Louisiana Board of Regents

RESPONSE REPORT

Act Regular Legislative Session

April 1, 2011

Overview This report is in response to Act 1000 of the 2010 Regular Legislative Session by Senator Jack Donahue: . to require the Board of Regents to establish and implement an agency attrition analysis process; to provide for reports to the Commission on Streamlining Government. In recent years, the Legislature has had an increased desire to understand the staffing levels, salaries and positions within the postsecondary education system. In this past year alone, legislative action required information on: administrative staffing at each institution participating in the GRAD Act; a table of organization for postsecondary education in the General Appropriation Bill (HB 1); and the attrition analysis process of Act 1000 (addressed herein). The postsecondary education systems in the state and the Board of Regents are committed to doing their part to address the current budgetary downfall and the severe decline in revenues expected through FY 2012-13. By focusing on creating efficiencies and greater effectiveness in managing employee attrition, these agencies have been active in helping to reduce the cost of state government. Employee Attrition Act 1000 requires the Board of Regents to set a goal to reduce personnel by five percent annually for three years. The attrition goal is to be achieved through a process that analyzes: (1) General staffing needs of each higher education system. (2) The state general fund cost associated with the filling of each vacant position. (3) Any other information necessary to properly evaluate whether to retain or eliminate each vacant position. Five Percent Annual Reduction Goal: The postsecondary education system has been making strategic reductions in positions over the last several years even as student enrollments have been increasing. The following chart shows the changes in full-time equivalent (FTE) positions from June, 2008 to March, 2011.

Civil Service FTE as of

June, 2008 July, 2010 March, 2011*

Change

June, 2008 to March, 2011*
LCTCS System UL System Southern System LSU System Board of Regents LOSFA LUMCON Total
4,076 8,833 2,472 18,34,468
3,730 8,071 2,211 18,33,047
3,524 8,224 2,147 18,32,342
-552 -609 -325 -626 --2 -2,126
-13.54% -6.89% -13.15% -3.33% -14.30% 0.00% -2.67% -6.17%
Source: Civil Service Report
FTE is a calculated number that takes into account the expected workload of employees. For example, an employee hired to work 40 hours a week equates to one FTE, while two 20 hour a week employees also equate to one FTE. It does not equal the number of employees nor the number of positions. It also does not take into account vacancies. Act 1000 has a stated goal of reducing personnel by five percent annually for three years beginning in FY 2010-11, using 2007-08 as the baseline. As of March, 2011, the postsecondary education system has reduced FTE by 6.17% since June, 2008. General Staffing: The Table of Organization (TO) in HB 1 lists the number of positions authorized for each agency and includes vacant positions. The TO does not take into account the workload of employees but instead is position driven. FY 2010-2011 is the first year that the Legislature has set the TO for postsecondary education in the budget. That TO total was 34,569. Many in higher education noted that the TO proposed in HB 1 was based on a summer count, a time when staffing is at the lowest point of the year, and thus may not accurately account for the staffing needs of the enterprise. In FY 10-11, the Board of Regents distributed the TO to the systems based on information from the state budget office and Civil Service. The systems then distributed the TO at the institutional level. State General Fund Staffing Costs: Means of financing is important in postsecondary education because many positions are funded through external sources (i.e. federal grants and auxiliary services). If those funds were not available for the specific work, many of those positions would not be needed or filled. The Board of Regents has worked with the Division of Administration (DOA) to identify positions that are 100% externally funded. As a result, the higher education TO in 2011-12 Executive Budget has been reduced by the 6,004 positions that are 100% externally funded. The next step for DOA and the Board of Regents is to identify those positions which are partially funded by external sources and determine a method to report on those positions and their impact on state general funds. Being able to isolate the positions and the portion of the salaries funded by external sources will assist in determining the state general fund cost associated with filling each vacant position. An analysis of salaries would be necessary to analyze both the cost of general staffing needs for postsecondary education as well as any potential savings from staffing reductions. The latest available comparative average salary information is listed below. It should be noted that in 2009-10, all salaries for full-time instructional faculty at Louisianas public institutions ranked below the SREB average.

2009-10 Average Salaries Full-Time Instructional Faculty of All Ranks
Louisiana SREB LA rank in SREB
Four-Year Institutions Two-Year Institutions Technical Colleges

