I have seen NIH approve travel budgets much larger than what you propose.

Nothing is NORMALLY approved...make sure the justification is doubly
convincing.

And even if the grant is modular, you should still justify at length if
necessary.

Charlie Hathaway

At 04:05 PM 5/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I have two questions that I'm hoping I can get some help with.
>
>I have a research associate who will be here for Year 1 of a new grant, but
>for Year 2 she will be in Australia.  She will require supply money as well
>as salary and benefits??.  Since this research associate will be working for
>another institution in Australia, can, or should I treat her Year 2 expenses
>as a consortium?
>
>Related to that issue, the PI and one other person plan on making two trips
>annually to Australia at a cost of about $2K a head.  For one of the trips,
>the PI plans on staying for up to two weeks.  This will require a rather
>large travel budget.  Are large travel budgets normally approved with proper
>justification, or would there be a problem with this.
>
>Thank you.
>
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