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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Statement of Task." National Research Council. 1999. Cooperative Stewardship: Managing the Nation's Multidisciplinary User Facilities for Research with Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons, and High Magnetic Fields. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9705.
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APPENDIX B

Statement of Task

The charge to the Committee on Developing a Federal Materials Facilities Strategy is given below.

The study will explore possible strategies to address changing patterns of use of materials research facilities (i.e., facilities that provide synchrotron radiation, neutron beams, and high-magnetic-field environments for investigations in science and technology) and the implications for evolution in the roles of agencies that support research in the relevant areas of science. These strategies would address several objectives: (1) provide a systematic government-wide approach for exploiting materials research facilities in a coordinated and efficient manner; (2) take into account the particular roles and responsibilities of the various agencies involved; (3) consider evolving scientific and technological needs, international changes, and budgetary forces. In the area of scientific and technological needs, particular attention would be given to ways to provide effective support by the facilities and their personnel for the non-expert user community and effective support by federal agencies of the facilities and the research teams and individuals that use the facilities. Ways to identify and educate emerging user communities would be identified.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Statement of Task." National Research Council. 1999. Cooperative Stewardship: Managing the Nation's Multidisciplinary User Facilities for Research with Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons, and High Magnetic Fields. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9705.
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The Committee on Developing a Federal Materials Facilities Strategy was appointed by the National Research Council (NRC) in response to a request by the federal agencies involved in funding and operating multidisciplinary user facilities for research with synchrotron radiation, neutrons, and high magnetic fields. Starting in August 1996, a series of conversations and meetings was held among NRC staff and officials from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Department of Commerce), and the National Institutes of Health. The agencies were concerned that facilities originally developed to support research in materials science were increasingly used by scientists from other fields—particularly the biological sciences—whose research was supported by agencies other than those responsible for the facilities. This trend, together with the introduction of several new, large user facilities in the last decade, led the agencies to seek advice on the possible need for interagency cooperation in the management of these federal research facilities.

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