[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 6 (Monday, January 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1607-1611]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-543]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Office of Science Financial Assistance Program Notice 99-06; 
Environmental Management Science Program: Research Related to 
Subsurface Contamination/Vadose Zone Issues

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE).

ACTION: Notice inviting grant applications.

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SUMMARY: The Offices of Science (SC) and Environmental Management (EM), 
U.S. Department of Energy, hereby announce their interest in receiving 
grant applications for performance of innovative, fundamental research 
to support specifically innovative, fundamental research to investigate 
DOE surface contamination/vadose zone issues.

DATES: Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to submit a brief 
preapplication. All preapplications, referencing Program Notice 99-06, 
should be received by DOE by 4:30 p.m. e.s.t., February 9, 1999. A 
response encouraging or discouraging a formal application generally 
will be communicated by electronic mail to the applicant within three 
weeks of receipt. The deadline for receipt of formal applications is 
4:30 p.m., e.d.t., April 19, 1999, in order to be accepted for merit 
review and to permit timely consideration for award in Fiscal Year 
1999.

ADDRESSES: All preapplications, referencing Program Notice 99-06, 
should be sent to Dr. Roland F. Hirsch, SC-73, Mail Stop F-237, Medical 
Sciences Division, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, 
Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, 19901 Germantown Road, 
Germantown, MD 20874-1290. Preapplications will be accepted if 
submitted by U.S. Postal Service, including Express Mail, commercial 
mail delivery service, or hand delivery, but will not be accepted by 
fax, electronic mail, or other means.
    After receiving notification from DOE concerning successful 
preapplications, applicants may prepare and submit formal applications. 
Applications must be sent to: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of 
Science, Grants and Contracts Division, SC-64, 19901 Germantown Road, 
Germantown, MD 20874-1290, Attn: Program Notice 99-06. The above 
address for formal applications must also be used when submitting 
formal applications by U.S. Postal Service Express Mail, any commercial 
mail delivery service, or when hand carried by the applicant.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Roland F. Hirsch, SC-73, Mail Stop 
F-237, Medical Sciences Division, Office of Biological and 
Environmental Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, 
19901 Germantown Road, Germantown, MD 20874-1290, telephone: (301) 903-
9009, fax: (301) 903-0567, E-mail: [email protected], or 
Mr. Mark Gilbertson, Office of Science and Risk Policy, Office of 
Science and Technology, Office of Environmental Management, 1000 
Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585, telephone: (202) 586-
7150, E-mail: [email protected]. The full text of Program 
Notice 99-06 is available via the Internet using the following web site 
address: http://www.er.doe.gov/production/grants/grants.html.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office of Environmental Management, in 
partnership with the Office of Science, sponsors the Environmental 
Management Science Program (EMSP) to fulfill DOE's continuing 
commitment to the cleanup of DOE's environmental legacy. The program 
was initiated in Fiscal Year 1996 and funding for the program has been 
provided in the Conference Report for Fiscal Year 1999 Appropriations 
for Energy and Water Development, Report 105-749, September 25, 1998, 
page 107.
    The DOE Environmental Management program currently has ongoing 
applied research and engineering efforts under its Technology 
Development Program. These efforts must be supplemented with basic 
research to address long-term technical issues crucial to the EM 
mission. Basic research can also provide EM with near-term fundamental 
data that may be critical to the advancement of technologies that are 
under development but not yet at full scale nor implemented. Proposed 
basic research under this notice should contribute to environmental 
management activities that would decrease risk for the public and 
workers, provide opportunities for major cost reductions, reduce time 
required to achieve EM's mission goals, and, in general, should address 
problems that are considered intractable without new knowledge. This 
program is designed to inspire ``breakthroughs'' in areas critical to 
the EM mission through basic research and will be managed in 
partnership with SC. The Office of Science's well-established 
procedures, as set forth in the Office of Science Merit Review System, 
as published in the Federal Register, March 11, 1991, Vol. 56, No. 47, 
pages 10244-10246, will be used for merit review of applications 
submitted in response to this notice.

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    Subsequent to the formal scientific merit review, applications that 
are judged to be scientifically meritorious will be evaluated by DOE 
for relevance to the objectives of the Environmental Management Science 
Program. Additional information can be obtained at http://
www.em.doe.gov/science.
    Additional Notices for the Environmental Management Science Program 
may be issued during Fiscal Year 1999 covering other areas within the 
scope of the EM program.

