As you may know, the very successful B-Factory of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center will complete its mission at the end of FY2008. The lab has put together a transition plan to ramp down the B-Factory from FY09-FY10, with D&D beginning thereafter.

We are planning the review for August 6-7. SLAC's B-Factory Transition Plan considers several scenarios for the ramp down and D&D phases of the PEP-II rings and the BaBar detector and we are hoping to find an optimal path which will take advantage of the equipment and space at  the lab. The review will focus on:

• The feasibility and completeness of the proposed budgets  and schedules, covering the proposed ramp down of the facilities;

• The lab's preliminary plans for the D&D phase;

• The proposed use or final state of accelerator and  detector components;

• The approach to environment, safety and health (ES&H) issues;

• The impact on the lab's ability to support research  efforts in the future.

The review will start with an executive session at 8:00 AM on Monday August 6 in which I will bring the committee up to date with recent developments at SLAC, and review the charge and goals of the review itself. The lab will present their plans throughout the day. The day will end with another executive session where the reviewers will formulate questions that lab management will respond to overnight. The next day consists of meetings with management and a close out session in which each reviewer will state their impression of the Transition Plan and offer advice to SLAC management. The review should end around noon on Tuesday, August 7.