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These pages are designed to assist prospective applicants as well as recent recipients by conveying key documents that describe the quality assurance, reporting requirements, forms, and FAQs for the NCER STAR grant application and implementation process.

Terms and Conditions

All awarded grants have various reporting, extension, and other notification requirements associated with them. The grant recipient is responsible for complying with these terms and conditions.

Acknowledgement of EPA Support

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) takes great pride in supporting the research advances made by grant recipients, such as you. In order to provide the public with information on the Agency's efforts to support your important work, EPA requests acknowledgement of EPA's resource contribution when you publicize your research findings.

Policy on Multiple Principal Investigators for Federally Funded Research Projects

Effective May 1, 2008, non-competitive applications and Requests for Applications (RFA) will uniformly allow more than one Principal Investigator (PI) to be identified on research grant and cooperative agreement applications.

EPA Implementation Plan for Policy on Multiple Principal Investigators for Federally Funded Research Projects (PDF) (2pp, 16 K)

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