Subject: Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant -Proposed FFY 2008 Application

Purpose: To obtain public comment on the draft application for the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant during FFY 2008 (October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2008)

February 29, 2008 @ 10:30am

New York State — Department of Health

Flanigan Square, Room 4 A/B

547 River Street

Troy, New York

The New York State Department of Health (DOH) has developed the State's application to the Federal Government for the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant for Federal Fiscal Year 2008 (FFY 2008). Federal statute requires states to form advisory committees to assist in the development of the application and to hold public hearings on the proposed use of funds.

Copies of the application are available for review in the central, regional and district offices of the DOH and at the office of the chief executive officer of each county of the State and the cities of New York, Yonkers, Albany, Syracuse, Binghamton, Rochester and Buffalo. For further information on the Prevent Block Grant application, contact Gail Amento, Associate Director, Division of Environmental Health Investigation, New York State Department of Health, Flanigan Square, 547 River Street, Troy, New York 12180-2216, phone (518) 402-7501, e-mail: [email protected].

To further publicize the hearing, please inform interested parties and organizations of the Committee's interest in hearing comments from all sources. Oral comments will be limited to 10-minute duration. In preparing the order of those making comments, the Prevent Block Advisory Committee will attempt to accommodate individual requests to speak at particular times in consideration of special circumstances. Ten copies of any prepared testimony should be submitted to the registration desk on the date of the meeting.

Persons wishing to comment at the public hearing on the Prevent Block are requested to complete the attached reply form as soon as possible and mail it to Tina Mazula, Prevent Block Advisory Committee, Flanigan Square, 547 River Street, Room 500, Troy, New York 12180-2216 or e-mail: [email protected].

REPLY FORM: February 29, 2008 — HEARING ON

PREVENT BLOCK

FFY 2008 APPLICATION

NAME: TITLE:

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The correct e-mail contact for the Division of Air Resources as noted in the Department of Environmental Conservation Five Year Review of Rules (published in the January 2, 2008 issue of the State Register) is [email protected]

The City of New York Office of Labor Relations (OLR) is seeking proposals from qualified vendors to provide an intermediate duration open maturity synthetic investment contract(s) for the Stable Income Fund. The Request for Proposals will be available beginning on Monday, January 21, 2008. Responses are due no later than 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, March 5, 2008. To obtain a copy of the RFP, please visit the OLR web site at: http://nyc.gov/html/olr/html/requests/rfp.shtml

If you have any questions, please submit them by fax to Georgette Gestely, Director, New York City Deferred Compensation Plan, at (212) 306-7376.

Pursuant to Section 9-0505 of the Environmental Conservation Law, the Department of Environmental Conservation hereby gives Public Notice for the following Sale of Forest Products:

Sealed bids for 400.7 MBF softwood sawtimber, more or less & 363 cords of softwood and hardwood pulp, more or less located on Lewis Reforestation Area No. 10; Stands: A-13 & 24 and Lewis Reforestation Area No. 13; Stands: C-49, 50, 51, D-3, 8, 13, E-1 & 4 will be accepted at the Department of Environmental Conservation, Contract Unit, 625 Broadway, 10th Fl., Albany, NY 12233-5027 until 11:00 a.m., Thursday, February 7, 2008.

For further information, contact: Brice June, Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Lands and Forests, 7327 State Rte. 812, Lowville, NY 13367, (315) 376-3521