Notice Number: NOT-OD-20-065
Key Dates
Release Date: February 05, 2020
Issued by
Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD)
Purpose
Since 1990, Congress has legislatively mandated a limitation on direct salary for individuals under NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards (referred to here as a grant). The mandate appears in The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94), signed into law on December 20, 2019, which provides authority for NIH to incur obligations for FY 2020.
The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, restricts the amount of direct salary to Executive Level II of the Federal Executive pay scale. The Office of Personnel Management has recently released new salary levels for the Executive Pay Scale. Effective January 5, 2020, the salary limitation for Executive Level II is $197,300.
For awards issued in those years that were restricted to Executive Level II (see historical record of salary cap link below), including competing awards already issued in FY2020, if adequate funds are available in active awards, and if the salary cap increase is consistent with the institutional base salary, grantees may rebudget funds to accommodate the current Executive Level II salary level.
For a historical record of the salary cap, including effective dates, see: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/salcap_summary.htm
Inquiries
Please direct all inquiries to:
Questions about specific awards may be directed to the Grants Management Specialist identified on the Notice of Award.
To the UMBC Grant Community,
This is a reminder that Effort Reports for Fall 2019 are available and ready for certification. The Fall 2019 period includes Payroll 2020001 through Payroll 2020014 (from June 23, 2019 through January 04, 2020). Certifications are due March 31, 2020.
Please remember that Effort Reports are both a Compliance Tool and a Grants Management Tool. After reviewing payroll charges, work with your business managers if any changes are needed. Payroll cost transfers (retros) must be processed prior to certification of Effort Reports.
To find out whether you have open effort reports (see page 6, Year: 2019 Period: Fall) and to learn how to certify them, see the attached updated EffortReport Quick Reference Guide with screenshots and contact information for your convenience.
Your timely commitment to this process is appreciated!
To the UMBC Grant Community,
This is a reminder that Effort Reports for Fall 2019 are available and ready for certification. The Fall 2019 period includes Payroll 2020001 through Payroll 2020014 (from June 23, 2019 through January 04, 2020). Certifications are due March 31, 2020.
Please remember that Effort Reports are both a Compliance Tool and a Grants Management Tool. After reviewing payroll charges, work with your business managers if any changes are needed. Payroll cost transfers (retros) must be processed prior to certification of Effort Reports.
To find out whether you have open effort reports (see page 6, Year: 2019 Period: Fall) and to learn how to certify them, see the attached updated Effort Report Quick Reference Guide with screenshots and contact information for your convenience.
Your timely commitment to this process is appreciated!
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Applications are now being accepted for the Center for Social Science Scholarship/CAHSS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship (SFRF). The purpose of this fellowship is to support significant social science research among tenure-track and tenured faculty in CAHSS, resulting in a submittable product by December 2020.
Applications are welcome from any tenured or tenure-track faculty doing social science research in any CAHSS department. Fellows will receive a $6,000 award during the summer of 2020. Up to three fellowships will be awarded.
By December 2020, each Fellow agrees to complete a submittable product, which can include an external grant or fellowship proposal, journal article, policy paper, book manuscript, or book chapter; upon completion, Fellows shall provide a copy of this submitted product to the Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship. Fellows who are preparing an external proposal are expected to work with MIPAR for pre- and post-award assistance.
Interested faculty should complete and submit an application (linked above) by the specified deadline.
Applications will be reviewed and ranked by members of the Center for Social Science Scholarship Advisory Board, according to the following criteria:
Funds for this fellowship are provided by the Center for Social Science Scholarship, the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS), and the UMBC Vice President for Research.
]]>Please see below for the Spring 2020 schedule for the Economics and Public Policy Seminar Series. All seminars are scheduled in Public Policy 367.
Casualties of Trade Wars
Benjamin Liebman, Saint Joseph's University
Tuesday, March 3, 2020. 1:00 pm
Reconsidering Gender Stereotypes with an Intersectional Lens
Jamil S. Scott, Georgetown University
Tuesday, March 24, 2020. 1:00 pm
The Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Rates: A Tale of Two Frequencies
Jonathan Wright, Johns Hopkins University
Monday, March 30, 2020. 1:00 pm
The Role of Race and Immigration in Shaping Attitudes about Disaster Assistance in the United States
Isabella Alcañiz, University of Maryland
Tuesday, April 7, 2020. 1:00 pm
Seawalls and Stilts: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation
Stephie Fried, Arizona State University
Monday, April 20, 2020. 1:00 pm
Global Confidence Cycles
Monday, May 4, 2020. 1:00 pm
All are welcome to attend! A flyer is also attached.
The seminar series is sponsored by the Department of Economics, the School of Public Policy, the Center for Social Science Scholarship, the Office of the Dean of CAHSS, and the Office of the Vice President for Research.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including NIH, operates under the “Continuing Appropriations Act, 2020 and Health Extenders Act of 2019” (Public Law 116-59) signed by President Trump on September 27, 2019. This Act (CR) continues government operations through November 21, 2019 at 99.3209 percent of the FY 2019 enacted level.
Continuing the procedures identified under NOT-OD-19-031 and consistent with NIH practices during the CRs of FY 2006 – 2019,the NIH will issue non-competing research grant awards at a level below that indicated on the most recent Notice of Award (generally up to 90% of the previously committed level). Upward adjustments to awarded levels will be considered after FY 2020 appropriations are enacted, but NIH expects institutions to monitor their expenditures carefully during this period.All legislative mandates that were in effect in FY 2019 (see NOT-OD-19-030) remain in effect under this CR, as well as the salary limitation set at Executive Level II of the Federal Pay Scale (see NOT-OD-19-099). The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award predoctoral and postdoctoral stipend levels and tuition/fees are described in NOT-OD-19-036.
• Notice Number: NOT-OD-20-046
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-20-046.html
Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs.
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