OTA Assessment Process

Pre-request conversations with committee members and staff

Formal Request

Proposal

TAB Approval

Selection of Advisory Panel

Project plan, data collection,and analysis

• Advisory panel meetings
• Contractor reports
• Briefings
• Surveys, site visits, etc.
• Workshops

Draft final report

• Staff drafts report
• In-house review
• External peer review
• Revision
• Transmission to Director and TAB for approval

Release Summary and full report

• Embargoed press packet (press release and fact sheet)
• Press conference
• Mailings to
  • Congress
  • Study participants
  • Interested parties
  • Libraries
• Electronic dissemination

Report coverage

• Science press
• Popular press, radio, TV
• Professional associations/newsletters
• Information services

Policy action

• Congressional hearings
• Briefings and informal talks with committee members and staff
• Possible legislative action
• OTA outreach and dissemination
  • Interaction with staff of executive branch agencies
  • Addresses to various communities

Possible follow-on activities

• Supporting documents
• More congressional testimony
• Request for new assessment