[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 27, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4409-4410]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-1655]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D--Coordinated HIV Services and 
Access to Research for Women, Infants, Children, and Youth

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of non-competitive replacement award.

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SUMMARY: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is 
issuing a non-competitive replacement award from the previous grantee, 
Orlando Health, Incorporated's HUG-ME Program, to the Orange County 
Health Department, Orlando, Florida, that will ensure continuity of 
Part D HIV/AIDS care and treatment services without disruption to HIV/
AIDS-infected women, infants and children in Orange County and the 
surrounding areas.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Intended Recipient of the Award: Orange County Health Department, 
Orlando, Florida.
    Amount of the Award: $750,576.00
    Period of Support: The period of the supplemental support is from 
October 1, 2009 through July 31, 2010.

    Authority: This activity is under the authority of the Public 
Health Service Act as amended, Section 2671, (42 USC 300ff-71). The 
authority for the exception to competition is HHS Grants Policy 
Directive 2.04, Awarding Grants.

    Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.153.
    Justification for the Exception to Competition: Critical funding 
for HIV/AIDS care and treatment to the target populations in Orange 
County, Orlando, Florida, and surrounding areas will be continued 
through a temporary, non-competitive replacement award to the Orange 
County Health Department. This temporary award is needed because the 
former grantee, Orlando Health, Incorporated, has relinquished, 
effective September 30, 2009, the HUG-ME Program and the HRSA Grant 
Award supporting it (original Project Period August 1, 2008, through 
July 31, 2013). The Orange County Health Department is known Statewide 
as an exceptional site for HIV/AIDS care and treatment services, and 
has administered its own HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D--
Coordinated HIV Services and Access to Research for Women, Infants, 
Children, and Youth Grant for the past 9 years. It is well suited to 
undertake operations of the HUG-ME Program under the previously 
approved scope of project activities. Additionally, this organization 
has a thorough understanding of the characteristics and needs of HIV/
AIDS-infected populations. The HIV/AIDS Bureau and its Division of 
Community Based Programs are not aware of any other organization that 
could provide good quality care and treatment services to the impacted 
service populations without additional time and resources being devoted 
to bringing that organization's service capacity up to the level needed 
under the project scope of this award. This non-competitive replacement 
award will permit the

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Orange County Health Department to ensure continuity of services to the 
affected populations. The supplemental funding will provide support for 
10 months. Additional funding beyond July 31, 2010, will be provided 
through a limited service area competition that will be announced in 
the future.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Parham-Hopson, Associate 
Administrator, HRSA/HAB, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland, 20857; 
phone 301 443-1993; [email protected].

    Dated: January 13, 2010.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2010-1655 Filed 1-26-10; 8:45 am]
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