{"id":"AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-050","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"Department of the Interior (all bureaus: NPS, BLM, Reclamation, FWS, USGS, BIA)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS","eco":"","issuer":"Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt","authority":"43 U.S.C. 1457; 5 U.S.C. 6502; 5 U.S.C. 6329c","instrument":"Secretary\u0027s memorandum, \u0027Ensuring the Continued Performance of the Mission of the Department of the Interior during the Global Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic\u0027","title":"Ensuring the Continued Performance of the Mission of the Department of the Interior during the Global Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic","dateIssued":"2020-03-22","effective":"2020-03-22","end":"Phased return to regular operations announced Apr. 30, 2020 and implemented bureau by bureau over summer 2020","startDate":"2020-03-22","endDate":"2020-04-30","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["TELE","EMP"],"addressees":["all Department of the Interior employees and supervisors","contractors and visitors to Interior facilities (indirectly)"],"clause":"I have determined that Department employees not performing or supporting mission essential functions or performing mission critical functions as determined by their State or Regional Director, or equivalent management authority, should telework. Supervisors are hereby directed to instruct employees under their supervision to telework, if telework ready, or encourage telework eligible employees to enter into telework agreements. If a telework-eligible employee is unable to enter into a telework agreement, the supervisor shall grant the employee weather and safety leave for a period not to exceed fourteen calendar days from the [date of this memorandum].","enforcement":"Departmental directive binding on supervisors (\u0027hereby directed\u0027); 5 U.S.C. ch. 65","functions":["OF federal customer and permitting offices emptied (BLM, Reclamation, NPS, FWS, USGS, BIA)","PM permits, inspections and land-use approvals delayed","CS contractor site access and field installation","CB federal procurement and grazing, mineral, recreation and water customers"],"notes":"The instrument that took Interior\u0027s 70,000 employees out of their offices and field stations; it governed every permit office, realty office and field crew that private contractors, outfitters, ranchers, energy lessees and water districts depended on.","sourceUrl":"https://www.doi.gov/employees/ensuring-continued-performance-mission-department-interior-during-global-coronavirus-covid","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":880812,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS","url":"/library/AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-050","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-050","citation":"Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt, Secretary\u0027s memorandum, \u0027Ensuring the Continued Performance of the Mission of the Department of the Interior during the Global Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic\u0027 (Mar. 22, 2020) (Ex. AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS-050)","stateName":"","related":[]}