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consistently judging the scientific

evidence of a particular topic (also

available on the HCFA website at

www.hcfa.gov/coverage).

• Discuss the future role of the

Committee, in light of the provisions of

the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP

Benefits Improvement and Protection

Act of 2000 that removes the

requirement that the Committee ratify

all medical specialty panel

recommendations.

• Discuss the contents of, and framing

the questions for, a future presentation

of ‘‘neuroimaging for dementia’’ to be

presented to the Diagnostic Imaging

Panel later this year.

Notice of this meeting is given under

the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5

U.S.C. App. 2, section 10(a)(1) and

(a)(2)).

DATES: The Meeting: June 14, 2001, from

8 a.m. until 4 p.m., E.D.T.

Deadline for Presentations and

Comments: June 1, 2001, 5 p.m., E.D.T.

Special Accommodations: Persons

attending the meeting who are hearing

impaired and require sign language

interpretation, or have a condition that

requires other special assistance or

accommodations, are asked to notify the

Executive Secretary by June 1, 2001.

ADDRESSES: The Meeting: The meeting

will be held at the Baltimore

Convention Center, Room 339, One

West Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland

21201.

Presentations and Comments: Submit

formal presentations and written

comments to Constance A. Conrad,

Executive Secretary; Office of Clinical

Standards and Quality; Health Care

Financing Administration; 7500

Security Boulevard; Mail Stop S3–02–

01; Baltimore, MD 21244.

Website: You may access up-to-date

information on this meeting at

www.hcfa.gov/coverage.

Hotline: You may access up-to-date

information on this meeting on the

HCFA Advisory Committee Information

Hotline, 1–877–449–5659 (toll free) or

in the Baltimore area (410) 786–9379.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Constance A. Conrad, Executive

Secretary, 410–786–4631.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August

13, 1999, we published a notice (64 FR

44231) announcing a meeting of the

Drugs, Biologics, and Therapeutics

Panel and also describing the Medicare

Coverage Advisory Committee (MCAC),

which provides advice and

recommendations to us about clinical

issues. This notice announces the June

14, 2001 public meeting of Executive

Committee (the Committee) of the

MCAC.

Current Committee Members

Harold C. Sox, MD (Chairperson);

Thomas V. Holohan, MD (FACP); Leslie

P. Francis, JD, PhD; John H. Ferguson,

MD; Robert L. Murray, PhD; Alan M.

Garber, MD, PhD; Michael D. Maves,

MD, MBA; Frank J. Papatheofanis, MD,

PhD; Barbara J. McNeil, MD; Ronald M.

Davis, MD; Daisy Alford-Smith, PhD;

Joe W. Johnson, DC; Robert H. Brook,

MD, ScD; Linda A. Bergthold, PhD;

Randel E. Richner, MPH.

Meeting Topic

The Committee of the MCAC will do

the following:

• Act on the February 21, 2001

recommendations of the Medical

Devices and Prosthetics Panel regarding

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring.

• Discuss the ‘‘Interim Guidelines—

Recommendations for Evaluating

Effectiveness,’’ prepared by the

Executive Committee to assist panels in

consistently judging the scientific

evidence of a particular topic (also

available at www.hcfa.gov/coverage).

• Discuss the future role of the

Committee, in light of the provisions of

the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP

Benefits Improvement and Protection

Act of 2000 that removes the

requirement that the Committee ratify

all medical specialty panel

recommendations.

• Discuss the contents of, and framing

the questions for, a future presentation

of ‘‘neuroimaging for dementia’’ to be

presented to the Diagnostic Imaging

Panel later this year.

Procedure and Agenda

This meeting is open to the public.

The Committee will hear oral

presentations from the public for

approximately 1 hour. The Committee

may limit the number and duration of

oral presentations to the time available.

If you wish to make formal

presentations, you must notify

Executive Secretary Constance A.

Conrad, in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this notice, and

submit the following by the Deadline for

Presentations and Comments date listed

in the DATES section of this notice: A

brief statement of the general nature of

the evidence or arguments you wish to

present and the names and addresses of

proposed participants. A written copy of

your presentation must be provided to

the Executive Secretary before the

meeting. We will request that you

declare at the meeting whether or not

you have any financial involvement

with manufacturers of any items or

services being discussed (or with their

competitors).

After the public presentations, we

will make a presentation to the

Committee. Then, the Committee will

deliberate openly. Interested persons

may observe the deliberations, but the

Committee will not hear further

comments during this time except at the

request of the chairperson. The

Committee will allow an approximately

30-minute open public session for any

attendee to address issues specific to the

topic. After that open session, the

members will vote, and the Committee

will make its recommendation.

