Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, 2017

Vol. 82

Monday,

No. 213

November 6, 2017

Part IV

The President

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Proclamation 9665--Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
Month, 2017

Proclamation 9666--National Adoption Month, 2017

Proclamation 9667--National Entrepreneurship Month, 2017

Proclamation 9668--National Family Caregivers Month, 2017

Proclamation 9669--National Native American Heritage Month, 2017

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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.

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.