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A -- HONOLULU-ASIA AGING STUDY POC Silver C. Jones, (301) 496-4487 The National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, intends to negotiate with the Kuakini Medical Center, for a 18-month extension of Contract No. NO1-AG-4-2149 to re-examine the cohort of elderly Japanese-American men to add more cases of dementia into the existing database. Statutory authority: 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (1), as set forth in FAR 6.302-1. Inherent duplication of cost to the Government and unacceptable delays in service make competition unfeasible for the extension period. See N umbered Note 22. (0210)

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