Final Criteria for Meeting the General Statutory Funding Preference for Grants for Nurse Anesthetist Faculty Fellowships for Fiscal Year 1994

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration

Final Criteria for Meeting the General Statutory Funding

Preference for Grants for Nurse Anesthetist Faculty Fellowships for

Fiscal Year 1994

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announces

the final criteria for meeting the general statutory funding preference

for fiscal year (FY) 1994 Grants for Nurse Anesthetist Faculty

Fellowships under the authority of section 831(b), title VIII of the

Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as amended by the Nurse Education and

Practice Improvement Amendments of 1992, title II of the Health

Professions Education Extension Amendments of 1992, Public Law 102-408,

dated October 13, 1992.

Purpose

Section 831(b) of the Public Health Service Act authorizes the

Secretary to make grants to provide financial assistance to certified

registered nurse anesthetists (CRNA) who are faculty members in

accredited programs to enable such nurse anesthetists to obtain

advanced education relevant to their teaching functions.

Statutory Funding Preference

Section 860(e) of the PHS Act, as amended by the Nurse Education

and Practice Improvement Amendments of 1992, title II of the Health

Professions Education Extension Amendments of 1992, Public Law 102-408,

enacted on October 13, 1992, provides for the following statutory

preference for this program of Grants for Nurse Anesthetist Faculty

Fellowships, as well as for certain other programs under titles VII and

VIII of the PHS Act.

Statutory 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 such 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 applications that have been recommended

for approval.

Final Criteria for Meeting the General Statutory Funding Preference

A notice was published in the Federal Register at 59 FR 25463 on

May 16, 1994 to announce the FY 1994 grant cycle for this program and

to propose the criteria for meeting the general statutory funding

preference. No comments were received during the 30 day comment period.

Therefore, the criteria for meeting the general statutory funding

preference remain as proposed.

For Grants for Nurse Anesthetist Faculty Fellowships, qualified

applicants will meet the general statutory funding preference if a

minimum of 50% of the nurse anesthetist faculty are teaching in

medically underserved communities.

Additional Information

If additional programmatic information is needed, please contact:

Ms. Donna English, Acting Chief, Nursing Practice Resources Section,

Division of Nursing. Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and

Services Administration, Parklawn Building, Room 9-36, 5600 Fishers

Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20857, Telephone: (301) 443-5763 Fax: (301)

443-8586.

This program, Grants for Nurse Anesthetist Faculty Fellowships, is

listed at 93.907 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: August 16, 1994.

Ciro V. Sumaya,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 94-20509 Filed 8-19-94; 8:45 am]

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