Purpose

    The need to build a stronger scientific basis for the Environmental 
Management effort has been established in a number of recent studies 
and reports. The Galvin Commission report (``Alternative Futures for 
the Department of Energy National Laboratories,'' February 1995) also 
provided the following observations and recommendations:

    ``There is a particular need for long term, basic research in 
disciplines related to environmental cleanup'' * * * ``Adopting a 
science-based approach that includes supporting development of 
technologies and expertise'' * * * ``could lead to both reduced 
cleanup costs and smaller environmental impacts at existing sites 
and to the development of a scientific foundation for advances in 
environmental technologies.''

    The Environmental Management Advisory Board Science Committee 
(Resolution on the Environmental Management Science Program, May 2, 
1997) made the following observations:

    ``EMSP results are likely to be of significant value to EM'' * * 
* ``Early program benefits, include: improved understanding of EM 
science needs, linkage with technology needs, and expansion of the 
cadre of scientific personnel working on EM problems'' * * * 
``Science program has the potential to lead to significant 
improvement in future risk reduction and cost and time savings.''

    The purpose of the EMSP is to foster basic research that will 
contribute to successful completion of DOE's mission to cleanup the 
environmental contamination across the DOE complex.
    The objectives of the Environmental Management Science Program are 
to:
     Provide scientific knowledge that will revolutionize 
technologies and clean-up approaches to significantly reduce future 
costs, schedules, and risks;
     ``Bridge the gap'' between broad fundamental research that 
has wide-ranging applicability such as that performed in DOE's Office 
of Science and needs-driven applied technology development that is 
conducted in EM's Office of Science and Technology; and
     Focus the Nation's science infrastructure on critical DOE 
environmental management problems.
    ``Although the focus of the EMSP is on basic research, as noted 
above, the objective of this research program is to generate new 
knowledge to support DOE's mission to remediate its contaminated sites. 
Some of the Department's most significant contamination problems 
involve soil and groundwater that contain dense nonaqueous-phase 
liquids, metals, and radionuclides. The Department's ability to 
identify and quantify contaminant sources, predict and monitor 
contaminant fate, and carry out appropriate remediation remains elusive 
at many sites across the DOE complex.'' (National Research Council, 
Committee on Subsurface Contamination at DOE Complex Sites: Research 
Needs and Opportunities, December 10, 1998).

Representative Research Areas

    Basic research is solicited in all areas of science with the 
potential for addressing problems in subsurface contamination and 
transport processes in the vadose (unsaturated) zone. Processes and 
problems in the vadose zone constitute important subjects of concern to 
the Department's Environmental Management Program. Relevant scientific 
disciplines include, but are not limited to: Geological sciences, 
(including geochemistry, geophysics, hydrogeologic transport modeling, 
and hydrologic field-studies), plant sciences (including mechanisms of 
contaminant uptake, concentration and sequestration), chemical sciences 
(including fundamental interfacial chemistry, computational chemistry, 
actinide chemistry, and analytical chemistry and instrumentation), 
engineering sciences (including control systems and optimization, 
diagnostics, transport processes, fracture mechanics and 
bioengineering), materials science (including other novel materials-
related strategies), and bioremediation (including microbial science 
related to ex situ treatment of organics, metals and radionuclides and 
in situ treatment of organics). The Natural and Accelerated 
Bioremediation Research (NABIR) program of the Office of Biological and 
Environmental Research in the Office of Science may issue a Notice 
relating to in situ treatment of metals and radionuclides during FY 
1999. Research projects relating to this area should be submitted to 
NABIR rather than to EMSP.

Program Funding

    It is anticipated that up to a total of $4,000,000 of Fiscal Year 
1999 Federal funds will be available for new Environmental Management 
Science Program awards resulting from this Notice. Multiple-year 
funding of grant awards is anticipated, contingent upon the 
availability of appropriated funds. Award sizes are expected to be on 
the order of $100,000-$300,000 per year for total project costs for a 
typical three-year grant. Collaborative projects involving several 
research groups or more than one institution may receive larger awards 
if merited. The program will be competitive and offered to 
investigators in universities or other institutions of higher 
education, other non-profit or for-profit organizations, non-Federal 
agencies or entities, or unaffiliated individuals. DOE reserves the 
right to fund in whole or part any or none of the applications received 
in response to this Notice. A parallel announcement with a similar 
potential total amount of funds will be issued to DOE Federally Funded 
Research and Development Centers. All projects will be evaluated using 
the same criteria, regardless of the submitting institution. 
Additionally, relevant innovative basic research pertaining to other 
sites will be considered.

