E.O.13460
Blocking Property of Additional Persons in Connection With the National Emergency With Respect to Syria
·George W. Bush·73 FR 8991
E.O.13459
Improving the Coordination and Effectiveness of Youth Programs
·George W. Bush·73 FR 8003
Establishes an Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs within the Department of Health and Human Services to promote coordination among federal, state, and local governments, faith-based and community organizations, and families to improve outcomes for at-risk youth. The Secretary of Health and Human Services chairs the group and the Attorney General serves as vice chair, with membership drawn from several cabinet departments, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. The group is directed to identify effective practices, encourage rigorous program evaluation, and build a federal website on youth programs, with an initial version due within 10 months. It must also promote interagency initiatives such as volunteer service and mentoring efforts, and report annually to the President through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, with a first report due within 6 months. Agencies are directed to provide administrative support and information as needed.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13458
Implementation of the Protocol Additional to the Agreement Between the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in the United States of America
·George W. Bush·73 FR 7181
Directs the Secretaries of State, Defense, Commerce, and Energy, the Attorney General, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and other relevant agency heads to issue, amend, or enforce regulations and procedures needed to implement the United States Additional Protocol Implementation Act and the country's obligations under the Additional Protocol to its nuclear safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, with Justice Department assistance if needed, to obtain and execute warrants for gaining access to locations covered by Commerce Department regulations under the order. Authorizes the named agencies to carry out other functions necessary to implement the Act that are not already assigned, and assigns the Secretary of State responsibility for notifying Congress when the Act requires it. States that implementation depends on available funding and existing law, and specifies that the order creates no enforceable legal rights for any party against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13457
Protecting American Taxpayers From Government Spending on Wasteful Earmarks
·George W. Bush·73 FR 6417
Directs federal agency heads, for appropriations laws and other legislation enacted after the order's date, not to commit, obligate, or spend funds based on earmarks found only in non-statutory sources such as congressional committee reports or communications from members of Congress, unless required by law or justified by an agency's own merit-based determination. Requires agencies to base funding decisions on statutory text and transparent, merit-based criteria rather than informal congressional statements, and to disregard oral or written congressional views unless they are in writing. Requires agencies to publicly post, within 30 days, any written congressional communications recommending earmark funding, unless the agency head, after consulting the Office of Management and Budget, decides confidentiality is needed. Agencies must report earmark information to the Office of Management and Budget upon request. Defines 'agency' and 'earmark' for these purposes and states it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13456
Further Amendment of Executive Order 11858 Concerning Foreign Investment in the United States
·George W. Bush·73 FR 4677
Rewrites Executive Order 11858 to update the rules governing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews foreign transactions for national security risks under the Defense Production Act. It adds the United States Trade Representative and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy as Committee members, and designates several other officials, including the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, to observe and report on Committee activities. It assigns the Secretary of the Treasury to chair the Committee, issue regulations, and transmit reports to Congress, and directs the Secretary of Commerce to collect and analyze data on foreign investment. It sets procedures for reviews, investigations, and risk mitigation agreements with transaction parties, and states that departments must provide information the Committee requests. It revokes Section 801 of Executive Order 12919 and clarifies that it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13455
Establishing the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy
·George W. Bush·73 FR 4445
Establishes the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy within the Department of the Treasury to promote financial literacy among Americans. The council will have 19 members appointed by the President from outside the federal government, drawn from providers, consumers, promoters, and educators in financial services, with a Chair and Vice Chair designated by the President. It is directed to gather input from federal, state, local, and tribal officials and outside experts, advise the President and the Treasury Secretary on improving financial education, access to financial services, measurement of financial literacy, and related research, and periodically report on the state of financial literacy and progress made. The Treasury Department will fund and administer the council, whose members serve without pay but may receive travel expenses. The council terminates two years from the order's date unless extended by the President.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13454
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
·George W. Bush·73 FR 1481
Sets adjusted rates of basic pay and salaries across various federal pay systems, based on schedules attached to the order. These cover the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration pay schedules, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, pay for the Vice President and Congress, judicial salaries, uniformed services pay, locality-based comparability payments, and administrative law judges' 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. Specifies that the uniformed services pay schedule takes effect January 1, 2008, while the other schedules take effect at the start of the first applicable pay period on or after that date. Supersedes Executive Order 13420 of December 21, 2006.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13453
Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Monday, December 24, 2007
·George W. Bush·72 FR 70477
Directs that all executive branch departments and agencies be closed and their employees excused from duty on Monday, December 24, 2007, the day before Christmas. Allows heads of departments and agencies to decide that certain offices, installations, or employees must remain open or report for duty if needed for national security, defense, or other public need. Specifies that this day is to be treated under Executive Order 11582 and relevant federal pay and leave statutes, meaning employees' pay and leave will be handled as if it were a holiday closure under existing law.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13452
Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate Disputes Between the National Railroad Passenger Corporation and Certain of Its Employees Represented by Certain Labor Organizations
·George W. Bush·72 FR 67827
Establishes a five-member Emergency Board, effective December 1, 2007, to investigate unresolved labor disputes between Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) and certain employees represented by specified labor organizations, invoking the Railway Labor Act after the National Mediation Board found the disputes threatened to disrupt interstate commerce. Board members may not have financial or other interests in railroad carriers or employee organizations. The Board must report to the President within 30 days of its creation, and during that period plus 30 days after the report is submitted, neither Amtrak nor the unions may change the conditions underlying the disputes except by mutual agreement. The Board's records are treated as records of the Office of the President and will be kept by the National Mediation Board after the Board terminates, which occurs once its report is submitted.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13451
Designating the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization as a Public International Organization Entitled To Enjoy Certain Privileges, Exemptions, and Immunities
·George W. Bush·72 FR 65653
Designates the ITER International Fusion Energy Organization as a public international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act, making it eligible for certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities granted to such organizations under that law. The designation is based on U.S. participation in ITER authorized by acts of Congress, including provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and Department of Energy appropriations laws. The order clarifies that this designation does not limit or reduce any other privileges, exemptions, or immunities the organization may have already acquired or may acquire under other laws.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13450
Improving Government Program Performance
·George W. Bush·72 FR 64519
Directs the heads of executive agencies, including the U.S. Postal Service and Postal Regulatory Commission, to set clear annual and long-term performance goals for their programs, assign staff responsibility and resources to achieve them, measure progress and efficiency, and hold personnel accountable. Requires agencies to publish updated, searchable performance information on their websites, including successes and shortfalls. Directs the Office of Management and Budget's Director to issue instructions on goal content, schedules, and public disclosure. Requires each agency to designate a Performance Improvement Officer to oversee these efforts and advise agency leadership on whether goals are realistic and rigorous. Establishes a Performance Improvement Council, chaired by the Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget, made up of agency Performance Improvement Officers and other designated staff, to recommend performance policies, share best practices among agencies, monitor implementation, and build a public website tracking agency performance. States the order does not create enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13449
Protection of Striped Bass and Red Drum Fish Populations
·George W. Bush·72 FR 60531
Establishes a policy of conserving striped bass and red drum fish for recreational, economic, and environmental benefit, based on scientific evidence and cooperation with state, territorial, local, and tribal governments and the private sector. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to encourage management laws supporting this conservation policy, including state gamefish designations where appropriate, to revise regulations to prohibit selling striped bass and red drum caught within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, and to periodically review the fish populations' status, taking action within his authority and recommending further actions to the President where needed. For Atlantic striped bass, these duties are to be carried out jointly with the Secretary of the Interior. The order does not restrict aquaculture-produced striped bass or red drum, must be implemented consistent with existing laws and treaties, and does not create any enforceable legal rights against the United States.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13448
Blocking Property and Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related to Burma
·George W. Bush·72 FR 60223
Expands the national emergency concerning Burma first declared in Executive Order 13047 and previously acted on in Executive Order 13310, citing the government's violent repression of pro-democracy demonstrators, human rights abuses, and public corruption. Blocks all property and financial interests in the United States, or under the control of U.S. persons, belonging to individuals named in an attached annex, and authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, after consulting the Secretary of State, to designate additional persons for blocking, including senior officials of the Burmese government or affiliated organizations, those responsible for human rights abuses or corruption, those materially supporting such persons, and their spouses or dependent children. Prohibits transactions or conspiracies that evade these sanctions, bars related charitable donations, and waives advance notice to affected persons. Directs the Treasury Secretary to issue implementing regulations and permits removal of persons from the annex if circumstances change. Takes effect October 19, 2007.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13447
