[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 171 (Friday, September 2, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54773-54774]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-22524]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Notice of Intent To Award Affordable Care Act Funding, Funding 
Opportunity Announcement CDC-RFA-DP07-707

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 notice of CDC's intent to fund 
continuation cooperative agreement applications under REACH US, Racial 
and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Across the U.S. These 
applications have been previously received and competed in response to 
CDC Funding Opportunity CDC-RFA-DP07-707. It is the intent of CDC to 
provide continuation funding to thirty nine (39) previously received 
and reviewed applications with Patient Protection Affordable Care Act 
(PPACA), Section 4002, appropriations.

Recipient Reporting Requirements Under PPACA

    Recipients funded with PPACA appropriations will be required to 
report project status on an annual basis. Specific reporting 
requirements will be detailed in the Terms and Conditions of the Notice 
of Cooperative Agreement Award.
    CFDA Number 93.541 is the PPACA specific CFDA number for this 
initiative. It will replace CFDA Number 93.283 published in the above 
referenced REACH US Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA).

Award Information

    Approximate Current Fiscal Year Funding: $23,551,300.
    Approximate Number of Awards: 39.
    Approximate Average Awards: $547,704.
    Fiscal Year Funds: 2011.
    Anticipated Award Date: September 30, 2011.
    Budget Period: 12 months.
    Project Period: 12 months.
    Application Selection Process: Grantees have been selected based on 
methodology published in the REACH US CDC-RFA-DP07-707 FOA.
    Applications were funded in order by score and rank determined by 
previously held review panel. In addition, as was referenced in the 
REACH FOA, funding decisions were made to ensure:
     Geographic diversity across the United States.
     Inclusion of each racial/ethnic group that is specified in 
CDC-RFA-DP07-707 is represented.
     Inclusions of each health priority areas that are 
specified in CDC-RFA-DP07-707 are represented.
     Representation of communities with evident health 
disparities.
     Communities who currently lack access to health priority 
area-related resources and/or with high levels of poverty are 
represented as documented in the application.

CDC will add the following Authority to that which is reflected in the 
published Funding Opportunity: Section 4002 of the Patient Protection 
and Affordability Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148).

DATES: The effective date for this action is September 2, 2011 and 
remains in effect until the expiration of the one (1) year project 
period of the PPACA 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 (PPACA). PPACA 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 PPACA 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''. PPACA 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.
    REACH US and PPACA 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, awarding cooperative 
agreements with PPACA funds under PPHF to existing grantees to carry 
out REACH objectives is consistent with the purpose of PPHF, as stated 
above, to provide for the 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 that 
the REACH initiatives are designed to carry out.

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    Therefore, the REACH program activities CDC proposes to fund with 
PPACA appropriations are authorized by the amendment to the Public 
Health Services Act which authorized the Prevention and Wellness 
Program as embodied in CDC-RFA-DP07-707.

    Dated: August 22, 2011.
Tanja Popovic,
Deputy Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-22524 Filed 9-1-11; 8:45 am]
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