Charge to the Committee:
		Interference Protection Group

	The Green Bank Interference Protection Group is responsible for
minimizing the radio frequency interference to astronomical observations
from equipment and activities at the Observatory and for developing
techniques for removing or avoiding RFI that arrives from sources outside
the Observatory.  To this end, and within the time and resources
available to the committee, it will
     1. Improve the sensitivity and direction finding capability of
interference monitoring equipment.
     2. Improve the response time to reports of interference from
observers to find and correct sources of RFI from within the
Observatory.
     3. Provide the telescope operator(s) with timely information on the
spectrum environment at critical points around the Observatory so that
new local sources of RFI are quickly detected and corrected.
     4. Survey new and existing Observatory equipment for internal or
radiated interference as it may affect astronomical measurements and
take or request corrective measures as required.
     5. Continue to build databases on the Observatory's interference
environment and make that information readily available to observers for
planning observing programs.
     6. Provide assistance to the administrator of the Quiet Zone to
the extent afforded by on-site monitoring and direction finding
equipment and databases and where Committee expertise might be helpful
in particular Quiet Zone technical matters.
     7. Provide training and documentation to telescope operators and
other technical personnel whose duties affect or are affected by local
interference.
     8. Develop or adopt new methods of removing or reducing the impact
of interference that inevitably appears in astronomical data.