[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 137 (Tuesday, July 18, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40729-40730]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-6262]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Notice of Listing of Construction Grant Programs

AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human 
Services.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Section 52b.1(b) of the regulations governing National 
Institutes of Health (NIH) construction grants, codified at 42 CFR part 
52b, authorizes the NIH Director to publish periodically a list of the 
construction grant programs to which the construction grant regulations 
apply. This Notice announces the most recent list of the programs 
covered by the regulations.

DATES: Effective Date: July 18, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry Moore, NIH Regulations Officer, 
Office of Management Assessment, 6011 Executive Boulevard, Room 601, 
MSC 7669, Rockville, MD 20892, telephone 301-496-4607 (not a toll-free 
number), fax 301-402-0169, e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NIH published the final rule, ``National 
Institutes of Health Construction Grants,'' in the Federal Register, 
November 22, 1999 (64 FR 63721-63727), revising the regulations at 42 
CFR part 52b, (then) titled, National Cancer Institute Construction 
Grants, for the purpose of making them applicable to all NIH financial 
assistance programs with construction or modernization grant authority, 
except for certain alterations and improvements under research project 
grants and center grants, and to make certain other changes, including 
retitled them, ``National Institutes of Health Construction Grants.'' 
In lieu of specifically listing each NIH construction grant program to 
which the regulations apply in Sec.  52b.1 of the regulations, the 
applicability section, we revised Sec.  52b.1 to apply across-the-board 
to all NIH construction grant programs, except for those few programs 
specifically excluded by the section. This action has the advantage of 
assuring that any new NIH construction grant programs enacted by 
Congress would have implementing regulations without the necessity of 
having to amend the regulations. The final rule authorized the Director 
of NIH to publish periodically a list of construction grant programs 
covered by the regulations. We indicated that the list would be for 
informational purposes only and would not restrict the applicability of 
the regulations.
    We are publishing this updated list of programs to which the 
construction grants regulations apply to reflect the extension of 
authority for construction of research facilities, previously held only 
by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) under section 481A 
of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, to the National Institute of 
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), as amended by provisions of 
the Project Bioshield Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108-276). As amended, 
section 481A now authorizes the Director of NIH, acting through the 
Director of NCRR or the Director of NIAID, to make grants or award 
contracts to public and nonprofit private entities to expand, remodel, 
renovate, or alter existing research facilities or construct new 
research facilities, subject to the provisions of section 481A.
    Additionally, we are publishing this updated list of program to 
reflect the authority of the Director of the National Center on 
Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) to make grants to 
expand, remodel, renovate, or alter existing research facilities or 
construct new research facilities for the purpose of conducting 
minority health disparities research and other health disparities 
research, as authorized under section 485F(b)(2) of the PHS Act, as 
amended by section 102 of Public Law 106-525, the Minority Health and 
Health Disparities Research and Education Act of 2000.
    The updated listing of construction grant authorities to which the 
National Institutes of Health Construction Grant regulations, codified 
at 42 CFR Part 52b, apply includes the following:
    (1) Grants for construction or renovation of facilities in carrying 
out the National Cancer Program, as authorized by section 413(b)(6)(B) 
of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 285a-2(b)(6)(B));
    (2) Federal payment under a grant for construction to pay for all 
or part of the cost of planning, establishing, or strengthening, and 
providing basic operating support for center for basic and clinical 
research into, training in, and demonstration of advanced diagnostic, 
prevention, control, and

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treatment methods for cancer, as authorized by section 414(b) of the 
PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 285a-3(b));
    (3) Grants for construction or renovation of facilities, to carry 
out the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Disease and Blood Resources 
Program, as authorized by section 421(b)(2)(B) of the PHS Act (42 
U.S.C. 285b-3(b)(2)(B));
    Grants to public or private nonprofit entities to pay all or part 
of the cost of planning, establishing, or strengthening, and providing 
basis operating support for centers for basic and clinical research 
into, training in, and demonstration of the management of blood 
resources and advanced diagnostic, prevention and treatment methods for 
heart, blood vessel, lung, or blood diseases, as authorized by section 
442(c)(3) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 285b-4(c)(3));
    (5) Development and modernization of new and existing centers for 
arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases, as authorized by section 441(a) 
of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 285d-6(a));
    (6) Grants for public and private nonprofit vision research 
facilities, as authorized under section 455 of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 
285i);
    (7) Development and modernization of new and existing centers for 
studies of disorders of hearing and other communication processes, as 
authorized by section 464C(a) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 285m-3(a));
    (8) Grants for the construction or renovation of facilities for 
research into the development and use of medications to treat drug 
abuse and addiction, as authorized by section 464P(b) of the PHS Act 
(42 U.S.C. 285o-4(b));
    (9) Grants to public and nonprofit private entities to expand, 
remodel, renovate, or alter existing biomedical and behavioral research 
facilities or construct new research facilities, as authorized by 
section 481A(a) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 287a-2(a));
    (10) Grants to public or nonprofit private entities to construct, 
renovate, or otherwise improve regional centers for research on 
primates, as authorized by section 481B(a) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 
287a-3(a));
    (11) Grants to expand, remodel, renovate, or alter existing 
research facilities or construct new research facilities for the 
purpose of conducting minority health disparities research and other 
health disparities research, as authorized by section 485F(b)(2) of the 
PHS Act U.S.C. 287c-32(b)(2)); and
    (12) Grants for the construction or renovation of facilities for 
carrying out AIDS research, as authorized by section 2354(a) of the PHS 
Act (42 U.S.C. 300cc-41(a)).

    The Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbered 
programs affected by title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 
part 52b are:

93.131--Shared Research Facilities for Heart, Lung, and Blood 
Diseases.
93.173--Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders.
93.279--Drug Abuse and Addiction Programs.
93.307--Minority Health and Health Disparities Research.
93.389--National Center for Research Services.
93.392--Cancer Construction.
93.846--Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Research.
93.855--Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation Research.
93.867--Vision Search.

    Dated: May 19, 2006.
Elias A. Zerhouni,
Director, National Institutes of Health.
    Approved: July 7, 2006.
Michael O. Leavitt,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 06-6262 Filed 7-17-06; 8:45 am]
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