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ATSDR opens 30-day OMB comment on APPLETREE reporting forms; tribal recipients eligible

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (Atsdr)ConsultationOct 20, 2026

Check: ATSDR is taking public and agency comment for 30 days on revised reporting forms for APPLETREE, a hazardous-waste exposure program for which federally recognized tribal governments are eligible applicants.

Read in the Federal Register

What it does

The notice covers the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA, the federal law that governs agency data collections) review of APPLETREE performance measures, which the notice says ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry) will continue to collect from recipients. Under the current five-year , the text lists federally recognized tribal governments and tribally designated organizations among eligible applicants, so tribal grantees would be subject to these reporting forms. The estimate given is 336 total annual burden hours across 30 recipients, and reports include quarterly success stories and an annual performance report due in December.

Why it matters for tribal funding

Tribes eligible. Tribes or Native organizations are among those who can apply or are covered, alongside others.

Who it covers: Tribal governments.

What to do next

  1. Submit any comments to OMB (Office of Management and Budget) within 30 days of the 2026-10-20 publication, by 2026-11-19, at www.reginfo.gov by searching for OMB Control No. 0923-0057 or 'APPLETREE Performance Measures'.
  2. Review the ten forms for reporting workload, especially the quarterly Success Story Form and the annual APR due in December.

Sources

Every signal is built from public records. The highlighted words appear in the source exactly as shown.

  • Federal Register: tribal termsNoticeOct 20, 2026

    Agency Forms Undergoing Paperwork Reduction Act Review

    • Quoted from the source: “eligible applicants include federally recognized American Indian/Alaska Native tribal governments”
    • Quoted from the source: “Comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice”
    • Quoted from the source: “APRs will be due in December of each year”
    Read in the Federal RegisterU.S. government record, public domain.

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