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committee on In v e s t i g a t i on s and Oversight conducted 
informational hearings on several topics: commercialization of 
biotechnology, fraud in biomedical research, genetic screening, 
university and industry cooperation, and application to 
agriculture research. In April 1983, Representative Albert 
Gore, Jr., (D-Tenn.) introduced a bill to establish the 
President's Commission on the Human Applications of Genetic 
Engineering. The bill (H.R. 2788) was' offered and approved as 
an amendment to the NIH authorization bill in the House Energy 
and Commerce Committee. The legislation would create a 
Commission empowered to conduct comprehensive reviews of 
developments in genetic engineering that have implications for 
human genetic engineering. The entire NIH bill passed the House 
in November, 1983. A similar provision has not yet passed the 
Senate. 
D. Federal Agencies and Bodies of Law 
In the fall of 1976, a federal interagency committee 
was established to coordinate regulation of federally-funded 
rDNA research. Agencies of this committee were: the NIH, 
National Science Foundation, Department of Agriculture, 
Veteran's Administration, Department of Energy, Department of 
Commerce, Department of Defense, Center for Disease Control, 
Food and Drug Administration, Department of Interior, Department 
of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of State, Department 
of Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, the White 
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