Collaboration and Training

    Applicants to the EMSP are strongly encouraged to collaborate with 
researchers in other institutions, such as universities, industry, non-
profit organizations, federal laboratories and Federally Funded 
Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), including the DOE National 
Laboratories, where appropriate, and to incorporate cost sharing and/or 
consortia wherever feasible.
    Applicants are also encouraged to provide training opportunities, 
including student involvement, in applications submitted to the 
program.

Preapplications

    A brief preapplication may be submitted. The original and five 
copies must be received by January 28, 1999, to be considered. The 
preapplication should identify on the cover sheet the institution, PI 
name, address, telephone, fax and E-mail address for the principal 
investigator, title of the project, and the field of scientific 
research (using the list in the Application Categories section). The 
preapplication should consist of up to three pages of narrative 
describing the research objectives and the plan for accomplishing them, 
and should also include a paragraph describing the research background 
of the principal investigator and key collaborators if any.
    Preapplications will be evaluated relative to the scope and 
research needs

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of the DOE's Environmental Management Science Program by qualified DOE 
program managers from both SC and EM. Preapplications are strongly 
encouraged but not required prior to submission of a full application.
    Notification of a successful preapplication is not an indication 
that an award will be made in response to the formal application.

Application Format

    Applicants are expected to use the following format in addition to 
following instructions in the Office of Science Application Guide. 
Applications must be written in English, with all budgets in U.S. 
dollars.
     SC Face Page (DOE F 4650.2 (10-91))
     Application classification sheet (a plain sheet of paper 
with one selection from the list of scientific fields listed in the 
Application Categories Section)
     Table of Contents
     Project Abstract (no more than one page)
     Budgets for each year and a summary budget page for the 
entire project period (using DOE F 4620.1)
     Budget Explanation. Applicants are requested to include in 
the travel budget for each year funds to attend the annual National 
Environmental Management Science Program Workshop, and also for one or 
more extended (one week or more) visits to a cleanup site by either the 
Principal Investigator or a senior staff member or collaborator.
     Budgets and Budget explanation for each collaborative 
subproject, if any
     Project Narrative (recommended length is no more than 20 
pages; multi-investigator collaborative projects may use more pages if 
necessary up to a total of 40 pages)
     Goals
     Significance of Project to the EM Mission
     Background
     Research Plan
     Preliminary Studies (if applicable)
     Research Design and Methodologies
     Literature Cited
     Collaborative Arrangements (if applicable)
     Biographical Sketches (limit 2 pages per senior 
investigator)
     Description of Facilities and Resources
     Current and Pending Support for each senior investigator

Application Categories

    In order to properly classify each preapplication and application 
for evaluation and review, the documents must indicate the applicant's 
preferred scientific research field, selected from the following list.

Field of Scientific Research:

1. Actinide Chemistry
2. Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation
3. Bioremediation
4. Engineering Sciences
5. Geochemistry
6. Geophysics
7. Hydrogeology
8. Interfacial Chemistry
9. Materials Science
10. Plant Science
11. Other

Application Evaluation and Selection

    Scientific Merit. The program will support the most scientifically 
meritorious and relevant work, regardless of the institution. Formal 
applications will be subjected to scientific merit review (peer review) 
and will be evaluated against the following evaluation criteria listed 
in descending order of importance as codified at 10 CFR 605.10(d).

1. Scientific and/or Technical Merit of the Project,
2. Appropriateness of the Proposed Method or Approach,
3. Competency of Applicant's Personnel and Adequacy of Proposed 
Resources,
4. Reasonableness and Appropriateness of the Proposed Budget.

