[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR680.10]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                 CHAPTER VI--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

 

PART 680_NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION RULES OF PRACTICE AND STATUTORY 

CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST EXEMPTIONS--Table of Contents

 

     Subpart A_Rules of Practice for the National Science Foundation

 

Sec. 680.10  Definitions; cross-references to employee ethical conduct 

standards and financial disclosure regulations.









     Subpart A_Rules of Practice for the National Science Foundation



Sec.

680.10 Definitions; cross-references to employee ethical conduct 

          standards and financial disclosure regulations.

680.11 Staff involvement with NSF proposals and awards.

680.12 One-year NSF post-employment restrictions.

680.13 Purposes for ``substitute'' requirements.



                     Subpart B_Statutory Exemptions



680.20 Exemptions under 18 U.S.C. 208(b).



    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 7301; 18 U.S.C. 208 (1988); 42 U.S.C. 1870(a); 5 

CFR 2635.105(c)(3), 2635.402(d)(1).



    Source: 47 FR 32131, July 26, 1982, unless otherwise noted.





    Source: 61 FR 59837, Nov. 25, 1996, unless otherwise noted.





    (a) Definitions. Under this subpart, unless a provision plainly 

indicates otherwise:

    (1) Award means any grant, contract, cooperative agreement, loan, or 

other arrangement made by the Government.

    (2) Employee includes, in addition to any individual defined in 5 

CFR 2635.102(h), any individual working at



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NSF under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act. It includes any part-time 

or intermittent employee, temporary consultant; but not a special 

Government employee, as defined in 18 U.S.C. 202(a).

    (3) Institution means any university, college, business firm, 

research institute, professional society, or other organization. It 

includes all parts of a university or college, including all 

institutions in a multi-institution State or city system. It includes 

any university consortium or joint corporation; but not the universities 

that belong to such a consortium. Those universities shall be considered 

separate institutions for purposes of this part.

    (4) Proposal means an application for an award and includes a bid.

    (b) Cross-references to employee ethical conduct standards and 

financial disclosure regulations. Members of the National Science Board 

and other employees of the National Science Foundation (NSF), including 

special Government employees, should refer to the Standards of Ethical 

Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch at 5 CFR part 2635, the 

National Science Foundation's regulations at 5 CFR part 5301 which 

supplement the executive branch Standards, and the executive branch 

financial disclosure regulations at 5 CFR part 2634.