In addition, NIH placed the University's exceptional status on a conditional basis and expects to fully restore the University's status by September 30, 2000.
Many requests require prior approval by either the sponsoring agency or the institution.
With the NIH action to return our expanded authorities, we now have authority to make decisions locally on some types of prior approvals. Three approval actions related to NIH grants were affected once we received the return of our expanded authorities. Expanded authorities will apply to all future projects under these award types though the NIH does have the option of excluding individual projects. Each of the awarding institutes of NIH will process requests that were made prior to January 21, 2000. The chief grant officers of all the institutes were sent a clarifying e-mail in February to remind them to process these requests.