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6 “Triage” Approach for Reducing Project Backlogs
Pages 82-84

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... Peer review of these technologies would be invaluable in helping determine which are ready for deployment, which merit further development, and which should be canceled. The number of technologies is too large to be reviewed rapidly by the current OST peer review process, however, because only 28 peer reviews were completed in 1997 and only 38 reviews have been scheduled for FY98 (Table 4.1~.2 The relatively small percentage of active projects that have been peer reviewed also raises questions about the effectiveness of the peer review process, because it does not allow a consistent application of peer review results in OST's decision-making process.
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From page 83...
... For example, a single review could evaluate all projects developed to address a specific type of environmental management problem or an entire OST FA/CC program. The approach also could include related projects from OST's inventory of nearly 600 projects that 3 According to RSI staff, the maximum number of projects that can be peer reviewed effectively during a Type I review using the current OST process is approximately five.
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... Because of the breadth of technical issues that might be evaluated during a review of a large number of technologies, the number of reviewers required for the prescreening evaluation could have to be significantly larger than the five to six members typically employed for an OST Type I review. If the prescreening review process results in a greatly reduced number of technologies requiring a formal, panel review (as intended)
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