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actment of section 104. This section would be much less open to abuse 
if it were changed to provide (i) that suit could be brought only in 
the judicial district where recombinant DNA activity was actually 
conducted and (ii) that any citizen who wanted to sue would' 'have to 
post a bond (of perhaps $5,000), which would be forfeited ii the 
court decided that the suit was frivolous, capricious, or y^as made 
either in bad faith or for harassment. 
In closing, I ask my colleagues to guard against delaying, and per- 
haps even preventing, vital discoveries regarding recombinant DNA 
by over-hasty, though well-intentioned, action. A national statement 
concerning appropriate research methodology may, indeed, be desir- 
able. However, unnecessary and dangerous roadblocks to research 
progress exist in this legislation; and dangerous precedents are set, 
especially impacting on freedom of inquiry. DNA research may pro- 
vide blessings for millions of persons in the future. It will be done 
somewhere, with or without this legislation. 
Mike McCormack. 
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