$65,474 $50,587 $40,112

$73,450 $51,799 $42,611
13 out of out of out of 6
Source: SREB State Data Exchange
Evaluation of Vacancies: The TO for 2010-11 was 34,569, while the TO in this years executive budget is 27,703. This reduction is a result of two significant items. First, the removal of 6004 positions funded 100% by external sources (primarily federal grants and auxiliary services); and secondly, the 2
removal of another 862 positions considered to be vacant by the state budget office from the TO for FY 2011-12. In surveying all the higher education systems, Regents has determined that as of March 25, 2011, there are approximately 1600 vacancies. This leaves approximately 750 to be distributed among all campuses of higher education. If each of the 862 positions were filled at the average faculty salary for all instructors/all ranks ($61,201) and completely funded by state general funds, additional costs would have been roughly $52.7 million. Regents will work closely with the system offices to determine the most efficient and effective allocation in order to meet the needs of the students. Agency Attrition Analysis Process The Board of Regents has begun to work with the systems to develop a process to use in analyzing the staffing needs of their institutions. However, it was quickly realized that there are data gaps within and among the systems as well as inconsistent reporting of personnel, both of which must be addressed in order to complete the development of the agency attrition analysis process. All executive department agencies, except postsecondary education institutions, report employee data including salary, position description, and personnel numbers through a DOA software system commonly referred to as ISIS. Civil Service uses ISIS to report on personnel matters, including those of the public postsecondary system. However, most of postsecondary education institutions use their own software systems for payroll and personnel management and have limited access to ISIS. Institutional software systems do not easily interface and there are inconsistencies in the use and reporting of the data. Examples include method for reporting of employees in dual positions, adjunct faculty, student employees and graduate assistants, vacancies, and work-effort. There were also inconsistencies in definitions, the use of coding and the reporting of positions funded by external sources. The Board of Regents convened a meeting on March 1, 2011 with Civil Service and all postsecondary education systems to review the available statewide data regarding personnel and salaries and to identify areas for improved data collection. Together, the agencies are working to address reporting requirements, standardize terminology, and institute a seamless, non-duplicative reporting process. Once the reporting requirements are standardized, the Board of Regents will design reporting specifications and conduct classes with the human resource managers at the systems and campuses to ensure reporting is consistent throughout postsecondary education. An update on this collaborative work was presented at the March 23, 2011 meeting of the Board of Regents. Additionally, as previously discussed, the Board of Regents is also working with the DOA to clarify reporting of employees funded by external sources. Summary Postsecondary education has responded to the call to reduce FTE and TO, even during a period when headcount enrollment has increased. Actual reductions of 6.17% from FY 200708 to March 2011 have exceeded the proposed 5% goal of Act 1000. With the anticipated reductions proposed in the executive budget, the Board of Regents will evaluate the needs of each system in allocating the remaining vacancies. However, data collection standards must be in place and data gaps must be addressed to complete the attrition process set out in the Act. 3

The Board of Regents, the systems and the institutions of postsecondary education are committed to continue their examination of employee attrition to ensure the entire postsecondary education enterprise uses the states resources in the most effective and efficient manner as we work to increase the educational attainment levels of the citizens of Louisiana. The Board of Regents has worked with both the DOA and Civil Service to more accurately report personnel information. The Board of Regents will continue these efforts to develop a streamlined process that will also assist with the employee data reporting issues among postsecondary education and the state. This process will focus on isolating positions funded partially by external means of financing, eliminating duplication, and increasing transparency. It is through this collaboration that the Board of Regents will be able to work with the systems to more appropriately analyze the staffing needs of postsecondary education in Louisiana and provide input on such to the Governor and Legislature.

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The recommended source data for the cross-sections of all 17 activation reactions are presented in the ENDF-6 format. The data for the threshold reaction cross-sections are presented in point form with the given interpolation laws in the neutron energy range from threshold to 0H9 The data for the neutron radiative capture reaction cross-sections in the resolved resonance region (RRR) and the unresolved resonance region (URR) are given as the corresponding resonance parameters. Starting from the right-hand boundary of the URR and up to 20 MeV, the radiative capture cross-sections are given in point form with the given interpolation laws. All the original data files were first processed using the LINEAR [7] program. This helped reduce all the original point data for the cross-sections to a single linear interpolation law. The RECENT [7] program was used to reconstruct the cross-sections of the neutron radiative capture reactions in the RRR and URR and to obtain point data for the entire eV- MeV neutron energy range. The data for the reaction cross-sections were linearized and reproduced with 1% accuracy. Following processing of the microscopic source data using the LINEAR and RECENT programs, the values obtained for the neutron radiative capture cross-sections correspond to the neutron gas temperature T = . The &UQ&U )HQ)H &RQPJ&R DQG 0RQ0R UHDFWLRQ FURVV VHFWLRQV ZHUH GHWHUPLQHG IRU IRXU WHPSHUDWXUH YDOXHV . (concrete shielding), . (core shroud), . (reactor vessel), . (reactor core). The doppler resonance broadening was taken into account using the SIGMA1 program [7].

