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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Assistant Secretary for Administration; Delegation of Authority

    Notice is hereby given that I have amended the delegation of 
authority 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), specifically 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 Act and section 212(1) of the 
Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, Public Law 116-94, 
division A, title II, (December 20, 2019) permit 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, through Fiscal Year 2021 from this date of 
signature to respond to current and any future Ebola, polio, and 
coronavirus outbreaks. This authority may not be further be 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 amended delegation became effective upon date of signature. In 
addition, I hereby affirm and ratify any actions taken by you or your 
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: February 7, 2020.
Alex M. Azar II,
Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services.
[FR Doc. 2020-02944 Filed 2-12-20; 8:45 am]
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