[Federal Register: October 2, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 191)]
[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 October 27, 2003, 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

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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 quarantined 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 email 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 October 20, 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 October 20, 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: September 25, 2003.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 03-24988 Filed 10-1-03; 8:45 am]

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