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NIH issues Notice of Salary Limitation on Grant, Cooperative Agreements, and Contracts

For FY 2012 the Consolodated Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112-74) signed into law on December 23, 2011, restricts the amount of direct salary to Executive Level II of the Federal Executive Pay scale. The Executive Level II salary is $179,700.
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NIH Policy

Dear Colleagues:

PLEASE READ THE ATTACHED ANNOUNCEMENT VERY CAREFULLY

As of January 25, 2011, the NIH will eliminate the two-day error correction window, which means that all errors generated upon electronic submission, regardless of whether they are false errors generated by grants.gov or not, will need to be corrected PRIOR to the agency deadline.  Otherwise the application will be considered late by the NIH.

Please read the accompanying pdf notification from the NIH.  Given the removal of the error correction window, it is absolutely essential that investigators submit their completed applications, including the research plan, to the Office of Sponsored Programs no later than 5 business days prior to the agency deadline.  Given this new ruling by the NIH, the OSP cannot be responsible for the successful submission of any grant application that is not submitted 5 days prior to the agency deadline.  In the past the OSP has done everything possible to make certain that grants to the NIH were submitted prior to the deadline and the post submission two-day error rule was an invaluable aid in making sure that the applications were successfully submitted.  This will not be possible in the future with applications that are submitted at the last minute.  Therefore applications not submitted to the OSP in a timely manner and eventually are found to have errors may not be accepted by the NIH.

Sincerely,

Douglas M. Stocco, Ph.D

Executive Vice President for Research

For more information please contact:

Doug Stocco (Doug.Stocco@ttuhsc.edu)

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