# Announcement of Grant Awards Under the RUS Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program
**AGENCY:**
Rural Utilities Service, USDA.
**ACTION:**
Notice of applications selected to receive grant awards.
**SUMMARY:**
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) hereby announces the recipients that were selected to receive grant awards during fiscal year (FY) 2002 under the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Marilyn J. Morgan, Chief, Distance Learning and Telemedicine Branch, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Utilities Service, STOP 1550, Room 2845, South Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-1701. Telephone: (202) 720-0413. FAX: (202) 720-1051.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
Pursuant to 7 CFR 1703.101, RUS is hereby publishing the names of the 71 organizations that have been awarded $27,139,772 in grants under 7 CFR part 1703, subpart D, Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program. The recipients are as follows:
| State | Grantee | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| AK | Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium | $500,000 |
| AK | The Health TV Channel, Inc. | 500,000 |
| AL | Choctaw County Board of Education | 233,262 |
| AL | Conecuh County School District | 500,000 |
| AR | Barton-Lexa School District | 500,000 |
| AZ | Arizona Western College | 391,455 |
| CA | Southern Cal. Tribal Chairmen's Assn. Inc. | 479,235 |
| CA | Yosemite Community College District | 500,000 |
| CO | Grand River Hospital District | 500,000 |
| FL | All Children's Hospital | 481,410 |
| GA | South Georgia Governmental Services Authority | 499,100 |
| ID | North Idaho Rural Health Consortium | 500,000 |
| KS | Hays Medical Center, Inc. | 195,000 |
| KS | Barton County Community College | 69,550 |
| KY | Saint Joseph Healthcare | 90,300 |
| LA | Primary Care Providers for a Healthy Feliciana | 67,360 |
| ME | The Aroostook Medical Center | 162,543 |
| ME | Visiting Nurse Service of Southern Maine and Seacoast New Hampshire | 214,956 |
| ME | St. Joseph Healthcare Inc. | 494,750 |
| ME | HealthReach Network d/b/a HealthReach Homecare & Hospice | 500,000 |
| MI | Borgess Health Alliance, Inc. | 368,183 |
| MN | First Care Medical Service | 200,000 |
| MN | Mille Lacs Health System | 207,720 |
| MO | Education Plus Network | 464,492 |
| MS | Mississippi Blood Services | 193,930 |
| MS | Jones County School District | 500,000 |
| MS | Brookhaven School District | 500,000 |
| MT | Deaconess Billings Clinic Foundation | 209,300 |
| MT | Montana State University-Northern | 398,785 |
| MT | Eastern Montana Education Telecommunications | 430,071 |
| NE | Rural Health Partners, Inc. d.b.a. Heartland Health Alliance | 164,640 |
| NE | North Platte Nebraska Hospital Corporation d.b.a Great Plains Regional Medical Center | 484,000 |
| NM | University of New Mexico-Gallup | 432,526 |
| NY | NYS Office of Children & Family Services | 190,279 |
| NY | New York State Office of Children and Family Services | 335,000 |
| NY | Schuyler-Chemung-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services | 400,998 |
| NY | Copenhagen CSD (Lead Agency) | 476,650 |
| NY | Moses-Ludington Hospital | 499,800 |
| OH | Martins Ferry City School District (BUCKEYE Project) | 213,530 |
| OH | Ohio University Southern Campus | 482,518 |
| OK | Canadian Valley Technology Center | 309,778 |
| OK | Western Oklahoma State College | 415,696 |
| OK | Lane School | 497,000 |
| OK | Wapanucka Public School | 498,000 |
| OK | Howe Public Schools District I-67 | 486,928 |
| OR | Rogue Community College | 286,486 |
| OR | Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital | 317,687 |
| PA | Greene County Industrial Development Authority | 456,647 |
| PA | Brownsville Area School District | 500,000 |
| PA | Wayne Memorial Hospital, Inc. | 500,000 |
| PA | Home Health Services Foundation | 500,000 |
| TN | Claiborne County Department of Education | 427,972 |
| TN | The University of Tennessee Health Science Center | 460,990 |
| TN | The University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy | 490,012 |
| TN | Sequatchie County School District | 500,000 |
| TX | Palo Alto College | 257,760 |
| TX | San Antonio College | 312,315 |
| TX | Taft Independent School District | 450,595 |
| TX | Texas A&M International University | 497,000 |
| TX | Cypress Valley Alliance | 500,000 |
| TX | Odem-Edroy ISD | 500,000 |
| TX | Education Service Center, Region 2 | 499,473 |
| UT | Central Utah Educational Services | 322,322 |
| VA | Southside Virginia Community College | 171,578 |
| VA | Crossroads Rural Entrepreneurial Institute, Inc. | 470,700 |
| VA | University of Virginia | 73,000 |
| VT | Visiting Nurse Alliance of VT and NH, Inc. | 400,000 |
| WA | Wellpinit School District | 475,000 |
| WA | Educational Service District 105 | 470,600 |
| WI | Space Explorers Education Initiatives, Inc. | 350,000 |
| WV | Glenville State College | 210,890 |
Dated: December 13, 2002.
Curtis M. Anderson,
Deputy Administrator, Acting for the Administrator, Rural Utilities Service.