[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 112 (Wednesday, June 11, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 34982]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-14688]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service


Porcupine Clinic

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Indian Health Service (IHS) announces the Grant Award to 
the Porcupine Clinic for start up cost in reopening the Porcupine 
Dialysis Center for the dialysis patients who had utilized this center. 
Those dialysis patients have had to travel a long distance to make 
their appointments two to three times a week. The award is issued under 
the authority of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, Section 
1621(c), and is included under the Catalog of Federal Domestic 
Assistance number 93.933. The specific objectives of the project are:
    1. To be used to prolong the lives of dialysis patients.
    2. To provide culturally-based care for the Lakota people; and,
    3. To ameliorate conditions resulting from lack of transportation, 
insufficient funding, and extreme social problems on the Pine Ridge 
Indian Reservation.

DATES: The Non-Competitive Emergency Grant is from 06/01/2003 to 5/31/
2004 with a one time funding of $75,000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information for program 
information, contact Paul Iron Cloud, Porcupine Clinic Executive 
Director, PO Box 275, Porcupine, South Dakota 57772, telephone (605) 
867-5665 or Bruce Williams, Directors, Porcupine Clinic Dialysis 
Center, telephone (605) 867-6111. For grants information, contact 
Sylvia Ryan, Grants Management Specialist, Division of Acquisitions and 
Grants Management Branch, 801 Thompson Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 
20852, telephone (301) 443-5204.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This project has been awarded on a non-
competitive single source basis. Porcupine Dialysis Center is the only 
organization that represents approximately 23 dialysis patients who are 
treated two to three times a week. This dialysis center provides care 
to Native American people who live on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud 
reservations or who live in non-reservation areas with significant 
Native American populations. The population served by these programs is 
the same as IHS's user population.
    The Grant Award has been awarded because of the need for dialysis 
and to present the need for dialysis renal failure. This grant is for 
one time funding of $75,000.

    Dated: May 30, 2003.
Michel E. Lincoln,
Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 03-14688 Filed 6-10-03; 8:45 am]
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