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rules would become regulations. The last step then would be the develop- 
ment of regulations, the legal standing of which has been definitively es- 
tablished, although even here I think actions in the courts can affect the 
standing of regulations in regard to constitutional and statutory and other 
common law issues which they may cut across. 
Now, what do we propose to do from here? First, I would like to 
emphasize that no decision will be made today, that we will make the final 
decision on the basis of the record. It would be to make a charade of these 
proceedings were we to have intended to move otherwise, and it is therefore 
urged upon all of those who are here, committee and public, to remember that 
although they may not have said all they would like to have said at these 
hearings, they are invited to expand upon those comments to us, to me, in 
writing, for indeed it is to establish as full a record as we can possibly 
do that is in the best interest of all of us who are concerned with this 
problem. So you will have ample opportunity to respond to what you have 
heard today. 
I shall expect to have further consultation with the committee who 
developed these guidelines, and possibly with other experts. It is my 
hope, then, that this process can go on with all deliberate speed, and I 
note that this committee developing the guidelines meets again here in 
Bethesda on April 1 and 2, and I should hope at that time that we can have 
definite considerations available for it if there are to be modifications 
that we would ask it to consider for adoption. 
Now, this then is a brief summation of the path from this point. I 
would recommend that before we pick up the extension of what I have said, 
that we pause for a very brief coffee break, and that within 10 minutes, 
and certainly at the most 15, we return here to begin hearing from members 
of the committee with reference to their comments. 
(Brief recess.) 
DR. FREDRICKSON: I would like to clarify two of my remarks, because 
some confusion has resulted from them. 
First, in requesting that members of the committee and others here 
today take advantage, if they wish, of the opportunity to send expansion of 
their comments, I would like you to do so within the next 2 weeks. In fact, 
for the committee I am strongly requesting that you do send either a re- 
iteration or an expansion of your comments to me. I definitely would like 
to have those within the next 2 weeks , and that goes for any others who 
might wish to respond to that invitation. 
The second point of confusion is that I referred in April 1 to a meet- 
ing of the NIH committee. Clearly we are consumed with committees . I did 
not refer to this advisory committee, which will not meet again necessarily 
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