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A. Goals, Objectives, and Need for

Assistance. (10 points)

Are the goals and objectives of the

project presented clearly and do they

reflect the type of project sought by this

announcement?

B. Project Design and Approach. (40

points)

Is there documented access to

multiple data sets describing individual

experiences in the services of interest

(e.g., AFDC, Medicaid, job training,

child care, foster care, Head Start,

counseling, and other social services)?

How long is the time frame covered by

each data set? How detailed are the

records of service receipt (e.g., type of

activity, length of activity, cost of

activity)? How large and diverse is the

population covered in each data set? Is

there a clear and achievable plan for

creating a single data set that will allow

the tracking of individuals through

multiple services over time? Are there

interesting questions about health and

human services policy and practice that

will be explored after the data set is

created?

C. Organization and Staffing. (40 points)

Does the organization demonstrate the

in-house capacity to conduct the

project? Does the organization

demonstrate access to and experience

with computerized records for multiple

services? Does the organization and staff

demonstrate a track record of successful

use of administrative data? Do the staff

have documented experience working

with multiple data sets involving

several types of health and human

services? Are the number and type of

staff positions sufficient to achieve

project objectives?

How many different types of health

and human services does the

organization provide? For how many of

these services is their individual-level

data on service receipt? Does the

organization have computer hardware,

computer software, and computing staff

able to work with large data sets? Does

the organization demonstrate an ability

to manage a complex data-merging

project, including analysis of such data?

Does the organization demonstrate

connections to key audiences for

dissemination?

D. Budget and budget narrative (10

points)

Is the proposed budget reasonable and

sufficient to ensure implementation of

the project? Does the organization

demonstrate access to $50,000 from

non-Federal sources to match the

Federal grant?

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 (c) defer action on the

application for such reasons as lack of

funds or a need for further review.

2. Notification of disposition. The

Assistant Secretary will notify the

applicants of the disposition of their

applications. If approved, a signed

notification of the award will be sent to

the business office named in the ASPE

checklist.

Components of a Complete Application

A complete application consists of the

following items in this order:

1. Application for Federal Assistance

(Standard Form 424, Revised 4–88);

2. Budget Information—Nonconstruction Programs (Standard

Form 424A, Revised 4–88);

3. Assurances—Non-construction

Programs (Standard Form 424B,

Revised 4–88);

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, if

necessary;

8. Project Narrative Statement,

organized in four sections

addressing the following topics:

a. Abstract

b. Goals and objectives of the project

c. Corporate capacity and

qualifications

d. Experience, qualifications, and use

of staff

e. Initial Workplan

f. Budget and Budget Narrative

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.

Dated: May 12, 1995.

David T. Ellwood,

Assistant Secretary for Planning and

Evaluation.

[FR Doc. 95–12463 Filed 5–19–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4154–04

Health Resources and Services

Administration

Final Review Criteria for Grants for

Geriatric Education Centers for Fiscal

Year 1995

The Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA) announces the

final review criteria for Grants for

Geriatric Education Centers for FY 1995

under the authority of section 777(a) of

the Public Health Service Act, as

amended by the Health Professions

Education Extension Amendments of

1992, Public Law 102–408, dated

October 13, 1992.

Purpose

Grants may be awarded to support the

development of collaborative

arrangements involving several health

professions schools and health care

facilities. These arrangements, called

Geriatric Education Centers (GECs), are

established to facilitate training of

health professional faculty, students,

and practitioners in the diagnosis,

treatment, and prevention of disease,

disability, and other health problems of

the aged. Health professionals include

allopathic physicians, osteopathic

physicians, dentists, optometrists,

podiatrists, pharmacists, nurses, nurse

practitioners, physician assistants,

chiropractors, clinical psychologists,

health administrators, and allied health

professionals.

Projects supported under these grants

must offer training involving four or

more health professions, one of which

must be allopathic or osteopathic

medicine. Projects must address one or

more of the statutory purposes listed

below:

(a) Improve the training of health

professionals in geriatrics;

(b) Develop and disseminate curricula

relating to the treatment of the health

problems of elderly individuals;

(c) Expand and strengthen instruction in

methods of such treatment;

(d) Support the training and retraining

of faculty to provide such instruction;

(e) Support continuing education of

health professionals and allied health

professionals who provide such

treatment; and

(f) Establish new affiliations with

nursing homes, chronic and acute

disease hospitals, ambulatory care

centers, and senior centers in order to

provide students with clinical

training in geriatric medicine.

Eligibility

Section 777(a) of the PHS Act

authorizes the award of grants to

accredited health professions schools as
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defined by section 799(1), or programs

for the training of physician assistants

as defined by section 799(3), or schools

of allied health as defined in section

799(4), or schools of nursing as defined

by section 853(2).

Applicants must be located in the

United States, the Commonwealth of

Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the

Northern Mariana Islands, the Virgin

Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the

Republic of Palau, the Republic of the

Marshall Islands, or the Federated States

of Micronesia.

A notice was published in the Federal

Register at 60 FR 2396 on January 9,

1995 which proposed two new review

criteria for Grants for Geriatric

Education Centers. No comments were

received within the 30 day comment

period. Therefore, the review criteria

remain as proposed.

