[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 223 (Monday, November 19, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57978-57979]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-28834]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Fiscal Year (FY) 2002 Funding Opportunities

AGENCY: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of funding availability.

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SUMMARY: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
(SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) announces the 
availability of FY 2002 funds for grants for the following activity. 
This notice is not a complete description of the activity; potential 
applicants must obtain a copy of the Guidance for Applicants (GFA), 
including Part I, Recovery Community Organization Development and 
Community Mobilization Program, and Part II, General Policies and 
Procedures Applicable to all SAMHSA Applications for Discretionary 
Grants and Cooperative Agreements, before preparing and submitting an 
application.

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                                                                                                       Project
                 Activity                       Application  deadline       Est. funds  Est. number   Period (in
                                                                             FY 2002      of awards     year)
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Recovery Community Organization
 Mobilization Program
  Track 1.................................  January 10, 2002.............     $900,000          4-5            5
  Track II................................  January 10, 2002.............    1,100,000            4            3
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    The actual amount available for the award may vary, depending on 
unanticipated program requirements and the number and quality of 
applications received. FY 2002 funds for the activity discussed in this 
announcement were appropriated by the Congress under Public Law No. 
106-310. SAMHSA's policies and procedures for peer review and Advisory 
Council review of grant and cooperative agreement applications were 
published in the Federal Register (Vol. 58, No. 126) on July 2, 1993.

General Instructions

    Applicants must use application form PHS 5161-1 (Rev. 7/00). The 
application kit contains the two-part application materials (complete 
programmatic guidance and instructions for preparing and submitting 
applications), the PHS 5161-1 which includes Standard Form 424 (Face 
Page), and other documentation and forms. Application kits may be 
obtained from: National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information 
(NCADI), PO Box 2345, Rockville, MD 20847-2345, Telephone: 1-800-729-
6686.
    The PHS 5161-1 application form and the full text of the activity 
are also available electronically via SAMHSA's World Wide Web Home 
Page: http://www.samhsa.gov.
    When requesting an application kit, the applicant must specify the 
particular activity for which detailed information is desired. All 
information necessary to apply, including where to submit applications 
and application deadline instructions, are included in the application 
kit.
    Purpose: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) 
announces the availability of Fiscal Year 2002 funds for grants to 
foster the participation of people in recovery, their family members, 
and other allies (the recovery community) in the public dialogue about 
addiction, treatment, and recovery, and to build their capacity to 
identify, develop, and support treatment and recovery policies, 
systems, and services that meet their needs as they define them. Funded 
projects must document promising approaches in recovery community 
organizing that can be shared with others attempting similar efforts 
throughout the Nation. Based on past experience, CSAT believes that 
successful projects usually include a combination of the following 
organizing activities: encouraging and facilitating participation by 
people in recovery and their family members in the planning, design, 
delivery, and evaluation of addiction treatment and recovery policies, 
systems, and services at the local, State, regional, and national 
levels; promoting linkages among recovery community members, and 
between the recovery community and service delivery systems; and 
developing and conducting public education to help reduce the stigma 
associated with addiction, treatment, and recovery.
    Applications for two separate Tracks will be funded under the RCSP. 
Track I solicits applications for new recovery community organizing 
initiatives, and Track II is designed to enable existing organizations 
that have demonstrated their capacity in recovery community organizing 
to expand or intensify their current program, or to replicate their 
promising program model in another setting.
    Eligibility: Applicants may be domestic private nonprofit 
organizations, such as community-based organizations, universities, 
faith-based organizations, or units of State or local governments or 
Indian Tribes and tribal organizations. Consortia comprised of various 
types of eligible organizations are permitted.
    For both Tracks, applications may be from: (a) Recovery community 
organizations (RCOs), which are organizations comprised of and led by 
recovery community members; or (b) facilitating organizations, which 
though themselves not necessarily comprised of recovery community 
members, will either enable the formation of an independent RCO or will 
develop some other organizational structure within which to carry out 
recovery community organizing. Organizations that were funded, either 
directly or indirectly, under CSAT's 1998 RCSP GFA are not eligible to 
apply for awards in Track I. Organizations that were funded, either 
directly or indirectly, under the 2001 RCSP GFA are not eligible to 
apply for awards in either Track.
    Availability of Funds: Approximately $900,000 will be available to 
fund approximately 4-5 grants in Track I. The award for a Track I grant 
is expected to range from $175,000 to

