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PE-23 Facility Location

NIST SP 800-53 (controls) 5.1.1+u4
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Title

Facility Location

Control

a. Plan the location or site of the facility where the system resides considering physical and environmental hazards; and
b. For existing facilities, consider the physical and environmental hazards in the organizational risk management strategy.

Discussion

Physical and environmental hazards include floods, fires, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorism, vandalism, an electromagnetic pulse, electrical interference, and other forms of incoming electromagnetic radiation. The location of system components within the facility is addressed in [PE-18](#pe-18).

Related controls

cp-2, pe-18, pe-19, pm-8, pm-9, ra-3

STIG rules that implement this control 0

No followed STIG rule cites a CCI indexed to this control (CCI list 2026-07-14).