Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 72 / Friday, April 14, 1995 / Notices 19071

consideration of the information during

the 30-day review period.

This notice is issued under the

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

(sec. 802 (21 U.S.C. 382)) and under

authority delegated to the Commissioner

of Food and Drugs (21 CFR 5.10) and

redelegated to the Center for Drug

Evaluation and Research (21 CFR 5.44).

Dated: April 4, 1995.

Betty L. Jones,

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Compliance,

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

[FR Doc. 95–9283 Filed 4–13–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–01–F

Health Resources and Services

Administration

Final Minimum Percentages for ‘‘High

Rate’’ and ‘‘Significant Increase in the

Rate’’ for Implementation of the

General Statutory Funding Preference

for Grants for Podiatric Primary Care

Residency Training Programs

The Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA) announces the

final minimum percentages for ‘‘high

rate’’ and ‘‘significant increase in the

rate’’ for fiscal year (FY) 1995 Grants for

Podiatric Primary Care Residency

Training Programs under the authority

of section 751, title VII 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.

Purpose

Section 751 authorizes the award of

grants for the purpose of planning and

implementing projects in primary care

training for podiatric physicians in

approved or provisionally approved

residency programs which shall provide

financial assistance in the form of

traineeships to residents who

participate in such projects and who

plan to specialize in primary care.

Eligibility

Eligible entities for this program are

schools of podiatric medicine and

public and nonprofit private hospitals.

As noted above, the authorizing

legislation limits eligibility to residency

programs that are approved or

provisionally approved. The Council on

Podiatric Medical Education (CPME),

the recognized accrediting body for

podiatric medicine, uses the term

‘‘candidate status’’ in lieu of

‘‘provisional approval.’’ For the

purposes of this program ‘‘candidate

status’’ will be accepted as meeting the

statutory requirement for ‘‘provisional

approval.’’

General Statutory Funding Preference

As provided in section 791(a) of the

PHS Act, preference will be given to

qualified applicants that:

(1) have a high rate for placing

graduates in practice settings having the

principal focus of serving residents of

medically underserved communities; or

(2) have achieved, during the 2-year

period preceding the fiscal year for

which an award is sought, a significant

increase in the rate of placing graduates

in such settings.

This preference will only be applied

to applications that rank above the 20th

percentile of proposals recommended

for approval by the peer review group.

The minimum percentages for ‘‘high

rate’’ and ‘‘significant increase in the

rate’’ for the implementation of the

general statutory funding preference

were proposed for public comment in

the Federal Register on December 13,

1994 at 59 FR 64208. No comments

were received during the 30-day

comment period. Therefore, the

minimum percentages for ‘‘high rate’’

and ‘‘significant increase in the rate’’ for

the implementation of the general

statutory funding preference will be

retained as proposed.

Final Minimum Percentages for ‘‘High

Rate’’ and ‘‘Significant Increase in the

Rate’’ for the Implementation of the

General Statutory Funding Preference

‘‘High rate’’ is defined as a minimum

of 25 percent of the combined Podiatric

Primary Care Residency graduates in

academic years 1991–92, 1992–93 and

1993–94, who spend at least 50 percent

of their worktime in clinical practice in

medically underserved communities.

‘‘Significant increase in the rate’’

means that, between academic years

1992–93 and 1993–94, the rate of

placing graduates in medically

underserved communities has increased

by at least 50 percent and that not less

than 15 percent of graduates from the

most recent year are working in

medically underserved communities.

Additional Information

Requests for technical or

programmatic information should be

directed to: Ms. Martha Evans, Division

of Medicine, Bureau of Health

Professions, Health Resources and

Services Administration, Parklawn

Building, Room 9A–20, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857,

Telephone (301) 443–3614, FAX (301)

443–8890.

This program, Grants for Podiatric

Primary Care Residency Training

Programs, is listed at 93.181 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: April 7, 1995.

Ciro V. Sumaya,

Administrator.

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BILLING CODE 4160–15–P

Final Minimum Percentages for ‘‘High

Rate’’ and ‘‘Significant Increase in the

Rate’’ for Implementation of the

General Statutory Funding Preference

for Grants for Residency Training in

Preventive Medicine for Fiscal Year

1995

The Health Resources and Services

Administration (HRSA) announces the

final minimum percentages for ‘‘high

rate’’ and ‘‘significant increase in the

rate’’ for implementation of the general

statutory funding preference for fiscal

year (FY) 1995 Grants for Residency

Training in Preventive Medicine under

the authority of section 763, title VII 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.

Purpose

Section 763 of the Public Health

Service Act authorizes the Secretary to

make grants to meet the costs of

projects—

(1) to plan and develop new residency

training programs and to maintain or

improve existing residency training

programs in preventive medicine and

dental public health; and

(2) to provide financial assistance to

residency trainees enrolled in such

programs.

This program is limited to residency

training programs in preventive

medicine.

Eligibility

To be eligible for a Grant for

Residency Training in Preventive

Medicine, the applicant must be an

accredited public or private nonprofit

school of allopathic or osteopathic

medicine or a school of public health

located in a State. Also, an applicant

must demonstrate that it has, or will

have by the end of 1 year of grant

support, full-time faculty with training

and experience in the fields of

preventive medicine and support from

other faculty members trained in public

health and other relevant specialties and