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TV. Experiments /Field Test to be Performed 
A. Conditions 
B. Monitoring/Control/Feedback 
Dr. Amtzen felt the language of this part should be broad enough to cover 
applications such as use in sewage or sludge treatment plants, mineral leaching, 
toxic chemical degradation, etc. Dr. Tolin suggested the language should also 
extend to live attenuated vaccines. 
Dr. McGarrity asked Drs. Gottesman, Pirone, Colwell, Tolin, and Rissler to develop 
over lunch a cut and paste outline document, using the outline generated by 
the working group, the original subgroup draft document (Attachment IV), and 
portions of the TSCA Premanufacture Notice documents (Attachments VII, VIII). 
Report on a National Conference 
Dr. McGarrity asked Dr. Pramer to report on the status of the national symposium 
to evaluate deliberate releases of genetically modified organisms. Dr. Pramer 
said the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) had been asked by Representa- 
tive Albert Gore (D-TN) to organize a national symposium on this topic and to 
publish a proceedings of the meeting. This symposium will be funded by HHS, 
EPA, and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He said ASM is 
currently contacting other scientific societies such as those of agronomy and 
phytopathology to elicit their help in planning a program. Dr. Pramer said 
ASM hopes to hold this meeting in the spring. 
Dr. Amtzen asked if the meeting would only address release questions inwlving 
microbes. Dr. Pramer said he didn't know at this point, but ASM is oriented 
towards microbiology. 
Discussion of Response to Gore Report 
Dr. McGarrity said the Working Group on Release into the Environment at its 
April 9, 1984, meeting had considered in detail the report (called the Gore 
Report) of the staff of the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of 
the House of Representatives Ccrrmittee on Science and Technology. At that 
meeting, the working group had developed responses to the recanmendations of 
the Gore Report. These responses were considered by RAC at its June 1, 1984, 
meeting. The RAC accepted the working group's responses to the recommendations 
of the Gore Report and directed the working group to compose a reply to Repre- 
sentative Gore. 
Dr. McGarrity asked the working group to consider the appropriate form of a 
response. He said one possibility would be to send the minutes of the RAC and 
the April 9 working group meeting to Representative Gore. He pointed out that 
staff members of the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight were present 
during the RAC discussion and are aware of RAC's evaluation of the report. 
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