research efforts of all the agencies and makes each program more cost effective. MULTIPROGRAM GENERAL PURPOSE FACILITIES The FY 1985 Construction request for the Multiprogram General Purpose Facilities (MGPF) program is $39.0 million (Table 17). The goal of this program, which is managed for the Department by the Office of Energy Research, is to rehabilitate and replace multiprogram general support facilities that are essential to continued operations of the Department's multiprogram laboratory sites. These support facilities include site utilities and support buildings such as laboratories, office buildings and warehouses, roads and railroads, which represent a multibillion dollar *See Table 18 for additional detail on prior year ongoing projects. **FY 1984 estimate for MGPF program is $42.1 million. Table 18 Multiprogram General Purpose Facilities Budget Authority ($ in millions) Construction (ongoing projects) Security Facility, ANL (82-E-302) Rehabilitate Power Systems, INEL, LLNL, RL, ORNL (83-E-308) Electronics Facility. ANL (83-E-309) Utility Replacement & Upgrade, BNL (83-E-310) FY 1985 Request $1.1 2.8 3.2 3.2 3.8 3.4 4.5 $22.0 Through continued use and aging, support facilities deteriorate to a point where they are no longer capable of performing their intended functions and must be rehabilitated or replaced. The MGPF program systematically reduces the backlog of deficiencies of these support facilities. It reflects an appropriate Federal responsibility for management of the Government's real property, and we plan to continue the program as a necessary cost of doing business as long as the multiprogram laboratory facilities are used to perform research and development functions for the Department. The FY 1985 budget request would continue construction on several projects begun in prior years, including rehabilitation of the Old Town area utilities at LBL, the upgrade of the cooling water facility at ORNL and improvements of roads at various laboratories. New projects proposed for FY 1985 would include rehabilitation or replacement of such facilities as an electrical distribution system (ORNL), an underground steam system (ANL), laboratory roofs (ANL), chilled water facilities (BNL, ORNL, ANL), medical facilities (LLNL), a fire alarm system (RL), and an environmental monitoring system (ORNL). ADVISORY AND OVERSIGHT PROGRAM DIRECTION The FY 1985 budget request for Advisory and Oversight Program Direction is $2.9 million. These funds are required to provide for the salaries, benefits, travel and other expenses associated with 44 full-time equivalents. This FY 1985 request will provide the staffing resources required by the Director of Energy Research to carry out his responsibilities under legislation (P.L. 95-91) and those mandated by the Secretary in areas beyond the scope of other ongoing Energy Research programs. The FY 1985 budget request for Policy and Management is $0.5 million. These funds are required to provide for the salaries and related expenses associated with 8 full-time equivalents in the Office of the Director of Energy Research. Mr. Chairman, this concludes by testimony. I would be pleased to answer any questions at this time. QUESTIONS SUBMITTED BY SENATOR WARNER Nuclear Physics Question: Can you describe to the committee in layman's terms the purpose of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) and why the Administration believes it is worthy of Federal support? Answer: Recent advanced high energy and nuclear physics experiments and theory have established that the protons and neutrons which make up atomic nuclei are themselves composed of other smaller particles. Other experiments have demonstrated that the detailed substructure of the proton and neutron is different when they are within a nucleus than when they are in free space. A theory, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) has been developed which is believed to be a fundamental theory of nuclear phenomena. The Administration gives high priority to supporting such forefront basic research activities as nuclear physics at a level which maintains their vitality and world-competitiveness. Federal support of basic nuclear research is this Nation's long term investment in its technological future with nuclear processestrained manpower, knowledge base, and advanced instrumentation. The research community has determined that the highest priority for new accelerator construction in the United States nuclear physics program is for an electron accelerator with the properties proposed for the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility. These developments provide an exciting opportunity to extend nuclear physics research to a new more fundamental level, and raise many interesting questions. The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF), with its continuous beam and its capability of providing electron probes at any energy in the range from 500 MeV to 4,000 MeV, offers the opportunity to study these questions with an unprecedented degree of precision. Question: Concern has been expressed by the scientific community that some nuclear physics projects have not been exposed to intensive peer review prior to Congressional consideration. What is the opinion of the nuclear science community about the CEBAF project? Has it been subjected to peer review? Answer: The nuclear science community has extensively reviewed the scientific opportunities and has concluded that a high energy, continuous beam electron accelerator facility such as the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) is the next logical step for advancement of basic nuclear physics in the United States. This conclusion was developed through a series of studies, reviews, and panels over a five-year period which culminated with the recommendation in the 1979 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science that a CEBAF-type facility have the highest priority for new construction. By January 1983, five institutions responded to this identified need and the 1979 Long Range Plan's projection of FY 1985 start of construction by submission of unsolicited proposals; the proposals differed significantly in accelerator concept and other technical parameters. The five institutions were Argonne National Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, National Bureau of Standards, and Southeastern Universities Research Association. The DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) established an ad hoc "Panel on Electron Accelerator Facilities" to recommend the facility or combination of facilities which will best meet the United States needs for basic nuclear research with electromagnetic probes. The Panel, chaired by Professor D. Allan Bromley of Yale University, asked each proposer to provide written critiques of all competing proposals and then respond in public to the written critiques of others. After an intensive series of site visits and public meetings, the Panel reached the following principal recommendation: "That the proposal submitted by the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) be accepted and funded for the construction of a new National Electron Accelerator Laboratory (NEAL) centering on a 4 GeV linear accelerator-stretcher ring system capable of delivering intense, high duty factor, electron beams in the energy range from 500 to 4000 MeV." In April 1983, the parent committee (NSAC) fully endorsed the Panel Report and recommended that it be implemented without delay. Question: I understand that the Department of Energy/National Science Foundation's Nuclear Science Advisory Committee has prepared a long range plan for nuclear science. Is the CEBAF project included in this long range plan? Answer: The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) and the science to be done with this facility are highlighted in the DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee's (NSAC) "Long Range Plan For Nuclear Science" (December 1983). In the Long Range Plan, NSAC reaffirmed its April 1983 recommendation for the earliest possible start on the construction of CEBAF. The 1983 Long Range Plan specifically calls for start of CEBAF construction in FY 1985. Question: The Department has sent a $2 million reprogramming request to the Congress which would provide direct support of CEBAF en lieu of more broadly based accelerator research and development activities. Why is this a good idea? How will the money be used? Answer: The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) is the next logical step for advancement of basic nuclear research in the United States. Thus, research and development (R&D) in support of this project is the Nuclear Physics program's highest priority use of FY 1984 accelerator R&D funds. |