NOTICES
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Availability of Draft Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Application for Federal Fiscal Year 2004; Revised Notice
[33 Pa.B. 4631] The Department of Health (Department) is making copies available of the draft Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Application for FFY 2004 under 42 U.S.C.A. § 300w-4. This application is the Commonwealth's draft request to the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for block grant funding to address the Healthy People 2010 Health Status Objectives.
The block grant application (the Commonwealth's funding request to the DHHS) describing proposed services, program goals and objectives and activities will be available on or after August 15, 2003, and can be obtained by calling the Bureau of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention, (717) 787-6214. Persons with a disability who require an alternative format of the application (for example, large print, audio tape Braille) should contact the Bureau of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention, (717) 787-6214, for speech and/or hearing impaired persons, V/TT (717) 783-6514 or the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Services at (800) 654-5984.
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. § 300w-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 12 p.m. September 17, 2003, 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 of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention, (717) 787-6214. 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 by 4 p.m. on September 18, 2003.
Persons with a disability who wish to comment in an alternative format (for example, large print, audio tape or Braille) should contact the Bureau of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention, (717) 787-6214, for speech and/or hearing impaired persons, V/TT (717) 783-6514 or the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Services at (800) 654-5984.
CALVIN B. JOHNSON, M.D., M.P.H.,
Secretary
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 03-1801. Filed for public inspection September 12, 2003, 9:00 a.m.]
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