[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 163 (Tuesday, August 23, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52663-52664]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-21343]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)


Notice of Intent To Award Affordable Care Act Funding, DP-09-001

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 
fund Approved cooperative agreement applications previously received 
and competed in response to CDC Funding Opportunity, RFA-DP-09-001, 
``Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research Centers (U48).'' It 
is the intent of CDC to fund the applications with Patient Protection 
Affordable Care Act (ACA), Section 4002, appropriations.
    CFDA Number 93.542 is the ACA-specific CFDA number for this 
initiative.

Award Information

    Approximate Current Fiscal Year Funding: $10,000,000.

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    Approximate Number of Awards: 15-17.
    Approximate Average Award: $625,000.
    Fiscal Year Funds: 2011.
    Anticipated Award Date: September 30, 2011.
    Budget Period: 12 months.
    Project Period: 1 year.

Application Selection Process

    Only applicants who have applied for and have been selected as 
Prevention Research Centers under CDC Program Announcement DP-09-001 
were eligible to apply for the annual continuation funding.

Funding Authority

    CDC will add the following Authority to that which is reflected in 
the published Funding Opportunity:

--Section 4002 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. 
L. 111-148.).

DATES: The effective date for this action is August 23, 2011 and 
remains in effect until the expiration of the project period of the ACA 
funded applications.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elmira Benson, 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 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). 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 Services 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 reduce health disparities by 
supporting an intensive community approach to chronic disease 
prevention and control.
    Therefore, the FOA program activities CDC proposes to fund with ACA 
appropriations are authorized by the amendment to the Public Health 
Services Act which authorized the Prevention and Wellness Program.

    Dated: August 9, 2011.
Tanja Popovic,
Deputy Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-21343 Filed 8-22-11; 8:45 am]
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