Partnership for Clean Competition Research Collaborative

“The PCC has a service agreement with the United States Olympic Committee ("USOC") where the USOC has agreed to make available to the PCC various services including the Executive Director, legal services, accounting services, communications and public relations, information technology and human resources. The PCC is obligated to reimburse the USOC for these services, which have been calculated at the USOC's cost. Legal and accounting services are billed to the PCC at a fixed monthly rate. Information technology, communications and human resources services are reimbursed to the USOC based on an hourly rate for services performed. The Executive Director's services are billed based on actual costs incurred by the USOC for salaries, benefits and payroll taxes.”

“The sole member of PCC is the United States Olympic Committee ("USOC").”

“According to its bylaws, PCC shall also have one member, United States Olympic Committee ("USOC"). PCC is managed by its Board of Governors. The USOC, as sole member of PCC, shall have the right to attend all meetings of the Board of Governors, to vote for the appointment of the Class I members of the Board of Governors, and to vote on any matter which is submitted to a vote of the sole member by PCC's Board of Governors. There are 3 classes of members of the Board of Governors. Class 1 members consist of directors, officers or employees of the sole member of the PCC, which is the USOC. Class 1 members also have the right to appoint additional representatives to the Board of Governors, up to a total of representatives not greater than 50% of the total number of Class 2 Members. Class 2 members of the Board of Governors consist of persons serving as directors, officers or employees of professional sports leagues, unions of professional athletes and/or others that in the judgement of the Board of Governors, by majority vote, make demonstrated, long-term binding financial commitments in support of PCC. Class 3 members of the Board of Governors are directors, officers or employees of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and potentially, other non-profit or public sector representatives who, in the judgement of the Board of Governors, by majority vote, are committed to PCC's purpose and mission.”

“A completed copy of the PCC form 990 will be provided to the Board of Governors one to four weeks prior to the filing date. Any questions or concerns will be directed to the attention of the Executive Director. The Executive Director will discuss any issues or concerns brought up by the board members via e-mail exchange or conference call with the Board of Governors. The Executive Director will take immediate action to resolve any outstanding issues raised by the members of the Board. The Board of Governors will formally approve the completed 990 prior to it being filed with the Internal Revenue Service.”

“The PCC, an organization rooted in the importance of upholding the highest level of integrity and fairness, has instituted several policies to enforce compliance with its conflicts of interest policy. The focus of the conflicts of interest policy is on ensuring fair evaluation of research proposals by the PCC's Scientific Advisory Board. Therefore, the following processes have been incorporated at the PCC: *Each member of the Scientific Advisory Board ("SAB") is required to sign a no conflict of interest policy. Independent SAB members must assert their independence from the member organization and identify any potential conflicts. Non-independent SAB members must acknowledge their relationship with the member organization by whom they have been appointed and indentify any additional potential conflicts. *Each SAB member must identify relationships with applicants prior to evaluation. If the relationship may be perceived as leading to bias, the SAB member must not evaluate the proposal and must not participate in the discussion of the grant. *If a member of the Board of Governors has a relationship with an institution that would lead to bias, he/she must not vote on the approval of the grant.”

“The Board of Governors does not directly conduct the process for determining appropriate compensation of the Executive Director; however the Executive Director is an employee of the USOC and is subject to the same compensation analysis and approval process as all other USOC employees. This process includes utilizing nationally and regionally available independent salary survey data to establish the salary range for the position. Final determination of the salary range and compensation is determined in collaboration with, and ultimately approved by, USOC Human Resources. A representative of the Board of Governors approves the service agreement with the USOC, obligating the PCC to reimburse the USOC for the Executive Director's actual salary, benefits and payroll taxes.”

“PCC's by-laws, code of conduct, and the annual report, which includes financial statements, are available to the public upon request.”

“Rana Dershowitz was a board member and Chairperson of PCC while she was an officer of the United States Olympic Committee ("USOC") in 2013. Furthermore, there were business transactions, in the form of a service agreement, between the USOC and PCC in 2013. Schedule L, Part IV must be completed to disclose business transactions between two organizations in which the filing organization's officers or directors were also officers or directors of the other organization. The organization with whom the filing organization does business is considered to be an "interested person." Transactions with interested persons must generally be disclosed in Schedule L, Part IV. However, IRC Section 501(c)(3) organizations are not considered to be interested persons. Therefore, the USOC, a Section 501(c)(3) organization, is not an interested person with respect to PCC and Schedule L, Part IV is not required to be completed.”

“The number of employees reported in Part V, Line 2a is none. The salaries reflected on Form 990, Part IX, Line 5 were reported on the Form 941 Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return of the USOC (EIN 13-1548339). This compensation was reimbursed to USOC and thus is included in the number of employees on USOC's Form 990.”