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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

National Partnerships for Human

Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

Prevention With a Focus on Business

and Labor, Youth-at-High Risk, and

Migrant Workers

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health

and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC)

announces the availability of fiscal year

(FY) 2001 funds. CDC will provide

approximately $2.2 million dollars to

support a technical assistance and

leadership program for National

Partnerships for Human

Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

Prevention. This program addresses the

‘‘Healthy People 2010’’ focus areas of

HIV Prevention, Educational and

Community-Based Programs, and

Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

The purpose of this announcement is

to request comments on this proposed

program. After consideration of

comments submitted, CDC will publish

a program announcement to solicit

applications. A more complete

description of the program goals,

eligible applicants, availability of funds,

program requirements, and evaluation

criteria follow.

DATES: The public is invited to submit

comments by December 11, 2000.

ADDRESS: Submit your comments to and

obtain additional information from:

Technical Information and

Communications Branch, National

Center for HIV, STD, and TB

Prevention, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC), 1600

Clifton Road, NE Mail Stop E49,

Atlanta, GA 30333, Fax (404) 639–

2007, E-mail: HIVMAIL@CDC.GOV,

Telephone (404) 639–2072

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Purpose

The purpose of the program is to

develop local, regional, state, and

national leadership and support for HIV

prevention programs and policies. It is

also to provide technical assistance and

service delivery in support of capacity

building and skills development for

community-based organizations, State

and local health departments, and other

organizations conducting HIV

prevention activities at the local,

regional, state, and national levels. This

announcement is intended to help

address gaps in leadership and technical

assistance in the development and

delivery of HIV prevention services.

For the purpose of this

announcement, the following

definitions apply:

Leadership activities are defined as

the development of communication and

mobilization strategies including

network development, partnership

formation and coalition building, to

raise and maintain community as well

as national awareness of HIV prevention

needs and programs in specified

populations. Leadership activities may

also include developing and

implementing strategies for needs

assessments, policy analysis and service

integration in collaboration with the

private sector, federal partners, health

departments, community-based

organizations and community planning

groups.

Technical Assistance activities are

defined as the provision of information

and skills and consultation and training

for individuals and organizations to

improve the delivery and effectiveness

of HIV prevention interventions. Service

delivery activities may also be included

under the technical assistance activity.

Technical Assistance funds available

under this announcement must support

assistance that improves the capacity of

recipient agencies to design, develop,

implement, and/or evaluate effective

HIV prevention interventions for one or

more of the three populations described

below.

Eligible Applicants

To be eligible for funding under this

announcement, applicants must be (1) a

tax-exempt, non-profit national business

or labor related, youth related, or

migrant worker related organization,

whose net earnings in no part accrue to

the benefit of any private shareholder or

person; or (2) an academic institution

working in collaboration with such

organizations; or (3) a federally

recognized Indian tribal government, a

non-federally recognized tribe or other

organization that qualifies under the

Indian Civil Rights Act, State Charter

Tribes, Urban Indian Health Programs,

Indian Health Boards, and/or InterTribal Councils. Proof of tax-exempt

status must be provided with the

application. CDC will not accept an

application without proof of tax-exempt

status. Tax-exempt status is determined

by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Code, Section 501(c). Tax-exempt status

may be proved by either providing a

copy of the pages from the IRS’ most

recent list of 501(c) tax-exempt

organizations or a copy of the current

IRS Determination Letter.

Note: Public Law 104–65 states that an

organization described in section 501(c)(4) of

the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 that

engages in lobbying activities is not eligible

to receive Federal funds constituting an

award, grant, cooperative agreement,

contract, loan, or any other form.

Below Is Additional Eligibility Criteria

for Each Category

Category I—Business- or Labor-Related

Organization Programs

A. A business- or labor-related

organization is a non-profit, professional

or voluntary organization, that (1) has

businesses, business leaders, or labor

leaders as a focus or constituency; or (2)

is a labor union; or (3) is a trade

association. In addition, the

organization (4) has a formal or informal

network, chapters, affiliates, constituent

organizations, or offices in at least two

U.S. States or territories; and (5) has

access to national or regional corporate,

business, union, or labor leaders and

managers (e.g., human resource

managers). For example, a labor union

with chapters in at least two States

would meet the definition of a national

business- or labor-related organization,

whereas an individual State chapter of

a national labor union would not.

