yes you do!!! individual programs have included program specific
instructions not found elsewhere....it ain't a perfect world yet

At 12:01 PM 1/28/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>It's happened with an Engineering proposal and a Computer Science proposal.
>
>The offices are simply looking for the signed cover sheet (and supporting
>materials, if appropriate) that is mailed in after we do the electronic
>submission.   I would guess they are receiving the copy of the proposals
>separately from the cover sheets and they aren't getting matched up
>properly.   Or maybe they are receiving the proposals in advance of the
>cover sheets, and are hesitant to do anything until the signature is
>"in-hand."
>
>If some of the program announcements are now including instructions to send
>the signed cover sheets in separately as one list participant mentioned),
>it's going to be awfully easy to miss that.  PI's and SRO's are generally
>just referring to the program guidelines for content instructions.  If
>you're doing a FastLane submission, you don't expect to have to look at the
>individual program guidelines for submission instructions, too.
>
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>Director of Grants & Sponsored Projects
>Somsen Hall Room 202-C
>Winona State University
>Winona, MN  55987
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>Fax:       507.457.2415
>xxxxxx@winona.msus.edu
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>Hi All,
>I'd like to try and work this out.  Nancy, can you send me more detail on
>the kind of "signed materials" that the NSF Divisio is asking for?
>
>Thanks
>Florence Rabanal
>National Science Foundation
>Directorate for Mathematical and PHysical Sciences
>FastLane Project Coordinator
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nancy Peterson [mailto:xxxxxx@WINONA.MSUS.EDU]
>Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 11:32 AM
>To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
>Subject: FastLane question
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>This is the second time this has come up.  We follow the FastLane
>instructions and send in the signed materials to FastLane,, then we get a
>call from the NSF Division demanding copies of the signed materials before
>they will consider reviewing our application.  Apparently FastLane isn't
>processing the signed stuff fast enough to satisfy the Divisions.
>
>Is this happening to anyone else?  Should we be sending copies of the
>signed materials to the program office, too, just in case?
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>Nancy Kay Peterson
>Director of Grants & Sponsored Projects
>Somsen Hall Room 202-C
>Winona State University
>Winona, MN  55987
>
>Phone:  507.457.5519
>Fax:       507.457.2415
>xxxxxx@winona.msus.edu
>http://www.winona.msus.edu/grants/
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