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== Government responses ==

=== United States ===

The [[United States Government]] responded to the Y2K threat by passing the Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act, by working with private sector counterparts in order to ensure readiness, and by creating internal continuity of operations plans in the event of problems. The effort was headedcoordinated out of the White House by the President’s Council On Year 2000 Conversion, headed by John Koskinen.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/23/shift.y2k.idg/ White House shifts Y2K focus to states, CNN (Feb. 23, 1999)]</ref> The [[White House]] effort was conducted in coordination with the then-independent agency [[FEMA]], as well as an interim Critical Infrastructure Protection Group, then in the Department of Justice, now in Homeland Security. The US Government promoted Y2K Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) to share readiness between industries, without threat of antitrust violations or liability based on information shared.

The US Government followed a three part approach to the problem: (1) Outreach and Advocacy (2) Monitoring and Assessment and (3) Contingency Planning and Regulation.<ref>{{PDFlink|[http://www.wutc.wa.gov/webdocs.nsf/b8da29aede8fdd67882571430005a9c1/c1cf57ff131085ca88256744007e1440/$FILE/Y2kcsr.pdf FCC Y2K Communications Sector Report (March 1999) copy available at WUTC]|1.66&nbsp;[[Mebibyte|MiB]]<!-- application/pdf, 1743724 bytes -->}}</ref>