[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 13, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41261-41262]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-17602]


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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, 
EH10-1003

    Notice of Intent to award Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding to 
National Association for Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) to continue 
with the existing partnership and conduct projects for facilitating 
linkages between health outcome and environmental data. The NAHDO-
Tracking collaboration has proven to be an important step in 
establishing access to existing hospital and emergency department data. 
This award was proposed in the grantee's Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 non-
Competing Continuation application under funding opportunity EH10-1003, 
``National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program.''


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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 Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) to 
collaborate with CDC to identify and overcome barriers that limit 
access to hospital and emergency department data, including identifying 
and resolving issues of access to secure records. These activities are 
proposed by the above-mentioned grantee in their FY 2011 application 
submitted under funding opportunity EH10-1003, ``National Environmental 
Public Health Tracking Program (EPHT),'' Catalogue of Federal Domestic 
Assistance Number (CFDA): 93.070.
    Approximately $124,995.00 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 EH10-1003:

    Authority:  Section 317(k)(2) of the Public Health Service Act, 
[42 U.S.C Section 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: $124,995
    Anticipated Number of Awards: 1
    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-EH10-1003. The revised funding 
authority language will read:

--This program is authorized under the Section 317(k)(2) of the Public 
Health Service Act, [42 U.S.C Section 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. The 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 the 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.'' The 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.
    The 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 30, 2011.
Tanja Popovic,
Deputy Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
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