• W. Guo, S.L. Kramer, S. Krinsky, B. Nash, J. Skarita, F.J. Willeke
  BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York

NSLS-II is a third-generation light source that is being built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The storage ring has 30 double-bend-achromatic cells. Six 3.5-m-long damping wigglers (DW) will be installed in three straight section to lower the emittance. The civil construction of the facility started in June 2009 and major accelerator components, such as magnets and vacuum chambers, have entered production phase. This paper will summarize the physics considerations for the NSLS-II magnet specifications. In particular, we discuss the tuning range required by the lattice flexibility, and the issues which lead to the specification for the higher-order multipoles.