Claim · 2024-09 · revision · Stated in source · Supported

The Framework states that the heads of federal funding agencies may issue exceptions to its requirements on a case-by-case basis where needed to address health or national security priorities, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Framework for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening → states provision → Case-by-case exceptions by heads of federal funding agencies

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Framework for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screeningstates provision ↓Case-by-case exceptions by heads of federal funding agencies

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Provision: Exception · provision ID us-ostp-nucleic-acid-framework-agency-exceptions
Subject version: The copy served from the Biden White House archive, marked 'Revised: September 2024' with '2024 Version 1: April 2024' · Published 2024-04-29 · Effective date not established · Revised 2024-09
Date: 2024-09 · revision

Scope and limitsStates the exception the framework provides for. No exception is recorded as having been issued, and the framework also states that it does not supersede any federal statutory or regulatory authority.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

Framework for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening (National Science and Technology Council, Fast Track Action Committee on Synthetic Nucleic Acid Procurement Screening)

Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President (copy served from the Biden White House archive) · Publication date unknown

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Source excerpt

“The heads of federal funding agencies may issue exceptions to the requirements in this framework on a case-by-case basis when needed to address health or national security priorities, in consultation with the Director of OSTP and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”

Location in source II. Role of Federal Funding Agencies, p. 5

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Machine-checked · 2026-10-30

Source details and check notes

Authors: Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President (copy served from the Biden White House archive)
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 3b083af856f92dfa91bbf5de344ca81761a4eb4c3a0323fa390e37330a802715). The copy linked from the HHS ASPR page on 2026-10-28, marked on its cover 'Revised: September 2024' with '2024 Version 1: April 2024'. The April 2024 version 1 was not retrieved. Technical passages (screening windows, matching methods, the criteria that may inform which sequences are in scope) were read but are not cited. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 3b083af856f92dfa91bbf5de344ca81761a4eb4c3a0323fa390e37330a802715, the same bytes).
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Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President (copy served from the Biden White House archive), “Framework for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening (National Science and Technology Council, Fast Track Action Committee on Synthetic Nucleic Acid Procurement Screening)”.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, AI and biosecurity (research/ai-bio). The quotation (41 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The preceding sentence says that in rare cases funding agencies may encounter circumstances requiring an exception. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-30) re-read this record outside its brief, with the other records resting on the same source, and agreed in part; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review.

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Relation. An exact framework edition, or another document with an exact expression, states one provision: a capability threshold or risk level and its trigger, a required safeguard or action, a decision authority (who decides, recommends, can overrule or is informed), a stated exception, or another statement of its content, such as a licence term or a prospectus statement. The passage records what the document says, not implementation, compliance or effectiveness. Provisions with the same key align across editions of one family.

Date. Provision as the text states it, dated by its date of revision, September 2024. Release date 29 April 2024 from the HHS ASPR page, which also gives 'revised September 2024'; the cover of the retrieved copy carries 'Revised: September 2024' and '2024 Version 1: April 2024'. The day of the September 2024 revision is not stated and stays unknown. The framework's own effective date for the funding requirement, 26 April 2025, is recorded as a claim.

Record ID ab-scr-ostp-framework-exceptions