[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 81 (Friday, April 26, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20809-20811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-10366]


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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, Targeted Capacity Expansion Program for Substance 
Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services (TI-02-009), 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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                                                                   Est. Funds FY    Est. No. of   Project Period
               Activity                   Application deadline         2002           Awards          (years)
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Targeted Capacity Expansion Program     July 10, 2002...........     $24,500,000              50               5
 for Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/
 AIDS Services.
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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),
P.O. 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 FY 2002 funds for grants to enhance and expand 
substance abuse treatment and/or outreach services in conjunction with 
HIV/AIDS services in African American, Latino/Hispanic, and/or other 
racial or ethnic communities highly affected by the twin epidemics of 
substance abuse and HIV/AIDS.

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    All of the applicants must target one or more of the following 
high-risk substance abusing populations in African-American, Hispanic/
Latino, and/or other racial/ethnic minority communities:
     Women, including women and their children;
     Adolescents (individuals who are 12-17 years old);
     Men who have sex with men (MSM) who use either injection 
or non-injection drugs;
     Individuals who have been released from prisons and jails 
within the past 2 years.

Eligibility

    Funding will be directed to activities designed to deliver services 
specifically targeting racial and ethnic minority populations impacted 
by HIV/AIDS. Eligible entities may include: not for profit community-
based organizations, national organizations, colleges and universities, 
clinics and hospitals, research institutions, State and local 
governments agencies and tribal governments and tribal/urban Indian 
entities and organizations. Faith based and community-based 
organization are eligible to apply. This general statement is subject 
to program specific statutory and/or regulatory requirements.
    There are three additional requirements:
    1. The applicant agency and all direct providers of substance abuse 
treatment and HIV/AIDS services with linkages to the applicant agency 
must be in compliance with all local, city, county and State licensing 
and accreditation/certification requirements.
    2. The applicant agency, if a direct provider of substance abuse 
treatment and HIV/AIDS services, and all direct providers of substance 
abuse treatment and HIV/AIDS services involved in the project must have 
been providing those services for a minimum of two years prior to the 
date of this application.
    3. Only applicants located in close proximity to and proposing to 
provide services in one of the following groups are eligible to apply:
    (a) Group 1--Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)with minority 
AIDS case rates greater than 25 out of 100,000 people. These are the 
MSAs not previously funded under prior CSAT TCE/HIV and HIV Outreach 
grant announcements and that do not qualify under the overall State 
AIDS rate, but have high AIDS case rates among minority communities.
    (b) Group 2--States with an annual AIDS case rate of, or greater 
than, 10 out of 100,000 people, or MSAs with an annual AIDS case rate 
of, or greater than, 15 out of 100,000 people.

Availability of Funds

    Approximately $24.5 million will be available for up to 50 awards 
in FY 2002. Of this,
     $15.0 million is available for up to 30 grants in 
Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) listed in Group 1.
     $9.5 million is available for up to 20 States and MSAs 
listed in Group 2.
    Applicants may request up to, but not more than $500,000 in total 
costs (direct and indirect) per year.

Period of Support

    Grants will be awarded for a period of up to 5 years. Annual awards 
will depend on continued availability of funds to SAMHSA/CSAT and 
progress achieved by grantee.

Criteria for Review and Funding

    General Review Criteria: 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: 93.243.

    Program Contact: For questions concerning program issues, contact: 
David C. Thompson, Div. Of Practice and Systems Development, CSAT/
SAMHSA, Rockwall II, 7th Floor, 5600 Fisher's Lane, Rockville, MD 
20857. (301) 443-6523. 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 2002 
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 2002 activity listed 
above are subject to the intergovernmental review requirements of 
Executive Order 12372, as implemented through DHHS regulations at 45 
CFR part 100. Executive Order 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

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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: April 22, 2002.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
[FR Doc. 02-10366 Filed 4-25-02; 8:45 am]
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