[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 70 (Thursday, April 12, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18480-18481]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-6877]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration on Aging


Availability of Funding Opportunity Announcement; Alzheimer's 
Disease Demonstration Grants to States (ADDGS) Program

    Announcement Type: Initial Announcement.
    Funding Opportunity Number: HHS-2007-AoA-AZ-0703.
    Statutory Authority: Sec. 398 of the Public Health Service Act 
(Pub. L. 78-410; 42 U.S.C. 280c-3), amended by the Home Health Care and 
Alzheimer's Disease Amendments of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-557) and by the 
Health Professions Education Partnerships Act of 1998 (Pub. L. 105-
392).
    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 93.051, 
Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States (ADDGS) Program.
    Dates: The deadline date for the submission of applications is May 
14, 2007.

I. Funding Opportunity Description

    This announcement seeks proposals for the ADDGS Program's mission 
to expand the availability of diagnostic and support services for 
persons with Alzheimer's disease, their families, and their caregivers, 
as well as improve the responsiveness of the home and community based 
care system to persons with dementia. The program focuses on serving 
hard-to-reach and underserved people with Alzheimer's disease or 
related disorders (ADRD). A detailed description of the funding 
opportunity may be found at http://www.aoa.gov/doingbus/fundopp/fundopp.asp.

II. Award Information

    1. Funding Instrument Type: Grant.
    2. Anticipated Total Priority Area Funding per Budget Period. AoA 
intends to make available, under this program announcement, grant 
awards for up to twenty-three (23) projects at a federal share of 
approximately $250,000-$325,000 for one year.

III. Eligibility Criteria and Other Requirements

1. Eligible Applicants

    This is a limited grant competition. Eligibility for grant awards 
is limited to agencies of State Government; only one application per 
state will be funded. These 1-year grant options are available to all 
States that will not be receiving ADDGS funds as of July 1, 2007 or 
operating under a no-cost extension as of July 1, 2007.

2. Cost Sharing or Matching

    Under this program, AoA will fund no more than 75 percent of the 
project's total cost. Grantees are required to provide at least 25 
percent of the total program costs from non-federal cash or in-kind 
resources in order to be considered for the award.

3. DUNS Number

    [All grant applicants must obtain a D-U-N-S number from Dun and 
Bradstreet. It is a nine-digit identification number, which provides 
unique identifiers of single business entities. The D-U-N-S number is 
free and easy to obtain from http://www.dnb.com/US/duns_update/]

4. Intergovernmental Review

    Executive Order 12372, Intergovernmental Review of Federal 
Programs, is not applicable to these grant applications.

IV. Application and Submission Information

Address To Request Application

    Application materials are available online at http://www.grants.gov.

1. Submission Requirements

    Applications must be submitted electronically to http://www.grants.gov. In order to be able to submit the application, you must 
register in the Central Contractor Registry (CCR) database. Information 
about CCR is available at http://www.grants.gov/CCRRegister.

2. Submission Dates and Times

    To receive consideration, applications must be submitted 
electronically by midnight, Eastern time, by the deadline listed in the 
``Dates'' section of this Notice.

V. Responsiveness Criteria

    Each application submitted will be screened to determine whether it 
was received by the closing date and time.
    Applications received by the closing date and time will be screened 
for completeness and conformity with the requirements outlined in 
Sections III and IV of this Notice and the Program Announcement. Only 
complete applications that meet these requirements will be reviewed and 
evaluated competitively.

VI. Application Review Information

    Eligible applications in response to this announcement will be 
reviewed according to the following evaluation criteria: Purpose and 
Need for Assistance (10 points); Approach/

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Method--Workplan and Activities (40 points); Outcomes/Benefits/Impacts 
(25 points); and Level of Effort, Program Management, Organizational 
Capacity (25 points).

VII. Agency Contacts

    Direct inquiries regarding programmatic issues to U.S. Department 
of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging, Office of 
Community-Based Services, Washington, DC 20201, telephone: 202-357-
3452.

    Dated: April 6, 2007.
Josefina G. Carbonell,
Assistant Secretary for Aging.
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