Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology before 
the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and 
Technology Subcommittees on Investigation and Oversight, Natural 
Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment and Science, 
Research and Technology (July 23, 1986). 
Because of the concerns expressed by these and other persons 
highly knowledgable in the field that the exemptions proposed in 
the Notice are not scientifically well founded, and may lead to 
the inadvertent failure to review and regulate experiments with 
serious risks, we request that those exemptions not be adopted. 
Sincerely yours 
Counsel for Foundation on 
Economic Trends and 
Jeremy Rifkin 
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