Both sides are printed on page 47241
To the Administration for Native Americans. You stood up three notices for FY 2026. SEDS-AK is not one of them.
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Your response to comments prints the objection. Commenters warned Alaska Tribes could face new barriers. The same pages answer that Alaska Native communities remain eligible across EAGLE.
No page anyone could reach shows what SEDS-AK was worth. The provable change is who names the work, and one of the three is an AI institute.
Enclosed, the objection and the reply as printed, EAGLE at $24,000,000, the AI3 Action Institute at $3,500,000, and the blank where SEDS-AK's number would go.
Both windows close 27 August. Until then a village office has to fit its own priority into a greenhouse, a microgrid, Welders to Elders or IDEAS, the one a community designs itself.
Is IDEAS wide enough to carry what SEDS-AK carried?
What we verified
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The ANA final issuance appears in Federal Register Volume 91, Number 143, published Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
The document begins at Federal Register page 47241 and runs through page 47243.
The issuance stands up three FY 2026 notices of funding opportunity, named EAGLE, the AI3 Action Institute and NCNTTA.
The agency's own document records that multiple commenters objected to replacing SEDS-AK with EAGLE and warned Alaska Tribes could face new barriers.
ANA responded that Alaska Native communities remain eligible across EAGLE project areas including IDEAS.
ANA states that the EAGLE IDEAS project area carries forward the spirit of Alaskan self-determination.
ANA also pledged to continue considering the distinct circumstances and needs of Alaska Native communities in future programming.
IDEAS stands for Indigenous Designs to Empower and Advance Self-Determination.
EAGLE has five project areas.
The EAGLE opportunity number is HHS-2026-ACF-ANA-NEG-0120.
EAGLE was posted on July 28, 2026 and closes on August 27, 2026.
EAGLE has total program funding of $24,000,000.
EAGLE expects to make 31 awards ranging from $300,000 to $1,000,000.
The AI3 Action Institute opportunity number is HHS-2026-ACF-ANA-NAI-0035.
The AI3 Action Institute was posted on July 30, 2026, two days after the Federal Register issuance.
The AI3 Action Institute is a single award with an award ceiling of $3,500,000 and an award floor of $2,500,000.
Both EAGLE and the AI3 Action Institute fall under assistance listing 93.612, Native American Programs.
AI3 eligibility explicitly includes Alaska Native villages as defined in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and nonprofit village consortia.
Applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time on the due date, in the listing's own wording.
ANA states the Institute will complement rather than replace broader social and economic development efforts and will address ethical, practical and governance considerations of emerging technologies.
ANA describes the AI3 Action Institute as reducing the learning curve for hundreds of Native communities and supporting the thoughtful integration of AI across Indian Country.
A commenter told ANA that consolidating training and technical assistance into a single NCNTTA agreement equates to a reduction of more than 70 percent in regional staffing capacity.
ANA corrected the commenter and said the NCNTTA funding level is 3.1 million per fiscal year rather than over three years.
ANA frames EAGLE as an evolution of SEDS rather than a cancellation.
The AI3 Action Institute closes on August 27, 2026, the same date as EAGLE.
Tribal Business News reports the new grants replace SEDS and SEDS-Alaska, which for more than 30 years let tribes propose economic development based on local priorities.
Tribal Business News reports that ANA has not announced a SEDS funding opportunity for fiscal 2026.
The Alaska Federation of Natives called EAGLE a very narrowly targeted program whose funding largely does not meet the needs of Alaska's tribes.
Tribal Business News characterizes the change as shifting federal support from tribally determined projects to administration defined priorities including greenhouses, microgrids, welding and artificial intelligence.
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