OMB's seminal statement on cost sharing is at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/m01-06.html

But it does not use any word like "type" or "category".  And I think
"flavor" would not be appropriate, as cost sharing is not tasteful to most
of us!

If someone finds one use or the other in federal documents, please tell us all!

Chuck

At 05:48 PM 1/19/2005, you wrote:
>Hi, Chuck,
>Your question piqued my curiosity and I have spent some time perusing
>various federal sites on the Web. I can find no reference to mandatory or
>voluntary cost sharing; and I have never heard the term voluntary
>committed. The feds seem to use "type" and "category" interchangeably. The
>dictionary definitions do not make great distinction: category is a class
>or division; type is a class of things having common characteristics
>(Concise Oxford Dictionary).
>             cheers, Elsa Nadler
>
>Elsa G. Nadler
>Grants Manager
>Department of Community Medicine
>1 Medical Center Drive
>PO Box 9190
>West Virginia University
>Morgantown, WV 26506-9190
>
>Tel: 304/293-3546
>Fax: 304/293-6685

Herbert "Chuck" Chermside, CRA
Director Emeritus, VCU Sponsored Programs
Executive Director, Research Administrators Certification Council
1915 Robindale Rd.
Richmond, VA 23235-3931
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