[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 246 (Wednesday, December 23, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71147-71148]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-33876]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
[Docket No. FR-4118-FA-03]
Research to Improve the Evaluation and Control of Residential
Lead-Based Paint Hazards, Fiscal Year 1997
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary--Office of Lead Hazard Control.
ACTION: Announcement of funding awards.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989, this announcement
notifies the public of funding decisions made by the Department in a
competition for funding under the NOFA for Research to Improve the
Evaluation and Control of Residential Lead-Based Paint. This
announcement contains the names and addresses of the award recipients
and the amounts of awards.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter J. Ashley, DrPH, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC
20410, telephone (202) 755-1785, ext 115. Hearing-and speech-impaired
persons may access the number above via TTY by calling the toll free
Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the competition was to award
grant funding of approximately $2,500,000 for grants and cooperative
agreements for research to improve the evaluation and control of lead-
based paint hazards.
The 1997 awards announced in this Notice were selected for funding
in a competition announced in a Federal Register notice published on
November 27, 1996 (61 FR 60499). Applications were scored and selected
on the basis of selection criteria contained in that Notice.
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this program
is 14.900.
A total of $3,614,852 was awarded to ten grantees. In accordance
with section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 U.S.C. 3545), the
Department is publishing the names, addresses, and amounts of those
awards as follows.
National Center for Lead-Safe Housing, 10227 Wincopin Circle Suite
205, Columbia, MD 21044, $654,000
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854,
$620,000
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Public Health Institute, 2001 Addison Rd., Suite 210, Berkeley, CA
94704, $573,889
Research Triangle Institute, 3040 Cornwallis Rd., Research Triangle
Park, NC 27709, $497,000
Battelle Memorial Institute, 505 King Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201,
$361,000
University of Cincinnati, Department of Environmental Health, P.O.
Box 670056, Cincinnati, OH 45267, $340,000
QuanTech, Inc., 1911 N. Fort Myer Dr., Rosslyn, VA 22209, $260,000
Kennedy Krieger Research Institute, 707 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD
21205, $150,000
Saint Louis University School of Public Health, 3663 Lindell Blvd.,
St. Louis, MO 63108, $148,963
Critical Hygiene, Inc., 4428 Ironwood Dr., Virginia Beach, VA 23462,
$10,000
Dated: December 17, 1998.
David E. Jacobs,
Director, Office of Lead Hazard Control
[FR Doc. 98-33876 Filed 12-22-98; 8:45 am]
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