[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 46 (Wednesday, March 10, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11940-11943]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-5906]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Fiscal Year (FY) 1999 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 1999 funds for the following activity. This activity
is discussed in more detail under Section 3 of this notice. This notice
is not a
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complete description of the activity; potential applicants must obtain
a copy of the Guidance for Applicants (GFA) before preparing an
application.
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Estimated
Activity Application Estimated funds available number of Project period
deadline awards
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Targeted SA & HIV/AIDS 6/17/99 $13.5 million............... 50 Up to 3 yrs.
Prevention.
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Note: SAMHSA also published notices of available funding
opportunities for FY 1999 in subsequent issues of the Federal
Register.
The actual amount available for awards and their allocation may
vary, depending on unanticipated program requirements and the volume
and quality of applications. Awards are usually made for grant periods
from one to three years in duration. FY 1999 funds for the activity
discussed in this announcement were appropriated by the Congress under
Public Law No. 105-277. 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)
on July 2, 1993.
The Public Health Service (PHS) is committed to achieving the
health promotion and disease prevention objectives of Healthy People
2000, a PHS-led national activity for setting priority areas. The
SAMHSA Centers' substance abuse and mental health services activities
address issues related to Healthy People 2000 objectives of Mental
Health and Mental Disorders; Alcohol and Other Drugs; Clinical
Preventive Services; HIV Infection; and Surveillance and Data Systems.
Potential applicants may obtain a copy of Healthy People 2000 (Full
Report: Stock No. 017-001-00474-0) or Summary Report: Stock No. 017-
001-00473-1) through the Superintendent of Documents, Government
Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9325 (Telephone: 202-512-1800).
General Instructions: Applicants must use application form PHS
5161-1 (Rev. 5/96; OMB No. 0937-0189). The application kit contains the
GFA (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 the organization specified for the activity
covered by this notice (see Section 3).
When requesting an application kit, the applicant must specify the
particular activity for which detailed information is desired. This is
to ensure receipt of all necessary forms and information, including any
specific program review and award criteria.
The PHS 5161-1 application form and the full text of each of the
activities (i.e., the GFA) described in Section 4 are available
electronically via SAMHSA's World Wide Web Home Page (address: http://
www.samhsa.gov).
Application Submission: Unless otherwise stated in the GFA,
applications must be submitted to: SAMHSA Programs, Center for
Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, Suite 1040, 6701
Rockledge Drive, MSC-7710, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7710.*
(* Applicants who wish to use express mail or courier service should
change the ZIP code to 20817.)
Application Deadlines: The deadline for receipt of applications is
listed in the table above.
Competing applications must be received by the indicated receipt
dates to be accepted for review. An application received after the
deadline may be acceptable if it carries a legible proof-of-mailing
date assigned by the carrier and that date is not later than one week
prior to the deadline date. Private metered postmarks are not
acceptable as proof of timely mailing.
Applications received after the deadline date and those sent to an
address other than the address specified above will be returned to the
applicant without review.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for activity-specific
technical information should be directed to the program contact person
identified for the activity covered by this notice (see Section 3).
Requests for information concerning business management issues
should be directed to the grants management contact person identified
for the activity covered by this notice (see Section 3).
Table of Contents
1. Program Background and Objectives
2. Criteria for Review and Funding
2.1 General Review Criteria
2.2 Funding Criteria for Scored Applications
3. Special FY 1999 SAMHSA Activities
3.1 Targeted Capacity Expansion Cooperative Agreements for
Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS Prevention (Short Title: Targeted SA &
HIV/AIDS Prevention, GFA No. SP 99-03)
3.2 SAMHSA Technical Assistance Workshop
4. Public Health System Reporting Requirements
5. PHS Non-Use of Tobacco Policy Statement
6. Executive Order 12372
1. Program Background and Objectives
SAMHSA's mission within the Nation's health system is to improve
the quality and availability of prevention, early intervention,
treatment, and rehabilitation services for substance abuse and mental
illnesses, including co-occurring disorders, in order to improve health
and reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society.
Reinventing government, with its emphases on redefining the role of
Federal agencies and on improving customer service, has provided SAMHSA
with a welcome opportunity to examine carefully its programs and
activities. As a result of that process, SAMHSA moved assertively to
create a renewed and strategic emphasis on using its resources to
generate knowledge about ways to improve the prevention and treatment
of substance abuse and mental illness and to work with State and local
governments as well as providers, families, and consumers to
effectively use that knowledge in everyday practice.
SAMHSA differs from other agencies in focusing on needed
information at the services delivery level, and in its question-focus.
Dissemination and application are integral, major features of the
programs. SAMHSA believes that it is important to get the information
into the hands of the public, providers, and systems administrators as
effectively as possible. Technical assistance, training, preparation of
special materials will be used, in addition to normal communications
means.
SAMHSA also continues to fund legislatively-mandated services
programs for which funds are appropriated.
2. Criteria for Review and Funding
Consistent with the statutory mandate for SAMHSA to support
activities that will improve the provision of treatment, prevention and
related services,
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including the development of national mental health and substance abuse
goals and model programs, competing applications requesting funding
under the specific project activity in Section 3 will be reviewed for
technical merit in accordance with established PHS/SAMHSA peer review
procedures.
2.1 General Review Criteria
As published in the Federal Register on July 2, 1993 (Vol. 58, No.
