It has happened to me. Luckily, we knew where he was (Old Dominion), and we tracked him down and made him write the report. All payments and new awards to our institution from
the agency were cut off until he got his act together. PS - agency in this case was NOAA.

On a related note - I've been going into the Fastlane Institutional Reports Module and seeing who it shows as having delinquent reports, and making sure the reports are in.
Many of them were submitted, but NSF doesn't seem to have them on file, so we're re-submitting the reports.

Tania

Sally Eckert-Tilotta wrote:

> And another question along that line:   what if the PI has left the institution, and the institution has no one who knows enough about the project to write a final report?

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 Accountability and accounting are not the same thing

Tania Clucas                              mailto:xxxxxx@sfos.uaf.edu
Grants Coordinator                               Voice 907.474.6736
School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences           Fax   907.474.7204
University of Alaska Fairbanks         http://www.sfos.uaf.edu:8000

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