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CPAC Meeting Minutes

February 23-25, 2000
South Carolina District, Columbia, SC

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Wednesday, February 23, 2000










Attendees

The following is a list of the CPAC meeting attendees:

    Carl Goodwin

    District Chief - CPAC Chair

    Bill Carswell

    Senior Staff Liaison

    Lew Wade

    Senior Staff Liaison

    Alan Lumb

    Chief, National Water Information System

    Gloria Stiltner

    Chief, Distributed Information System

    Sandy Williamson

    National Water Quality Assessment

    Stephen Glodt

    National Water-Quality Laboratory

    Jim Kolva

    Jim Kolva

    Mark Nilles

    Discipline office

    Mike Slifer

    District Chief

    Loren Kloft

    Site Administrator

    Gary Mahon

    Section Chief

    Greg Shank

    Data Base Management Systems

    Pat Vallance

    Administrative Officer

    Nelson Williams

    World Wide Web Development

The following did NOT attend the CPAC meeting and but sent a substitute:

    Leo House

    National Research Program

    Substitute:  Dave Shultz
      (Dave was ill and unable to attend)

    Scott McEwen

    Regional Computer Specialist

    Substitute:  Jim Bettandorf
The following did NOT attend the CPAC meeting and did NOT send a substitute:

    Isabelle Halley

    Chief, Branch of Admin Mgmt Systems
The following is a CPAC guest attending the meeting:

    Bill Shope

    Executive ICOM Secretary

Expectations and Concerns

  1. Concern:  CPAC Members turnover requires these new members to quickly
    come up on the learning curve and work as a Team.
  2. Concern:  CPAC's role in the changing USGS?
  3. Concern for new members:  What is the role of a new CPAC member?
  4. Concern:  Need to find ways to help the District Site Administrator accomplish
    their tasks.
  5. Concern:  That computer infrastructure in WRD is falling behind.
  6. Concerns:  About CPAC membership changes to bring about Bureau functions.
  7. Concerns exists:  About the "one size fits all" solutions to computer infrastructure
    issues; such as Lotus Notes, Travel Manager, etc.
  8. Concerns:  That WRD will lose its identity.
  9. Concerns:  That Section Chiefs, such as Studies Section Chiefs, are forced
    to accept "force fits" on hardware/software solutions.
  10. Concerns:  Regarding AIS issues in the changing USGS.
  11. Frustrations exist:  E.G., assessments are changing and must be
    accommodated in AIS.
  12. Expectations and concerns:  That CPAC stay focused on District and Field tasks.
  13. Expectation:  Getting information to the Districts.
  14. Expectation:  CPAC members contribute to the CPAC meeting by
    representing their constituency.
  15. Expectation:  That CPAC continues to communicate with WRD Offices.
  16. Expectation:  About what an individual CPAC member can contribute.
  17. Expectation:  That CPAC maintain its focus and topics. What are the common
    denominators?
  18. Expectation:  That NWIS Program Office needs continuing feedback from Districts.
  19. Expectation:  That CPAC focus on long term issues.

Membership

     Action Item 1:   CPAC MEMBERSHIP
      Bill Carswell will talk to the Regional Hydrologists at the March 1 HRMC meeting to select a replacement for outgoing CPAC member Jim Kolva. Jim currently is from Utah and represents the Data Chief constituency.

    Suggestions for replacing Jim Kolva are Ron Shields, Robert Mason.

    Jim will join the OSW around May 1. His main tasks are: 1) administer CBR Program, 2) coordinate technical reviews, and 3) focus on facilitating ADAPS training.

    Note:  Place a new agenda item on Friday morning this week to discuss the CPAC member substitute policy for meeting attendance.

    Policy on CPAC OI members -- The following constituencies will be representing at the CPAC meeting on an "as needed" basis. These Office of Information (OI) staff include:

      Publishing:

      Greg Allord

      HASS:

      Jim Slack

      GIS:

      Bob Pierce

    Policy on Send Substitutes to CPAC Meeting -- Substitution should represent the constituency. CPAC member should clear the substitute with the CPAC Chair. It is the responsibility of the CPAC member to brief the CPAC substitute in preparation of the meeting.

    There is not a need for a strict CPAC meeting attendance policy. All CPAC members have acted professionally with respect to attendance.

