[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 149 (Monday, August 4, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45199-45200]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-18281]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service


Tribal Management Grant Program; Correction

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Indian Health Service published a document in the Federal 
Register on July 3, 2014, for the FY 2014 Tribal Management Grant 
Program Announcement. Key information pertaining to Funding 
Restrictions was omitted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Patricia Spotted Horse, Program 
Analyst, Office of Direct Service and Contracting Tribes, Indian Health 
Service, 801 Thompson Avenue, Suite 220, Rockville, MD 20852, Telephone 
(301) 443-1104. (This is not a toll-free number.)

Corrections

    In the Federal Register of July 3, 2014, in FR Doc. 2014-15595, on 
page 38043, in the second column, under the heading 5. Funding 
Restrictions after the fourth bullet, the following language regarding 
Restrictions should be added:
     The TMG may not be used to support recurring operational 
programs or to replace existing public and private resources. Funding 
received under a recurring Public Law 93-638 contract cannot be totally 
supplanted or totally replaced. Exception is allowed to charge a 
portion or percentage of salaries of existing staff positions involved 
in implementing the TMG grant, if applicable. However, this percentage 
of TMG funding must reflect supplementation of funding for the project 
not supplantation of existing ISDEAA contract funds. Supplementation is 
``adding to a program'' whereas supplantation is ``taking the place 
of'' funds. An entity cannot use the TMG funds to supplant the ISDEAA 
contract or recurring funding.
     Ineligible Project Activities--The inclusion of the 
following projects or activities in an application will render the 
application ineligible.
    [cir] Planning and negotiating activities associated with the 
intent of a Tribe to enter the IHS Self-Governance Project. A separate 
grant program is administered by the IHS for this purpose. Prospective 
applicants interested in this program should contact Mrs. Anna Johnson, 
Program Analyst, Office of Tribal Self-Governance, Indian Health 
Service, Reyes Building, 801 Thompson Avenue, Suite 240, Rockville, 
Maryland 20852, (301) 443-7821, and request information concerning the 
``Tribal Self-Governance Program Planning Cooperative Agreement 
Announcement'' or the ``Negotiation Cooperative Agreement 
Announcement.''
    [cir] Projects related to water, sanitation, and waste management.
    [cir] Projects that include direct patient care and/or equipment to 
provide those medical services to be used to establish or augment or 
continue direct patient clinical care. Medical equipment that is 
allowable under the Special Diabetes Grant Program is not allowable 
under the TMG Program.
    [cir] Projects that include recruitment efforts for direct patient 
care services.
    [cir] Projects that include long-term care or provision of any 
direct services.
    [cir] Projects that include tuition, fees, or stipends for 
certification or training of staff to provide direct services.
    [cir] Projects that include pre-planning, design, and planning of 
construction for facilities, including activities relating to program 
justification documents.
    [cir] Projects that propose more than one project type. Refer to 
Section II, ``Award Information,'' specifically ``Eligible TMG Project 
Types, Maximum Funding Levels and Project Periods'' for more 
information. An example of a proposal with more than one project type 
that would be considered ineligible may include the creation of a 
strategic health plan (defined by TMG as a planning project type) and 
improving third-party billing structures (defined by TMG as a health 
management structure project type). Multi-year applications that 
include in the first year planning, evaluation, or feasibility 
activities with the remainder of the project years addressing 
management structure are also deemed ineligible.
     Other Limitations--A current TMG recipient cannot be 
awarded a new, renewal, or competing continuation grant for any of the 
following reasons:
    [cir] The grantee will be administering two TMGs at the same time 
or have overlapping project/budget periods;
    [cir] The current project is not progressing in a satisfactory 
manner;
    [cir] The current project is not in compliance with program and 
financial reporting requirements; or
    [cir] The applicant has an outstanding delinquent Federal debt. No 
award shall be made until either:

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    [ssquf] The delinquent account is paid in full; or
    [ssquf] A negotiated repayment schedule is established and at least 
one payment is received.

    Dated: July 28, 2014.
Yvette Roubideaux,
Acting Director, Indian Health Service.
[FR Doc. 2014-18281 Filed 8-1-14; 8:45 am]
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