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The Management and Cost of Laboratory Waste Associated with the Conduct of Research (1994) / Chapter Skim
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Issue 6
Pages 10-11

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... Federal Demonstration Project Nine years ago, GUIRR was responsible for initiating the Federal Demonstration Project (FDP) 4 in which some 50 universities were chosen competitively to work cooperatively with 10 federal research agencies to test the ability to make the administration of research grants more flexible in several ways, including allowing investigators to manage project budgets and time lines without prior approval of agency officials.
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... GUIRR could conduct an additional workshop to develop definitions of terms for research laboratories and provide them to EPA, which could approve their use in a laboratory setting. Or research laboratories could use them in a petition for rule-making or for obtaining a letter of response from EPA on these interpretive issues.
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