Check with your general counsel.  Make sure the project is closed-all
payments received and expenses processed and use whatever other criteria you
used to close a project out.  Is human subjects involved in the project?
This would be my concern and seems like the cause of liability.

Lucretia Hollingshed

Ruth Tallman wrote:

> Good Morning,
>
> I've got a good one for this group!  We've been requested by DOE to sign
> a Final Release form signed by the IO with the signature of two
> witnesses PLUS if the awardee is a corporation, a corporate certificate
> must be signed and sealed.  Here's the body of the "final release":
>
> "The work under Award No. DE-FGxxx, dated 08-09-1998, between the United
> States of America (represented by the Department of Energy, National
> Energy Technology Laboratory, and the undersigned awardee, having been
> completed and finally accepted, and in consideration of Final Payment
> thereunder, the United States of America, its officers, agents and
> employees are hereby released from all liabilities, obligations, and
> claims whatsoever arising out of or under said award."
>
> I feel like I went to NCURA and returned to another planet!
>
> Any feedback or enlightenment you could provide will be appreciated!
> (In the meantime, we're not signing!)
>
> Ruth Tallman
> Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
> Lehigh University
> 526 Brodhead Avenue
> Bethlehem, PA  18015
> Phone:   (610)758-3024
> FAX:       (610)758-5994
> E-mail:   xxxxxx@lehigh.edu
>
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