Word: emption
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill contains a controversial "pre-emption clause," establishing a Federal standard as the regulator of recombinant DNA research, rather than a local...
...George Hardy, a staffer for the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, said yesterday the pre-emption clause contains two conditions for the state or local government to establish its own guidelines: the local guidelines must be the same or more stringent than the federal ones, and the change must be necessary to protect local health or environmental conditions...
Harvard officials, as well as representatives for other universities, have lobbied intensively for passage of the pre-emption clause...
...bill now before the House includes a federal pre-emption clause. Indeed, one Congressional aide this week called it "the Harvard bill in dressed-up form;" both sides agree that the current bill is very similar to the one Harvard's lobbyists drafted...
...University's intensive lobbying on the pre-emption issue appears to reflect some anxiety over the city of Cambridge's efforts to ban recombinant DNA research in the fall of 1976. Harvard officials, however, have declined to comment on that score...