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Ex. AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT-054 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

NCDOT release, Sept. 2, 2021: five Hatteras-route employees positive and isolating for at least 14 days; Hatteras-Ocracoke round trips reduced from 60 to 44 from Sept. 3, 2021 until normal schedules can safely resume; Currituck-Knotts Island suspended Sept. 4-6, 2021; employees and passengers required to wear face coverings inside vessels and terminal facilities regardless of vaccination status per CDC and TSA requirements

NCDOT Reports Five Positive COVID-19 Tests Among Hatteras Ferry Staff

North Carolina Department of Transportation, Ferry Division · North Carolina (Hatteras-Ocracoke route; Currituck-Knotts Island route) (State)

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Jurisdiction
North Carolina (Hatteras-Ocracoke route; Currituck-Knotts Island route) · North Carolina
Level
State
Authority
Federal CDC order and TSA directives (recited); Ferry Division operating authority
Issued
2021-09-02 Sept. 2, 2021
Effective
2021-09-03 (reduced Hatteras-Ocracoke schedule); 2021-09-04 to 2021-09-06 (Currituck-Knotts Island suspended); federal mask requirement continuing (read as 2021-09-03)
End
Reduced schedule 'until the division can safely resume normal schedules' (end not documented); federal mask requirement continued past Sept. 30, 2021 (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
Sept. 3, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q3
Limitation types
Face-covering requirementTravel and quarantineQuarantine and isolation
Addressees
  • ferry employees and passengers (masks inside vessels and terminals)
  • Hatteras-Ocracoke and Currituck-Knotts Island travelers
Functions reached
  • WF workforce (isolation of five employees cut a State ferry route by more than a quarter in September 2021)
  • TV travel (Outer Banks access during the Labor Day week 2021; masks required)
  • CB customer access (Ocracoke visitor traffic)
Character
context
Collection
State transport, ports and transit authorities AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT

Operative words

The five employees are recovering at home under isolation for at least 14 days. They last worked on the route Sept. 2. Due to the temporary shortage of staff on the route, service between Hatteras and Ocracoke will be reduced starting tomorrow, until the division can safely resume normal schedules. Round trips will be reduced from 60 to 44 trips between the two islands.... Service from the Currituck-Knotts Island ferry route will be suspended Saturday through Monday, as staff are supporting the Hatteras-Ocracoke route. Employees and passengers are required to wear face coverings when inside vessels and terminal facilities, regardless of vaccination status, according to requirements from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Transportation Security Administration.

Enforcement

CDC order (refusal of boarding) and TSA civil penalties; isolation of employees; operator schedule reduction

Notes

Q3 2021 instrument: a State agency's own statement, dated Sept. 2, 2021, that federal CDC and TSA requirements required masks of every passenger and employee 'regardless of vaccination status' and that isolation rules cut service. Implementing rule under federal orders plus a service reduction.

Retrieval note

Rendered Wayback capture (Sept. 3, 2021) of ncdot.gov/news/pr... (banner URL truncated); release 'Published Date: 9/2/2021', last updated 6:12 p.m. Sept. 2, 2021.

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