{"id":"SEC-21-GM-021","kind":"meeting","level":"organizer","jurisdiction":"Juneau, Ketchikan, Skagway, Seward, Whittier, Anchorage, Denali, AK","state":"AK","metro":"","industry":"21","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Cruise lines and their land-tour affiliates; Alaska tour operators; the National Park Service (Denali)","authority":"","instrument":"Pub L 117 14 Alaska Tourism Restoration Act","title":"Alaska cruise, motorcoach and rail tour seasons 2020 and 2021 (class): the May-September season on which Alaska motorcoach operators, Denali and Kenai tour operators, air-tour and flightseeing operators and ferry services depend","dateIssued":"2021-05-24","effective":"","end":"","startDate":"2021-05-24","endDate":"","quarters":["2021Q2"],"types":[],"addressees":[],"clause":"Pub L 117 14 Alaska Tourism Restoration Act","enforcement":"","functions":["CH","TA","FR","AV","CB"],"notes":"2020: The 2020 season was eliminated by the CDC No Sail Order (Exs. FED-027 to FED-030), Alaska\u0027s interstate traveler quarantine (Health Mandate 010, Ex. AK-012; ECO-C-028) and intrastate travel mandates (Exs. AK-014, AK-020), and Canada\u0027s closure of its Pacific ports to cruise ships (the foreign order pleaded as the circumstance in which the federal instruments operated); the Alaska Marine Highway System operated under screening and testing protocols (Exs. AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT-079, -080, -082, -083). 2021: Season truncated: the CSO barred sailings until mid-2021 and Canada\u0027s prohibition barred the foreign stop the Passenger Vessel Services Act required; Congress enacted the Alaska Tourism Restoration Act, Pub. L. 117-14 (May 24, 2021), deeming round-trip Washington-Alaska voyages \u0027foreign voyages\u0027 while \u0027covered cruise ships are... prohibited by the Government of Canada... from entering, berthing, or docking in Canadian waters of the Pacific Coast due to the COVID-19 pandemic,\u0027 for voyages beginning by February 28, 2022 (Ex. SEC-21-GM-021); Alaska\u0027s travel mandates lapsed February 14, 2021 (Exs. AK-035, AK-036). Usual dates: May-September. Scale: Denali National Park visitation fell from 601,152 in 2019 to 54,850 in 2020 (National Park Service figures via Wikipedia). Venue orders 2020: FED-027, FED-028, FED-029, FED-030, AK-006, AK-012, AK-014, AK-020, AK-022, AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT-079, AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT-083. Venue orders 2021: FED-031, FED-032, AK-035, AK-036, SEC-21-GM-021, FED-020.","sourceUrl":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ14/html/PLAW-117publ14.htm","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":27819,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"Pub L 117 14 Alaska Tourism Restoration Act","collection":"SEC-21","url":"/library/SEC-21-GM-021","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-21-GM-021","citation":"Cruise lines and their land-tour affiliates; Alaska tour operators; the National Park Service (Denali), Pub L 117 14 Alaska Tourism Restoration Act (May 24, 2021) (Ex. SEC-21-GM-021)","stateName":"Alaska","related":["FED-027","FED-030","AK-012","ECO-C-028","AK-014","AK-020","AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT-079","AK-035","AK-036","FED-028","FED-029","AK-006"]}