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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.
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.
- Research & Related Terms and Conditions
This set of terms and conditions applies to all ORD research assistance awards excluding centers, P3 awards, fellowships, and those made to state, local or tribal governments. These are the reporting, extension, and notification requirements for all recipients of STAR grants, unless they are members of the Federal Demonstration Partnership. - NCER Center Terms & Conditions (PDF) (10pp, 92 K)
- NCER Programmatic Terms and Conditions for State, Local and Tribal Governments (PDF) (5pp, 64 K)
- P3 Phase I and II Terms and Conditions
- GRO Undergraduate Fellowship Terms and Conditions (PDF) (2pp, 15 K)
Acknowledgement of EPA Support
EPA encourages the independent publication of the results of its extramural research in appropriate scientific journals. Any journal article so published, however, must contain acknowledgement of the appropriate grant number and the following statement:
"This publication was made possible by USEPA grant (number). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the grantee and do not necessarily represent the official views of the USEPA. Further, USEPA does not endorse the purchase of any commercial products or services mentioned in the publication."The Lead/Contact principal investigator is responsible for ensuring that all members of the project team comply with these acknowledgement requirements.
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.