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LIMITATION ON INDIRECT COSTS IN RESEARCH

GRANTS

MONDAY, JULY 30, 1962

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS,

Washington, D.C. The committee met at 10 a.m., Hon. George P. Miller (chairman) presiding.

The CHAIRMAN. The committee will be in order.

Monday morning is always a bad day for a committee meeting. But we felt it highly desirable to have one today because of the interest in the limitation on amounts for indirect costs in grants to universities for research that is contained in the independent offices appropriation bill.

We have witnesses from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.

We will start out with Dr. John Clark, Associate Director and Chief Scientist of the Office of Space Sciences.

Will you proceed, sir?

STATEMENT OF DR. JOHN F. CLARK, CHIEF SCIENTIST AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF SPACE SCIENCES; ACCOMPANIED BY DR. T. L. K. SMULL, DIRECTOR OF GRANTS AND RESEARCH CONTRACTS, OFFICE OF SPACE SCIENCES, AND RAYMOND EINHORN, DIRECTOR OF AUDITS

Dr. CLARK. I should like first to introduce my colleagues from NASA.

On my left is Dr. Thomas L. K. Smull, who is Director of Grants and Research Contracts, and on my right, Mr. Ray Einhorn, who is Director of Audits of NASA.

I should also like to express Dr. Newell's regrets that he is unable to attend the hearing this morning. This is a subject which is, as you know, rather close to his heart. He is engaged in rather extensive efforts in the Space Science Board summer study of the NASA space sciences program at the University of Iowa at the present time.

I believe Mr. Karth is quite familiar with this study. I have no prepared statement, Mr. Chairman. We are available for any questions that the committee might care to place.

The CHAIRMAN. Do you know the background of this 20 percent that is put into this bill or into the other bills?

Dr. CLARK. Yes, sir.

The CHAIRMAN. Tell us what you will about this.

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