ARRA Opportunities for the University of New Mexico

1. ARRA Opportunities for the University of New Mexico Office of Senator Jeff Bingaman

2. Possible Resources for Child Care Center • Child Care Development Block Grant program, NM to receive $17.8 million. http://www.cyfd.org/earlychildhood.html • Approximately $2.5 million to NM for expanding Early Head Start programs—Center could choose to apply to become an early Head Start Program.

3. Possible College of Education grant • Teacher Quality Enhancement Competitive State Grant, $100 million nationally. • The funds provided in the economic recovery bill will assist States in modernizing the teaching workforce, address teacher shortages, and provide new routes to teaching for jobless individuals seeking to enter the teaching field. • http://www.ed.gov/programs/heatqp/eligibility.html

4. Student Financial Assistance • $15.64 billion was included for the Pell Grant program. • $200 million was included for work-study programs. • These additional funds will provide immediate financial relief to an additional 800,000 students and their families who are struggling to pay for the cost of a higher education during the economic downturn. • http://www.ed.gov/programs/fpg/index.html

5. Diesel Emission Reduction Grants • Non-profits and educational institutions eligible to apply. • Funds technologies to retrofit emission exhaust systems, such as on school buses and other vehicles, replace engines and vehicles, and establish anti-idling programs – • $300 million total, 70% of the funding supports nation-wide, competitive grants. • http://www.epa.gov/otaq/diesel/

6. Department of Energy Research Grants • Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy • 10 energy programs, including the Biomass Program; Building Technologies Program; federal Energy Management Program; Geothermal Technologies Program; Hydrogen,Fuel Cells & Infrastructure Program; Industrial Technologies Program; Solar Energy;Technologies Program; Vehicle Technologies; Wind & Hydropower Technologies; Program; and Weatherization & Intergovernmental Program • $16.8 billion in grants www.eere.energy.gov • www.eere.energy.gov/biomass • www.eere.energy.gov/geothermal

7. Department of Energy Grants • $300 million for Alternative Fueled Vehicle Pilot Program, competitive grants. • May be used for acquisition of alternative fuel, hybrid of fuel cell vehicles, including buses. • May be used to create infrastructure necessary to support vehicles. • http://www.afdc.energy.gov/cleancities/progs/coordinators.php

8. Smart Grid Investment Program • $4.5 billion for Electric Delivery and Reliability • For research and development, pilot projects, and federal matching funds for the Smart Grid Investment Program to meet the goal of a modern electric grid and to increase reliability. • Universities can serve as partners. • www.oe.energy.gov/smartgrid.htm

9. Office of Fossil Energy • $3.4 billion in research and development pollution control innovations for traditional power plants, including mercury reduction; improved gasification technologies; advanced combustion systems; development of stationary power fuel cells; improved turbines for future coal-based combined cycle plants; and creation of a portfolio of technologies that can capture and permanently store greenhouse gases. • www.fossil.energy.gov • http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/projectdatabase/stateprofiles/2004/New_Mexico.html

10. Office of Science • $1.6 billion in competitive grants. The Office of Science manages fundamental research programs in basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences, and computational science. • NM Profile: http://www.sc.doe.gov/SC_Funding/nm/nm.html • www.science.doe.gov • http://www.science.doe.gov/grants/grants.html

11. Advanced Research Projects Agency • $ 400 million to support high-risk, high-payoff research to accelerate the innovation cycle for both traditional and alternative energy sources and energy. • May apply individually or as part of a consortia. • www.energy.gov

12. Possible Department of Labor Grants • All under NM Office of Workforce Solutions—unclear how the state grant process will work • $2.7 million to train unemployed adults for high-demand occupations. • $6.3 million to create summer jobs, year-round activities envisions. • http://www.wia.state.nm.us/dws-mainoffice.html • www.dol.gov/recovery

13. Green Jobs Initiatives • $500 million in competitive grants. • These funds are designated for projects that prepare workers for careers in energyefficiency and renewable energy as described in the Green Jobs Act of 2007. • http://www.doleta.gov/

14. Sector Partnership Grants • $40 million in competitive grants • To facilitate partnerships between industry, State and local governments, firms, local labor and workforce investment boards, and educational institutions to strengthen and revitalize industries. • UNM would need to partner with a struggling industry. • www.dol.gov/recovery

15. Health Care Funding Opportunities • Funds available for clinical operations, research, and research infrastructure.

16. Patient Funding Assistance • New Mexico will receive $630 million in federal matching funding for the period of 10/1/2008 to 12/31/2010. This will avoid any budget shortfalls if properly leveraged. • Also see money from SCHIP—not a part of stimulus, but an additional source of patient funds. • Premium subsidy of 65% of the COBRA continuation premiums for a maximum of 9 months of coverage only with respect to involuntary terminations that occurs on or after September 1, 2008, and before January 1, 2010. The full premium subsidy is limited by a taxpayer's adjusted gross income (AGI), $125,000 for individuals and $250,000 for joint filers and is phased out for individuals with an AGI between $125,000 and $145,000 and families with an AGI between $250,000 and $290,000.

