PREFACE 
Ttiis docunent is the seventh in a series constituting a "public record" of 
activities in regard to the NIK Guidelines for reconbinant ENA research. 
Ihe first six volimes cover events fron February 1975 through Decenter 1980. 
This seventh voltire covers events from November 1980 through August 1982 cul- 
minating in the revised "NIK Guidelines for Research In\rolving Reconbinant 
E^A Molecules" as published in the Federal Register on August 27, 1982. 
These appear first in this volone. 
volumes 1 through 5 in this series may be purchased frcm the Superintendent of 
Documents, U.S. COvernment Printing Office, Viashington, D.C. 20402, or viewed 
in some 600 pifclic libraries of the GPO depository system. The GPO stock 
nunber of Vblone 1 is 017-004-00398-6; \k>lime 2, 017-040-00422-2 and (supple- 
ment: ESTvirormental Lnpact Statanent) 017-040-00413-3; Vblunne 3, 017-040-00429-0 
and (appendices) 017-040-00430-3; Vblime 4, 017-040-00443-5 and (appendices) 
017-040-00442-7; and Malume 5, 017-040-00470-2. \tolume 6 is available from 
the Office of Reconbinant DT^ Activities, ^tetionell Institutes of Health, 
Bethesda, Maryland 20205. 
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