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2. Organization and Administration
2. Organization and Administration
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To understand the process that has been developed to manage and distribute OSRI funding, the various steps in the process and the role of oversight and advisory bodies must first be understood. The authorizing legislation sets forth an organizational structure that includes a director, an Advisory Board, and a Scientific and Technical Committee (STC)
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. One important role of Me Advisory Board, carried out by a subcommittee in consultation with staff, is preparation of annual work plans.
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Are members of the Scientific and Technical Committee a subset of the Advisory Board? With the exception of the STC chair, who is the academic appointee to an ex officio Advisory Board position, all STC members are outside experts from academia, management, industry, and the public, per OPA 90 requirements (the legislation states these specialists must comefrom "the University of Alaska, the Institute of Marine Science, the Prince William Sound Science Center, and elsewhere in the academic community." · Do STC members serve on other committees or bodies of OSRI or the PWSSC?
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., . 5 Gail Evanoff Mark Fink Carol Fries John Goering John Harville Raymond Jakubczak Meera Kohler R.J.
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21 PWSSC Board of Directors Executive Board Emeritus Committee Member Members ~ b ,~ a 5
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22 TABLE 2-1 Continued OSRI THE OIL SPILL RECOVERY INSTlTl1E Advisory Board NAMES FY03 (as of Board Executive Finance Work Plan June2002) Member Committee Committee Committee Scientifi Technic.
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ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION 23 Scientific and Technical Committee ~3 Irk Plan mmittee PWSSC Board of Directors Executive Committee Board Emeritus Member Members ~ b ,< a ~ C
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Appointment is officially by the OSRI director with concurrence/approval by the Advisory Board as a whole. We have not asked STC members to fill out a conflict of interestform, but thefirst paragraph of all proposal review forms requests such conflicts to be declared and for the reviewer to return the proposal unreviewed A there is a conflict.
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· Are BAAs approved/reviewed by others, such as the Advisory Board or the STC?
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The OSRIAdvisory Board adopted this as a guideline also to be usedfor indirect costsfor outside proposals after lengthy debate (see the minutes of August 12, 1998 - pages 6 and 91. However, the board allows the director discretion to approve higher than 20 percent indirect costs based on the project's merit.
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The staffdiscourages unsolicited proposals. We encourage public input at Advisory Board meetingsfor project ideas to be considered annually by the Work Plan Committee.
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In addition, as mentioned earlier, restrictions on overhead charges and the perception that matching funds are required, rather than just encouraged, also acts to limit respondents. Confusion over whether those serving on the OSRI Advisory Board and the Scientific and Technical Committee can receive OSRI funds also causes negative perceptions about the fairness of the process.
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As illustrated in Table 2-1, there is not significant overlap in use of people in different advisory roles, except for the expected overlap of OSRI Advisory Board members serving on its Executive Committee, Finance Committee, and Work Plan Committee and except for the many roles assigned to the OSRI director. Good variety among the advisors is important because using the same people tends to limit creativity in any program.
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