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1 language for that. 
2 Thank you. 
3 MR. LIBASSI: Thank you. If you have additional 
4 comments to make that you did not get to read is your 
5 statement with us? 
6 MR. HARTZMAN: It is just in notes at this point. 
7 I will write it — 
8 MR. LIBASSI: If you could just drop us a letter 
9 with any other additional comments, we would appreciate 
10 getting them. 
11 MR. HARTZMAN: Certainly. 
12 MR. LIBASSI: Thank you. 
13 David Coplin? 
14 dr. COPLIN: My name is David Coplin, and I an 
15 Assistant Professor at the Ohio Agricultural Research and 
16 Development Center, which is the experiment station for 
1 7 the Ohio State University. I am also a member of the 
I 9 American Phytopatholog ical Society's Committee on Recom- 
19 binant DNA . My training is in both bacteriology and 
20 plant pathology. I am currently working on the genetics 
21 of plant pathogenic bacteria. 
22 as a plant scientist, I am concerned that the 
23 genetic studies on plants and plant parasites have been 
24 delayed under the present 1976 guidelines for recombinant 
25 DNA research. I will be commenting on the guidelines 
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