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As part of OST's efforts to become more effective, OST asked the NRC's BROOM to address six specific issues related to technology development activities in DOE-EM. The NRC established two panels and four subcommittees of its Committee on Environmental Management Technologies 8
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In late 1998 Gerald Boyd, head of OST, asked Me BROOM to summarize Me major findings and recommendations of these reports and synthesize any common issues into a few overarching recommendations to EM and OSTi2 (see ~ These panels and subcommittees were re-organized as ad hoc committees in August 1997 when the BROOM discontinued the Committee on Environmental Management Technologies. i2 In the body of this report, recommendations taken directly from one of the subject reports include references to the subject reports (no references to the subject reports are included in the Summary)
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THIS REPORT BROOM committees have produced six reports since December 1998 (see Box 1) that address aspects of OST's technology development program.
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The six reports also provide valuable primers on aspects of OST programs including peer review, decision making, and "systems-based" approaches for conducting technology development programs essentially to correct what the committees viewed as poor practices that have occurred within OST. The board does not reproduce any of this material in this synthesis report but commends this material, as well as all of the findings and recommendations in the six reports (see Appendixes A through F for the major recommendations from the reports)
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GAO concluded that after five years of effort and the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars by its Office of Technology Development, DOE lacked a well coordinated and fully integrated technology development program. In response to this report, the Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management announced a new approach to environmental research and technology and changed the name of the Office of Technology Development to the Office of Science and Technology (OST)
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improve the system for information gathering and documentation of technologies that are available or under development at other organizations in the United States and abroad. In the fall of 1996, the conclusions expressed in another GAO report, "Energy Management: Technology Development Program Taking Action to Address Problems" (GAO, 1996)
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Another notable change in OST's budget occurred in FY 1996, when Congress mandated the Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) to stimulate basic research and technology development for cleanup of the nation's nuclear weapons complex (NRC, 1997a)
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