areas. Until the authorization of the radio 

 astronomy facility, known as the Very Large 

 Array, in fiscal year 1073, no major research 

 facilities— those requiring $5 million or more for 

 construction — have been started since the 

 Batavia accelerator in l^oS. Yet nearly 30 new 

 facilities have been proposed and evaluated as 

 technically desirable and feasible in recent years. 

 These are listed in the table below along with 

 their estimated costs. There is an evident need 

 for such facilities in many scientific 

 fields— physics and astronomy, biology, and 

 environmental sciences as well as engineering. 



programmatically, each individual installation's 

 orientation is primarily to the needs and mis- 

 sion of its parent or sponsoring agency. 



Both in the Congress and in the general public, 

 there is a perceptible view that the Federal 

 laboratories should be more widely utilized in 

 helping to solve current national problems. Al- 

 though Federal agency missions, in one way or 

 another, are oriented to meeting national needs 

 and responsibilities, there are no national R&D 

 installations which are independent of a partic- 

 ular executive branch agency for their programs, 

 funding, personnel authorizations, and related 

 essentials. 



FEDERAL INTRAMURAL 

 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 



Number of Installations 



The Federal Government's R&D installations 

 are engaged in a broad array of functions and 

 activities, representing a significant portion of 

 the national R&D effort. Organizationally and 



Although an inventory of the security un- 

 classified Federal R&D installations in I'^o" 

 listed a relatively large aggregate number of 

 installations, there are only a few Federal 



Technically Desirable and Feasible 

 Basic Research Facilities Costing S5.0 Million or More 



NOAA; Geophysical 

 and Fluid Dynamics 

 Laboratory 

 computer ($18M) 



($5M) 



Cell Production 

 and Fractionation 

 Centers ($25M 

 over 5 years) 



National Institute 

 of Ecology ($10M) 



Engineering 



fiarthquake Engineering 

 Facility ($30M) 



.Automation Technology 

 Institute ($5M) 



Engineermg Software 

 Technology Transfer 

 Center ($8M) 



Resource Center for 

 Construction and 

 Industrialized 

 Building {$6M) 



Resource Center for 

 Productivity and 

 Machine Design ($6M) 



Physicnl Sciences 



NRAO 

 VLA ($7bM) 



Neroc 440' dia. 

 Steerable ($30M) 



Owens Valley Inter- 

 ferometer ($8M) 



100" Optical 

 telescope ($5M) 



200" Southern 

 Hemisphere 

 telescope ($20M) 



NRAO Homology 

 telescope 



Mountain Top Cosmic 

 Ray Observatory ($5M) 



Upgrade 184" Synchrotron 

 Berkeley ($7M) 



Heavy Ion Lab for 

 Nuclear Physics ($20M) 



Array of Gravitational 

 Detectors ($5M) 



Storage Ring Brookhaven 

 Isabelle ($50M) 



Storage Ring 

 Berkeley-Stanford 

 ($75M) 

 Project PEP 



Recirculating Linear 



Accelerator 



Upgrade SLAC ($17M) 



Stanford 



Source: National Science Foundation 



Calculation Center for 

 Chemistry ($10M) 



Upgrade Cornell Electron 

 Synchrotron ($5M) 



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