IACUC Policy on Approved Animal Care and Use Protocol Signatures
Purpose:
In order to comply with government regulations (PHS and USDA) and AAALAC-i, UConn Health’s Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) has implemented a policy requiring signatures on all approved animal care and use protocols.
Action:
1. The final approved copy of an animal care and use protocol and animal safety protocols must be read by all individuals listed on the protocol. In addition, all individuals listed on the protocol must sign off that they have read the protocol, understand the protocol, and will follow the protocol.
2. This can be done in any way determined by the laboratory. The protocols can be printed out and the hard copy signed by all individuals. Or the protocols can remain electronic with a “sign-off sheet” signed by all individuals.
3. Should the PI choose to print out the protocol, the signed protocol must be maintained in the laboratory and presented to the IACUC upon request.
4. Should the PI choose to use “sign-off sheets” to document that individuals have read the animal protocols, these “sign-off sheets” must be maintained in the laboratory and presented to the IACUC upon request.
5. Animal safety protocols (chemical, biological, and/or combination) must be printed out and signed and placed in the PI laboratory where everyone can have access to it. Alternately, a QR cord for the safety protocol can be be made by the laboratory that will will electronically sendyou to the document. put into the appropriate safety binderThe IACUC will print out copies and put into the appropriate safety binder in the containment rooms when protocols are approved and/or when safety protocols are updated.
The policy has been approved by a majority vote of the IACUC members.
Effective Dates: December 18, 2025 through Deceber 31, 2028
Sponsors, mostly federal but also some non-federal, impose a salary cap or salary limitation as a requirement in proposing and when accepting an award. A salary rate cap or limitation of salary imposed by a sponsor may be due to one of the following:
- The Consolidated Appropriations Action, 2014 (H.R. 3547/Public Law 113-76) the Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) agencies with the exception of the FDA (funded under the USDA appropriations bill) and the Indian Health Service (funded under the Department of Interior appropriations bill) are required to:
- Impose a salary rate cap applicable to grants, cooperative agreements and contracts (with the exception of those that are clearly defined to be exempt from the cap) for all DHHS agencies (i.e. HHS, NIH, AHRQ, CDC, HRSA, SAMHSA, etc.).
- Sets the salary rate cap at the Executive Level II of the Federal Pay schedule.
- Sponsors (federal and non-federal) other than the sponsors identified above may have a salary reimbursement request limitation as a matter of policy (Ex. NIH K awards and NSF Awards); and
- Sponsors (federal or non-federal, including subawards or pass-thru awards) may have a salary rate cap that may be program specific limiting the recovery of salary.
For more information:
http://www.hhs.gov/grants/contracts/contract-policies-regulations/salary-rate-limitation/index.html
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http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/salcap_summary.htm
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PI Certification |
| Q1 |
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May |
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July |
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