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 The Green Bank Telescope is the obvious replacement platform for the ALPACA PAF because it is the largest aperture single dish US instrument. It will provide high sensitivity which, though not quite approaching that of Arecibo, is still in the same “world’s top tier” class. Further, with its fully steerable dish and nearly horizon-to-horizon view, it will enable far better sky coverage and thus additional science not possible at Arecibo. In addition, the BYU team has over a decade of experience collaborating with GBO to develop the science and practice of phased array feeds, including many experiments on the Green Bank 20 meter Telescope and the GBT. This work culminated recently in commissioning the 7-beam L-band FLAG PAF system for the GBT.  FLAG is the immediate predecessor in the development path for the 40-beam ALPACA PAF, which will supersede the capabilities of FLAG by an order of magnitude. Many of the scientific community members who were anticipated users of ALPACA at Arecibo, are also active users of the GBT. 
 
 With the loss of AO, which will increase pressure on the GBT, many ongoing and planned observational campaigns would greatly benefit from a very widefield, multibeam, L-band survey instrument on the GBT. We describe below several examples of expressed interest from the broader scientific community in what could be accomplished using the ALPACA receiver on the GBT. None of these studies are funded directly under the ALPACA construction project, but the scientific community will find it of great utility as a facility instrument available on the GBT.
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