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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
Pages 10-19
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As a result of this, the conferees direct that at least $50,000,000 of the technology development intending provided to the environmental management program in fiscal year 1996 be managed by the Office of Energy Research and used to develop a program that takes advantage of laboratory and university expertise. This funding is to be used to stimulate the required basic research, development and demonstration efforts to seek new and innovative cleanup methods to replace current conventional approaches which are often costly and ineffective.
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The Department convened review panels to evaluate the scientific/technical merit of the proposals and their longterm relevance to EM's cleanup mission and used the advice of these panelists to make 140 three-year awards totaling about $112 million. The Committee on Building an Environmental Management Science Program was established under the auspices of the National Research Council at the request of Thomas P
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was released on July 9, 1996 just in time for the Department's use in decision making on awards in the FY96 proposal competition. The report provided a brief review of the DOE cleanup mission and provided comments on the value of basic research to that mission.
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Most notably, the Department relaxed its initial allocation of Finding for university/industry and national laboratory proposals and instead made fining decisions based on merit and relevance. The Department awarded about $43 million to university/industry projects and $69 7The Department made three-year awards for projects funded in the FY96 competition.
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The committee endorses the efforts made by EM and ER staff to work together and encourages them to continue their efforts to build an effective Environmental Management Science Program.' LETTER REPORT The committee also recommended in its Initial Assessment Report that the Department postpone the release of the FY97 program announcement until it had more time to identify and incorporate "lessons 9A total of $47 million was provided out of FY96 funds, $43 million to university and industry researchers and $4 million to national laboratory researchers. The balance of funding to national laboratory researchers $65 million will be obtained from future-year congressional allocations to the program.
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The Letter Report also offered suggestions on several elements of the FY97 program announcement, most notably the following: · Criteria for proposal review and selection. The committee recommended a continued focus on basic research in the program announcement, with scientific merit and long-term relevance to EM's cleanup mission as the primary proposal screening criteria.
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At the time the present report was prepared, the Department had not released its FY97 program announcement; consequently, the committee was not able to determine the extent to which its advice was followed. The committee has received informal feedback from Department staff that suggests that many of the recommendations will be implemented, with the exception of fills Fining for national laboratory proposals and the use of FACA panels for merit review, which will not be implemented unless certain institutional obstacles are overcome.
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Chapter 2 addresses the value of basic research to the cleanup program, recapitulating and extending the comments made by the committee in its Initial Assessment Report and Letter Report. Chapter 3 addresses the five questions finder "science needs" in the Statement of Task in the context of the development of a science plan for the program.
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,~4 will not be resolved in the 10-year period. This lack of objectives in the EM program itself, in the view of some committee members, is a serious flaw In trying to develop a needs-based basic research program.
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The second set of briefings reviewed cleanup problems arranged by focus area-landfi~Is and plumes, tanks, mixed wastes, and decontamination and decommissioning. The committee found these briefings to be helpful in clarifying its thinking about the need for basic research in the weapons complex.
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