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1 the National Institutes of Health, the scientific con- 
2 munity, and public interest groups which have enabled 
3 the development of guidelines on recombinant DNA research. 
4 In order that they nay have full impact, our comments 
5 today will be brief. 
6 In the State of New Jersey, we are concerned 
7 about the conduct of research at all institutions which 
8 have ongoing projects or are planning projects involving 
g recombinant DNA. In particular, we are concerned about 
10 research at those institutions which do not receive 
11 NIH funds and are not subject to the NIH guidelines. 
12 Therefore, we strongly urge you to retain in the final 
13 version Sections IV-C- 2 , IV-C- 3 , and IV-C -4 of the NIH 
14 revised Guidelines, as appearing in the Federal Reg ister 
15 of Friday, July 28 , 1978 . These sections are entitled, 
16 "Voluntary Registration and Certification," "Disclosure 
17 of Information," and "Patentable Materials." 
18 In essence, by retaining these sections, any 
19 institution which is not covered by the guidelines will 
20 be permitted to register their recombinant DNA research 
21 projects with NIH, and can request certification of pro- 
22 posed host-vector systems by NIH. The registrants will 
23 then in turn be required to abide by the physical and 
24 biological containment standards of the NIH guidelines. 
25 As you know, review of project proposals and 
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