USGS Strategic Change

    Lew Wades' VIEW:  CPAC works on WRD IT Strategies. The following systems will be centralized in the Bureau or changing:

    • AIS
    • GIS
    • DIS
    • Data Base Model or Rules

    Question:  What does CPAC do now and leading up to the next meeting? CPAC Options include:

    1. Quit
    2. Heads Down work issues business as usual
    3. Work and try to influence.

      4. "3" above seems to be the consensus.
      CPAC members will discuss this during the Friday agenda item.

    Open Ended Questions:

    • What do the USGS strategic implementation plan success factors mean?
    • How will the success factors play out?
    • How can CPAC influence these?
    • What message do we want to deliver?
    • How do we deliver these messages?
    • What can CPAC learn from the implementation changes that have already been made?

Points to make to Bureau IT folks
    (What should these folks think about or be mindful of ?) These points were brainstormed by CPAC and should include:
    1. Study History in the past Bureauwide Groups did not understand "our" business, therefore keep support (businesswide) close to operations.
    2. "You can never have enough bandwidth."
    3. Think about new technology.
    4. Resources (staff) are tight.
    5. Be aware of the broad range of needs.
    6. Change is good, but not without a plan, resources, training, deployment, testing, e.g. Travel Manager.
    7. We want to be involved in collaboration with our peers.
    8. Remember what we do well, i.e. WRD working with customers.
    9. Keep control "LOCAL".
    10. Suggest what goes Bureauwide.
    11. A Bureauwide process ...
    12. Who we are -- what we have done -- whate we have to offer ...
    13. Goad -- to improve service -- we have a process
    14. Focus on internal customers

Travel Manager (Isabelle Halley)
    Slide presentation by Isabelle. Also refer to the current Travel Manager Implementation Status. Travel Manager Web URL:   http://wwwoper.er.usgs.gov/travel/

     Action Item 2:   TRAVEL MANAGER
      Greg Shank wants to know some technical specification on the Travel Manager, such as Server Specs, RAID, Backups, etc. Need information from Bob Arnberg, cc to tm_help. (Merk). Are there FAQs?


Town Meeting -- District Presentations:
    Marge Davenport -- South Carolina District:

    • District Office and 4 Field Offices:

        • Columbia

        9

        Conway

        3

        New Ellenton

        2

        Sullivans Island

        2

    • 63 FTE; 7 students ; trying to find W to W student

    • FY99    $6M; FY00 $5.8M - 6M

    • Sections:
      • Studies
      • Data
      • Research ( 4 RGE; 12, 2 14.s, 15)
      • 94 NAWQA start

    • Support Units:
      • Admin:   3 FT;   3 PT students
      • Publications:   1 Geographer;   1 Illustrator
      • Computer:   1 FT;   1 PT district,   PT NT-TAC GIPO

    • Personnel needs:
      • Computer support critical

    • South Carolina Programs:
      • $1.48M   Coop Allocation
          • - Testing use of poplar trees as hydraulic barriers at Cont. GW site
          - Bridge Scour Research, application of Potential Flow Theory
          - ASR
          - Ground Water Assessment in Breezy Hill area
          - Coastal GA Saltwater Intrusion Initiative
          - West Virginia Tree-Ring Analysis
          - Gaging Program

      • $2.1M
          • - OFA work -- Across the country (but not Nebraska)
          - DOD -- MTBE/Natural alleviation of Chlorinated solvents
          - AFCEE -- District Developed Diffusion Sampler Protocols
               Correlation of Tree Rings w/GW Contamination
          - Gaging Program
          - Federal Work

      • $900K   '94 NAWQA -- 600K year
          • - Toxic Hydrology
            -- MTBE
            -- Chlorinated Solvent mechanisms
            -- Revision of Chapelle textbook
            -- Fractured Rock Hydrology at Mirror Lake, NH

    • Data Program -- 17 Cooperators
      • Almost 100% RT
          • - All RT   121    Streamflow
          - All RT    28     River Stage
          - All RT    15     Lake/reservoir
          - AAll RT    24     Precip
                 6 of 45 RT 45 GW
          - AAll RT    35     WQ(temp, DO, Spec. Cond., pH)
                        - A54     Partial Record crest-stage
                          8     Measurement only

      Refer to WEB URL:  http://scrv2.sr.usgs.gov

    Margni Shealy -- South Carolina Site Administrator

    Lamar Sanders -- South Carolina Surface-Water Specialist
    • South Carolina Programs Developed by Lamar:
      • BASEPLOT -- complete graphical representation of the unit-value discharge primary
      • HYDCOMP -- daily values discharge quality control and estimation of missing data by hydrographic comparison
      • SHIFTER -- proposed semi-automatic shifting of stage-discharge ratings and application of shifts by rising and falling stages.
      • DURATION PLOTS FOR THE WEB

    • Concerns about Lamar's efforts include:
      • Get NWIS User Group to review Lamar's work.
      • Get Regional Support for Lamar.
      • Get Lamar's work incorporated into NWIS.
      • Get financial support for Lamar.


