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Advisory Committee for Polar
Programs; Notice of Meeting
In accordance with Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, as
amended), the National Science
Foundation announces the following
meeting:
Name: Advisory Committee for Polar
Programs (1130).
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 1, 2013,
12:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Place: National Science Foundation,
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Stafford II,
Room 555, Arlington, VA—THE
ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS
WILL ATTEND VIRTUALLY.
Type Of Meeting: Open.
Contact Person: Sue LaFratta, Office
of Polar Programs (OPP). National
Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson
Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. (703)
292–8030.
Minutes: May be obtained from the
contact person listed above.
Purpose of Meeting: To advise NSF on
the impact of its policies, programs, and
activities on the polar research
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community, to provide advice to the
Director of OPP on issues related to
long-range planning.
Agenda: Discussion of Committee of
Visitors’ reports on Antarctic and Arctic
programs.
Dated: March 26, 2013.
Susanne Bolton,
Committee Management Officer.
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Request for Information (RFI):
Reducing Investigator’s Administrative
Workload for Federally Funded
Research
Key Dates
Release Date: March 25, 2013.
Response Date: May 24, 2013.
Issued by
National Science Foundation (NSF).
Purpose
This RFI offers principal investigators
with Federal research funding the
opportunity to identify Federal agency
and university requirements that
contribute most to their administrative
workload and to offer recommendations
for reducing that workload. Members of
the National Science Board’s Task Force
on Administrative Burdens do not wish
to increase your administrative
workload with this request and you may
choose to answer only those questions
that are most pertinent to you. Your
responses will provide vital input so
that we can implement agency-level
changes and offer recommendations to
reduce unnecessary and redundant
administrative requirements.
Background
Over the past decade two Federal
Demonstration Partnership (FDP)
Faculty Workload Surveys (2005 and
2012) indicate that administrative
burdens associated with Federal
research funding are consuming roughly
42% of an awardee’s available research
time, a figure widely cited in numerous
articles and reports. To help address
these issues, the National Science Board
(Board) recently created a Task Force on
Administrative Burdens. The Task Force
is charged with examining the burden
imposed on Federally-supported
researchers at U.S. colleges, universities,
and non-profit institutions. Responses
to this RFI will be considered as the
Board develops recommendations to
ensure investigators’ administrative
workload is at an appropriate level.
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Request for Information
The Task Force is seeking a response
to the questions below. In your
response, please reference the question
number to which you are responding.
Sources of Administrative Work and
Recommendations for Reducing Work
1. What specific requirements
associated with your Federally-funded
grants require you personally to do the
greatest amount of administrative work?
Where possible, please indicate whether
the origin of that administrative work is
a requirement at your institution, a
Federal requirement, or a requirement
from another institution. What
recommendations would you offer that
might help to reduce the level of work?
2. Principal investigators responding
to the FDP’s 2012 Faculty Workload
Survey identified the following sources
of administrative work, in addition to
human subject protection and animal
care treated below, as particularly
burdensome for Federal grantees:
D Grant progress report submissions;
D Finances (e.g. managing budget-toactual expenses, equipment and
supplies purchases, and other financial
issues/requirements);
D Personnel management, hiring, and
employee evaluation, and visa issues;
D Effort reporting;
D Conflict of interest;
D Responsible conduct of research;
D Lab safety/security;
D Data sharing; and,
D Sub-contracts (e.g. overseeing:
progress toward project goals and
deadlines; budget expenditures,
invoices, and other financial matters;
and, compliance and safety/security
issues).
If not addressed in question 1, for any
of the areas listed, do you believe that
the associated requirements
significantly increase the amount of
administrative work you personally
need to perform? Where possible
please indicate whether the source of
the required administrative work is a
requirement at your institution, a
Federal requirement, or a requirement
from another institution. What
recommendations would you offer
that might help to reduce the level of
work?
3. Do you receive administrative
support from your institution for
Federal grants? If yes, for what specific
preparation, reporting, and compliance
requirements do you receive
administrative support? Is the amount of
support excellent, good, adequate, poor,
or non-existent? Where does your
administrative support come from
within the institution (e.g. office of the
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Advisory Committee for Polar Programs; Notice of Meeting
In accordance with Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463,
as amended), the National Science Foundation announces the following
meeting:
Name: Advisory Committee for Polar Programs (1130).
Date/Time: Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 12:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Place: National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Stafford
II, Room 555, Arlington, VA--THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS WILL ATTEND
VIRTUALLY.
Type Of Meeting: Open.
Contact Person: Sue LaFratta, Office of Polar Programs (OPP).
National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA
22230. (703) 292-8030.
Minutes: May be obtained from the contact person listed above.
Purpose of Meeting: To advise NSF on the impact of its policies,
programs, and activities on the polar research community, to provide
advice to the Director of OPP on issues related to long-range planning.
Agenda: Discussion of Committee of Visitors' reports on Antarctic
and Arctic programs.
Dated: March 26, 2013.
Susanne Bolton,
Committee Management Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-07331 Filed 3-28-13; 8:45 am]
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