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The Debt to Taft

Title:: The Debt to Taft
Creator:: Fredrickson, Donald S.
Date:: 7 March 1989
Description:: As General Counsel of the Department of Heath, Education, and Welfare in 1976, William Howard Taft IV drafted an opinion that allowed NIH director Donald Fredrickson to promulgate the guidelines on recombinant DNA research without issuing, at the same time, an Environmental Impact Statement. The official Environmental Impact Statement was released in October 1977.
Location:: Box: 17. Folder: 11
Rights:: Public Domain
Genre:: Memoirs
Diaries
Excerpts
Subject:: Guidelines as Topic
Format:: Text
Extent:: 3 pages
Language:: English
Legacy ID:: FFBBHW
NLM ID:: 101584939X121
Profiles Collection:: The Donald S. Fredrickson Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584939X121
Story Section:: The Controversy over the Regulation of Recombinant DNA Research, 1975-1981