Federal Register:
September 29, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 188)
SUMMARY:
This Notice announces the administrative close-out of the Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Program (the Program). All business
concerning petitions and related payment documentation associated
with
the Program will conclude on October 31, 2005.
As of that date, the Program will cease to accept or process any
additional documentation submitted by individuals (or their
representatives) relating to the eligibility or payment of petitions
still pending. Remaining funds will be returned to the United States
Treasury, and the Program will archive all outstanding documentation
at
the Washington National Records Center in Suitland, Maryland, in
accordance with the requirements of the National Archives and Records
Administration.
DATES:
Effective Date: October 31, 2005.
ADDRESSES:
Ricky Ray Hemophilia Relief Fund Program, Healthcare Systems
Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11C-06,
Rockville, Maryland 20857.
FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul T. Clark, Director, Ricky
Ray
Hemophilia Relief Fund Program, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11C-06,
Rockville, MD 20857; (301) 443-2330.
SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION: The Program implemented the Ricky Ray
Hemophilia Relief Fund Act of 1998 (the Act), Pub. Law 105-369.
The Act
established a Trust Fund to provide compassionate payments to
individuals with blood-clotting disorders, such as hemophilia, who
were
treated with antihemophilic factor between July 1, 1982 and December
31, 1987, and contracted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), as
well as
to certain persons who contracted HIV from these individuals. In
the
event individuals eligible for payment were deceased, the Act also
provided for payments to certain survivors of these individuals.
Under section 101(d) of the Act, the Trust Fund terminated on
November 12, 2003. The Act requires all remaining funds to be deposited
in the miscellaneous receipts account in the Treasury of the United
States.
The Program has made compassionate payments totaling in excess of
$559 million to more than 7,171 eligible individuals and survivors.
Dated: September
22, 2005.
Dennis P. Williams,
Deputy Administrator
HRSA
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