Jean-

While your description of the situation is much more clear than the NIH notice, many issues remain.  Aside from the fact that each institution is best able to make many simple and not so simple adjustments to the forms to make it easier for THEIR applicants, the larger issue concerns timing of NIH changes to their own forms.
A week before a deadline?  A month?  3 months?  There are many people out there working on applications for the 1 October deadline who have already started using the 5/01 forms.  Urging applicants "to always check the PHS 398 and PHS 2590 websites" presumes a lot.

Charlie

At 04:18 PM 8/10/01 -0700, you wrote:
>     In response to the FLOOD of emails to TRAM asking about the
>availability of the new NIH forms.....   TRAM has been in contract with NIH
>regarding the new version   As indicated in
>http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-01-054.html, it is
>their intent to provide "dynamic" forms to the research community; i.e.,
>documents they can update/change, as necessary, to reflect changes in
>applicable laws, regulations, rules and policies. Therefore, TRAM has
>agreed to simply provide links to the NIH forms page rather than duplicate
>NIH'  TRAM will continue to provide the 4/98 versions of the 398 and 2590
>until December 21, 2001.  Jean Humphries   & Sponsored Projects  Arizona
>State University East  7001 E. Williams Field Road  Mesa AZ 85212     (480)
>727-1086    (480) 727-1001    xxxxxx@asu.edu
>
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