[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 171 (Friday, September 2, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54772-54773]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-22530]


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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-DP08-805

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 the Nutrition, 
Physical Activity, and Obesity Program. These applications have been 
previously received and competed in response to CDC's Funding 
Opportunity CDC-RFA-DP08-805. It is the intent of CDC to provide 
continuation funding to sixteen (16) previously received and reviewed 
applications with the 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 93.548 is the PPACA specific CFDA number for this 
initiative. It will replace CFDA Number 93.283 published in the above 
referenced Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Program Funding 
Opportunity Announcement (FOA).

Award Information

    Approximate Current Fiscal Year Funding: $10,000,000.
    Approximate Number of Awards: 16.
    Approximate Average Award: $625,000.
    Fiscal Year Funds: FY 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 Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity 
Program CDC-RFA-DP08-805 FOA.
    Applications were funded in order by score and rank determined by 
previously held review panel. In addition, as was referenced in the 
Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Program FOA, funding 
decisions related to awards may include a preference for states that 
have higher obesity prevalence rates (BRFSS, 2006).
    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 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

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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 legislation affords an important opportunity to advance 
public health across the lifespan and to reduce health disparities by 
supporting intensive state and community approaches to chronic disease 
prevention and control. Therefore, awarding cooperative agreements with 
PPACA funds under PPHF to existing grantees to carry out Nutrition, 
Physical Activity, and Obesity Program 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 Nutrition, Physical Activity, and 
Obesity Program initiatives are designed to carry out.
    Therefore, the Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity 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-
DP08-805.

    Dated: August 24, 2011.
Tanja Popovic,
Deputy Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2011-22530 Filed 9-1-11; 8:45 am]
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