AIS Presentation (Isabelle Halley)

DIS Presentation (Gloria Stiltner)

     Action Item 3:   DIS DISTRICT QUESTIONS FROM SOUTH
                                       CAROLINA TOWN MEETING
    • LOTUS NOTES WEB BROWSER and SPLUS.
    • Gloria Stiltner will get answers to the following:
      • Lotus Notes Web Browser through the Data General takes >5 minutes. Mail processing in this mode is slow. (Lamar Sanders) What can be done?
      • Corporate support for S-Plus Environmental Module (Ted Campbell)?


NWIS Presentation (Alan Lumb)

     Action Item 4:   NWIS DISTRICT QUESTIONS FROM SOUTH
                                       CAROLINA TOWN MEETING

      Alan Lumb will get answers to the following:

      • Will the NWIS web page incorporate surface-water data screening algorithms? (Ted Kooney)
      • Will qwdata become user-friendly? (Ted Kooney)
      • Will gwsi become user-friendly? (Ted Campbell)
      • For all GWSI fields? (Ted Campbell)
      • Lamar Sanders asked Alan to meet with him regarding unit values qc checking ?
      • Will SWUDS replace AWUDS? (Whitney Stringfield)
      • What is the timeframe for AWUDS on the NT? (Gloria Stiltner)
      • Can ADAPS compute discharge for Index Velocity Sites? (Carl Goodwin)     YES
      • What is the status of the NWIS port to ORACLE? (Ted Campbell)
      • Anyway to get the basic data to the Web with as little manual process as possible, such as during the Hurricane Floyd? Refer to program rtmap, threshold checking. QA/QC Web data NWIS requirements are very important.Drought issues also drive this issue. (Ted Kooney)
      • Comment from Ted Kuhn:  Getting the annual report out is always a struggle. May be more difficult than it use to be and takes longer than it used to be.
      • Are there any WRD/STORET issues in South Carolina? (Lew Wade)     NO


Serving Data on the Web
    Funding to provide District programmers, such as Lamar, should be important


     Action Item 5:   AWUDS
      NT version of AWUDS is planned for completion this Summer. In the meantime, getting AWUDS off the Data General is a high priority. Y2K compatible AWUDS on the SUN needs to be tested (1 or 2 weeks of a District person's time.) Alan Lumb will identify a District person for this task. Lew Wade's account number will be used for testing AWUDS (Alan Lumb)

    Comment:  Let the process work for Lamars requirements through the NWIS Users Group.


DIS Intrastucture Memo
    Balitmore meeting Action Item 32:  At next CPAC meeting. Discussion of what has been said on the desktop issue and what CPAC members think & what we do next. (CPAC & Barnes)


Read "Model Refreshment" CPAC proposal.
    Does CPAC want to revisit this proposal?


HASS Branch Model
    Report with Jim Slack via telecon regarding Y2K issue on the HASS Branch model (and the other HASS programs)


GOAL ONE DOCUMENT

     Action Item 6:   GOAL ONE DOCUMENT
      At the CPAC next meeting or at the latest, the August meeting; OI and DIS will present a document describing what OI will support in funding and resources in FY 2001. This will allow the CPAC to provide input to the resource allocation process. (Lew Wade)

      All CPAC members will provide Gloria Stiltner with any additional software packages that should be included in the GOAL ONE DOCUMENT. For example, SLEDS is not in the document. The document will include:

        - Show what Headquarters spends for support NWIS, AIS and DIS Program Office.
        - Show what OI spend for support for Bureau supported items.
        - Show what OI spends from the DIS Program Office.
        - Show what OI proposes as the minimum for OI support.

      We will ask CPAC for input on OI spending positions next year.


NWIS Update (Alan Lumb)

     Action Item 7:   NWISWeb STATUS
      Alan Lumb will prepare a memo for the District Chiefs regarding the NWISWeb status and tasks. Note, NWISWeb new quality/control features with respect to how the rt_www works now and how NWISWeb will work.

      Reference URL: presentation slides (Alan Lumb)

     Action Item 8:   NWISWeb QUALITY CONTROL CHECKS
      Lew Wade and Alan Lumb will meet with Bill Alley to discuss the quality control checking of the Site File and the connectivity of these issues to the NWISWeb software.