Authority: 5 U.S.C. App. 2, section 10(a)(1)

and (a)(2).

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program No. 93.774, Medicare—

Supplementary Medical Insurance Program)

Dated: May 8, 2001.

Jeffrey L. Kang,

Director, Office of Clinical Standards and

Quality, Health Care Financing

Administration.

[FR Doc. 01–12582 Filed 5–17–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4120–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service

Mental Health and Community Safety

Initiative for American Indian/Alaska

Native Children, Youth, and Families

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of funding availability

for competitive grants for the Mental

Health and Community Safety Initiative

for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/

AN) Children, Youth, and Families.

SUMMARY: The Indian Health Service

(IHS) announces the availability of

competitive grants under the Mental

Health and Community Safety Initiative

for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/

AN) Children, Youth, and Families for

fiscal year (FY) 2001. Grants under this

Initiative will be administered by the

following Federal Agencies:

(1) The Center for Substance Abuse

Treatment (CSAT) and the Center for

Mental Health Services (CMHS),

Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Services Administration (SAMHSA),

United States Department of Health and

Human Services (HHS);

(2) The Office of Community Oriented

Policing Services (COPS) and the Office

of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Prevention (OJJDP), United States

Department of Justice (DOJ); and

(3) The Office of Elementary and

Secondary Education (OESE), United

States Department of Education (ED).

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The Initiative will provide tribes and

tribal organizations with easy-to-access

assistance in developing innovative

strategies that focus on the mental

health, behavioral, substance abuse, and

community safety needs of AI/AN

young people and their families through

a coordinated Federal grant process.

Total funding for the four grant

programs involved in the Initiative is

approximately $4.95 million.

The primary purpose of the Initiative

is to promote AI/AN youth mental

health, education, and substance abuserelated (alcohol as well as drug abuse)

services, and to support juvenile

delinquency prevention and

intervention through the creation and

implementation of culturally sensitive

programs. Grant funds will be available

for the Initiative beginning in FY 2001,

and a coordinated grant program may

continue subject to the availability of

funds.

The Initiative will support tribes in

providing a range of youth support

services and programs to address the

mental health and related needs of AI/

AN young people and their families

through various settings within the

community, such as in the home, in the

schools, in violence prevention

education programs, in health care

treatment programs, and in the juvenile

justice system. Interagency programs are

included in this effort based upon their

combined potential to comprehensively

address mental health, juvenile justice,

and related issues. As part of this

Initiative, tribes are encouraged to

promote coordination and collaboration

among the local programs that serve

young people in their communities.

Tribes are strongly encouraged to

apply for one or more of the grant

programs included in the Initiative. In

submitting an application(s), tribes

should identify the complex community

issues involved and demonstrate how

the proposed application(s) will provide

for a comprehensive approach to

addressing and attempting to solve these

issues.

Government Agencies Providing Grants

Funding

A. The HHS agency providing grant

funding for the Initiative is SAMHSA;

two Centers, CSAT and CMHS, are

providing separate funding.

1. CSAT

The CSAT has available

approximately $1 million in FY 2001 for

1-year grant awards for the AI/AN

Community Planning Program. The

average award may range from $100,000

to $150,000 depending on the size of the

identified service population of the

applicant. The focus of the grant

program is to support planning and

consensus building, lending to the

development of local substance abuse

treatment plans, especially in those

communities not previously successful

in applying for service funding. The

average award may range from $100,000

to $150,000 in total (direct and indirect)

costs. Actual funding will depend on

availability of funds to SAMHSA.

Grants will be awarded for a period of

12 months.

This program will support the

development of plans that describe how

tribal governments and organizations

providing services to urban Indian

communities, and other indigenous

community organizations, will work

together to deliver integrated substance

abuse treatment and related services,

such as HIV/AIDS prevention, mental

health services, primary care, and other

public health services. The grants are

made up of two types: (1) Development

of a community planning process, and

(2) Implementation of a services

integration plan. The current

announcement is for Phase I grants only.

Subject to the availability of future

funding and accomplishment of Phase I,

CSAT may issue a Phase II

announcement in the future.

This program is described in the

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

under #93.230. The deadline for receipt

of applications is July 10, 2001.

