Research Insights
UGA Reduces Paperwork for Some Federally Funded Projects
Effective October 1, departments will no longer be required to complete and route an administrative action request form (AARF) to access federally funded projects with automatic carryover while waiting for the next increment of funds to arrive.
Effective October 1, departments will no longer be required to complete and route an administrative action request form (AARF) to access federally funded projects with automatic carryover while waiting for the next increment of funds to arrive. The Office for Sponsored Programs and Contracts & Grants Division have revised their processes to allow continued spending for these types of accounts.
This change was implemented to ease administrative burden and ensure that Principal Investigators can continue to access award funds to support work on their projects. The change will be accomplished by using the same budget and project end dates when processing awards. The change only applies to projects funded directly by federal agencies, not projects funded by federal flow-through from other entities.
Projects that were awarded prior to October 1, 2014, will need to be manually adjusted. Please contact your OSP representative if you have accounts that need to be adjusted. https://research.uga.edu/spa/find-sponsored-projects-team/