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48770 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No.

160 / Friday, August 19, 2005 / Notices

Human Services, 2920 Brandywine treatment, and provide care for ten is available for a 12-month budget
Road, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone: million people, including orphans and period in FY 2005, to be awarded
770–488–2700. vulnerable children. An essential September 15, 2005. Funding estimates
For program technical assistance, element of preventing new cases of HIV may change.
contact: Elizabeth Marum, Project infection is to ensure that high-risk D. Where To Obtain Additional
Officer, HHS/CDC, Mbagathi Way, Off groups have adequate access to Information
Mbagathi Road, Nairobi, Kenya, screening, treatment, and care facilities.
Telephone: 254 20 271 3008, E-mail: Haiti’s HIV prevalence rate in adults For general comments or questions
Emarum@cdcnairobi.mimcom.net. is estimated to be between 3.1 and 5.6 about this announcement, contact:
For financial, grants management, or percent according to the Haitian Technical Information Management,
budget assistance, contact: Diane Ministry of Health-Ministère de la Santé CDC Procurement and Grants Office,
Flournoy, Grants Management Publique et de la Population (MSPP) 2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA
Specialist, CDC Procurement and Grants and the 2004 Annual Report from the 30341–4146. Telephone: 770–488–2700.
Office, U.S. Department of Health and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV For program technical assistance,
Human Services, 2920 Brandywine and AIDS (UNAIDS), respectively. contact: Kathy Grooms, CDC Global
Road, Atlanta, GA 30341, Telephone: Access to prevention and treatment is AIDS Program, 1600 Clifton Road, NE,
770–488–2072, E-mail: limited to the Haitian population due to Mailstop E–04, Atlanta, GA 30333.
Dflournoy@cdc.gov. the underdeveloped public health Telephone: 404–639–8394. E-mail:
infrastructure and lack of clinical Kgrooms@cdc.gov.
VIII. Other Information capacity. In order to improve this For financial, grants management, or
Applicants can find this and other capacity, this Cooperative Agreement budget assistance, contact: Vivian
HHS/CDC funding opportunity has been developed to provide much Walker, Grants Management Specialist,
announcements on the HHS/CDC Web needed funding and resources. CDC Procurement and Grants Office,
site, Internet address: http:// The Catalog of Federal Domestic 2920 Brandywine Road, Atlanta, GA
www.cdc.gov (Click on ‘‘Funding’’ then Assistance number for this program is 30341. Telephone: 770–488–2724. E-
‘‘Grants and Cooperative Agreements’’), 93.067. mail: VEW4@CDC.GOV.
and on the Web site of the HHS Office B. Eligible Applicant
Dated: August 12, 2005.
of Global Health Affairs, Internet William P. Nichols,
address: http://www.globalhealth.gov. This is a single eligibility request for Director, Procurement and Grants Office,
application (RFA) from MSPP. No other Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dated: August 12, 2005.
applicants are solicited. [FR Doc. 05–16450 Filed 8–18–05; 8:45 am]
William P. Nichols, The MSPP is the government. They
BILLING CODE 4163–18–P
Director, Procurement and Grants Office, have the authority and responsibility for
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both regulation and QA/QC of all
U.S. Department of Health and Human Laboratories within the country. They
Services. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
are responsible for establishing norms HUMAN SERVICES
[FR Doc. 05–16448 Filed 8–18–05; 8:45 am] and standards for laboratories.
BILLING CODE 4163–18–P The MSPP, as the government, is the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
only entity that has the authority to Services
establish and operate the entire public
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND health system which includes [Document Identifier: CMS–10110, CMS–
HUMAN SERVICES 10136, CMS–10162, and CMS–R–0021]
departmental hospitals and clinics
where ARV services are being provided. Agency Information Collection
Centers for Disease Control and
The Ministry has developed public/ Activities: Proposed Collection;
Prevention
private partnerships to help manage Comment Request
[Request for Application (RFA) AA212] some of these sites but even at those
sites that are managed by the private AGENCY: Centers for Medicare &
Building and Strengthening the sector they are ultimately accountable to Medicaid Services, HHS.
Development of the Republic of Haiti’s the MSPP for services provided and In compliance with the requirement
Central HIV/AIDS Quality-Assurance/ quality care. The MSPP still maintains of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the
Quality-Control (QA/QC) Laboratory a supervisor role for these sites. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
and the Associated National Network The role of regulation and standard Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
of QA/QC Laboratories in Haiti, as Part setting at a national level is inherently Services (CMS) is publishing the
of the President’s Emergency Plan for governmental. In order to fulfill its role following summary of proposed
AIDS Relief; Notice of Intent To Fund in this area the Haitian Ministry of collections for public comment.
Single Eligibility Award Health needs to have the capacity to Interested persons are invited to send
independently verify compliance comments regarding this burden
A. Purpose estimate or any other aspect of this
through a central HIV/AIDS quality
The Centers for Disease Control and assurance/quality control laboratory. If a collection of information, including any
Prevention (CDC) announces the intent private or non-governmental laboratory of the following subjects: (1) The
to fund fiscal year (FY) 2005 funds for were allowed to take on this role it necessity and utility of the proposed
a cooperative agreement program to would call into question the information collection for the proper
fund the President’s Emergency Plan for independence of the results in order to performance of the agency’s functions;
AIDS Relief (The Emergency Plan). The favor laboratories associated with that (2) the accuracy of the estimated
plan has called for immediate action to organization. burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
turn the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa and utility, and clarity of the information to
the Caribbean. The initiative hopes to C. Funding be collected; and (4) the use of
prevent at least seven million new HIV Approximately $2,765,000 is available automated collection techniques or
infections, place two million people on over a five year project period. $553,000 other forms of information technology to

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