Ask the Treasury Department to establish a safe harbor treating cybersecurity monitoring contracts with publicly owned utilities as services rather than long-term equipment leases.

Establish a safe harbor for cybersecurity service agreements with publicly owned utilities under section 7701(e).

Cotton requested a Treasury safe harbor so cybersecurity monitoring contracts for public utilities are treated as service agreements, not equipment leases.

Cotton to Bessent: Protect Critical Infrastructure from Cyberattacks
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Establish a safe harbor for cybersecurity service agreements with publicly owned utilities under section 7701(e).

Cotton asked Treasury to create a safe harbor so cybersecurity monitoring contracts with public utilities are treated as services, not equipment leases.

Cotton to Bessent: Protect Critical Infrastructure from Cyberattacks
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“Establish a safe harbor for cybersecurity service agreements with publicly owned utilities under section 7701(e). Small public systems cannot hire their own security staff and must contract with outside firms.”

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Cotton formally asked Treasury to create the requested section 7701(e) safe harbor, documenting effort but not delivery.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Cotton to Bessent: Protect Critical Infrastructure from Cyberattacks
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“The Internal Revenue Bulletin is the authoritative instrument of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for announcing official rulings and procedures of the Internal Revenue Service and for publishing Treasury Decisions, Executive Orders, Tax Conventions, legislation, court decisions, and other items of general interest. It is published weekly.”

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The latest weekly IRS bulletin in the lookback window contained no identified Treasury/IRS guidance establishing the requested cybersecurity public-utility service-contract safe harbor, leaving the ask unresolved as of September 22, 2026.

unresolved same_term

Internal Revenue Bulletin: 2026-39 | Internal Revenue Service
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