Presidential Documents

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Federal Register 

Vol. 82, No. 213 

Monday, November 6, 2017 

Title 3— 

The President 

Proclamation 9665 of October 31, 2017 

Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, 2017 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

During Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, we emphasize 

the importance of safeguarding our Nation’s infrastructure. Critical infrastructure systems are those physical and virtual assets that are essential to our 

physical security, economic security, or public health. We need resilient, 

well-maintained critical infrastructure so that all Americans have access 

to safe food, reliable electricity, clean water, convenient transportation systems, quality public health and medical services, and instant communication 

every day. 

The natural disasters our country has experienced in recent months provide 

a sobering reminder of the necessity for secure, reliable, and resilient infrastructure. Damage from wind, flood, and fire has ravaged communities and 

industries, damaging electric grids and transmission lines, dams, roads, cellular towers, hospitals, nursing homes, and businesses. America’s critical 

infrastructure is among the most secure and resilient in the world, but 

as recent events have shown, we must continue to invest in research and 

development to ensure the vital services it provides withstand complex 

and dynamic threats. 

Our critical infrastructure also faces threats from capacity-induced strain, 

terrorist attacks, accidents, pandemics, space weather, and cyberattacks. To 

confront these diverse challenges systematically, we must take steps to enhance our Nation’s economic, intellectual, and technological leadership. My 

Administration will help our businesses invest in needed capital and research 

and development by reducing burdensome regulations and enacting comprehensive tax reform. We will also renew our Nation’s focus on ensuring 

that the next generation has the education and training, particularly in 

science, technology, engineering, and math, required to meet the known 

and unknown threats of the future. 

This month, we recommit ourselves to keeping America strong, prosperous, 

and resilient. We highlight the importance of infrastructure in our daily 

lives and challenge all Americans to help protect, preserve, and strengthen 

these indispensable national capabilities. 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, 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 2017 

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. 


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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day 

of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen, and of the 

Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fortysecond. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24278 

Filed 11–3–17; 11:15 am] 

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