The answer may depend less on judgment or common sense than on the specific
language NSF and the institution have agreed to.  If the institution agreed
to $300,000 as a specific figure, then that may be the deciding factor.
Read the fine print.

Stuart A. Ross, Ph.D.
Manager of Grants and Communications
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
University of California, Irvine
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-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Averick [mailto:xxxxxx@CIMS.NYU.EDU]
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 12:07 PM
To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
Subject: [RESADM-L] Cost Sharing question

>We have an NSF grant where the notice of grant award lists annual amounts
>of required cost sharing.  Say, the year 1 grant award is for $200,000 and
>the cost sharing for year 1 is $300,000--but if we've only spent $100,000
>in the first year, would NSF expect the cost sharing to be the full
>$300,000 or in proportion to our actual expenses?

Thanks.

Fred Averick
Sponsored Research Administrator
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
ph: (212) 998-3372
fax: (212) 995-4125

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