23702 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 90 / Wednesday, May 9, 2001 / Notices

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sandra M. Peay or Parcellena P.

Fielding, Contact Representatives,

Federal Trade Commission, Premerger

Notification Office, Bureau of

Competition, Room 303, Washington,

D.C. 20580, (202) 326–3100.

By direction of the Commission.

Donald S. Clark,

Secretary.

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GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

Advisory Council on Government

Auditing Standards; Notice of Meeting

The Advisory Council on Government

Auditing Standards will meet

Wednesday, May 16, 2001, from 12:30

to 4:30 p.m., and Thursday, May 17,

2001, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in room

7C13 of the General Accounting Office

Building, 441 G Sreet, NW.,

Washington, DC.

The Advisory Council on Government

Auditing Standards will hold a meeting

to discuss issues that may impact

government auditing standards. The

meeting is open to the public. Any

interested person who plans to attend

the meeting as an observer should

present a copy of this meeting notice

and a form of picture identification to

the GAO Security Desk on the day of the

meeting to obtain access to the GAO

Building. Council discussions and

reviews are open to the public. Members

of the public will be provided an

opportunity to address the Council with

a brief (five minute) presentation on the

afternoon of Thursday, May 17.

For further information or to notify

the Council of your intention to address

the Council, please contact Marcia

Buchanan, Assistant Director,

Government Auditing Standards, 202–

512–9321.

Please check the Government

Auditing Standards web page

(www.gao.gov/govaud/ybk01.htm) one

week prior to the meeting for a final

agenda.

Marcia B. Buchanan,

Assistant Director.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Administration on Aging

[Program Announcement No. AoA–01–04]

Fiscal Year 2001 Program

Announcement; Availability of Funds

and Notice Regarding Applications

AGENCY: Administration on Aging, HHS.

ACTION: Request for applications for a

National Center for Family Friends/

Volunteer Senior Aides to provide

training and technical assistance to

current projects, fund and assist new

projects, and develop and implement

new models to demonstrate alternative

funding strategies.

SUMMARY: The Administration on Aging

announces that under this program

announcement it will hold a

competition for a grant award for one (1)

project at a federal share of

approximately $485,000 per year for a

project period of two years. The purpose

of the project is to support a national

center to further build and support a

national system of Family Friends/

Volunteer Senior Aides projects, and to

develop and implement new models to

demonstrate alternative funding

strategies for local program replication/

expansion.

The deadline date for the submission

of applications is June 15, 2001. Public

and/or nonprofit agencies,

organizations, or institutions are eligible

to apply. To be considered for funding,

however, the applicant must be

experienced in providing services to the

designated populations inherent to the

Family Friends/VSA programs.

Application kits are available by

writing to the U.S. Department of Health

and Human Services, Administration on

Aging, Office of Program Development,

330 Independence Avenue, SW., Room

4264, Washington, DC 20201, by calling

202/619–2987 or on the web at http://

www.aoa.gov/t4/fy2001.

Dated: May 4, 2001.

Norman L. Thompson,

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary

for Aging.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[Program Announcement 01075]

Grant for the Study of the Genetic and

Environmental Causes of Birth

Defects; Notice of Availability of Funds

A. Purpose

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) announces the

availability of fiscal year (FY) 2001

funds for a grant program to study the

genetic and environmental causes of

birth defects. This program addresses

the ‘‘Healthy People 2010’’ focus areas

of Environmental Health, and Maternal,

Infant, and Child Health. The purpose of

the program is to support research into

the genetic and environmental causes of

birth defects.

B. Eligible Applicant

Assistance will be provided only to

the University of Louisville Birth

Defects Center consistent with the

Conference Report (H. Report 106–1033)

to the CDC 2001 Appropriations Law

(Public Law 106–554). The University of

Louisville Birth Defects Center is also

known as the University of Louisville

Craniofacial Birth Defects Research

Center. No other applications are

solicited.

Note: Title 2 of the United States Code,

chapter 26, section 1611 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.

C. Availability of Funds

Approximately $438,789 is available

in FY 2001 to fund this award. It is

expected that the award will begin on or

about September 1, 2001, and will be

made for a 12-month budget period

within a project period of one year. The

funding estimate may change.

Use of Funds

This award may be used for personnel

services, equipment, travel, and other

costs related to project activities. Project

funds may not be used for health care

services, patient care, construction, nor

lease/purchase of facilities or space.

D. Where to Obtain Additional

Information

This and other CDC announcements

can be found on the CDC home page

Internet address: http://www.cdc.gov.

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Click on ‘‘Funding’’ then ‘‘Grants and

Cooperative Agreements.’’

