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Consistent with NIH's strong commitment to streamline proposal and award procedures, traditional line item budgets will no longer be established. The elimination of a budget in the Modular Grant proposal negates the need for a budget at the time an award is received. The elimination of the budget coupled with the elimination of significant rebudgeting requirements provides Principal Investigators maximum flexibility to use funds in accordance with programmatic needs rather than detailed budget categories. It is anticipated that this new process will also significantly reduce time expended and paperwork required to establish new awards. Budget allocations will not be assigned to these expense objects.