B. Has a documented two-year record

of providing technical assistance or

leadership activities focusing on HIV

prevention with business and labor

organizations and their employees or

members.

Category II—Youth-Related

Organization Programs

A. A youth-related organization is a

non-profit organization that has youth,

and/or service providers who work with

youth, as a focus or constituency. The

organization must have a formal or

informal network, chapters, affiliates,

constituent organizations, or offices in

at least two U.S. States or territories. For

example, an agency with a linked

network of youth-serving providers with

members residing in at least two States

or Territories would meet the definition

of a youth-related organization, whereas

an individual chapter of a national

organization would not.

B. Has a documented two-year record

of providing technical assistance,

prevention services and/or leadership

activities focusing on HIV prevention

for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual,

Transgendered and Questioning

(GLBTQ) youth, homeless/run-away or

street youth, and/or young women of

color.

C. Has a young person, age 24 or

younger from the target population, on

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the Board that oversees programmatic

activities, or has an Advisory Committee

to the Board that is made up of young

people age 24 or younger from the target

population.

Category III—Migrant Worker-Related

Programs

A. A migrant worker-related

organization is a non-profit organization

that has migrant workers and/or the

service providers who work with

migrant workers, as a focus or

constituency. The organization must

have a formal or informal network,

chapters, affiliates, constituent

organizations, or offices in at least two

U.S. States or territories. For example,

an agency with a linked network of

migrant worker-serving providers with

members residing in at least two States

or Territories would meet the definition

of a migrant farm worker-related

organization, whereas an individual

chapter of a national organization would

not.

B. Has a documented two-year record

of providing culturally tailored

technical assistance or leadership

activities focusing on HIV prevention

for migrant workers.

Availability of Funds

Approximately $2.2 million is

available in FY 2001 to fund

approximately nine awards. It is

expected that the average award will be

$225,000, ranging from $200,000 to

$300,000. It is expected that the awards

will begin on or about April 1, 2001,

and will be made for a 12-month budget

period within a project period of up to

three years. Funding estimates may

change.

Funding Preferences

Preference for funding in all

categories will be given to:

1. Ensuring that leadership

development and/or technical

assistance is available to the designated

target populations as a primary focus;

and

2. Addresses gaps in current national/

regional or local technical assistance

services (gaps may be defined by

geography; target population, race/

ethnicity, risk behavior; or intervention

type).

Additional Funding Preferences by

Category

Preference for funding will be given to

ensuring the following:

Category I—Business and Labor

That both business and labor

organizations are funded in at least one

of the two designated activities.

Category II—Youth

That recipients, under the leadership

activity, address a variety of strategies

and/or programs to raise awareness and

stimulate HIV prevention intervention

development in youth serving

organizations that have, as a primary

focus, the designated at-risk

populations.

That recipients, under the technical

assistance activity, use a variety of

intervention types (e.g. small group

interventions, counseling and testing,

prevention case management) and/or

other proven interventions identified in

the CDC Compendium of Effective

Programs, titled, ‘‘Compendium of HIV

Prevention Interventions with Evidence

of Effectiveness’’ November 1999, CDC

Prevention Research Synthesis to reach

the designated population (e.g. young

women of color, GLBTQ youth,

runaway, homeless, or street youth).

Category III—Migrant Workers

That recipients, under the leadership

activity, address a variety of strategies

and/or programs to raise awareness and

stimulate HIV prevention intervention

development in migrant worker-serving

organizations, and that recipients under

the technical assistance activity use a

variety of intervention types (e.g. small

group interventions, counseling and

testing, prevention case management);

and/or other strategies and interventions

that are proven to be effective in

providing services to the designated

community.

