The PI should list zero person-months and $0 salary on the budget page. The PI is submitting a NSF proposal and does not want to request salary support from NSF. Please also see the NSF’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the revised cost sharing policy. This effort must be tracked and certified, and then used in the calculation of the institutional F&A rate. The OMB Clarification memorandum is the Federal policy that requires some level of faculty (or senior researcher) effort on most Federally-funded research programs. The following guidelines and examples are provided to ensure UA maintain compliance with both the NSF cost sharing policy and the OMB Clarification memorandum. However, despite the NSF proposal process change, the University must still calculate and track cost shared principal investigator for effort certification and inclusion in the F&A base calculation. NSF no longer allows voluntary committed cost sharing unless specifically required by a program solicitation. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has changed its cost sharing policy effective with proposals submitted on or after January 18, 2011.
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