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the Council and its members regard it as confidential. We expect to provide these 

 tables to you promptly after we have reached an understanding with the sub- 

 committee staff with respect to procedures for the subcommittee's handling of mate- 

 rials provided by the Council. In the interim, I respectfully request that this letter 

 be included at page 82 of the May 26 transcript. 



Item F in the Appendix is a copy of the Council's current by-laws. Article III of 

 the by-laws provides the method of apportioning the funding of the Council among 

 its sponsors. 



Mr. Waxman. What is the tax status of the CTR? 



Mr. Glenn. We are a not-for-profit organization. 



Mr. Waxman. With regard to your organizational structure — you 

 are in charge of the organization, is that correct? 



Mr. Glenn. That is correct. 



Mr. Waxman. Can you tell the subcommittee what the Commit- 

 tee of Councils is? 



Mr. Glenn. What the Committee of the Council is? 



Mr. Waxman. Or Councils. 



Mr. Glenn. I am not sure I understand the question. 



Mr. Waxman. Well, I have heard there is a Committee of Coun- 

 cils. I want to know does it function within CTR or is it an inde- 

 pendent organization? 



Mr. Glenn. Mr. Waxman, I don't recognize the term at all. 



Mr. Waxman. You don't know what that is? 



Mr. Glenn. I will be glad to explain our organizational structure, 

 but I don't understand that question. 



Mr. Waxman. OK. Can you make research funding decisions 

 without first obtaining specific approval from anyone else? 



Mr. Glenn. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Waxman. Have you ever done this or are you aware of any 

 instances where the chairman has done this? 



Mr. Glenn. Where the chairman has made the decision? 



Mr. Waxman. Right. 



Mr. Glenn. I am sure you understand that our Scientific Advi- 

 sory Board really is the decision-making board and it functions 

 much like a study section of Federal Government organizations. Al- 

 most identical. 



Mr. Waxman. Is that also known as the Scientific Liaison Com- 

 mittee? 



Mr. Glenn. I don't know that term, Mr. Waxman. 



Mr. Waxman. OK. So you have never heard of a Scientific Liai- 

 son Committee, but there is a Scientific Advisory Board, is that 

 correct? 



Mr. Glenn. Yes, sir. Maybe it would simplify things, Mr. Wax- 

 man, if I were to tell you that the Council for Tobacco Research, 

 of which I am president, chairman and CEO, consists of 15 individ- 

 uals, 5 of them hold PhD's or equivalent degrees in basic medical 

 sciences; the remainder of the staff are largely clerical in their ac- 

 tivities. 



Mr. Waxman. Let me ask you on a different topic, do grantees 

 and contractors get paid directly by CTR or is payment made by 

 individual tobacco companies? 



Mr. Glenn. Grantees of the Council for Tobacco Research are not 

 reimbursed directly. The institutions that they represent become 

 the grantee and they, the institutions, are responsible for distribu- 

 tion of these funds. That process is identical to that of the NIH. 



