[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 124 (Thursday, June 26, 2008)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 36293-36294]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-14609]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

45 CFR Part 88


Office of Global Health Affairs; Regulation on the Organizational 
Integrity of Entities Implementing Leadership Act Programs and 
Activities

AGENCY: Office of Global Health Affairs, HHS.

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Global Health Affairs within the U.S. Department 
of Health and Human Services (HHS) is reopening the period to submit 
comments on the proposed rule, published in the Federal Register of 
April 17, 2008. The proposed rule describes the separation that must 
exist between a recipient of HHS funds to implement HIV/AIDS programs 
and activities under the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, 
Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003 (the ``Leadership Act''), Public 
Law No. 108-25 (May 27, 2003), and an affiliate organization that 
engages in activities that are not consistent with a policy opposing 
prostitution and sex trafficking, as required under section 301(f) of 
the Leadership Act.

DATES: Submit written or electronic comments on the proposed rule by 
July 28, 2008.

ADDRESSES: You may submit written comments to the following address: 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Global Health 
Affairs, Room 639H, 200 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201. 
Comments will be available for public inspection Monday through Friday, 
except for legal holidays, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., at Room 639H, 200 
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201. Please call ahead to 1-
202-690-6174, and ask for a representative in the Office of Global 
Health Affairs to schedule your visit.
    Written comments are also accepted electronically via the Internet 
at http://www.regulations.gov. You can also download an electronic 
version of the NPRM at http://www.regulations.gov. HHS/OGHA has also 
posted the NPRM and related materials to its Web site at the following 
Internet address: http://www.globalhealth.gov/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William R. Steiger, PhD, Office of 
Global Health Affairs, Hubert H. Humphrey Building, Room 639H, 200 
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Federal Register of April 17, 2008 
(73 FR 20901), HHS published a proposed rule that describes the 
separation that must exist between a recipient of HHS funds to 
implement HIV/AIDS programs and activities under the Leadership Act and 
an affiliate organization that engages in activities that are not 
consistent with a policy opposing prostitution and sex trafficking, as 
required under section 301(f) of the Leadership Act. HHS invited 
stakeholders and other interested parties to comment on the proposed 
rule by May 19, 2008. One commenter noted a technical error in the 
proposed rule. HHS issued a notice of correction in the Federal 
Register of May 20, 2008 (73 FR 29096). Since HHS was unable to issue 
the notice of correction before the comment period ended, HHS is 
reopening the comment period for 30 days in order to allow the 
commenter and other interested persons to submit supplemental comments.


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    Dated: June 11, 2008.
William R. Steiger,
Director, Office of Global Health Affairs.
    Approved: June 23, 2008.
Michael O. Leavitt,
Secretary of Health and Human Services.
[FR Doc. E8-14609 Filed 6-25-08; 8:45 am]
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