13. Given the Information in questions 11 and 12 above, what are the specific differences between the Department's FY 1986 IRB and the Congressional request budgets for BES? Answer: Please see the table below and explanation that follows for the differences between the FY 1986 IRB and the FY 1986 Congressional request. Explanation of Budget Changes General Budget changes principally the result of meeting overall Administration budget targets in order to meet the objectives of the President's Deficit Reduction Program. By subprogram the OMB budget reflects the following changes: Materials Sciences Budget restricted to FY 1985 level except for critical increases needed for user facility operations. New research thrusts in polymers and ceramics postponed. Funding for Columbia University Project, Neutron Scattering Experimental Halls, and CP-5 Containment Project (ANL) deferred. Chemical Sciences Deferral of new research thrusts in chemical reactivity and catalysis and continued funding of base program at the FY 1985 level. Deferral of construction of Phase of the Combustion Research Facility and continued funding of GPP at the FY 1985 level. Nuclear Sciences Budget limited to FY 1985 level except for critical increases needed for facility operations. A general reduction was made in each of the activities making up the Nuclear Sciences subprogram. Applied Mathematical Sciences Deferral of new research initiatives in parallel algorithms and multiprocessor machines. • Deferral of Class VII computer system and postponement of continued funding for Supercomputer Center at Florida State. Engineering and Geosciences • Permit high priority research in engineering research as proposed and appropriated by the Congress in FY 1985. Advanced Energy Projects • Deferral of research above the FY 1985 level. Biological Energy Research • Deferral of research thrust in polysaccharides. Program Direction • Deferral of staff increases proposed above the FY 1985 level. 14. How many researchers were supported or will be supported by the BES program in FY 1984, FY 1985 and FY 1985? Answer: The number of researchers supported by the BES program Is estimated at approximately 2,170 in FY 1984, 2,300 in FY 1985, and 2,260 In FY 1986. Materials Sciences 15. The Department's FY 1985 request for the Advanced Materials Initiative included $12.55 million for "Programmatic Research and Research and Development Associated with Construction." What is the actual amount of FY 1985 funding now planned for this activity? Please describe in detail the plans for the use and distribution of those funds. Answer: The capital equipment plus operating total amount of FY 1985 funding planned for the Department's Advanced Materials Initiative is $9,250,000. The present distribution and use of these funds are: 16. What is the status of the National Synchrotron Light Source? Please provide a detailed account of the current situation at the x-ray ring. 17. 18. Answer: The National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) is currently operational for experiments at both the VUV ring and the X-ray ring. During the past year a committee appointed by DOE reviewed the progress and problems associated with machine operation and this Committee found no fundamental obstacles to achieving full design goals. The Committee had many useful recommendations which are being implemented. The NSLS was shut down for a lengthy period in the fall/winter of 1984 to undertake some modifications and maintenance, some of which are routine for an accelerator. The machine is now operational where a full productive experimental program has resumed at the VUV ring. Recently, 700 ma have been stored in the VUV ring which is a new high, and approaches the peak design of 1 ampere. At the X-ray ring, experimenters are aligning X-ray beams, monochromators, and mirrors. The first EXAFS experimental spectra was taken and electron energy in the X-ray ring has reached design goals of 2.5 GeV. Electron currents of up to 70 ma have been achieved in the X-ray ring, and electron lifetimes of more than 10 hours at 10 ma are now routine. It will take several more months of ring conditioning to achieve good experimental conditions. In short, the NSL S is operating well and is steadily being brought into mor e favorable operating conditions. Applied Mathematical Sciences The budget justification for FY 1985 stated that one state-of-the-art supercomputer would be leased in FY 1985 to satisfy the computing requirements of the Energy Research programs. Has this computer been leased, and if so, what kind is it, where is it located, and what are the financial arrangements? Answer: A Cray-XMP/22 was acquired in November, 1984 and installed at the National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The financial arrangements are a conventional threeyear lease which can be terminated after two years with termination penalty of one month's lease ($314,000). This is intended to be an interim machine until a Class VII is selected through a fully competitive solicitation. What is the cost of the Class V computer for Argonne National Laboratory identified in FY 1986 budget request? How will the expense of the machine be allocated across the BES, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics programs? Answer: The purchase equivalent value of the Class V computer for Argonne National Laboratory is $4,600,000. This item will be acquired on a fouryear lease to ownership arrangement and the FY 1986 operating expense cost is estimated to be $720,000. This machine' will support a variety of DOE programs at Argonne and is only included in our budget because the Office of Energy Research has landlord responsibilities for Argonne. Costs will actually be charged to program users based upon usage. 19. 20. Advanced Energy Projects How much of the FY 1986 budget request of $10.922 million is committed to ongoing projects, and how much is available for new starts in FY 1986? Answer: Projects in this program are generally limited to a maximum support period of about three years, and hence, there is a built in turnover of about one-third in the projects supported in any one year. Consequently, about one-third of the $10,922,000 requested, i.e., about $3,400,000 will be available to start about 14 new projects in FY 1986. The remainder, 1.e., about $7,500,000 is committed to ongoing projects. BES Construction Kansas State University Ion Collision Physics Facility (Project 85-ER-403) Please provides the names and credentials of the design, construction, and Answer: The project is divided into two main activities. One is concerned 1. 11. are as Design and construction of LINAC Prof. Tom Gray, Ph.D., Florida A structural draftsman with Biderman Engineering of Dallas, Texas 1956-57, a tool designer doing heavy aircraft tooling for General Dynamics, 1957-58 and professor of physics for 18 years. Built several large pieces of apparatus for research and has been closely involved with accelerator systems. Associated with the Kansas State accelerator laboratory since 1977. Designed, constructed and successfully operated a universally used source of hydrogen atoms. DurIng his sabbatical leave this academic year, Dr. Gray spent four months at Florida State working on their LINAC system and is now at Argonne National Laboratory working on their LINAC system. Design and construction of CRYEBIS Prof. C. L. Cocke, Ph.D., Cal Operated an experimental research program in atomic collisions since 1969. Supervised the design and construction of electron spectrometers, target chambers, x-ray spectrometers and associated beam line apparatus and electronics; as well as acquisition, installation and development of the nanosecond pulsing-bunching system for the KSU accelerator. Designed and supervised construction of several fast ion pumped recoil ion sources and computed the design of the ion optics, magnetic and electrostatic beam transport elements, electron guns, gun housing, high voltage platform and collector assemblies for the electron beam ion source. Familiar with other ongoing CRYEBIS efforts elsewhere. |