Republished by the LSU Medical Reseach Law Project

DR. SHAPIRO: Thank you, colleagues, for assembling a little bit early today. Let me review what I hope will be the progress of our agenda. We’re going to spend thirty minutes, no more than thirty minutes even if I have to stop someone in mid-sentence, dealing with some of the remaining parts of Chapter 5 since we don’t have time to go through all aspects of it, and I’m going to suggest one particular aspect that we might want to have some discussion on in a moment. We’ll then have a probably five-minute update from Eric regarding other projects and their current status at the Commission. Then we will take a short break and come back and begin what will be a fairly long set of sessions on our capacity report. I will ask Jim to chair that part of the meeting and, of course, especially that part later this afternoon when I may have to leave before we finish.