31 July 2003
Source: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html

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[Federal Register: July 31, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 147)]
[Notices]
[Page 44928-44929]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary


Defense Science Board

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board Task Force on Quarantining Guidance
for the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Epidemic will meet in
open session September 15, 2003,

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from 0930-1200 and from 1300-1500. The Task Force will meet at SAIC,
4001 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 500, Arlington, VA. The Task Force will
review the impact quarantining may have on DoD planning and operations
by preventing the flow of personnel and material to areas of concern,
eroding relationships with host countries, and impacting our forces
through anxieties about family members.
    The mission of the Defense Science Board is to advise the Secretary
of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,
Technology & Logistics on scientific and technical matters as they
affect the perceived needs of the Department of Defense. At this
meeting, the Defense Science Board Task Force will review and evaluate
the Department's ability to provide information to integrate public
health needs, on behalf of national security. Specifically, the Task
Force will review: Existing doctrine and processes by which quarantine
policy is generated; required cooperation with non-DoD agencies and
non-U.S. government entities, including other countries; the capacity
of local commanders to rapidly survey disease status, and establish
need, ways and means for quarantine in relation to their assigned
missions; methods, technologies and doctrine to allow safe transport of
personnel through quarantine areas, and restriction of movement where
needed; sample scenarios; coordination and allocation of DoD and non
DoD resources to combat SARS; identification and tracking of
individuals potentially exposed to SARS; and features of the SARS
guidance which may be applicable to future infectious disease
outbreaks.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: CDR David Waugh, USN, Defense Science
Board, 3140 Defense Pentagon, Room 3D865, Washington, DC 20301-3140,
via e-mail at david.waugh@osd.mil, or via phone at (703) 695-4158.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Members of the public who wish to attend the
meeting must contact CDR Waugh no later than September 5, 2003, for
further information about admission as seating is limited.
Additionally, those who wish to make oral comments or deliver written
comments should also request to be scheduled, and submit a written text
of the comments by September 5, 2003, to allow time for distribution to
Task Force members prior to the meeting. Individual oral comments will
be limited to five minutes, with the total oral comment period not
exceeding 30 minutes.

    Dated: July 23, 2003.
Patricia Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 03-19450 Filed 7-30-03; 8:45 am]

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