NSF 01-2 - Grant Proposal Guide - Department of Biology

❖ Chapter II — Section C.6.a.(iii), Confidential Budgetary Information, has been supplemented with instructions
on how to submit the confidential salary information to NSF. Such information must be submitted to NSF in an
itemized statement with the signed Cover Sheet. Only one copy of this statement is required.
❖ Chapter II — Section C.7, Current and Pending Support, has been updated to include foreign government
agencies and public foundations in the list of sources of support that must be listed.
❖ Chapter II — Section C.11.a, Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER), continues the supplementation
and extension process for SGER awards that was previously scheduled to expire October 1, 2000.
❖ Chapter III — Section A, Review Criteria, has been supplemented with language that highlights Important Notice
125. This Notice reminds proposers of the importance of ensuring that the criterion relating to broader impacts is
considered and addressed in the preparation and review of proposals submitted to NSF, in addition to the criterion
relating to Intellectual Merit. NSF staff will continue to ensure that this criterion is taken into consideration when
making funding decisions. Given the importance of both criteria, the designations “Criterion 1” and “Criterion 2”
have been removed to help eliminate the perception that one criterion may be more important than the other.
❖ Chapter III — Section C, Revisions to Proposals made during the Review Process, has been updated to
inform proposers that all budgetary revisions made during the review process must be submitted electronically via
FastLane.
❖ Chapter IV — Section B, Returns, has been supplemented to state that if proposals are not submitted electronically,
they can be returned and not considered for review by NSF, unless a deviation has been authorized in advance of
the paper submission.
❖ Chapter V (of GPG 00-2) — Special Programs, no longer exists. Some of the information on programs such as
Doctoral Dissertation Research and International Travel Grants has been moved to Chapter II.C.11, Special
Guidelines, to consolidate that material into one section for ease of use and readability. Information on the other
special programs listed in the previous Chapter V is available on the NSF website.
❖ Chapter V — Section B.2, Renewal Proposals, has been clarified to state that both traditional renewals and
accomplishment-based renewals must be submitted electronically via FastLane.
❖ Chapter V — Section B.4, Supplemental Funding, has been revised to state that requests for supplemental
funding may be initiated via the FastLane Notification and Request module. In the future, a supplemental funding
request option will be available in FastLane and an addendum to the GPG describing the process may be issued
at that time.
❖ Chapter V — Section C, No-Cost Extensions, has been updated to reflect that all no-cost extensions, both
grantee-authorized and NSF-approved, must now be submitted via FastLane.
❖ Chapter VI — Section B, Prior Approval Requirements, has been updated to specify that, with the exception of:
Change of PI; Transfer of a Significant Portion of the Project Effort (Subaward); PI Transfer; and Requests for
Supplemental Funding; all requests for prior approval to NSF must be submitted electronically via FastLane.
❖ Chapter VI — Section G.2, Quarterly and Final Expenditure Reports, has been updated to reflect that all
Federal Cash Transaction Reports (SF 272) must be submitted electronically via the Business Office functions in
FastLane.
❖ Appendix A — Programs Providing Support for Scientific and Engineering Research and Education and
Appendix B — Checklist for Proposal Preparation (of GPG 00-2), have been removed. Up-to-date information
on Foundation programs can be found on the NSF website. Given that proposals only will be accepted via FastLane,
the need to have a checklist of paper forms to be submitted is now obsolete.
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