OFFICIAL USE C_.LY - 10 - inches high. Dr. Nat Barr put this material together in a very condensed form showing three different options requiring different funding levels. Members of the Advisory Committee have been provided with copies of this document. Dr. Barr described the approach used and discussed the document “with the Committee. The brief document had been submitted to the Commission and it will be shown before the Office of Management and Budget within a week or so. Dr. Totter reported that a planning document is due by the end of June showing DBM's plans for the next 7-8 years. It will be a requirement to show how new research would be phased in, some old research would be deemphasized, etc. Dr. Totter then discussed his proposed reorganization of the Division. The principal change would be that the Ecological Sciences Branch and the former Fallout Studies Branch now known as Earth Sciences Branch would fall under a new assistant director for environmental sciences. The Civil Effects Branch formerly headed by Joe Deal has disappeared and Mr. Deal has moved to the Division of Operational Safety. A new branch will be created under Dr. Barr as Assistant Director. This branch will be known as the Evaluation and Analysis Branch and would have its function staff work to provide analyses on data generated in the various DBM programs. DBM has been directed to get its story to the public better than it has been done in the past. Dr. Barr has been assigned this responsibility. It appears that the name of the Division of Biology and Medicine will be changed to the Division of Biomedical and Environmental Research. The Division of Technical Information is now under John Harris as the Office of Information Services and there will be increasing emphasis on public infor- mation. The Committee discussed the advisability of splitting biomedical and environmental research in the reorganization and concluded that this would be very unwise. The Committee felt that the proposed reorganization of the Division would improve effective cooperation between and among these various disciplines. The Committee then discussed the letter to the Chairman. The Minutes of the 141st meeting were approved as distributed. Committee adjourned at 11:30 A.M. The Respectfully submitted, _—_ Bef A _--SofnB. Storer, M.D.g | Sgientific Secretary, Advisory Committee / for Biology & Medicine OFFICIAL USE ONLY