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47-group cross-sections of the 17 activation reactions producing long-lived radioactive nuclides were calculated for the six most important positions in the WWER-1000 reactor. These include the reactor core, core shroud, reactor vessel (vessel internal surface, inside the vessel, vessel external surface) and concrete shielding. The boundaries of the 47-group break-down of the energy scale are given below in Table 3. Table 3 Energy boundaries corresponding to the 47-group break-down Group number (grL (grL eV ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( Group number (grL (grL eV ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (
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The cross-sections were weighted taking into account the neutron spectra in the six positions of the WWER-1000 reactor under investigation. In preparing the weighting functions, the calculated spectra data obtained using the ANISN program were taken as a basis. The spatial-energy distribution for the neutron flux density was calculated in a cylindrical geometry using the VITAMIN-E multigroup constant library with a 174-group neutron spectrum break-down in the 10-9-17.33 MeV energy range. The calculations were performed in the Gidropress Special Design Office [8]. The structure of the spectra in the 10-5-10-1 eV neutron energy range was worked out in detail on the assumption that the neutron flux density distribution, F(E), was Maxwellian. Account was taken of the fact that in the core and the reactor vessel the Maxwellian distribution is substantially deformed as the neutron energy decreases owing to an increase in their absorption in the environment. In the concrete shielding the neutron spectrum in the 10-5-10-1 eV range is sufficiently well described by Maxwellian distribution. Owing to the large statistical errors in the calculated data for neutron spectra in the reactor vessel, concrete shielding and core shroud, values of the weighting functions greater than 12 MeV were obtained by approximation by means of the 235U thermal neutron fission spectrum. The following relationship was used to calculate the 235U fission spectrum values:

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The 47-group cross-sections for all six positions in the WWER-1000 reactor obtained for the 17 activation reactions are represented in the BGL-1000 format in descending neutron energy order. Cross-section values are given for all 47 groups. For each reaction, the first cross-section value corresponds to the energy range. eV and the last to the range. eV. The data for each reaction begin with an information line. The first 19 line positions are reserved for identification of the reaction. Positions 20 to 29 are used to indicate the name of the library from which the source microscopic data for the reaction excitation function were taken. Column 30 onwards indicates the position in the reactor for the group cross-sections given. For example, for the group data for the &RQQ&R UHDFWLRQ FURVVVHFWLRQ REWDLQHG RQ WKH EDVLV RI WKH PLFURVFRSLF YDOXHV RI WKH UHDFWLRQ H[FLWDWLRQ IXQFWLRQ IURP WKH -DSDQHVH GRVLPHWULF ILOH WKH LQIRUPDWLRQ OLQH IRU WKH LQWHUQDO VXUIDFH RI WKH UHDFWRU YHVVHO WDNHV WKH IRUP &RQQ&R -(1'/'.25386 FHOO
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The abbreviations used for the libraries-initial sources in the information line are as given in column 4 of Table 1. The evaluated group cross-sections in the BGL-1000 format for the 17 activation reactions, obtained for the six positions of the WWER-1000 reactor, are included in the working nuclear constant libraries of the Nuclear Data Centre, Obninsk. The authors wish to thank Mr. V.I. Tsofin and Mr. V.V. Kalchenko for their support and the fruitful discussions on the results obtained.

Fig. 1. Recommended 16O(n,p)16N reaction excitation function compared with experimental data
Fig. 2. Recommended 17O(n,p)17N reaction excitation function compared with experimental data
Fig. 3. Recommended 46Ti(n,p)46Sc reaction excitation function compared with experimental data
Fig. 4. Recommended 48Ti(n,p)48Sc reaction excitation function compared with experimental data
Fig. 5. Recommended 50Cr(n,)51Cr reaction compared with experimental data

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Fig. 6. Recommended 52Cr(n,2n)51Cr reaction excitation function compared with experimental data

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Recommended 59Fe(n,p)54Mn reaction excitation function compared with experimental data

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Recommended 58Fe(n,)59Fe reaction excitation function compared with experimental data
Fig. 9. Recommended 59Co(n,)60Co reaction excitation function compared with experimental data \

Fig. 10.

Recommended 59Co(n,2n)58m+gCo reaction excitation function compared with experimental data

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Recommended 58Ni(n,p)58m+gCo reaction excitation function compared with experimental data

Fig. 12.

Recommended 58Ni(n,2n)57Ni reaction excitation function compared with experimental data

Fig. 13.

Recommended 60Ni(n,p)60m+gCo reaction excitation function compared with experimental data

Fig. 14.

Recommended 63Cu(n,)60m+gCo reaction excitation function compared with experimental data

Fig. 15.

Recommended 93Nb(n,n)93mNb reaction excitation function compared with experimental data

Fig. 16.

Recommended 93Nb(n,2n)92mNb reaction excitation function compared with experimental data

Fig. 17.

Recommended 98Mo(n,)99Mo reaction excitation function compared with experimental data

Fig. 18.

Core averaged 174-group neutron spectrum and weighting function used for preparing the 47-group cross-sections

Fig. 19.

174-group neutron spectrum in core shroud and weighting function used for preparing the 47-group cross-sections

Fig. 20.

174-group neutron spectrum averaged over the volume of the first 4 cm of the vessel and weighting function used for preparing the 47-group cross-sections

Fig. 21.

174-group neutron spectrum averaged over the 9 cm central vessel layer and weighting function used for preparing the 47group cross-sections

Fig. 22.

174-group neutron spectrum averaged over the 6.25 cm outer vessel layer and weighting function used for preparing the 47group cross-sections

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174-group neutron spectrum averaged over the first 12 cm concrete layer and weighting function used for preparing the 47-group cross-sections
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