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Project BioShield Authorities, Appropriations, Acquisitions, and Issues for Congress
ProQuest Congressional Research Digital Collection: Part C (2011 forward) Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Resources, Science, and Industry Division
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biological warfare.
- Medicine--Research.
- Medicine.
- Public health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Contained In:
- ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] [publisher not identified] 2011
- Summary:
- Provides overview of P.L. 108-276, the Project BioShield Act of 2004, which encourages private sector development of medical countermeasures such as diagnostic tests, drugs, vaccines, and other treatments, to respond to attacks using chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear terrorism agents, and to provide a mechanism for Federal acquisition of those newly developed countermeasures. Covers appropriations, rescissions, and transfers; acquisitions; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority oversight of Project BioShield activities; and policy issues
- Notes:
- CRS Report
- Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Jan. 2013). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC
- Vendor supplied data
- Other Format:
- Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Resources, Science, and Industry Division. Project BioShield
- Publisher Number:
- CRS-2011-RSI-0115
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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