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Exhibit #3C to the memorandum, which is Exhibit C to 
Nutter's letter, is a portion of a transcript of testimony which 
defendants contend authorized the expenditure of the funds. 
However, a reading of the transcript reveals no such authorization. 
What is said, is the following: 
"At next year's hearings Ql977j the Committee 
would welcome a report on the potential 
usefulness to NIH of the unused buildings 
and equipment at Ft. Detrick together with 
cost estimates for whatever modifications 
are required to adapt them to productive 
biomedical research." 
No such report or estimate was provided to Congress; 
no Congressional authorization for conversion of the Ft. Detrick 
facility to biomedical research is, by the defendants' own 
admissions, existent. 
The posture of compliance with NEPA by the defendants 
is this: 
(a) Defendant Fredericks on has concluded that an 
environmental impact assessment should be done on the 
proposed guidelines for the conduction of recombinant 
DNA research. (Federal Register Volume 41, No. 131 — 
We dne s da y , July 7, 1976 , page 27906) 
(b) A "draft environmental impact statement" on the 
guidelines for recombinant DNA research has been 
prepared and circulated (Federal Register Volume 41, 
No. 176 — Thursday, September 9, 1976, page 38426). 
(c) No final environmental impact statement has been 
prepared on the guidelines for conduction of recombinant 
DNA research . 
[Appendix C — 88] 
