[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 73110]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-29866]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services Administration
Health Center Program
AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice of Noncompetitive Replacement Awards to Upper Room AIDS
Ministry, Inc.
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SUMMARY: The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) will
transfer Health Center Program (section 330 of the Public Health
Service Act) Increased Demand for Services (IDS) and Capital
Improvement Project (CIP) funds, awarded under the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), originally awarded to Harlem United
Community AIDS Center, Inc. (HUCAC) to Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc.
to ensure the provision of critical primary health care services and
continuity of services to low-income, underserved homeless patients in
New York City.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Former Grantee of Record: Harlem United Community AIDS Center, Inc.
Original Period of Grant Support: March 27, 2009, to March 26, 2011
(IDS) and June 29, 2009, to June 28, 2011 (CIP).
Replacement Awardee: Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc.
Amount of Replacement Award: $103,317 (IDS) and $262,740 (CIP).
Period of Replacement Award: The period of support for the
replacement awards is March 27, 2009 to March 26, 2011 (IDS) and June
29, 2009 to June 28, 2011 (CIP).
Authority: Section 330(h) of the Public Health Service Act, 42
U.S.C. 245b.
CDFA Number: 93.703
Justification for Exception to Competition: Under the original
grant applications approved by HRSA, Harlem United Community AIDS
Center, Inc. (HUCAC) was identified as the grantee of record. HUCAC had
a subrecipient agreement in place with Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc.,
a HUCAC-subsidiary organization. Through this arrangement, Upper Room
AIDS Ministry, Inc. provided all services and carried out the full
scope of project for the homeless program. Instead of continuing this
agreement, both organizations decided that Upper Room AIDS Ministry,
Inc. should become the direct grantee recipient for the ARRA IDS and
CIP grants. Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc. competed successfully for
fiscal year 2010 Service Areas Competition funding and has become the
direct grant recipient of the health center homeless grant. HUCAC and
the Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc. requested that full responsibility
for the grants be transferred from HUCAC to Upper Room AIDS Ministry.
Upper Room AIDS Ministry has provided documentation to HRSA that it
meets Section 330 statutory and regulatory requirements as well as
applicable grant management requirements.
The transfer of these grants will ensure critical primary health
care services continue and remain available to low income, underserved
homeless populations with no interruption in services to the target
population. Transferring the funds to Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc.
does not materially change the projects as originally proposed and
funded. Upper Room AIDS Ministry, Inc. will fulfill the expectations of
the former grantee's originally funded IDS and CIP grant applications.
In order to ensure that critical primary health care services continue
to be available to the original target population in a timely manner,
these ARRA CIP and IDS awards will not be competed.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Marquita Cullom-Stott via e-mail at
[email protected] or 301-594-4300.
Dated: November 19, 2010.
Mary K. Wakefield,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2010-29866 Filed 11-26-10; 8:45 am]
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