Laboratory Animal Science Center (BUMC)
Instructions for Authorization for Animal Housing and Special Services Costs Form
BU and BMC Investigators must continue to use both the LASC animal order form and the BU or BMC purchase requisition when placing animal orders.
All Investigators who house animals at the LASC should immediately submit a signed Authorization for Animal Housing and Special Services Costs form (PDF) to the LASC. We must receive a completed form at the same time of your first animal purchase.
Authorization forms may be forwarded to the LASC in W-707 by inter-office mail (Attention: Maureen Cauley) or faxed to the LASC at (617) 638-4055. When completing this form, please remember that the Principal Investigator and the protocol number MUST match. The User of the animals can be different and the owner of the grant funds used to pay housing costs can be different but the Principal Investigator and the protocol number MUST match.
You may use one form or multiple Authorization Forms to indicate the funding (BMC activity number of BU source number) for your animals. One form is sufficient if all your animals are to be supported by the same source or set of sources. If you want to use different sources for different groups of animals, two or more forms must be submitted. If different sources are used to support subsets of animals within the same animal species, the animals' cage cards must be marked by the Investigator to indicate which source is to be charged for each cage. LASC will then establish separate census sheets for each funding source to be used. If you wish to explore this option, please contact a member of the Animal Care management staff by e-mail at lasc@bu.edu for further details. This new authorization form offers Investigators more flexibility so that grant funds are not encumbered, source changes are easier to process, and payments can be made by more expeditiously. Please contact LASC Business Office at (617) 638-4087 if you have any questions concerning this process.
Revised: 7/21/04
