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DR. FREDRICKSON: Thank you, Dr. Wright. 
Dr. Ahmed, you had your hand up? 
DR. AHMED: Yes. Dr. Wright raised an interesting question of funding 
of NIH research. I was going to ask Dr. Fredrickson whether you have a 
list of all the grantees that NIH does fund, and the sums of money and so 
forth. Do you have such an inventory. 
DR. FREDRICKSON: The list is available to you, Dr. Ahmed; it is in 
the Yellow Book. We can provide you with the current list, and this is 
current as of the submission of the Environmental Impact Statement. 
DR. AHMED: The question I really had is how do you determine in the 
total funding that you have the relative priorities for this kind of re- 
search? That was basically the question that Dr. Wright is raising. Do 
you have internal criteria for this? 
DR. FREDRICKSON: Yes, they are primarily exercised through the NIH 
study sections. I think that if we have time tomorrow we will take that 
up. We want not to fail to answer your question, but I do think that it 
does stray, as I feel we are beginning now to stray considerably away from 
the question of the introduction. 
Are there any further questions on this area of the Guidelines? 
Mr. Helms. 
MR. HELMS: I think that Mr. Hutt's point ought not to be lost here 
on everyone. I think it was very important when he asked was the sub- 
ject matter covered, because if you are advocating every time a response 
or a criticism comes in it must be explicitly answered in terms, that 
gets us very much into briefs, answers, and replies, and turns it into a 
sort of a legal process. I think that everybody ought to be aware that 
that has its own perils. 
DR. WRIGHT: Could I ask, Mr. Helms, I thought that the National Envi- 
ronmental Policy Act was a means of providing a quasi-legal process for 
examining in detail these particular issues. I may be mistaken about that. 
DR. FREDRICKSON: Excuse me, Mr. Helms. I would suggest that the 
Committee examine the Environmental Impact Statement, the final one, where 
the comments are specifically referenced, and determine for itself. Per- 
haps we can take this up further tomorrow if possible, again. But you have 
the substance before you to test the contentions of Dr. Wright. 
MR. HUTT : But we do not have all the comments, so we can't compare 
the comments — 
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