INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON RECOMBINANT DNA RESEARCH 
Minutes of Meeting 
March 10 & 14, 1977 
National Institutes of Health 
Bethesda, Maryland 
The fourth and fifth meetings of the Interagency Committee took place on 
March 10, from 8:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and March 14, during the same hours, 
at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Donald Fredrickson, Director of 
the NIH, chaired both meetings. 
In opening the meeting on March 10, Dr. Fredrickson noted that five bills 
had been introduced into the Congress since the last meeting and that the 
House Public Health Subcommittee, chaired by Representative Rogers, would 
be holding hearings on recombinant DNA research on March 15-17. Changes 
to pages 7,8, and 16 of the minutes of the February 25 meeting of the 
Committee were accepted. New drafts of these pages were distributed to 
all members of the Committee. 
The main agenda item for both meetings was to prepare an Interim Report 
for transmittal to HEW Secretary Califano on suggested elements for 
legislation. The Committee reviewed at length a number of issues for 
inclusion in the interim report to the Secretary and they are described 
below. 
The Committee formally adopted the interim report by unanimous consent, 
save for abstentions by the representatives from the Council on Environmental 
Quality and the Department of Justice. 
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