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National Science and Technology Council

institution
A council barely off the ground was already being handed a task force to run.
Who they are

The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), which came into existence in 1993.

What they do

A body set up under the council to take on a job the council said was not being done.

How it works

The record says the document ends by setting up a Task Force of the National Science and Technology Council, pointing to the 1993 NSTC that had only recently come into being. A working group was set up under a committee of the council, chaired in President Clinton's time. The council itself stated that the system for watching, preventing, and responding to infectious disease was not good enough to protect the health of the United States. The record does not show that the task force could force agencies to do anything.

Why it matters

It shows a new council putting its name on work through a task force, while the record leaves open how much power that task force really had.

The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "The document completes by establishing a ‘ Task Force of the National Science and Technology Council ’, referring to the 1993 NSTC which had only recently come into existence." Cross-sourced to 1997-2001.state.gov — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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