Final Funding Priorities for Special Project Grants to Schools of Public Health for Fiscal Year 1994

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Final Funding Priorities for Special Project Grants to Schools of

Public Health for Fiscal Year 1994

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces

the final funding priorities for fiscal year (FY) 1994 Special Projects

Grants to Schools of Public Health funded under the authority of

section 762, title VII of the Public Health Service Act, as amended by

the Health Professions Education Extension Amendments of 1992, Public

Law 102-408, dated October 13, 1992.

Purpose

Section 762 of the Public Health Service Act (the Act), as amended,

authorizes the Secretary to award grants to accredited schools of

public health for the costs of planning, developing, demonstrating,

operating, and evaluating projects that are in furtherance of the goals

established by the Secretary for the year 2000 in the area of:

(1) Preventive medicine;

(2) Health promotion and disease prevention;

(3) Improving access to and quality of health services in medically

underserved communities; or

(4) Reducing the incidence of domestic violence.

Final Funding Priorities

A notice which announced this grant cycle was published in the

Federal Register on February 17, 1994 at 59 FR 8009, and proposed two

funding priorities. No comments were received during the 30 day comment

period. Therefore, the priorities remain as proposed. The final

priorities are shown below.

A funding priority will be given to programs which demonstrate

either substantial progress over the last three years or a significant

experience of ten or more years in enrolling and graduating trainees

from those minority or low-income populations identified as at risk of

poor health outcomes.

A funding priority will also be given for projects that address the

program purpose of reducing the incidence of domestic violence.

Additional Information

If additional programmatic information is needed, please contact:

Ronald B. Merrill, Public Health Branch, Division of Associated,

Dental, and Public Health Professions, Bureau of Health Professions,

Health Resources and Services Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, room

8C-09, Rockville, Maryland 20857, Telephone: (301) 443-6896.

This program, Special Project Grants to Schools of Public Health,

is listed at 93.188 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: May 20, 1994.

Ciro V. Sumaya,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 94-12856 Filed 5-25-94; 8:45 am]

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