E.O.13274
Environmental Stewardship and Transportation Infrastructure Project Reviews
·George W. Bush·67 FR 59449
E.O.13273
Further Amending Executive Order 10173, as Amended, Prescribing Regulations Relating to the Safeguarding of Vessels, Harbors, Ports, and Waterfront Facilities of the United States
·George W. Bush·67 FR 56215
Amends Part 6 of Title 33 of the Code of Federal Regulations, which implements Executive Order 10173 on safeguarding vessels, harbors, ports, and waterfront facilities. Adds a new definition of "Area Commander" as the Coast Guard officer designated by the Commandant to command a Coast Guard Area. Revises the enforcement section to specify that regulations under this part are enforced by the Captain of the Port under the supervision of the District Commander, Area Commander, and Commandant, with the same authority vested in and exercisable by those officers, and extends enforcement authority to other Coast Guard officers or petty officers designated by them. States that any such authority remains subject to the direction of the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard operates. The order cites continuing security concerns arising from disturbances in international relations since the September 11, 2001 attacks as justification.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13272
Proper Consideration of Small Entities in Agency Rulemaking
·George W. Bush·67 FR 53461
Directs federal agencies to strengthen compliance with the Regulatory Flexibility Act, which requires assessing how draft rules affect small businesses, small governmental jurisdictions, and small organizations. Within 90 days, agencies must submit written procedures for such review to the Small Business Administration's Chief Counsel for Advocacy, which will comment on them; agencies must issue final procedures within 180 days and make them public. Agencies must notify Advocacy of draft rules likely to significantly affect many small entities, consider Advocacy's comments, and generally publish their responses to Advocacy's written comments alongside final rules. Advocacy is tasked with notifying agencies of the Act's requirements, training agencies, and reporting annually to the Office of Management and Budget on compliance. The order preserves the Small Business Administration Administrator's existing supervisory authority, limits public disclosure of information Advocacy receives, and states it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13271
Establishment of the Corporate Fraud Task Force
·George W. Bush·67 FR 46091
Directs the Attorney General to establish a Corporate Fraud Task Force within the Department of Justice to strengthen investigation and prosecution of significant financial crimes such as securities fraud, accounting fraud, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, and related tax fraud. The task force is chaired by the Deputy Attorney General and includes senior Justice Department officials, the FBI Director, and U.S. Attorneys from several districts; the Deputy Attorney General must convene its first meeting within 10 days. The task force is to guide investigations and prosecutions, recommend resource allocation, and propose actions to improve cooperation among federal, state, and local authorities, along with regulatory or legislative changes. For certain recommendation functions, the Secretary of the Treasury and the chairs of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and Federal Communications Commission also join as members. The task force ends when the President, or the Attorney General with presidential approval, decides to terminate it.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13270
Tribal Colleges and Universities
·George W. Bush·67 FR 45288
Establishes a Presidential Board of Advisors on Tribal Colleges and Universities and a White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities (WHITCU), both housed in the Department of Education, to support postsecondary institutions serving Indian tribes and Alaska Native entities. The Board, up to 15 presidentially appointed members, advises on strengthening tribal colleges' finances, infrastructure, technology, and educational outcomes, including implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. WHITCU provides staff support and liaison functions between agencies and tribal colleges. The Secretary of Education designates participating agencies, each of which must appoint a senior liaison official and develop a Three-Year Plan with performance indicators for assisting tribal colleges, submit annual performance reports, and provide technical assistance. WHITCU and the Board are also directed to encourage private-sector support through matching funds, financial and facility expertise, and faculty training. The Board is funded by the Department of Education and terminates after two years unless renewed by the President. The order revokes Executive Order 13021 of October 19, 1996, as amended.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13269
Expedited Naturalization of Aliens and Noncitizen Nationals Serving in an Active-Duty Status During the War on Terrorism
·George W. Bush·67 FR 45287
Designates September 11, 2001, as the start of a period during which the Armed Forces of the United States are considered to be engaged in armed conflict with a hostile foreign force, for purposes of section 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. This makes noncitizens and noncitizen nationals who serve honorably in active-duty military status during this period eligible for expedited naturalization under that statute's exception to normal requirements. The period will end on a date to be set by a future executive order. The order states it does not otherwise affect any power, right, or obligation of the United States, its agencies, officers, employees, or any other person under federal law or the law of nations.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13268
Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Taliban and Amendment of Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001
·George W. Bush·67 FR 44751
Revokes Executive Order 13129 and terminates the national emergency declared in 1999 with respect to the Taliban, citing the outcome of the military campaign in Afghanistan. At the same time, amends Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 2001, which addresses terrorism-related threats, by adding Mohammed Omar and the Taliban to its annex of designated persons. Clarifies that the term "the Taliban" also covers alternate names including "Taleban," "Islamic Movement of Taliban," "the Taliban Islamic Movement," "Talibano Islami Tahrik," and "Tahrike Islami'a Taliban," and authorizes the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, to modify that definition as appropriate. States that the order creates no enforceable rights or benefits against the United States, and specifies that ending the Taliban emergency does not affect pending legal actions, prior acts, or rights and duties that arose before the order's date.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13267
