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.Call to Order and evening Remarks 3 
; Minutes of December 6-7, 1979 Meeting 3 
.Report of Meeting of Federal Interagency Advisory Committee 
on Recombinant DNA Research 3 
.Proceedings of the NIAID Working Group on Risk Assessment 5 
.Proposed EK2 Host-Vector Systems 7 
.Proposed Classification of Plant Pathogens 8 
.Preposed Amendment of Section III-0 8 
.Proposed Amendment of Section III-0 9 
.Proposed Amendment of Section IV-D-2-a 10 
.Proposed Amendment of Section on Eukaryotic Virus Vectors 11 
.Proposal to Eliminate Section I-D-3 14 
.Proposal to Include All Species of Genus Erwinia in Appendix A, 
Sublist A 15 
.Proposal to Amend Portions of Section III-A-2-a 16 
.Proposed Exemption for Streptococcus Mutans and Streptococcus 
Sanguis 17 
.Proposals to Clone Exotoxin A Protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 17 
.Proposals Requiring Assignment of Containment Level 19 
A. Request to consider containment appropriate to 
returning Helminthosporium m aydis DNA cloned in 
yeast to the host of origin 19 
B. Request to evaluate containment appropriate 
to returning Schizophyllum commune ENA cloned 
in yeast to the host of origin 20 
C. Consideration of appropriate containment for 
cloning Wangiella dermatitidis ENA 20 
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