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001923 Vasey's Paradise - TWG Role and Function 1. Create, with GCMRC, the work plan (including technical information). Working well: . Development of planning docs that will serve as the foundation for the creation of the budget and workplans and reduce level of effort. Needs improvement: . Putting the workplan together is not working. TWG needs to get a draft, detailed workplan from GCMRC to review and comment on in a timely fashion. Need more detail, more timely. TWG is not meeting often enough to review and comment on that workplan to get it to the point where they can make a studied recommendation to AMWG. . By the time we get it, too late to make considered changes. Want more input into actual projects and workplans. . Projects should be agreed upon by collaboration between GCMRC and TWG. . Whether program managers put together first draft, or AHG of TWG assists in putting together first draft, should come to TWG in September, 13 months before beginning of FY. . If we were collaborating with TWG up front, it probably wouldn't be tat much need for the level of detail to reassure the TWG. . If the program would provide GCMRC with their priorities, this would be a lot easier. . GCMRC workload is not workable - AMWG need to give more sense of priorities to GCMRC. Scheduling will not help. . Panel including TWG, GCMRC, BOR, and PA get together to develop project list 15-18 months in advance. Workplan flows from project H~t that has been agreed to by all those component parts. (GCMRC does not feel this is workable.) , . If the USGS budget is sent in early, the work should be given to TWG early. . If AMWG's priorities mean that agencies don't have enough staff, or more than GCMRC budget, need to have that feedback soon. . May mean an extra meeting by AMWG. . AMWG should not use the final budget project to do prioritization of projects. . TWG members should bring stakeholders' concerns to the budget process - not the AMWG members. . If agency is voted down in TWG, stakeholders can bring it up again in the AMWG. . We complained about being force-fed the budget. This may have caused the budget to come late, but it was too late for input. We were just given the details. There needs to be some other process that involves the AMWG accepting recommendations from GCMRC and the TWG to be able to make recommendations back down the line. . No attempt to economize, restrict the wish list. We are doing things that are non-essential. We need to focus on where the science is taking us. Seems that it is an entitlement. I've been faced with budget cuts andfreezes in my agency - no choice. I don't know if it has to be Secretary or secretary's designee - efficiency and priorities have to be put into this. . The issue of funding is prioritizing. We can't be all things for all people. I'm not asking for more money - but clear direction on top priorities.