The question of hazardous waste disposal costs just came up here yesterday.
My reading of A-21 is that as long as you can specifically identify the
hazardous waste disposal costs with a particular project, you can line item
the costs as a direct cost in the grant proposal budget.

We have a formula distribution for indirect costs received: a certain
percentage goes to the PI's department, the PI's college, the library, the
Grants Office, and Administrative Affairs.  Hence, if we change the policy
so one of those indirect cost recipients has to use indirect costs for
disposal purposes, they will not be very happy campers.  Besides, if the
costs can be determined with that a degree of accuracy, they should have
been line itemd as direct costs to begin with.

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