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


                      FOR  RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                        Expected at 9:30 a.m.
    128550          Wednesday,  December 4, 1985


                            Statement of
                         Brian  P. Crowley
                    Senior Associate  Director,
      Resources, Community, and Economic  Development Division
                            before  the
           Subcommittee on Investigations  and Oversight
                              of  the
             House Committee on Science  and Technology
                              on  the
                    General Accounting Office's
             Review of the Department of Agriculture's
                 Role in Regulating Biotechnology



Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:



     We are here today at your invitation  to discuss our ongoing
review of the Department of Agriculture's  (USDA's) role in
regulating biotechnology.


     Our review is being done at the request of Chairman  Don Fuqua
of the full committee and builds on the work we did  for our
recently issued report to Chairman Fuqua entitled The U.S.
Department of Agriculture's Biotechnology Research  Efforts
(GAO/RCED-86-39BR; Oct. 25, 1985).  That report  identified 778
biotechnology research projects funded by USDA during  the 1984-85
time frame at a cost of $40.5 million.  The report  also identified


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