[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 99 (Monday, May 22, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32110-32111]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-12696]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

[Program Announcement No. ACF/ACYF/CB FY 2000-01B]


Announcement of the Availability of Financial Assistance and 
Request for Applications To Support Adoption Opportunities 
Demonstration Projects, Child Abuse and Neglect Discretionary 
Activities, Child Welfare Training Projects, and Abandoned Infants 
Assistance Awards.

AGENCY: Children's Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and 
Families, ACF, DHHS.

ACTION: Correction/cancellation.

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SUMMARY: This document contains a correction to the Notice that was 
published in the Federal Register on Thursday, April 13, 2000 (65 FR 
19904). The solicitation for competitive proposals for priority area 
2000A.2--Operation of a National Adoption Information Exchange System 
as a freestanding entity is canceled.
    The purposes of operating and maintaining a National Adoption 
Information Exchange System to bring together children who would 
benefit from adoption and qualified prospective adoptive parents who 
are seeking children and to conduct national recruitment efforts in 
order to reach prospective parents for children awaiting adoption will 
be combined with the task of continuing to develop an Internet-based 
photo listing system. Upon further consideration, it has been decided 
that separating the photo listing service from the exchange and 
database, upon which it depends, would cause serious confusion to State 
child welfare agencies, would undermine the integrity of what is a 
single effort to assist States in inter-jurisdictional recruitment of 
families, and would pose the possibility of supporting duplicative 
projects. Because the grant for the photo-listing service will be 
awarded following directions from Congress, the competition for the 
exchange alone is being canceled.
    In accordance with the Department's Grants Policy Directive (GPD) 
2.04(F), and ad hoc review will be done on the noncompetitive 
application for the combined exchange and photo-listing activities and 
a notification of the intent to award the grant will be published in 
the Federal Register prior to or simultaneously with the award of this 
grant. The notification will include, at a minimum, the following 
information:

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(1) recipient's name; (2) amount of award; (3) project period; (4) 
reason for no competition; and (5) the name and address of the official 
to be contacted for more information on this award.
    The complete corrected current availability of funds announcement 
package is posted on the Children's Bureau website: http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/policy/cb200001.htm.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The ACYF Operations Center at 1-800-
351-2293 or send an email to [email protected] or call Sally Flanzer, 
Children's Bureau, at 202-215-8914.

    Dated: May 12, 2000.
Patricia Montoya,
Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families.
[FR Doc. 00-12696 Filed 5-19-00; 8:45 am]
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