§322 Continuity of the economy plan

Summary

The President must create and keep a plan to protect and restore the U.S. economy after a major event. The plan must support a free market, follow the law, and protect private property. It must study how goods and services move across the country and name the people, companies, and systems whose failure would hurt security, the economy, defense readiness, or public health. The plan must point out priority systems to keep running, such as power grids, financial systems, communications and cloud services, oil and gas pipelines, and transport for trade, food, and medical supplies. It must find industrial control networks that would cause big harm if they failed and list ways to protect them (for example, backup systems, analog fallbacks, or stronger protections). The plan must say what data must be kept safe and uncorrupted for quick recovery, list raw materials and goods the nation needs, analyze supply chain alternatives, recommend whether to keep strategic reserves (and how to track them), and describe how to keep delivery routes working, including methods that existed on January 1, 2021. It must explain how to prioritize who gets supplies and which workers must keep working, consider using U.S. credit or other financial support if needed, identify sectors that support defense, and check whether DHS, the National Guard, the Department of Defense, and other agency leaders have the authority and capacity to help recover. When making the plan, the President must get advice from the Secretaries of Homeland Security, Defense, the Treasury, Health and Human Services, Commerce, Transportation, Energy, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, and other agency heads as needed. The President must also consult sector groups, State, Tribal, and local governments, and other nonfederal groups. The plan must be sent to Congress not later than 2 years after January 1, 2021, and at least every 3 years after that, and must say any law changes or funding needed to carry it out. Definitions: “agency” = federal agency; “economic sector” = a part of the U.S. economy; “relevant actor” = federal, state/local/Tribal governments, or private sector; “significant event” = a cyberattack or other major natural or human-caused event that badly harms the economy; “State” = each State, DC, territories, and possessions.