An issue has come up at my institution regarding the budgetary treatment of
chemical waste disposal on grants, particularly radiation waste.

Since we don't use these materials very often in research on our campus, the
individual costs can easily be isolated and allocated to individual grant
projects (seems to meet the allowable, reasonable, allocable test).  On the
other hand, a faculty collaborator from another institution informed one of
our faculty that such costs if direct charged would raise eyebrows because
it is normally treated as a component of institutional F&A cost.

Do you treat radiation waste disposal as F&A cost and include it in your F&A
rate proposal or do you treat it as a direct cost at your institution?  I
appreciate your comments.

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Brian Anderson, Director
Office of Research Development
Eastern Michigan University
Starkweather Hall, 2nd Floor
Ypsilanti, MI  48197
Office: (734) 487-3090
Fax: (734) 481-0650
Email: xxxxxx@emich.edu

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