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DNA, protect the environment , and protect the health of 
the population of the surrounding community. 
“(g) Effective one hundred and fifty days after the 
date of enactment of this title, no person may engage in 
recombinant DNA activities in the States, or in any area 
subject to the jurisdiction of the United States unless such 
activities comply with the regulations promulgated under sec- 
tion 1804(a)(1) or until licensed under section 1803. 
“ LICENSING REQUIREMENTS 
“Sec. 1804. (a) For purposes of protecting the health 
and safety of individuals who work with recombinant DNA, 
the health and safety of the public at large, and the integrity 
of the environment, the Commission shall — 
“(1) no later than one hundred and twenty days 
after the date of enactment of this title, promulgate, as 
final, regulations which prescribe physical and biological 
containment requirements for recombinant DNA activi- 
ties which during the one hundred and eighty day period 
beginning on the date of the promulgation of regulations 
under this paragraph shall be no less stringent than the 
physical and biological containment requirements pre- 
scribed by the recombinant DNA Research Guidelines 
of the National Institutes of Health which are in effect 
on the date of enactment of this title ; 
“(2) no later than ninety days after the date of 
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