[United States Statutes at Large, Volume 131, 115th Congress, 1st Session]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

 
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

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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.
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 forty-
second.
DONALD J. TRUMP