IAPMO CEO GP Russ Chaney has sent a letter to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Chair of the National Governors Association (NGA), and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the NGA Vice Chair, to recommend the nation’s governors enact a series of measures be taken to maintain an educated and knowledgeable plumbing workforce as one of the nation’s 16 critical infrastructure sectors.
A copy of the letter may be read at:
https://www.iapmo.org/media/23579/letter-to-nga-on-covid-initiatives-for-governors.pdf.
“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has listed plumbers and water/wastewater sectors as part of the nation’s critical infrastructure,” Chaney writes. “These sectors are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination thereof.”
Chaney encourages the following steps be taken:
Last week, the White House and Department of Homeland Security identified plumbing industry professionals as indispensable in its Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring Community and National Resilience in COVID-19 Response.
Founded in 1908, the National Governors Association (NGA) is the collective voice of the nation’s governors and one of Washington, D.C.’s most respected public policy organizations. Its members are the governors of the 55 states, territories and commonwealths. Through NGA, governors identify priority issues and deal collectively with matters of public policy and governance at the state and national levels.
For more information on IAPMO and its proactive initiatives in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, direct your web browser to www.iapmo.org.
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