E.O.13694
Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities
·Barack Obama·80 FR 18077
E.O.13693
Planning for Federal Sustainability in the Next Decade
·Barack Obama·80 FR 15871
Directs federal agencies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve environmental performance through 2025, setting targets such as cutting agency-wide emissions, reducing building energy intensity by 2.5 percent annually, increasing clean and renewable energy use to 25 and 30 percent respectively by 2025, cutting potable water use by 36 percent, reducing fleet emissions and shifting to zero-emission or plug-in hybrid vehicles, promoting sustainable procurement, and diverting at least half of non-hazardous waste. Requires each agency head to propose emissions targets within 90 days, designate a Chief Sustainability Officer within 45 days, and develop annual Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans starting June 2015. Assigns oversight roles to the Council on Environmental Quality Chair, the Office of Management and Budget Director, and a reestablished Federal Chief Sustainability Officer. Revokes Executive Orders 13423 and 13514 and several prior presidential memoranda, and amends provisions in other executive orders. Includes exemptions for intelligence, law enforcement, and national security activities, and applies mainly to agency operations within the United States. Contains further administrative and definitional provisions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13692
Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Venezuela
·Barack Obama·80 FR 12747
Declares a national emergency over the situation in Venezuela, citing erosion of human rights, persecution of political opponents, curbs on press freedom, violence against protesters, and public corruption. Blocks all US-based property and interests of persons listed in an annex to the order, and authorizes the Treasury Secretary, in consultation with the State Department, to designate additional individuals or entities responsible for undermining democracy, committing human rights abuses, suppressing free expression or assembly, engaging in corruption, or supporting such actions. Prohibits donations, contributions, or transactions benefiting blocked persons, and bars any transactions designed to evade these restrictions. Suspends US entry for individuals meeting these criteria, unless the Secretary of State finds entry in the national interest. Waives advance notice requirements for asset blocking. Directs the Treasury and State Departments to issue implementing regulations and report periodically to Congress. Creates no enforceable private rights. Effective March 9, 2015.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13691
Promoting Private Sector Cybersecurity Information Sharing
·Barack Obama·80 FR 9349
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to encourage the voluntary formation of Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations (ISAOs), which private companies, nonprofits, and government entities can join to share information about cybersecurity risks and incidents. Instructs the Secretary to select, through a competitive process, a nongovernmental Standards Organization to develop voluntary standards for how ISAOs operate, covering areas such as privacy protections and technical procedures. Designates the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center as a critical infrastructure protection program authorized to enter voluntary agreements with ISAOs, and lets the Secretary determine security clearance eligibility for ISAO members. Requires agencies to build privacy and civil liberties protections into related activities and report assessments to the Department of Homeland Security. Amends Executive Order 12829 (National Industrial Security Program) in numerous specific provisions to reflect the Secretary of Homeland Security's new role in classified information sharing for critical infrastructure protection programs, including revised procedures involving the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Director of National Intelligence. Also defines key terms used throughout the order.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13690
Establishing a Federal Flood Risk Management Standard and a Process for Further Soliciting and Considering Stakeholder Input
·Barack Obama·80 FR 6425
Establishes a Federal Flood Risk Management Standard requiring federal agencies to account for higher flood elevations and expanded floodplains when funding or approving projects, rather than relying only on current base flood levels. Amends Executive Order 11988 (Floodplain Management) to require agencies to determine flood risk using one of several approaches, including climate-informed science, added freeboard elevations, or the 0.2-percent annual chance flood area, with exceptions for national security, emergency, or mission-critical actions. Directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency, on behalf of the Mitigation Framework Leadership Group, to publish draft revised floodplain management guidelines for public comment and hold stakeholder meetings, after which the Water Resources Council will issue amended guidelines. Requires agencies, within 30 days of the close of that comment period, to submit implementation plans with milestones and timelines to the National Security Council staff, and bars agencies from issuing new regulations until the Council's amended guidelines are issued. Requires the Mitigation Framework Leadership Group to reassess the Standard annually and the Water Resources Council to update it at least every five years.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13689
Enhancing Coordination of National Efforts in the Arctic
·Barack Obama·80 FR 4191
Establishes an Arctic Executive Steering Committee to coordinate federal Arctic policy across agencies, chaired by the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs as Vice Chair. The Committee includes senior officials from numerous departments and agencies, including State, Defense, the Interior, Commerce, Homeland Security, and others, and is to meet quarterly to set priorities and oversee implementation of Arctic policy, including efforts tied to the U.S. chairmanship of the Arctic Council. It directs the Committee to create a working group to report by May 1, 2015, on overlapping agency efforts and gaps in implementation. It also calls for a process to improve coordination and information-sharing with the State of Alaska, Alaska Native tribal governments and organizations, and other stakeholders, including tribal consultation consistent with a 2009 presidential memorandum, and for identifying a federal point of contact for Arctic matters with Alaska governments and organizations.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13688
Federal Support for Local Law Enforcement Equipment Acquisition
·Barack Obama·80 FR 3451
