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order to stimulate comments, and finding most of our specialists already involved 
in one fashion or another in DNA decision-making, I called upon my own experience 
in writing our April Report on the subject, formulated some conclusions of my own, 
and circulated them to the sixty persons in question. (This also served the impor- 
tant purpose of advising our officers of the views their Director is thinking and 
espousing, even when these are provided, as in this case, in a personal capacity). 
As the summary indicates, few of the 70 persons solicited responded and, of 
these, few perused the draft impact statement carefully. In most instances, they 
contented themselves with responding favorably or unfavorably on the points I felt 
were raised by the impact statement. In other cases, they simply reiterated their 
view. 
Nevertheless, recognizing that there are very few persons interested in this 
matter who are not already co-opted by the process of promulgating guidelines, we 
felt that you would have an interest in the reactions (or non-reactions) of our 
officers and send you the results as e part of your record. 
With cordial regards. 
JJS: jes 
Enclosures: 
Letter to Council Members[and Sponsor^ 
Comments from Council Members 
Comments from Sponsors 
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