If you have questions after reviewing

the contents of all the documents,

business management technical

assistance may be obtained from:

Virginia Hall-Broadnax, Grants

Management Specialist Grants

Management Branch, Procurement and

Grants Office Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention 2920

Brandywine Road, Suite 3000, Mailstop

E–13 Atlanta, GA 30341–4146

Telephone number: (770) 488–2700 Email address: vdh2@cdc.gov.

Technical assistance may be obtained

from: William A. Paradies, Birth Defects

and Pediatric Genetics Branch, National

Center for Environmental Health,

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, N.E.

Atlanta, GA 30341–3724, Telephone

number: (770) 488–4704, E-mail

address: wep2@cdc.gov.

Dated: May 02, 2001.

John L. Williams,

Director, Procurement and Grants Office,

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(CDC).

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

[Program Announcement 01069]

Cooperative Agreement for Suicide

Prevention Research Center; Notice of

Availability of Funds

A. Purpose

The Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) announces the

availability of fiscal year (FY) 2001

funds for a cooperative agreement

program for a Suicide Prevention

Research Center (SPRC). This program

addresses the ‘‘Healthy People 2010’’

focus area of Violent and Abusive

Behavior and Unintentional Injuries.

The purpose of this cooperative

agreement is to support existing

activities of an SPRC that target at-risk

populations including American Indian/

Alaskan Natives, African-American

males, young adolescents and the

elderly. SPRC activities include both

research-related projects and efforts to

facilitate and/or coordinate suicide

prevention efforts for a geographically

defined area. Examples of these

activities include, but are not limited to:

(1) Behavioral research of populations

at-risk for suicide, and the (2)

development and evaluation of a suicide

surveillance system that includes

information collected from multiple

data sources.

B. Eligible Applicants

Applications may be submitted by

public and private nonprofit

organizations and by governments and

their agencies; that is, universities,

colleges, research institutions, hospitals,

other public and private nonprofit

organizations, State and local

governments or their bona fide agents,

including the District of Columbia, the

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the

Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of

the Northern Mariana Islands, American

Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of

Micronesia, the Republic of the

Marshall Islands, and the Republic of

Palau, federally recognized Indian tribal

governments, Indian tribes, or Indian

tribal organizations.

To be eligible, applicants must

provide the following:

1. Acceptable documentation, at a

minimum, includes a letter from the

director of the agency authorizing access

to the records delineating what records/

data are available for use and by whom,

the time of availability of records and

the specific calendar years, the

availability of unique identifiers, how

the records/data can be used, etc.;

2. How the records/data are to be

linked, the existence of a unified

database, and existing infrastructure to

conduct the suicide prevention

research;

3. Evidence of existing staff and

resources to carry out the activities; and

4) evidence of existing partnerships

with national, state, and local suicide

prevention agencies that includes letters

from all agencies from the director of

the agency, documenting the nature of

the partnership, the length of the

relationship, what role and/or resources

provided, etc.

The documentation to fulfill the

eligibility requirement must appear

immediately following the face sheet of

the application. All documentation

must appear on agency letterhead.

Applications that fail to submit

evidence of the above will be

considered non-responsive and will be

returned without review.

Note: Title 2 of the United States Code,

chapter 26, section 1611 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.

C. Availability of Funds

Approximately $400,000 is available

in fiscal year (FY) 2001 to fund one

award. It is expected that the award will

begin on or about September 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.

Continuation awards within an

approved project period will be made

on the basis of satisfactory progress as

evidenced by required reports and the

availability of funds.

D. Programmatic Interest

Specific research activities of

particular interest to CDC are:

1. Evaluation of the benefits resulting

from the development of a unified

suicide surveillance system as described

above and an assessment of the barriers

encountered during the development

phase;

2. Identification of existing state and

regional suicide prevention efforts;

3. Determination of existing death

investigation protocols used by medical

examiners and coroners regarding

suicide; and the

4. Development of recommendations

for a standard protocol to aid in the

investigative process improvement of

these protocols.

E. Program Requirements

The following are applicant

requirements:

1. Demonstrate expertise in some form

of suicide behavior prevention research

as a core component of the SPRC (as

defined in the Section Background and

Definitions of the program

announcement included in the

application kit).

2. Provide a director (Principal

Investigator) who has specific authority

and responsibility to carry out the

project.

3. Provide a Program Coordinator/

Manager, with suicidal behavior

research expertise, who will be

responsible for day to day programmatic

and fiscal management, establishment

and maintenance of communication

between and among members of the

expert panel, national advisory

committee(s), community advisory

committee, and other organizations and

agencies, including CDC.

F. Cooperative Agreement Activities

In conducting activities to achieve the

purpose of this program, the recipient

will be responsible for the activities

under 1. (Recipient Activities), and CDC

will be responsible for the activities

listed under 2. (CDC Activities).