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Ko tlq T."• rao I! 11o!a) i I a 1 hllihlOIiA NI)IIMI TO: Mr. Robert Uris FROM: Gary L. Huber, M.D. SUBJECT: Ohhrlesgate West - DATE: December 7, 1977 Enclosed are a list of modifications to Charlesgate West developed by Bernard Trum and Arthur Lage, who are veterinarians in charge of overseeing the Harvard animal research facilities. The developed were designed'to help us meet full mental inhalation animal laboratory. As you below the minimum standards reciuiredat this program has come to a full halt. modifications that have been accreditation for our experi- know, our facilities are far time, and our entire research We are in the process of presenting a request to our tobacco industry sponsors for additional support to help meet these renovation requirements. In requesting help fr=the tobacco industry to meet this need~, it would be my suggestion that we let them have the maximum flexibility for the manner by which we might proceed. In transmitting these to youy I hope you will explore, as we requested at our last meeting, whatever steps necessary will .be required from the standpoint of the Hospital, in its.lease with the owner of the building, in implementing these suggestions. I would ask that you defer, at least for the moment, any consideration as whether.to proceed through a competitive bidding procedure or, in~the interest of expiditing renovations in as short a time as possible, proceeding on a negotiated basis with~ a contractor in whom we have some trust. conversations with different representatives from the tobacco industry, the position of our liaison representative as well, that the primary objective is to have the facility opened as soon as possible. I hope you will work tations, as well as a need to continue the momentum of our investigators, I would very much like to have our animal inhalation studies again under way as soon as possible. It is my impression, and, as I'believe through Our research program has now been totally shut down for over two months. Because of the nature of some of our recent publications and presen- with us towards that goal.