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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

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HEALTH RESOURCES ADMINISTRATION

° Rockville, Maryland 20852
SEP 2 0 1973 BUREAU OF HEALTH SERVICES
aa RESEARCH AND EVALUATION

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TO: COORDINATORS, GRANTEE OFFICIALS AND RAG CHAIRMEN OF |
REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS So
REGIONAL DIRECTORS, DHEW . oe |:

This letter is to state explicitly that the authorized lifetime
of the Regional Medical Programs Services and of all individual
Regional Medical Programs is. June 30, 1974, in accord with the

recent legislation which extended the program through FY 1974.

Current policy is that no expenditures of grant funds can be

‘made beyond that date. |

With reference to my letter of September 7, 1973, awards will

‘be made October 1 from the current allotment of $17.1 M to

assure viability of RMPs through December 31, 1973. If
additional funds are allotted to RMPS from the $46.4 M released
by the Office of Management and Budget, RMPS plans to issue
continuation awards for the period January 1 through June 30,
1974. If additional funds are not released, RMPs may continue
on through June 30, 1974 from previously awarded funds. You
should note that awards will continue to have termination dates
other than June 30, 1974 until continuation awards are issued
on January 1. For planning and operational purposes, however,

_ termination dates shown on your existing awards are to be

disregarded and every effort made by you to assure continuity
of operations through June 30, 1974. .

For those of you who received the September 7 letter with
accompanying Application Instructions for FY 1974, you will
find modifications to those instructions, previously conveyed
to you by our operations personnel, are contained in the
enclosed errata sheet. . ,

Sincerely yours,
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:  Palet BGM
’ Herbert B. Pahl, Ph.D.

Acting Director
Regional Medical Programs Service

Enclosure
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ERRATA SHEET TO APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

i FOR FY 1974

Page 1, I. A. (1), Third Paragraph

Add the word "not" after "will" in the third line.
Page 7, IV.B. (1 Te
Add "activities" after "Program Staff" in first line.

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Page 7, I¥.B. (2) oe _. ee

 

Add “major discrete" after "each" in first line.

“Information Item

RMPs may let contracts between now and 12/31/73 provided the
contracts terminate by 6/30/74.

FEE; RPS LTR. DID, SEPTENBER 20, 1973

ENCLOSURE