For information regarding this

SAMHSA program contact Maria Burns,

Program Management Officer, Division

of Practice and Systems Development,

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment,

5600 Fishers Lane, RWII, Suite 740,

Rockville, MD 20857, (301) 443–7611,

Fax: (301) 443–3543,

e-mail:mburns@samhsa.gov.

2. CMHS

The CMHS has approximately $2.4

million available for 3-year grant awards

to AI/AN tribal governments and urban

organizations for the Circles of Care

Initiative. The average award may range

from $250,000 to $350,000 depending

on the size of the identified service

population. This Initiative supports

planning, designing, and assessing the

feasibility of implementing a culturally

appropriate system of care for AI/AN

children and their families who are

experiencing or are at risk of serious

emotional/behavioral disturbance. This

is the second issuance of the grant

program which seeks to provide tribal

communities with tools and resources to

design systems of care for their children

that reflect the unique needs of their

communities. This grant program will

not fund actual services. An important

focus will be to integrate traditional

healing methods indigenous to the

communities with conventional

treatment methodologies.

This program is described in the

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

under #93.230. The deadline for receipt

of applications is May 10, 2001.

For information regarding this

SAMHSA program, contact Jill Shepard

Erickson, M.S.W., Public Health

Advisor, or Gary De Carolis, M.Ed.,

Chief, Child, Adolescent and Family

Branch, Center for Mental Health

Services, Substance Abuse and Mental

Health Services Administration, Suite

11C–16, Parklawn Building, 5600

Fishers Ln., Rm. 6A–54, Rockville, MD

20857, (301) 443–1333, Fax: (301) 443–

3693, e-mail: jerickso@samhsa.gov.

B. DOJ agencies providing grant

funding for the Initiative are COPS and

OJJDP.

1. COPS

The DOJ/COPS announces the

availability of $550,000 for the Mental

Health and Community Safety Initiative

for AI/AN Children, Youth, and

Families. Grants will be awarded for

salaries and benefits for new police

officers, as well as law enforcement

training and equipment, including

technology and vehicles, for new and

existing police officers. Resources

funded under this program (officer

positions, equipment, and/or training)

must be used to address the mental

health, behavioral, and substance abuse

needs of Native American youth and

their families and provide a range of

youth support services and programs

both in the community and in the

school arena. Sworn police officers must

be deployed as Community Resource

Officers or as School Resource Officers

that engage in community policing

activities. Salaries and benefits cover a

3-year period. A 25% local match

requirement may be waived on the basis

of demonstrated fiscal distress. All

applicants must submit a written plan to

retain their COPS-funded officer

positions after Federal funding has

ended.

Included in this $550,000 offering is

$50,000 made available by the U.S.

Department of Education, Safe and

Drug-Free Schools and Communities, to

support activities that combat alcohol,

tobacco, and other drugs, as well as

violence prevention education activities

in school- or community-based settings.

These activities will be implemented by

police officers serving as School

Resource or Community Resource

Officers. Training in these topic areas

will be provided as well as technical

assistance to assess needs and to

develop a community-wide

collaborative implementation plan to

address these needs. Once an

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implementation plan is developed,

Community and/or School Resource

Officers will be expected to engage in

activities—along with their law

enforcement activities—as part of the

plan to address those community and/

or school issues. Examples of such

activities might include:

Teach school-based drug or crime

prevention programs;

Teach problem-solving courses and

supervise tailored responses to

problems;

Run after-school programs and recruit

parents and other volunteers to assist;

Form task forces of students, parents,

teachers, and others to identify

concerns;

Implement crime prevention through

environmental design projects in the

community or school settings;

Refer youth/students to appropriate

treatment programs; and

Focus on specific problems like

truancy.

This program is described in the

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

under #16.710. The deadline for receipt

of applications is June 22, 2001.

For further information regarding this

COPS program, please contact: Linda

Rosen, Policy Analyst, Office of

Community Oriented Policing Services

(COPS), U.S. Department of Justice,

1100 Vermont Avenue, NW., 8th Floor,

Washington, DC 20530, (202) 616–2879,

Fax: (202) 514–9272, e-mail:

linda.rosen@usdoj.gov.

2. OJJDP

The purpose of the Tribal Youth

Program (TYP) Mental Health Initiative

is to support and enhance tribal efforts

for comprehensive delinquency

prevention and control as well as

improve juvenile justice systems for

Native American youth. In FY 2001, $1

million of the total appropriation for the

TYP has been set aside to provide

mental health services to adjudicated

youth in Tribal and/or State juvenile

justice systems. The programs or

projects to be funded must provide

mental health services through one or

more of the following activities:

(1) Reduce, control, and prevent crime

and delinquency both by and against

tribal youth;

(2) Provide interventions for courtinvolved tribal youth;

(3) Improve tribal juvenile justice

systems; and

(4) Provide prevention programs

focusing on alcohol and drugs.

