The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- National Park Service (servicewide)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- EO 13991 sec. 2; 36 C.F.R. 1.5
- Issued
- 2021-08-16 Aug. 16, 2021
- Effective
- Mask requirement in NPS buildings and on NPS-managed transportation from Feb. 2021; reinstated for all persons regardless of vaccination status Aug. 2021; varied by park from Mar. 2022 (read as 2021-08-16)
- End
- Continuing into 2022 (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 16, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all visitors, employees, contractors and concessioners on NPS lands and in NPS buildings
- Functions reached
- CN concessions (masking in lodges, stores and shuttles)
- WF concession and contractor workforce
- CB visitors
- TV park transportation
- Collection
- Federal lands, science agencies and courts AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS
Operative words
National Park Service updates mask requirements following new CDC [guidance]... Effective immediately, masking requirements will vary by park based on local conditions, however masks are still required on all forms of [enclosed public transportation]... [Denali] will require all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, to wear masks while inside any federal building within the park or while riding a park bus [July 8, 2022].
Enforcement
EO 13991 sec. 2; 36 C.F.R. 1.5 and 1.3
Notes
Context exhibit: the live page (rendered 2026) documents the continuing servicewide mask regime;
Retrieval noteGraded secondary for the Q3 2021 requirement because the page as saved carries the 2022 updates and refers to the earlier policy without quoting it; FED-B's EO 13991 exhibit and the Task Force guidance carry the binding text.