Jo,

You're not alone!  I have encountered the same problem with one of my
AREA submissions (three others went through just fine), as have Bob
Chestnut at Eastern Illinois and Liz Lieberman from Wellesley.  Probably
others as well.  If anyone gets some advice from the Commons Help Desk
that seems to work, please share with the rest of us.

I'm still waiting for a call back from the Help Desk.

Craig

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Craig Reynolds / Office of Research & Sponsored Programs /
Central Michigan University / Foust 251 / Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 /
T: 989.774.3859 / F: 989.774.3439 / E: xxxxxx@cmich.edu

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From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG] On
Behalf Of Jo Harris
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:59 AM
To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
Subject: [RESADM-L] NIH AREA Grant Proposal

Help with the following problem will be greatly appreciated!  We have
been trying since Friday to submit proposals to the NIH AREA grant
program.  The consistent error message says:  Indirect Cost Funds
Requested for budget year 1 must equal the product of Indirect Cost Rate

and Indirect Cost Base for the same year-Error."  To complete the PHS
398 Modular Budget form, we filled in the section for Budget Period 1,
with the Direct Costs being the total modular amount requested for the
entire period of the project; and then we completed the Indirect Costs
section by multiplying our Salary & Wages indirect cost type times the
actual figure of salaries and benefits for the entire project period,
and then we  rounded the resulting figure down to a whole number for the

Indirect Funds Requested.

My calls to the eRA Commons help line resulted in a suggestion to round
the resulting number up or to use the actual cents as well as the
dollars.  Neither option worked.  Now the eRA people have referred me to

the NIH help line, and I am waiting for a call back.  I am probably
overlooking something very simple, but I'm becoming a bit frantic that
our faculty members' proposals may not get submitted in time.  Thank you

all!

Jo Harris
Sponsored Programs Specialist
Office of Graduate Studies & Research
Appalachian State University
287 Rivers Street
Boone, NC 28608
(828) 262-2694

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