     Action Item 9:   EXISTING STATS
      Alan Lumb will find out if there are any existing statistics on the quality control checking of the Site File and bring these back to the CPAC meeting on Friday, February 25.


NWIS Resources (Alan Lumb)
    Current funding will deliver 4_1 and NWISWeb. The last cut will put NWIS and other OI programs below what is needed to get the work done. Beyond that becomes muddy with respect to functions and resources.


     Action Item 10:   CPAC TO DRAFT A MEMO
      CPAC will draft a memo to ACH/I to bring to the attention of the WRD Senior Staff. This is the charge to move concerns to ACH/I forward from the WRD field offices. (Carl Goodwin)

    Lew Wade will prepare a strong recommendation for increased OI resources based on the information in Alan Lumb's presentation and provide to Senior Staff, when appropriate.

    Contents of crafted memo may include:

      Provide where NWIS is now. NWIS requirements have increased; e.g. NWISWeb. While the resources are dwindling. NWIS Funding has eroded. NWIS Timeline has eroded. Bring in the customer base and tie NWIS to GPR metrics. Educate the Bureau Staff.

    On Friday, Lew Wade will give a walkthrough of the DIS, NWIS, and AIS


Thursday, February 24, 2000

NAT-WEB

Training Discover Tool Demo
    Sandy Williamson presented a demo of the training discoverer tool for CPAC. The tool has the potential to assist in WRD training and presentation meetings, where the attendees are in different locations. Audio via telecon bridge and video is performed via the Training Discoverer tool. This is not video conference, but for PowerPoint slides and live user screen demonstrations.


     Action Item 13:   EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
      The next step is for Sandy Williamson to facilitate setting up a single issue CPAC meeting prior to the next CPAC meeting. Lew Wade will select the issue.


Model Refreshment

    Reference:  Baltimore CPAC Action Item 34 -- Comment to Janice Fulford on Modeling Refreshing Program. As modified, Janice will air the proposal with District Office's & NRP. Janice to bring modified proposal to CPAC at the next meeting.

    Related Documentation:  The proposal was presented to all discipline office chiefs by the OSW chief; however it was not accepted.

    Lew Wade suggested reviewing the reason for the discipline offices rejection of this CPAC recommendation and discuss the alternatives available to CPAC.

    Status of model refreshment proposal:  CPAC has raised the model refreshment issue and communicated the CPAC perspective to the discipline offices. The discipline offices message back to CPAC is that they are jointly working internally with NRP on this model refreshment issue. This is an important issue of the discipline offices and deserves additional resources; however they don't want to see a separate mechanism initiated for this process. TMDL, surface-water, and ground-water models are examples of the models needed by many Districts. Pre- and Post processing of model data, GUIs and visualization packages are some of the issues. This issue is of importance to the WRD Senior Staff.


     Action Item 14:   MODEL REFRESHMENT
      The next step on the model refreshment issue is to have the CPAC discipline office representative, Mark Nilles, get the status from the discipline offices and report back to CPAC. Mark will communicate via a memo to CPAC member, probably before the next meeting, on what is needed. Discussion at the next meeting will focus on whether there a role for CPAC in the model refreshment.


Hardening of the Gages

    The issue is to address the following action item from the last CPAC meeting in Baltimore:

    Reference:  Baltimore Action item 30 -- Follow up with ICOM on their plan to deal with gage house failures. (Carl Goodwin)

    Conference call between CPAC and the Central Region Data Advisory Meeting (CRACD). Attendees at the CRACD meeting in Lakewood, Colorado included:

    Description:

    		  

    WRD CR Advisory Committee on Data Operations

    Members:

    		  

    Ronald L. Kuzniar/WRD/USGS/DOI

     

    		  

    Melanie L. Clark/WRD/USGS/DOI

     

    		  

    Rene J. Freret/WRD/USGS/DOI

     

    		  

    David W. Grey/WRD/USGS/DOI

     

    		  

    Michael E. Dorsey/WRD/USGS/DOI

     

    		  

    Eric S. Wakeman/WRD/USGS/DOI

     

    		  

    Burl B. Goree/WRD/USGS/DOI

     

    		  

    Henry S. Hauck/WRD/USGS/DOI

     

    		  

    William S. McEwen/WRD/USGS/DOI

     

    		  

    Robert B. Swanson/WRD/USGS/DOI

    The CRACD committee was joined by Jim Kircher, Acting Central Regional Hydrologist and John Harsh, ICOM Chair.

