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HHS/CDC RIN: 0920-AA12 Publication ID: Spring 2010 
Title: Control of Communicable Diseases: Foreign Quarantine 
Abstract: By statute, the Secretary of Health and Human Services has broad authority to prevent introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the United States and from one State or possession into another. Quarantine regulations are divided into two parts: Part 71 dealing with foreign arrivals and part 70 dealing with interstate matters. This rule (42 CFR part 71) will update and improve CDC’s response to both global and domestic disease threats by creating a multi-tiered illness detection and response process thus substantially enhancing the public health system’s ability to slow the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable disease. The rule will also modify current Federal regulations governing the apprehension, quarantine isolation, and conditional release of individuals suspected of carrying a quarantinable disease, while respecting individual autonomy. CDC maintains quarantine stations at 20 ports of entry staffed with medical and public health officers who respond to reports of diseases from carriers. According to the statutory scheme, the President determines through Executive Order which diseases may subject individuals to quarantine. The current disease list, which was last updated in April 2005, includes cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and influenza caused by novel or reemergent influenza viruses that are causing, or have the potential to cause a pandemic. 
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services(HHS)  Priority: Economically Significant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage 
Major: Yes  Unfunded Mandates: Private Sector 
CFR Citation: 42 CFR 71   
Legal Authority: 42 USC 243    42 USC 248 and 249   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  11/30/2005  70 FR 71892   
NPRM Comment Period End  01/20/2006    
Final Action  11/00/2010    
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Yes  Government Levels Affected: None 
Small Entities Affected: Businesses  Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: Yes 
Agency Contact:
Stacy Howard
Health Scientist
Department of Health and Human Services
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
MS E-03, 1600 Clifton Road NE.,
Atlanta, GA 30329
Phone:404 498-1600
Email: showard@cdc.gov