Federal Register / Vol. 45, No. 218 / Friday, November 7, 1980 / Notices 
74063 
Institutional Biosafety Committee 
Chairpersons; Meeting 
Notice is hereby given of a Workshop 
for the Institutional Biosafety Committee 
(EBC) Chairpersons. The Workshop is 
being held on November 24 and 25, 1980, 
at the Shoreham Hotel on Calvert St., 
Washington, D.C. and is being 
sponsored by the National Institute of 
Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The 
meeting will convene at 8:00 a.m. on 
November 24, 1980 and will be open to 
the public; attendance will be limited to 
space available. 
The Workshop is designed to provide 
an opportunity for the Chairpersons of 
all Institutional Biosafety Committees to 
•tudy together how best to address and 
resolve 6ome problems they may face 
and to serve as a stimulus for action at 
the local level. In addition, the 
Workshop will serve as the first stage of 
a forma! evaluation process to assess 
whether the IBCs as constituted have 
been able to meet the increasing 
responsibilities that changes in the NIH 
Guidelines for Recombinant DNA 
Research have thrust upon them and to 
identify and seek solutions to problems 
at both the federal and institutional 
level. 
Topics covered during the meeting in 
plenary sessions will include; 
• Review and Update of the NIH 
Guidelines for Recombinant DNA 
Research. 
• Recombinant DNA Advisory 
Committee Procedures and Operations. 
• Operations of Institutional 
Biosafety Committees (IBC). 
• Other Federal Regulations and 
Guidelines that Impact on Biomedical 
Science. 
• Proposed plan for evaluation of the 
IBCs. 
In addition to the plenary sessions 
there will be*three workshops: 
• The EBC as a Means of 
Implementing Institutional Oversight. 
• Health Surveillance, Monitoring and 
Certification. 
• IBC Procedures and Operations. 
Further detailed information can be 
obtained from Dr. John Nutter, Chief, 
Office of Specialized Research & 
Facilities, National Institute of Allergy ft 
Infectious Diseases, National Institutes 
of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20205, 
(301-496-6752). 
Dated: October 28, 1980. 
Suzanne L. Freroeau, 
Committee Management Officer, NIH. 
OMB's "Mandatory Information 
Requirements for Federal Assistance Program 
Announcements” (45 FR 39592) requires a 
statement concerning the official government 
programs contained in the Catalog of Federal 
Domestic Assistance. Normally NIH lists in 
its announcements the number and title of 
affected individual programs for tbe guidance 
of the public. Because the guidance in this 
notice covers not only virtually every NIH 
program but also essentially every federal 
research program in which DNA recombinant 
molecule techniques could be used, it has 
been determined to be not cost effective or in 
the public interest to attempt to list these 
programs. Such a list would likely require 
several additional pages. In addition, NIH 
could not be certain that every federal 
program would be included as many federal 
agencies, as well as private organizations, 
both national and international, have elected 
to follow the NIH Guidelines. In lieu of the 
individual program listing, NIH invites 
readers to direct questions to the information 
address above about whether individual 
programs listed in the Catalog of Federal 
Domestic Assistance are affected. 
Note. — NIH programs are not covered by 
OMB Circular A-95 because they fit the 
description of "programs not considered 
appropriate" in Section 8(b) (4) and (5) of that 
Circular. 
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