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health professionals such as pharmacy, 

medicine, or behavioral health students, 

D. Integrate and emphasize an 

Evidence Based Practice (EBP) 

curriculum, 

E. Have student clinical rotations 

established with Indian health 

programs, 

F. Provide access to the nursing 

curriculum using distance learning, 

G. Have formal bridge program 

agreements between Tribal colleges or 

universities to accommodate License 

Practical Nurse (LPN) to Associate 

Degree in Nursing (ADN)/BSN or BSN to 

Master’s of Science in Nursing (MSN)/ 

Doctorate in Nursing Practice (DNP) 

students, 

H. Have a faculty exchange program 

between a Tribal college and UND 

School of Nursing to enhance cultural 

relevance, competency, and faculty 

strength, 

I. Have an emphasis on transcultural 

nursing and cultural competency, and 

J. Have a rural health focus. 

Continuation awards are subject to the 

availability of funds and satisfactory 

performance. 

To obtain application instructions 

please click on the following link and go 

to the funding opportunities: http:// 

www.ihs.gov/NonMedicalPrograms/ 

gogp/index.cfm?rnodule=gogp_funding. 

Criteria 

A. Methodology (40 Points) 

Applicants must train nurses at the 

graduate level in nurse anesthesia, nurse 

midwifery, nurse practitioners, nursing 

healthcare administration, or 

undergraduate level at the BSN degree 

level and should provide this training in 

an interdisciplinary manner. The 

applicant’s curriculum should be 

available via a distance learning model 

and emphasize and integrate EBP, 

transcultural nursing, and include a 

rural health focus. Applicants must 

define how they will locate and recruit 

American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/ 

AN) students and provide support 

services to AI/AN students who are 

recruited to facilitate their success in 

the nursing program and to track their 

progress. Applicants must define how 

they will assist the graduate nurse with 

job placement and track their payback 

status to ensure that the obligees comply 

with the terms of their service 

obligation. Applicants should have a 

mechanism in place to provide their 

students with clinical rotations in AI/ 

AN health programs, have a bridge 

program agreement between Tribal 

colleges or universities so as to 

accommodate LPN to ADN/BSN or BSN 

to MSN/DNP and have a faculty 

exchange program with a Tribal college 

or university and a university school of 

nursing. 

B. Capacity (20 Points) 

Applicants must provide verification 

of accreditation and show that they are 

capable of conducting the project from 

a technical and business standpoint by 

providing the qualifications and 

credentials of key personnel and a 

sound fiscal plan using the grant funds. 

Applicants for the Graduate or 

Bachelor’s level grants must submit 

verifying documentation of National 

League of Nursing Accreditation 

Commission or American Association of 

Colleges of Nursing Commission on 

Collegiate Nursing Education 

accreditation. All programs must submit 

verifying documentation of State 

approval. 

C. Need (15 Points) 

Applicants must justify the need for 

their project and provide a plan for the 

methodology they will use for recruiting 

AI/AN students nationwide as well as 

how they will actively assist nursing 

graduates with job placement. 

Applicants must recruit and train AI/ 

AN individuals to be nurses at the 

graduate and undergraduate level and 

provide scholarships to those AI/AN 

individuals enrolled in the school of 

nursing to pay tuition, books, fees, and 

stipends for living expenses; provide a 

program that encourages AI/AN nurses 

at the graduate and undergraduate level 

to provide or continue to provide, 

health care services in AI/AN health 

care programs; and provide a program 

that increases the skills of, and provides 

continuing education, to AI/AN nurses 

at the graduate and undergraduate level. 

D. Evaluation (15 Points) 

Applicants must present a plan for 

evaluating their success in carrying out 

the project and on an annual basis 

conduct a quantitative and qualitative 

evaluation of their year’s activities, 

identifying what areas of the project 

need to be improved and how they will 

make those improvements. Applicants 

must identify how they will meet on an 

annual basis with the other project 

directors and staff under this grant 

program to share successes and 

challenges and to receive Federal grant 

training. 

E. Prior Experience (10 Points) 

The UND must identify their 

experience with other similar projects, 

including the results of those projects 

and provide evidence of their past or 

potential cooperation and experience 

with AI/AN communities and Tribes 

and how UND Works with the Center 

for Gifted and Talented Indian Students 

established under section 5324(a) of the 

Indian Education Act of 1988. 

Agency Contacts(s): 

For program-related information, 

contact Ms. Sandra L. Haldane, BSN, 

RN, MS, Director, Division of Nursing 

Services, Office of Clinical and 

Prevention Services, Indian Health 

Service, 801 Thompson Avenue, 

Reyes Building, Suite 300, Rockville, 

MD 20852, (301) 443–1840. 

For grants-related information, contact 

Ms. Norma Jean Dunne, Grants 

Management Specialist, Division of 

Grants Operations, Indian Health 

Service, 801 Thompson Avenue, TMP 

360, Rockville, MD 20852, (301) 443–

5204. (The telephone numbers are not 

toll-free numbers). 

Dated: September 2, 2008. 

Robert G. McSwain, 

Director, Indian Health Service. 

[FR Doc. E8–20907 Filed 9–9–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4165–16–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

Center for Scientific Review; Amended 

Notice of Meeting 

Notice is hereby given of a change in 

the meeting of the Molecular and 

Integrative Signal Transduction Study 

Section, October 2, 2008, 8 a.m. to 

October 3, 2008, 5:30 p.m., Sheraton 

Delfina Santa Monica Hotel, 530 West 

Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 

90405 which was published in the 

Federal Register on August 18, 2008, 73 

FR 48219–48220. 

