While federal regulations and reporting requirements are mostly well intentioned, research universities are among the most regulated entities in the country and often must comply with regulations that are not sensible or scaled to risk. The AAU works with the federal government to harmonize, streamline, and when possible eliminate unnecessary regulations and reporting requirements to maximize federal investments in research while still ensuring public accountability. AAU also helps its member universities to review their existing institutional policies and procedures to ensure that they are not adding unnecessary and costly requirements on themselves.
Letter by associations expressing gratitude for bipartisan approval of S. 994, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Comments OMB proposed guidance, "Reform of Federal Policies Relating to Grants and Cooperative Agreements; Cost Principles and Administrative Requirements (Including Single Audit Act)."
Letters | Reducing Regulatory Burden | Costs of Research (F&A Costs) | Research Administration & Regulation
We appreciate the approach that S. 994 takes for improving the transparency of the financial information that federal grant and contract recipients report to the federal government.
Comments regarding RFI offering principal investigators with Federal research funding the opportunity to identify regulations contributing most to their administrative workload, and offering recommendations for reducing them.
We strongly believe that financial transparency of federal award funds is essential to insuring public trust.
Comments on OSTP Memorandum, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research,” May 14, 2013.
Your new bill focuses on improving data standards and reporting, as well as streamlining financial reporting.
We believe that the process used to craft the ANPG was flawed and failed to represent a good-faith effort to improve the partnership between universities and the Federal government.
Letters | Reducing Regulatory Burden | Costs of Research (F&A Costs) | Research Administration & Regulation
Those concerns have centered on the imposition of redundant and costly reporting requirements. The revised bill would eliminate explicitly duplicative reporting within three years.
Statement regarding the DATA Act establishing a Federal Accountability and Spending Transparency Board that collects and reviews financial reports from federally funded entities, directly or through a sub-grant or sub-contract.