    External peer reviewers are selected with regard to both their 
scientific expertise and the absence of conflict-of-interest issues. 
Non-federal reviewers may be used, and submission of an application 
constitutes agreement that this is acceptable to the investigator(s) 
and the submitting institution.
    Relevance to Mission. ``Researchers are encouraged to demonstrate a 
linkage between their research projects and significant contamination 
problems at DOE sites. Researchers could establish this linkage in a 
variety of ways--for example, by elucidating the scientific problems to 
be addressed by the proposed research and explaining how the solution 
of these problems could improve remediation capabilities. Of course, 
given the nature of basic research, there will not always be a clear 
pathway between research results and application to site remediation.'' 
(National Research Council, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, 
December 1998) Subsequent to the formal scientific merit review, 
applications which are judged to be scientifically meritorious will be 
evaluated by DOE for relevance to the objectives of the Environmental 
Management Science Program.
    DOE shall also consider, as part of the evaluation, program policy 
factors such as an appropriate balance among the program areas, 
including research already in progress. Research funded in the 
Environmental Management Science Program in Fiscal Year 1996, Fiscal 
Year 1997, and Fiscal Year 1998 can be viewed at http://www.doe.gov/
em52/science-grants.html.

Application Guide and Forms

    Information about the development, submission of applications, 
eligibility, limitations, evaluation, the selection process, and other 
policies and procedures may be found in 10 CFR Part 605, and in the 
Application Guide for the Office of Science Financial Assistance 
Program. Electronic access to the Guide and required forms is made 
available via the World Wide Web at http://www.er.doe.gov/production/
grants/grants.html.

Major Environmental Management Challenges

    This research Notice has been developed for Fiscal Year 1999, along 
with a development process for a long-term program within Environmental 
Management, with the objective of providing continuity in scientific 
knowledge that will revolutionize technologies and clean-up approaches 
for solving DOE's most complex environmental problems. The following is 
an overview of the technical challenge facing the Environmental 
Management Program in the area of Subsurface Contamination/Vadose Zone 
which is the focus of this Notice. More detailed descriptions of the 
specific technical needs and areas of emphasis associated with this 
problem area can be found in the background section of this Notice.
    Subsurface Contamination/Vadose Zone environmental problems 
associated with hazardous and radioactive contaminants in soil and 
groundwater that exist throughout the Department of Energy complex, 
include radionuclides, heavy metals, and dense, nonaqueous phase 
liquids. More than 5,700 known Department of Energy groundwater plumes 
have contaminated over 600 billion gallons of water and 50 million 
cubic meters of soil. Migration of these plumes threaten local and 
regional water sources and in some cases, has already adversely 
impacted off-site resources. In addition, the Department is responsible 
for the remediation of numerous landfills at Department facilities. 
These landfills are estimated to contain over three million cubic 
meters of radioactive and hazardous buried waste, some of which has 
migrated to the surrounding soils and groundwater. Currently available

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cleanup technologies are inadequate or unacceptable due to excessive 
costs, increased risks, long schedules, or the production of secondary 
waste streams. A window of opportunity is thus provided for EMSP to 
inject new innovative research to help bridge the technological gap 
pertaining to the challenges in:
     Subsurface measurements, characterization and transport 
validation (distribution of contaminants) in soils and fractured rock
     Hydrology and geochemistry effects, including contaminant 
migration velocity, and immobilization applications
     Groundwater characterization and contaminant breakthrough 
models
     Surface water toxological cumulative effects
     Inventory estimates and validation

Scientific Issues

    Recognized issues that pose challenges in inventories of the 
subsurface, vadose zone, groundwater, and surface water include:

Subsurface

     Complete estimates of chemical and radiological 
contaminant concentrations, volumes, and timing of releases need to be 
considered holistically.
     Model assumptions on distribution of contaminants among 
different waste processes and streams have not been extensively 
validated by measurement.
     Models of contaminant distribution are not sufficiently 
focused on a prioritized list of key chemical and radionuclide 
contaminants.
     Development of systems assessment capability involves 
integration of observations of contaminant distributions over a variety 
of spatial and temporal scales.
     Knowledge of mechanisms and rates of waste release 
important for system assessment.

Vadose Zone

     Spatial and depth distribution of inventory, its phase 
association and chemical speciation are not fully known.
     In-situ chemical/physical/hydraulic properties of 
sediments are not well characterized.
     Chemical and biologic reactions responsible for 
contaminant retardation, immobilization, and mobilization are 
insufficiently understood or lack data on key parameters.
     Geohydrochemical effects such as chemical dissolution, 
clay dispersion, piping, colloid transport are not fully known.
     Preferred hydrologic pathways are not well characterized.
     Credible reactive transport models that include 
heterogeneity are not available.

