Dear USET/USET SPF Family,
Last month Treasury issued a Dear Tribal Leader Letter announcing Tribal consultations on Sec. 605 of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund. ARPA established the $2 billion Local Assistance and Tribal Consistency Fund for counties and Tribal governments to support any governmental purpose, except for lobbying activities. Tribal governments have received a set aside of $250 million for fiscal years 2022 and 2023.
Tribal governments are encouraged to register one primary leader or designee to provide comments since the consultation is limited to hosting 500 participants. The registration deadline to request time to provide oral comments is February 4, 2022 by 11:59am AKT (2:59pm CT/3:59pm ET). Written comments are due February 28, 2022 by 11:59am AKT (2:59pm CT/3:59pm ET) and should be submitted to tribal.consult@treasury.gov.
Tribal consultation dates, times, and registration information are as follows—
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 3:00pm ET
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 3:00pm ET
Date/Time: Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 3:00pm ET
To view questions proposed by Treasury for the Tribal consultation, please view the Dear Tribal Leader Letter by clicking here. Questions regarding the consultation should be directed to tribal.consult@treasury.gov.
For more information, please contact Brian Howard, USET SPF Senior Policy Analyst, at bhoward@usetinc.org.
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