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<b>Subject:</b> [DIVRESEARCH-L] NSF Accelerated ARRA Spending FAQs<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">If your NSF grant is funded by ARRA funds, please note the following:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Yesterday, NSF posted <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/arra/faqs_pi.jsp" target="_blank">
FAQs</a> regarding the accelerated spending <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/memoranda/2011/m11-34.pdf" target="_blank">
memo</a> (M-11-34) that OMB released on September 15<sup>th</sup>, 2011.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Key impacts:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Waiver requests for all grants, except for CAREER awards, need to be submitted by March 2<sup>nd</sup> (today).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">This includes awards whose expiration date is beyond 9/30/13. If a waiver request is not submitted for such an award, “NSF will amend your award to modify the expiration so that your project cannot
continue past September 30, 2013.” <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">Waiver requests for cooperative agreements need to be submitted by March 9<sup>th</sup>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="color:#1f497d">For CAREER awards, all of which were issued with expiration dates in 2014, “NSF is working to develop a strategy for a programmatic waiver request to cover all CAREER PIs.” Waiver requests for CAREER
awards do not need to be submitted at this time, but recipients are reminded that there is no guarantee that OMB will approve the waiver request.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:0in"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u></span><br></p></div></div></div>-- <br>Fritz Claydon Ph.D.<br>Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering<br>Associate Dean of Administration and Research<br>
University of Houston<br>Cullen College of Engineering<br>713.743.4204<br><a href="mailto:fclaydon@uh.edu" target="_blank">fclaydon@uh.edu</a><br><br><p>
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