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commitments also will be a factor in the

evaluation.

4. Ability of the Work Plan and

Budget to Successfully Achieve the

Project’s Objectives (20 points).

Reviewers will examine if the work plan

and budget are reasonable and sufficient

to ensure timely implementation and

completion of the evaluation

enhancement and whether the applicant

demonstrates an adequate level of

understanding by the applicant of the

practical problems of conducting such a

project. Reviewers will judge whether

there is an ‘‘added benefit’’ from

providing these funds. In other words,

is the applicant using federal funds for

purposes that would not otherwise be

funded? Reviewers will also consider

whether the budget assures an efficient

and effective allocation of funds to

achieve the objectives of this solicitation

and whether the application has

additional funding from other sources.

Eligible projects must document

sufficient funding for program operation

during the period of the evaluation and

also document sufficient funding for the

existing evaluation component. The

applicant should provide budget

statements from previous award/s that

contribute to the completion of the

evaluation. Applicants without these

funds or the documentation that

certifies these funds will be ineligible to

receive any points in this category.

Reviewers will judge if the applicant

has adequately demonstrated its ability

to present findings and produce a final

report that can be widely disseminated

by ASPE or its designee (s).

Disposition of Applications

1. Approval, Disapproval, or Deferral

On the basis of the review of the

application, the Assistant Secretary will

either: (a) Approve the application as a

whole or in part; (b) disapprove the

application; or defer action on the

application for such reasons as lack of

funds or a need for further review.

However, nothing commits the Assistant

Secretary to making an award or limits

the ability to make multiple award.

2. Notification of Disposition

The Assistant Secretary for Planning

and Evaluation will notify the

applicants of the disposition of their

applications. If approved, a signed

notification of the grant award will be

sent to the business office named in the

ASPE checklist.

Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance number is 93–239.

Components of a Complete Application

A complete application consists of the

following items in this order:

1. Application for Federal Assistance

(Standard Form 424);

2. Budget Information—Nonconstruction Programs (Standard

Form 424A);

3. Assurances—Non-construction

Programs (Standard Form 424B);

4. Table of Contents;

5. Budget Justification for Section B

Budget Categories;

6. Proof of Non-Profit Status, if

appropriate;

7. Copy of the applicant’s Approved

Indirect Cost Rate Agreement;

8. Project Narrative Statement;

9. Any appendices or attachments;

10. Certification Regarding Drug-Free

Workplace;

11. Certification Regarding Debarment,

Suspension, or other Responsibility

Matters;

12. Certification and, if necessary,

Disclosure Regarding Lobbying;

13. Supplement to Section II—Key

Personnel

14. Application for Federal Assistance

Checklist

Margaret A. Hamburg,

Assistant Secretary for Planning and

Evaluation.

[FR Doc. 98–11963 Filed 5–5–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Office of National AIDS Policy

Notice of Meeting of the Presidential

Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and Its

Subcommittees

Pursuant to Pub. L. 92–463, notice is

hereby given of the meeting of the

Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/

AIDS on June 15–18, 1998, at the

Madison Hotel, Washington, DC. The

meeting of the Presidential Advisory

Council on HIV/AIDS will take place on

Monday, June 15, Tuesday, June 16,

Wednesday, June 17 and Thursday, June

18 from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm at the

Madison Hotel, Fifteenth and M Streets,

NW, Washington, DC 20005. The

meetings will be open to the public.

The purpose of the subcommittee

meetings will be to finalize any

recommendations and assess the status

of previous recommendations made to

the administration. The agenda of the

Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/

AIDS may include presentations from

the Council’s subcommittees, Research,

Services, Prevention, International,

Discrimination, Communities for

African and Latino Descent, and Prison

Issues.

Daniel C. Montoya, Executive

Director, Presidential Advisory Council

on HIV and AIDS, Office of National

AIDS Policy, 736 Jackson Place, NW,

Washington, D.C. 20503, Phone (202)

456–2437, Fax (202) 456–2438, will

furnish the meeting agenda and roster of

committee members upon request. Any

individual who requires special

assistance, such as sign language

interpretation or other reasonable

accommodations, should contact Ann

Borlo at (301) 986–4870 no later than

May 15, 1998.

Dated: April 24, 1998.

Daniel C. Montoya,

Executive Director, Presidential Advisory

Council on HIV and AIDS, Office of National

AIDS Policy.

[FR Doc. 98–11960 Filed 5–5–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary

Federal Financial Participation in State

Assistance Expenditures; Federal

Matching Shares for Aid to Families

With Dependent Children, Medicaid,

and Aid to Aged, Blind, or Disabled

Persons for October 1, 1997 Through

October 1, 1998 and for October 1,

1998 Through September 30, 1999;

Clarification and Correction

ACTION: Notice of clarification and

correction.

SUMMARY: This Notice clarifies the status

of Alaska and the District of Columbia

shown in the Tables of Federal Medical

Assistance percentages calculated for

determining the amount of Federal

matching in State welfare and medical

expenditures for Fiscal Years 1998 and

1999 and corrects an error for the

District of Columbia for 1999. For

Medicaid and for the Child Health

Insurance Program, the percentages

given in the notices are correct. For

other uses, including the remaining

Title IV programs, the Alaskan

percentage for 1998 should be 50.00%

and for 1999 should be 52.26%. The

District of Columbia percentage should

be 50.00% for both years.

