Partnership for Clean Competition Research Collaborative

“Statement on Delegation of Control: The PCC has a Service agreement with the USOPC where the USOPC has agreed to make available to the PCC various services including the payroll, legal services, communications and public relations, information technology and human resources. The PCC is obligated to reimburse the USOPC for these services, which have been calculated at the USOPC's cost. For Employee costs, the PCC is billed for actual labor, benefits and payroll tax costs incurred. Legal services are billed to the PCC at a fixed monthly rate. Information technology, human resources and communication services are reimbursed to the USOPC based on an hourly rate for services performed.”

“Members or Stockholders: The Sole member of the PCC is the United State Olympic and Paralympic Committee ("USOPC")”

“Members or Stockholders whom may elect: According to its bylaws, PCC shall also have one member, The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC). PCC is managed by its board of governors. The USOPC, as sole member of PCC, Shall have the right to attend all meeting 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. Class I members consist of directors, officers or employees of the sole member of the PCC, which is the USOPC. Class I 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 other 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.”

“Process to Review Form 990: The Executive Director and Treasurer review the form 990 before sending it to the board of governors. The Form 990 is then sent to board of governors for review before submittal.”

“Conflict of Interest Policy: 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 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 been appointed and identify any additional 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.”

“Process for Determining compensation: The Board of Governors does not directly conduct the process for determining the appropriate compensation of the executive director, however the executive director is an employee of the USOPC and is subject to the same compensation analysis and approval process as all other USOPC employees. This process includes utilizing nationally and regionally available independent salary data to establish the salary range for the position. Final determination of the salary range and compensation is determined in a collaboration with USOPC human resources. A representative of the board of governors approves the service agreement with the USOPC, obligating the PCC to reimburse the USOPC for the executive director's actual salary, benefits and payroll taxes.”

“Documents made available to the public: PCC's By-Laws, Code of Conduct, and Annual Report, which includes Financial Statements, are available to the public upon request. Further, the Annual Report is also made available on the website.”

“Statement regarding Employees: The number of employees reported in Part V, Line 2a is None. The salaries reflected on form 990, part ix, line 5 and line 7 were reported on the form 941 employer's quarterly federal tax return of the united states Olympic and Paralympic Committee ("USOPC") (EIN: 13-1548339). This compensation was reimbursed to USOPC and thus is included in the number of employees on usopc's form 990.”