The COVID Project
Context, not an orderThis record is guidance or an announcement kept for context. It is not counted among the orders in force.
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (TN/NC)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 36 C.F.R. 1.5; 36 C.F.R. 2.50
- Issued
- 2020-03-18 Mar. 18, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-19
- End
- Superseded by the full closure of Mar. 24, 2020 (046) (read as 2020-03-24)
- In force
- Mar. 19, 2020 to Mar. 24, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureGathering capEvents and venues
- Addressees
- campers, backcountry campers and A.T. thru-hikers
- holders of pavilion, church and Special Park Use permits
- Functions reached
- GATH group events, weddings and church services in park pavilions and churches cancelled
- LG campgrounds closed
- CN concessions
- CB visitors to the most-visited national park (12.5 million visits in 2019)
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Federal lands, science agencies and courts AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS
Operative words
[Beginning] Thursday, March 19, seasonally open campgrounds at Smokemont, Cades Cove, [and Elkmont will close]... [with] cancellations for campgrounds, picnic pavilions, churches, and Special Park Use [permits]... Effective immediately, backcountry campers and A.T. thru-hikers [are directed to alternative arrangements].
Enforcement
36 C.F.R. 1.5 and 2.50; 18 U.S.C. 1865
Notes
Visitor centers had closed Mar. 17, 2020 ('Park Announces Temporary Visitor Center Closures', not saved); group-event permits were modified Mar. 19 (not saved).