95th Congress ) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
2d Session j 
Reft. 95- 
1005 Part 1 
RECOMBINANT DNA ACT 
Mabch 24, 1978. — Ordered to be printed 
Mr. Staggers, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign 
Commerce, submitted the following 
REPORT 
together with 
DISSENTING AND SEPARATE VIEWS 
[To accompany H.R. 11192] 
[Including the Congressional Budget Office cost estimate] 
The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was 
referred the bill (H.R. 11192) to extend for 2 years the scope of the 
containment requirements and the requirements of the experimental 
guidelines of the National Institutes of Health respecting recombinant 
DNA research to include all public and private recombinant DNA 
activities and to provide for a study respecting research and technol- 
ogy involving genetic manipulation, having considered the same, re- 
port favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill 
as amended do pass. 
The amendments (stated in terms of the page and line numbers of 
the introduced billl) are as follows : 
Page 3, beginning in line 11, strike out “have been formed by join- 
ing together DNA segments in a cell free system” and insert in lieu 
thereof “are formed by joining together DNA segments outside of 
living cells”. 
Page 5, line 18, insert “tenth day after the” before “date of”. 
Page 5, beginning in line 22, strike out “ninety days from the date 
of the enactment of this Act” and insert in lieu thereof “ten days from 
the date such regulations first take effect under such subsection”. 
Page 6, line 10, insert “, in accordance with regulations promulgated 
under subsection (d),” before “such”. 
Page 7, strike out lines 7 through 9. 
Page 7, strike out “Act” in lines 21 and 22 and insert in lieu thereof 
“title”. 
Page 11, line 17, strike out “(E)” and insert in lieu thereof “(B)”. 
Page 11, beginning in line 19, strike out “, facilities, and alll other 
things in the place” and insert in lieu thereof “and facilities”. 
Page 15, insert after line 17 the following : 
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