Request for Comment: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Announcement of Strategic Planning White Papers, 26780 [2010-11311]

Download as PDF 26780 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 91 / Wednesday, May 12, 2010 / Notices Dated: May 5, 2010. Yvette Roubideaux, Director, Indian Health Service. plan are best assured of having their full effect if received by May 24, 2010. Jack Killen, Deputy Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health. [FR Doc. 2010–11337 Filed 5–11–10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4165–16–P [FR Doc. 2010–11311 Filed 5–11–10; 8:45 am] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BILLING CODE 4140–01–P National Institutes of Health Request for Comment: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Announcement of Strategic Planning White Papers WReier-Aviles on DSKGBLS3C1PROD with NOTICES ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is developing its third strategic plan and invites the public to provide comments on two white papers which will support the development of this plan. The papers will cover two topics of particular research interest to NCCAM: natural products research and back pain research. They will be publicly available through the NCCAM Web site at https://nccam.nih.gov from on or about May 10 through May 24, 2010. The public is invited to provide comments through the NCCAM Web site. Background: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) was established in 1998 with the mission of exploring complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science, training CAM researchers, and disseminating authoritative information to the public and professionals. To date, NCCAM’s efforts to rigorously study CAM, to train CAM researchers, and to communicate with the public and professionals, have been guided by NCCAM’s previous strategic plans, located on the NCCAM Web site at https://nccam.nih.gov/about/plans. The public is invited to review the background papers and provide comments from May 10 through May 24, 2010. The papers may be viewed at https://nccam.nih.gov/. Request for Comments: The public is invited to provide comments on the two white papers that will support the development of NCCAM’s third strategic plan. Comments may be provided through the NCCAM Web site at https://nccam.nih.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information, visit the NCCAM Web site at https:// nccam.nih.gov, call 1–888–644–6226, or e-mail nccamsp@mail.nih.gov. Comments Due Date: Comments regarding the draft of NCCAM’s strategic VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:00 May 11, 2010 Jkt 220001 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children and Families State Median Income Estimate for a Four-Person Family: Notice of the Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2011 State Median Income Estimates for Use Under the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number 93.568) Administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families, Office of Community Services, Division of Energy Assistance AGENCY: Administration for Children and Families, Office of Community Services, Division of Energy Assistance, HHS. ACTION: Notice of State median income estimates for FFY 2011. SUMMARY: This notice announces to LIHEAP grantees the estimated median income of four-person families in each State and the District of Columbia for FFY 2011 (October 1, 2010, to September 30, 2011). LIHEAP grantees that choose to base their income eligibility criteria on these State median income estimates may adopt these estimates (up to 60 percent) on the estimates’ date of publication in the Federal Register or on a later date as discussed below. This enables these grantees to implement this notice during the period between the heating and cooling seasons. However, by October 1, 2010, or the beginning of the grantees’ fiscal years, whichever is later, these grantees must adjust their income eligibility criteria so that such criteria are in accord with the FFY 2011 State median income estimates. This listing of 60 percent of estimated State median incomes provides one of the maximum income criteria that LIHEAP grantees may use in determining a household’s income eligibility for LIHEAP. DATES: Effective Date: For each LIHEAP grantee, these estimates become effective at any time between their date of publication in the Federal Register PO 00000 Frm 00075 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 and the later of October 1, 2010, or the beginning of that grantee’s fiscal year. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peter Edelman, Office of Community Services, Division of Energy Assistance, 5th Floor West, 370 L’Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington, DC 20447, Telephone: (202) 401–5292, email: peter.edelman@acf.hhs.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the provisions of section 2603(11) of Title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, Public Law (Pub. L.) 97–35, as amended, HHS announces the estimated median income of four-person families for each State, the District of Columbia, and the United States for FFY 2011 (October 1, 2010, through September 30, 2011). Section 2605(b)(2)(B)(ii) of this Act provides that 60 percent of the median income for each State and the District of Columbia (State median income, or SMI), as annually established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is one of the income criteria that LIHEAP grantees may use in determining a household’s eligibility for LIHEAP. LIHEAP was last authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Public Law 109–58, which was enacted on August 8, 2005. This authorization expired on September 30, 2007, and reauthorization remains pending. The SMI estimates that HHS publishes in this notice are three-year estimates derived from the American Community Survey (ACS) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce (Census Bureau). HHS obtained these estimates directly from the Census Bureau. For additional information about the ACS State median income estimates, see https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/ income/medincsizeandstate.html. For additional information about the ACS in general, see https://www.census.gov/acs/ www/ or contact the Census Bureau’s Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division at (301) 763–3243. Under the advice of the Census Bureau, HHS switched to three-year estimates rather than single-year estimates to reduce the large year-toyear fluctuations that the single-year estimates tend to generate for certain States and the District of Columbia. The change from the single-year to threeyear estimates caused the FFY 2010 estimates to drop by about two percent on average. HHS plans to use the Census Bureau’s ACS-derived SMI three-year estimates for all fiscal years after 2010. 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[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 91 (Wednesday, May 12, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 26780]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-11311]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Request for Comment: National Center for Complementary and 
Alternative Medicine Announcement of Strategic Planning White Papers

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine 
(NCCAM) is developing its third strategic plan and invites the public 
to provide comments on two white papers which will support the 
development of this plan. The papers will cover two topics of 
particular research interest to NCCAM: natural products research and 
back pain research. They will be publicly available through the NCCAM 
Web site at https://nccam.nih.gov from on or about May 10 through May 
24, 2010. The public is invited to provide comments through the NCCAM 
Web site.
    Background: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative 
Medicine (NCCAM) was established in 1998 with the mission of exploring 
complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of 
rigorous science, training CAM researchers, and disseminating 
authoritative information to the public and professionals.
    To date, NCCAM's efforts to rigorously study CAM, to train CAM 
researchers, and to communicate with the public and professionals, have 
been guided by NCCAM's previous strategic plans, located on the NCCAM 
Web site at https://nccam.nih.gov/about/plans.
    The public is invited to review the background papers and provide 
comments from May 10 through May 24, 2010. The papers may be viewed at 
https://nccam.nih.gov/.
    Request for Comments: The public is invited to provide comments on 
the two white papers that will support the development of NCCAM's third 
strategic plan. Comments may be provided through the NCCAM Web site at 
https://nccam.nih.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request more information, visit the 
NCCAM Web site at https://nccam.nih.gov, call 1-888-644-6226, or e-mail 
nccamsp@mail.nih.gov.
    Comments Due Date: Comments regarding the draft of NCCAM's 
strategic plan are best assured of having their full effect if received 
by May 24, 2010.

Jack Killen,
Deputy Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative 
Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. 2010-11311 Filed 5-11-10; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4140-01-P

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