Administrative Delegations

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Public Health Service

Indian Health Service
Rockville MD 20852

APR 24, 2008


TO:	Acting Director Through: IHS/ESS /LK/ DDMO /RE/
FROM:	Acting Director Management Policy and Internal Control Staff
SUBJECT:	Rescission of Delegation of Authority, Administrative #14, "Approve Grant Funding Periods of 18 Months or More" -- ACTION

ISSUE

The purpose of this memorandum is to request your approval to rescind the attached Indian Health Service (IHS) Delegation of Authority (DOA), Administrative #14, "Approve Grant Funding Periods of 18 Months or More."

DISCUSSION

This DOA is being rescinded because the authority is now reflected in the Department of Health and Human Services Awarding Agency Grants Administration Manual, Chapter 2.04.104B(5)(b)(ii), which states that "the Chief Grants Management Officer is the approving official for any single non-competing extension exceeding 12 months, because these actions are single-case deviations."

RECOMMENDATION

I recommend you approve the rescission of this DOA by initialing on the “Approved line that follows, and by signing the Transmittal Notice at Tab A.

DECISION

Approved: /Robert G. McSwain/ Disapproved _____________ Date ___5/1/08____

/Curtis Kitto/
Curtis Kitto