126), SAMHSA's ``Peer Review and Advisory Council Review of Grant and
Cooperative Agreement Applications and Contract Proposals,'' peer
review groups will take into account, among other factors as may be
specified in the application guidance materials, the following general
criteria:
Potential significance of the proposed project;
Appropriateness of the applicant's proposed objectives to
the goals of the specific program;
Adequacy and appropriateness of the proposed approach and
activities;
Adequacy of available resources, such as facilities and
equipment;
Qualifications and experience of the applicant
organization, the project director, and other key personnel; and
Reasonableness of the proposed budget.
2.2 Funding 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 (if applicable) review
process.
Other funding criteria will include:
Availability of funds.
Additional funding criteria specific to the programmatic activity
may be included in the application guidance materials.
3. Special FY 1999 SAMHSA Activities
3.1. Targeted Capacity Expansion Cooperative Agreements for Substance
Abuse and HIV/AIDS Prevention (Short Title: Targeted SA & HIV/AIDS
Prevention, GFA No. SP 99-03)
Application Deadline: June 17, 1999.
Purpose: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
announces the availability of targeted capacity expansion cooperative
agreements to increase community capacity to provide integrated
substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services targeted to African
American, Hispanic/Latino, and other racial/ethnic minority youth (note
that based on congressional report language a portion of the funds for
this purpose will be reserved exclusively for African American youth);
and African American, Hispanic/Latino, and other racial/ethnic minority
women and their children. A Program Coordinating Center to support the
efforts of the selected sites will also be funded. The program has
three specific purposes: 1) Increase capacity of communities to meet
the needs related to the prevention of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS; 2)
Assist community-driven services to document and assess effectiveness
and efficiency of the interventions implemented; and 3) Facilitate the
dissemination of results from these target population appropriate
intervention to improve provider practice. This strategy to increase
service capacity in communities, to adapt and adopt target population
specific interventions, and to disseminate results may ultimately
reduce the incidence and prevalence of both HIV/AIDS disease and
substance abuse. To promote appropriate services, the interventions
designed, implemented, and evaluated through this cooperative agreement
program must be tailored to the age, gender, culture, language, level
of acculturation, literacy, and sexual orientation of the target
populations. The cooperative agreement mechanism is being used because
the complexity of the program requires substantive involvement of
Federal staff to monitor the implementation of the interventions and a
Program Coordinating Center to manage the cross-site evaluation data
collection and analysis of results.
Priorities: None.
Eligible Applicants: Applications may be submitted by
public and domestic private nonprofit and for-profit entities, such as
units of State or local government, community-based organizations,
faith communities, local and national coalitions and civic groups, and
public or private schools, universities, colleges, and hospitals.
Eligible applicants are limited to the following types of
organizations serving at risk African American, Hispanic/Latino, and
other racial/ethnic minority youth; and/or African American, Hispanic/
Latino, and other racial/ethnic minority women, and women and their
children:
(1) Organizations which are currently providing substance abuse
prevention services that plan to expand services to include HIV/AIDS
prevention; or
(2) Organizations which are currently providing HIV/AIDS prevention
services that plan to expand their services to substance abuse
prevention; or
(3) Organizations which are currently providing integrated
substance abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention services that plan to increase
their program capacity and/or to validate the effectiveness of their
integrated prevention intervention(s).
Cooperative Agreement/Amounts: It is estimated that $13.5
million will be available to support approximately 50 awards under this
GFA in FY 1999. The average award is expected to be $250,000 in total
costs (direct+indirect). The Program Coordinating Center award is
expected to be between $750,000 and $1,000,000 in total costs (direct +
indirect).
Funding for this program is expected to be allocated in three
components as follows:
--Projects targeted to African American youth: $6,000,000
(Approximately 24 awards)
--Projects targeted to African American, Hispanic/Latino, and other
racial/ethnic minority youth: $2,000,000
(Approximately 8 awards)
--Projects targeted to African American, Hispanic/Latina, and other
racial/ethnic minority women and their children: $4,500,000
(Approximately 18 awards)
Support may be requested for a period of up to three years. Annual
awards will be made subject to continued availability of funds and
progress achieved.
Catalog Domestic Federal Assistance: 93.230.
Program Contact: For programmatic or technical assistance
(not for application kits) contact: Lucy Perez, M.D, Director, or
Martha Bond, Public Health Advisor, Office of Medical and Clinical
Affairs, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration, Rockwall II, Suite 900, 5600
Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, (301) 443-3652.
For grants management assistance, contact: Peggy Jones, Division of
Grants Management, OPS, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration, Rockwall II, Suite 630, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville,
Maryland 20857, (301) 443-3958.
Application kits are available from: National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, P.O. Box 2345,
Rockville, Maryland 20847-2345, 1-800-729-6686.
3.2 SAMHSA Technical Assistance Workshop
SAMHSA is sponsoring three technical assistance workshops for
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potential applicants. The workshops will be held at the following
locations: March 11, 1999--Washington, DC; March 17, 1999--Chicago, IL;
and March 19--Los Angeles, CA. For more information, please call Ms.
Lisa Wilder, Workshop Coordinator, at 301-984-1471, extension 333.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Executive Order 12372
Applications submitted in response to all FY 1999 activities 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: Office of
Extramural Activities 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: March 5, 1999.
Richard Kopanda,
Executive Officer, SAMHSA.
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