(AGENPARL) – mar 30 aprile 2024 Issued: Apr 30, 2024 (3:15pm EDT)
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EPA Highlights Biden-Harris Administration’s New National Security
Memorandum
on Critical Infrastructure
EPA takes important steps to secure our nation’s water infrastructure
WASHINGTON – Today, April 30, 2024, the White House issued a new National
Security Memorandum (NSM) to secure and enhance the resilience of U.S.
critical infrastructure. The NSM will replace a decade-old presidential policy
document on critical infrastructure protection and launch a comprehensive
effort to protect U.S. infrastructure against all threats and hazards, current
and future.
“Cybersecurity and climate change threats pose serious risks to the drinking
water and wastewater services that people in this country rely on every day,
and recent cyber attacks on water systems underscore the urgency of increased
and coordinated action to protect public health and the environment,” said
EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe. “The Biden-Harris Administration is
leading a comprehensive effort to secure our nation’s critical
infrastructure against all threats, and the efforts outlined in the new
National Security Memorandum are vital to ensuring that EPA and other federal
entities are taking the necessary steps to safeguard public health and our
economy.”
The NSM will help ensure U.S. critical infrastructure can provide the nation a
strong and innovative economy, protect American families, and enhance our
collective resilience to disasters before they happen – strengthening the
nation for generations to come. This NSM specifically clarifies the roles and
responsibilities of the lead federal agencies identified to improve the
resilience of our critical infrastructure sectors against all hazards. EPA is
the official sector risk management agency with respect to the water sector.
The NSM also implements a coordinated national approach to assess and manage
sector-specific risks. 
Thanks to the President’s Investing in America agenda, as well as the
emergence of new technologies, America has a historic opportunity to build for
the future. Good investments require taking steps to manage risk, and for our
water infrastructure, that means building in resilience to all hazards upfront
and by-design. Through the President’s Investing in America agenda, the
Biden-Harris Administration has announced nearly $50 billion to modernize the
nation’s water infrastructure. These resources, including more than $23
billion in drinking water and clean water State Revolving Funds, can be used
to support a broad range of approaches to build resilience to all hazards,
including climate resilience and cybersecurity threats.
The nation faces an era of strategic competition where state actors will
continue to target American critical infrastructure – and tolerate or enable
malicious activity conducted by non-state actors. In the event of crisis or
conflict, America’s adversaries may attempt to compromise our critical
infrastructure to undermine the will of the American public and impede the
projection of U.S. military power abroad. Resilience, particularly for our
most sensitive assets and systems, is the cornerstone of homeland defense and
security.
Further, the growing impact of climate change, including changes to the
frequency and intensity of natural hazards, as well as supply chain shocks and
the potential for instability, conflict, or mass displacement, places strain
on the infrastructure that Americans depend upon to live and do business.
National Security Memorandum
2023 National Intelligence Strategy
EPA Cybersecurity for the Water Sector
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