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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Dear Colleagues, </span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Jefferson Lab energy upgrade White Paper, outlining the exciting opportunity and science case, received an overwhelming amount of signatures! This endeavor couldn’t have happened without the
hard work and dedication from the JLab user community, staff members, JLab management and enthusiastic supporters outside of our current user community. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This report is now available on the ArXiv at the link below. Many thanks to all who contributed their time and effort into this monumental task. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
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<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09360" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09360"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09360</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On behalf of the editorial committee, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Patrizia Rossi </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>
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