Establishing a Transition Planning Office for the Department of Homeland Security Within the Office of Management and Budget
·George W. Bush·67 FR 42469
Establishes a Transition Planning Office within the Office of Management and Budget to coordinate executive branch planning for the proposed Department of Homeland Security and to work with Congress as it considers legislation creating that department. The office is led by a Director for Transition Planning, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget must provide it with personnel, funding, and administrative support. If someone serving as an Assistant to the President also heads this office, that person's two roles and their staff, funds, records, and property must be kept administratively separate. The order does not change existing authorities of other federal departments and agencies, but directs them to assist the Transition Planning Office where legally permitted. The office and all authorities under the order terminate within 90 days after legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security is enacted, or within one year of the order's signing, whichever comes first.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13266
Activities To Promote Personal Fitness
·George W. Bush·67 FR 42467
Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture, Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs, along with the Director of the Office of National Drug Policy, to review their departments' policies, programs, and regulations related to personal fitness and consider modifications or new initiatives to increase physical activity, promote healthy diets, expand use of preventive health screenings, and encourage healthy choices around alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and safety. Each agency must report proposed actions to the President through the Secretary of Health and Human Services within 90 days. It also establishes a Personal Fitness Interagency Working Group, chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, made up of the named officials or their designees, to coordinate federal personal fitness activities and meet at least twice a year. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights and is meant only to improve internal executive branch management.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13265
President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports
·George W. Bush·67 FR 39841
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop a national program to increase physical activity and sports participation, with particular focus on children, adolescents, and underserved populations. Establishes the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, made up of up to 20 presidentially appointed members serving two-year terms, to advise the President and the Secretary on progress and recommend actions to expand access to physical activity and sports. The Council will also liaise with state, local, and private organizations, monitor educational materials, and may form subcommittees. Federal agencies must provide requested information and assistance. The Secretary will appoint an Executive Director and provide staff and funding for the Council, whose members serve without pay but may receive travel expenses. The Council is set to terminate two years after the order unless extended by the President. The order also revokes Executive Order 12345 of February 2, 1982, as amended.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13264
Amendment to Executive Order 13180, Air Traffic Performance-Based Organization
·George W. Bush·67 FR 39243
Amends Executive Order 13180, which addressed the performance-based organization for air traffic control services. Removes language in the order's opening sentence describing the function as "inherently governmental." Also rewrites Section 6 to clarify that the order is meant only to improve internal executive branch management and does not create any right, substantive or procedural, that could be enforced by any party against the United States, its agencies, officers, employees, or any other person.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13263
President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
·George W. Bush·67 FR 22337
Establishes the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, made up of up to fifteen presidential appointees and up to seven ex officio members designated by the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Labor, Education, and Veterans Affairs. The Commission is tasked with studying the United States mental health service delivery system for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances, identifying unmet needs and effective treatments, and recommending policy improvements while following principles such as focusing on community-level care and respecting states' and tribes' roles. The Department of Health and Human Services must provide funding and administrative support, and the President selects an Executive Director for its staff. The Commission must submit an interim report within six months describing unmet needs and successful care models, and a final report with recommendations at a date set by its Chair in consultation with the President. The Commission terminates one year after the order unless extended by the President.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13262
2002 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
·George W. Bush·67 FR 18773
Amends the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, which implements the Uniform Code of Military Justice for the armed forces. Removes Federal Rule of Evidence 415 from the Military Rules of Evidence thirty days after signing, and revises numerous Rules for Courts-Martial covering special court-martial sentencing limits, disclosure of examination and test reports, protective orders against extrajudicial statements, use of prior convictions, fines, confinement conditions, review and appeal procedures, and record forwarding. It also updates several Punitive Articles, including penalties for larceny, dealing in captured property, unpremeditated murder, carnal knowledge, rape, larceny by electronic transaction, adultery, and other offenses, and raises certain dollar thresholds from $100 to $500. The amendments take effect May 15, 2002, with specified rules applying only to arraignments or offenses on or after that date, and none may retroactively criminalize past conduct or invalidate proceedings already underway. The order contains further technical and procedural provisions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13261
