[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 13, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41262-41263]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-17603]


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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, 
EH11-1103

    Notice of Intent to award Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding to 
seventeen states and local health departments to develop and implement 
tracking networks within their funded jurisdictions that are part of 
the National Tracking Network. These awards were proposed in the 
grantees' Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 Competing Continuation applications 
under funding opportunity EH11-1103, ``National Environmental Public 
Health Tracking Program-Network Implementation.''

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 17 
grantees: California, Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Maryland, 
Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New 
York City, New York State, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington, and 
Wisconsin to develop and implement their Tracking Networks. These 
activities are proposed by the above-mentioned grantees in their FY 
2011 applications submitted under funding opportunity EH11-1103, 
``National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program-Network 
Implementation (EPHT),'' Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 
Number (CFDA): 93.070.
    Approximately $16,500,000 in ACA funding will be awarded to the 
grantees for network expansion and enhancement. Funding is appropriated 
under the Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148), Section 4002 [42 
U.S.C.

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300u-11]; (Prevention and Public Health Fund).
    Accordingly, CDC adds the following information to the previously 
published funding opportunity announcement of EH11-1103:

    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: New Competing Continuation Cooperative Agreement.
    Approximate Total Current Fiscal Year ACA Funding: $16,500,000.
    Anticipated Number of Awards: 17.
    Fiscal Year Funds: 2011.
    Anticipated Award Date: August 1, 2011.

Application Selection Process

    Funding will be awarded to applicants based on results from the 
objective review panel ranking recommendation.

Funding Authority

    CDC will add the ACA Authority to that which is reflected in the 
published Funding Opportunity CDC-RFA-EH11-1103. The revised funding 
authority language will read:

--This program is authorized under Section 317(k)(2) of the Public 
Health Service Act, [42 U.S.C. 247b], 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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