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CENTER FOR INDOOR AIR RESEARCH MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Directors July 24, 1990 - CIAR Offices Attendees Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. C. W. V. T. R. A. Green Hayes Norman Osdene Pages Spears Mr. Dr. Mr. Dr. Ms. M. K. L. R. M. Buckley Cole Dryer Jenkins Ward The July 24, 1990 meeting of the Board of Directors of the Center for Indoor Air Research was convened at 9:00 a.m. by the Chairman, Dr. T. S. Osdene. The minutes of the May 23, 1990 Board of Directors meeting were approved. Dr. Wally Hayes has replaced Dr. Gary Burger-on the Board of Directors and was welcomed to Board. Dr. Roger Jenkins of Oak Ridge National Laboratory gave a presentation on "Comparison of Stationary Area vs. Mobile personal Samplers for Ambient Nicotine" with discussion following. Dr. Keith Cole of R. J. Reynolds gave a presentation on "Indoor Air Modeling". There was discussion on-the difficulties encountered by some awardees with regard to the availability of nicotine analyses, and possibly having CIAR contract with an analytical group to-perform the analyses. Dr. Eisenberg showed the Board the-new RFA, Postdoctoral Fellowship and Supported Studies booklets and apprised them of their distribution at the Indoor Air '90 conference in Toronto. - Dr. Eisenberg informed the Board of Dr. Gareth Green leaving Johns Hopkins and accepting a position at Harvard. Dr. Green will continue ~ serving on the Center's Science Advisory Board. ~ A status report of the contracts resulting from the last award cycle was given by Dr. Eisenberg which stated that seven contracts are completed O 6j - I and signed, two are in the process of signing and one is still under m ~

review. He explained t-o-the Board that the contractual processes are working well. - There was a brief discussion about indirect costs and the favorab le result that CIAR has realized, as compared to-a few_ other agencies, by limiting the acceptable percentage. Dr. Eisenberg informed the Board of the latest Letters of Intent that have been received and the anticipated number of proposals for the next funding cycle. -The next item on the agenda was ongoing projects. Dr. Eisenberg reported the progress-on the ongoing projects as well as anticipated completion dates: - The results of site visits to ongoing projects by the Center's scientists were then presented. -They included visits to NYU-with three projects whose Principal Investigators are Dr. Arthur Penn, Dr. Jerry Solomon and Dr. Al Gunnison and then of the- site visit to UC Davis which also includes three individual projects under the direction-of Dr. Kent Pinkerton, Dr. Jerry Last and Dr. Hanspeter Witschi. A site visit with Dr. Shaughnessy at the University of Tulsa, involving the air cleaner study, was also discussed. -Dr. Zeiger gave some the specifics on fiis studies. - There was a discussion on the recruitment of new members and possible contacts. Dr. Eisenberg had a meeting with Bob Sprinkle of American Tobacco, and appointments are scheduled with Quest International and Interface Research Corp. as possible recruitments. The Board began discussing the Center's lease extension and-a vote of YES was given in favor of picking up the option for two more years through 1993. There was then a discussion on the provision of liability insurance for the Center's officers and advisors. Dr. Eisenberg described his meeting at the-Center with Dr. Sarah Liao and reported on the current status of the Hong Kong project. The next Board of Directors meeting was scheduled for Monday, September 17, 1990 at 10:0-0 a.m. - - The meeting was adjourned, by the chairman, at 4:00 p.