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Guideline* based on assumptions o&n promote a false sense of security 
within the governmental; academic and industrial scoters involved in 
recombinant DVA researoh. Though DBA reoombinant research technology will 
oontinue to provide answers and solutions to perplexing «*eientifio 
questions, it should not be oonduoted with a false sense of security, for 
this oan only lead to undesirable conaequenoes. 
In reference to the administration of the proposed gui delines, enoouraglng the 
institutional bio-haxard committees to assume a greater portion of responsibility 
for the soientifio work oonduoted is an ideal goal. But, perhaps, such looal 
oontrol might inhibit rather than enhance the soientifio freedom of inquiry 
via the establishment of a soientifio elitism and "researoh-grant favoritism". 
Sincerely, 
Mary Jane A. Riooiutti 
oonoerned oitisen 
[A-98] 
