Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, 2024, 87763-87764 [2024-25798]

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• Executive Office of the President

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 214 (Tuesday, November 5, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 87763-87764]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-25798]




                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 214 / Tuesday, November 5, 2024 / 
Presidential Documents

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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.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

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