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Business Reports

Learn more about EMSL's plans for the future in the Strategic Plan as well as the Goldbook, which outlines the science and technological drivers for EMSL's recapitalization effort. The EMSL report, The Development of New User Research Capabilities in Environmental Molecular Science Workshop, describes the workshop discussions and recommendations from which many of the forward-looking decisions discussed in the Goldbook were derived. The EMSL Operations Manual (version 4.5, Nov 12, 2009) is a general resource tool to assist Laboratory staff and EMSL users with locating official EMSL policy, practice, guidance, and associated subject matter experts. In addition, track EMSL use via the Hours of Operations.

Hours of Operations

EMSL Hours of Operation through 2010 first second quarter
EMSL's total scheduled (planned) operating hours are based on 12 hours a day, seven days a week (4380 hours) minus 28 hours in the second quarter for a planned entire building outage. The FY10 goal for actual operating hours is >98% of the total scheduled (planned) operating hours (>98% of 4352 hours). For FY10, EMSL is expected to achieve greater than 4265 actual operating hours. Full Image [png 20kb]

Prior Quarter Hours