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Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

Purpose

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards a large number of grants providing substantial federal funding for research purposes.  These grants include significant payments for “indirect costs,” defined as “facilities” and “administration.”  45 CFR 75.414(a). The “facilities” category is “defined as depreciation on buildings, equipment and capital improvements, interest on debt associated with certain buildings, equipment and capital improvements, and operations and maintenance expenses.”  Id.  And the “administration” category is defined as “general administration and general expenses such as the director’s office, accounting, personnel, and all other types of expenditures not listed specifically under one of the subcategories of ‘Facilities”’ (including cross allocations from other pools, where applicable).  Id.

In issuing grants, NIH generally uses the indirect cost rate negotiated by an “agency with cognizance for F&A/indirect

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Participating Organization(s)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Components of Participating Organizations

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Tribal Health Research Office (THRO)

All applications to this funding opportunity announcement should fall within the mission of the Institutes/Centers. The following NIH Offices may co-fund applications assigned to those Institutes/Centers.

Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives, Office of Disease Prevention (ODP)

Office of Behavioral and

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This Notice provides information regarding the salary limitation for AHRQ grant and cooperative agreement awards and extramural research and development contract awards.

Since 1990, Congress has legislatively mandated a limitation on direct salary for individuals under AHRQ grant and cooperative agreement awards (referred to here as a grant) and contract awards. The mandate appears in the annual appropriation act that provides authority for AHRQ to incur obligations for a given Fiscal Year (FY). At this time, AHRQ has not received an FY 2025 appropriation and is operating under a Continuing Resolution, the “Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (Public Law 118-83)”, that applies the terms and conditions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 restricts the amount of direct salary to Executive Level II of the Federal Executive pay scale. The Office of Personnel Management recently released new salary levels for the

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Notice of Informational Webinar for RFA-EY-25-002 Advancing Vision Health Equity through Multi-level Interventions and Community-Engaged Research (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)

This notice is to inform potential applicants for the “Advancing Vision Health Equity through Multi-level Interventions and Community-Engaged Research (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional; RFA-EY-25-002)” funding opportunity that NEI and NIMHD will hold an informational webinar on February 7, 2025, at 2:30 PM Eastern Standard Time (US and Canada). The purpose of this RFA is to request applications that aim to implement and evaluate multi-level interventions and community engaged research to advance vision equity.  During the webinar, NEI and NIMHD staff will explain the goals and objectives of the notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) and answer questions from attendees.

All prospective applicants are invited to attend the webinar.  Participants are encouraged to submit their questions in advance

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