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... H ­ eadquarters-directed S&T investments are small in comparison to the size of the annual DOE-EM budget for cleanup and they are not geared toward finding breakthrough solutions and technologies that have the poten­ tial to substantially reduce cleanup lifecycle costs and schedules, currently ­ eported -- and likely underestimated -- to be $377 billion and 50-plus years.1 r The committee recommends that several actions be taken to improve DOE-EM's S&T development program: • DOE-EM should obtain an independent assessment of the cleanup program's lifecycle costs and schedules from a government engi neering organization that is specifically focused on identifying key 1  See discussion on DOE-EM lifecycle costs and schedules in Section 1.1 of Chapter 1.
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... • A portion of the technology development effort for the DOE-EM ­ cleanup program should focus on breakthrough solutions and technologies that can substantially reduce cleanup lifecycle costs, s ­chedules, risks, and uncertainties. This technology development effort should be managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E)


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