Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 184 / Thursday, September 24, 2009 / Notices 48751 

Dated: September 15, 2009. 

Maryam Daneshvar, 

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

[FR Doc. E9–23026 Filed 9–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4163–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Health Resources and Services 

Administration 

Notice of Non-Competitive Award of 

Funding to the Communities 

Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief 

(CAEAR) Coalition Foundation, Inc 

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services 

Administration (HRSA), HHS. 

ACTION: Notice of Non-Competitive 

Award of Funding to the Communities 

Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief 

(CAEAR) Coalition Foundation, Inc. 

SUMMARY: This Federal Register Notice 

announces the non-competitive 

extension of Grant Number 

U69HA07626, Supporting Networks of 

HIV Care by Enhancing Primary Medical 

Care (SNHC by EPMC), to the CAEAR 

Coalition Foundation, Inc., the awardee 

of record, for one additional year, 

through August 31, 2010, at a funding 

level of approximately $1,451,445. The 

purpose of the award extension is to 

allow for the completion of ongoing 

work and an external evaluation 

assessment of the project’s activities 

undertaken during the project period of 

September 1, 2006, through August 31, 

2009, before a new competitive cycle is 

started. Evaluation findings will help 

HRSA frame a new competitive 

opportunity in fiscal year (FY) 2010. 

The authority for this funding is the 

Public Health Service Act, section 2692, 

42 U.S.C. § 300ff–111, as amended by 

the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment 

Modernization Act of 2006 (Pub. L. 109– 

415); it can be viewed under the Catalog 

for Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) 

Number 93.145. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: HRSA’s 

HIV/AIDS Bureau’s (HAB), Division of 

Training and Technical Assistance 

(DTTA), awarded the current awardee 

non-competitive funding for FY 2009 for 

a fourth and final project year 

September 1, 2009, through August 31, 

2010, in the amount of $1,451,445, 

which represents $2,085,822 less than 

awarded in fiscal year FY 2008 for year 

three activities. 

The SNHC by EPMC is solely funded 

by the Secretary of Health and Human 

Services’ Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) 

and utilizes innovative strategies and 

activities specifically targeted to the 

highest risk and hardest-to-serve 

minority populations and communities 

of color. The SNHC by EPMC is a 

national technical assistance (TA) and 

capacity building project with the goal 

to ensure providers’ ability to serve 

ethnic/racial minority communities; 

enable providers to adapt to an 

environment of few resources, rising 

costs, and growing HIV/AIDS 

prevalence; integrate new providers into 

systems of HIV care; and identify and 

deliver best practices and clinical 

guidelines to ultimately improve the 

lives of those impacted by HIV/AIDS. 

Owing to unanticipated changes and 

delays in initiating the originally 

proposed projected activities and the 

evaluation of the program, additional 

time and resources are necessary to 

conclude the proposed activities and the 

external evaluation of the project’s 

activities. This evaluation and 

assessment, to be completed between 

September 1, 2009, and November 30, 

2009, are critical to HRSA in developing 

a new competitive opportunity in fiscal 

year (FY) 2010 that more specifically 

targets the needs of primary care 

organizations that treat individuals with 

HIV/AIDS, and provides more refined 

approaches to the conduct of technical 

assistance and training that supports 

and sustains such organizations. 

By non-competitively awarding funds 

to the current grantee, CAEAR Coalition 

Foundation, Inc., in the fourth year, the 

external evaluation will be able to take 

into account the complete collection of 

case studies and provide a metaanalysis, thereby furthering the 

Agency’s understanding of capacity 

needs of HIV service providers and 

allowing for better targeted future 

funding decisions. Given the 

importance and visibility of this 

departmental initiative, it is critical that 

this project be assessed and evolve in a 

manner that addresses the ever changing 

HIV epidemic and its impact on 

marginalized populations and the safety 

net providers that serve them. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lauresa T. Washington, Health 

Resources and Services Administration, 

HIV/AIDS Bureau, 5600 Fishers Lane, 

Room 7–29, Rockville, Maryland 20857, 

or e-mail 

Lauresa.Washington@hrsa.hhs.gov. 

Dated: September 17, 2009. 

Mary K. Wakefield, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E9–23010 Filed 9–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4165–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Indian Health Service 

FY 2010 Special Diabetes Program for 

Indians; Community-Directed Grant 

Program 

Announcement Type: New/ 

Competing Continuation. 

Funding Opportunity Number: HHS– 

2010–IHS–SDPI–0001. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Number: 93.237. 

Key Dates 

Application Deadline: October 20, 

2009. 

Review Date: November 2–4, 2009. 

Earliest Anticipated Start Date: 

November 16, 2009. 

Other information: This 

announcement will be open throughout 

Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 based on existing 

budget cycles. Refer to application 

instructions for additional details. This 

current announcement targets grantees 

that currently operate under a budget 

cycle that begins on October 1. 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

Statutory Authority 

The Indian Health Service (IHS) is 

accepting grant applications for the FY 

2010 Special Diabetes Program for 

Indians (SDPI) Community-Directed 

grant program. This competitive grant 

announcement is open to all existing 

SDPI grantees that have an active grant 

in place and are in compliance with the 

previous terms and conditions of the 

grant. This program is authorized under 

HR 6331 ‘‘Medicare Improvement for 

Patients and Providers Act of 2008’’ 

(Section 303 of Pub. L. 110–275) and the 

Snyder Act, 25 U.S.C. 13. The program 

is described in the Catalog of Federal 

Domestic Assistance (CDFA) under 

93.437. 

Overview 

The SDPI seeks to support diabetes 

treatment and prevention activities for 

American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) 

communities. Grantees will implement 

programs based on identified diabetesrelated community needs. Activities 

will be targeted to reduce the risk of 

diabetes in at-risk individuals, provide 

services that target those with new onset 

diabetes, provide high quality care to 

those with diagnosed diabetes, and/or 

reduce the complications of diabetes. 

The purpose of the FY 2010 SDPI 

Community-Directed grant program is to 

support diabetes treatment and 

prevention programs that have a 

program plan which integrates at least 


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