[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 114 (Tuesday, June 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 32051]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-15065]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of Public Health and Science


Announcement of Availability of Grants for Adolescent Family Life 
Demonstration Projects

AGENCY: Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs, Office of Population 
Affairs, OPHS, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This Notice is to inform potential applicants of recent 
legislation affecting the availability of grant funding for Adolescent 
Family Life (AFL) demonstration projects under Title XX of the Public 
Health Service Act. Notices published on May 12, 1999 at 64 FR 25776 
and 64 FR 25782 advised that the availability of funding for different 
types of new AFL demonstration projects was contingent upon the 
enactment of a proposed amendment to the Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 
appropriation for Title XX. In order to continue to fund a larger 
number of prevention projects than is allowable under the statute, the 
Department had asked Congress to amend the FY 1999 appropriation for 
Title XX to include a waiver of the statutory provision which requires 
that not more than one-third of the funds appropriated for 
demonstration projects shall be used for prevention demonstration 
projects. That amendment was recently enacted as part of the 1999 
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act (Pub. L. 106-31). Thus, FY 
1999 funding is now available only for new abstinence education 
prevention projects, as announced at 64 FR 25782. FY 1999 funds are not 
available for new care, prevention and combination care/prevention 
projects, as announced at 64 FR 25776. Any applications received under 
that announcement will be held for review and consideration in the 
following fiscal year, although the availability of funding for FY 2000 
is uncertain.

DATES: The 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act (Pub. L. 106-
31) was enacted on May 21, 1999. Thus funds became available only for 
new AFL prevention projects, and not for new care, prevention and 
combination care/prevention projects, as of that date.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The OAPP Program Office at (301) 594-
4004.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title XX of the Public Health Service Act, 
42 U.S.C. 300z et seq., authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services to award grants for demonstration projects to provide services 
to pregnant and non-pregnant adolescents, adolescent parents and their 
families. (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 93.995). Title 
XX authorizes grants for three types of demonstration projects: (1) 
Projects which provide ``care services'' only; (2) projects which 
provide ``prevention services'' only; and (3) projects which provide a 
combination of ``care'' and ``prevention'' services.
    The Title XX statute contains a provision limiting the amount of 
AFL funding which may be used for prevention projects to not more than 
one-third of the overall monies available for demonstration projects. 
In the FY 1997 and 1998 appropriations for Title XX, as amended, 
Congress waived this limitation by enacting legislation which earmarked 
the majority of AFL demonstration funding for prevention grants, 
specifically abstinence education projects as defined in the Personal 
Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. In 
order to continue to fund a larger number of prevention projects than 
is allowable under the statute, the Department asked Congress to amend 
the FY 1999 appropriation for Title XX to include a waiver of the ``not 
more than one-third for prevention'' restriction. On May 21, 1999, 
Congress enacted the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act 
(Pub. L. 106-31), which includes that amendment in a provision which 
states, in pertinent part, that appropriated funds shall be used for 
abstinence education prevention projects ``without application of the 
[not more than one-third for prevention] limitation of section 2010(c) 
of said title XX.''
    Pending final action on the requested amendment, in order to ensure 
that there were adequate applications which could be funded, two 
separate notices regarding the availability of grants for AFL 
demonstration projects were published on May 12, 1999. A Notice at 64 
FR 25776 requested applications for new care, prevention and 
combination care/prevention projects. The announcement advised 
potential applicants that funding for these projects would be available 
only if the requested amendment to the FY 1999 appropriations act did 
not pass. With the enactment of the amendment to the FY 1999 
appropriation for Title XX, funds are not available to support new 
care, prevention and combination care/prevention projects, as announced 
at 64 FR 25776. Any applications received under that announcement will 
be held for review and consideration in the following fiscal year, 
although the availability of funding in FY 2000 is uncertain. A 
separate Notice at 64 FR 25782 requested applications for prevention 
projects. This announcement advised potential applicants that funding 
for these projects would be available only if the amendment to the FY 
1999 appropriations act did pass. With the enactment of the amendment 
to the FY 1999 appropriation for Title XX, funding is available only 
for new abstinence education prevention projects, as announced at 64 FR 
25782.

    Dated: June 7, 1999.
Samuel Taylor,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs.
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