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... , paperwork, and Still others of these internal needs represent normal, healthy aspirations for organizational growth and economic gain which, without the needed discipline of commitment to a common mission, manifest themselves as duplication and lack of coordination among the elements of the large and diverse remediation program. In a great many cases, the problems are exacerbated by a widespread disbelief that the stated goals will actually be reached, which leads to a failure to work diligently toward them ant!
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... The February 1995 Galvin Commission report (Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Task Force on Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories, 1995) found that DOE's environmental remediation program is plagued by "acute and pervasive" problems (p.
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