Groundwater

     Waste volumes, waste chemistry, timing of waste disposal, 
and vadose zone transport are not fully characterized to provide 
accurate flux from vadose zone into groundwater.
     Horizontal and vertical dimensions of contaminant plumes 
are not fully delineated.
     Plume structure near waterways is important to 
characterize.
     Variation in plume geometry due to important geologic 
features and temporal changes in recharge/migration can answer key 
questions.
     Contaminant transport and impacts of non-aqueous phase 
liquids in aquifer are not fully described.
     Innovative, low-cost characterization approaches to 
extending subsurface data are not routinely deployed.

Surface Water

     Types, amounts, and spatial locations of contaminants 
within and entering waterways are not fully characterized.
     Temporal variation in contaminant input at groundwater 
discharge sites is not fully characterized.
     Extent of exposures of sensitive biota to contaminants is 
not known.
     Toxicological impacts on exposed species are 
insufficiently understood.
     Fate and transport modeling capabilities are not fully 
descriptive.

Inventory technical element

     Estimates of radionuclides and chemical contaminants that 
have been or are expected to be released to the vadose zone (location, 
amount, concentrations, chemical form, and mobilization/release 
mechanisms are needed as input to a system assessment).
     Needed are complete estimates of chemical and radiological 
contaminant concentrations, and volumes.
     Methodologies to validate model assumptions are needed for 
determining the distribution of contaminants among different waste 
processes and streams.

Background

    The DOE has a 50-year legacy of environmental problems resulting 
from the production of nuclear weapons. Among the most serious are the 
widespread contamination of soils, sediments, and groundwater. 
Moreover, many of the contaminated soils, sediments, and groundwater 
are believed to be impossible to remediate with existing technology. 
Examples of sites with these intractable problems include the Snake 
River Aquifer in Idaho, contaminated groundwater at the 100, 200, and 
300 areas at Hanford, Washington, Oak Ridge/Savannah River groundwaters 
and contaminated sediments at the Nevada Test Site. The huge cost, long 
duration, and technical challenges associated with remediating DOE 
facilities present a significant opportunity for science to contribute 
cost-effective solutions. DOE's environmental remediation problems are 
shared by other federal agencies and the private sector, but DOE faces 
a unique set of challenges associated with complex mixtures of 
contaminants especially those mixtures that contain radioactive 
elements. While the emphasis in the following discussion is on the 
Hanford Site, it is anticipated that basic research addressing these 
problems could lead to new technologies with widespread impact across 
the complex.
    The total life cycle costs for the Office of Environmental 
Management cleanup projects have been estimated to be approximately 
$147 billion in the year 2007 and beyond, when EMSP research results 
have the potential to begin making a significant impact. In that time 
period remedial action projects are estimated at $6.1 billion (DOE, 
April 1998).
    The Hanford Site has a high number of remedial action projects with 
the largest mortgage and covers 1450 square kilometers along the 
Columbia River in southeastern Washington State. The primary mission of 
the Hanford Site for nearly 50 years was to produce plutonium for 
national defense. Since 1943, nine plutonium production reactors, seven 
chemical separations plants, and various ancillary facilities were 
constructed and operated at the Hanford Site, with peak defense 
production activities occurring in the 1950s and early 1960s during the 
Cold War. Plutonium production, fuel processing, and fuel fabrication 
had a significant effect on the environment. The Hanford Site contains 
over 1600 contaminated waste sites; 670 occur within one half mile of 
the Columbia River. Defense production created over 625,000 cubic 
meters of solid/liquid wastes containing both radioactive and chemical 
contamination. Early waste disposal practices have resulted in 
groundwater contamination levels exceeding federal drinking water 
standards (DWS). Additional information on the subsurface 
contamination/vadose zone problems at

