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Ex. AGY-USCG-PORTS-012 Context (guidance or announcement) Primary source read

MSIB 11-20

Maintaining Maritime Commerce and Identification of Essential Maritime Critical Infrastructure Workers

Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Inspections and Compliance Directorate · United States Coast Guard; nationwide (Federal)

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Context, not an order

This record is guidance or an announcement kept for context. It is not counted among the orders in force.

The record

Jurisdiction
United States Coast Guard; nationwide
Level
Federal
Authority
CISA memorandum of Mar. 19, 2020; 33 C.F.R. part 101 (TWIC)
Issued
2020-03-27 Mar. 27, 2020
Effective
2020-03-27
End
not cancelled during the period; operative wherever State and local quarantine or shelter-in-place orders were in force (read as 2021-06-30)
In force
Mar. 27, 2020 to June 30, 2021
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q2
Limitation types
Stay-at-homeOther
Addressees
  • State and local officials
  • MTS employers and workers
  • port authorities
  • facility operators
Functions reached
  • WF workforce movement under stay-home orders (proof of essential status)
  • PT terminals, stevedores, truckers, pilots, agents
  • HR TWIC as evidence of essential status
Character
context
Collection
Coast Guard and ports AGY-USCG-PORTS

Operative words

MTS workers are considered essential in regions impacted by COVID-19 quarantine and shelter-in-place orders. Though not meant to be an exhaustive list, the following personnel are essential for sustaining the continuous flow of maritime commerce: Merchant mariners; Federal and state pilots; Stevedores, longshoremen, and... Many MTS workers will have a federal Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC) that may be used to [verify]... In any cases where there is a question, state officials [may contact the COTP to confirm that a] worker is essential to MTS operations.

Enforcement

Advisory; operates within State and local shelter-in-place orders (their penalties apply)

Notes

The Coast Guard's contemporaneous recognition that quarantine and shelter-in-place orders were operating on maritime commerce and that every non-listed function was excluded from the ports.

Retrieval note

Text read in full; the bracketed words paraphrase line breaks in the source. it carries no independent legal effect. The enforceable instruments are the COTP orders, 33 C.F.R. 160.216, 33 C.F.R. 105.125 and the CDC orders the bulletin describes (already cited in the record's enforcement field). Cite the bulletin as evidence of the operating regime, not as an order).

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