Program Requirements

Recipients in all categories must

conduct the following activities:

a. Incorporate cultural competency

and linguistic appropriateness into all

technical assistance and skills building

efforts, including those involving the

development, production,

dissemination, and marketing of health

communication or prevention messages;

b. Use epidemiologic data, behavioral

research, and program evaluation, to

inform technical assistance and

intervention development which meet

the needs of the designated populations;

c. Coordinate program activities with

relevant public sector partners,

including national, regional, State, and

local HIV prevention programs to

prevent duplication of efforts;

d. Review and ensure consistency

with applicable State and local

comprehensive HIV prevention

community plans when conducting

program activities at the State and local

levels;

e. Facilitate the dissemination of

successful prevention interventions and

program models through meetings,

workshops, conferences, and

communications with project officers;

f. Compile ‘‘lessons learned’’ from the

project and share these with the CDC;

g. Monitor and conduct process

evaluation of all major program

activities and services supported with

CDC HIV prevention funds under this

cooperative agreement; and

h. Submit CDC forms for initiating

and completing technical assistance

services. Forms will be provided by

CDC.

Category I—Business- or Labor-Related

Organization Programs—Recipient

Activities

Activity A—Leadership Activities

1. Develop and promote, at the

national, State, and local levels and,

when appropriate, at the international

level, leadership in and support for HIV

prevention policies and strategies, that

promote private-public partnerships to

enhance HIV/AIDS awareness and

prevention;

2. Influence and strengthen, at the

national, State, and local levels and,

when appropriate, at the international

level, private sector engagement in

shaping societal and community norms

that dispel HIV/AIDS stigma, reduce

discrimination against persons with

HIV/AIDS, and facilitate HIV prevention

by encouraging the adoption and

maintenance of safer behaviors;

3. Support the private sector

development of policies and programs

addressing HIV/AIDS and HIV

prevention education in the workplace

at the national, State, regional, local

and, when appropriate, international

levels.

Activity B—Technical Assistance

Activities

1. Provide businesses and businessand labor-related organizations with

technical assistance related to:

• Adopting and implementing

appropriate CDC-recommended policies

on HIV/AIDS in the workplace

• Educating managers and labor

leaders about these policies

• Educating workers about HIV/AIDS

in the workplace

• Educating workers and their

families about HIV prevention, and

• Contributing to community efforts

to control HIV transmission;

2. Facilitate State and local HIV

prevention community planning groups,

health departments, CBOs, and other

HIV prevention providers in working

with business, labor, and business- and

labor-related organizations to strengthen

and promote HIV prevention efforts in

the community;

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3. Facilitate business, labor and

business- and labor-related

organizations in working with State and

local HIV prevention community

planning groups, health departments,

CBOs, and other HIV prevention

providers to strengthen and promote

HIV prevention efforts in the

community.

Category II—Youth-Related

Organization Programs—Recipient

Activities

Activity A—Leadership

1. Develop and promote, at the

national, State, and local levels and,

when appropriate, at the international

level, leadership support for HIV

prevention policies, programs and

services for HIV prevention for young

women of color, homeless, run-away

and street youth, and/or GLBTQ youth;

2. Influence and strengthen, at the

national, State, and local levels and,

when appropriate, at the international

level, societal and community norms

that dispel HIV/AIDS stigma, reduce

discrimination against persons with

HIV/AIDS, and facilitate HIV prevention

by supporting the adoption and

maintenance of safer behaviors in youth.

Activity B—Technical Assistance

1. Include CDC-funded CBOs, other

CBOs, Health Department staff, State

Education agencies, and other potential

consumers of the proposed services in

planning and evaluating the proposed

technical assistance and service delivery

program.

2. Ensure the effective and efficient

provision of technical assistance and/or

delivery of effective services to address

HIV prevention for the designated youth

populations. (Examples include, but are

not limited to, intervention replication

or adaptation, use of behavioral and

social sciences to increase intervention

effectiveness, increasing the cultural

competence and linguistic

appropriateness of interventions, service

integration, developing effective health

communications messages, conducting

population-based needs assessments,

and evaluation planning and

implementation.) Recipients should

work closely with CDC to identify

interventions for the designated youth

populations that have a sound basis in

science or proven program experience

and are suitable for dissemination.

