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1 appropriate bounds of authority between a central federal 
2 agency, which could assure that requisite technical and 
3 policy considerations are brought to bear on aspects of 
4 the regulatory process, and the local IBC's, which could 
5 assure sensitivity to local conditions and provide an 
0 extended means of public participation in the regulatory 
7 process, needs to be further developed. 
8 My written comments expand on this a bit. 
g Let me point out that one of the problems with the 
10 guidelines as written is that they amount to what I 
11 would call paper platitudes. That is to say, nice 
12 things are written down on paper, but there is no 
13 assurance that those things can be translated into 
14 actual practice of what goes on in the laboratories. 
15 I have had students of mine who have gone into P 2 
18 laboratories and found people eating lunch there, 
17 although they are not supposed to. It is not because 
18 they are mean or evil researchers, it is because of 
19 the fact that human beings are careless and become 
20 irresponsible. Those are the kinds of things that 
21 need to be protected against. 
22 I have a set of procedural requirements I 
23 would like to recommend to the committee. They are 
24 ones that we use at the University of Washington, in 
25 our IBC. They are quite sensible, and I think they 
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