The Council is hosting a series of 4 workshops to develop recommendations regarding whether and how the Research Set-Aside program should be redeveloped. The first workshop on July 15 focused on Research.

• Workshop Summary

• Workshop Recording

Workshop Materials

• July 15 Workshop Agenda

• RSA Workshops - Overview

• Workshop #1 Panelists

SSC Economic Working Group Topic One-Pagers:

• Consistency with Stated Council Plans/Objectives & Linkages to Management Goals; Application of Benefit/Cost Principles in Proposal Evaluation

• Peer Review and Principal Investigator (PI) Communications: Before, During, and After Completion of RSA projects.

• RSA Program Transparency and Conflicts of Interest

• Universal data access and transparency

• Decoupling allowances and forage and ecosystem species

Background Materials:

• Comprehensive Mid-Atlantic Research Set-Aside Timeline

• Mid-Atlantic RSA by Species and Year (2009-2014)