# Secretarial Determination To Lower Head Start Center-Based Service Duration Requirements
> **US Department of Health and Human Services** · Notification; Head Start center-based service duration requirements. · Published 2020-01-30 · Effective 2020-01-30 · 85 FR 5332
## Document
- **Document number:** 2020-00635
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Health and Human Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 85 FR 5332
- **CFR reference:** 45 CFR 1302
- **Publication date:** 2020-01-30
- **Effective date:** 2020-01-30
## Abstract

The Secretary of Health and Human Services has the authority, on or before February 1, 2020, to lower the percentage of center-based funded enrollment slots for which Head Start programs must provide 1,020 annual hours of planned class operations, based on an assessment of the availability of sufficient funding to mitigate a substantial reduction in funded enrollment. The Secretary hereby gives notice of his exercise of that authority to reduce the percentage from 100 percent (all) of a Head Start program's center-based slots, to 45 percent of a Head Start program's center-based slots.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/01/30/2020-00635/secretarial-determination-to-lower-head-start-center-based-service-duration-requirements)
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