Presidential Document2024-25798
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, 2024
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Published
November 5, 2024
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October 31, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 214 (Tuesday, November 5, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-25798]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 214 / Tuesday, November 5, 2024 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10846 of October 31, 2024
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
Month, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
From the energy that powers our homes to the networks
that connect us and the systems that protect our health
and safety, our critical infrastructure keeps our
economy thriving and our communities secure. This
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month,
we recommit to strengthening our country's critical
infrastructure and building an America that is safe and
secure for generations to come.
This year, I signed a National Security Memorandum to
secure and enhance the resilience of United States
critical infrastructure--updating the policy for the
first time in a decade. This represents the launch of a
new era in protecting our infrastructure against all
threats and hazards by safeguarding our strong and
innovative economy and enhancing our collective
resilience to disasters before they happen. But there
is more to do. Climate change is making natural
disasters more frequent, ferocious, and costly--
endangering our supply chains, creating more
instability for our communities, and straining the
critical infrastructure Americans depend on for their
livelihoods. And we need to stay vigilant against
adversaries that seek to maliciously target our
critical infrastructure, including through
cyberattacks.
To meet this moment, my Administration made a once-in-
a-generation investment in our Nation's
infrastructure--creating an opportunity to build in
resilience to all hazards upfront and by design.
Through my American Rescue Plan, Bipartisan
Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act, and CHIPS
and Science Act, we are investing billions of dollars
to secure and bolster our infrastructure. That includes
improving our electric grid so that people can maintain
power in any situation, elevating roads and bridges
over possible flood zones, funding community resilience
programs, and more. These investments have not only
helped to protect Americans--they have benefited our
economy, creating jobs and new possibilities for our
communities. At the NATO summit this year, I announced
an arrangement with Canada and Finland to collaborate
on the production of polar icebreakers. The partnership
will advance United States economic and national
security interests by strengthening our shipbuilding
and industrial capacity while simultaneously opening up
new trade routes and pushing back against foreign
aggression and bolstering our international alliances.
This year, I also announced a United States Port
Security Initiative to reverse our dependence on
foreign manufactured port equipment.
Ensuring our Nation is resilient in the face of threats
also means working with other nations around the globe
to build better, stronger, and more sustainable
infrastructure. At the G7 Summit in June, I was proud
to announce the historic progress we have made with our
Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment.
This initiative will strengthen United States national
and economic security for Americans at home and enable
sustainable economic growth for partner countries. To
date, we have mobilized $60 billion to create high-
quality global infrastructure. That comes on top of our
work with the European Union and African heads of state
to develop the Lobito Corridor as well as our work with
the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia to
expand regional and global trade markets
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through the Port of Lobito in Angola. We continue to
pursue opportunities to expand our investments across
Africa and around the world, including the Indo-
Pacific, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Western
Hemisphere. Investments like these create more shared
opportunities, prosperity, and security for everyone.
Across the Nation, America is writing the greatest
comeback story we have ever known--people are putting
shovels in the ground, founding new businesses, and
creating hope for entire communities. It is more
important now than ever before that we remain vigilant
against any threats that seek to undermine our
collective security and prosperity.
During Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
Month, we recommit to safeguarding and strengthening
our Nation's critical infrastructure to save lives and
allow our Nation to continue doing what it does best:
creating new possibilities.
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 2024
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-four, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and forty-
ninth.
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[FR Doc. 2024-25798
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