The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (cruise ships operating or intending to operate in U.S. waters)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 42 U.S.C. 264, 268; 42 C.F.R. parts 70, 71
- Issued
- 2020-10-30 Oct. 30, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-10-30
- End
- Until the earliest of the end of the HHS public health emergency, rescission or modification, or Nov. 1, 2021; extended Oct. 25, 2021 to Jan. 15, 2022 (SEC-06-007); non-binding as to Florida ports from July 23, 2021 under the M.D. Fla. preliminary injunction (SEC-06-009) (read as 2021-11-01)
- In force
- Oct. 30, 2020 to Nov. 1, 2021
- Quarters
- 2020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Capacity limitTravel and quarantineHealth care ordersEvents and venuesWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- cruise ship operators
- ports and port agreements
- crew
- passengers
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Hotels, Travel and Tourism SEC-06
Operative words
This Order establishes a framework for a phased approach to resuming cruise ship passenger operations in U.S. waters. This phased approach will include: (1) Establishment of laboratory testing of crew onboard cruise ships in U.S. waters; (2) simulated voyages designed to test a cruise ship operators' ability to mitigate COVID-19 onboard cruise ships; (3) a certification process; and (4) a return to passenger voyages in a manner that mitigates the risk of COVID-19 introduction, transmission, or spread among passengers and crew onboard ships and ashore to communities.
Enforcement
42 U.S.C. 271; 42 C.F.R. 70.18, 71.2 (recited)
Notes
No passenger voyage sailed from a U.S. port under the CSO until the June 2021 simulated and restricted voyages; every Q3 2021 sailing operated under its conditional certificates, port agreements, testing and capacity conditions; the pre-cruise hotel night, the port outlet and the cruise-line group block were governed by it on every day of 2021 Q3.