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(b) The Secretary may exempt from some or all of 
the requirements of subsection (a) any category of activities 
he finds poses no significant risk to health or the environment 
(1) because of the nature of those activities, or (2) because 
the category is adequately regulated under other Federal 
law. 
STANDAEDS 
Sec. 4. (a) For purposes of protecting the health and 
safety of individuals who work with recombinant DNA, the 
health and safety of the public at large, and the integrity 
of the environment, the Secretary — 
( 1 ) shall, no later than ninety da}^s after the enact- 
ment of this Act, promulgate (without regard to section 
102 (2) (C) of the National Environmental Policy Act 
of 1969 or 5 U.S.C. 553) as interim standards appljfing 
to the production or possession of recombinant DNA the 
Eecombinant DNA Kesearch Guidelines (41 Federal 
Kegister 27901 (1976) ) , with such modifications as he 
finds are needed, 
(2) shall, no later than one hundred and eighty 
days after the promulgation of interim standards under 
clause (1) , initiate procedures to promulgate final stand- 
ards applying to the production or possession of i-ecora- 
binant DNA, 
( 3 ) shall, no later than one j^ear after the promulga- 
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