[Federal Register: May 22, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 99)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[Program Announcement No. ACF/ACYF/CB FY 2000-01B]
Announcement of the Availability of Financial Assistance and
Request for Applications To Support Adoption Opportunities
Demonstration Projects, Child Abuse and Neglect Discretionary
Activities, Child Welfare Training Projects, and Abandoned Infants
Assistance Awards.
AGENCY: Children's Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and
Families, ACF, DHHS.
ACTION: Correction/cancellation.
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SUMMARY: This document contains a correction to the Notice that was
published in the Federal Register on Thursday, April 13, 2000 (65 FR
19904). The solicitation for competitive proposals for priority area
2000A.2--Operation of a National Adoption Information Exchange System
as a freestanding entity is canceled.
The purposes of operating and maintaining a National Adoption
Information Exchange System to bring together children who would
benefit from adoption and qualified prospective adoptive parents who
are seeking children and to conduct national recruitment efforts in
order to reach prospective parents for children awaiting adoption will
be combined with the task of continuing to develop an Internet-based
photo listing system. Upon further consideration, it has been decided
that separating the photo listing service from the exchange and
database, upon which it depends, would cause serious confusion to State
child welfare agencies, would undermine the integrity of what is a
single effort to assist States in inter-jurisdictional recruitment of
families, and would pose the possibility of supporting duplicative
projects. Because the grant for the photo-listing service will be
awarded following directions from Congress, the competition for the
exchange alone is being canceled.
In accordance with the Department's Grants Policy Directive (GPD)
2.04(F), and ad hoc review will be done on the noncompetitive
application for the combined exchange and photo-listing activities and
a notification of the intent to award the grant will be published in
the Federal Register prior to or simultaneously with the award of this
grant. The notification will include, at a minimum, the following
information:
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(1) recipient's name; (2) amount of award; (3) project period; (4)
reason for no competition; and (5) the name and address of the official
to be contacted for more information on this award.
The complete corrected current availability of funds announcement
package is posted on the Children's Bureau website: http://
www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/policy/cb200001.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The ACYF Operations Center at 1-800-
351-2293 or send an email to cb@lcgnet.com or call Sally Flanzer,
Children's Bureau, at 202-215-8914.
Dated: May 12, 2000.
Patricia Montoya,
Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families.
[FR Doc. 00-12696 Filed 5-19-00; 8:45 am]
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