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Appendix B: Recommendations Table
Appendix B: Recommendations Table
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Appendix B Recommendations Table 219
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: Specific Agency Requirements Affected Parties: Institutional Researchers Research Agencies Actors: Congress White House Office of Management and Budget Federal Agencies Funding Research Relevant Report Section: Part 1, Chapter 4 Recommended Actions: 4.1. The committee recommends that Congress, in concert with the White House Office of Management and Budget, conduct a transparent and comprehensive review of agency research grant proposal documents for the purpose of developing a uniform format to be used by all research funding agencies.
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Affected Party: Federal Agencies Funding Research Actor: White House Office of Management and Budget Relevant Report Section: Part 1, Chapter 4 Recommended Action: 4.5. The committee recommends that the White House Office of Management and Budget require that research funding agencies use a uniform format for research progress reporting.
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Affected Parties: Institutional Researchers Institutional Administrators Actors: Congress White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Research Institutions Federal Agencies Funding Research Relevant Report Section: Part 1, Chapter 5 Recommended Action: 5.1. The committee recommends that Congress, in concert with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and in partnership with research institutions, develop, within the upcoming fiscal year, a federal-wide financial conflicts of interest policy to be used by all research funding agencies.
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The committee recommends that Congress direct federal agencies following the Common Rule to institute a risk-stratified system of human subjects protections that substantially reduces regulatory burden on minimal-risk research while reserving more intensive regulatory oversight for higher risk research.
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9.2. To ensure that the proposed national commission can address the full range of unanswered questions regarding the protection of human subjects in federally funded research, the committee recommends that the executive branch withdraw the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects.
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The committee recommends that Congress direct the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to convene within one fiscal year representatives from federal agencies that fund animal research and representatives from the research community to assess and report back to Congress on the feasibility and utility of developing a unified federal approach for the development, promulgation, and management of policies and regulations pertaining to the care and use of research animals. 5.8 The committee recommends that reporting, assurances, and verifications to agencies should be reduced and streamlined.
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: Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance) Affected Parties: Institutional Researchers Institutional Financial Officers Actors: Congress White House Office of Management and Budget
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Affected Parties: Institutional Researchers Institutional Financial Officers Actor: White House Office of Management and Budget Relevant Report Section: Part 1, Chapter 6 Recommended Action: 6.4. The committee recommends that White House Office of Management and Budget amend the Uniform Guidance to establish a mandatory 120 day timetable for the submission of all financial reports for all federal research funding agencies.
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Affected Parties: Institutional Researchers Institutional Financial Officers Actor: White House Office of Management and Budget Relevant Report Section: Part 1, Chapter 6 Recommended Action: 6.5. The committee recommends that the White House Office of Management and Budget amend the Uniform Guidance so that research universities are not required to submit a revised Cost Accounting Disclosure Statement (DS-2)
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Affected Parties: Institutional Researchers Federal Agencies Funding Research Actors: Executive Branch Federal Select Agent Program Federal Agencies Funding Research Relevant Report Section: Part 2, Chapter 11 Recommended Actions: 11.1. The committee recommends that the President assign the responsibility for regulating all microbes and toxins on the select agents and toxins list to a single agency.
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12.3. The committee recommends that the Export Control Reform Initiative work closely with universities and other stakeholders to specifically address the deemed export provisions 8 and vigorously support the spirit and letter of the fundamental research exclusion.
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Specifically, the committee recommends that Congress take the following actions: Establish a new entity, a Research Policy Board. The RPB would be a self-funded, government linked entity serving as the primary policy forum for discussions relating to the regulation of federally funded research programs in academic research institutions.
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