[Cuga] Firm Schedule through March 2010 and Updated Draft Schedule for the Remainder of 6 GeV Running - a message from Larry Cardman

[Rachel Harris]

A revised accelerator operations schedule that is firm for September 
2010 through March 2011 has now 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 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. We were under a continuing resolution for the first quarter 
of FY2011, and there is a strong possibility that there will be a 
continuing resolution budget for a large fraction of remainder of 
FY2011. As promised, this release of the schedule for the second quarter 
comes a bit more than a month before that quarter begins. We are 
assuming that the budget for the remainder of the year will be no worse 
than further continuing resolutions with funding at the FY2010 levels. 
As soon as the FY2011 budget is final we will release a firm schedule 
for the remainder of the year (which, because of the planned 6 month 
down for 12 GeV Upgrade installation work, has running for the year 
ending on May 14th). If that has not happened by the end of February we 
will make a decision then on the April through May final segment of the 
FY2011 schedule. 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.