Establishes an interagency Law Enforcement Equipment Working Group, co-chaired by the Secretaries of Defense, Justice (Attorney General), and Homeland Security, to improve federal support for state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies acquiring military and military-style equipment, firearms, and tactical vehicles obtained through federal transfer, forfeiture, or grant programs. The group, which also includes several other cabinet officials and White House advisers, is tasked with recommending measures such as a standardized equipment list, training requirements including civil rights training, oversight and reporting rules, civilian review of equipment requests, and procedures for tracking, returning, or suspending access to such equipment. It must engage outside stakeholders including civil rights groups and law enforcement organizations. Within 60 days it must report recommendations on standardizing the equipment list and approval process, and within 120 days provide additional recommendations and implementation plans covering the order's other objectives, each with specific timetables.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13687
Imposing Additional Sanctions With Respect To North Korea
·Barack Obama·80 FR 819
Expands the national emergency related to North Korea, first declared in Executive Order 13466 and previously expanded in Executive Orders 13551 and 13570, citing North Korea's cyber-related actions in late 2014, violations of UN Security Council resolutions, and human rights abuses. Blocks all US-based property and interests of anyone the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, determines to be a North Korean government or Workers' Party of Korea entity or official, or to have provided material support to them. Prohibits donations, contributions, or transactions benefiting such blocked persons, and bars attempts or conspiracies to evade these restrictions. Suspends entry into the United States of individuals meeting these criteria, treating them as covered by a 2011 proclamation on UN travel bans. States that blocked persons need not receive prior notice before being listed. Directs the Treasury Secretary to issue implementing regulations and directs all federal agencies to carry out the order's provisions. Does not create enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13686
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
·Barack Obama·79 FR 77361
Sets updated federal pay rates through attached schedules, covering the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration pay scales, Senior Executive Service pay ranges, the Executive Schedule, salaries for the Vice President and Congress, judicial salaries, uniformed services pay, locality-based comparability payments, and administrative law judge pay. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement the locality-based comparability payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. Uniformed services pay rates take effect January 1, 2015, while the other schedules take effect on the first day of the first pay period beginning on or after that date. Supersedes Executive Order 13655 of December 23, 2013, as of these effective dates. Applies to federal civilian employees under statutory pay systems, senior executives, certain executive, legislative, and judicial officials, members of the uniformed services, and administrative law judges.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13685
Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to the Crimea Region of Ukraine
·Barack Obama·79 FR 77357
Prohibits new investment by U.S. persons in the Crimea region of Ukraine, along with importing goods, services, or technology from Crimea into the United States and exporting or supplying them from the United States to Crimea, including through foreign persons acting on behalf of U.S. persons. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to identify and block the property of persons operating in Crimea, leading such entities, or supporting blocked persons; such property in U.S. possession or control cannot be transferred or used. Suspends U.S. entry, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of individuals meeting these blocking criteria, treating them under a prior proclamation on sanctions-related travel bans. Bars charitable donations to or from blocked persons and prohibits transactions that evade or attempt to violate these rules. Exempts official U.S. government business. Determines that blocked persons need not receive advance notice before action is taken. Builds on the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13660 and expanded by Executive Orders 13661 and 13662, and authorizes Treasury to issue implementing regulations.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13684
Establishment of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
·Barack Obama·79 FR 76865
Establishes a President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, made up of up to eleven presidentially appointed members with expertise in law enforcement, civil rights, and civil liberties, including two Co-Chairs. The Task Force is directed to identify best practices and recommend ways policing can reduce crime while building public trust, holding public meetings and engaging federal, state, tribal, and local officials, technical advisors, and nongovernmental organizations. It is purely advisory and must submit a report to the President by March 2, 2015. The Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services serves as Executive Director, and the Department of Justice provides administrative and logistical support, subject to available funding. Members serve without pay but may receive travel expenses. The Task Force terminates 30 days after the President requests a final report, and the Attorney General performs certain functions under the Federal Advisory Committee Act on the President's behalf.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13683
Amendments to Executive Orders 11030, 13653, and 13673
·Barack Obama·79 FR 75041
Amends three prior executive orders. It revises Executive Order 11030 on preparing and publishing executive orders and proclamations, correcting a wording error, reassigning responsibility for preparing commemorative proclamations to agencies designated by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and adding a new section requiring trade proclamations to be prepared by the United States Trade Representative and reviewed by the Attorney General for form and legality. It amends Executive Order 13653 on preparing for climate change impacts by adding the OMB Director to the President's Climate Change Adaptation Task Force membership list and revising how the task force's Co-Chairs may structure a Steering Committee and working groups. It also amends Executive Order 13673, Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces, to correct a reference to the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Acts of 1972 and 1974. The order states it does not alter agencies' existing legal authority or OMB's budgetary functions, and creates no enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13682
Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Friday, December 26, 2014
·Barack Obama·79 FR 73459
Closes all executive branch departments and agencies on Friday, December 26, 2014, the day after Christmas, and excuses federal employees from duty that day. Allows agency heads to keep certain offices open and require specific employees to report for work if needed for national security, defense, or other public needs. States that the closure counts as falling under Executive Order 11582 and relevant federal pay and leave statutes. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to take actions necessary to carry out the order. Clarifies that it does not affect existing agency authority or the budgetary functions of the Office of Management and Budget, must be implemented consistent with law and available funding, and does not create any enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13681
