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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[November 13

Administrative Rules, Division of Services for Crippled Children

(16) The chancellor at Chicago has recommended approval of the Division of Services for Crippled Children Administrative Rules ("program rules"). (A copy of die rules is filed with die secretary of die board for record.) The rules are promulgated pursuant to authority in "An Act enabling die University of Illinois to qualify for Federal funds and aid in relation to die administration of die Division of Services for Crippled Children"; and authorized by "An Act to provide for die organization and maintenance of die University of Illinois." The proposed program rules were published in die February 14, 1986, Illinois Register. Subsequently, comments were received from die Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago as well as die Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. Modifications were made in response to comments raised by both agencies. When the approved rules are submitted for publication, die Joint Committee on Administrative Rules will have an additional 45 days within which to raise comments. The chancellor has also recommended that die vice president for business and finance, widi advice of die university counsel, be delegated autiiority to approve any nonsubstantive changes which may be required by die Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. I recommend approval.

On motion of Mr. Hahn, this recommendation was approved. By consensus, the board agreed that one roll call vote would be taken and considered the vote on each agenda item nos. 17 through 31 inclusive. The recommendations were individually discussed but acted upon at one time. (The record of board action appears at the end of each item.)

Agreement to Establish the "Berkeley-Illinois Array," Urbana

(17) The University of California and die University of Illinois are completing final negotiations on an agreement to establish die "Berkeley-Illinois Array," a six-antenna millimeter-wave interferometer at Hat Creek, California, and a supercomputer-based, data reduction and image processing facility at Urbana-Champaign. The Radio Astronomy Laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley, currendy operates at Hat Creek, California, a smaller interferometer, housing, laboratory buildings, and a shop. The agreement is to add three additional antennas. The new array will be five times faster dian the present one, and will be the leading instrument in the world for the investigation of a wide range of astronomical problems, including planetary atmospheres, comets, star formation, stellar evolution, and the structure of galaxies. The array user-center will be located in Urbana-Champaign, with a highspeed, satellite data link between California and Illinois for telescope control and data transmission. The University of Illinois Department of Astronomy, in cooperation widi die National Center for Supercomputing Applications, is organizing within the Astronomy Department a laboratory for astronomical imaging, which will develop a facility for die requirements of die Berkeley-Illinois Array. When die array is completed, in three years, 50 percent of its use will be by outside investigators on the basis of research proposals. The remainder of die observing time will be shared, 30 percent by the University of California, and 20 percent by die University of Illinois. The total estimated cost is $7 million. The University of California will contribute $3 million in die form of die present interferometer; die University of Illinois will contribute $1.5 million; and the remaining $2.5 million will be sought from the National Science Foundation. Under die proposed agreement, upon die approval of die proposal by the National Science Foundation, die University of Illinois will provide $500,000 per