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Appendix F: List of Recommendations from Decision Making in the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology
Appendix F: List of Recommendations from Decision Making in the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology
Pages 65-71
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COTTON, JK Research Associates, Inc., Arlington, Virginia ROBERT GIORDANO, Giordano and Associates, Saratoga Springs, New York DETLOF VON WINTERFELDT, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California RECOMMENDATIONS Importance of a Central RD&D Function A centralized RD&D function within DOE-EM should be maintained because of its potential advantage in coordinating potentially duplicative technology development efforts needed at DOE-EM sites and because it is in a better 65
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OST should attempt to provide input to alternative functional flowsheets and, in particular, should advocate their development when the baseline functional flowsheet involves high cost, high or poorly defined risk, and/or substantial probability of technical failure. OST should identify specific technology development opportunities aimed at supporting alternative functional flowsheets and processes designed to enhance the overall probability of remediation
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Independent External Reviews Peer reviews of technology development projects should be part of OST's decision-making process. These project peer reviews should occur as necessary and in a way that is not an overly burdensome commitment of OST resources.
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Top-Level Strategic Planning and Goals OST managers, in conjunction with other top-level EM managers, should produce strategic goals and plans that define explicitly the technical problems the program will (and will not) address, and use these goals and plans effectively within OST program units to assist them in making technology development decisions.
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Use a formal (i.e., common, consistent, structured, and rational) technology development decision-making process and apply it uniformly.
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This will reduce the administrative load and will lead to better decisions by producing better-defined decision points and clearer lines of demarcation between them. In selecting a new technology development project for funding, OST should base this decision on both technical merit and quantifiable estimations of the project's probable value to site cleanup activities.
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APPENDIX F 71 Exploratory Development Additional funding should be sought (or some existing funding redirected) for exploratory development directed to technologies for alternative functional flowsheets.
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