CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
A Statutory College ot the State University 
COLLEGE OF ARTS and SCIENCES 
WING HALL. ITHACA. NEW YORK U353 
Division of Biological Sciences 
December 21, 1979 
Dr. Donald Frederickson 
Director of the National 
Institutes of Health 
Bethesda, Maryland 20205 
Dear Dr. Frederickson: 
I strongly recommend that the new proposed guidelines of November 30, 
1979 be instituted. Section III-O (p. 69218) is particularly rational. 
A multitude of real environmental problems confront us today. I believe 
it is irresponsible to waste time and energy regulating non-existent hazards. 
Recombinant DNA research has already demonstrated its worth as a tool 
in basic research and as a technique by which many of our medical and energy 
problems can be solved. This revision removes some of the impediments that 
hamper this work and it is clearly a positive step in the direction of com- 
mon sense in the federal guidelines. 
Sincerely 
Bik-Kwoon Tye 
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