1572 Availability of draft Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Application for Federal Fiscal Year 2002

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

Availability of Draft Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Application for Federal Fiscal Year 2002

[31 Pa.B. 4700]

   The Department of Health (Department) is making copies available of the draft Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Application for Federal Fiscal Year 2002, under 42 U.S.C.A. § 300 w-4. This application is the Commonwealth's draft request to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) for block grant funding to address the Healthy People 2010 Health Status Objectives.

   The block grant application (the Commonwealth's funding request to HHS) describing proposed services, program goals, objectives and activities will be available on or after August 20, 2001, and can be obtained by calling the Bureau of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention (Bureau) at [phone]. A public hearing will be conducted by the Department for the purpose of receiving testimony on the 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 1 p.m., September 17, 2001, in Conference Room 1000, Health and Welfare Building, 7th and Forster Streets, Harrisburg, PA. Persons wishing to testify are requested to preregister by contacting the Bureau at [phone]. Registration will be accepted on the day of the hearing. Persons will be allotted a maximum of 15 minutes to testify. Testifiers 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 Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention, Room 1000, Health and Welfare Building, P. O. Box 90, Harrisburg, PA 17108, and should be received no later than 4 p.m., September 17, 2001.

   Persons with a disability who desire to comment in alternative format (that is, large print, audio tape or Braille) or who wish to attend the hearing, submit comments or give testimony and require an auxiliary aid, service or other accomodation to do so, should contact the Bureau at [phone]. Speech or hearing impaired persons may use V/TT [phone] or the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Service at [phone][TT] to arrange for aids and accomodations.

ROBERT S. ZIMMERMAN, Jr.,   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 01-1572. Filed for public inspection August 24, 2001, 9:00 a.m.]