These services are to be provided

through the use of information transfer,

skills building, technical consultation,

technical services, and technology

transfer. These services should be

culturally appropriate and based in

science.

3. Implement a plan for developing

and maintaining ongoing technical

assistance and service delivery

collaboration with CDC-funded CBOs,

capacity-building assistance providers,

other CBOs, and State and local Health

Departments.

4. Implement a system that responds

to technical assistance and service

delivery requests. The system must

include mechanisms for assessing and

prioritizing requests; linking requests to

other technical assistance and service

resources and to services provided by

other Technical Assistance providers.

5. Identify and complement the

technical assistance and service delivery

efforts for the target population

available locally. Cooperate with other

national, regional, State, and local

technical assistance and service

providers to (a) avoid duplication of

effort and (b) ensure that capacitybuilding assistance is allocated

according to gaps in available services

and the needs of organizations serving

youth at high risk for acquiring and

transmitting HIV and other STDs.

6. Coordinate program activities with

appropriate national, regional, State,

and local governmental and nongovernmental HIV prevention partners

(e.g., health departments, CBOs) and

CPGs. (Note: For this announcement,

the term ‘‘coordinate’’ means

exchanging information and altering

activities for mutual benefit.)

7. Incorporate cultural competency,

age, and linguistic and educational

appropriateness into all capacitybuilding activities;

8. Assist State and local HIV

prevention community planning groups,

health departments, CBOs, and other

HIV prevention providers in working

with youth and youth serving

organizations to strengthen and promote

HIV prevention among youth in the

community.

9. Assist youth serving organizations

in working with State and local HIV

prevention community planning groups,

health departments, CBOs, and other

HIV prevention providers to strengthen

and promote HIV prevention among

youth in the community.

10. Participate in the CDCcoordinated Capacity-Building

Assistance Network to enhance

communication, coordination, and

training.

Category III—Migrant Worker-Related

Programs—Recipient Activities

Activity A—Leadership

1. Develop and promote, at the

national, State, and local levels and,

when appropriate, at the international

level, leadership support for HIV

prevention policies, programs and

services for HIV prevention for migrant

workers.

2. Influence and strengthen, at the

national, State, and local levels and,

when appropriate, at the international

level, societal and community norms

that dispel HIV/AIDS stigma, reduce

discrimination against migrant workers

with HIV/AIDS, and facilitate HIV

prevention by supporting the adoption

and maintenance of safer behaviors in

migrant workers.

Activity B—Technical Assistance

1. Include CDC-funded CBOs, other

CBOs, Health Department staff, State

Education agencies, and other potential

consumers of the proposed services in

planning and evaluating the proposed

technical assistance and service delivery

program.

2. Ensure the effective and efficient

provision of technical assistance and/or

delivery of effective services to address

HIV prevention for migrant workers.

(Examples include, but are not limited

to, intervention replication or

adaptation, use of behavioral and social

sciences to increase intervention

effectiveness, increasing the cultural

competence and linguistic

appropriateness of interventions, service

integration, developing effective health

communications messages, conducting

population-based needs assessments,

and evaluation planning and

implementation.) Recipients should

work closely with CDC to identify

interventions for the migrant worker

population that have a sound basis in

science or proven program experience

and are suitable for dissemination.

These services are to be provided

through the use of information transfer,

skills building, technical consultation,

technical services, and technology

transfer. These services should be

culturally and linguistically appropriate

and based in science.

3. Implement a plan for developing

and maintaining ongoing technical

assistance and service delivery

collaboration with CDC-funded CBOs,

other CBOs, and State and local Health

Departments.

4. Implement a system that responds

to technical assistance and service

delivery requests. The system must

include mechanisms for assessing and

prioritizing requests; linking requests to

other technical assistance and service

resources and to services provided by

other Technical Assistance providers.

