Recognizing the need for high quality child care facilities in Indian Country, in 1996, as part of the amendments to the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act created by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of, Congress gave the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families the authority to allow Tribal Child Care grantees the ability to use Child Care and Development Fund monies for the construction and renovation of child care facilities. Since that time, the ACF Dallas office has approved the use of funds to construct 24 child care facilities with five additional applications pending. The construction of the facilities has greatly enhanced services to not only Indian children, but to Tribal communities.