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                                  CONFLICT OF INTEREST


                 The following extract from the Department of Health, Education,
                 and Welfare General Administration Manual is called to  the
                 attention of the Public Health Service Consultants:

                 'Advisors and consultants serving as members of public advisory
                 committees should not participate in situations in which  a
                 violation of conflict of interest laws and regulations is likely
                 to occur. Heads of Bureaus and Divisions  should  establish
                 procedures and controls to insure that a committee member is
                 disqualified from performing duties or rendering advice which
                 will have a direct and predictable effect on the interests of an
                 organization or institution with which he is associated as an
                 employee or consultant or in which he has a financial interest.
                 In particular, committee members should not participate in the
                 evaluation of contract or grant proposals which will directly
                 affect the interests of such organization or  institution."


                                CONFIDENTIALITY OF MEETINGS


                 Discussions of the closed portion of the public advisory
                 cookutit_t_e_e_,meetings shall be held confidential except as
                 disclosure is authorized by the Administrator, Health Services
                 and Mental Health Administration.














                                                                    January, 1973