    This issue centers around WRD policy on hardening the gages. The next step is to seek funds to make this policy a reality. Policy is established in the NSIP Report per Jim Kolva. A CPAC question is "Does the proposed NSIP plan reflect the policy?"

    Hardening the gage definition: gages are able to withstand a 200-year flood. WRD Policy is established for "hardening the gage" issues. NSIP Report takes the USGS/WRD policy and is a plan to make "hardening the gages" operation. There is a CPAC sense of needing additional information resources to make "gage to the page" a reality.

    NSIP Plans exist to have software and redundancy in place.

    CPAC and ICOM must continue to interact on this issue. The next step is to have the Chief, OSW share with CPAC and ICOM the funding plan and a status of the various elements of hardening of the gages. One question is "What is the plan to spend the $2M next year?" CPAC needs to know how this money is going to be spent.


     Action Item 15:   HARDENING THE GAGES
      CPAC and ICOM will continue to interact. One product will be a checklist for gages and a checklist for software. OSW will share plans for "hardening the gages" expenditures. (Carl Goodwin)


Polling of Non-GOES Telemetered Gages

    About 10 Districts have a major investment in non-GOES telemetry systems. Many other districts use non-GOES telemetry to a lesser degree. The number of sites is greater that 2000 gages.


     Action Item 16:   POLLING OF NON-GOES TELEMETERED GAGES
      Jim Kolva will produce an email to CPAC within two weeks with information of how OSW will scope the issue that will result in a framework to be presented to NWIS.

    Mike Norris's work is to gather information from a work group comprised of representatives from the 10 Districts who are heavily involved in non-GOES telemetry systems. The purpose of the information is to determine what is needed for coordinated support for non-GOES telemetry.

    Then, NWIS will produce specifications and spending plans so that a cost estimate can be developed for a software package that will take data from non-GOES telemetry gage data and format into NWIS (tie it into Satin and Sentry).

    A Central Region Data Conference, sponsored by the Central Region Data Advisory Committee is scheduled for May 2001


Field Computer Software


     Action Item 17:       FIELD COMPUTER SOFTWARE

      A plan is needed for the next steps in the development of field computer software. Carl Goodwin will coordinate a conference call with the four Regional Senior Tech Committee Chairs/Leaders to solicit input for the development of Field Computer Software Requirements. Carl Goodwin, Lew Wade, Jim Kolva, Mike Slifer, Sandy Williamson, Scott McEwen, Burl Goree, and Alan Lumb are interested in participating in the conference call.

    The following are notes captured during the discussion:

      A plan is needed for the next steps in the development of field computer software. The Central Region Advisory Committee on Data Operations (and the other Regional Technical Groups Chairs) will send some thoughts to a CPAC member (Scott McEwen volunteered and Scott will network with the soon-to-be-appointed Data Chief CPAC member), which will be the beginning of a proposal on development of the field computer software.

      Late March or early April, a CRACD committee member, Eric Wakeman, will join us at the May CPAC meeting. Bill Shope will sketch out an approach for the software development by a vendor. CPAC will take this issue of field computer software up at the next meeting. CPAC will frame the issue at the next CPAC meeting. This framework will be presented to Senior Staff. Senior Staff will make the decision to commit the resources.

      Another step would be to establish a small group of knowledgeable field persons who know the field work. No standing committee -- but gather three or four knowledgable people who can sit down with the programmer or get with a vendor to get a cost estimates for the development effort.


Branch Model Y2K Fix


     Action Item 18:       BRANCH MODEL Y2K FIX

      Jim Slack will speak with Janice Fulford to get the details of the test plan for testing the Branch Model Y2K fixes. Jim Slack will report back to CPAC in two weeks.


BASINSOFT Cost Recovery


     Action Item 19:       BASINSOFT COST RECOVERY

      Lew Wade will talk to Bob Pierce and verify that there is no blockage to unlock the Basinsoft code key. After that, Lew is inclined to make a decision to fund the Basinsoft development and maintenance costs -- $5,000 -- from the OI budget rather than cost recover the funds from the Districts. Lew will ask Bob Pierce if there is intent to publish the software documentation.

