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there will be ample opportunity for discussion, all of which will be 

 recorded. On Saturday morning, we will make decisions on a structure 

 of small working groups that will be responsible in the next 6 months 

 for preparing a written assessment and recommendations for future 

 programs of investigation. My office will make every effort to speed 

 the availability of the proceedings of this meeting to its members so 

 that all the material presented and discussed here will be available 

 to the working groups. These proceedings will also be published and 

 suitably distributed. 



I earnestly hope that all members of the workshop will participate 

 to some degree in the main work of the workshop — that of the next 

 6 months. You have received as part of your registration package two 

 questionnaires. One is to be filled out and handed to CDR Brookes 

 this morning. It will serve as the basis for the first cut at 

 organizing the working groups. The second, intended as a guide to 

 the Steering Committee, is to be filled out no earlier than Thursday 

 afternoon so as to be available for the meeting of the Steering 

 Committee Thursday evening. You will notice that it gives you an 

 opportunity to change your mind about the first questionnaire. It 

 also gives you an opportunity to comment on any aspect of the objec- 

 tive of the workshop, its content so far, and what you think should 

 be done by the time the workshop is disbanded. Please use it 

 generously. 



The final plenary session of the workshop is now planned for 

 May 1975, either in San Francisco, Monterey, or San Diego. Its 

 objective will be to hear, discuss, and make provision for rewriting, 

 editing, and publishing the planning guide. It is envisioned that 

 talks will be presented describing the content of the several chapters 

 as determined by the working groups. Further, a major part of this 

 session will consist of discussion of this material, which should be 



