NOTICES
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Availability of Draft Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Application for Federal Fiscal Year 2006; Public Hearing
[35 Pa.B. 4252] 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 Federal Fiscal Year 2006 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 12, 2005, and can be obtained by calling Terry L. Walker, Administrative Officer, Bureau of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention at (717) 787-6214.
A public hearing will be conducted by the Department for the purpose of receiving testimony on the draft block grant 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 draft block grant application.
The hearing will be held from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. on September 15, 2005, 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 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. Persons intending to 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 by 4 p.m. on September 15, 2005, to the Bureau of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention, Room 1000, Health and Welfare Building, P. O. Box 90, Harrisburg, PA 17108.
Persons with a disability who require an alternative format (for example, large print, audio tape or Braille) should contact Terry L. Walker, Administrative Officer, Bureau of Chronic Diseases and Injury Prevention at (717) 787-6214 or for speech and/or hearing impaired persons, V/TT (717) 783-6514 or the Pennsylvania AT&T Relay Services at (800) 654-5984.
This meeting is subject to cancellation without notice.
CALVIN B. JOHNSON, M.D., M.P.H.,
Secretary
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 05-1445. Filed for public inspection July 29, 2005, 9:00 a.m.]
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