Federal Research Regulations Stakeholder Comment Form

Committee on Federal Research Regulations and Reporting Requirements:
A New Framework for Research Universities in the 21st Century

Stakeholder Comment Form

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Please use the space below to provide comments germane to the charge of the National Research Council's Committee on Federal Research Regulations and Reporting Requirements: A New Framework for Research Universities in the 21st Century.

Submissions, which may be submitted anonymously, will become part of the Public Access File for this project. They may be made available to the public upon request to the National Academies' Public Access Records Office.

The committee has been charged to:

1. Identify by research agency and statutory authority the Federal regulations with significant impact, and the reporting requirements with which research universities must comply;

2. Work with research universities and associations to gather and review information on personnel time and costs of compliance with Federal regulations and reporting requirements;

3. Work with research universities and associations to gather and review information on methodologies for most efficiently and effectively estimating time, costs and resulting benefits;

4. Work with federal research agencies to identify key regulations and requirements with significant impact that the committee should review;

5. Work with professional staff of congressional committees with jurisdictional responsibility for regulatory oversight and research funding;

6. Work with the stakeholders such as the Federal Demonstration Partnership to demonstrate methodologies for estimating the personnel time and costs of compliance for a subset of regulations and reporting requirements specific to research universities;

7. Develop a framework and supporting principles for the Federal regulation of research universities in the 21st century, taking into account: (a) the purposes, costs, benefits, and reporting requirements of regulation, (b) the processes used to promulgate regulations and reporting requirements, (c) the roles of Congress, Offices of Inspectors General and Federal agencies, including the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of Management and Budget, and (d) the missions of research universities;

8. Recommend steps needed to implement the framework;

9. Assess how a subset of regulations and reporting requirements fit within the framework, and offer suggestions for evaluating those regulations and reporting requirements that are outdated or redundant, or where compliance burdens have become disproportionate with expected benefits; and

10. Identify regulations and reporting requirements that will require additional analysis in order to assess their fit with the framework and to develop improved approaches.

The committee's complete charge and additional information about the committee is available at:

http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/stl/researchregs/index.htm