Grant-Admin-News: NSF Grant Proposal Guide Updated

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The National Science Foundation has issued a revised Grant Proposal
Guide (GPG), which is effective January 1, 2002.  The new GPG (NSF 02-2)
is now available from the NSF Online Document System at:
    http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf022

This new version of the Guide replaces NSF 01-2a, which may be used only
through December 31, 2001.

Some highlights of the changes to the GPG include:


Chapter II --- Section C.1, Project Summary, has been changed to reflect
that proposers must now clearly address, in separate statements within
the one-page limitation of the Project Summary, both of the NSF merit
review criteria--intellectual merit and broader impacts.

Chapter II --- Section C.3, Project Description, has been revised to:
*  reiterate the broader impacts resulting from the proposed project
must be addressed in the Project Description and described as an
integral part of the narrative. Examples illustrating activities likely
to demonstrate broader impacts are available electronically through the
link in footnote 28 of Chapter III Section A "Review Criteria."

*  state that proposers who plan to submit a group proposal that uses
the page limitations identified in that section are strongly encouraged
to contact the cognizant NSF Program Officer prior to submission of the
group proposal.

Chapter II --- Section C.4, References Cited, has been supplemented with
additional guidance on the inclusion of website addresses. If a website
address is readily available, it should be included in the References
Cited section of the proposal. Proposals that do not specify URL
addresses will not be considered to be in violation of NSF proposal
preparation guidelines and will still be reviewed.

Chapter II --- Section C.11.d, Proposals Involving Vertebrate Animals,
has been expanded to provide specific citations for the Animal Welfare
regulations. It reinforces the requirement that the proposer must have
an established Public Health Service Animal Welfare Assurance and adds
instructions on the procedure to follow if an organization does not have
an Institutional Animal Welfare Assurance in place.

Chapter II --- Section C.11.e, Proposals Involving Human Subjects, has
been updated to provide instructions to follow if an organization or
unaffiliated PI has no Human Subjects assurance and no means of
obtaining such an assurance.

Chapter III --- Section A, Review Criteria, has been revised to
highlight the importance of both merit review criteria in the
preparation and review of all proposals submitted to NSF. Examples of
activities that demonstrate broader impacts are available electronically
through the link in footnote 28 of this section.

Chapter III --- Section C, Revisions to Proposals Made During the Review
Process, has been clarified to state that, in addition to the NSF
Program Officer and PI, the AOR (Authorized Organizational
Representative), which is ORSA at the UO, must agree to any situations
where the budget has been reduced by 10% or more but the scope of the
proposal has not been reduced.

Chapter VI --- Section B, Prior Approval Requirements, has been updated
and supplemented with language reiterating that grantees, during the
performance of a project, have broad discretion to rebudget within the
cost and administrative principles, without prior NSF approval. The
second paragraph of this section lists those instances where prior
written authorization from NSF is required. A new approval has been
added to this list, namely, reduction in cost sharing amount. All prior
approval requests can now be submitted electronically to NSF via
FastLane.

Updated guidelines for submission of Single Copy Documents; and new
capabilities within FastLane for submission of requests for PI
transfers, PI changes, and Subaward approvals.







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