{"id":"SEC-18-001","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States","state":"","metro":"","industry":"18","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Department of Homeland Security (Director Jen Easterly)","authority":"Advisory memorandum under the National Critical Functions framework; incorporated by reference in State closure and essential-business orders","instrument":"Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce, Version 4.1","title":"Advisory Memorandum on Ensuring Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers\u0027 Ability to Work During the COVID-19 Response","dateIssued":"2021-08-10","effective":"2021-08-10 (advisory; effect through State orders incorporating \u0027the most recent\u0027 CISA list)","end":"superseded by later CISA guidance in 2022 (not verified)","startDate":"2021-08-10","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["OTHER"],"addressees":["State and local officials","critical-infrastructure owners and operators"],"clause":"This list is advisory in nature. It is not, nor should it be considered, a federal directive or standard.... Workers in laundromats, laundry services, and dry cleaners.... Workers providing personal and household goods, repair, and maintenance, including workers such as house cleaners, plumbers, appliance repair persons, and electricians, among others.... Mortuary service providers, such as: Workers performing mortuary funeral, cremation, burial, cemetery, and related services, including funeral homes, crematoriums, cemetery workers, and coffin makers.... Workers needed to provide laundry services, food services, reprocessing of medical equipment [healthcare support].... Workers in animal shelters.","enforcement":"None of its own; the State orders that incorporated it carried their own penalties","functions":["CL cleaning and laundry (listed essential)","RP repair (listed essential)","FH funeral homes (listed essential)","SL salons (never listed: the omission is the closure predicate in CISA-adopting States)","PS pet grooming (never listed; only shelters and veterinary)"],"notes":"Q3 2021 federal instrument: the memorandum states that \u0027with newer and more contagious variants... we are entering a new phase of the pandemic response\u0027 and re-issues the list on Aug. 10, 2021; salons, barbers, nail, spa and pet grooming are absent from every version, which is why every CISA-adopting State\u0027s closure order reached them.","sourceUrl":"https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/essential_critical_infrastructure_workforce-guidance_v4.1_508.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":841301,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-18","url":"/library/SEC-18-001","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-18-001","citation":"Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Department of Homeland Security (Director Jen Easterly), Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce, Version 4.1 (Aug. 10, 2021) (Ex. SEC-18-001)","stateName":"","related":[]}