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Determination of Peer Review Panel Member Independence Form

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Yes/MAre you currently employed by DOE. ora DOE contractor_?

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Yes/r'(o/Do you have or have you had any direct involvement or financial interest in thework under review?(If yes, describe the involvement)

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YeS/~'Is there any aspect of your past that may lead to a perception of bias in theresults of your peer review?

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I pledge that my review of this work will be completely impartial and based solely on theinformation available during the review.

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Print Name:

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Statement of lJnbiased Peer Review of the Spallings Model by IJawrence W. Teufel

Before accepting my current position in .1994 as the Langdon Taylor Professor ofPetroleum Engineering at the New Mexico InstittJte of Mining and Technology I was amember of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories from 1979 to ] 999. From]994 to ]999 I had a_joint appointment at Sandia Labs and New Mexico Tech. Durjng my20 year career at Sandia Labs I was involved with several cooperative DOE/Industry oiland gas pro_iects and worked almost exclusively on petroleum-related rock mechanicsstudies on hydraulic fracturing, fluid-flow in natural fracture systems, in situ stressmeasurements, and reservoir compaction and subsidence. In my very early career atSandia Labs I was involved in only one small WIPP related project, which was a rockmechanics study of the mechanical properties of anhydrite in the Salado Formation atWJPP. Colleagues at Sandia were involved with various geotechnical studies at WIPP.Over the years I have had many technical discussions with them on these projects. Sinceleaving Sandia Labs jn ] 999 I have had limited technical contact with Sandia staffmembers and these have been related only to tight gas projects with industry. When I wasa member of the U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanjcs I was asked and providedunbiased peer review of WIPP and Yucca Mountain geotechnical studies. At that time Iwas employed by Sandia Labs. ] have no vested interest in any of the technical studies atWJPP conducted by Sandia Labs (other than my small anhydrite rock mechanics study,which went through peer review) or by any other group- I can and will provide anunbiased peer review of the Spallings Model.

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