The meeting will be held one day 

only October 2, 2008. The meeting time 

and location remain the same. The 

meeting is closed to the public. 

Dated: September 3, 2008. 

Jennifer Spaeth, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. E8–20908 Filed 9–9–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

National Institutes of Health 

National Institute on Aging; Notice of 

Closed Meetings 

Pursuant to section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice 


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is hereby given of the following 

meetings. 

The meetings will be closed to the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions set forth in sections 

552b(c)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5 U.S.C., 

as amended. The grant applications and 

the discussions could disclose 

confidential trade secrets or commercial 

property such as patentable material, 

and personal information concerning 

individuals associated with the grant 

applications, the disclosure of which 

would constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of personal privacy. 

Name of Committee: National Institute on 

Aging Special Emphasis Panel Nursing 

Homes. 

Date: October 2, 2008. 

Time: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: Embassy Suite Hotel, 4300 Military 

Road, Washington, DC 20015 (Telephone 

Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Alicja L. Markowska, PhD, 

DSC, National Institute on Aging, 7201 

Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 2C212, Bethesda, 

MD 20892, 301–496–9666, 

markowsania@nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: National Institute on 

Aging Special Emphasis Panel Biomarkers. 

Date: October 3, 2008. 

Time: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institute on Aging, 

Gateway Bldg., 7201 Wisconsin Avenue, RM 

20212, Bethesda, MD 20892 (Telephone 

Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Ramesh Vemuri, PhD, 

Chief, Scientific Review Office, National 

Institute on Aging, National Institutes of 

Health, 7201 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 20–

212, Bethesda, MD 20892, 301–402–7700, 

rv23r@nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: National Institute on 

Aging Special Emphasis Panel Posterior 

Association Cortex in Aging, MCI, and AD. 

Date: October 7, 2008. 

Time: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institute of Health 

Gateway, 7201 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 

20212, Bethesda, MD 20814 (Telephone 

Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Alicja L. Markowska, PhD, 

DSC, National Institute on Aging, 7201 

Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 2C212, Bethesda, 

MD 20892, 301–496–9666, 

markowsania@nih.gov. 

Name of Committee: National Institute on 

Aging Special Emphasis Panel Long Term 

Consequences of Delirium. 

Date: October 29, 2008. 

Time: 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

Agenda: To review and evaluate grant 

applications. 

Place: National Institute on Aging, 

Gateway Building, 7201 Wisconsin Avenue, 

2C212, Bethesda, MD 20892 (Telephone 

Conference Call). 

Contact Person: Jeannette L. Johnson, PhD, 

Scientific Review Officer, National Institutes 

on Aging, National Institutes of Health, 7201 

Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 2c212, Bethesda, 

MD 20892, 301–402–7705, 

JOHNSONJ9@NIA.NIH.GOV. 

(Catalogue of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 93.866, Aging Research, 

National Institutes of Health, HHS) 

Dated: September 3, 2008. 

Jennifer Spaeth, 

Director, Office of Federal Advisory 

Committee Policy. 

[FR Doc. E8–20909 Filed 9–9–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4140–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5194–N–14] 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: Comment Request; Study 

of Capital Needs in the Public Housing 

Program 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Public and Indian 

Housing, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: The proposed information 

collection requirement described below 

will be submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. The Department is 

soliciting public comments on the 

subject proposal. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: November 

10, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Comments should refer to 

the proposal by name or OMB Control 

Number and should be sent to: Lillian 

L. Deitzer, Departmental Reports 

Management Officer, QDAM, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street, SW., 

Room 4178, Washington, DC 20410–

5000; telephone 202–402–8048 (this is 

not a toll-free number) or e-mail Ms. 

Deitzer at Lillian.L.Deitzer@hud.gov for 

a copy of the proposed interview guides, 

survey instruments, or other available 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Schulhof, Office of Policy, 

Program and Legislative Initiatives, PIH, 

Department of Housing and Urban 

Development, 451 7th Street, SW., 

Room 4116, Washington, DC 20410; 

telephone 202–708–0713 (this is not a 

toll-free number). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department will submit the proposed 

information collection to OMB for 

review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35, as amended). This Notice is 

soliciting comments from members of 

the public and affected agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information to: (1) Evaluate whether the 

proposed collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information; (3) enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (4) minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, including 

through the use of appropriate 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology; 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

This Notice also lists the following 

information: 

Title of Proposal: Study of Capital 

Needs in the Public Housing Program. 

OMB Control Number: 2577-pending. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: In 

response to a congressional request, the 

Department is conducting a study of the 

existing and accrual capital needs of the 

public housing stock. Through a 

combination of on-site inspections and 

Public Housing Authority (PHA) 

interviews, capital needs will be 

estimated at the national level for 

subcategories such as housing authority 

size (measured by number of ACC units) 

and region. The findings will be 

compared to those from an earlier study, 

Capital Needs of the Public Housing 

Stock in 1998: Formula Capital Study 

(January 30, 2000), to illustrate how 

existing and accrual needs have 

changed over time. The study is also 

required to investigate the feasibility of 

using Real Estate Assessment Center 

(REAC) inspections to facilitate ongoing 

estimates of public housing capital 

needs. The collected information will 

support budgeting, planning, and 

evaluation efforts by Congress and HUD. 

Agency form number, if applicable: 

Not applicable. 

Members of affected public: Staff from 

Public Housing Authorities included in 

the sample. 

Estimation of the total number of 

hours needed to prepare the information 

collection including number of 

respondents: The total burden for data 

collection is estimated at 4,820 hours 

(4,400 hours for physical inspections of 

units and 420 hours for a PHA survey). 

Since the entire data collection period is 


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