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Draft 8130104 BHRC Committee Chair Call Minutes Thursday, August 26, 2004 Attendees: Patrick Beatty, ChevronTexaco Stuart Cagen, Shell Patsy Clegg, Shell Brian Doll, ExxonMobil Lynn Russo, ExxonMobil Mark Fitzsimmons, Steptoe & Johnson Lorraine Twerdok, API John Wagner, API Antitrust guidance provided by L. Twerdok OC Update (P. Clegg) The 2004 Annual Meeting was successful Issues discussed with investigators included exposure assessment, QA/QC and laboratory transition/sustainability oShell & BP are charter members of the Chinese Sustainability Council o Shell has a meeting scheduled with the Shanghai Mayor's office in October - opportunity to discuss SHS Following discussions at Asilomar, the OC now has a good start on 2005 meeting planning Outreach o Continue efforts within API higher committees (HESGC and General Committee on Special Programs) o Shell has an initial meeting set up with labor o Renewed efforts for funding sponsor outreach/recruitment to be initiated by M. Bird Next OC to be hosted by ConocoPhillips in Houston on November 3-4, 2004 Communications Committee Update (L. Russo) APCO is preparing 2004 SHS Annual Meeting summary; first draft expected by 8/27/04 P. Cleggs's opening and closing remarks at Annual Meeting went very well A meeting of the CC is currently being scheduled to focus on outreach Technical Committee Update (P. Beattv) Action to work with Pis to develop proposals; target to have initial proposals within four weeks Technical Budget Committee Update (S. Cagen) Accrual worksheet has been updated Once R. Irons numbers have been verified against the UCHSC grants & contracts office, the 2Q04 financial report will go final Legal Update (J. Wagner) BHRC agreement amendment #2 Revisions made API contracts officer will proceed with API signatures & mailing to OC members the week of 8/30/04 SH ELL-MCCLU RG-056622 Draft 8130104 API Update (L. Twerdok) Working on getting out draft minutes for the four days of meetings August 16-19 Anv Other Business: Tom Armstrong will be attending the October international benzene meeting, Recent Advances in Benzene Toxicity ACTION ITEMS: L. Twerdok to schedule an OC conference call to discuss funding sponsor recruitment and to assign an OC lead to the effort S. Cagen and P. Beatty to work with B. Jarnot to make outreach contact with Peter Preuss (EPA) at the 9/23/04 Naphthalene Coalition meeting in DC P. Beatty to work with L. Twerdok and B. Jarnot to develop agenda for SRP/ERP meeting/call with T. Armstrong at the October benzene symposium (API to handle logistics of getting a meeting space and setting up conference call) L. Twerdok to circulate link to NIH website on ethics training Next OC Call - Tentatively: Date: Monday, September 13, 2004 Time: 2 - 3:30 PM (eastern time) Agenda items to include: Strategies to recruit new funding sponsors Laboratory transition/sustainability Next Committee Chair Calls: Date: Thursday, September 16, 2004 Time: 4-5 PM (eastern) Date: Thursday, October 28, 2004 Time: 4-5 PM (eastern) Date: Thursday, November 18, 2004 Time: 4-5 PM (eastern) SH ELL-MCCLU RG-056623