The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- Defense Production Act sec. 102 (50 U.S.C. 4512); Executive Order 13910
- Issued
- 2020-03-25 Mar. 25, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-25
- End
- Extended July 30, 2020 (Ex. ECO-A-069), Feb. 1, 2021 (Ex. ECO-A-070) and July 7, 2021 to Nov. 15, 2021 (Ex. ECO-A-071) (read as 2020-07-30)
- In force
- Mar. 25, 2020 to July 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Supply chain
- Addressees
- any person accumulating the designated materials
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Supply chain and borders ECO-A
Operative words
'HHS is issuing this Notice designating' as scarce or threatened materials: N95 filtering facepiece respirators; other filtering facepiece respirators; elastomeric air-purifying respirators and filters; PPE face masks; PPE surgical masks; PPE face shields; PPE gloves and surgical gloves; PPE gowns and surgical gowns; ventilators and related components; sterilization services and disinfecting devices; medical gowns; sanitizing and disinfecting products; and others listed (fifteen categories). 'The Act prohibits any person from accumulating designated materials in excess of the reasonable demands of business, personal, or home consumption'.
Enforcement
50 U.S.C. 4513; 18 U.S.C.
Notes
Every dental, medical, personal-care, food and manufacturing employer that had to buy these goods to operate under State orders bought them in a federally designated scarce market.
Retrieval noteAlso FED-074. Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine removed July 7, 2020 (85 Fed. Reg. 40667).