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$200,000 per year in total costs (direct and indirect). Approximately 
$1,100,000 will be available to fund approximately 4 grants in Track 
II. The award for a Track II grant is expected to range from $225,000 
to $275,000 per year in total costs (direct and indirect).
    Period of Support: Track I grants will be awarded for a period of 
up to 5 years. Track II grants will be awarded for a period of up to 3 
years.
    Criteria for Review and Funding: Competing applications requesting 
funding under this activity will be reviewed for technical merit in 
accordance with established PHS/SAMHSA peer review procedures. Review 
criteria that will be used by the peer review groups are specified in 
the application guidance material.
    Award Criteria for Scored Applications: Applications will be 
considered for funding on the basis of their overall technical merit as 
determined through the peer review group and the appropriate National 
Advisory Council review process. Availability of funds will also be an 
award criteria. Additional award criteria specific to the programmatic 
activity may be included in the application guidance materials.
    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.230.
    Program Contact: For questions concerning program issues, contact: 
Catherine D. Nugent, Division of State and Community Assistance, CSAT/
SAMHSA, Rockwall II, Suite 880, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 
(301) 443-2662, E-Mail: [email protected].
    For questions regarding grants management issues, contact: Steve 
Hudak, Division of Grants Management, OPS/SAMHSA, Rockwall II, 6th 
floor, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, (301) 443-9666, E-Mail: 
[email protected].
    Public Health System Reporting Requirements: The Public Health 
System Impact Statement (PHSIS) is intended to keep State and local 
health officials apprised of proposed health services grant and 
cooperative agreement applications submitted by community-based 
nongovernmental organizations within their jurisdictions.
    Community-based nongovernmental service providers who are not 
transmitting their applications through the State must submit a PHSIS 
to the head(s) of the appropriate State and local health agencies in 
the area(s) to be affected not later than the pertinent receipt date 
for applications. This PHSIS consists of the following information:
    a. A copy of the face page of the application (Standard form 424).
    b. A summary of the project (PHSIS), not to exceed one page, which 
provides:
    (1) A description of the population to be served.
    (2) A summary of the services to be provided.
    (3) A description of the coordination planned with the appropriate 
State or local health agencies.
    State and local governments and Indian Tribal Authority applicants 
are not subject to the Public Health System Reporting Requirements. 
Application guidance materials will specify if a particular FY 2001 
activity is subject to the Public Health System Reporting Requirements.
    PHS Non-use of Tobacco Policy Statement: The PHS strongly 
encourages all grant and contract recipients to provide a smoke-free 
workplace and promote the non-use of all tobacco products. In addition, 
Public Law 103-227, the Pro-Children Act of 1994, prohibits smoking in 
certain facilities (or in some cases, any portion of a facility) in 
which regular or routine education, library, day care, health care, or 
early childhood development services are provided to children. This is 
consistent with the PHS mission to protect and advance the physical and 
mental health of the American people.
    Executive Order 12372: Applications submitted in response to the FY 
2001 activity listed above are subject to the intergovernmental review 
requirements of Executive Order 12372, as implemented through DHHS 
regulations at 45 CFR Part 100. E.O. 12372 sets up a system for State 
and local government review of applications for Federal financial 
assistance. Applicants (other than Federally recognized Indian tribal 
governments) should contact the State's Single Point of Contact (SPOC) 
as early as possible to alert them to the prospective application(s) 
and to receive any necessary instructions on the State's review 
process. For proposed projects serving more than one State, the 
applicant is advised to contact the SPOC of each affected State. A 
current listing of SPOCs is included in the application guidance 
materials. The SPOC should send any State review process 
recommendations directly to: Division of Extramural Activities, Policy, 
and Review, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 
Parklawn Building, Room 17-89, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 
20857.
    The due date for State review process recommendations is no later 
than 60 days after the specified deadline date for the receipt of 
applications. SAMHSA does not guarantee to accommodate or explain SPOC 
comments that are received after the 60-day cut-off.

    Dated: November 13, 2001.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
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