diseases from foreign countries into the States 
or possessions, or from one State or possession 
into any other State or- possession . . 
It further provides that: 
for purposes of carrying out and enforcing such 
regulations, the [Secretary] may provide for such 
inspection, . . . disinfection . . . and other 
measures, as in his judgment may be necessary. 
Recombinant DNA research and technology could create novel 
infectious agents or increase the virulence and range of existing 
infectious agents. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement recog- 
nizes that recombinant DNA activities could produce microorganisms 
that cause disease in laboratory workers and the general public. 
In describing the Guidelines the Draft EIS states: 
"The emphasis on protection of laboratory workers from • 
infection reflects the fact that laboratory workers are 
the persons at the greatest risk of infection and that 
the ntbst likely route of escape of possibly hazardous 
agents from the laboratory is the laboratory worker.” 
(41 Fed. Reg. 38432) 
In describing the highest level of physical containment required 
by the Guidelines to the Draft EIS states that such facilities are: 
"designed to contain microorganisms that are extremely 
hazardous to man or may cause serious epidemic disease." 
The kinds of disease which may be caused by recombinant DNA 
activities are described in Section III of this petition ( infra 
at pp. 9 - 12) . 
The Secretary has defined "communicable disease" in regulations 
promulgated under Section 361 to govern the importation of animals 
and establish drinking water standards. For the purposes of both 
these sets of regulations a communicable disease is "An illness due 
to an infectious agent or its toxic product ..." transmitted by 
persons, animals, plants or the inanimate environment. (42 C.F.R. 
§§71. 1(b) , 72.1(b)). These regulatory definitions of communicable 
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