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Title: Strategic plan for oil shale siting reresearch. Proceedings of a planning exercise, November 4-5, 1985, Denver, Colorado

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5372041

A strategic planning exercise on environmental research and policy to guide oil shale development was held in November 1985. Seventeen participants representing a cross section of interests and technical disciplines identified, from almost 200 suggested issues, 13 strategic issues in four general categories: policy, source characterization and pollutant generation, transport and impact, and risk assessment. The group reached a consensus on the technical objective for each issue and recommendations to address the objective. Each participant has at least several years' experience in some phase of oil shale endeavor. Therefore, a consensus from this group can be a valuable guide for agencies seeking to develop the oil shale resource while also protecting the environment and public health. This document is an attempt to concisely state the issues discussed by the group and thereby serve as a planning guide for oil shale environmental research.

Research Organization:
Washington State Univ., Pullman (USA). Dept. of Physics; Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-36
OSTI ID:
5372041
Report Number(s):
LA-10767-MS; ON: DE87000797
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English