SMG 1410.27

FDA STAFF MANUAL GUIDES, VOLUME II - DELEGATIONS OF AUTHORITY

REGULATORY - GENERAL REDELEGATIONS OF AUTHORITY

SERVICE FELLOWSHIPS

Effective Date: 04/10/2009

1. AUTHORITY DELEGATED AND TO WHOM DELEGATED.

Under authority of sections 207(g) and 208(f) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 209(g) and 210(f)), and within the limits of an approved service fellowship plan, the following officials are authorized to designate persons to receive service fellowships, appoint service fellows, and determine specific stipend rates for individual actions within the ranges established under an approved service fellowship plan:

1. The Deputy Commissioner; Deputy Commissioner for Policy; Deputy Commissioner for Operations; Deputy Commissioner for International and Special Programs; Associate Commissioners and their Deputies; and the Chief Counsel and Deputy Chief Counsels.

2. The Director, the Deputy Director for Washington Operations, the Deputy Center Directors for Research and Management, respectively, and the Associate Director, Office of Management Services, National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR).

3. The Director and Deputy Director, and the Director, Office of Systems and Management, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).

4. The Director, the Deputy Directors, the Associate Director for Research, the Office Directors, and the Director, Office of Management, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER).

5. The Director, the Deputy Director, and Director, Office of Management Systems, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN).

6. The Director, the Deputy Director, and the Director, Office of Management, Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM).

7. The Director and Deputy Director, the Directors, Office of New Drugs and Office of Pharmaceutical Science, and the Director and Deputy Director, Office of Management, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).

8. The Director, Office of Resource Management, Office of Regulatory Affairs.

9. The Director, Office of Executive Operations, Office of Management ( OM), Office of the Commissioner (OC).

10. The Director, Office of Management Programs, OM, OC.

2. REDELEGATION AND LIMITATION.

These officials may further redelegate this authority, with the limitation that the Director, Office of Management Programs, OM, OC, is delegated the authority to approve service fellowship plans and exceptions to the approved plans, and this official may not further redelegate this authority.

3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

The Commissioner of Food and Drugs approved this delegation on April 10, 2009.