    Note from Greg Shank 2/28/2000: The question of whether this software was published was asked in Columbia and I indicated that I was reading a report on it prior to the meeting. The report I'm referring to is: WRIR 95-4287

    Note from Craig Harvey 3/2/2000:  The Application itself has not been published. Many times the results from the application have been used to develop flood frequency equations in reports across the Nation. We have published the report to which you refer, but the application has never been published into the public domain. Internal releases if the software have been encrypted to protect the "marketability" of the software via a CRADA. The results from the model have been published as well, just not the application itself.


Relational Data Base Management System


     Action Item 20:       RDBMS

      Alan Lumb presented a report on the status of RDBMS. It is reported that Colleen Babcock, speaking for NWIS and AIS, indicates that there is no compelling need to switch from Ingres now. Alan Lumb, as NWIS Program Office Chief, will continue to look at the DBMS options.

      The RDBMS options are:

      1. Continue along with Ingres
      2. Add the DBMS research and development tasks to WRD resource needs list.

      While CPAC formed an RDBMS study team broader that NWIS and AIS, the fact is that this issue is relegated to NWIS and AIS. One task is to determine the cost of converting NWIS, AIS, HIFCSS-II, et al from Ingres to other RDBMS packages. Alan Lumb, as NWIS Program Office Chief, will continue to look at the DBMS options.


Network Capacity Status Planning


     Action Item 21:       NETWORK CAPACITY STATUS PLANNING

      Gloria Stiltner will set up a meeting with Lew Wade, Sandy Williamson, Nelson Williams, Chuck O'Hara, Mike McNally and Bob Wakelee to discuss WRD's current Network Capacity Status Planning.


Friday, February 25, 2000

Telecommuting


     Action Item 22:       WORKING AT HOME

      Bill Carswell will work with Cathy Hill to prepare information for District Chiefs on the use of "standby duty pay" and overtime to compensate WRD employees involved with monitoring realtime data at night and on weekends. Flexiplace is "off the table" with respect to this "on call" issue. A decision on how to communicate this message to the field offices; either memo or through word to the Regional Hydrologists.


Emerging Technologies


     Action Item 23:       EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

      This action item relates to developing ways to explore emerging technologies that may be applicable to WRD and bring them to the CPAC table. Reference is made to exploring emerging technologies, such as Sandy Williamson's demo at this CPAC meeting and to work of the Hydro 2100 Project. A 30-minute agenda item will be set in place for the May CPAC Meeting. Charlie Merk will include an agenda item on emerging technology "show and tell" or "proposal on how to proceed for emerging technology."


WRD Strategic Direction and CPAC Goals


     Action Item 24:       WRD STRATEGIC DIRECTON & CPAC GOALS

      The next step is to revisit the computer-related issues in the WRD strategic directions document and CPAC goals setting process at the next CPAC meeting. At that time, CPAC will have information related to the Bureau strategic change implementation direction and can re-engage the process.


Remote Connectivity


     Action Item 25:       REMOTE CONNECTIVITY

      Gloria Stiltner will send out an email to describe how users can access WRD Intranet pages using the Internet Netscape browser via an ISP. This access can be provided by a proxy for a .gov login remote access.


OI Units Priority "$" Needs

     

    FY00

    FY01

    NWIS

    $250

    $750

     

    HASS (Double Thruput)

    $75

    --

     

    DIS

     

     

    - S-Plus Support

    $50

    --

    - SUN Server OS

    $50

    --

    - More Field $

    $75

    --

     

    GIPO

     

     

    - Applications

    $50

    --

    - Contract Support

    $50

    --

     

    WEB

     

     

    - NATWEB

    $600

    -$300


     Action Item 26:   OFFICE OF INFORMATION BUDGET
      CPAC members will review Carl Goodwin's memo on general subject of need for increased resources to OI and return comments to Carl within one week.


CPAC Role


     Action Item 27:       ROLE OF CPAC IN THE NEW USGS

      CPAC is interested in playing a role in helping implement the Bureau's strategic change activities. Lew Wade and Carl Goodwin will express this willingness to the appropriate parties in the Bureau.


Logistics for May CPAC Meeting


     Action Item 28:       MAY CPAC MEETING LOGISTICS

      Carl Goodwin will contact the Minnesota District Chief regarding the next CPAC meeting.


Logistics for August CPAC Meeting


     Action Item 29:       AUGUST CPAC MEETING LOGISTICS

      Carl Goodwin will check on the August CPAC meeting location. First choice is Alaska and second choice is Utah or Idaho.


CPAC Cyber Seminar


     Action Item 30:       CPAC CYBER SEMINAR

      A CPAC Cyber Seminar by Sandy Williamson will be scheduled for Friday, April 14 at 1:00 pm.


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