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the Hanford Site can be found in the Richland Environmental Restoration 
Project, ``Groundwater/Vadose Zone Integration Project Specification'', 
DOE/RL-98-48, Review Draft C, Appendix H, Applied Science and 
Technology Plan, and Appendix I, Science and Technology Roadmap on the 
world wide web at: http://www.bhi-erc.com/vadose/pubrev.htm. For 
further information regarding the Hanford Site please contact Mr. James 
P. Hanson, U.S. Department of Energy, Richland Operations Office, 
Science and Technology Programs Division, PO Box 550, MSIN K8-50, 
Richland, WA 99352, phone: (509) 372-4503, E-mail: 
james__pG7X[email protected].
    The Department is also concerned with its ability to confirm the 
performance of behavior of a physical, chemical, or geological process 
or a technology at a contaminated site. ``Basic science can contribute 
to performance validation through the investigation and development of 
new or improved tools and methodologies for confirming behavior or 
performance in the field. There are a number of underlying theoretical 
and experimental issues of interest--for example, understanding the 
pre-remediation conditions at a contaminated site and the fundamental 
hydrogeological, chemical, and biological controls on site or 
contaminant behavior, how these change during site remediation, and 
which tests or measurements are sensitive to the behaviors of concern. 
The inability to confirm such behavior or performance at a contaminated 
site is one of the primary reasons for the Department's difficulty in 
prescribing appropriate and cost-effective remediation and monitoring 
strategies. Moreover, once a remediation action is underway, the 
Department often lacks methods to measure and confirm the efficacy of 
the approach. Deployment of new remediation technologies may depend to 
a great extent on the Department's ability to validate their 
effectiveness--and provide evidence of remediation efficacy to 
regulators and other stakeholders.'' (National Research Council, 
Committee on Subsurface Contamination at DOE Complex Sites: Research 
Needs and Opportunities, December 10, 1998).
    Details of the programs of the Office of Environmental Management 
and the technologies currently under development or in use by 
Environmental Management Program can be found on the World Wide Web at 
http://www.em.doe.gov and at the extensive links contained therein. The 
programs and technologies should be used to obtain a better 
understanding of the missions and challenges in environmental 
management in DOE when considering areas of research to be proposed.

References for Background Information

    Note: World Wide Web locations of these documents are provided 
where possible. For those without access to the World Wide Web, hard 
copies of these references may be obtained by writing Mark A. 
Gilbertson at the address listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT section.

DOE. 1998. Accelerating Cleanup: Paths to Closure--June 1998.
    http://www.em.doe.gov/closure
DOE. 1998. Environmental Science Program, 1998 Project Summaries--
June 1998.
    http://www.doe.gov/em52
DOE. 1998. Report to Congress on the U.S. Department of Energy's 
Environmental Management Science Program--April 1998.
    http://www.doe.gov/em52/rtc.html
DOE. 1997. Research Needs Collected for the EM Science Program--June 
1997.
    http://www.doe.gov/em52/needs.html
DOE. 1995. Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom: The 
Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Production in the United 
States and What the Department of Energy is Doing About It. The U.S. 
Department of Energy, Office of Environmental Management, Office of 
Strategic Planning and Analysis, Washington, D.C.
    http://www.em.doe.gov/circle/index.html
Environmental Management Advisory Board Science Committee. 1997. 
Resolution on the Environmental Management Science Program dated May 
2, 1997.
National Research Council. 1998. Interim Letter Report, Committee on 
Subsurface Contamination at DOE Complex Sites: Research Needs and 
Opportunities, dated December 10, 1998.
National Research Council. 1997. Building an Environmental 
Management Science Program: Final Assessment. National Academy 
Press, Washington, DC.
    http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/envmanage/
National Research Council. 1995. Improving the Environment: An 
Evaluation of DOE's Environmental Management Program. National 
Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
    http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/doeemp/
Richland Environmental Restoration Project, Groundwater/Vadose Zone 
Integration Project
    http://www.bhi-erc.com/vadose/pubrev.htm
Secretary of Energy Advisory Board. Alternative Futures for the 
Department of Energy National Laboratories. February 1995. Task 
Force on alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National 
Laboratories. Washington, D.C.
    http://www.doe.gov/html/doe/whatsnew/galvin/tf-rpt.html
1999 Hanford Site Technology Needs
    http://www.pnl.gov/stcg/needs.stm

    The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number for this 
program is 81.049, and the solicitation control number is ERFAP 10 
CFR part 605.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on January 4, 1999.
John Rodney Clark,
Associate Director of Science for Resource Management.
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