Reminder: 15 June 1994 is new deadline for receipt of requests for use 
of NSF observing facilities

At its October 1993 meeting, the National Science Foundation (NSF) 
Facilities Advisory Council (FAC) concluded that the submission 
schedule for facilities requests to be reviewed by the Observing 
Facilities Advisory Panel (OFAP) should be identical to that established 
by NSF for the associated science proposals, which is four months prior 
to each OFAP meeting.  This new target date was recently adopted by 
the NSF Atmospheric Sciences Division at the suggestion of FAC.

The new due dates for requests to be reviewed by the OFAP will take 
effect with its October 1994 meeting.  For that meeting, the due date for 
receipt of facility requests along with associated science proposals is 
15 June, two months earlier than would have been required under the 
old schedule. The due date for receipt of requests for the April 1995 
OFAP meeting is 15 December 1994.

The reason for the change is to improve the facility allocation process 
by ensuring that requests are considered by the OFAP at an advanced 
stage of NSF peer review of the associated science proposals.  Under the 
new procedure, late requests will be at a serious disadvantage in the 
competition for facility allocation.

Detailed information about where to send facilities requests, as well as 
other information about NCAR observing facilities, is available on the 
Internet in the Observing Facilities Gopher, through the NCAR 
Gopher.