[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 7, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9350-9351]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-3124]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration


Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 Funding Opportunities

AGENCY: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of funding availability.

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SUMMARY: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 
(SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) announces the 
availability of FY 2001 funds for grants for the following activity. 
This notice is not a complete description of the activity; potential 
applicants must obtain a copy of the Program Announcement, including 
Part I, CSAP Cooperative Agreement for the Southeast Center for the 
Application of Prevention Technologies, and Part II, General Policies 
and Procedures Applicable to all SAMHSA Applications for Discretionary 
Grants and Cooperative Agreements, before preparing and submitting an 
application.

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                                                                Est. funds FY     Est. No. of
              Activity                  Application deadline         2001            awards       Project period
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Cooperative Agreement for the         March 22, 2001.........      $1,500,000                1          2 years
 Southeast Center for the
 Application of Prevention
 Technologies.
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    The actual amount available for the award may vary, depending on 
unanticipated program requirements and the number and quality of 
applications received. FY 2001 funds for the activity discussed in this 
announcement were appropriated by the Congress under Public Law 106-
310. SAMHSA's policies and procedures for peer review and Advisory 
Council review of grant and cooperative agreement applications were 
published in the Federal Register (Vol. 58, No. 126, page 35962) on 
July 2, 1993.
    General Instructions: Applicants must use application form PHS 
5161-1 (Rev. 7/00). The application kit contains the two-part 
application materials (complete programmatic guidance and instructions 
for preparing and submitting applications), the PHS 5161-1 which 
includes Standard Form 424 (Face Page), and other documentation and 
forms. Application kits may be obtained from: National Clearinghouse 
for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI), P.O. Box 2345, Rockville, MD 
20847-2345. Telephone: 1-800-729-6686.
    The PHS 5161-1 application form and the full text of the activity 
are also available electronically via SAMHSA's World Wide Web Home 
Page: http://www.samhsa.gov.
    When requesting an application kit, the applicant must specify the 
particular activity for which detailed information is desired. All 
information necessary to apply, including where to submit applications 
and application deadline instructions, are included in the application 
kit.
    Purpose: The cooperative agreement for SE Center for Application of 
Prevention Technology, number SP01-001, referred to as ``The SE CAPT,'' 
solicits applications for projects that provide clients with technical 
assistance and training in order to apply consistently the latest 
research-based knowledge about effective substance abuse prevention 
programs, practices, and policies.
    Eligible Applicants: Applications may be submitted by public and 
private domestic nonprofit entities such as units of State or local 
government, community-based organizations, universities, colleges, and 
hospitals. Applicants must be physically located within the National 
Prevention Network's Southeast Region.
    Amount: CSAP is making $1.5 million available to support one award 
under this GFA in FY 2001. This $1.5 million amount may be increased 
using CSAP and other funds in each year of the project up to a total of 
$3 million. Actual funding levels for each budget period may be 
significantly augmented on a discretionary basis if current exploratory 
talks with other federal agencies sharing our interest in substance 
abuse prevention result in interagency agreements transferring funds to 
us for this program's use. There may be no such increases. However, 
under optimum conditions, substantial increases of funding in any given 
year are possible. Such increases would be for the purpose of providing 
the same services to the same clients with greater frequency or to 
additional clients. All potential applicants should also be aware that 
any expansion based on interagency agreements for this purpose will not 
be competed but will be limited to the applicant funded under this 
announcement.
    Period of Support: Support may be requested for a period of up to 
two years. An annual award will be made subject to continued 
availability of funds and progress achieved.
    Criteria for Review and Funding:
    General Review Criteria: Competing applications requesting funding 
under this activity will be reviewed for technical merit in accordance 
with established PHS/SAMHSA peer review procedures. Review criteria 
that will be used by the peer review groups are specified in the 
application guidance material.
    Award Criteria for Scored Applications: Applications will be 
considered for funding on the basis of their overall technical merit as 
determined through the peer review group and the appropriate National 
Advisory Council review process.
    Availability of funds will also be an award criteria. Additional 
award criteria specific to the programmatic activity

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may be included in the application guidance materials.
    Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.230.
    Program Contact: For questions concerning program issues, contact:

Ms. Luisa del Carmen Pollard, M.A., Division of Prevention Application 
and Education, CSAP, SAMHSA, Rockwall II, Suite 800, 5600 Fishers Lane, 
Rockville, MD 20857, Telephone: 301/443-6728
      or
Jon Rolf, Ph.D., Division of Prevention Application and Education, 
CSAP, SAMHSA, Rockwall II, Suite 800, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 
20857, Telephone: 301/443-0380.

    For questions regarding grants management issues, contact: Edna 
Frazier, Division of Grants Management, OPS, SAMHSA, Rockwall II, Suite 
640, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, (301)443-6816.
    Public Health System Reporting Requirements: The Public Health 
System Impact Statement (PHSIS) is intended to keep State and local 
health officials apprised of proposed health services grant and 
cooperative agreement applications submitted by community-based 
nongovernmental organizations within their jurisdictions.
    Community-based nongovernmental service providers who are not 
transmitting their applications through the State must submit a PHSIS 
to the head(s) of the appropriate State and local health agencies in 
the area(s) to be affected not later than the pertinent receipt date 
for applications. This PHSIS consists of the following information:
    a. A copy of the face page of the application (Standard form 424).
    b. A summary of the project (PHSIS), not to exceed one page, which 
provides:
    (1) A description of the population to be served.
    (2) A summary of the services to be provided.
    (3) A description of the coordination planned with the appropriate 
State or local health agencies.
    State and local governments and Indian Tribal Authority applicants 
are not subject to the Public Health System Reporting Requirements.
    Application guidance materials will specify if a particular FY 2001 
activity is subject to the Public Health System Reporting Requirements.
    PHS Non-use of Tobacco Policy Statement: The PHS strongly 
encourages all grant and contract recipients to provide a smoke-free 
workplace and promote the non-use of all tobacco products. In addition, 
Public Law 103-227, the Pro-Children Act of 1994, prohibits smoking in 
certain facilities (or in some cases, any portion of a facility) in 
which regular or routine education, library, day care, health care, or 
early childhood development services are provided to children. This is 
consistent with the PHS mission to protect and advance the physical and 
mental health of the American people.
    Executive Order 12372: Applications submitted in response to the FY 
2001 activity listed above are subject to the intergovernmental review 
requirements of Executive Order 12372, as implemented through DHHS 
regulations at 45 CFR part 100. E.O. 12372 sets up a system for State 
and local government review of applications for Federal financial 
assistance. Applicants (other than Federally recognized Indian tribal 
governments) should contact the State's Single Point of Contact (SPOC) 
as early as possible to alert them to the prospective application(s) 
and to receive any necessary instructions on the State's review 
process. For proposed projects serving more than one State, the 
applicant is advised to contact the SPOC of each affected State. A 
current listing of SPOCs is included in the application guidance 
materials. The SPOC should send any State review process 
recommendations directly to: Division of Extramural Activities, Policy, 
and Review, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 
Parklawn Building, Room 17-89, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 
20857.
    The due date for State review process recommendations is no later 
than 60 days after the specified deadline date for the receipt of 
applications. SAMHSA does not guarantee to accommodate or explain SPOC 
comments that are received after the 60-day cut-off.

    Dated: January 31, 2001.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
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