[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 13, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54087-54088]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-15102]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration


Cooperative Agreement to Support the Shellfish and Seafood Safety 
Assistance Project; Announcement Type: Single Source Application; 
Agency Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-FDA-CFSAN-2006-1

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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I. Funding Opportunity Description

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Food Safety and 
Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), Office of Seafood is announcing its intent 
to award, noncompetitively, a cooperative agreement to the Interstate 
Shellfish Sanitation Conference (ISSC) in the amount of $320,500 for 
fiscal year 2006, for direct and indirect costs combined. Subject to 
the availability of Federal funds and successful performance, 4 
additional years of support will be available. FDA will support the 
research covered by this notice under the authority of section 301 of 
the Public Health Service Act (the PHS act) (42 U.S.C. 241). FDA's 
research program is described in the Catalog of Federal Domestic 
Assistance No. 93.103. Before entering into cooperative agreements, FDA 
carefully considers the benefits such agreements will provide to the 
public. This effort will enhance FDA's molluscan shellfish sanitation 
program and provide the public greater assurance of the quality and 
safety of these products.

II. Eligibility Information

    Competition is limited to ISSC because ISSC is the only 
organization that has the established formal structure, procedures, and 
expertise to direct all components (public health, environmental, 
resource management, and enforcement) of an effective shellfish 
sanitation program.

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    ISSC is a partnership of State shellfish control officials 
representing both environmental and public health agencies; Federal 
agencies including FDA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the 
National Marine Fisheries Service of the Department of Commerce; and 
representatives from industry, academia, and foreign governments. ISSC 
will continue to improve information exchange and transfer among 
States, Federal agencies, industry, and consumers. ISSC will strengthen 
State activities by providing them with procedural and policy guidance, 
technical training, research, and consumer education, and ISSC will 
enhance research efforts and projects which will contribute 
significantly to the ISSC/FDA ability to identify scientifically 
defensible controls which reduce the incidence of Vibrio vulnificus and 
Vibrio parahaemolyticus illness.

III. Application and Submission

    For further information or a copy of the complete Request for 
Application (RFA), contact Gladys M. Bohler, Division of Contracts and 
Grants Management (HFA-500), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers 
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-827-7168, e-mail: [email protected].
    This RFA can be viewed on Grants.gov (http://www.grants.gov) under 
``Find Grant Opportunities.'' (FDA has verified the Web site and its 
address but we are not responsible for subsequent changes to the Web 
site or its address after this document publishes in the Federal 
Register.) A copy of the complete RFA can be viewed also on CFSAN's Web 
site at http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html.
    For issues regarding the programmatic and scientific aspects of 
this notice, contact Paul Distefano, Center for Food Safety and Applied 
Nutrition (HFS-417), Food and Drug Administration, 5100 Paint Branch 
Pkwy., College Park, MD 20740, 301-436-1410, e-mail: 
[email protected].

    Dated: September 7, 2006.
Jeffrey Shuren,
Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. E6-15102 Filed 9-12-06; 8:45 am]
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