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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has adopted a Tribal Consultation Policy that applies to all HHS Divisions and includes SAMHSA. The HHS Tribal Consultation Policy (PDF | 190 KB) directs Divisions to establish a process to ensure accountable, meaningful, and timely input by Tribal officials in the development of policies that have Tribal implications.

Pursuant to Presidential Executive Order No. 13175, November 6, 2000, and the Presidential memoranda of September 23, 2004, November 5, 2009, and January 26, 2021, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adopted a Tribal Consultation Policy that applies to all HHS operating and staff divisions, including SAMHSA. The HHS Tribal Consultation Policy directs operating divisions to establish a process to ensure accountable, meaningful, and timely input by Tribal officials in the development of policies that have tribal implications.

Consistent with the HHS Tribal Consultation Policy, SAMHSA established the SAMHSA TTAC as one method of enhancing communications with Tribal Nations. The SAMHSA TTAC Charter complies with an exemption within section 204(b) of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) (Pub. L. 104-4) to the Federal Advisory Committee Act that promotes free communication between the federal government and tribal governments. In accordance with this exemption, the SAMHSA TTAC facilitates the exchange of views, information, or advice between federal officials and elected or traditionally appointed officers of tribal governments acting in their official capacities (or their designated employees with authority to act on their behalf).

Read the TTAC Charter (PDF | 188 KB)

Read the SAMHSA Tribal Consultation Policy

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