Guidelines for Grant and Contract Management
From: <jmakle@osophs.dhhs.gov>
To: <maryellens@ura.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Electronic Update/Renewal of FWA Application for University of Chicago (The) Approved by OHRP as FWA00005565
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:31:14 -0400
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Your institution's electronic submission for the update/renewal of its Federalwide Assurance FWA00005565 has been approved by the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP). You will find this approval listed on our website at http://ohrp.cit.nih.gov/search/asearch.asp#ASUR. Funding agencies use this website to verify that an institution holds an active OHRP-approved FWA.
Whenever information provided to OHRP changes for your institution's FWA, you must submit an update/renewal. You may do this electronically by going to the OHRP Electronic Submission System at http://ohrp.cit.nih.gov/efile/. Your FWA must be renewed at least every 3 years.
Effective February 1, 2005, OHRP stopped mailing copies of approved Federalwide Assurance (FWA) documents to filing institutions. This was necessitated by the volume of FWA documents OHRP is managing. Over 10,000 FWAs have been approved. OHRP encourages FWA institutions to continue to submit documents (new and updates/renewals) electronically (http://ohrp.cit.nih.gov/efile). When an electronic submission is processed, an automatically generated e-mail notifies the Human Protections Administrator and Signatory Official, as well as the person submitting the electronic record, that the FWA document has been approved. This, of course, is dependent upon the electronic file submitted to OHRP providing e-mail addresses as requested.
Sincerely,
Division of Policy and Assurances
Office for Human Research Protections
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 200
Rockville, MD 20852
(240) 453-6900
Toll-Free within the U.S. (866) 447-4777
