Department of Health and Human Services May 20, 2013 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces a public webcast that will address the new import permit regulations for infectious biological agents, standards, and vectors; import permit inspections; and import permit exemptions. The purpose of this notice is to inform all interested parties, including those individuals and entities already possessing an import permit of the webcast.

The Secretary of Education and Secretary of Health and Human Services (``the Secretaries'') propose priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria under the Race to the TopEarly Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) Grant program. The Secretaries may use one or more of these priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria for competitions in fiscal year (FY) 2013 and later years. The U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (collectively, ``the Departments'') conducted the first competition under the RTT-ELC program in FY 2011 and awarded grants to nine States. In FY 2012, the five next highest- rated applicants on the slate of high-scoring applications from the FY 2011 competition were funded at up to 50 percent of the funds each requested in their FY 2011 applications. We propose to maintain the overall purpose and structure of the FY 2011 RTT-ELC competition in future competitions. These proposed priorities, requirements, definitions, and selection criteria are almost identical to the ones used in the FY 2011 competition. We describe the changes at the beginning of each section of this document.