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risks involved. Accordingly, we request that the NIH 
withdraw the EA and the FONSI, conduct the additional 
experiments requested in these comments and make a new 
evaluation before issuing another EA . In light of the 
unresolved environmental issues and potential impacts 
involved, it would be preferable for the NIH to prepare 
an EIS on the experiment at the outset rather than 
going through the interim step of preparing an EA . Had 
the NIH done so at the outset, the EIS could have been 
completed by this time and it will undoubtedly prove to 
be necessary. 
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