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Given the size, scope, and long-term nature of the cleanup m~ssion—DOE estimates that this effort wait cost $230 billion and require 75 years—the committee views the establishment of this m~ssion-directed, basic research program as both an urgent and a prudent investment for the nation. Although the EMSP wall not solve all of EM's cleanup problems, a properly structured and managed program could help address many of EM's technical challenges by stimulating the development of new waste characterization, remediation, and management technologies or reducing the uncertainties in the application of current technologies, by enabling the development of new methods to reduce the volume or toxicity of secondary wastes, and by providing a better understanding of risk to help prioritize cleanup activities and reduce hazards to people and the environment.
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The committee offers the following advice to DOE as it completes the review process: · In making award decisions in this first round, DOE should focus first on scientific merit and then on potential relevance to the cleanup mission, and should place less emphasis on the "anticipated" institutional funding allocations announced in the program notice. In this regard, DOE should relax its initial allocation of $20 million for proposals from national laboratories and $20 million for proposals from academia and industry to the extent allowed by the law, and, instead, should allocate funds to support the most scientifically meritorious and relevant work, regardless of the institution of origin.
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with the advice of the research and research-user communities, prepare concise written technical summaries of the critical barriers to the solution of cleanup problems and basic research needs for wide circulation to the research community; · postpone until later this year the release of the 1997 program notice until it has had time to identify and incorporate the "lessons learned" from the FY 1996 proposal competition and to Wink more carefully, using the advice of this committee where appropriate, about how the program should be structured and managed; and · seek to increase the budget for this program to FY 1996 levels, recognizing that the additional funds are likely to be reallocated from existing programs within DOE-EM, in order to provide level funding, which is necessary to establish a stable, long-term research program. In the committee's judgment, the long-term success of this program is highly dependent on the continuing partnership between EM, which understands the cleanup problems and research needs, and ER, which, through its mission to manage the department's basic research programs, understands how to select and manage research.
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