Presidential Document2023-24482
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, 2023
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November 3, 2023
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October 31, 2023
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 212 (Friday, November 3, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 75451-75452]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-24482]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 212 / Friday, November 3, 2023 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10660 of October 31, 2023
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
Month, 2023
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Throughout our history, America has been a can-do
country full of possibilities. Our people are models of
grit, drive, and determination, and when we properly
prepare ourselves, we can meet any challenge that comes
our way and ensure future generations thrive. This
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month,
let us recommit to reinforcing our critical
infrastructure and remaining vigilant to threats that
undermine our collective security and economic
prosperity.
That means protecting our investments from all hazards
and ensuring the infrastructure that American people
rely on every day is secure and resilient. Climate
change is making natural disasters more frequent,
ferocious, and costly, straining our highways,
railways, waterways, and energy systems. These
disruptions--whether a natural disaster, a pandemic, or
a cyberattack--exploit vulnerabilities in our supply
chains and make it more difficult to access critical
products when people need them. State and non-state
actors, such as criminals and violent extremists,
continue to target our power grids, pipelines, health
care systems, and water systems--threatening the
infrastructure that underpins our economy, public
health and safety, and national security. As President,
I am committed to building a better future for our
country by making America's critical infrastructure
more secure and addressing the threats and hazards that
place them at risk.
Bolstering the Nation's infrastructure is a cornerstone
of my Investing in America agenda. With a combination
of funding from the American Rescue Plan, Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, and
the CHIPS and Science Act, we are investing billions of
dollars to enhance the security of our infrastructure
by elevating roads and bridges above projected flood
zones, supporting community resilience programs,
reducing the strain put on our power grids, and so much
more. These investments will save lives, protect our
families, render a strong and innovative economy,
enhance our resilience to disasters, and provide peace
of mind to millions of Americans.
We know that to protect our critical infrastructure we
must improve our cybersecurity. From the very beginning
of my Administration, we have worked tirelessly to
strengthen our Nation's cyber defenses. During my first
year in office, I issued an Executive Order on
Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity, a crucial step
toward defending against the increasingly malicious
cyber campaigns targeting our infrastructure. My
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law builds on this progress
by investing $1 billion to bolster cybersecurity for
State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments. I am
proud to have appointed senior cybersecurity officials
who are laser-focused on anticipating and responding to
cyber threats and ensuring that the Federal Government
leverages all of its resources to improve the
cybersecurity of the Nation's critical infrastructure.
These priorities have been catalyzed by my National
Cybersecurity Strategy released earlier this year,
which lays out our strategy to enhance the
cybersecurity and resilience of our Nation's critical
infrastructure and the American people.
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While my Administration is investing to protect
America's critical infrastructure, we are also working
with our international partners to build sustainable,
resilient infrastructure around the globe. At the G20
Summit earlier this year, through the Partnership for
Global Infrastructure and Investment, I was proud to
unveil the launch of the landmark United States
partnership with the European Union to develop the
Trans-African Corridor. We are working with partners to
connect the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia
to regional and global trade markets through the Port
of Lobito in Angola, including by launching feasibility
studies for a new greenfield rail line expansion
between Zambia and Angola. This reliable and cost-
effective corridor will increase efficiencies, secure
regional supply chains, enhance economic unity,
generate jobs, and decrease the carbon footprint in
both countries. We hope to pursue opportunities to
connect our initial investments across the continent to
Tanzania and, ultimately, the Indian Ocean. Through
quality infrastructure investments in key economic
corridors like these, we are creating a better future
filled with opportunity, dignity, and prosperity for
everyone.
The United States is the only country in the world that
becomes stronger after every challenge we face. Time
and again, we have seen that when we work together,
nothing is beyond our capacity. This Critical
Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, let us
come together in common cause to bolster our Nation's
critical infrastructure and create a more resilient
nation and economy for generations to come.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 2023
as Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
Month. I call upon the people of the United States to
recognize the importance of protecting our Nation's
infrastructure and to observe this month with
appropriate measures to enhance our national security
and resilience.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
eighth.
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