[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 241 (Thursday, December 15, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 78015]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-32168]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of Refugee Resettlement


Announcing the Award of a Single-Source Grant to Support Services 
for Haitian Medical Evacuees to the Florida Department of Children and 
Families in St. Petersburg, FL

AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, ACF, HHS.

ACTION: Notice to award a single-source grant to support medical 
evacuees from the Haiti earthquake of 2010.

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    CFDA Number: 93.576.

    Statutory Authority: This grant is authorized by the 
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2010 (Pub. L. 111-212).

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a single-source grant of $220,000 
was awarded to Florida Department of Children and Families, located in 
St. Petersburg, FL, by the Administration for Children and Families, 
Office of Refugee Resettlement. Award funds will provide medical and 
supportive social services to Haitian medical evacuees affected by the 
earthquake in 2010.
    The Haitian medical evacuees were brought to the United States 
(U.S.) in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010. 
This is a population that arrived in the U.S. with significant medical 
issues and no available system for ongoing medical and supportive 
social services. They had sustained a wide range of injuries, including 
burns, crush injuries, and head and spine injuries. During Fiscal Year 
2010, the refugees' medical costs for their first 8 months in Florida 
totaled $6.2 million. The single-source award will provide urgently 
needed support to this group, which are currently residing in a tent 
complex in St. Petersburg, FL.

DATES: October 1, 2011-September 30, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth Tota, Deputy Director, Office 
of Refugee Resettlement, 901 D Street SW., Washington, DC 20047. 
Telephone: (202) 401-4858. Email: [email protected].

    Dated: December 6, 2011.
Eskinder Negash,
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement.
[FR Doc. 2011-32168 Filed 12-14-11; 8:45 am]
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