[Federal Register: July 31, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 147)]
[Notices]               
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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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