[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 29, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52339-52340]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-21295]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office Of Refugee Resettlement

[CFDA Number 93.583]


Notice of the Award of a Single-Source Program Expansion 
Supplement Grant to Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, 
NV, a Wilson-Fish Project

AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, ACF, HHS.

ACTION: This announces the award of a single-source expansion 
supplement grant to Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, 
NV, by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a program of the 
Administration for Children and Families.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) announces the award 
of a single-source program expansion supplement grant to Catholic 
Charities of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, in the amount of $437,650 
under the Wilson-Fish Program. The supplemental award will allow the 
grantee to provide cash and medical assistance to arriving refugees and 
others who are also eligible for refugee benefits through the remainder 
of Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2012. The expansion supplement award will 
enable the grantee to provide assistance to a higher number of clients 
than originally planned.

DATES: September 30, 2011 through September 29, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carl Rubenstein, Wilson-Fish 
Coordinator, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Aerospace Building, 8th 
Floor West, 901 D Street SW., Washington, DC 20447. Telephone: 202-205-
5933. Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Wilson-Fish program is intended to be an 
alternative to the traditional State

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administered refugee assistance program for providing integrated 
assistance (cash and medical) and services (employment, case-
management, ESL and other social services) to refugees, asylees, 
Amerasian Immigrants, Cuban and Haitian Entrants, Trafficking Victims 
and Iraqi/Afghani SIV's in order to increase their prospects for early 
employment and self-sufficiency, reduce their level of welfare 
dependence and promote coordination among voluntary resettlement 
agencies and service providers. In addition, the Wilson-Fish program 
enables ORR to ensure that refugee assistance programs exist in every 
State where refugees are resettled.

    Statutory Authority:  The Refugee Act of 1980 as amended, 
Wilson-Fish Amendment, Pub. L. 98-473, 8 U.S.C. 1522(e)(7); section 
412(e) (7) (A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Eskinder Negash,
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement.
[FR Doc. 2012-21295 Filed 8-28-12; 8:45 am]
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