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Ex. SEC-19-001 Order Primary source read

Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce, Version 1.0

Memorandum on Identification of Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers During COVID-19 Response

Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) · United States (Federal)

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The record

Jurisdiction
United States
Level
Federal
Authority
Advisory guidance under the National Infrastructure Protection Plan; given binding effect only by the State and local orders that incorporated it by reference
Issued
2020-03-19 Mar. 19, 2020
Effective
2020-03-19 (advisory) (read as 2020-03-19)
End
Superseded by Version 2.0 (Mar. 28, 2020) (read as 2020-03-28)
In force
Mar. 19, 2020 to Mar. 28, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • State and local officials
  • critical infrastructure employers
Functions reached
  • JS janitorial named as continuity support at essential sites
  • SG security staff for building access control
  • CC customer service and support staff
  • LS landscaping not named (only 'safety, sanitation, and essential operation of residences')
  • PL placements permitted only at sites within the listed sectors
Collection
Staffing and Support Services SEC-19

Operative words

Workers such as plumbers, electricians, exterminators, and other service providers who provide services that are necessary to maintaining the safety, sanitation, and essential operation of residences... Support required for continuity of services, including janitorial/cleaning personnel... Security staff to maintain building access control and physical security measures... Customer service and support staff, including managed and professional services as well as remote providers of support to transitioning employees to set up and maintain home offices, who interface with customers to manage or support service environments and security issues, including payroll, billing, fraud, and troubleshooting

Enforcement

None of its own; enforcement ran through the incorporating State orders (e.g., Texas GA-14; Pennsylvania's list; Delaware, Idaho, Massachusetts lists)

Notes

Version 1.0 does not name landscapers; States that adopted it (or wrote their own lists from it) in March 2020 left landscaping outside the permitted work except within the safety-and-sanitation clause. 'Essential' here means permitted under the incorporating order's conditions, never exempt.

Retrieval note

Quoted lines at pp. 8-12 of the PDF.

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