabilities
during and after disasters; disability clinical competency training for
healthcare provider training programs; ADA accommodations during court
proceedings; and youth and younger adults with disabilities in nursing
homes. Additional information on specifics of the topic is available on
NCD's public comment page at <a href="https://ncd.gov/public-comment">https://ncd.gov/public-comment</a>.
The Council will receive comments in-person only but will share
during the meeting a summary of comments received on these topics ahead
of the meeting via email. Due to the hybrid nature of the event, in-
person comments will be given priority.
To provide public comment during an NCD Council Meeting, NCD
requires advanced registration by either signing up to present while
registering for the meeting or sending an email to
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b5e5c0d7d9dcd6f6dad8d8d0dbc1f5dbd6d19bd2dac3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ca9abfa8a6a3a989a5a7a7afa4be8aa4a9aee4ada5bc">[email protected]</span></a> with the subject line ``Public Comment'' and your
name, organization, state, and topic of comment included in the body of
your email.
Deadline for public comment registration is August 26, 8:00 p.m.
EDT. Please indicate if you are providing the comment in-person or only
submitting via email. All individuals desiring to make public comment
are strongly encouraged to read NCD's guidelines for public comment in
advance of the meeting at: <a href="https://ncd.gov/public-comment">https://ncd.gov/public-comment</a>.
While public comment can be submitted on any topic over email,
comments during the meeting should be specific to the requested topics
in the following information.
Please send NCD your comments, experiences, articles, data, and
other research on the following topics, which are all projects
currently underway or soon to be underway. Please send your comments
and any attachments to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1c4c697e70757f5f7371717972685c727f78327b736a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="633316010f0a00200c0e0e060d17230d00074d040c15">[email protected]</span></a>. Your contributions will
help strengthen our investigations and provide for a more comprehensive
view for federal policymakers.
Information on Public Comment Topics
I. Improving the Outcome of People With Disabilities During and after
Disasters
This project will focus on how state and local governments execute
their emergency management plans; identify promising practices; and
provide resources and recommendations. The following are areas comment:
1. What elements are lacking in state and local disaster
preparation plans that would mitigate the adverse impact of disaster
recovery and response on people with disabilities?
2. How do states encourage local emergency management operators to
be inclusive of people with disabilities before, during and after
disasters?
3. What is FEMA's role and responsibility to ensure people with
disabilities' needs are included in disaster preparation at the local
level?
4. What states have an infrastructure that promotes the inclusivity
of people with disabilities?
II. Disability Clinical Competency Training for Healthcare Provider
Training Programs
This project will offer a framework to clinical preparedness for
health care providers in the medical treatment of people with
disabilities. The following are areas comment:
1. What is the current state of healthcare provider education in
medical schools, Nurse Practitioner schools and Physician Assistant
programs? How many provide clinical training, patient exposure, and
patient feedback? What is the response of the students? How many of
these training programs require ``clinical disability competency''
training? How many are simply short, inadequate ``watch a video''
vignettes?
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2. What are the challenges and obstacles for these schools to adopt
curriculum over the course of their training?
3. Do the current graduates of these training programs feel they
have the confidence, skills, experience and training to effectively
provide optimal care?
4. What is the connection between clinical confidence and changes
in behavior and attitudes among healthcare providers?
5. What are the estimated overall cost savings for providing
optimal healthcare to people with disabilities?
6. What are the transferable skills that clinicians can learn from
``disability competency training'' to apply to all other patient
populations (especially the elderly, complex and chronic co-existing
conditions, which is a growing patient population)?
7. What are the existing curriculum resources that can be adopted
and incorporated into current provider training?
III. ADA Accommodations during Court Proceedings
This project will explore the lack of available training for judges
and ADA coordinators that results in people with disabilities being
denied reasonable accommodations in court proceedings, which often
directly impacts the outcome of the litigation; and offer
recommendations to address this unequal access to the courts. The
following are areas comment:
1. How many states have court ADA coordinators?
2. With states that have ADA coordinators, is there an ADA
grievance procedure? Is the decision to provide reasonable
accommodation decided by the coordinator or the judge?
3. What are the training requirements for judges? Is training
available that discusses reasonable accommodations?
4. Why does there seem to be a lack of understanding of reasonable
accommodations and family courts?
5. What procedure is required to amend the Administrative Offices
of the Courts Regulations?
6. What is the current procedure in federal courts to assess
reasonable accommodation requests?
IV. Youth and Younger Adults with Disabilities in Nursing Homes
This project seeks to uncover the drivers of the growing population
of youth and younger adults with disabilities living in nursing homes
and explore policy solutions that seek to keep youth and younger adults
with disabilities in their communities where they can live, learn, and
seek employment. The following are areas comment:
1. What number of people with disabilities ages 21-40 are receiving
LTSS in nursing homes? How large is the subset of those under age 21?
What are the numbers by state? What are the demographics? What is the
average length of stay? What placements were made out of state?
2. What data gaps exist on these questions and how could the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) improve them? What
reporting could HHS or HUD require of federal fund recipients to obtain
data on people with disabilities age 40 and under in nursing homes?
3. How many people are estimated to be on waiting lists to transfer
out of nursing facilities are ages 21-40 and under 21? What federal and
state policies assist in gathering this information and what are the
federal and state barriers?
4. Are there existing federal and state policies that have the
effect of routing younger people with disabilities into nursing homes?
(Please note that NCD is not seeking information on what keeps people
with disabilities from leaving nursing facilities as we have well-
established research on that topic).
5. What impact has Money Follows the Person had on nursing home
diversion for younger people with disabilities? Please provide specific
examples to the degree possible. What other programs are successful at
diversion of younger people with disabilities from nursing homes?
6. What opportunities are available to younger people with
disabilities who reside in nursing homes, for free appropriate public
education (FAPE), recreation, community participation? What are the
results of unavailability/restricted availability of the activities?
7. How could policymakers specifically address the needs of younger
people with disabilities in LTSS and housing policy?
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Nicholas Sabula, Public Affairs
Specialist, NCD, 1331 F Street NW, Suite 850, Washington, DC 20004;
202-272-2004 (V), or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c9a7baa8abbca5a889a7aaade7aea6bf"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6a04190b081f060b2a04090e440d051c">[email protected]</span></a>.
Accommodations: ASL Interpreters will be provided in-room and
included during the live streamed meeting, and CART has been arranged
for this meeting and will be embedded into the Zoom platform as well as
available via streamtext link. The web link to access CART Streamtext:
<a href="https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=NCD">https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=NCD</a>.
If you require additional accommodations, please notify Stacey
Brown by sending an email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2b584959445c456b45484f054c445d"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ed9e8f9f829a83ad838e89c38a829b">[email protected]</span></a> as soon as possible and no
later than 24 hours prior to the meeting.
Due to last-minute confirmations or cancellations, NCD may
substitute items without advance public notice.
Dated: August 12, 2025.
Anne C. Sommers McIntosh,
Director of Legislative Affairs and Outreach.
[FR Doc. 2025-15517 Filed 8-12-25; 4:15 pm]
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