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dependency upon legislative appropriation for operating funds. 

 These laboratories were reviewed in depth by the study group with 

 the aid of the laboratory consultant (see Scope of Study) . 



Scope of Study 



The initial canvass of laboratories disclosed that from 1,000 to 

 1,300 facilities were currently operating within the state. Fig- 

 ure 1 shows an approximate breakdown of laboratory facilities by 

 function. 



Of the estimated 1,217 laboratories shown in Figure 1, 1,072 or 

 86% are operated in conjunction with an academic institution. The 

 bulk of laboratories in this category are classrooms equipped for 

 lab work which are used either for teaching or research purposes, 

 or for some combination of these activities. 



Another major grouping of laboratories was found to include private 

 clinical facilities located within private or community hospitals 

 or within various medical clinics (approximately 121 laboratories) . 



Due to a shortage of time and funds available for this study, the 

 Council limited its scope of investigation to 13 agency laboratory 

 units (see Table 1) . These 13 facilities were determined to be 

 the major state operated laboratories from the standpoint of their 

 purposes and funding. Most laboratories within this group were 

 created either directly or indirectly by legislative action and 

 the remainder are ancillary to programs of state departments. 



The Council's laboratory consultant made one or more on-site in- 

 spections of each of the 13 facilities selected for detailed study. 

 Several of the larger laboratories in this group were inspected 

 either individually or collectively by members of the subcommittee. 



In addition to visually inspecting each laboratory, the consultant 

 filled out a detailed questionnaire through conversation with 

 laboratory supervisors and using available published data. This 

 questionnaire, identical in format for each lab studied, consisted 

 of 9 objective- type questions covering the following laboratory 

 operations: 



1. Location and organization 



2. Staffing and administration 



3. Activities, reporting and procedures 



4. Funding and fee schedules 



After the completed questionnaires had been approved by the re- 

 spective laboratory administrators, each was reviewed in detail by 

 the study group. This report contains capsule descriptions of 

 each laboratory studied in detail along with relevant Council con- 

 clusions and recommendations. 



