[Federal Register: September 13, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 177)]
[Notices]
[Page 54087-54088]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
Food and Drug Administration
 
 
Cooperative Agreement to Support the Shellfish and Seafood Safety
Assistance Project; Announcement Type: Single Source Application;
Agency Funding Opportunity Number: RFA-FDA-CFSAN-2006-1
 
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
 
ACTION: Notice.
 
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I. Funding Opportunity Description
 
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Food Safety and
Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), Office of Seafood is announcing its intent
to award, noncompetitively, a cooperative agreement to the Interstate
Shellfish Sanitation Conference (ISSC) in the amount of $320,500 for
fiscal year 2006, for direct and indirect costs combined. Subject to
the availability of Federal funds and successful performance, 4
additional years of support will be available. FDA will support the
research covered by this notice under the authority of section 301 of
the Public Health Service Act (the PHS act) (42 U.S.C. 241). FDA's
research program is described in the Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance No. 93.103. Before entering into cooperative agreements, FDA
carefully considers the benefits such agreements will provide to the
public. This effort will enhance FDA's molluscan shellfish sanitation
program and provide the public greater assurance of the quality and
safety of these products.
 
II. Eligibility Information
 
    Competition is limited to ISSC because ISSC is the only
organization that has the established formal structure, procedures, and
expertise to direct all components (public health, environmental,
resource management, and enforcement) of an effective shellfish
sanitation program.
 
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    ISSC is a partnership of State shellfish control officials
representing both environmental and public health agencies; Federal
agencies including FDA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the
National Marine Fisheries Service of the Department of Commerce; and
representatives from industry, academia, and foreign governments. ISSC
will continue to improve information exchange and transfer among
States, Federal agencies, industry, and consumers. ISSC will strengthen
State activities by providing them with procedural and policy guidance,
technical training, research, and consumer education, and ISSC will
enhance research efforts and projects which will contribute
significantly to the ISSC/FDA ability to identify scientifically
defensible controls which reduce the incidence of Vibrio vulnificus and
Vibrio parahaemolyticus illness.
 
III. Application and Submission
 
    For further information or a copy of the complete Request for
Application (RFA), contact Gladys M. Bohler, Division of Contracts and
Grants Management (HFA-500), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers
Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-827-7168, e-mail:
gladys.melendez-bohler@fda.hhs.gov.
 
    This RFA can be viewed on Grants.gov (http://www.grants.gov) under
 
``Find Grant Opportunities.'' (FDA has verified the Web site and its
address but we are not responsible for subsequent changes to the Web
site or its address after this document publishes in the Federal
Register.) A copy of the complete RFA can be viewed also on CFSAN's Web
site at http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html.
 
    For issues regarding the programmatic and scientific aspects of
this notice, contact Paul Distefano, Center for Food Safety and Applied
Nutrition (HFS-417), Food and Drug Administration, 5100 Paint Branch
Pkwy., College Park, MD 20740, 301-436-1410, e-mail:
paul.distefano@fda.hhs.gov.
 
 
    Dated: September 7, 2006.
Jeffrey Shuren,
Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. E6-15102 Filed 9-12-06; 8:45 am]
 
BILLING CODE 4160-01-S

Sole Source Cooperative Agreement Program Entitled "Cooperative Agreement to Support the Shellfish and Seafood Safety Assistance Project" September 13, 2006