[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 246 (Wednesday, December 23, 1998)] [Notices] [Pages 71147-71148] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 98-33876] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT [Docket No. FR-4118-FA-03] Research to Improve the Evaluation and Control of Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazards, Fiscal Year 1997 AGENCY: Office of the Secretary--Office of Lead Hazard Control. ACTION: Announcement of funding awards. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in a competition for funding under the NOFA for Research to Improve the Evaluation and Control of Residential Lead-Based Paint. This announcement contains the names and addresses of the award recipients and the amounts of awards. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter J. Ashley, DrPH, Department of Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202) 755-1785, ext 115. Hearing-and speech-impaired persons may access the number above via TTY by calling the toll free Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the competition was to award grant funding of approximately $2,500,000 for grants and cooperative agreements for research to improve the evaluation and control of lead- based paint hazards. The 1997 awards announced in this Notice were selected for funding in a competition announced in a Federal Register notice published on November 27, 1996 (61 FR 60499). Applications were scored and selected on the basis of selection criteria contained in that Notice. The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this program is 14.900. A total of $3,614,852 was awarded to ten grantees. In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 U.S.C. 3545), the Department is publishing the names, addresses, and amounts of those awards as follows. National Center for Lead-Safe Housing, 10227 Wincopin Circle Suite 205, Columbia, MD 21044, $654,000 University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, $620,000 [[Page 71148]] Public Health Institute, 2001 Addison Rd., Suite 210, Berkeley, CA 94704, $573,889 Research Triangle Institute, 3040 Cornwallis Rd., Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, $497,000 Battelle Memorial Institute, 505 King Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201, $361,000 University of Cincinnati, Department of Environmental Health, P.O. Box 670056, Cincinnati, OH 45267, $340,000 QuanTech, Inc., 1911 N. Fort Myer Dr., Rosslyn, VA 22209, $260,000 Kennedy Krieger Research Institute, 707 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, $150,000 Saint Louis University School of Public Health, 3663 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108, $148,963 Critical Hygiene, Inc., 4428 Ironwood Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23462, $10,000 Dated: December 17, 1998. David E. Jacobs, Director, Office of Lead Hazard Control [FR Doc. 98-33876 Filed 12-22-98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4210-01-P