Evaluation of the Updated Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Bush in 2004. HSPD-9, Defense of United States Agriculture and Food, directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Homeland Security to "develop a plan to provide safe, secure, and state-of-the-art agriculture biocontainment laboratories that research and develop diagnostic capabilities for foreign animal and zoonotic diseases." In response to HSPD-9, DHS plans to replace the aging Plum Island Animal Disease Center by constructing and operating a new facility, the National Bio- and AgroDefense Facility (NBAF)
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. 4 In accordance with 21 USC Section 113a, live FMDv is not permitted on any part of the mainland of the United States unless the Secretary of Agriculture permits otherwise.
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for the NBAF at the proposed Manhattan, Kansas, site; required the National Academy of Sciences (through its operating arm, the National Research Council) to independently evaluate the SSRA; and prohibited obligation of NBAF construction funds until the evaluation was complete.
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Finding 11: The SSRA's qualitative risk assessment of work with BSL-4 pathogens in large animals was inadequate.
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completed 50 percent of design planning for the National Bio- and Agro defense Facility, and (2) submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives a revised site-specific biosafety and biosecurity mitiga tion risk assessment that describes how to significantly reduce risks of conducting essential research and diagnostic testing at the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility and addresses shortcomings identified in the National Academy of Sci ences' evaluation of the initial site-specific biosafety and biosecurity mitigation risk assessment.
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The scope for both the 2010 SSRA and the 2012 uSSRA addressed accidental release of pathogens from the NBAF in Manhattan, Kansas, and excluded terrorist acts and malicious threats from its risk assessments. This report represents the National Research Council's response to the charge as elaborated and delineated in the committee's statement of task (see Box 1-3)
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. Members of the committee also visited the proposed NBAF site and toured facilities at Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and at the Biosecurity Research Institute.
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In addition, the committee was not asked to provide its own risk assessment in the short 4-month timeframe provided for the review. ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT In the remainder of the report, the committee evaluates the uSSRA and presents its findings and conclusions.
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2010. Evaluation of a Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the Department of Homeland Security's Planned National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas.
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