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Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce
<br />• Government, private, and non -governmental organizations' workers essential for food assistance programs
<br />(including school lunch programs) and government payments.
<br />• Employees of companies engaged in the production, storage, transport, and distribution of chemicals,
<br />medicines, vaccines, and other substances used by the food and agriculture industry, including seeds,
<br />pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, minerals, enrichments, and other agricultural production aids.
<br />• Animal agriculture workers to include those employed in veterinary health (including those involved in supporting
<br />emergency veterinary or livestock services); raising of animals for food; animal production operations; livestock
<br />markets; slaughter and packing plants, manufacturers, renderers, and associated regulatory and government
<br />workforce.
<br />• Transportation supporting animal agricultural industries, including movement of animal medical and reproductive
<br />supplies and materials, animal vaccines, animal drugs, feed ingredients, feed, and bedding, live animals, animal
<br />by-products, and deceased animals for disposal.
<br />• Workers who support sawmills and the manufacture and distribution of fiber and forest products, including, but
<br />not limited to timber, paper, and other wood andfiberproducts.
<br />• Employees engaged in the manufacture and maintenance of equipment and other infrastructure necessary for
<br />agricultural production and distribution.
<br />ENERGY
<br />• Workers supporting the energy sector, regardless of the energy source (including but not limited to nuclear,
<br />fossil, hydroelectric, or renewable), segment of the system, or infrastructure the worker is involved in, or who are
<br />needed to monitor, operate, engineer, and maintain the reliability, safety, environmental health, and physical
<br />and cyber security of the energysystem.
<br />• Energy/commodity trading/scheduling/marketing functions, who can't perform their dutiesremotely.
<br />• IT and OT technology for essential energy sector operations including support workers, customer service
<br />operations; energy management systems, control systems, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition SCADA
<br />systems, and energy sector entity data centers; cybersecurity engineers; and cybersecurity risk management.
<br />• Workers supporting the energy sector through renewable energy infrastructure (including, but not limited to
<br />wind, solar, biomass, hydrogen, ocean, geothermal, and/or hydroelectric), including those supporting
<br />construction, manufacturing, transportation, permitting, operation/maintenance, monitoring, and logistics.
<br />• Workers and security staff involved in nuclear re -fueling operations.
<br />• Providing services related to energy sector fuels (including, but not limited, petroleum (crude oil), natural
<br />gas, propane, natural gas liquids, other liquid fuels, nuclear, and coal), supporting the mining, processing,
<br />manufacturing, construction, logistics, transportation, permitting, operation/maintenance, security, waste
<br />disposal and storage, and monitoring of support for resources.
<br />• Environmental remediation/monitoring, limited to immediate critical needs technicians.
<br />• Manufacturing and distribution of equipment, supplies, and parts necessary to maintain production, maintenance,
<br />restoration, and service at energy sector facilities (across all energy sector segments).
<br />Electricity industry:
<br />• Workers who maintain, ensure, or restore, or are involved in the development, transportation, fuel procurement,
<br />expansion, or operation of the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power, including call
<br />centers, utility workers, engineers, retail electricity, constraint maintenance, and fleet maintenance technicians -
<br />who cannot perform their duties remotely.
<br />• Workers at coal mines, production facilities, and those involved in manufacturing, transportation, permitting,
<br />operation/maintenance and monitoring at coal sites which is critical to ensuring the reliability of the electrical
<br />system.
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