EFFECTIVE DATES: The corrected

percentages will be effective for each of

the 4 quarter-year periods in the period

beginning October 1, 1997 and ending

September 30, 1998 and for each of the

4 quarter-year periods in the period

beginning October 1, 1998 and ending

September 30, 1999.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Gene Moyer, Office of Health Policy,

Office of the Assistant Secretary for

Planning and Evaluation, Room 442E

Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200

Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, D.C. 20201, Telephone

(202) 690–7861.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Balanced Budget Act, passed in July

1997, specified new Federal Medical

Assistance Percentages for Alaska and

for the District of Columbia for fiscal

years 1998, 1999, and 2000. On January

29, 1997, in Notice 97–2231 beginning

on page 4293, the Department published

the 1998 percentages. On September 12,

1997, in Notice 97–24324 beginning on

page 48098, the Department published

updated percentages for Alaska and the

District of Columbia for purposes of

Medicaid and the New Children’s

Health Insurance Program. On

November 24, 1997, in Notice 97–30832

beginning on page 62613, the Office of

the Secretary announced the

percentages for use in determining the

amount of Federal matching in State

welfare and medical expenditures for

October 1, 1998 through September 30,

1999. The FY1999 Notice provided a

Table on pages 62614–62615 that listed

Federal Medical Assistance percentages

and Enhanced Federal Medical

Assistance percentages for each of the

50 States, the District of Columbia,

Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam,

American Samoa, and the Northern

Mariana Islands. The Federal Medical

Assistance Percentage for Alaska is

listed as 59.80% and for the District of

Columbia as 70.00%. The enhanced

percentages were 71.86% for Alaska and

79.00% for the District of Columbia.

These are the correct percentages for

Medicaid and Children’s Health

Insurance. For Title IV and perhaps

some other programs, the percentages

for Alaska and the District of Columbia

were to be calculated in the usual way.

The FY 1999 Notice recognized this

for the State of Alaska. The second

sentence in the second footnote to the

table read ‘‘For other purposes, the

percentage for Alaska is 52.26%.’’ The

error was that the sentence should have

included the District of Columbia and

should have been more specific about

the uses of the standard rates. The

sentence should have read ‘‘For other

purposes, including programs remaining

in Title IV of the Act, the percentage for

Alaska is 52.26% and for the District of

Columbia is 50.00%.’’

Dated: April 19, 1998.

Neil J. Stillman,

Assistant Secretary for Information Resource

Management.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[Announcement 98036]

Violence Against Women Prevention

Research Center (VAWPRC) Notice of

Availability of Funds

A. Purpose

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) announces the

availability of fiscal year 1998

cooperative agreement funds to

establish a Violence Against Women

Prevention Research Center (VAWPRC).

This program addresses the Healthy

People 2000 priority area of Violent and

Abusive Behavior.

The purposes of the Prevention

Research Center are to:

1. Support research on prevention and

policy issues relevant to Violence

Against Women;

2. Encourage professionals from a

spectrum of disciplines such as public

health, criminal justice, health care,

behavioral and social sciences,

education, law enforcement, and others

to undertake and collaborate in research

and evaluation activities for preventing

violence against women;

3. Foster interdisciplinary

collaboration for the purpose of

developing integrated theoretical and

scientific models about the nature of

violence against women, its relationship

to other forms of violence and injury,

and effective prevention strategies;

4. Integrate research on child

maltreatment and other forms of

violence into the study of violence

against women;

5. Foster creative and innovative

approaches to collaborative research

and evaluation efforts among research

institutions and sexual assault and

intimate partner violence service

providers;

6. Develop a knowledge base for

evaluating current and new programs,

strategies, and policies designed to

prevent or control violence against

women;

7. Create training programs that

develop interdisciplinary knowledge

and expertise among new investigators

and investigators retraining in the field.

These efforts should emphasize training

researchers in evaluation methodology

and developing the research skills of

scientists from racial and ethnic

minorities and other historically under

represented and underserved groups;

8. Provide technical assistance to

other investigators around

methodological issues related to the

field of violence against women; and

9. Provide a national focus for

interdisciplinary public fora designed to

disseminate research knowledge about

violence against women.

For additional information please see

Addendum 2, Background and

Definitions (included in the application

package).

B. Eligible Applicants

Applications may be submitted by

public and private nonprofit

organizations and by governments and

their agencies. Thus, universities,

colleges, research institutions, hospitals,

and other public and private nonprofit

organizations, State and local

governments or their bona fide agents,

and federally recognized Indian tribal

governments, Indian tribes or Indian

tribal organizations.

Note: Pub. L. 104–65, which became

effective January 1, 1996, states that an

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

the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 which

engages in lobbying activities shall not be

eligible to receive Federal funds constituting

an award, grant, cooperative agreement,

contract, loan, or any other form.

C. Availability of Funds

Approximately $600,000 is available

in FY 1998 to fund one (1) cooperative

agreement. It is expected that the award

will begin on or about September 1,

1998 and will be made for a 12-month

budget period within a project period

not to exceed five (5) years. Funding

estimates may vary and are subject to

change and availability of funds.

Non-competing continuation awards

for new budget periods within the

approved project period will be made

on the basis of satisfactory progress as

evidenced by required reports and site

visits.

D. Program Requirements

1. Applicants must provide a

Principal Investigator (Director) who has

specific authority and responsibility to

carry out the project. Applicants must

demonstrate high level institutional

support for the Prevention Research

Center (e.g., from the dean of a school,

vice-president of a university, or a

commissioner of health). The Principal

Investigator must have no less than 20

percent effort devoted solely to this