Technology Assessment Board

In preparing for a project proposal to OTA s Technology Assessment Board, OTA management concluded that focusing on research and development (R D) costs alone would be too narrow and that these costs should be studied in the context of the financial returns that investors receive from pharmaceutical R D. OTA also concluded that the study should examine how Federal policies affect both the costs of and returns on R D. OTA submitted a proposal to the Technology Assessment Board in June 1989, which the Board approved for initiation in September 1989. (The project was not fully staffed until January 1990.) The project had four components ... 

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Agricultural Science and Technology Review Board (ASTRB), Technology Assessments 1993, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.,... 

NRC. 2001d. Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation Technology Development for Treatment of VX Hydrolysate at the Newport Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. Letter Report of the Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program. Washington, D.C. Board on Army Science and Technology. 

Committee on Commercial Aviation Security, National Materials Advisory Board, Assessment of Technologies Deployed to improve Aviation Security, NMAB-482-5, National Academy Press, DOT/FAA/AR-99/79 (1999) 68pp. 

Reflection and self-assessment of learning and Emphasis on the American Board for Engineering and Technology s (ABET) other design constraints. 

The second phase is the feasibility study. This stage may require the expenditure of 1 to 2% of the total project cost. Thus for a 1,000 million project about 20 million will be required. This will define the location, feedstock and product market and the technology to be used. It will also typically encompass outline regulatory approval and assessment of environmental impacts. The error in the estimate is typically not less than about +/-10%. Financiers (bankers and corporate boards) like the error to be +1-5%. This level of estimate can usually only be achieved by a FEED study. 

G. L. Nelson, Ecology and plastics, CHEMTECH, 25(12), 50 (1995). http //www.cimwb.ca.gov./organics/conversion/events/resultwrk.shp/lca.ppt California Integrated Waste Management Board, Life Cycle Assessment of Waste Conversion Technologies, April (2004). 

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