Florida State University
Sponsored Research Administration
Exemption to Direct Charge Costs Normally Treated as Indirect Costs
FSU/OMNI Proposal/Project ID:Principal Investigator:
Sponsoring Agency:
NOTE: (Exemption is REQUIRED to direct charge administrative and clerical salaries and other administrative-type expenses. In addition to meeting definition of exceptional circumstances, costs must be specifically identifiable to a particular sponsored project, be reasonable, allowable and allocable.)
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SECTION I. EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES
DEFINITION: The nature of sponsored project requires an extensive amount of administrative and/or clerical support and goods/services are significantly greater than the routine level provided by the academic department (Check box(es) below, as appropriate.)
□ Project is a large, complex program (such as Clinical Research Center, program projects environmental research & engineering research center & project that entails assembling & managing teams of investigators from a number of institutions).
□ Project involves extensive data accumulation, analysis & data entry, surveying, tabulation, cataloging, searching literature, & reporting, such as epidemiological studies & clinical records
□ Project requires making travel & meeting arrangements for large numbers of participants (such as conferences and seminars).
□ Project principal focus is the preparation & production of manuals & large reports, books & monographs (excluding routine progress & technical reports).
□ Project is geographically inaccessible to normal departmental administrative services (such as seagoing research vessels, radio astronomy projects, & other research field sites that are remote from campus).
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SECTION II. TYPES OF COSTS
(Check box(es), as applicable and complete information in Section III/IV)
□ Administrative and Clerical salaries
□ Other Expenses
□ Postage
□ Local Telephone (Long distance charges pertaining to research project do not require a CAS exemption.)
□ Office Supplies
□ Data Processing/Computer Supplies (Research/Lab Supplies required to advance the research project do not require a CAS exemption)
□ General Purpose Software: (Technical Computer Software required to perform the research project does not require a CAS exemption)
□ Memberships
□ Subscriptions
SPONSORED RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION□ APPROVED □ DISAPPROVED
Signature: Dir./Assoc. Dir. SRA Date
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SECTION III. DESCRIPTION/EXPLANATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE & CLERICAL SALARIES
A. Provide FTE required for administrative & clerical duties and describe their responsibilities.
B. Explain what it is about the scope of work (meeting one or more of the criteria in Section 1 on the previous page) that requires an extensive amount of administrative or clerical staff on the project. Please be specific and quantify as necessary.
C. Are these costs in sponsoring agency budget? YES NO
SPONSORED RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION□ APPROVED □ DISAPPROVED
Signature: Dir./Assoc. Dir. SRA Date
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SECTION IV. DESCRIPTION/EXPLANATION OF OTHER EXPENSES
A. For each item checked in section II, describe each item being requested, the quantity and amounts.
- Explain what it is about the scope of work (meeting one or more of the criteria in Section 1 on the previous page) that requires an extensive amount of these items for the project. Please be specific and quantify as necessary.
C. Are these costs in sponsoring agency budget? YES NO
SPONSORED RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION□ APPROVED □ DISAPPROVED
Signature: Dir./Assoc. Dir. SRA Date
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SECTION V. REQUIRED ENDORSEMENTS
______
Principal Investigator’s Signature Date
______
Department Chair/Center Director’s Signature Date
______
College Dean’s Signature Date
Prepared By: ______
Date
Phone / Email______
SPONSORED RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION□ APPROVED □ DISAPPROVED
Signature: Dir./Assoc. Dir. SRA Date
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