If it is a new setup, now is the time to make a decision whether you want
to treat the costs as direct or indirect. Either can work; just be
consistent -- which means if you direct charge, charge a teaching
laboratory the same way you charge a researcher. I've heard people say
that having a direct charge tempts people to just pour it down the drain,
but I think it is not a direct charge, but the mere bureaucracy of proper
disposal and recording of disposal, which tempts them. So that is really
an education (and actually punish miscreants!) matter.
Chuck
At 03:31 PM 9/8/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>At the University of Southern Maine, we have just opened a new research
>facility that, for the first time, gives us the ability to properly
>store, use, and dispose of bio-hazardous materials.
>
>Does your institution treat related costs as direct or indirect costs?
>(My gut feeling says indirect costs.) And, are you aware of any federal
>regulations that speak to the issue. For example, I know that a few
>years ago the NIH stated that animal cage days should be treated as
>indirect costs.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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