17. Indian Health Care Issues • Improves access to health care by prohibiting Medicaid from requiring a co-payments for Indian Medicaid recipients, exempting some Indian property from inclusion in resource determinations for Medicaid and CHIP, and making it easier for American Indians to utilize Medicaid benefits.

18. Funding for Clinics • $1.5 billion in competitive Community Health Infrastructure grants, money may be used to expand or build new clinics to serve a great population for institutions receiving grants under the section 330 of PHSA. http://bphc.hrsa.gov/about/apply.htm • $500 million in Community Health Services Center Grants . Funds are to be used to support new sites and service areas, to increase services at existing sites, and to provide supplemental payments for spikes in uninsured populations http://bphc.hrsa.gov/about/apply.htm

19. Funding for Healthcare Professionals • $300 million in competitive scholarships, grants and loan repayment through the National Health Service Corps-to help train doctors, dentists and nurses committing to serving in underserved areas through NHSC. http://nhsc.hrsa.gov/applications/ • $200 million in competitive grants, scholarships, and loans through Titles VII and VIII of Public Health Service Act. Funds may be used for all disciples trained under primary care medicine and dentistry program, and the public health and preventive medicine program. http://www.hrsa.gov/help/healthprofessions.htm

20. Health Care Research Facilities • $1.3 billion in competitive grants was included for the NIH to renovate and equip university research facilities. • Funding will be used for the construction and renovation of extramural research facilities and for the acquisition of shared instrumentation and other capital research equipment. • Deadlines are May 6, June 17 and July 17, 2009, depending upon the funding amount requested. Amounts can range from $2 million to $15 million. • http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RR-09-008.html. • http://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2009/ncrr-11.htm

21. NIH Grants • Biomedical research to study diseases. • $800 million will be used by the Office of the Director for purposes that can be completed within two years, including short-term grants focused on specific scientific challenges, new research that expands the scope of ongoing projects, research on public and international health priorities, and to enhance central research support activities, centralized information support systems. • www.nih.gov • Challenge grants http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/the_american_recovery_and_reinvestment_act/challenge_grant_initiative/

22. Wellness and Prevention Grants • $950 million for the CDC to support state and local efforts to fight chronic disease. • Funds will be used to carry out evidenced based clinical and community-based prevention and wellness strategies and public health workforce development activities, including immunization programs and state efforts to reduce healthcare-related infections. • www.cdc.gov

23. Comparative Effectiveness • $1.1 billion to Agency on Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) ($300 million) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) ($400 million), and $400 million discretionary HHS in competitive grants. • to evaluate and compare clinical outcomes, effectiveness, risk, and benefits of two or more medical treatments and services that address a particular medical condition. Research used to help improve patient treatment. • http://www.ahrq.gov/ • http://www.nih.gov/

24. Health Information Technology • $2 billion was included for discretionary grants to promote the adoption and use of interoperable health information technology (HIT). • Will provide financial assistance to universities to establish or expand medical informatics programs. http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/ • $17 billion to improve investments and incentives through Medicare and Medicaid to ensure adoption and use of interoperable health information technology (HIT). Awarded to CMS. • Provides eligible professionals who show meaningful use of an Electronic Health Record(EHR) in 2011 or 2012 with incentive payments of $18,000 in the first year. Payment adjustments for eligible professionals not demonstrating meaningful use of an EHR would begin in 2015. Provides eligible hospitals (including Critical Access Hospitals) with incentive payments starting in Fiscal Year 2011 and payments adjustments for hospitals not demonstrating meaningful use of an EHR in Fiscal Year 2015.

25. Questions? • Contact: • Health/HSC/UNMH: Jessica Perez, 346-6601, jessica_perez@senate.bingaman.gov • Education/non-health agency funding: Chamiza Atencio-Pacheco, 346-6601, chamiza_atencio-pacheco@bingaman.senate.gov