Building an Effective Environmental Management Science Program Final Assessment (1997) / Chapter Skim
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was created by the 104th Congress to stimulate basic research and technology development for cleanup of the nation's nuclear weapons complex. The EMSP is a mission-directed basic research program and is designed to support a much larger technology development program within the Office of Environmental Management (EM)
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The EMSP is different In several respects from other federal basic research programs, including other DOE programs, that support fundamental research related to the environment. Although several federal programs support basic research in fields broadly relevant to environment science, none are focused explicitly on EM's problems, and none have an explicit link to the problem holders at the sites.
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In addition, the committee believes that ER should ensure that the pertinent merit review panelists are knowledgeable in the risk research field. COORDINATING THE INVESTMENT IN BASIC RESEARCH The science plan is likely to be very broad in scope-both in terms of the range of problems and the disciplinary coverage and will likely require an investment in basic research that is larger than the
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By additional encouragement of graduate and postdoctoral training in areas of interest, the Department can farther broaden the community of investigators over the longer term. The committee recommends that collaborations be encourage<]
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To this end, the committee recommends that the Department carry through on its stated intention (in its response to a 1991 General Accounting Office report) to seek a change in its legislation to allow FACA proposal review panels-and to convene the EMSP merit review panels under FACA once this change is made.
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The committee appreciates the difficult budget environment that DOE now finds itself in and recognizes that any increases in the budget for the EMSP may be at the expense of other Department programs. the committee's view, however, this funding should not come from existing ER programs, which are vital to the Department's long-term mission and are an important part of the nation's basic research portfolio.
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LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES The committee believes that simplification of program management and a clearer delineation of responsibilities among all management participants is needed to ensure the long-term effectiveness of the EMSP. To this end, the committee recommends that management of the EMSP be vested in a single individual an EMSP Program Director-who should have authority, responsibility, and accountability for meeting the program's objectives.
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Such review will assess the overall scientific quality of the program and the extent to which the research it supports has led to technical or intellectual "breakthroughs" of value to the scientific community and technology development efforts. The committee recommends that the independent review panel be charged with the responsibility of assessing the quality of EMSP science and its impacts.
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, site contractors and other problem holders, and, when appropriate, other stakeholders, regulators, and P.~.s and managers from other research programs. The Program Director should assume responsibility for determining how to best structure such activities so that they serve the interests of investigators and EM's needs for information transfer.
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