Department of Health and Human Services August 26, 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice is to inform the public that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is supporting administrative supplements in scope of the parent award for the five eligible grant recipients funded in FY22 and FY23 under the Grants to Prevent Prescription Drug/Opioid Overdose Program (PDO), Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) SP-21-002. Recipients may receive up to $279,266 each for a total of $1,396,330 across the program. These recipients have a project end date for use of these supplemental funds of September 29, 2025. The supplemental funding will be used to fund a comprehensive Training of Trainer (ToT) model to enhance workforce development and capacity in the arena of preventing prescription drug/ overdose related deaths and adverse events within existing projects funded under the PDO program.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is requesting a 3-year extension of the information collection requirements under the Head Start Program Performance Standards (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #0970-0148, expiration August 31, 2024). On August 21, 2024, the Office of Head Start (OHS) published a final rule: Supporting the Head Start Workforce and Consistent Quality Programming. This information collection contains changes to recordkeeping requirements as described in this final rule.

This notice is to inform the public that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is supporting administrative supplements in scope of the parent award for the 26 eligible grant recipients funded in FY 2022 under the First Responders- Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (FR-CARA), Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) TI-22-008. Recipients may receive up to $58,190 each, for a total of $1,512,940 across the program. These recipients have a project end date for use of these supplemental funds of September 29, 2025. The supplements will be used to fund a Training of Trainer (ToT) model to rapidly expand workforce development and capacity in the arena of preventing overdose related deaths and adverse events within existing projects funded under the FR-CARA program.

The Administration for Community Living (ACL) announces its intent to award a single-source supplement to the current cooperative agreement held by USAging for the Eldercare Locator. The purpose of this funding is to continue operation of the Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL). Originally funded in FY 2021 to connect people with disabilities to information about COVID-19 and assistance with accessing the COVID-19 vaccine, DIAL has become a critical resource for people with disabilities to get information and connect to state and local organization able to provide assistance serving over 100,000 since launching in June, 2021.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled "Mammography Quality Standards Act and Regulation Amendments: Small Entity Compliance Guide." The Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 (MQSA) final rule amended FDA's regulations to address, among other things, standards for accreditation bodies, certifying agencies, mammography equipment, quality assurance testing, and clinical image quality, as well as to require certain breast density information be provided by mammography facilities to patients and their healthcare providers. The small entity compliance guide (SECG) is intended to help small entities comply with the MQSA final rule.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) proposes revisions to the existing overarching generic clearance for Pre-testing of ACF Data Collection Activities (Previously titled Pre-testing of Evaluation Data Collection Activities; Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #0970-0355). Revisions are proposed to broaden the scope of the generic to include pretesting of data elements used on information collections that are not specifically for research and evaluation. This includes updates to the title of the request, overarching description, and burden estimates. We are also requesting an extension for currently approved information collections under this generic.