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Hyattsville, Maryland 20782, telephone 301/

436–7050.

Dated: January 3, 1995.

William H. Gimson,

Acting Associate Director for Policy

Coordination, Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC).

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BILLING CODE 4163–18–M

Health Resources and Services

Administration

Program Announcement and Proposed

Review Criteria for Grants for Geriatric

Education Centers for Fiscal Year 1995

The Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA) announces the

acceptance of applications for fiscal year

(FY) 1995, Grants for Geriatric

Education Centers under the authority

of section 777(a) of the Public Health

Service Act, as amended by the Health

Professions Education Extension

Amendments of 1992, Pub. L. 102–408,

dated October 13, 1992. Comments are

invited on the proposed review criteria.

Approximately $6,000,000 will be

available in FY 1995 for this program.

Total continuation support

recommended is $4,100,000. It is

anticipated that $1,900,000 will be

available to support 13 competing

awards averaging $145,000.

Applicants should apply for direct

costs of no more than $100,000 (for

single institutions) and no more than

$150,000 (for consortia of three of more

institutions) for the first year of funding.

Eligibility

Section 777(a) of the PHS Act

authorizes the award of grants to

accredited health professions schools as

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.

To receive support, applicants must

meet the requirements of regulations as

set forth in 42 CFR part 57, subpart 00.

The initial period of Federal support

should not exceed 3 years. Projects may

recompete for an additional 3 years.

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.

Grant supported projects may be

designed to accomplish the statutory

purposes in a variety of ways,

emphasizing interdisciplinary/

multidisciplinary, and disciplinespecific approaches to the development

of geriatric education resources. For

example:

• Health professions schools within a

single academic health center, or a

consortium of several educational

institutions, may share their educational

resources and expertise through a

Geriatric Education Center to extend a

broad range of multidisciplinary

educational services outward to other

institutions, faculty, facilities and

practitioners within a geographic area

defined by the applicant.

• Educational institutions that have

limited geriatric education resources

and which traditionally have had

linkages to a geographic area where

substantial geriatric education needs

exist, may seek to establish a Geriatric

Education Center. Such a center could

be designed to enhance and expand the

capability of collaborating professional

schools to provide geriatric education

resources in the geographic area in

need.

• Projects may support the

development of Geriatric Education

Centers designed to focus on

multidisciplinary geriatric education

emphasizing high priority services and

high risk groups among the elderly,

minority aging, or other special

concerns.

National Health Objectives for the Year

2000

The Public Health Service (PHS) urges

applicants to submit work plans that

address specific objectives of Healthy

People 2000. Potential applicants may

obtain a copy of Healthy People 2000

(Full Report; Stock No. 017–001–00474–

0) or Healthy People 2000 (Summary

Report; Stock No. 017–001–00473–1)

through the Superintendent of

Documents, Government Printing

Office, Washington, D.C. 20402–9325

(Telephone 202–783–3238).

Education and Service Linkage

As part of its long-range planning,

HRSA will be targeting its efforts to

strengthening linkages between U.S.

Public Health Service supported

education programs and programs

which provide comprehensive primary

care services to the underserved.

Smoke-Free Workplace

The Public Health Service strongly

encourages all grant recipients to

provide a smoke-free workplace and

promote the non-use of all tobacco

products. This is consistent with the

PHS mission to protect and advance the

physical and mental health of the

American people.

Established and Proposed Review

Criteria

The following review criteria have

been established in 42 CFR part 57,

subpart OO and will be considered in

the review of applications:

(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;
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(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 cost-effective

manner, and;

(8) The potential of the project to

continue on a self-sustaining basis.

In addition, the following review

criteria are proposed:

(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.

Application Requests

Application materials will be sent

only to FY 1994 applicants and to those

entities making a request. Requests for

grant application materials and

questions regarding grants policy and

business management issues should be

directed to:

Ms. Jacquelyn Whitaker (D–31), Grants

Management Specialist, Bureau of

Health Professions, Health Resources

and Services Administration,

Parklawn Building, Room 8C–26,

5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,

Maryland 20857, telephone: (301)

443–6857.

