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.
Comments on OSTP Memorandum, “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research,” May 14, 2013.
AAU, COGR comments to Dr. Franca R. Jones, Assistant Director—Chemical and Biological Countermeasures, Office of Science and Technology Policy, on the draft document "United States Government Policy for Institutional Oversight of Life Sciences Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC)."
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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.
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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.
The Association of American Universities (AAU), representing 61 leading public and private research universities, would like to thank the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) for this opportunity to provide comments on the Bioeconomy Blueprint.
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We applaud HHS for proactively and thoughtfully engaging in this review of the Common Rule and human subjects research regulation.
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The purpose of this survey was to document the administrative impact of ARRA on each institutional member of the Federal Demonstration Partnership.
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It is imperative that we work to ensure efficiency in government regulation to reduce the costs of compliance and to maximize the productivity of researchers.
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