[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 187 (Tuesday, September 27, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59702-59703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-24750]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[CDC-RFA-TP10-1001]
Notice of Intent To Award Affordable Care Act (ACA) Funding
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 7
Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers (PERLC). This
award was proposed in the grantees' Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 non-Competing
Continuation applications under Funding Opportunity Announcement CDC-
RFA-TP10-1001, ``Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers
(PERLC).''
SUMMARY: This notice provides public announcement of CDC's intent to
award Affordable Care Act (ACA) appropriations to the following 7
grantees: Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New
York, NY; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Texas A&M School of
Rural Public Health, College Station, TX; University at Albany SUNY
School of Public Health, Albany, NY; University of Oklahoma College of
Public Health, Oklahoma City, OK; University of South Florida College
of Public Health, Tampa, FL.
The purpose of the PERLC program is to develop, deliver, and
evaluate core competency-based training and education that target the
public health workforce, address the public health preparedness and
response needs of state, local, and tribal public health authorities
and emphasize essential public health security strategies.
These activities are proposed by the above mentioned grantees in
their FY 2011 application submitted under Funding Opportunity
Announcement CDC-RFA-TP10-1001, ``Preparedness and Emergency Response
Learning Centers (PERLC),'' Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance
Number (CFDA): 93.069.
Approximately $5,000,000 in ACA funding will be awarded to the
grantee 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 CDC-RFA-TP10-1001:
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 : 93.606 (Affordable Care Act--
Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers).
Award Information
Type of Award: Non-Competing Continuation Cooperative Agreement.
Approximate Total Current Fiscal Year ACA Funding: $5,000,000.
Anticipated Number of Awards: 7.
Fiscal Year Funds: 2011.
Anticipated Award Date: September 30, 2011.
Application Selection Process
Funding will be awarded to applicant based on documentation and
results from successful past performance review.
Funding Authority
CDC will add the ACA Authority to that which is reflected in the
published Funding Opportunity Announcement CDC-RFA-TP10-1001. 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. 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: Joan P. Cioffi, PhD, Associate
Director, Learning Office and Program Official for Preparedness and
Emergency Response Learning Centers (PERLC), Office of Public Health
Preparedness and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
telephone 404-639-0641. [email protected].
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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: August 16, 2011.
Tanja Popovic,
Deputy Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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