Fran, check exactly how your travel policy is written -- as opposed to
merely practice. I'm 99% sure that your institutional travel policy
is automatically adopted by the feds -- unless there has been an
exception taken to it by your auditor or cognizant agency.
Chuck
At 04:41 PM 1/5/2006, you wrote:
When a faculty
member charges rconference registration fees and plane tickets to a grant
but then is unable to attend the meeting due to illness or other
similarly legitimate reason, can those expenses still be reimbursed by
the federal funding source? Had the same thing happened with
college funds, we would not ask the faculty member for reimbursement but
is there a federal policy governing this type of situation when federal
funds are involved?
Frances Vinal Farnsworth
Coordinator of Sponsored Research
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
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