Is Your Institution Assured by OLAW?
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Before NIAID can award your grant, your institution and all performance
sites involved in animal work must have an animal
welfare assurance on file with OLAW.
However, your institution doesn't start the
assurance process. Read more on that in the next section.
There are three types of animal welfare assurances: domestic,
inter-institutional, and foreign.
- Domestic assurances are
for U.S. institutions that control
their own facilities and have a complete animal care and use program
in place, including a veterinarian and IACUC.
Domestic assurances typically remain in effect for four years and can be resubmitted
for an additional four years.
- Inter-institutional assurances are for organizations
that contract animal work to an assured institution or use its
facilities. The organizations agree to conduct
the project according to the assurance of the covered organization. Timeframes for these agreements are project specific. For example,
a small
business subcontracting animal work to a performance site
must reapply for an inter-institutional assurance each time it
competes for a grant.
- Foreign assurances are for foreign institutions that
are grantees or subaward partners to a domestic
grantee. A foreign entity must state that it will comply with
either animal welfare requirements for domestic institutions or
the laws and regulations of the country in which it resides. For
example, a German institution or performance site could adhere
to German laws for animal care and use. Your institution's assurance lasts as long as the project period, typically five years. Then you must renew the assurance with OLAW.
Learn about IACUC requirements for foreign
and domestic awards and subawards at IACUC
Requirements Vary for Domestic and Foreign Institutions.
Institutions that collaborate with grantees through
a subaward are required to have an assurance,
whether domestic or foreign.
- If the institution doesn't have an
assurance, OLAW will negotiate one with the grantee.
- The grantee
may amend its assurance to include a collaborating institution;
in this case, the grantee takes full responsibility for the animal
care and use program of the collaborating institution.
- Read more in the Subawards (Consortium Agreements) for Grants SOP.
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