Below you will find information regarding section 507. I don't recall having
see anything on this subject on the research administrators list or any
newsletters. Has anyone developed a compliance plan? if so I would
appreciate your sharing your approach with the group.

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  xxxxxx@ADMIN.NMT.EDU [SMTP:xxxxxx@ADMIN.NMT.EDU]
>Sent:  Friday, February 28, 1997 7:25 AM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list NAEB-L
>Subject:       Re: NIH Mandates
>
>Here is the scoop!  See para 2 for applicability.  Also www address is
>included for your use.
>Jerry
>xxxxxx@admin.nmt.edu
>
>http://rtk.net/las/507news.html
>
>                              September 30, 1996
>
>
>
>Section 507 Signed into Law
>
>It's official. Section 507 of the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill
>was slapped onto the
>1997 Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act (otherwise referred to as the
>Continuing
>Resolution), then passed by Congress and signed by the president Sept. 30,
>one day before the start
>of the 1997 fiscal year.
>
>The text of the section, provided below, was changed slightly, to clarify
>that only grantees receiving
>federal grant money from the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
> and Education are
>affected. Nonprofits covered under the law must disclose federal funding on
>virtually all outgoing
>communications, "describing" federal grant-funded projects, the amount, and
>percentage of federal
>funding those projects receive.
>
>This onerous requirement has been included in the Labor-HHS-Education
>appropriations bills on an
>on-and-off basis since 1988, when it was first attached to the bill by Sen.
>Ted Stevens (R-AK).
>Stevens reportedly attached the provision to the bill because he was upset
>that Democratic state and
>local officials in Alaska were taking too much credit for projects that were
>federally funded,
>presumably through Stevens' efforts.
>
>Section 507 was included in the FY 95 and FY 96 bills. Rep. David McIntosh
>(R-IN) sent a letter
>in March to the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
>Education asking them
>how they were enforcing the provision. The response apparently has been that
>the departments are
>now writing the provision into their grant requirements, thus giving it
>teeth.
>
>The Let America Speak coalition is now working to eliminate this provision.
>
>TEXT OF SECTION 507
>
>SEC. 507. When issuing statements, press releases, requests for proposals,
>bid solicitations and
>other documents describing projects or programs funded in whole or in part
>with Federal money, all
>grantees receiving Federal funds INCLUDED IN THIS ACT, including but not
>limited to State and
>local governments and recipients of Federal research grants, shall clearly
>state (1) the percentage of
>the total costs of the program or project which will be financed with
>Federal money, (2) the dollar
>amount of Federal funds for the project or program, and (3) percentage and
>dollar amount of the
>total costs of the project or program that will be financed by
>nongovernmental sources.
>
Peter A. Tiskus
Director Sponsored Projects
LSU Medical Center
504-568-3674 504-568-6376
xxxxxx@lsumc.edu