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Committee on Subsurface Contamination at DOE Complex Sites: Research Needs and Opportunities: Interim Report
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... Office of Science and Risk Policy, the National Research Council empaneled a committee' to assist the Department in developing a long-range science plan for subsurface contamination research sponsored by the Environmental Management Science Program (EMSP) .2 The committee was asked by DOE to develop an interim report which is provided in this leher-on the technical content of the EMSP proposal call for fiscal year 1999 (FY99)
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... As noted by previous National Research Council reports (see footnote 5) , the purpose of the EMSP is to foster basic research that will contribute to successful completion of DOE's mission to cleanup the environmental contamination across the DOE complex.
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... Although the committee recommends a complex-wide focus for the proposal call, it also believes that researchers should be encouraged to demonstrate a linkage between their research projects and significant contamination problems at DOE sites. Researchers could establish this linkage in a variety of ways for example, by elucidating the scientific problems to 10See, for example, U.S.
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... This problem area is under-represented in the current EMSP portfolio, and new knowledge obtained through the program could lead to significant improvements in remediation capabilities. '2The idea that lack of process validation can limit technology application also is discussed in the National Research Council report entitled Innovations in Ground Water and Soil Cleanup (National Research Council, 1997~.
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... Sincerely, Jane C.S. Long, Chair James K
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