[Cuga] Updated Accelerator Schedule, Firm through December 2010 – A message from Larry Cardman

[Rachel Harris]

A revised accelerator opeartions schedule that is firm for September 
through December 2010 has been posted at   
http://www.jlab.org/exp_prog/experiment_schedule/   along with an update 
of the tentative long-range schedule for the remainder of 6 GeV 
running.  The schedule posted is firm for the first three months of the 
full 30 week program we would like to run in FY2011.  The funding 
required to realize the full year program is a final FY2011 budget that 
is close to the President’s budget proposal for FY2011.  Unfortunately, 
the budget situation is even more ambiguous than usual at this time, and 
there is a strong possibility that there will be a continuing resolution 
budget for a large fraction of FY2011.  As soon as the FY2011 budget is 
final we will release a firm schedule for the remainder of the year.  In 
the interim, we will release the firm schedule quarter by quarter, with 
the latest release date being a month before the start of the quarter 
(i.e. the schedule for January through March of 2011 will be released no 
later than the end of November, 2010, and the schedule for April through 
June of 2011 will be released no later than the end of February, 2011).  
We regret any inconvenience this may cause, but prefer to leave these 
decisions to as late as possible to increase the probability that the 
decisions will be positive. 

In the event we are forced to curtail running in 2011, we note (as 
stated with the initial release of the long range schedule) that given 
the realities of the scheduling conflicts anticipated in future running 
between now and the 12 GeV shutdown, together with likely restrictions 
on the total running feasible in the time remaining before the final 
shutdown for the completion of the installation of the 12 GeV Upgrade, 
it is probable that experiments unable to run at the scheduled time will 
never be run.

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