All prior approval requests must be sent to SPS 30 days prior to the requested action. General purpose equipment General purpose equipment is any item of equipment that is not limited in use only to research, medical, scientific, or other technical activities, such as office equipment and furnishing, heating and cooling units including air conditioning, passenger and cargo vehicles, computing and automatic data processing devices, cameras, refrigerators and freezers, etc. Scientific equipment Scientific equipment is any item of equipment that may only be used for research, medical, scientific, or technical activities. This includes such items as microscopes, microfuges, incubators, and centrifuges. C. Travel Domestic travel is travel within the recipient s own country.
Domestic travel includes travel within and between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
The U.S. includes Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Canal Zone, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Foreign travel outside the U.S., Mexico or Canada. Travel within the U.S., Mexico or Canada enroute to or returning from a foreign destination is considered foreign travel. A. Institutional Approval Certain actions have been delegated to the institution for prior approval. The rebudgeting must neither impair the investigator s ability to complete the project as approved nor increase the total cost to the grant.