[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 187 (Tuesday, September 27, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59702-59703]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-24750]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

[CDC-RFA-TP10-1001]


Notice of Intent To Award Affordable Care Act (ACA) Funding

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice.

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Overview Information

    Notice of Intent to Award Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding to 7 
Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers (PERLC). This 
award was proposed in the grantees' Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 non-Competing 
Continuation applications under Funding Opportunity Announcement CDC-
RFA-TP10-1001, ``Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers 
(PERLC).''
SUMMARY: This notice provides public announcement of CDC's intent to 
award Affordable Care Act (ACA) appropriations to the following 7 
grantees: Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New 
York, NY; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Texas A&M School of 
Rural Public Health, College Station, TX; University at Albany SUNY 
School of Public Health, Albany, NY; University of Oklahoma College of 
Public Health, Oklahoma City, OK; University of South Florida College 
of Public Health, Tampa, FL.
    The purpose of the PERLC program is to develop, deliver, and 
evaluate core competency-based training and education that target the 
public health workforce, address the public health preparedness and 
response needs of state, local, and tribal public health authorities 
and emphasize essential public health security strategies.
    These activities are proposed by the above mentioned grantees in 
their FY 2011 application submitted under Funding Opportunity 
Announcement CDC-RFA-TP10-1001, ``Preparedness and Emergency Response 
Learning Centers (PERLC),'' Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 
Number (CFDA): 93.069.
    Approximately $5,000,000 in ACA funding will be awarded to the 
grantee for sustaining approved program activities. 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 CDC-RFA-TP10-1001:

    Authority:  Sections 311 and 317(k)(2) of the Public Health 
Service Act, [42 U. S. C. Section 243 and 247b(k)(2)] as amended, 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Section 4002 (42 
U.S.C. 300u-11). CFDA : 93.606 (Affordable Care Act--
Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Centers).

Award Information

    Type of Award: Non-Competing Continuation Cooperative Agreement.
    Approximate Total Current Fiscal Year ACA Funding: $5,000,000.
    Anticipated Number of Awards: 7.
    Fiscal Year Funds: 2011.
    Anticipated Award Date: September 30, 2011.

Application Selection Process

    Funding will be awarded to applicant based on documentation and 
results from successful past performance review.

Funding Authority

    CDC will add the ACA Authority to that which is reflected in the 
published Funding Opportunity Announcement CDC-RFA-TP10-1001. The 
revised funding authority language will read:

    This program is authorized under the Sections 311 and 317(k)(2) 
of the Public Health Service Act, [42 U. S. C. 243 and 247b(k)(2)] 
as amended, 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: Joan P. Cioffi, PhD, Associate 
Director, Learning Office and Program Official for Preparedness and 
Emergency Response Learning Centers (PERLC), Office of Public Health 
Preparedness and Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
telephone 404-639-0641. [email protected].

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 23, 2010, the President signed into 
law the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Public Law 111-148. 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 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.
    Therefore, increasing funding available to applicants under this 
FOA using the PPHF will allow them to sustain their existing to provide 
for a 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: August 16, 2011.
Tanja Popovic,
Deputy Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention.
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