Decision Making in the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology (1999) / Chapter Skim
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As with the Crosscutting Programs, the Industry and University Programs use the Focus Areas' prioritized lists of technology needs to determine work scopes. A process of communication among program managers leads to refinements of the concepts underlying the technical challenges that comprise the technical specifications of the solicitations.
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Equity issues arise in these negotiations, but the FETC office claims to have no bias or partiality since it is not a DOE-EM site with environmental cleanup needs. Targeted funding designations for the amount of IP funding to each Focus Area and Crosscutting Program are made in future DOE budget projections (i.e., IRB)
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This result is then transmitted to a Technical Evaluation Committee (TEC) of DOE employees, typically FETC and headquarters personnel, who consider additional "program policy factors" such as regulatory impacts, cost sharing, available funds, the degree to which the work would complement or enhance an existing effort (or, as a negative, whether it is duplicative of other work that would meet the same particular need)
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One is with the Former Soviet Union (FSU) , because of an administrative directive to stabilize the post-Cold War nuclear community and the fact that the FSU has similar cleanup problems, f~rst-rate expertise, and a 1:30 labor cost ratio compared to the United States.
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However, not all stakeholder and regulatory interaction work is funded through the TISA Domestic Program. For example, the Subsurface Contaminants Focus Area works directly with the Southern States Energy Board (SSEB)
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ACCELERATED SITE TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT PROGRAM In 1997, with increased attention by the House Commerce Committee to the issue of a Return on Investment on the $2.6 billion expended since the start of the program in 1989, OST headquarters management created the ASTD program (formerly known as the Technology Development Initiative) as an EM-50 competitive solicitation to DOE field offices for their proposals of how they could use EM-50 funds to reduce a site's cleanup costs.
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Although STCGs and Focus Areas were not Connally involved, the network of site contacts made by the STCGs and the Focus Areas was most probably an asset to the proposal writers, particularly in finding other DOE-EM sites for second and third applications of a first-time remediation technology. A proposal selection committee chose 20 proposals for funding out of 89 received (Walker, 1997b)
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