[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 70 (Tuesday, April 12, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 20354]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-8651]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Notice of Intent To Award Supplemental Affordable Care Act 
Funding

    Notice of Intent to award supplemental Affordable Care Act funding 
to support enhancement of an existing laboratory fellowship training 
program through funding opportunity CDC-RFA-HM10-1001, ``APHL--CDC 
Partnership for Quality Laboratory Practice'' cooperative agreement.
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice provides public announcement of CDC's intent to 
use Affordable Care Act (ACA) appropriations to expand the Emerging 
Infectious Diseases (EID) Laboratory Fellowship Program currently 
supported through Funding Opportunity CDC-RFA-HM10-1001, ``APHL-CDC 
Partnership for Quality Laboratory Practice.'' Funding is appropriated 
under the Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148), Title IV, Section 4002 
(Prevention and Public Health Fund). In addition, Under Section 5314, 
Fellowship Training in Public Health (Part E of title VII of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 294n et seq., as amended by section 5206, 
is further amended by Sec. 778), CDC is authorized to expand existing 
fellowship training programs in the critical areas of applied public 
health epidemiology, public health laboratory science and public health 
informatics. The CFDA Number for this funding opportunity is 93.065.
    CDC will add the following ACA Authority to that which is reflected 
in the published Funding Opportunity CDC-RFA-HM10-1001:

    Authority: Funding is appropriated under the Affordable Care Act 
(Pub. L. 111-148), Title IV, Section 4002 (Prevention and Public 
Health Fund). In addition, Under Section 5314, Fellowship Training 
in Public Health (Part E of title VII of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 294n et seq., as amended by section 5206, is further 
amended by Sec. 778), CDC is authorized to expand existing 
fellowship training programs in the critical areas of applied public 
health epidemiology, public health laboratory science and public 
health informatics.

Reporting Requirements

    Recipients of the ACA funds through this funding opportunity are 
required to comply with the reporting requirements, terms and 
conditions set forth in the published version of Funding Opportunity 
CDC-RFA-HM10-1001.

Award Information:

    Type of Award: Cooperative Agreement.
    Approximate Current Fiscal Year Funding: $1,000,000 in Affordable 
Care Act (ACA) Funding.
    Anticipated Number of Awards: 1.
    Anticipated Award Date: July 1, 2011.
    Fiscal Year Funds: 2011.

DATES: The effective date for this action is April 12, 2011 and remains 
in effect until the expiration of the project period of the PPHF ACA 
funded application.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elmira Benson, Acting Deputy Director, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2920 Brandywine Road, 
Atlanta, GA 30341, telephone (770) 488-2802, e-mail 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 23, 2010, the President signed into 
law the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Public Law 111-148. ACA is designed 
to improve and expand the scope of health care coverage for Americans. 
Cost savings through disease prevention is an important element of this 
legislation and ACA has established a Prevention and Public Health Fund 
(PPHF) for this purpose. Specifically, the legislation states in 
Section 4002 that the PPHF is to ``provide for expanded and sustained 
national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve 
health and help restrain the rate of growth in private and public 
sector health care costs.'' In addition, under Section 5314, Fellowship 
training in public health (Part E of title VII of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 294n et seq., as amended by section 5206, is 
further amended by Sec. 778), CDC is authorized to expand existing 
fellowship training programs in the critical areas of applied public 
health epidemiology, public health laboratory science and public health 
informatics. Supplemental ACA funding, as referenced in this notice, 
will enhance the work of national, state and local public health 
laboratories in the U.S. through expansion of the Emerging Infectious 
Diseases (EID) Laboratory Fellowship Program. The EID Fellowship, 
sponsored by the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and 
CDC and funded through a cooperative agreement with APHL, trains and 
prepares scientists for careers in public health laboratories and 
supports public health initiatives related to infectious disease 
research. The program aims to promote quality public health laboratory 
practice, improve public health laboratory infrastructure, strengthen 
the public health laboratory system, and develop a well-trained public 
health laboratory workforce. Activities that promote the development of 
a well-trained public health laboratory workforce are outlined in 
section 10 of the cooperative agreement. Therefore, the programmatic 
activities CDC proposes to support with these ACA funds are consistent 
with the intent of the Affordable Care Act and Prevention and Public 
Health Fund (PPHF), Section 4002.

    Dated: March 25, 2011.
Tanja Popovic,
Deputy Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
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