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George Tenley, president of the Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI), then went on to addressed methods through which his organization endeavours to raise the awareness of issues, challenges, and needs, in order to influence regulatory policy and ensure decisions are based on sound technical information.He emphasized the need to use available industry/government funds wisely, reducing or eliminating duplication of effort, in order to produce the greatest impact.Some continuing challenges he addressed were aligning the different procurement processes adopted by industry and government, securing research funding for high-risk but high-impact and high-value programmes, and identifying which federal agency should be the catalyst to stimulate funding of long-term R&D initiatives.He said it was critically important to "engage the public, both as individuals and as community organizations", and to ensure that research outputs were transferred to the end users speedily and effectively.