This program is described in the

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

under #16.731. The deadline for receipt

of applications is July 6, 2001.

For more information, please contact:

Laura Ansera, Program Manager, Tribal

Youth Program, Office of Juvenile

Justice and Delinquency Prevention

(OJJDP), State Relations and Assistance

Division, U.S Department of Justice, 810

Seventh Street, NW., Washington, DC

20531, (202) 307–5924, Fax: (202) 307–

2819, e-mail: anseral@ojp.usdoj.gov.

Distribution of Grant Application Kits

The SAMHSA, COPS, and OJJDP are

preparing a single, consolidated grant

application package that will include

the program announcement and

application kit for each of the four grant

programs described above. The

consolidated application package will

be distributed on or about May 1, 2001.

A package will be sent directly to (1) the

Tribal Chairman of every federally

recognized tribe; (2) the Director of

every tribal organization as defined by

section 4(1) of Publication Law 93–638,

Indian Self-Determination and

Education Assistance Act, as amended;

and (3) the Director of every tribal

health department.

To request additional application

packages, please contact: Office of

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Prevention, Juvenile Justice Clearing

House, 2277 Research Boulevard,

Rockville, Maryland 20850.

Reference: Mental Health and

Community Safety Initiative for

American Indian/Alaska Native

Children, Youth, and Families

(Solicitation #476), Telephone: 1–800–

638–8736.

Dated: May 14, 2001.

Michel E. Lincoln,

Deputy Director, Indian Health Services.

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BILLING CODE 4160–16–M

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Indian Health Service

Indians Into Medicine Programs

AGENCY: Indian Health Service, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of funds availability for

competitive grant applications for the

Indians Into Medicine Program.

SUMMARY: The Indian Health Service

(IHS) announces that competitive grant

applications are being accepted for the

Indians Into Medicine (INMED) Program

established by section 114 of the Indian

Health Care Improvement Act of 1976

(25 U.S.C. 1612), as amended by Public

Law 102–573. There will be only one

funding cycle during fiscal year (FY)

2001. This program is described at

93.970 in the Catalog of Federal

Domestic Assistance and is governed by

regulations at 42 CFR 36.310 et seq.

Costs will be determined in accordance

with applicable OMB Circulars.

Executive Order 12372 requiring

intergovernmental review does not

apply to this program.

The Public Health Service (PHS) is

committed to achieving the health

promotion and disease prevention

objectives of Healthy People 2010, a

PHS-led activity for setting priority

areas.

This program announcement is

related to the priority area of

Educational and Community-based

programs. Potential applicants may

obtain a copy of Healthy People 2010,

summary report in print, Stock No. 017–

001–00579–9, or via CD–ROM, Stock

No. 107–001–00549–5, through the

Superintendent of Documents,

Government Printing Office, P.O. Box

371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250–7945,

(202) 512–1800. You may access this

information via the Internet at the

following website: www.health.gov/

healthypeople/publication

Smoke Free Workplace: The PHS

strongly encourages all grant recipients

to provide a smoke-free workplace and

promote the non-use of all tobacco

products, and Public Law 103–227, the

Pro-Children Act of 1994, prohibits

smoking in certain facilities that receive

Federal funds in which education,

library, day care, health care, and early

childhood development services are

provided to children.

DATES: A. Application Receipt Date—An

original and two (2) copies of the

completed grant application must be

submitted with all required

documentation to the Grants

Management Branch, Division of

Acquisition and Grants Management,

Twinbrook Building, Suite 100, 12300

Twinbrook Parkway, Rockville,

Maryland 20852, by close of business

June 1, 2001.

Applications shall be considered as

meeting the deadline if they are either:

(1) Received on or before the deadline

with hand-carried applications received

by close of business 5 p.m.; or (2)

postmarked on or before the deadline

date and received in time to be reviewed

along with all other timely applications.

A legibly dated receipt from a

commercial carrier or the U.S. Postal

Service will be accepted in lieu of a

postmark. Private metered postmarks

will not be accepted as proof of timely

mailing. Late applications not accepted

for processing will be returned to the

applicant and will not be considered for

funding.

Additional Dates:

1. Application Review: July 13, 2001.