Department of Agriculture

Date:       November 15, 2002 (Friday)
Time:       9:30 a.m.
Location:  Quality Assurance Division, Conference Room
               1851 Auiki Street
               Honolulu, Hawaii

A. PLANT INDUSTRY DIVISION

1. Request for Adoption of Emergency Rules To Authorize Emergency Permits for State Department of Health and Tripler Army Medical Center To Import Microorganisms Determined Necessary for Laboratory Diagnostics for Emergency (Bioterrorism) Preparedness and Response.
ACTION — APPROVED

2. Request to: (1) Allow Importation of Various Listed and Unlisted Microorganisms Determined Necessary for Laboratory Diagnostics for Emergency (Bioterrorism) Preparedness and Response by (a) Hawaii Department of Health and (b) Tripler Army Medical Center, By Emergency Permit Pursuant to Emergency Rules Subchapter 12 of Chapter 4-71A, Hawaii Administrative Rules, Contingent Upon the Emergency Rules Adoption and Taking Effect; (2) Establish Emergency Permit Conditions for Various Listed and Unlisted Microorganisms Determined Necessary for Laboratory Diagnostics for Emergency (Bioterrorism) Preparedness and Response.
ACTION — APPROVED

3. Request to: (1) Allow the Importation of Bacteria, Brucella canis and Brucella ovis, on the List of Restricted Microorganisms (Part A), Various Unlisted Species of a Bacterium, Burkholderia, and Unlisted Bacteriophage, Gamma Phage for Bacillus anthracis, by Emergency Permit for Emergency Preparedness; and (2) Establish Permit Conditions for Bacteria, Brucella canis and Brucella ovis, on the List of Restricted Microorganisms (Part A), Various Unlisted Species of a Bacterium, Burkholderia, and Unlisted Bacteriophage, Gamma Phage for Bacillus anthracis, by Emergency Permit for Emergency Preparedness
ACTION — APPROVED