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(a) Program AAs are responsible for overseeing the process and for making key decisions essential to the process including:
(1) Determination to use the investigation acquisition system.
(2) Appointment of the steering committee members.
(3) Designation of a staff to assure uniformity in the issuance of the AO and conformity with the required procedures in the evaluation and selection.
(4) Reuse, to the maximum extent practicable, of space hardware and support equipment.
(5) Determination to use advisory subcommittees, contractor, or full-time Government employees only in the evaluation process.
(6) Issuance of the AO.
(7) Selection of investigations and investigators, determination of need of a definition phase, determination of the role of the investigator with regard to providing essential investigation hardware and services, and determination of the need for payload specialists.
(8) Assure consideration is given to minorities in the establishment of peer groups, distribution of the AO and in the selection of investigations.
(9) Provide a framework for cooperative foreign participation in Space Shuttle, Spacelab, and Space Station missions.
(b) The Program AA should call upon any required experts throughout the process.