From: llapins[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]seraph1.sewanee.edu (Laura M. Lapins)

Tue, 26 Sep 1995 04:00:11 -0400

To: Multiple recipients of list cfrnet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]gibbs.oit.unc.edu

Subject: NEH/NSF Cutbacks



Dear CFNetters:



Many of you don't deal with federal programs, but for those of us in

one-person shops, I thought you'd be interested in the following notices.

Thanks a lot, Newt!



-- Laura





Subject: NEH Summer Stipend Program: $ for 1996 = cancelled



Due to a probable significant reduction in the US National

Endowment for the Humanities' appropriation for fiscal year,

1996, the October 2, 1995 deadline for NEH Summer Stipends has

been suspended. There will be no new deadline between October,

1995 and October, 1996.



For further information on NEH deadlines, please call the NEH

Public Information Office at 202 606 8400.



Please notify your colleagues.

From: rbolin[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEH.FED.US





GUIDANCE FOR NSF GRANTEES, CONTRACTORS AND OTHER AWARDEES IN THE

EVENT OF AN NSF SHUTDOWN



1. Awardees (grantees, recipients of cooperative agreements, contractors,

etc. - EXCEPT those working on-site at NSF) should continue performance under

their NSF awards during any NSF shutdown period to the extent funds are

available under their awards. (This should apply to over 95% of NSF awards.)



2. Payments by NSF to its awardees are expected to continue to be made,

using normal procedures, during any NSF shutdown period to the extent funds

are available under NSF awards.



3. Contractors who DO NOT have sufficient funds to continue operations

during any NSF shutdown period should notify their cognizant Contracting

Officer as soon as this is known. Continuation of any activity in the absence

of additional funding will be solely at their own risk.



4. Other awardees (grantees, recipients of cooperative agreements, etc.)

who DO NOT have funds available under their awards to continue activities

during any NSF shutdown period also are cautioned that continuation of

performance under their NSF awards is at the awardees own risk. It is

expected that after any NSF shutdown is over, NSF will obligate funds to those

awards that would have otherwise been funded. NSF cannot now authorize costs

exceeding available award amounts nor obligate the NSF to cover such costs.



EXCEPTION: Awardees undertaking or providing services or activities involving

the safety of human life or the protection of U.S. Government property, are

authorized to continue those limited functions necessary to meet those

responsibilities. NSF will obligate funds to cover those reasonable costs

after any NSF shutdown period is over.



5. Contractors, IPAs and others working on-site at NSF have been or will

be provided with other specific guidance.



6. Questions related to this guidance should be directed to NSF's

Division of Grants and Agreements or the Division of Contracts, Policy &

Oversight, as appropriate.







******************************************************

Laura M. Lapins

Director, Foundation and Corporate Relations

The University of the South

735 University Avenue

Sewanee, Tennessee 37383

615/598-1128 or 1-800/367-1179

615/598-1199 - fax

llapins[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]seraph1.sewanee.edu



J Bryan McCullar

Institutional Advancement

Georgia College

Campus Box 96

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912 453 5771 voice/912 453 5744 fax

bmcculla[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu