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Kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Fri Oct 26 12:23:08 PDT 2001


contaminated office bldgs are being "remediated" with anti-bacterial foam: the Dirksen Senate office bldg and Ford House office bldg were filled with foam and then sealed for a few days.

they didn't have a good disaster recovery plan. now they will!

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,47841,00.html

also, bioterrorism bill:


>A more detailed summary of the Bioterrorism Protection Act is available
>here --- final bill has not been written yet -- though the pages are not
>sequential, so it's only for the brave:
>http://vorlon.mit.edu/~declan/biobill/
>
>Excerpts from that summary:
>* "Evaluate need to vaccinate first responders against smallpox"
>* "Utilize biometric techniques to identify suicide-biological-bombs"
>* "Increase surveillance through development of sentinel strain. Create a
>network of interconnected databases for near-real time integration of
>threat indicator data"
>* "Establish a perception management and economic market mitigation plan
>and resources"
>* "Ensure isolated, genetically diverse pools of seed and livestock to
>replenish stocks destroyed in disease containment"
>* "Assess and harden physical security of water-bottling facilites"
>* "The handoff between intelligence and law enforcement agencies must be
>made smoother"
>* "Use GPS and wireless identification systems to monitor commercial
>traffic in high-risk and border areas"
>* "Ensure that private databases (SABRE, Amtrak reservations, etc.) are
>able to interface with law enforcement information stores immediately"
>
>-Declan



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