[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 186 (Wednesday, September 25, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50457-50458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-20840]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Assistant Secretary for Administration; Delegation of Authority

    Notice is hereby given that I have delegated to the Assistant 
Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR); the Director, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); the Administrator, Health 
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA); the Director, National 
Institutes for Health (NIH); the Director, Office of Global Affairs 
(OGA); and the Administrator, Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
Services Administration (SAMHSA) the authority vested in the Secretary 
by section 212(l) of the Department of Defense and Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education Appropriations Act, 2019 and Continuing 
Appropriations Act, 2019 (FY 19 HHS Appropriations Act) Public Law 115-
245, division B, title II, (September 28, 2018), or substantially 
similar authorities vested in me in the future by Congress, in order to 
carry out international health activities, including HIV/AIDS and other 
infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health 
activities abroad. Section 212(l) of the FY19 HHS Appropriations

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Act permits the Secretary of HHS to exercise authority equivalent to 
that available to the Secretary of State under 22 U.S.C. 2669(c) to 
award personal services contracts for work performed in foreign 
countries.
    The authority delegated herein includes the authority to determine 
the necessity of negotiating, executing, and performing such contracts 
without regard to statutory provisions as relate to the negotiation, 
making, and performance of contracts and performance of work in the 
United States. This authority is immediately revoked in the event that 
any subsequent fiscal year HHS appropriations act does not contain the 
provision currently in section 212(1) or substantially similar 
authority.
    The Director, CDC may redelegate this authority to the Chief 
Operating Officer, CDC for a period of one (1) year from the effective 
date of this delegation to respond to the current Ebola outbreak. This 
authority may not be further redelegated except as noted above.
    The delegatees shall consult with the Secretary of State and 
relevant Chief of Mission to ensure that this authority is exercised in 
a manner consistent with section 207 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
and other applicable statutes administered by the Department of State.
    This delegation became effective upon date of signature. In 
addition, I hereby affirm and ratify any actions taken by the 
delegatees or their subordinates which involved the exercise of the 
authorities delegated herein, or substantially similar authorities 
vested in me by prior annual HHS appropriations acts, prior to the 
effective date of the delegation.

    Dated: September 19, 2019.
Alex M. Azar II,
Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services.
[FR Doc. 2019-20840 Filed 9-24-19; 8:45 am]
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