Comment from Alice Bean

[200.205, 200.340] To Whom it May Concern: I am a professor in experimental particle physics working with large international collaborations on complex detectors I am writing in my personal capacity to oppose the proposed revisions to sections 200.205 and 200.340 that would undermine the integrity of federal grant review processes and federal science agencies' ability to identify and fund impactful research. My research depends on many collaborators contributing state-of-the-art technology to build large complex apparatus. By having knowledgeable technical and scientific peer review, these large projects can move forward. The detectors we build take many years of dedicated effort. Students and postdoctoral researchers are recruited to help build these detectors. Researchers can not just start and stop this effort, they will go elsewhere as they need funding. These large projects can not succeed without steady appropriate reviews and funding. Scientific experts can judge whether projects can be done and should be done and have reviewed the state-of-the-art in what is happening. By having starts and stops in the funding for this, the difficult problems can't be undertaken.