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DR. WALTERS: That was certainly the intent of u^ing the term "designate" 
rather than "appoint" or "hire." 
DR. FREDRICKSON: You omitted an explicit demand that such a person be 
h ired . 
DR. WALTERS: But it may be that the point that has been raised is a 
valid one in that someone at the institution who is not currently involved in 
recombinant DNA research himself or herself would be the most appropriate 
candidate for such designation. 
DR. FREDRICKSON: Mr. Beaty. 
MR. BEATY: In footnote nine of proposed revisions, the provision is 
described for setting up an area biohazard committee. I assume that would 
be auxiliary to a local institutional biohazard committee. As I understand 
it, something similar to this has been set up in Cambridge. It seems to me 
that there might be jurisdictional problems which would arise between having 
two committees serving the same area. Would you expand on that, and what 
sort of structure you recommend? 
DR. WALTERS: My understanding is that there would not be a duplication 
of functions between a local and an area committee, but where one institution 
simply did not have enough faculty members trained in the area of molecular 
biology to constitute its own biological safety committee, several local 
institutions would go together, pool their resources, and set up one area 
biohazards committee. 
MR. BEATY: Is it conceivable that this could be interpreted such that 
there would be two committ '‘s serving the same area, and that jurisdiction- 
al disputes would develop? 
DR. WALTERS: I suppose it is conceivable, and perhaps clarifying lan- 
guage ought to be added to that footnote. 
DR. FREDRICKSON: We will note that comment, Mr. Beaty. 
Dr. Ahmed. 
DR. AHMED: You have designated a requirement for safety officer only 
for those institutions that have P3 and P4 facilities. Right now there aren't 
any P4 , and only about a handful of P3 institutions. Isn't that correct? 
DR. WALTERS: Yes. Well, I don't know about a handful. Do you have the 
figure on the number of P3 facilities? 
DR. AHMED: It couldn't be more than about 13. I went through the list. 
DR. GARTLAND: There are 37 P3 projects right now. 
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