33560 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 101 / Wednesday, May 24, 2000 / Notices

Dated: May 17, 2000.

Margaret M. Dotzel,

Acting Associate Commissioner for Policy.

[FR Doc. 00–12989 Filed 5–23–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–01–F

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services

Administration

AIDS Education and Training Centers’

National HIV/AIDS Clinical

Consultation Center Grant

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services

Administration.

ACTION: Notice of availability of funds.

SUMMARY: The Health Resources and

Services Administration’s (HRSA) HIV/

AIDS Bureau (HAB) announces that

applications will be accepted for fiscal

year (FY) 2000 grants for a discretionary

grant to support an AIDS Education and

Training Centers’ National Clinical

Consultation Center. The Center will be

responsible for assisting medical

providers in the treatment of persons

with HIV infection and in management

of health care workers who may have

sustained occupational exposure to HIV

and other blood borne pathogens

commonly occurring in persons living

with HIV infection (including Hepatitis

B and C) through prompt,

individualized, expert consultation. The

Center will also link service users to

education and training opportunities

available through regional AIDS

Education and Training Centers and

provide technical assistance to these

regional centers. The authority for this

program is 2692 (a) of the Public Health

Service Act as amended by Public Law

104–146, the Ryan White

Comprehensive AIDS Resources

Emergency Act Amendments of 1996.

Availability of Funds

It is anticipated that a single recipient

will be selected for the National HIV/

AIDS Clinical Consultation Center and

the award is expected to be $1,500,000

of the initial budget period. Funding

will be made available for 12 months,

with a project period of up to three

years. Continuation awards within the

approved project period will be made

on the basis of satisfactory progress and

the availability of funds.

Eligible Applicants

Eligible applicants are public and

nonprofit entities and schools and

academic health science centers.

DATES: A letter of intent to submit an

application is requested by June 14,

2000. Applications for this announced

grant must be received in the HRSA

Grants Application Center by the close

of business July 10, 2000, to be

considered for competition.

Applications shall be considered as

meeting the deadline if they are: (1)

Received on or before the deadline date,

or (2) postmarked on or before the

deadline date and received in time for

orderly processing and submission to

the review committee. (Applicants

should request a legibly dated receipt

from a commercial carrier or U.S. Postal

Service postmark. Private metered

postmarks shall not be acceptable as

proof of timely mailing.) Applications

received after the deadline will be

returned to the applicant.

ADDRESSES: Letters of intent to apply for

funding should be mailed to Dr. Laura

Cheever, HIV Education Branch, HRSA,

5600 Fishers Lane, Parklawn Building,

Rm 7–16, Rockville, Maryland 20857.

All applications should be mailed or

delivered to: Grants Management

Officer, HRSA Grants Application

Center, 1815 N. Fort Meyer Drive, Suite

300, Arlington, VA 22209. Grant

applications sent to any address other

than that above are subject to being

returned. Federal Register notices and

application guidance for the HIV/AIDS

Bureau program are available on the

World Wide Web via the Internet. The

web site for the HIV/AIDS Bureau is:

http://www.hrsa.gov/hab/. Federal grant

application kits are available at the

following Internet address: http://

forms.psc.gov/phsforms.htm. For those

applicants who are unable to access

application materials electronically, a

hard copy of the official grant

application kit (SF 5161) must be

obtained from the HRSA Grants

Application Center. The Center may be

contacted by (telephone, 1–877–477–

2123) FAX: (703–477–2345) e-mail:

hrsagac@hrsa.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Additional information may be obtained

from Dr. Laura W. Cheever, Chief, HIV

Education Branch, Division of Training

and Technical Assistance, HIV/AIDS

Bureau, Health Resources and Services

Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane,

Room 7–16, Rockville, Maryland 20857.

Telephone number (301) 443–6364 and

the FAX: (301) 443–9887.

Dated: May 17, 2000.

Claude Earl Fox,

Administrator.

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BILLING CODE 4160–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services

Administration

‘‘Low-Income’’ Levels for Health

Professions and Nursing Programs

Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA) is updating

income levels used to identify a ‘‘lowincome family’’ for the purpose of

providing training in the various health

professions and nursing programs

included in titles VII and VIII of the

Public Health Service Act (the Act).

The Department periodically

publishes in the Federal Register lowincome levels used for grants and

cooperative agreements to institutions

providing training for (1) disadvantaged

individuals, (2) individuals from a

disadvantaged background, or (3)

individuals from low-income families.

The program under the Act that may

use ‘‘low-income levels’’ as one of the

factors in determining a disadvantaged

or low-income status are:

Advanced Education Nursing (section

811)

Allied Health Special Projects (section

755)

Basic Nurse Education and Practice

(section 831)

Dental Public Health (section 768)

Faculty Loan Repayment and

Fellowships Program (section 738)

General and Pediatric Dentistry (section

747)

Health Administration Traineeships and

Special Projects (section 769)

Health Careers Opportunity Program

(section 739)

Loans to Disadvantaged Students

(section 724)

Physician Assistant Training (section

747)

Primary Care Residency Training

(section 747)

Public Health Traineeships (section 767)

Quentin N. Burdick Program for Rural

Interdisciplinary Training (section

754)

Residency Training in Preventive

Medicine (section 768)

Scholarships for Disadvantaged

Students (section 737)

Public Health Training Centers (section

766)

Nursing Workforce Diversity (section

821)

These programs generally award

grants to accredited schools of

medicine, osteopathic medicine, public

health, dentistry, veterinary medicine,

optometry, pharmacy, allied health,

Pediatric medicine, nursing,

chiropractic, public or nonprofit private