Review Criteria

The following review criteria are

established in 42 CFR part 57, subpart

OO:

(1) The degree to which the proposed

project adequately provides for the

project requirements;

(2) The extent to which the rationale

and specific objectives of the project

are based upon a needs assessment of

the status of geriatrics training in the

institutions to be assisted and/or the

geographic area to be served;

(3) The ability of the project to achieve

the project objectives within the

proposed geographic area;

(4) The adequacy of educational

facilities and clinical training settings

to accomplish objectives;

(5) The adequacy of organizational

arrangements involving professional

schools and other organizations

necessary to carry out the project;

(6) The adequacy of the qualifications

and experience in geriatrics of the

project director, staff and faculty;

(7) The administrative and managerial

ability of the applicant to carry out

the proposed project in a costeffective manner, and;

(8) The potential of the project to

continue on a self-sustaining basis.

In addition, the following review

criteria are hereby finalized:

(9) If applicable, the extent to which

there is evidence that the institutions

jointly have planned and jointly will

conduct the proposed consortial

activities.

(10) The potential of the project to

recruit and/or retain minority faculty

members and trainees for

participation in long term and/or

short term training experiences.

If additional information is needed,

please contact: Lt. Commander Judith

Arndt, Geriatric Initiatives Branch,

Division of Associated, Dental, and

Public Health Professions, Bureau of

Health Professions, Health Resources

and Services Administration, Parklawn

Building, Room 8–103, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857,

Telephone: (301) 443–6887.

This program, Grants for Geriatric

Education Centers, is listed at 93.969 in

the Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance. It is not subject to the

provisions of Executive Order 12372,

Intergovernmental Review of Federal

Programs (as implemented through 45

CFR part 100). This program is not

subject to the Public Health System

Reporting Requirements.

Dated: May 16, 1995.

Ciro V. Sumaya,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 95–12455 Filed 5–19–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–15–P

National Vaccine Injury Compensation

Program; List of Petitions Received

AGENCY: Public Health Service, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Public Health Service

(PHS) is publishing this notice of

petitions received under the National

Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

(‘‘the Program’’), as required by section

2112(b)(2) of the PHS Act, as amended.

While the Secretary of Health and

Human Services is named as the

respondent in all proceedings brought

by the filing of petitions for

compensation under the Program, the

United States Court of Federal Claims is

charged by statute with responsibility

for considering and acting upon the

petitions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

information about requirements for

filing petitions, and the Program

generally, contact the Clerk, United

States Court of Federal Claims, 717

Madison Place, N.W., Washington, D.C.

20005, (202) 219–9657. For information

on the Public Health Service’s role in

the Program, contact the Director,

National Vaccine Injury Compensation

Program, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room

8A35, Rockville, MD 20857, (301) 443–

6593.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Program provides a system of no-fault

compensation for certain individuals

who have been injured by specified

childhood vaccines. Subtitle 2 of title

XXI of the PHS Act, 42 U.S.C. 300aa-10

et seq, provides that those seeking

compensation are to file a petition with

the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and to

serve a copy of the petition on the

Secretary of Health and Human

Services, who is named as the

respondent in each proceeding. The

Secretary has delegated his

responsibility under the Program to

PHS. The Court is directed by statute to

appoint special masters who take

evidence, conduct hearings as

appropriate, and make initial decisions

as to eligibility for, and amount of,

compensation.

A petition may be filed with respect

to injuries, disabilities, illnesses,

conditions, and deaths resulting from

vaccines described in the Vaccine Injury

Table (the Table) set forth at section

2114 of the PHS Act. This Table lists for

each covered childhood vaccine the

conditions which will lead to

compensation and, for each condition,

the time period for occurrence of the

first symptom or manifestation of onset

or of significant aggravation after

vaccine administration. Compensation

may also be awarded for conditions not

listed in the Table and for conditions

that are manifested after the time

periods specified in the Table, but only

if the petitioner shows that the

condition was caused by one of the

listed vaccines.

Section 2112(b)(2) of the PHS Act, 42

U.S.C. 300aa-12(b)(2), requires that the

Secretary publish in the Federal

Register a notice of each petition filed.

Set forth below is a partial list of

petitions received by PHS on January

31, 1991 through November 20, 1991.

Section 2112(b)(2) also provides that

the special master ‘‘shall afford all

interested persons an opportunity to

submit relevant, written information’’

relating to the following:

1. The existence of evidence ‘‘that

there is not a preponderance of the

evidence that the illness, disability,

injury, condition, or death described in

the petition is due to factors unrelated

to the administration of the vaccine

described in the petition,’’ and

2. Any allegation in a petition that the

petitioner either:

(a) ‘‘Sustained, or had significantly

aggravated, any illness, disability,

injury, or condition not set forth in the

Table but which was caused by’’ one of

the vaccines referred to in the Table, or

(b) ‘‘Sustained, or had significantly

aggravated, any illness, disability,

injury, or condition set forth in the

Table the first symptom or

manifestation of the onset or significant

aggravation of which did not occur

within the time period set forth in the

Table but which was caused by a

vaccine’’ referred to in the Table.

This notice will also serve as the

special master’s invitation to all