NOTICES
Availability of Draft Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Application for Federal Fiscal Year 2005; Public Hearing
[34 Pa.B. 4520] The Department of Health (Department) is making copies available of the Draft Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Application (draft block grant application) for FFY 2005, under 42 U.S.C.A. § 300w-4. This draft block grant application is the Commonwealth's draft 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 draft block grant application describing proposed services, program goals and objectives and activities will be available on or after August 20, 2004, and can be obtained by calling the Bureau of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention at (717) 787-6214. Persons with a disability who require an alternative format of the draft block grant application (for example, large print, audio tape or Braille) should contact the Bureau of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention at (717) 787-6214, V/TT (717) 783-6514 or the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Services at (800) 654-5984.
Written comments on the draft block grant application will be accepted and should be sent by 4 p.m. on September 17, 2004, to the Bureau of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention, Room 1000, Health and Welfare Building, P. O. Box 90, Harrisburg, PA 17108.
A public hearing will be also conducted by the Department for the purpose of receiving testimony on the draft block grant application under 42 U.S.C.A. § 300w-4. Comments and suggestions from the public should relate to the priorities and program plans included in the draft block grant application.
The hearing will be held from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. on September 17, 2004, in Conference Room 1000, Health and Welfare Building, 7th and Forster Streets, Harrisburg, PA. Persons wishing to testify are requested to pre-register by contacting the Bureau of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention at (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 the testimony they will be presenting at the hearing.
Persons with a disability who wish to attend the hearing and require an auxiliary aid, service or other accommodations to do so should contact Leslie Best, Director, 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. 04-1512. Filed for public inspection August 13, 2004, 9:00 a.m.]
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