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Siting the Superconducting Super Collider (1988)

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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIXES." National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering. 1988. Siting the Superconducting Super Collider. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18540.
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Suggested Citation:"APPENDIXES." National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering. 1988. Siting the Superconducting Super Collider. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18540.
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Appendix A: Statement of Work for the Committee The National Academies of Sciences and Engineering (Acad- emies) shall assist the Department of Energy (DOE) in the Su- perconducting Super Collider (SSC) site evaluation process by eval- uating the suitability of proposed sites for the SSC facility. Time is of the essence. The Presidents of the Academies will jointly ap- point a Site Evaluation Committee (Committee) reporting directly to the Academies' Governing Board of the National Research Coun- cil. The Committee shall consist of about 15 distinguished scientists, engineers, and other individuals and will be appointed giving due consideration to potential real or apparent conflicts of interest and geographical distribution. The Academies shall: 1. Consult with DOE officials as those officials determine the evaluation criteria, subcriteria, and considerations to be announced in the DOE Invitation for Site Proposals as well as broad indica- tions of the relative importance of those criteria, subcriteria, and considerations. (In the absence of Committee members, Academies' officials shall carry out the consultation.) The Committee shall estab- lish (prior to receipt of proposals) techniques, processes, and special analyses to be employed in evaluating proposals using the DOE- announced criteria and subcriteria and their relative importance. The Committee's evaluation, to be developed in the light of past 39

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