[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 13, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41263-41264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-17601]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Notice of Intent To Award Affordable Care Act (ACA) Funding, 
EH10-1004

    Notice of Intent to award Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding to 
National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information 
Systems (NAPHSIS) to continue with the existing partnership. NAPHSIS 
and its membership (state vital records registrars) will work with CDC 
to promote collaboration among vital records, health statistics, and 
health information systems professionals in providing environmental and 
health data information to policy makers. This award was proposed in 
the grantee's Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 non-Competing Continuation 
application under funding opportunity EH10-1004, ``National 
Environmental Public Health Tracking Program.''
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 
award Affordable Care Act (ACA) appropriations to the following 
grantee: National Association for Public Health Statistics and 
Information Systems (NAPHSIS) to collaborate with CDC to identify and 
overcome barriers that limit access to work with CDC, states and local 
grantees to develop electronic vital records reporting systems to 
ensure Public Health Information Network-(PHIN) compatibility that 
would promote data interoperability across public health systems. These 
activities are proposed by the above mentioned grantee in their FY 2011 
application submitted under funding opportunity EH10-1004, ``National 
Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (EPHT),'' Catalogue of 
Federal Domestic Assistance Number (CFDA): 93.070. Approximately 
$125,000.00 in ACA funding will be awarded to the grantee for network 
expansion and enhancement. Funding is appropriated under the Affordable 
Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148), Section 4002 [42 U.S.C. 300u-11]; 
(Prevention and Public Health Fund).
    Accordingly, CDC adds the following information to the previously 
published funding opportunity announcement of EH10-1004:

    Authority: Sections 311 and 317(k)(2) of the Public Health 
Service Act, [42 U.S.C. Sections 243 and 247b(k)(2)] as amended and 
the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Section 4002 
[42 U.S.C. 300u-11]. CFDA : 93.538, Affordable Care Act--
National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program-Network 
Implementation.

Award Information

    Type of Award: Non-Competing Continuation Cooperative Agreement.
    Approximate Total Current Fiscal Year ACA Funding: $125,000.
    Anticipated Number of Awards: 1.

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    Fiscal Year Funds: 2011.
    Anticipated Award Date: July 1, 2011.

Application Selection Process

    Funding will be awarded to applicant based on results from 
successful past performance review.

Funding Authority

    CDC will add the ACA Authority to that which is reflected in the 
published Funding Opportunity CDC-RFA-EH10-1004. The revised funding 
authority language will read:

--This program is authorized under Sections 311 and 317(k)(2) of the 
Public Health Service Act, [42 U.S.C. Sections 243 and 247b(k)(2)] as 
amended and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), 
Section 4002 [42 U.S.C. 300u-11].

DATES: The effective date for this action is the date of publication of 
this Notice and remains in effect until the expiration of the project 
period of the ACA funded applications.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elmira Benson, Acting Deputy Director, 
Procurement and Grants Office, 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.'' ACA and the Prevention and Public Health 
Fund make improving public health a priority with investments to 
improve public health.
    The PPHF states that the Secretary shall transfer amounts in the 
Fund to accounts within the Department of Health and Human Services to 
increase funding, over the fiscal year 2008 level, for programs 
authorized by the Public Health Service Act, for prevention, wellness 
and public health activities including prevention research and health 
screenings, such as the Community Transformation Grant Program, the 
Education and Outreach Campaign for Preventative Benefits, and 
Immunization Programs.
    ACA legislation affords an important opportunity to advance public 
health across the lifespan and to improve public health by supporting 
the Tracking Network. This network builds on ongoing efforts within the 
public health and environmental sectors to improve health tracking, 
hazard monitoring and response capacity. Therefore, increasing funding 
available to applicants under this FOA using the PPHF will allow them 
to expand and sustain their existing tracking networks, utilize 
tracking data available on networks for potential public health 
assessments which is consistent with the purpose of the PPHF, as stated 
above, and to provide for an expanded and sustained national investment 
in prevention and public health programs. Further, the Secretary 
allocated funds to CDC, pursuant to the PPHF, for the types of 
activities this FOA is designed to carry out.

    Dated: June 17, 2011.
Tanja Popovic,
Deputy Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
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