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FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS 
307 Massachusetts Avenue. N.E. 
Washington, D C. 20002 (202) 546-3300 
George W. Rathjens John T. Edsall Jerome D. Frank Frank Von Hippel Jeremy J. Stone 
Chairman Secretary Vice-Chairman Treasurer Director 
Dear Council Manber: Stfi. 
Enclosed is a copy of a Draft Environmental Impact State- 
ment for which NIH has asked for cemment and which FAS has been urged 
to circulate and examine. It is lucid, candid, unsparing, relatively 
easy to read and deserving of reading. I pre^se to relay the cemrents 
of (Council members and other FAS officicils as a contribution to its 
review. 
F.A.S. 
In order to stimulate your thought, and to indicate my cwn 
reactions, I have compiled some reflections with which you might join 
or which you oould comment upon or reject. 
Itie Inpact Statement opens by observing that; 
"the indicated confidence in the Guidelines rests essentially 
upon the judgement of scientists", (pg. 389427} 
All right. But is not the real issue what public health standards the 
scientists are applying in forming their judgement? Just as jurors 
are instructed on the standards for determining guilt, so must scientists 
be instructed on the standards acceptable for public health. As page 5 
of our Jpril Report on DMA revealed, there are quite a few questionable 
and unexamined premises in the public health standards iiplicitly 
adopted by very senior biomedical researchers. 
I. THE ONLY SOIUTION LIES IN EVEN-HANDEDNESS 
DMA regulations should receive neither less nor more precautions 
than the Nation accepts and donands in other areas of known 
or potential risk. FAS, in particular, should be especially 
careful not to acquiesce in less. 
Obviously no standards can be considered either ccnpletely safe 
or oonpletely unsafe. All that can be concluded is that cne set of 
standards may be consistent with, and ccnparable to, standards acceptable 
in other fields while another set of standards is not. 
Precisely because FAS contains many more biologists than 
it does, for example, nuclear engineers, we must be sure that we do 
not accept Inpact Statements that would be considered unsupportable 
from the latter sinply because they come from the former. 
II. INEDRMED RBGUIATION MUST NOT BEXXME SELF-REGULATION 
Biologists not involved in recombinant DNA research should 
inform themselves concerning Recombinant DNA safety issues 
to ensure that the broadest possible base of expertly informed 
opinion is brought to bear on the evolving guidelines. 
Ruths Adorns Appendix K— 42 
'DavKj Baltimore 
Lipman 3crs 
Frank Von Hippel 
.Myron t Ueemjn 
Alwin cinhvre 
