[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 187 (Tuesday, September 27, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59703-59704]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-24747]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Notice of Intent To Award Affordable Care Act (ACA) Funding, RFA-
TP-08-001
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
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Overview Information
Notice of Intent to award Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding to
Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers (PERRCs). This
award is proposed for the grantees' Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 non-competing
continuation application under Funding Opportunity Announcement RFA-TP-
08-001, ``Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers: A
Public Health Systems Approach.''
SUMMARY: This notice provides public announcement of CDC's intent to
award Affordable Care Act (ACA) appropriations to the following 4
Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Center (PERRCs) grantees:
the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC; the University of
Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN; the University of California in Berkeley;
and the University of California in Los Angeles, CA.
The purpose of the PERRC program is to conduct public health
systems research to strengthen preparedness and response capabilities
at the national, state, local, and tribal levels for preventing
morbidity and mortality from threats to the public's health such as
infectious disease outbreaks, and man-made and natural disasters.
These activities are proposed by the above mentioned grantees in
their FY 2011 application for continuation submitted under Funding
Opportunity Announcement RFA-TP-08-001, ``Preparedness and Emergency
Response Research Centers: A Public Health Systems Approach,''
Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Number (CFDA): 93.061
Approximately $5,000,000 in ACA funding will be awarded to these
grantees for sustaining approved program activities. Funding is
appropriated under the Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148), Section
4002 (42 U.S.C. 300u-11) (Prevention and Public Health Fund).
Accordingly, CDC adds the following information to the previously
published Funding Opportunity Announcement of RFA-TP-08-001:
Authority: Sections 311 and 317 (k)(2) of the Public Health
Service Act, [42 U. S. C. Section 243 and 247b(k)(2)] as amended,
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Section 4002 (42
U.S.C. 300u-11).
CFDA : 93.607 (Affordable Care Act--Preparedness and
Emergency Response Research Centers: A Public Health Systems
Approach)
Award Information
Type of Award: Non-Competing Continuation Cooperative Agreement.
Approximate Total Current Fiscal Year ACA Funding: $5,000,000.
Anticipated Number of Awards: 4.
Fiscal Year Funds: 2011 .
Anticipated Award Date: September 30, 2011.
Application Selection Process
Funding will be awarded to the applicants based on the following
criteria from the funding opportunity announcement:
Accomplishments reflected in the progress report of the
continuation application that indicate that the applicant is meeting
previously stated objectives or milestones contained in the project's
annual work plan and satisfactory progress is being demonstrated. The
report should contain progress in core activities, including a report
on advisory committee meeting(s), activities, etc., and progress in
individual research projects.
Objectives for the new budget period are realistic,
specific, and measurable. Methods described will clearly lead to
achievement of these objectives. An evaluation plan that will allow
management to monitor whether the methods are effective.
Any impediments to progress are described, e.g.,
milestones that are deficient or deferred are fully explained, and the
corrective action taken to address the impediment is described
including specific information on revised dates of completion of the
milestones impacted.
A budget request that is clearly explained, adequately justified,
reasonable and consistent with the intended use of program project
grant funds.
Funding Authority
CDC will add the ACA Authority to that which is reflected in the
published Funding Opportunity Announcement RFA-TP-08-001. The revised
funding authority language will read:
--This program is authorized under the Sections 311 and 317 (k)(2) of
the Public Health Service Act, [42 U.S.C. Section 243 and 247b(k)(2)]
as amended, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Section
4002 (42 U.S.C. 300u-11).
DATES: The effective date for this action is the date of publication of
this Notice and remains in effect until the expiration of the project
period of the ACA funded applications.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mildred Williams-Johnson, PhD.,
Director, Extramural Research Program Office, Office of Public Health
Preparedness and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
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telephone 770-488-8806, [email protected]
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 23, 2010, the President signed into
law the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Public Law 111-148. ACA is designed
to improve and expand the scope of health care coverage for Americans.
Cost savings through disease prevention is an important element of this
legislation and ACA has established a Prevention and Public Health Fund
(PPHF) for this purpose. Specifically, the legislation states in
Section 4002 that the PPHF is to ``provide for expanded and sustained
national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve
health and help restrain the rate of growth in private and public
sector health care costs.'' ACA and the Prevention and Public Health
Fund make improving public health a priority with investments to
improve public health.
The PPHF states that the Secretary shall transfer amounts in the
Fund to accounts within the Department of Health and Human Services to
increase funding, over the fiscal year 2008 level, for programs
authorized by the Public Health Service Act, for prevention, wellness
and public health activities including prevention research and health
screenings, such as the Community Transformation Grant Program, the
Education and Outreach Campaign for Preventative Benefits, and
Immunization Programs.
Therefore, increasing funding available to applicants under this
FOA using the PPHF will allow them to sustain their existing to provide
for a national investment in prevention and public health programs.
Further, The Secretary allocated funds to CDC, pursuant to the PPHF,
for the types of activities this FOA is designed to carry out.
Dated: September 16, 2011.
Tanja Popovic,
Deputy Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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