Improving the Security of Consumer Financial Transactions
·Barack Obama·79 FR 63491
Directs federal agencies to improve security for consumer financial transactions. It requires the Department of the Treasury and General Services Administration to transition government payment terminals and credit, debit, and prepaid Direct Express cards to enhanced security features, such as chip-and-PIN technology, with hardware upgrades required by January 1, 2015; other agencies must submit similar security plans to the Office of Management and Budget by that date. It directs the Attorney General and Department of Homeland Security to issue guidance by February 15, 2015 on reporting compromised credentials, and has the Department of Justice, Department of Commerce, Social Security Administration, and Federal Trade Commission consolidate identity theft resources on IdentityTheft.gov, with an enhanced version available by May 15, 2015. It also requires the National Security Council staff, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Office of Management and Budget to present, within 90 days, a plan requiring multi-factor authentication for agencies sharing personal data online, with implementation completed within 18 months.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13680
Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
·Barack Obama·79 FR 63287
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating under the Navy, to order to active duty units and individual members of the Selected Reserve, as well as certain members of the Individual Ready Reserve designated as essential, to support Operation United Assistance, the humanitarian and consequence-management response to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa. It also authorizes these officials to end the active-duty service of those units and members once no longer needed. The order states it creates no enforceable legal right or benefit for any party against the United States or its agencies, officers, or employees.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13679
Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and Its Locomotive Engineers Represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen
·Barack Obama·79 FR 62323
Establishes a second emergency board, effective October 13, 2014, to investigate a labor dispute between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) and its locomotive engineers, represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, under the Railway Labor Act. The three-member board, whose members must have no financial interest in any railroad or railway labor organization, is to be appointed by the President. Within 30 days of the board's creation, both parties must submit final settlement offers, and within 30 days after that, the board must report to the President selecting the most reasonable offer. Neither party may change the conditions underlying the dispute from the time the board was requested until 60 days after its report, except by mutual agreement. The board's records become part of the Office of the President's files and will later be held by the National Mediation Board. The board terminates once it submits its report.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13678
Conversion Authority for Criminal Investigators (Special Agents) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
·Barack Obama·79 FR 60949
Establishes an exception to standard competitive civil-service examination rules for Criminal Investigators, known as special agents, at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). Investigators appointed under Schedule B who complete three years of fully satisfactory service may be converted to career civil-service appointments without a competitive process, provided they meet qualifications set by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. The stated purpose is to help ATF compete for high-quality agents by giving it an authority already held by other federal law enforcement agencies. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to issue regulations needed to carry out the order. States that it does not alter existing agency authorities or the Office of Management and Budget's budgetary and legislative functions, and does not create any legally enforceable right or benefit for any party.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13677
Climate-Resilient International Development
·Barack Obama·79 FR 58231
Directs federal agencies involved in international development to factor climate-change risks into their strategies, programs, projects, investments, and overseas facility planning. Agencies with direct development programs must assess climate vulnerabilities using best-available data, adjust decisions accordingly, and support other countries in doing the same. Agencies participating in multilateral development entities, such as development banks and United Nations organizations, are told to encourage similar risk assessment and adjustment there. Establishes a Working Group on Climate-Resilient International Development, co-chaired by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, under the existing Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, to create guidelines, identify data and tools, and track progress, including a two-year implementation timeline. Requires annual progress reporting to the Council and other bodies. Within one year, the National Security Council must convene agencies to identify further climate-change mitigation opportunities in development work and recommend further action. Includes definitions of terms like resilience and adaptation, and states implementation is subject to available funding and existing law.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13676
Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
·Barack Obama·79 FR 56931
Establishes a coordinated federal effort to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Creates a Task Force for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, co-chaired by the Secretaries of Defense, Agriculture, and Health and Human Services, required to submit a five-year National Action Plan to the President by February 15, 2015, with annual progress updates thereafter. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Presidential Advisory Council of up to 30 members to advise on antibiotic resistance policy. Requires Health and Human Services, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to review regulations and, by the end of 2016, propose measures requiring hospitals and other facilities to adopt antibiotic stewardship programs. Directs agencies to strengthen surveillance systems, integrate laboratory data, promote development of new antibiotics and diagnostics, and coordinate on eliminating antibiotic use for growth promotion in food-producing animals. Requires the Secretaries of State, Agriculture, and Health and Human Services to designate representatives within 30 days for international cooperation, including with the World Health Organization. Contains additional implementation and administrative provisions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13675
Establishing the President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa
·Barack Obama·79 FR 46661