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NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEAR LABORATORY OF Alhl OSPHEIUC SCIENCES SUBJECT: Invitation to Meeting of Planning Group forSt .I Louis Study 1. Tentative date and time ofthe meeting is 9:00 A.M., on September 9 , 2. Mr. George B. Morgan is handling reservations and facilities €or the meeting. Please send requests for reservations to: Division of Air Quality and National Air Pollution Control Admin. 3. Copies o f working documents, tentative agendas, and specific details on accomodations for the meeting will be sent out during the week of t o be enclosed in our hands during the week o f 17 August to allow time for reproduction. Items tentatively suggested for the agenda have included : Please have suggestions for the agenda and any material Progress reports (and updated research summaries, i f needed) from ESSA, NAPCA, Illinois Group, and NCAR. B. Report on contacts with Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). C. Consideration of a proposed biological program; other programs. D. Discussion of and assignment of responsibility for preparation of a master planning document comprising a collective statement of objectives, etc. tobe used as: . 1. the basis of a presentation to CEQ; 2. a support document for budget requests ; 3. a planning document for "complementary" o r 'lpiggy-backl' Operated by the Universiry Corporotion for A tmosplwric Research Under Controcr with the Notional Science Foundorion'
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1. Opening Remarks - George B. Morgan 2. Introduction of Attendees. 3 . Comments on Minutes of last meeting. 5. Reports from additional groups. 8 . Time and place of next meeting.
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Letter : Pack t o Lodge, 5 August 1970 ... Regarding the agenda, have nothing to propose a t t..e present time, but on ItemD.,particularly as it refers to the Council on Environmental Quality and a budget request support document, I think that this is going to require very careful coordination within our own agencies,since our ad hoc group are not all in the direct line of program planning and budget activities.A suggestion might well be to divide the summarization into two parts : The first being those organizations that have hard funding for FY 7 1 and firm commitments i n FY 72. The second could be those agencies where these decisions have not yet been made and where the " St. Louis Experiment" is still in the planning process.I think this might clarify where west and in terms of necessity for immediate decisions,etc., etc.