[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 232 (Wednesday, December 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 67660]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-30034]


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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 January 14, 2004, 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-US 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 mission; 
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 e-mail at [email protected], 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 January 5, 2004, 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 January 5, 2004, 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: November 21, 2003.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 03-30034 Filed 12-2-03; 8:45 am]
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