UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO 
BERKELEY • DAVIS • IRVINE • LOS ANGELES • RIVERSIDE • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO 
PROGRAM IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY 
AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS 
Q-060 
LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA 92093 
HERBERT F. YORK, Director 
Professor of Physics 
June 23, 1982 
HANNES ALFVEN 
Professor of Applied Physics 
and Information Science 
G. ANAGNOSTOPOULOS 
Assoc. Professor of Philosophy 
JAMES R. ARNOLD 
Professor of Chemistry 
Dr. William Gartland, Jr. 
Di rector 
Office of Recombinant DNA Activities 
Building 31, Room 4A52 
National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda, Maryland 20205 
JAMES N. BRUNE 
Professor of Geophysics 
Dear Bill : 
CLIFFORD GROBSTEIN 
Professor of Biological 
Science and Public Policy 
SANFORD A. LAKOFF 
Professor of Political Science 
STANFORD S. PENNER 
Professor of Engineering Physics 
ROGER R. REVELLE 
Professor of Science and 
Public Policy 
I wish to record my strong support for the amendment 
to the NIH guidelines proposed by Richard Goldstein 
and Richard Novick. I agree entirely with their 
statement of rationale and further note that the 
matter is an excellent example of what the RAC 
can now usefully do to address important issues 
excluded from the Asilomar agenda and post-Asilomar 
policy making. 
With very best regards, 

Clif'^rd Grobstein 
CG:aw 
