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Mountain Studies Institute Science and Innovation Center Steering Committee February 2018 Questionnaire (Can be completed in writing or in course of phone conference or in-person meeting to be scheduled with MSI. If in writing. MSI will still schedule meeting/phone call to discuss answers.) Steering Committee Member(s) Name(s) and Organization (One response per organization please) Interview Questions i nlc-ise UiUc as much spare as nccessniv lor \vi sUon i espousesi a) Please describe the constituencyyou represent on the Steering Committee b) Please listyour organization's highest priority hard rock mining challenges, in order of importance. c) Are there lower priority challenges that can be addressed or other benefits that a Center can provide that would bring value toyou andyour constituency? d) What are the key chaiiengesyou foresee in developing a Center to addressyour hard rock mining priorities? (e.g., staffing, funding, physicalfacilities, legal, governmental, etc.). e] Areyou aware of other initiatives or entities with similar goals/missions? How could the Steering Committee and eventually the Center itself best work with these entities going forward? f) There are potentially a number o f ways to structure and/or operate a Center or Centers. These include, a physical location near mine sites, a virtual network, a hosted Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00114208-00001 entity, etc., or a combination of theforegoing. There are advantages and disadvantages to each of these options. Please provideyour list of advantages and disadvantage to each of these three options or other structure optionsyou identify. g) Resource andfunding for scoping, start up and long term operations of a Center will be required. Please provideyour suggestionsfor short and long term funding and resource options. Short term might include governmental, industry, academic and philanthropic options. Long term could include those options, and/or some type offee structure for users o f the Center. Please list any otherfunding and resource options you see potentialfor that are not suggested here. h) If a Center(s) is to succeed, what are the key partners inyour view (from the Steering Committee or otherwise) that must have a primary role in its development and operation? And ifyou envision multiple Centers, please listyour key partners relevant to each Center. i) What isyour organization's level of willingness to engage in the development o f a Center(s) on a scale of 1 (not really willing) to 10 (extremely willing)?? And by engagement we mean things, for example, such as serving on a work group to develop a charter or operating detailsfor the Center and/or serving on an eventual Board of Directors o f a Center. j) What other issues do you think should be surfacedfor the Steering Committee to consider regarding the potentialfor a Center? And, any comments on the prospectus that has been circulated so that we can create a new and improved version? Sierra Club v. EPA 18cv3472 NDCA Tier 5 ED 002061 00114208-00002