5. Identify and complement the

technical assistance and service delivery

efforts for the target population

available locally. Cooperate with other

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national, regional, State, and local

technical assistance and service

providers to (a) avoid duplication of

effort and (b) ensure that technical

assistance is allocated according to gaps

in available services and the needs of

organizations serving migrant workers at

risk for acquiring and transmitting HIV

and other STDs.

6. Coordinate program activities with

appropriate national, regional, State,

and local governmental and nongovernmental HIV prevention partners

(e.g., health departments, capacitybuilding assistance providers, CBOs)

and CPGs. (Note: For this

announcement, the term ‘‘coordinate’’

means exchanging information and

altering activities for mutual benefit.)

7. Incorporate cultural and linguistic

competency, and educational

appropriateness into all technical

assistance and prevention activities;

8. Assist State and local HIV

prevention community planning groups,

health departments, CBOs, and other

HIV prevention providers in working

with migrant workers and/or

organizations serving migrant workers

to strengthen and promote HIV

prevention among this community.

9. Assist migrant serving

organizations in working with State and

local HIV prevention community

planning groups, health departments,

CBOs, and other HIV prevention

providers to strengthen and promote

HIV prevention among youth in the

community.

Evaluation Criteria

1. Organizational History and

Capacity: (15 Total Points).

2. Assessment of Need: (10 Total

Points).

3. Long-term Goals: (15 Total Points).

4. Program Proposal: (20 Total Points).

5. Scientific, Theoretical, or

Conceptual Foundation for Proposed

Activities: (15 Total Points).

6. Plan of Evaluation: (10 Total

Points).

7. Project Management and Staffing:

(15 Total Points).

8. Budget Breakdown and

Justification: (Not Scored).

9. Past Performance history with CDC:

(Not Scored).

Dated: November 20, 2000.

Joseph R. Carter,

Associate Director for Management and

Operations, Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC).

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and

Families

Proposed Information Collection

Activity; Comment Request

Proposed Projects

Title: Federal Tax Offset,

Administrative Offset, and Passport

Denial.

OMB No.: 0970–0161.

Description: The Tax Refund Offset

and Administrative Offset Program

collects past-due child support by

intercepting certain Federal payments,

including Federal Tax refunds of

parents who have been ordered to pay

child support and are behind in paying

the debt. The program is a cooperative

effort including the Department of

Treasury’s Financial Management

Service (FMS), the Federal Office of

Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) and

State Child Support Enforcement (CSE)

agencies. The Passport Denial program

reports non-custodial parents who owe

arrears above a threshold to Department

of State (DOS), which will then deny

passports to these individuals. On an

ongoing basis, CSE agencies submit to

OCSE the names, Social Security

Numbers (SSNs) and the amount(s) of

past due child support of people who

are delinquent in making child support

payments.

Respondents: State IV–D Agencies.

ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATES

Instrument No. of

respondents

No.

responses

per

respondent

Average

burden

hours per

response

Total

burden

hours

Input Record .................................................................................................................... 54 52 .3 842.4

Output Record ................................................................................................................. 54 52 .46 1292

Payment File .................................................................................................................... 54 26 .27 379

Certification Letter ............................................................................................................ 54 1 .4 21.6

Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours ................................................................. .................... .................... .................... 2535

In compliance with the requirements

of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the

Administration for Children and

Families is soliciting public comment

on the specific aspects of the

information collection described above.

Copies of the proposed collection of

information can be obtained and

comments may be forwarded by writing

to the Administration for Children and

Families, Office of Information Services,

370 L’Enfant Promenade, S.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20447, Attn: ACF

Reports Clearance Officer. All requests

should be identified by the title of the

information collection.

The Department specifically requests

comments on: (a) Whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

proposed collection of information; (c)

the quality, utility, and clarity of the

information to be collected; and (d)

ways to minimize the burden of the

collection of information on

respondents, including through the use

of automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

Consideration will be given to

comments and suggestions submitted

within 60 days of this publication.

Dated: November 20, 2000.

Bob Sargis,

Reports Clearance Officer.

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