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1 Introduction and Task
Pages 11-14

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... provide scientific knowledge that wi I I revol ution ize tech nologies and cleanup approaches to significantly reduce future costs, schedules, and risks; · bridge the gap between broad fundamental research and needsdriven appl fed technology; and · focus the nation's science infrastructure on critical DOE environmental management problems. To meet these objectives, the EM Science Program provides threeyear awards to investigators in industry, national laboratories, and universities to undertake research on problems relevant to DOE cleanup efforts.
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... In response, the National Academies established the Committee on Building an Effective Environmental Management Science Program, which operated from May 1996 through March 1997 and produced three reports.5 One of the primary recommendations made by this committee was that DOE should develop a science plan for the EMSP [Environmenta/ Management Science Program1. This science plan should provide a comprehensive list of significant cleanup problems in the nation's nuclear weapons complex that can be addressed through basic research and a strategy for addressing them.
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... of the Office of Science and Technology, requested that the National Academies convene another committee of experts to advise DOE on its first science plan for the EM Science Program, which DOE had decided would address subsurface contamination. In response, the current committee was formed under the joint auspices of the Board on Radioactive Waste Management and Water Science and Technology Board.
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... that will be required to make significant progress on the research agenda. The committee believes that the success of the EM Science Program will depend both on the nature of the problems addressed and on the effort sustained in solving them.
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