[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 17 (Thursday, January 25, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7765-7766]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2218]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS)

Administration on Aging

[Program Announcement No. AoA-01-01]


Fiscal Year 2001 Program Announcement; Availability of Funds and 
Notice Regarding Applications

AGENCY: Administration on Aging, HHS.

ACTION: Announcement of availability of funds and request for 
applications in seven states--Kansas, Kentucky, New Jersey, North 
Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, and West Virginia--to carry out cooperative 
agreement awards to train retired persons to serve in their communities 
as volunteer expert resources and educators in combating health care 
waste, fraud, and abuse.

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SUMMARY: The Administration on Aging (AoA) announces that under this 
program announcement it will hold a competition for ``Senior Medicare 
Patrol Projects'' that demonstrate effective ways of utilizing retired 
persons as volunteer expert resources and educators in community 
efforts to combat waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid 
programs. The deadline date for the submission of applications is March 
23, 2001. Public and/or nonprofit agencies, organizations, and 
institutions in Kansas, Kentucky, New Jersey, North

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Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, and West Virginia are eligible to apply 
under this program announcement. The AoA is currently funding ``Senior 
Medicare Patrol Projects'' in the remaining forty-three states, plus 
the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. No further awards will be 
made in these states.
    Application kits are available by writing to the Department of 
Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging, Office of 
Governmental Affairs and Elder Rights, 330 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Room 4749, Washington, DC 20201, telephone: (202) 619-3775 or (202) 
619-1351.

    Dated: January 19, 2001.
Jeanette C. Takamura,
Assistant Secretary for Aging.
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