[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 70 (Tuesday, April 12, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 20354]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-8651]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Notice of Intent To Award Supplemental Affordable Care Act
Funding
Notice of Intent to award supplemental Affordable Care Act funding
to support enhancement of an existing laboratory fellowship training
program through funding opportunity CDC-RFA-HM10-1001, ``APHL--CDC
Partnership for Quality Laboratory Practice'' cooperative agreement.
AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice provides public announcement of CDC's intent to
use Affordable Care Act (ACA) appropriations to expand the Emerging
Infectious Diseases (EID) Laboratory Fellowship Program currently
supported through Funding Opportunity CDC-RFA-HM10-1001, ``APHL-CDC
Partnership for Quality Laboratory Practice.'' Funding is appropriated
under the Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148), Title IV, Section 4002
(Prevention and Public Health Fund). In addition, Under Section 5314,
Fellowship Training in Public Health (Part E of title VII of the Public
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 294n et seq., as amended by section 5206,
is further amended by Sec. 778), CDC is authorized to expand existing
fellowship training programs in the critical areas of applied public
health epidemiology, public health laboratory science and public health
informatics. The CFDA Number for this funding opportunity is 93.065.
CDC will add the following ACA Authority to that which is reflected
in the published Funding Opportunity CDC-RFA-HM10-1001:
Authority: Funding is appropriated under the Affordable Care Act
(Pub. L. 111-148), Title IV, Section 4002 (Prevention and Public
Health Fund). In addition, Under Section 5314, Fellowship Training
in Public Health (Part E of title VII of the Public Health Service
Act (42 U.S.C. 294n et seq., as amended by section 5206, is further
amended by Sec. 778), CDC is authorized to expand existing
fellowship training programs in the critical areas of applied public
health epidemiology, public health laboratory science and public
health informatics.
Reporting Requirements
Recipients of the ACA funds through this funding opportunity are
required to comply with the reporting requirements, terms and
conditions set forth in the published version of Funding Opportunity
CDC-RFA-HM10-1001.
Award Information:
Type of Award: Cooperative Agreement.
Approximate Current Fiscal Year Funding: $1,000,000 in Affordable
Care Act (ACA) Funding.
Anticipated Number of Awards: 1.
Anticipated Award Date: July 1, 2011.
Fiscal Year Funds: 2011.
DATES: The effective date for this action is April 12, 2011 and remains
in effect until the expiration of the project period of the PPHF ACA
funded application.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elmira Benson, Acting Deputy Director,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2920 Brandywine Road,
Atlanta, GA 30341, telephone (770) 488-2802, e-mail
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 23, 2010, the President signed into
law the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Public Law 111-148. ACA is designed
to improve and expand the scope of health care coverage for Americans.
Cost savings through disease prevention is an important element of this
legislation and ACA has established a Prevention and Public Health Fund
(PPHF) for this purpose. Specifically, the legislation states in
Section 4002 that the PPHF is to ``provide for expanded and sustained
national investment in prevention and public health programs to improve
health and help restrain the rate of growth in private and public
sector health care costs.'' In addition, under Section 5314, Fellowship
training in public health (Part E of title VII of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 294n et seq., as amended by section 5206, is
further amended by Sec. 778), CDC is authorized to expand existing
fellowship training programs in the critical areas of applied public
health epidemiology, public health laboratory science and public health
informatics. Supplemental ACA funding, as referenced in this notice,
will enhance the work of national, state and local public health
laboratories in the U.S. through expansion of the Emerging Infectious
Diseases (EID) Laboratory Fellowship Program. The EID Fellowship,
sponsored by the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and
CDC and funded through a cooperative agreement with APHL, trains and
prepares scientists for careers in public health laboratories and
supports public health initiatives related to infectious disease
research. The program aims to promote quality public health laboratory
practice, improve public health laboratory infrastructure, strengthen
the public health laboratory system, and develop a well-trained public
health laboratory workforce. Activities that promote the development of
a well-trained public health laboratory workforce are outlined in
section 10 of the cooperative agreement. Therefore, the programmatic
activities CDC proposes to support with these ACA funds are consistent
with the intent of the Affordable Care Act and Prevention and Public
Health Fund (PPHF), Section 4002.
Dated: March 25, 2011.
Tanja Popovic,
Deputy Associate Director for Science, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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