INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON RECOMBINANT DNA RESEARCH 
Minutes of Meeting 
November 23, 1976 
National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda, Maryland 
I. Reports of Performer Agencies 
The second meeting of the Interagency Committee on Recombinant DNA 
Research was convened at the National Institutes of Health on 
November 23 . The meeting, chaired by Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson, 
Director of the NIH, was held from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and was 
conducted in three sections — reports given by the performer agencies, 
reports rendered by the regulatory agencies, and other business. 
Dr. Charles Lewis, representing the Department of Agriculture, was the 
first to outline his agency's plans to fulfill the functions involved 
in conducting recombinant DNA research in accordance with the NIH 
guidelines. Dr. Lewis reported that an ad hoc committee had been 
formed to determine what permanent bodies need to be established to 
take care of implementing the guidelines. A draft letter from this 
committee has recently been sent to the administrators of the four 
agencies of USDA stating that the Department will comply with the guide- 
lines as written. Responses to this letter have not yet been received. 
It was further reported that the Forest Service is currently conducting 
two projects in which recombinant DNA research is involved, the 
Agricultural Research Service is conducting another, and a fourth is 
being supported at the University of California at Davis. The Coopera- 
tive State Research Service inventory of projects was not received 
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