[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 102 (Thursday, May 28, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29234-29235]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14091]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Healthy Start Initiative--Phase II Limited Competition for the 
Mississippi Delta

AGENCY: Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HHS.

ACTION: Notice of availability of funds for a limited competition for 
the ten counties of Mississippi known as the Mississippi Delta.

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SUMMARY: The HRSA announces the availability funds in fiscal year 1998 
for a single cooperative agreement for the replication of the Healthy 
Start Initiative (HSI) Phase II within the ten counties of Mississippi 
known as the Mississippi Delta. The Healthy Start Initiative is a 
program of projects which, since FY 1991, has developed and implemented 
community-based strategies to reduce infant mortality in areas with a 
high incidence of infant mortality. The purpose of Healthy Start-Phase 
II is to operationalize successful infant mortality reduction 
strategies developed during the demonstration phase and to launch 
Healthy Start projects in new rural and urban communities (i.e., 
communities currently without a Healthy Start Initiative-funded 
project). Within the HRSA, the Healthy Start Initiative is administered 
by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB). This cooperative 
agreement for Healthy Start-Phase II in the Mississippi Delta will be 
made under the program authority of Section 301 of the Public Health 
Service Act. Funds for this award were appropriated under Public Law 
104-208.
    To continue Healthy Start efforts to meet critical maternal and 
child health needs in the Mississippi Delta, public and nonprofit 
private organizations serving the following counties in the Mississippi 
Delta--Humphries, Holmes, Leflore, Bolivar, Quitman, Sunflower, 
Tallahatchie, Washington, Cohoma, and Tunica--are encouraged to apply. 
Applicants must provide services to all ten counties. Only one 
applicant organization will be funded.
    The project period is three years, subject to continuing 
availability of funds.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may contact the HRSA Grants Application 
Center for an application package. Requests should specify the Healthy 
Start Initiative--Phase II limited competition within the Mississippi 
Delta (CFDA #93.926b). The Center may

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be contacted by: telephone: 1-888-300-HRSA, FAX: 301-309-0579, or e-
mail: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="cf879d9c8ee1888e8c8fb7e1a1aabbaca0a2e1aca0a2">[email protected]</a>. Completed applications should be returned 
to: Grants Management Officer (CFDA #93.926b), HRSA Grants Application 
Center, 40 West Gude Drive, Suite 100, Rockville, Maryland 20850.

DATES: The application deadline date is Thursday, July 1, 1998.

    Dated: May 21, 1998.
Claude Earl Fox,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 98-14091 Filed 5-27-98; 8:45 am]
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