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SUMMARY

In conclusion, we request 12 days in Hall C to measure inclusive scattering from light nuclei for a broad range in x and Q². We will significantly improve the measurement of $\sigma_A/\sigma_D$ in ⁴He and make the first measurement for A=3 over this x range. This will help us to understand the evolution of the EMC effect to light nuclei and allow for direct comparisons to microscopic calculations of nuclear structure for few body nuclei. In addition, we will extend measurements of the the EMC effect to lower Q² than previous data. We will extract the neutron structure function using measurements from H, ²H, ³He, and ⁴He, and make several tests of the systematic uncertainties arising from extraction of the free nucleon structure function from measurements on light nuclei. For $x \leq 0.65$, the data is in the DIS region, where the nuclear structure function is assumed to be directly sensitive to modifications of the quark distributions in the nuclei. For x > 0.65, we expect that $\xi$-scaling will still be valid for most of the Q² range, and we can make a quantitative measurement of scaling deviations. To the extent that these are small or target independent, we can directly use the data to study the A-dependence of the nuclear effects at these larger x values.