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At this same meeting, the Organization Committee discussed the results of the 
initial exploratory visits, thirteen of which were made after the July 17th 
committee meeting. The sites visited were Orange Park (Florida), New Orleans, 
San Antonio, Madison, Cincinnati, New Haven, Boston, Seattle, Portland, San 
Francisco, Palo Alto, La Jolla, and Denver. Each locality was evaluated as 
a possible site for a center or for a station through thorough discussion. 
The committee agreed that seven of these were potential center sites and 
designated one of the seven as a possible site for a station. 
Speaking for the Heart Institute staff. Dr. Yeager described the following 
procedure for obtaining primate center applications and the mechanism for 
supporting the centers through grants; 1) initial exploratory site visits 
(thirteen already made), 2) subsequent negotiation visits, mainly by staff, 
to advise on the formulation of grant applications, 3) submission of applica- 
tions to the NIH, 4) initial review of applications by the NACP in the DRG, 
5) transmission of the NACP's recommendations to the Heart Council through 
the Council's Planning Committee, 6) final review and recommendation by the 
Heart Council and final recommendation by the Council of the two centers to 
be established with the available funds, 7) center grants to be made with a 
formal (written) promise of nine additional years of support in specified 
annual ceiling amounts, -2^/ 8) annual negotiations between Heart Institute 
staff and the Primate Center administrative staff as to the amount of oper- 
ational funds needed for each next succeeding two years, and 9) timing of 
these annual budget negotiations so that anticipated needs could be reflected 
in the Heart Institute's own annual budgetary requirements. The committee 
agreed to the proposed procedures. 
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These procedures were also agreed to by the Heart Council-^ and its Planning 
Committee .~ The Council again emphasized the desirability of developing a 
national primate station and emphasized its view that neither centers nor 
station should be developed as only breeding colonies or monkey supply re- 
sources. It also stated that unsolicited primate center applications should 
be accepted and any possible site applications be allowed to compete. The 
Planning Committee and Council suggested that there be a close working asso- 
ciation between the Council Committee, the Planning Committee, the initial 
application review group (NACP) and the staffs of the NHI and DRG. 
The Organization Committee met briefly on November 4, 1959, in conjunction 
with the Planning Committee meeting held the same day; in fact, the membership 
of the Organization Committee and that of the Planning Committee were almost 
the same. The Organization Committee discussed the relative roles of the 
Council Committee and the NACP, as well as a joint meeting of the two groupsf 
then being planned. Miss Parent, NACP Executive Secretary, explained the 
36 / Beyond the first year, making ten years. 
37 / November 5, 1959, meeting. 
38/ September 20, 1959, meeting. 
