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DR. WALTERS: I think in the long term those are 
functions for the biological safety officer. I think 
that there is not at this point standardized training 
they come from a variety of backgrounds. I think, as 
standard curriculum and a certification procedure will 
persons . 
all very desirable 
the concept is so new 
for such persons, and 
time goes on, no doubt 
be developed for such 
a 
MR. HELMS: 
remarks later. 
I would just suggest that — well, 
perhaps I can put that 
in my 
DR. FREDRICKSON: Any comments or questions? We have 12 witnesses, so 
may we — 
Dr. Gartland. 
DR. GARTLAND: I would 1 
earlier, and that is that the 
review the proposed EK2 phage 
Register , they are open, publ 
and available at the meeting 
ike to respond to something that Mr. Hutt asked 
meetings of the technical subcommittees that 
and plasmid systems are announced in the Federal 
ic meetings, and the documents are distributed 
to anyone who wishes to see them. 
MR. HUTT: But was it made clear in the Federal Register announcement of 
those meetings that the applications had been received and were available for 
anyone who wished to inspect them ahead of time, and that that specific sub- 
ject would be taken up? 
DR. GARTLAND: Not explicitly. 
DR. FREDRICKSON: . Professor Rosenblith. 
PROFESSOR ROSENBLITH: Just to answer one question that was raised 
earlier, and to reinforce another remark, the Cambridge Biohazards Committee 
is not a biohazards committee that is responsible in any direct way for either 
of the two Cambridge institutions. They have their separate biohazards com- 
mittee which deals with the sovereignty of Cambridge through the Cambridge 
City Biohazards Committee. In other words, that is a completely different 
story . 
I was a little surprised not to hear in the chronology of implementation 
the kind of pathology that arises when local requirements come in some kind of 
conflict with those that exist at a Federal level. I do have to say that in 
terms of university regulatory apparatus, which is at the present time growing 
probably faster than any academic field, that in that respect we are really 
very, very grateful that no rigid kinds of measures are being suggested here. 
We have in the past several years had to reorganize our whole safety and 
environmental health area. We have, as you heard yesterday, appointed a 
biological health and safety officer whose obligations are still growing con- 
siderably as he discovers the lay of the terrain. But I do think it is im- 
portant to realize that the cost of that regulatory apparatus is a very pro- 
hibitive overhead on the way in which research is being done, in addition to 
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