For guidance on the use of waivers regarding conflict of interest involving NIH Employees, see NIH Policy Manual Chapter 2400-1.

For information on the use of waivers in managing conflict of interest during the peer review process, see:

• NIH Guide Notice NOT-0D-13-010. – "Advance Notice: Revised Policy for Managing Conflict of Interest in the Initial Peer Review of NIH Grant and Cooperative Agreement Applications",
• NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-14-069 – "NIH Policy for Managing Conflict of Interest in the Peer Review of Concepts and Proposals for Research and Development Contract Projects and
• NIH Policy Manual Chapter 1810-1 – "Procedures for Avoiding Conflict of Interest for Special Government and other Federal Employees Serving as Advisory Committee Members".

For additional information, visit the NIH Clinical Center website.

Quoted from "NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-01-053 — NIH Policy on Reporting Race and Ethnicity Data: Subjects in Clinical Research".

Quoted from the NIH Grants Policy Statement.

Quoted from the NIH OER Glossary & Acronym List.

Quoted from the NIH OER Glossary & Acronym List.

For additional information, visit NIH's Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Participants in Research Involving Human Subjects - Policy Implementation Page.

These contracts are for industries where women-owned small businesses (WOSB) are underrepresented. Some contracts are restricted further to economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses (EDWOSB). The SBA maintains a list of those eligible industries and their NAICS codes.

Joining the women's contracting program makes your business eligible to compete for federal contracts set aside for the program. You can still compete for contract awards under other socio-economic programs you qualify for.

For additional information visit the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA's) Women-Owned Small Businesses webpage.

• In general, the requirements of the Act and the policies of Federal Advisory Committee Management do not apply to subcommittees of advisory committees that report to a parent advisory committee and not directly to a Federal officer or agency (Part 102-3.35). The term subcommittee used in this instance refers to any group reporting directly to a chartered advisory committee rather than a Federal official.
• "Utilized," for the purpose of the Act, does not have its ordinary meaning. A committee that is not established by the Federal Government is "utilized" within the meaning of the Act when the President or a Federal office or agency exercises actual management or control over its operation. The test for whether a committee is "utilized" for purposes of FACA is whether an agency either has actual management of the committee or, in some fashion other than management, exercises actual control over the committee. NIH working groups are exempt from the FACA since the agency does not have actual management or control of the working group. Working groups are convened by the chartered advisory committee and report directly to the committee, not Federal officials.

OFACP Policy Announcement 2000-01, revised 6/14/2005: "Working Groups at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)" provides additional guidance on the use and operation of working groups. Given the complexity of the exemptions to the applicability of the FACA and the fact that the statute on which they are based continues to be interpreted by the courts, the Office of the General Counsel and OFACP should be consulted, as appropriate, before a working group is convened.

Quoted from NIH OFACP's "Managing National Institutes of Health Federal Advisory Committees".

For information about NIH Advisory Committees, visit the NIH Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy (OFACP) website.

For reviewer travel planning see: NIH OER Plan Travel webpage.

For travel reservations, see World Travel Services NIH Reviewer's Resource Site.

Note: Federal Review travel is done in accordance with the Federal Travel Regulation.