The standard format for Congressional districts is the two-letter postal service abbreviation for the state followed by a hyphen and then a 3-digit number with leading zeroes if the district is only one or two digits—as in the Kentucky example below.

The Grants.gov FAQs have the following:

How can I find my congressional district code?

Finding your Congressional District Code information is quick and easy to do. Visit: Congressional Directory or http://www.house.gov/ to search for your Congressional District by entering your zip code + 4. If you do not know your zip code + 4 you may look it up by visiting: http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp.

Congressional Code format - 2 character State Abbreviation - 3 character District Number. Examples: CA-005 for California's 5th district, CA-012 for California's 12th district. Use 00-000 for programs/projects outside the US.

Elsa G. Nadler

Ph: 419.383.5302

Fax: 419.383.4262

From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org] On Behalf Of Scott Niles
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 2:22 PM
To: xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org
Subject: Re: [RESADM-L] NIH AREA application error

Hmm,

Typically we enter the congressional district for us as such:

KY-005 (this is the 5th congressional district in Kentucky).

Not sure if other states have a similar method.

Scott Niles, MA, CRA
Grants and Contracts Administrator
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Morehead State University
901 Ginger Hall
Morehead, KY 40351
Phone: 606-783-2278
Fax: 606-783-2130
Web site: http://www.moreheadstate.edu/research

From: Tiffany Wika <xxxxxx@NSUOK.EDU>
Reply-To: Research Administration Discussion List <xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org>
Date: Monday, June 24, 2013 2:15 PM
To: "xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org" <xxxxxx@lists.healthresearch.org>
Subject: [RESADM-L] NIH AREA application error

This morning I submitted a proposal for a NIH AREA (R15) award. It received an error regarding the congressional district. We are Oklahoma district 2. I originally tried entering this information in several different formats, and the only format that the grants.gov form would accept for this was "second". But apparently eRA Commons doesn't like that.

Does anyone know what format they are looking for on the congressional district?

Tiffany Wika, M.M.
Proposal Development Specialist
Northeastern State University
(918)444-2034

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