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EPS works on projects of regional importance and is often in the news. Follow the links below to read the latest news about EPS.

• EPS Assisting Top Universities with Plans for a "Next-Generation Research Community" at the NASA Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley EPS is leading a multidisciplinary team of economists, development advisors, planners, and engineers in assisting a consortium of academic institutions to create a new "Meta-University Community" at the NASA Research Park. The NASA website presents an informative article and video describing the project. The University Development Area will encompass a dynamic, new, sustainable mixed-use community with a minimal carbon footprint. It will combine academic institutions, private technology companies, and housing to advance the goal of science and technology that serve the region's people and economy. This new community, surrounded by the world's highest concentration of technology firms, will foster collaborative research with NASA Ames, as well as private technology companies to advance technological innovation and education in Silicon Valley. It also will embody leading-edge environmental sustainability practices in energy generation, conservation, and waste management. The University of California, Santa Cruz, is leading the consortium of academic institutions, which includes Carnegie Mellon University, Santa Clara University, San Jose State University, and Foothill-De Anza Community College, with others expected to join.
• EPS Selected to Serve as Strategic Planners for Relicensing Fund (Oroville Mercury-Register, 10/3/08) EPS has been picked to develop a plan for economic and recreation projects paid for from a fund stemming from the relicensing of Oroville Dam's powerplant. Wednesday night, the Supplemental Benefit Fund Steering Committee voted to pay Economic & Planning Systems a little more than $169,000 to develop a regional strategic plan, said Bob Marciniak, fund coordinator. "They voted unanimously," Marciniak said. Over the next 30 to 50 years, depending on the length of the electric generation license issued to the California Department of Water Resources, the committee will fund recreation and economic development projects...About $1 million a year will be available through the fund if FERC issues a 50-year license.

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