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43 1211.100 - Scope This part establishes: a. NASA policy, responsibility and authority to guard the Earth against any harmful contamination or adverse changes in its environment resulting from personnel, spacecraft and other property returning to the Earth after landing on or coming within the atmospheric envelope of a celestial body. b. Security requirements, restrictions and safeguards that are necessary in the interest of national security. 1211.101 - Applicability: The provisions of this part to all NASA manned and unmanned space missions which land or come within the atmospheric envelope of a celestial body and return to the Earth. ANA ANN Dette. a."NASA" and the "Administrator" mean, respectively the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ae te fea tl a or his authorized representative. b."Extra-terrestrially exposed" means the state of condition of any person, property, animal or other form of life or matter whatever, who or which has: 1.Touched directly or come within the atmospheric envelope or any other celestial body 2.Touched directly or been in close proximity to (or been exposed indirectly to) any person, property, animal or other form of life or matter who or which has been extra-terrestrially exposed by virtue of paragraph (b)(1) of this section. For example, if person or thing "A" touches the surface of the Moon, and on "A's" return to Earth, "B" touches "A" and, subsequently, "C" touches "B", all of these - "A" through "C" inclusive - would be extra- terrestrially exposed ("A" and "B" directly; "C" indirectly). c."Quarantine" means the detention, examination and decontamination of any persons, property, animal or other form of life or matter whatever that is extra-terrestrially exposed, and includes the apprehension or seizure of such person, property, animal or other form of life or matter whatever. d."Quarantine period" means a period of consecutive calendar days as may be established in accordance with 1211.104 Administrative actions. 1. Determine the beginning and duration of a quarantine period with respect to any space mission; the quarantine period as it applies to various life forms will be announced. 2. Designate in writing quarantine officers to exercise quarantine authority. 3. Determine that a particular person, property, animal, or other form of life or matter whatever is extra- terrestrially exposed and quarantine such person, property, animal, or other form of life or matter whatever. The quarantine may be based only on a determination, with or without the benefit of a hearing, that there is probable cause to believe that such person, property, animal or other form of life or matter whatever is extra- terrestrially exposed. 4. Determine within the United States or within vessels or vehicles of the United States the MOON! SCIENCE FICTION BECOMES REALITY! MAY 5, 2000 THE PLANETS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM LINE UP IN A ROW! Extraterrestrial Exposure Law. 1211.100 Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space Part 1211 - Extra-terrestrial Exposure 1211.102 - Definitions: The Administrator or his designee..shall in his discretion: place, boundaries, and rules of operation of necessary quarantine stations.