<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We intend to submit a proposal to PAC 45 to measure the strange-quark parton distribution function using parity violation in deep inelastic scattering in Hall C. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can find a draft of the proposal at the following location.</div><div class=""><a href="https://userweb.jlab.org/~dalton/downloads/PVPDF_proposal.pdf" class="">https://userweb.jlab.org/~dalton/downloads/PVPDF_proposal.pdf</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please let me know if you have any comments or questions, or if you are interested in joining our collaboration before the end of this weekend.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Mark Dalton</div><div class="">(for Kent Paschke and Cynthia Keppel)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>