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handle is hein.crs/govdavz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Researh Sevice Recent Presidential Trade Actions Affecting the U.S. Power Grid May 21, 2020 Introduction Over the past several weeks, the Trump Administration has taken actions to limit the use of foreign manufactured products in the U.S. power grid. On May 1, 2020, the President declared a national emergency (E.O. 13920) invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to prohibit certain international transactions for bulk-power system electric equipment used to operate the national grid. On May 4, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, announced a new investigation under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 into whether imports of certain large electrical transformers and their parts threaten national security. These actions may suggest a pattern, begun last year, of making use of executive national security authorities to restrict imports of goods that may be used for critical infrastructure (e.g., telecommunications and electrical equipment). The U.S. Power Grid and National Security Issues The federal government recognizes the U.S. bulk-power system as critical infrastructure, whose disruption, corruption. or dys function would have severe impacts across critic al infrastructure sectors. The Department of Energy (DOE) administers voluntary public-private partnerships in the electricity subs ector to promote information sharing on best practices and common threats affecting bulk-pow er systems. These systems enable long-distance transmission and distribution of electricity from generation facilities to end users. In addition, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), an independent federal agency, oversees mandatory and enforceable reliability standards for industry stakeholders. Risk assessments by subsector stakeholders have generally focused on threats and hazards that may disable or permanently damage large numbers of high-voltage electric-power transformers (LPTs) simultaneously. LPTs are critic al to the movement of electricity across the bulk-power system. Because LPTs require long lead times for manufacture, transport, and installation, loss of these systems for any reason may have severe long-term consequences for electric reliability. Experts have expressed increasing concern about the threat of coordinated cyberattacks through the nation's networked control systems that might significantly impair the nation's electric grid by damaging LPTs and other bulk-power equipment. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov INI 1401 CRS MN GHT Prepa re -r -c-Membersand Co.. n ft i sofon mcC n g ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------....................................-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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