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(2) a plan for operation of the Alaska Native family assistance grant that meets the requirements of (e) of this section; and (3) if the commissioner determines that a federally approved tribal family assistance plan would be a cost-effective and efficient means of administering the program established in this chapter in that region of the state and the needs of state public assistance recipients receiving assistance under this chapter can be met through a contract awarded under AS 47.27.300, the organization's agreement to enter into a contract with the department to provide state public assistance to those eligible state residents in the region who are not included in the population to be served by the federally approved tribal family assistance plan. (e) An organization's plan for operation of the Alaska Native family assistance grant must (1) be designed to facilitate self-sufficiency of assistance recipients in the region specified in the federally approved tribal family assistance plan by addressing the conditions specific to that region; (2) provide for a reasonable pattern of service delivery from all providers serving that region; (3) serve a specified region that consists of a geographically cohesive group of communities that share similar interests, resources, and traditions; (4) establish the same maximum number of months of benefits as is established for the state program under AS 47.27.015(a)(1); and (5) provide for administration of the grant money received under this section to establish a program in accordance with the plan accepted by the department and in compliance with other requirements of this section; the program must include the following standards for providing assistance to eligible families: (A) only families with at least one dependent child or a woman in the last trimester of pregnancy are eligible for assistance paid from an Alaska Native family assistance grant; (B) amounts for assistance provided from an Alaska Native family assistance grant to eligible families may not exceed the amounts specified under AS 47.27.025(b) when combined with assistance provided under the federally approved tribal family assistance grant; (C) to remain eligible for assistance paid from an Alaska Native family assistance grant, a minor parent of a dependent child must meet the requirements of AS 47.27.027; (D) families receiving assistance paid from an Alaska Native family assistance grant shall comply with the provisions of AS 47.27.035(a) regarding participation in work activities; (E) families receiving assistance paid from Alaska Native family assistance grant money shall comply with the provisions of (l) — (n) of this section regarding assignment of support rights and cooperation with the child support services agency; (F) the organization has an impartial appeals process to allow affected families in the region of the state covered by the plan accepted by the department to have a fair hearing. (f) The department may award a grant under this section only if the department determines that the proposal, including a plan for operation of the grant, meets the criteria specified in (d) and (e) of this section and that an award of the grant to the organization would be in the public interest. The grant agreement must state that the Alaska Native family assistance program will require all program participants to assign child support rights to the Alaska Native family assistance program unless the Alaska Native organization elects to require participants to assign those child