Attached is an institutional policy that worked well for a state
research university.
The reference to the Appropriations Act notes language in the annual
state appropriation; other institutions may have an external legal
requirement regarding F&A collection.
It is not explicitly stated in this policy, but was the practice
based on it, that F&A would never be waived on a project funded by an
industrial or for-profit sponsor.
Giving the institution's highest research executive the authority to
waive F&A (the exact wording related to the Appropriations Act
language) allows for flexibility, but in practice a waiver was never
given unless it appeared to be to the benefit of the University.

Chuck

At 12:37 AM 2/17/2006, you wrote:
>I am looking for examples of policies on indirect cost waivers.
>
>I have found various forms on websites that generally indicate 2
>different levels of consideration:  1) the funding agency caps or
>doesn't permit indirects, and 2) no such formal limitation by the agency
>exists.  I have found nothing that says how a decision is made on
>category #2.  Is this ever done?
>
>And since the most likely situations where PIs would request this second
>category of waiver would be for non-federal grant proposals, how do you
>stay out of trouble with the feds when making such a waiver?  Or is this
>why no one publishes how they make these decisions...
>
>Thanks!
>Tara
>
>
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