MONTGOMERY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT 
Division of Disease Control 
2000 Dennis Ave., Su. 206 
Silver Spring, Md., 20902 
681-5000 
MEMORANDUM 
January 18, 1982 
TO: Director, Office of Recombinant DNA Activities 
National Institutes of Health 
Building 31, Room 4A52 
Bethesda, Md., 20205 
FROM: Eugene A. Rosenberger, M.D., Director 
Division of Disease Control 
SUBJ : Proposed Revisions of NIH Guidelines for Research Involving 
Recombinant DNA Molecules 
REF: Your memo of December 18, 1981; subject as above. 
The Montgomery County Health Department concurs with the proposed revisions 
developed by the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee and published in the Federal 
Register dated December 4, 1981. 
Under the revisions, it was noted that the National Institutes of Health 
Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules will become a voluntary 
code of good practice. In addition, it is understood that each institution con- 
ducting or sponsoring recombinant DNA research will have responsibility for moni- 
toring its own activities in this area and that any unusual events would be re- 
ported to the Director, National Institutes of Health. 
EAR/af 
attachment 
cc: Mrs. Ruth Spector, Montgomery County Council 
Mr. Robert Carty, Acting Director, Health Dept. 
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