Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) 
 
  SERIES TITLE      Institutional Review Board Meeting Minutes 
 
  INCLUSIVE DATES   1975 1994 
 
  ARRANGEMENT  Chronological 
 
  VOLUME  4 cubic feet 
 
  DESCRIPTION  The series consists of the minutes which are the 
               collected notes of the proceedings  of the 
               Institutional Review Board (IRB). The IRB is the 
               LLNL entity that has the responsibility for 
               reviewing and approving requests for the use of 
               humans as subjects  in experiments or research 
               activities. Records for each protocol describe the 
               involvement of human subjects and the risks, if 
               any, to which they are exposed. The minutes  
               include the meeting date; location; members 
               present; matters considered, including  old 
               business, new business, and minutes approval; and 
               the record of votes taken as  to whether the 
               protocol being discussed should be approved. 
               Related documents are  attached to the minutes. 
               The official copies of the minutes are maintained 
               in hard  copy by the Secretary to the Chairman of 
               the IRB. A database of the minutes also  provides 
               summary information for the following categories: 
               meeting date, IRB Project  Number, title of 
               project discussed at the IRB meeting, name of 
               researcher, status of  action, result (indicates 
               whether or not the project was approved), and 
               comments on  whether or not the protocol was used 
               subsequent to its approval. Three protocols  
               involve experiments in which consenting human 
               subjects were intentionally exposed  to radiation. 
 
  RESTRICTIONS This series contains privacy material.    
 
LOCATION OF  RECORDS     Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  
                         Building 361, Room 1134, 1 c.f.; Room 
                         1063, 3 c.f.  Berkeley, CA 94720