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1 monograph. Now I, fortunately, have a superb technical 
2 staff and administrative staff that allow me to pursue 
3 this. The job description for the new professional in 
4 the academic and industrial community as a result of 
5 recombinant DNA research, as described in the laboratory 
6 monograph, is very difficult to be performed by a single 
7 individual. The panel that drew up this proposal recog- 
3 nized this, and felt that perhaps the responsibilities 
g could be spread through an entire safety organization. 
10 I would plead with the individuals who 
11 originally proposed that document, in that the last 
12 thing we need in academics right now is an administrative 
13 safety officer. But I think that my comments should be 
14 directed to the fact that, of the ten individuals who 
15 prepared that document, and it is an important document 
15 in biological safety — please don't get me wrong -- 
17 six were from the NIH, two were from Frederick Cancer 
1 8 Research Center, one from the Center for Disease Control, 
19 and one from the National Animal Disease Center. These 
2 Q individuals were all experts in biological safety. 
21 However, there is no input from the academic or the 
22 industrial communities into the construction of a document 
23 which will somehow be used to regulate them in certain 
2 4 capacities. 
25 I would like to point out that while they were 
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