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
- Hoover Dam (NV/AZ), Bureau of Reclamation Lower Colorado Basin Region
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 43 U.S.C. 373b; 43 C.F.R. part 423
- Issued
- 2020-03-17 Mar. 17, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-17
- End
- Exterior areas reopened Oct. 22, 2020; visitor center and tours remained closed thereafter (read as 2020-10-22)
- In force
- Mar. 17, 2020 to Oct. 22, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q4
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureTravel and quarantine
- Addressees
- all visitors
- tour operators (Las Vegas motorcoach and helicopter tours)
- concessioners
- Functions reached
- TV travel demand (about 7 million annual visitors to the dam)
- CN visitor center, tours and concessions
- CB Las Vegas tour operators and Boulder City businesses
- CS contractor access to a federal facility
- Character
- context
- Collection
- Federal lands, science agencies and courts AGY-FED-LANDS-SCIENCE-COURTS
Operative words
[Because] social distancing standards recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [cannot be implemented], Hoover Dam will be temporarily closed to visitors, including the visitor center and all tours, until [further notice]... Water deliveries and powerplant operations will continue without [interruption].
Enforcement
43 C.F.R. 423.5-423.6 (closures) and 423.50 (penalties: fine and imprisonment up to six months under 43 U.S.C. 373b)
Notes
Reclamation's own release.