How do we request funds for general administrative and clerical support?
The NIH GUIDE, Volume 23, Number 34, September 23, 1994, http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/not94-276.html, discussed the treatment of administrative and clerical salaries. If you plan to use grant funds to pay for clerical salaries and/or other administrative costs that are covered in the examples provided, you will not need NIH approval to charge those costs to the project. NIH has already determined these are acceptable direct costs charges. If you wish to charge those costs to an NIH supported project and they are not one of the examples provided in the NIH GUIDE, you will need to contact NIH prior to obligating grant funds to ensure the costs are allocable as a direct cost to the project.
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