FASEB Submits Comments on Office of Management and Budget Docket Number OMB-2026-0034, Uniform Guidance

FASEB submitted comments in response to the Proposed Rule, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance, commonly known as the Uniform Guidance. In its comments, FASEB requested withdrawal of the Proposed Rule, and provided specific recommendations to provisions that the federation notes would decrease transparency, increase recipient burden, displace the unbiased peer review that Executive Order 14303 makes a tenet of Gold Standard Science, and inflict structural and economic harm on the American research ecosystem and the scholarly societies that sustain it. As explained in our response, those provisions are, in several respects, insufficiently supported by the record, in tension with the agencies' own stated rationale and the operative statutes, and inattentive to serious reliance interests created. Harms that the proposed rule would bring on taxpayers, science, scientists, and scholarly societies are outlined in the federation response.