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(5) to monitor compliance by the owners or operators ‘of a 
licensed facility and persons authorized by license to engage in 
recombinant DNA activities, in connection with a licensed fa- 
cility ; and 
(6) to undertake any other such activities that are incidental 
to enforcement of provisions of this bill. The Commission shall 
encourage through contracts the development of effective epide- 
miological methods and technologies to monitor the production 
and dissemination of recombinant DNA and the biological or 
chemical products of recombinant DNA activities. 
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS 
Section 1803 of the bill S. 1217 states that effective 265 days after 
the enactment of the bill 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 are conducted in a licensed fa- 
cility. A license to authorize recombinant DNA activities to be con- 
ducted in a facility shall be issued only upon an application made by 
the persons who own or operate the facility in such a form and manner 
as will be described by the Commission. The application for a license 
shall include the following : 
(A) The names of persons who own or operate the facility to 
be licensed and the location of such facility ; 
(B) The names, addresses and qualifications of persons to be 
authorized by the license to engage in recombinant DNA activities 
in connection with such facility ; 
(C) A detailed description of the proposed recombinant DNA 
projects to be conducted in the facility ; 
(D) A detailed description of the facility and the materials to 
be used in connection with recombinant DNA activities at the 
facility ; 
(E) Certification to the Commission that the facility and 
recombinant DNA activities will meet all applicable requirements 
prescribed by regulations under this bill and appropriate State 
requirements if such requirements have been exempted by the 
Commission. 
(F) Certification to the Commission that all personnel who 
will work in the facility will receive adequate training related 
to the safety of recombinant DNA activities ; 
(Gr) Certification to the Commission that persons who own or 
operate such facility and the persons who are authorized by the 
license to engage in recombinant DNA activities in connection' with 
the facility agree to permit inspections of the facility and accept a 
; duty to promptly report to the Commission any material changes 
regarding any information submitted to the Commission under 
this bill, and to promptly report such changes ; and 
(H) Any additional information and assurances related to the 
safety of recombinant DNA activities as the Commission- may 
prescribe. 
A license issued under this Section shall be valid for such period 
(but not in excess' of 24 months) as the Commission may prescribe 
and may be renewed in such manner as the Commission may prescribe. 
Such a license shall contain such terms and conditions as the Com- 
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