[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 2, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31385-31386]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-13330]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2015-N-0012]


The Food and Drug Administration's Education and Outreach Program 
Targeting School-Aged Children

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice; U48.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the 
availability of grant funds for the support of the Center for Food 
Safety and Applied Nutrition's (CFSAN) Education and Outreach Program 
Targeting School-Aged Children (U48). The goal of the Education and 
Outreach Program Targeting School-Aged Children (U48) is to support 
educational outreach programs targeting school-aged children which 
promotes FDA's mission. As part of FDA's mission to promote and protect 
public health, the educational program's mission is to perform outreach 
to schoolchildren using FDA-approved food safety and nutrition 
messages. This proposed cooperative agreement requires the supporting 
organization to provide teachers for one school year to extend CFSAN's 
outreach into schools.

DATES: The application due date is July 1, 2015, by 11:59 p.m. Eastern 
Time.

ADDRESSES: Submit electronic applications to: http://www.grants.gov. 
For more information, see section III of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION 
section of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Louise Dickerson, Center for Food 
Safety and Applied Nutrition, CPK1, Rm. 2C-006 (HFS-008), Food and Drug 
Administration, 5100 Paint Branch Pkwy., College Park, MD 20740, 240-
402-2129, email: [email protected]; or Kimberly Pendleton 
Chew, Office of Acquisition and Grant Services, FHSL, Rm. 2031, Food 
and Drug Administration, 5630 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 240-
402-7610, email: [email protected].
    For more information on this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) 
and to obtain detailed requirements, please refer to the full FOA 
located at http://www.grants.gov. Search by Funding Opportunity Number: 
RFA-FD-15-011.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Funding Opportunity Description

RFA-FD-15-011
93.103

A. Background

    This FOA is soliciting an application from the Graduate School USA 
to support and extend the education programs of the Education Team in 
the Office of Analytics and Outreach. As part of its mission to promote 
and protect public health, the Education Team is tasked to implement 
targeted education programs that reach school-aged children using FDA-
approved food safety and nutrition messages. This cooperative agreement 
requires the grantee to provide 37 teachers for one school year to 
extend CFSAN's reach into additional U.S. schools. The selected grantee 
must train and ensure that these 37 teachers will use the FDA 
curriculum Science and Our Food Supply (SOFS), which has been approved 
by FDA scientists. The grantee shall also guarantee that these teachers 
will use CFSAN's educational materials and, in turn, support and 
promote food safety and nutrition on a national scale.
    This cooperative agreement will support the commitment of 37 middle 
and high school teachers to implement the FDA-National Science Teachers 
Association (NSTA) supplementary food science curriculum SOFS, and 
includes one week of targeted training with this curriculum as the 
basis of instruction. It also includes a 1-day Enhancement Training 
session at the December NSTA Regional Conference. SOFS content is 
linked to specific national science education standards to help 
teachers integrate this content into their existing classroom 
materials. The course covers the latest research on food safety, food 
microbiology, epidemiology, and nutrition from FDA experts and 
scientists. These 37 teachers must conduct a train-the-teacher session 
for other science teachers in their area of the country on how to 
successfully use SOFS in their classrooms. To date, 620 teachers have 
completed the week-long program, reaching approximately 13,000 teachers 
and more than 7 million students across the country. Teachers in this 
program have represented all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the 
U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
    In recent years, CFSAN has added other training and online 
resources through the NSTA Learning Center, as well as FDA and Graduate 
School Web sites. The grantee shall assume the responsibilities of 
arranging print and electronic program advertisements to science 
teachers through science teacher journals, Web-based formats, and 
listservs (where appropriate). The grantee shall act as a National 
Training Coordinator for the year-round SOFS content delivery by 
teachers. In addition, the grantee shall oversee and coordinate 
exhibiting at one regional NSTA conference in the fall of 2015 and one 
national NSTA conference in spring 2016. The goal of this cooperative 
agreement is to provide continued support for this program, which 
requires around-the-calendar attention to cover the various stages of 
teacher primary training, in-school SOFS curriculum implementation, 
secondary training, and train-the-teacher programs, as well as to 
distribute food science education materials to teachers to promote 
student education in food safety and nutrition.

B. Research Objectives

    Specific objectives of this support are to:
     Provide 37 teachers from diverse U.S. schools a weeklong 
course in food science in the Washington, DC metropolitan area;
     distribute approved food science curricula and other 
materials for the train-the-teacher session and exhibit at the national 
NSTA and regional NSTA conferences; and

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     facilitate, identify, and prioritize technical assistance 
and development needs, develop strategic and project plans, and 
allocate resources to coordinate FDA training program components for 
U.S. teachers actively incorporating FDA's food safety and nutrition 
curriculum in their classrooms, as specified in the various training 
components of this proposed cooperative agreement.

C. Eligibility Information

    The following organization is eligible to apply: Graduate School 
USA.

II. Award Information/Funds Available

A. Award Amount

    The number of awards is contingent upon FDA appropriations and the 
submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. Future 
year amounts will depend on annual appropriations, availability of 
funding and awardee performance.
    FDA/CFSAN intends to fund up to $452,700.00 for fiscal year 2015 in 
support of this grant program. Application budgets need to reflect the 
actual needs of the proposed project and should not exceed the 
following in total costs (direct and indirect):

YR 1: $452,700
YR 2: $500,000
YR 3: $500,000
YR 4: $500,000
YR 5: $500,000

B. Length of Support

    The scope of the proposed project should determine the project 
period. The maximum project period is 5 years.

III. Electronic Application, Registration, and Submission

    Only electronic applications will be accepted. To submit an 
electronic application in response to this FOA, applicants should first 
review the full announcement located at http://www.grants.gov. Search 
by Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-FD-15-011. (FDA has verified the Web 
site addresses throughout this document, but FDA is not responsible for 
any subsequent changes to the Web sites after this document publishes 
in the Federal Register.) For all electronically submitted 
applications, the following steps are required.

 Step 1: Obtain a Dun and Bradstreet (DUNS) Number
 Step 2: Register With System for Award Management (SAM)
 Step 3: Obtain Username & Password
 Step 4: Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) 
Authorization
 Step 5: Track AOR Status
 Step 6: Register With Electronic Research Administration (eRA) 
Commons

    Steps 1 through 5, in detail, can be found at http://www07.grants.gov/applicants/organization_registration.jsp. Step 6, in 
detail, can be found at https://commons.era.nih.gov/commons/registration/registrationInstructions.jsp. After you have followed 
these steps, submit electronic applications to: http://www.grants.gov.

    Dated: May 28, 2015.
Leslie Kux,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2015-13330 Filed 6-1-15; 8:45 am]
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