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Memorandum on Identification of Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers During COVID-19 Response, Version 1.0

Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring Community and National Resilience in COVID-19 Response, Version 1.0

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Department of Homeland Security · United States (Federal)

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Jurisdiction
United States
Level
Federal
Authority
Advisory memorandum under the National Infrastructure Protection Plan; 'advisory in nature' (p. 2)
Issued
2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
Effective
2020-03-19 (advisory; operative only as incorporated by State and local orders) (read as 2020-03-19)
End
Superseded by Version 2.0 (Mar. 28, 2020) (read as 2020-03-28)
In force
Mar. 19, 2020 to Mar. 28, 2020
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • State, local, tribal and territorial officials
  • critical infrastructure owners
Functions reached
  • SF sales floor (defines the retail categories the orders left open)
  • SC supply chain (food and agriculture, transportation and logistics workers)
  • ST receiving and warehouse
Collection
Retail Trade SEC-07

Operative words

this list is advisory in nature. It is not, nor should it be considered to be, a federal directive or standard... Workers supporting groceries, pharmacies and other retail that sells food and beverage products

Enforcement

None; incorporated by reference in State closure orders (e.g., Texas GA-14 (Version 2.0); California SPHO Mar. 19, 2020; Louisiana 33 JBE 2020 sec. 3; Montana Stay at Home Directive; New Hampshire Exhibit A; Ohio Stay at Home Order)

Notes

The retail categories named in Version 1.0 are food and beverage retail, pharmacies, retail fuel centers and hardware; every other retailer fell outside the list and, in the incorporating States, closed.

Retrieval note

Guidance, not an order; pleaded only as the text incorporated by the closure orders.