Fiscal Year 1999 Program Announcement; Availability of Funds and Notice Regarding Applications

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 18 (Thursday, January 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 4424]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-2056]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS)

Administration on Aging
[Program Announcement No. AoA-99-1]


Fiscal Year 1999 Program Announcement; Availability of Funds and 
Notice Regarding Applications

AGENCY: Administration on Aging, HHS.

ACTION: Announcement of availability of funds and request for 
applications to carry out cooperative agreement awards to train retired 
persons to serve in their communities as volunteer expert resources and 
educators in combating health care waste, fraud, and abuse.

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SUMMARY: The Administration on Aging (AoA) announces that under this 
program announcement it will hold a competition for ``Senior Medicare 
Patrol Projects'' that demonstrate effective ways of utilizing retired 
persons as volunteer expert resources and educators in community 
efforts to combat health care waste, fraud and abuse. The deadline date 
for the submission of applications is March 31, 1999.
    Public and/or nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions 
are eligible to apply under this program announcement. However, 
consistent with the terms of Senate Report 105-300, which accompany the 
Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act of 1999 (Pub.L.105-277), 
preference will be given in the making of cooperative agreement awards 
to projects that will be carried out by consortia headed by community-
based public or non-profit agencies or organizations. In addition, the 
AoA is currently funding ``Senior Medicare Patrol Projects'' in twelve 
states--California, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, 
Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and 
Wisconsin. No further awards will be made in these states.
    Application kits are available by writing to the Department of 
Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging, Office of 
Governmental Affairs and Elder Rights, 330 Independence Avenue, SW., 
Room 4748, Washington, DC 20201, telephone: (202) 619-7592 or (202) 
690-7525.

    Dated: January 21, 1999.
Jeanette C. Takamura,
Assistant Secretary for Aging.
[FR Doc. 99-2056 Filed 1-27-99; 8:45 am]
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