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RCED-92-217R 1 (1992-06-12)

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GAO          United States
             General Accounting Office
             Washington, D.C. 20548

             Resources, Community, and
             Economic Development Division
             B-248124



             June 12, 1992
                                                                 146896


             The Honorable Ron Wyden
             Chairman, Subcommittee on Regulation,
               Business Opportunities, and Energy
            Committee on Small Business
            House of Representatives

            Dear Mr. Chairman:

            This letter responds to your April 29, 1992, request for
            information on our attempts to interview staff and obtain
            documents from the Council on Competitiveness during our
            recently completed review of the Environmental Protection
            Agency's (EPA) efforts to issue a biotechnology regulation
            under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).'
            Biotechnology has the potential to dramatically improve the
            quality of human and animal health, the food supply, and
            the environment. However, safeguards are needed to ensure
            that the release of organisms created by biotechnology does
            not pose an unreasonable risk to public health or the
            environment.

            At your request, we examined (1) the history of EPA's
            efforts to issue the regulation, including the record of
            interagency dealings on this subject, and (2) the prospects
            and likely time frame for attainment of a final regulation.
            The results of this review are in a separate report,
            Biotechnology: Delays in and Status of EPA's Efforts to


            'Biotechnology is the application of biological procedures,
            such as genetic engineering, to living organisms or their
            components to create new vaccines, pesticides, insect-
            resistant plants, bacteria that break down toxic wastes,
            and other products and services. EPA considers
            microorganisms and their component parts used in
            biotechnology products to be chemical substances and thus
            subject to regulation under the Toxic Substances Control
            Act.

                                      GAO/RCED-92-217R, Biotechnology Regulation

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