Completed applications should be

returned to the Grants Management

Branch at the above address.

If additional programmatic

information is needed, please contact:

Ms. Pat Dols, 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.

The standard application form PHS

6025–1, HRSA Competing Training

Grant Application, General Instructions

and supplement for this program have

been approved by the Office of

Management and Budget under the

Paperwork Reduction Act. The OMB

clearance number is 0915–0060.

The deadline date for receipt of

applications is March 3, 1995.

Applications will be considered to be

‘‘on time’’ if they are either:

(1) Received on or before the

established deadline date, or

(2) Sent on or before the established

deadline date and received in time for

orderly processing. (Applicants should

request a legibly dated U.S. Postal

Service postmark or obtain a legibly

dated receipt from a commercial carrier

or U.S. Postal Service. Private metered

postmarks shall not be acceptable as

proof of timely mailing.)

Late applications not accepted for

processing will be returned to the

applicant.

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: December 30, 1994.

James A. Walsh,

Acting Administrator.

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BILLING CODE 4160–15–P

National Institutes of Health

National Cancer Institute; Amended

Notice of Meeting

Notice is hereby given of a change in

the times of some of the meetings of the

National Cancer Advisory Board

(NCAB) and its Subcommittees,

National Cancer Institute, January 9–11,

1995 at the National Institutes of Health,

which was published in the Federal

Register on January 4, 1995. All changes

are for meetings being held on January

10.

The closed portion of the NCAB

meeting will begin at 3:30 pm. The

meeting of the Subcommittee on

Planning and Budget will be held from

12:45 pm and to 2:00 pm. The meeting

of the Subcommittee on Information and

Cancer Control will be held from 1:30

pm to 3:30 pm. The Subcommittee on

Clinical Investigations will begin at 2:30

pm.

Dated: December 30, 1994.

Susan K. Feldman,

Committee Management Officer.

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BILLING CODE 4140–01–M

Public Health Service

[GN# 2292]

National Vaccine Advisory Committee;

Public Meeting

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Health.

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and

Human Services (DHHS) and the Office

of the Assistant Secretary for Health are

announcing the forthcoming meeting of

the National Vaccine Advisory

Committee.

DATES: Date, Time and Place: January

19, 1995 at 8:30 a.m.; and January 20,

at 8:30 a.m.; Hubert H. Humphrey

Building, room 703A, 200 Independence

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20201.

The entire meeting is open to the public.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Written requests to participate should

be sent to Jeannette R. De Lawter,

Committee Management Specialist,

National Vaccine Advisory Committee,

National Vaccine Program Office,

Rockwall II Building, suite 1075, 5600

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857 (301)

594–2277.

Agenda: Open Public Hearing

Interested persons may formally

present data, information, or views

orally or in writing on issues pending

before the Advisory Committee or on

any of the duties and responsibilities of

the Advisory Committee as described

below. Those wishing to make

presentations should notify the contact

person before January 13, 1995, and

submit a brief statement of the

information they wish to present to the

Advisory Committee. Requests should

include the names and addresses of

proposed participants and an indication

of the approximate time required to

make their comments. A maximum of

10 minutes will be allowed for a given

presentation. Any person attending the

meeting who does not request an

opportunity to speak in advance of the

meeting will be allowed to make an oral

presentation at the conclusion of the

meeting, if time permits, at the

chairperson’s discretion.

Open Advisory Committee Discussion

There will be updates on the National

Vaccine Program Office, and the

National Vaccine Compensation

Program. There will be discussions on

the one working subcommittee: Future

Vaccines, and the Interagency Working

Group on Pandemic Influenza. Meetings

of the Advisory Committee shall be

conducted, insofar as is practical, in

accordance with the agenda published

in the Federal Register notices. Changes