[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 121 (Thursday, June 25, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 30299]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-14980]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Health Center Program

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of Noncompetitive Replacement Award to Community Health 
Center of Richmond.

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SUMMARY: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will 
be transferring Health Center Program (section 330 of the Public Health 
Service Act) New Access Point funds originally awarded to William F. 
Ryan Community Health Center, Inc., to the Community Health Center of 
Richmond to ensure the provision of critical primary health care 
services to underserved populations in Staten Island, Richmond County, 
New York.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Former Grantee of Record: William F. Ryan Community Health Center, 
Inc.
    Original Period of Grant Support: March 1, 2009, to February 28, 
2011.
    Replacement Awardee: Community Health Center of Richmond.
    Amount of Replacement Award: $1,300,000.
    Period of Replacement Award: The period of support for the 
replacement award is March 1, 2009 to February 28, 2011.

    Authority:  Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act, 42 
U.S.C. 245b.

    CFDA Number: 93.703.
    Justification for the Exception to Competition: The former grantee, 
William F. Ryan Community Health Center, Inc., notified HRSA that its 
original subrecipient, Community Health Center of Richmond, will 
directly initiate primary health care services in Staten Island to the 
more than 5,250 low income, underserved and uninsured individuals in 
the original service area, Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, as 
had been proposed in a funded New Access Point grant application.
    Community Health Center of Richmond was identified as the provider 
of services on behalf of the William F. Ryan Community Health Center 
under the original application.
    Community Health Center of Richmond is an experienced provider of 
care to the original target population, has a demonstrated record of 
compliance with the Health Center Program statutory and regulatory 
requirements, can provide primary health care services immediately, and 
is located in the same geographical area where the William F. Ryan 
Community Health Center, Inc.'s services were to have been provided.
    Community Health Center of Richmond is a subrecipient of the former 
grantee and will be able to provide continuity of care to patients of 
the former grantee. This underserved target population has an immediate 
need for vital primary health care services and would be negatively 
impacted by any delay caused by a competition. As a result, in order to 
ensure that critical primary health care services are available to the 
original target population in a timely manner, this replacement award 
will not be competed.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marquita Cullom-Stott via e-mail at 
[email protected] or 301-594-4300.

    Dated: June 18, 2009.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. E9-14980 Filed 6-24-09; 8:45 am]
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