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Appendix B: List of Recommendations from Peer Review in Environmental Technology Development Programs: The Department of Energy's Office of Science and Technology
Pages 52-54

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... KINGSBURY, Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, California GARETH THOMAS, University of California, Berkeley RECOMMENDATIONS Linkage of Peer Reviews to Management Decisions As part of the documentation provided to peer review program management during the process of selecting projects for review, OST program managers should be required to clearly identify the upcoming decision or milestone for which the results of the peer review will be used.
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... Addressing the Backlog of Peer Reviews OST should consider adopting a triage approach that would allow far greater numbers of technologies to be peer reviewed. This approach would involve a formal prescreening of projects by peer reviewers based exclusively on the written documentation on the project in effect, a "mail review" of projects, followed by a formal meeting of the panel to discuss and rank them.
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... . Evaluation and Improvement Mechanisms OST management should develop an effective evaluation and improvement process for the peer review program that includes regular benchmarking against other peer review programs and the collection of activity and performance metrics.
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