04/16/1993 04:15 PM Senate HES

 The next order of business to come before the committee, was                  
  HJR 30  (QUARANTINE SERVICES AT PORTS OF ENTRY).                             
                                                                               
 DWAYNE PEEPLES, Division of Public Health, Department of                      
 Health and Social Services, stated the division and the                       
 department support HJR 30, which urges the federal government                 
 to reinstate quarantine and to increase epidemiological staff                 
 in Alaska to look at influxes of diseases carried by travelers                
 from the Russian Far East and other Pacific Rim countries.                    
                                                                               
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 SENATOR ELLIS asked when the federal government discontinued                  
 this operation in Alaska.  DWAYNE PEEPLES responded they had                  
 one position in Alaska and it was discontinued in 1985.                       
                                                                               
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 SENATOR MILLER moved that HJR 30 be passed out of committee                   
 with individual recommendations.  Hearing no objection, it was                
 so ordered.