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Report from OTA 
Dr. Harsanyi said that the OTA report "Impacts of Applied Genetics," 
originally due to be completed in August 1980, is now slated for submission 
to the Technology Assessment Board about December 1, 1980. If approved by 
the Board, it will be released to the public about January 15, 1981. Dr. Robbins 
requested that the part of the report giving an estimate of the future magnitude 
of industrial applications of genetic engineering (capital, workers, etc.) be 
released to the Industrial Practices Subcommittee earlier than January 1981. 
Dr. Omenn asked Dr. Harsanyi to take this request under consideration. 
Report form N IOSH 
Dr. Robbins distributed the report of the NIOSH walk-through survey, conducted 
on March 28 at the Eli Lilly and Company Research Laboratories, Indianapolis, 
Indiana. (The report is appended as Attachment B.) Mr. Elliott reported 
that Lilly was pleased with the report and that, in response to an invitation 
from Lilly, NIOSH may return for a more in-depth industrial hygiene survey. 
Dr. Robbins said that NIOSH walk-through surveys have also been conducted at 
Genentech and Cetus . The final reports of these surveys are not yet available, 
as it is NIOSH policy to first send a draft report to the group visited and to 
consider modification of the report based on comments received before finalization. 
When finalized, the reports will be shared with the Industrial Practices Subcommittee. 
The team that went on the walk-through surveys is the nucleus of a group of 
NIOSH biological scientists, industrial hygienists, chemists and engineers who 
will look at occupational health issues involved in industrial uses of recombinant 
DNA. Continued industrial hygiene surveys will be done for fact-finding to see 
if problems exist. These are routine components of NIOSH research investigations 
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