[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 33 (Monday, February 22, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10588-10589]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-03526]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Sixth Amendment to Declaration Under the Public Readiness and 
Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human 
Services.

ACTION: Notice, correction.

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SUMMARY: This document corrects one technical error that appeared in 
the final notice published in the Federal Register on February 2, 2021 
entitled ``Fifth Amendment to Declaration Under the Public Readiness 
and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against 
COVID-19'' and two technical errors that appeared in the final notice 
published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 
entitled ``Sixth Amendment to Declaration Under the Public Readiness 
and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against 
COVID-19.''

DATES: The correction to the final notice entitled ``Fifth Amendment to 
Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act 
for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19'' is effective February 2, 
2021 and the corrections to the final notice entitled ``Sixth Amendment 
to Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness 
Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19'' are effective 
February 16, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: L. Paige Ezernack, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Office of the 
Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence 
Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201; 202-260-0365, [email protected].

Corrections

    1. Correction to final notice published in the Federal Register on 
February 2, 2021 entitled ``Fifth Amendment to Declaration Under the 
Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical 
Countermeasures Against COVID-19.
    Amendments to the Declaration, section 2, Effective Time Period, 
section XII; the sentence is corrected to read: ``add to the end of the 
section: Liability protections for Qualified Persons under sections 
V(f) and V(g) of the declaration begin on February 2, 2021, and last 
through October 1, 2024.
    2. Corrections to final notice published in the Federal Register on 
Tuesday, February 16, 2021, entitled ``Sixth Amendment to Declaration 
Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical 
Countermeasures Against COVID-19.
    Amendments to the Declaration, section 1, subsection V(h) is 
amended to read:
    (h) Any member of a uniformed service (including members of the 
National Guard in a Title 32 duty status) (hereafter in this paragraph 
``service member'') or Federal government, employee, contractor, or 
volunteer who prescribes, administers, delivers, distributes or 
dispenses a Covered Countermeasure. Such Federal government service 
members, employees, contractors, or volunteers are qualified persons if 
the following requirement is met: The executive department or agency by 
or for which the Federal service member, employee, contractor, or 
volunteer is employed, contracts, or volunteers has authorized or could 
authorize that service member, employee, contractor, or volunteer to 
prescribe, administer, deliver, distribute, or dispense the Covered 
Countermeasure as any part of the duties or responsibilities of that 
service member, employee, contractor, or volunteer, even if those 
authorized duties or responsibilities ordinarily would not extend to 
members of the

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public or otherwise would be more limited in scope than the activities 
such service member, employees, contractors, or volunteers are 
authorized to carry out under this declaration.
    Amendments to the Declaration, section 2, Effective Time Period, 
section XII; the sentence is corrected to read: ``add to the end of the 
section: Liability protections for Qualified Persons under section V(h) 
of the declaration begin on February 16, 2021, and last through October 
1, 2024.

Wilma Robinson,
Deputy Executive Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human 
Services.
[FR Doc. 2021-03526 Filed 2-19-21; 8:45 am]
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