Decision Making in the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology (1999) / Chapter Skim
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B Site Technology Coordination Groups at Three Major DOE-EM Sites
B Site Technology Coordination Groups at Three Major DOE-EM Sites
Pages 105-113
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~· 1 ~1 ~_ 1 _ 1 _ _ _ A significant additional role of STCCis Is to coordinate all technology development activities at the site and facilitate implementation of new technologies site-wide to improve the performance of environmental remediation and waste management programs. This requires that the STCGs develop performance requirements for technology implementation, participate in site technology demonstrations, and evaluate the ability of implemented technologies to meet site needs.
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Supporting members include representatives of the Offices of Community Outreach, Economic Development, the Chief Counsel, and the Savannah River Technology Center. The STCG Executive Committee, composed of DOE-SR senior managers, provides overall program guidance and direction, and is intended to serve as an interface with senior management to confirm sitewide priorities.
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STCG The information below comes from documents supplied to the committee and from a site visit to Idaho Falls, Idaho, in November 1996. Structure and Composition The INEEL STCG is composed of two major units, the STCG Management Team and the STCG Working Group.
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managers have ranked 169 DUs in importance to form the FY 1997 Murder Board Priority List to the ADS baseline. A third resource was the result of work to develop the EM Integrated Site Priority List by combining the technology development requirements of Belier with the ADS baseline priority list and RDSs.
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. STCG Contributions These two products of the integrated product team-a ranked list of technical needs and a separate ranked list of alternative technology opportunities-were used by the STCG Working Group to explore possible funding sources for supporting the work, beginning with the EM office that represents the problem owner.
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The Hanford Tank Initiative was endorsed by the STCG's management council, one day after a Hanford STCG letter of endorsement went to OST Deputy Assistant Secretary Clyde Frank, $7 million of OST money was released for the HTI. The HTI is designed to develop technical retrieval information to inform future tank closure decisions and to support the privatization initiative.
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The sum of these individual scores is a total numerical score used to rank the needs. The result-a prioritized list of technology needs is presented to the STCG Management Council for official STCG approval and to each Focus Area.
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A second process goes through these OST program units, with all the attendant efforts placed on the prioritization and ranking of needs, identification of multiple site opportunities for deployment, and competition for limited funds. In response to a question of what the biggest problem was, the DOE-Richland and STCG representatives in attendance at the January 1997 site visit gave an answer that new technologies still do not get deployed on-site and that budget cuts are not friendly to technology development, which is perceived as an add-on to the base program scope.
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. Of all the major sites that the committee visited, the Idaho STCG employed the most rigorous methodology in generating a prioritized list of technical deficiencies.
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