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1 remain rational and useful." 
2 HR. LIdASSI: Thank you very much. 
3 Let me call Dr. Faust Iron the Department of 
4 Agriculture as the next witness. 
5 Incidentally, let ne just say that while one 
g nenber of another Federal department is speaking now, I 
1 do want to acknowledge the cooperation of the Federal 
g Interagency Committee , which has been working with 
g Dr. Fredrickson on these guidelines for some time -- 
10 several months, or in fact, more like several years. 
11 We do appreciate tne cooperation which the other Federal 
12 agencies have been jiving to us. 
13 Now, I think if we are ready, you nay go ahead, 
14 Dr. Faust, from the Department of Agriculture. 
15 DR. FAUST: I am Robert Faust with the Department 
16 of Agriculture's Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland. 
17 I am also the chair uan of the biosafety committee there at 
18 that institution. 
19 In October of 1977 , the ARPAC Subcommittee on 
20 agricultural recombinant DNA research was established to 
21 concern itself with natters relating to guidelines for 
22 recombinant DNA research and any regulatory processes 
23 that ..light develop. It also was assigned the responsibility 
24 for developing recommendations and possible model procedures 
25 indicating how agriculturally related sciences and their 
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