[Federal Register: February 23, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 35)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Notice of Extension of Receipt Dates and Planned Republication of
SAMHSA Grant Announcements SM 04-003, Statewide Consumer Network
Grants, and SM 04-004, Statewide Family Network Grants; and Planned
Republication of Standing Grant Program Announcements
SUMMARY: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA), for Fiscal Year 2004, published four standard grant
announcements, which established mandatory formatting requirements for
all applications that would be processed in accordance with the terms
of those standing announcements. The standard grant announcements did
not directly solicit any applications. Rather, they are to be used in
conjunction with Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs), which solicit
applications for specific opportunities pursuant to the standard
announcements.
Upon further consideration, SAMHSA believes the formatting
requirements common to those announcements, and motivated by SAMHSA's
desire to assure equitable opportunity and a ``level playing field'' to
all applicants, will not best serve the public until we revise and
republish them. Accordingly, we will quickly revise the identical
formatting discussions of all four standing grant program announcements
and republish them in their entirety for ease of the users. These
formatting requirements are used for preliminary screening out of
noncomplying applications in order to assure some applicants do not
obtain a competitive advantage through failure to comply. The revised
screening criteria will be more lenient, permitting a greater number of
applications to be reviewed. We had already solicited applications
under two NOFAs, which we will now also revise to address the revised
announcements and their interdependent screening requirements.
In accordance with the above considerations, and in order to afford
the benefits intended from the republication of the program
announcements and NOFAs to those already planning to apply under the
two NOFAs identified, SAMHSA hereby notifies the public, and
particularly those who planned to apply in response to those NOFAs,
that the receipt date for both programs will now be March 31, 2004, and
the NOFAs will be republished to reflect the screening revisions and
new receipt dates. Since all applications, whenever submitted, will be
processed under the revised standards, those applying under either of
those NOFAs should await and study the revised documents before
submitting their applications. Any applicant who has already applied
may request return of the application and by the new receipt date
resubmit a revised one, or submit a revised application with a cover
letter telling us it is a replacement for one previously submitted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For the CMHS Statewide Consumer
Network Grants, Risa Fox, SAMHSA/Center for Mental Health Services,
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11C-22, Rockville, MD 20857; 301-443-3653; e-
mail: rfox@samhsa.gov.
For the CMHS Statewide Family Network Grants, Elizabeth Sweet,
SAMHSA/CMHS, Child, Adolescent and Family Branch, Center for Mental
Health Services, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11C-16, Rockville, MD 20857;
301-443-1333; e-mail: esweet@samhsa.gov. For grants management issues,
Kimberly Pendleton, SAMHSA/OPS/DGM, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockwall II,
Room 630, Rockville, MD 20857; 301-443-6133; e-mail:
kpendlet@samhsa.gov.
Dated: February 13, 2004.
Daryl Kade,
Director, Office of Policy, Planning and Budget, Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 04-3765 Filed 2-20-04; 8:45 am]
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