2253 Availability of Draft Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant application for Federal Fiscal Year 2009

Availability of Draft Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Application for Federal Fiscal Year 2009

[38 Pa.B. 6816]
[Saturday, December 13, 2008]

   The Department of Health (Department) is making copies available of the draft Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Application for Federal Fiscal Year 2009 under 42 U.S.C.A. § 300 w-4. This application is the Commonwealth's draft application request to the United States Department of Health and Human Services for block grant funding to address the Healthy People 2010 Health Status Objectives.

   The block grant application (Pennsylvania's funding request to Health and Health Services) describing proposed services, program goals and objectives and activities will be available on or after December 19, 2008, and can be obtained by calling the Bureau of Health Promotion and Risk Reduction at [phone].

   A public hearing will be conducted by the Department for the purpose of receiving testimony on the previously-mentioned application in accordance with 42 U.S.C.A. § 300 w-4. Comments and suggestions from the public should relate to the priorities and program plans included in the application.

   The hearing will be held from 10 a.m. until noon, December 22, 2008, in the Bureau Conference Room, Room 1000, Health and Welfare Building, 625 Forster Street, Harrisburg, PA. Persons wishing to testify are requested to preregister by contacting the Bureau of Health Promotion and Risk Reduction at [phone]. Registration will be accepted on the day of the hearing. Persons will be allotted a maximum of 15 minutes to testify. Persons who testify should provide the Department with two copies of their testimony at the time of the hearing.

   Written comments will be accepted and should be sent to the Bureau of Health Promotion and Risk Reduction, Room 1000, Health and Welfare Building, Harrisburg, PA 17108, and should be received no later than 4 p.m., December 26, 2008.

   Persons with a disability who require an alternative format of the previously-mentioned application (such as, large print, audio tape, Braille) or who wish to comment in alternative format should contact the Bureau of Health Promotion and Risk Reduction at [phone] or for speech and/or hearing impaired persons V/TT [phone] or the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Service at [phone].

A. EVERETTE JAMES,   
Acting Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 08-2253. Filed for public inspection December 12, 2008, 9:00 a.m.]