Effective immediately, the indirect cost rate for agreements with Caltrans, the State of California Department of Transportation, is 17.5 percent applied to a modified total direct cost (MTDC) base as defined in OMB Circular A-21. All new budgets prepared for new and existing projects shall include the 17.5 percent MTDC rate. Any questions about this directive should be addressed to Paula Burkhart (pkburkhart@berkeley.edu) or to Jyl Baldwin (jbaldwin@berkeley.edu).
(revised on 9/12/2007 to include MTDC information)