Further 2007 Amendments to the Manual for Courts- Martial, United States
·George W. Bush·72 FR 56179
Amends the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, which was originally prescribed by Executive Order 12473. It strikes a sentence from Part I as previously amended by Executive Order 13262, and revises Parts II, III, and IV as detailed in an attached annex. The changes take effect October 1, 2007, and apply to military justice proceedings under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The order specifies that no act or omission occurring before that date can be punished if it was not already punishable, and that ongoing nonjudicial punishment proceedings, investigations, restraints, referrals of charges, trials, or other actions begun before October 1, 2007, remain valid and may continue as if the amendments had not been made.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13446
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees and Amendments to and Revocation of Other Executive Orders
·George W. Bush·72 FR 56175
Extends the operation of sixteen federal advisory committees, including the President's Council on Bioethics, the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, the President's Export Council, and the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, until September 30, 2009. Assigns the President's functions under the Federal Advisory Committee Act for these committees to the head of the department or agency named for each, following guidelines set by the Administrator of General Services. Revokes Executive Order 13369, which had established the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, since that panel's work was finished. Supersedes sections 1 and 2 of Executive Order 13385 with corresponding sections of this order. Amends Executive Order 12994 to expand and rename the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, revising its membership, adding cabinet-level and agency officials plus up to 21 presidentially appointed citizen members, and outlining its advisory functions, reporting duties, and administrative support arrangements through the Department of Health and Human Services. Takes effect September 30, 2007.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13445
Strengthening Adult Education
·George W. Bush·72 FR 56165
Directs the Secretary of Education to establish an Interagency Adult Education Working Group, chaired by the Secretary, with members including the Secretaries of the Treasury, Labor, the Interior, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General, plus other officials as needed. The group is tasked with identifying federal programs that improve adult basic education skills or help adults move into postsecondary education, training, or employment; recommending ways to improve those programs' effectiveness, reduce duplication, and measure performance; identifying research gaps and promising practices; gathering input from state, local, tribal, and outside representatives; advising agencies on request about proposed adult-education actions; and reporting to the President through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, with an initial report due within nine months. The Department of Education is to fund and support the group's work, and other agencies must provide requested assistance, subject to existing law and available appropriations.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13444
Extending Privileges and Immunities to the African Union Mission to the United States
·George W. Bush·72 FR 52747
Extends to the African Union Mission to the United States, and to its members, the same privileges and immunities generally granted to diplomatic missions accredited to the United States and their staff, subject to the same corresponding conditions and obligations. The order acts under authority of the Department of State Authorities Act of 2006. It clarifies that this extension does not limit or replace any other privileges and immunities the African Union Mission or its members may already have or may later acquire under law.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13443
Facilitation of Hunting Heritage and Wildlife Conservation
·George W. Bush·72 FR 46537
Directs federal agencies with programs affecting public land, outdoor recreation, and wildlife management, including the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, to take steps facilitating hunting opportunities and game species conservation. Agencies must evaluate effects on hunting participation, weigh the economic and recreational value of hunting in their decisions, manage wildlife habitats to support hunting, work with state governments while respecting private property rights and state authority over wildlife, set goals with state and tribal governments for healthy game populations, align actions with existing wildlife management plans, and consult state and tribal fish and wildlife agencies and the Sporting Conservation Council. It directs the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality to convene a White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy within one year, and to prepare a ten-year Recreational Hunting and Wildlife Conservation Plan within a year after that conference concludes. It states the order creates no enforceable legal rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13442
Amending the Order of Succession in the Department of Homeland Security
·George W. Bush·72 FR 45877
Amends Executive Order 13286 to reset the order of succession within the Department of Homeland Security, listing seventeen officials who would act as Secretary of Homeland Security, in order, if the Secretary dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to serve. The list runs from the Deputy Secretary through various under secretaries, the General Counsel, agency heads including the Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director, down to several regional Federal Emergency Management Agency administrators. It specifies that officials already serving in an acting capacity in a listed office cannot become acting Secretary through this order, and preserves the President's authority under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 to designate a different acting Secretary. It also revokes Executive Order 13362, which had previously designated additional officers for this succession order.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13441
Blocking Property of Persons Undermining the Sovereignty of Lebanon or Its Democratic Processes and Institutions
·George W. Bush·72 FR 43499