The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (all federal buildings and federal lands; federally hosted meetings)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- Executive Order 13991 §§ 2, 4; the President's July 29, 2021 announcement
- Issued
- 2021-07-29 July 29, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-07-29 (mask reinstatement implemented from July 28, 2021) (read as 2021-07-29)
- In force
- July 29, 2021 to Sept. 13, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Gathering capFace-covering requirementTravel and quarantineWorkplace rulesVaccination or testing
- Addressees
- federal employees
- onsite contractors
- visitors to federal buildings and federally hosted meetings, events and conferences
- agencies hosting in-person events
- Functions reached
- CS vendor, contractor and visitor entry to every federal building conditioned on vaccination status or testing from July 29, 2021
- MK federally hosted meetings, conferences and events over 50 participants restricted
- TR federal official travel for the unvaccinated limited to mission-critical trips
- OF masks in federal buildings in areas of substantial or high transmission regardless of vaccination status (which by August 2021 was nearly the whole country)
- Collection
- Federal commerce, travel, workplace and finance layer FED-B
Operative words
Federal agencies need to ask about the vaccination status of Federal employees and onsite contractors -- employees and onsite contractors must sign an attestation confirming their vaccination status, or they will be treated as not fully vaccinated for purposes of safety protocols.... Visitors must provide information on their vaccination status and comply with the requisite safety protocols.... [for employees and contractors] who are not fully vaccinated or who decline to provide information about their vaccination status, official domestic travel should be limited to only necessary mission-critical trips.... Should an agency intend to host an in-person meeting, conference, or event that will be attended by more than 50 participants -- regardless of whether participants include members of the public -- the agency must first seek the approval of its agency head, in consultation with the agency's COVID-19 Coordination Team.
Enforcement
EO 13991 § 2; agency safety plans; attestation under penalty of administrative action (Certification of Vaccination form, Ex. FED-278)
Notes
The Q3 2021 federal workplace order: masks reimposed for all persons in federal buildings in areas of substantial or high transmission, vaccination attestation for employees and onsite contractors, vaccination-status disclosure by visitors, and agency-head approval for any federally hosted event over 50 people.
Retrieval noteThe saferfederalworkforce.gov original (downloads/revised COVID19_Safe Federal Workplace_Agency Model Safety Principles_20210728.pdf) is archived in the Wayback Machine (capture 20210729202628) and was not downloadable in this session; the exhibit is the identical document as mirrored by the National Defense Transportation Association, whose text is complete and internally dated July 29, 2021.