; public comment period The Task Force shall provide for the publication in the Federal Register of a request for public comments on each research plan and shall accept comments on such plan during a period of not less than 45 days. The Director shall make publicly available comments submitted in response to a request for public comments. Any final research plan shall be made available to the public and include a discussion of the comments received with respect to such plan and responses to such comments. The Task Force, with the concurrence of the Director, may change such a research plan through the same process as applied to the initial adoption of such plan. (iii) Criteria The Director shall design and regularly update guidelines for proper methodological standards for incorporation into such research plans. Such guidelines shall include measures for appropriate validity, for risk adjustment, for timeliness, for input from relevant experts and peers in the respective communities, for accounting for all relevant subpopulations (including disparities by gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geographic location), and for other health outcome measurements. Such guidelines and methodological standards shall ensure the consideration of any evidence concerning any relevant subpopulations (including disparities by gender, race, ethnicity, genetic predisposition, socioeconomic status, and geographic location), any real world evidence, any recent evidence, and any United States-based studies. (iv) Consultation on research plans The Director shall facilitate coordination and interaction with other agencies and departments in the preparation and publication of research plans (taking into consideration research and findings by other agencies and departments) and methodological standards under clause (iii), including with the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the