[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 2010)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-29866]


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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 Awards to Upper Room AIDS 
Ministry, Inc.

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SUMMARY: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will 
transfer Health Center Program (section 330 of the Public Health 
Service Act) Increased Demand for Services (IDS) and Capital 
Improvement Project (CIP) funds, awarded under the American Recovery 
and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), originally awarded to Harlem United 
Community AIDS Center, Inc. (HUCAC) to Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc. 
to ensure the provision of critical primary health care services and 
continuity of services to low-income, underserved homeless patients in 
New York City.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Former Grantee of Record: Harlem United Community AIDS Center, Inc.
    Original Period of Grant Support: March 27, 2009, to March 26, 2011 
(IDS) and June 29, 2009, to June 28, 2011 (CIP).
    Replacement Awardee: Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc.
    Amount of Replacement Award: $103,317 (IDS) and $262,740 (CIP).
    Period of Replacement Award: The period of support for the 
replacement awards is March 27, 2009 to March 26, 2011 (IDS) and June 
29, 2009 to June 28, 2011 (CIP).
    Authority: Section 330(h) of the Public Health Service Act, 42 
U.S.C. 245b.
    CDFA Number: 93.703
    Justification for Exception to Competition: Under the original 
grant applications approved by HRSA, Harlem United Community AIDS 
Center, Inc. (HUCAC) was identified as the grantee of record. HUCAC had 
a subrecipient agreement in place with Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc., 
a HUCAC-subsidiary organization. Through this arrangement, Upper Room 
AIDS Ministry, Inc. provided all services and carried out the full 
scope of project for the homeless program. Instead of continuing this 
agreement, both organizations decided that Upper Room AIDS Ministry, 
Inc. should become the direct grantee recipient for the ARRA IDS and 
CIP grants. Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc. competed successfully for 
fiscal year 2010 Service Areas Competition funding and has become the 
direct grant recipient of the health center homeless grant. HUCAC and 
the Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc. requested that full responsibility 
for the grants be transferred from HUCAC to Upper Room AIDS Ministry. 
Upper Room AIDS Ministry has provided documentation to HRSA that it 
meets Section 330 statutory and regulatory requirements as well as 
applicable grant management requirements.
    The transfer of these grants will ensure critical primary health 
care services continue and remain available to low income, underserved 
homeless populations with no interruption in services to the target 
population. Transferring the funds to Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc. 
does not materially change the projects as originally proposed and 
funded. Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc. will fulfill the expectations of 
the former grantee's originally funded IDS and CIP grant applications. 
In order to ensure that critical primary health care services continue 
to be available to the original target population in a timely manner, 
these ARRA CIP and IDS awards will not be competed.

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

    Dated: November 19, 2010.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2010-29866 Filed 11-26-10; 8:45 am]
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