Providing An Order of Succession in the Environmental Protection Agency and Amending Certain Orders on Succession
·George W. Bush·67 FR 13243
Establishes an order of succession for the Environmental Protection Agency, listing eleven Assistant Administrator positions and the Chief Financial Officer who would act as Administrator if both the Administrator and Deputy Administrator die, resign, or are otherwise unable to serve. It specifies that anyone holding one of these positions only in an acting capacity cannot become acting Administrator under this order, and confirms the President retains discretion under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 to depart from this list. The order also amends similar succession orders for the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, the Interior, Labor, the Treasury, Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, and State, replacing language in each so that officials serving only in an acting capacity within the listed offices cannot become acting Secretary of that department under those earlier orders.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13260
Establishing the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council and Senior Advisory Committees for Homeland
·George W. Bush·67 FR 13241
Establishes the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council (PHSAC), made up of up to 21 presidentially appointed members plus several ex officio members, along with four Senior Advisory Committees covering state and local officials, academia and policy research, the private sector, and emergency services, law enforcement, and public health and hospitals. The President designates the Council's Chair and Vice Chair, while the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security selects members and leaders of the advisory committees, which may also form subcommittees. The Council is tasked with advising the President, through the Assistant, on developing and coordinating a national strategy against terrorist threats, improving coordination among federal, state, local, and private entities, and evaluating the feasibility and effectiveness of security measures. Federal agencies must share relevant information with the Council upon request. Members serve unpaid but may receive travel expenses, and the White House Office of Administration provides administrative support. The Council and its committees terminate two years after the order's date unless the President extends them.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13259
Designation of Public International Organizations for Purposes of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977
·George W. Bush·67 FR 13239
Designates the European Union—including its constituent communities, institutions such as the European Commission, Council, Parliament, Court of Justice, Court of Auditors, Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions, European Central Bank, and European Investment Bank, along with their departments and agencies—and the European Police Office (Europol), including its departments and agencies, as "public international organizations" under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977. This designation applies specifically to provisions in those statutes concerning bribery of foreign officials and related exemptions. The order clarifies that this designation is intended only to carry out the purposes of those two statutes and does not determine whether these entities qualify as public international organizations under any other law or regulation.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13258
Amending Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory Planning and Review
·George W. Bush·67 FR 9385
Amends Executive Order 12866, which governs regulatory planning and review, by removing the Vice President's designated role in the regulatory review process and reassigning those responsibilities to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget or the Chief of Staff to the President, depending on the section. It also updates references to certain advisory positions, replacing outdated titles such as the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and the Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs with their current equivalents, and adds the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security to the list of officials involved in the regulatory planning process. The changes are made through a series of specific word substitutions and structural edits to numbered sections of the original order, covering how conflicts over proposed regulations are resolved and who convenes and advises on regulatory policy meetings.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13257
President's Interagency Task Force To Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
·George W. Bush·67 FR 7259
Establishes the President's Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. Chaired by the Secretary of State, the task force includes the Attorney General, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Director of Central Intelligence, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and any other officials the President designates. Directs the task force to coordinate implementation of the Act, evaluate anti-trafficking progress domestically and abroad, help prepare required annual reports, expand data collection while protecting victim confidentiality, foster international cooperation on prevention and prosecution, examine international sex tourism's role in trafficking, and consult with government and nongovernmental organizations. The Department of State will fund and administer the task force, which meets as its chair calls and reports periodically to the President through the Secretary of State. States the task force has no independent directive authority and that the order creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13256
President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
·George W. Bush·67 FR 6823
Establishes the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities within the Office of the Secretary of Education, to advise the President and the Secretary on strengthening these institutions' infrastructure, academic programs, and financial stability, and to issue annual reports with recommendations. The President appoints Board members, including college presidents, business and foundation leaders, and educators. The White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities is directed to provide staff and support. Executive departments and agencies identified by the Secretary must develop annual plans with measurable goals to boost participation of these colleges in federal grants and contracts, appoint a senior liaison official, and submit annual performance reports; the Secretary compiles these into an integrated Annual Federal Plan for the President. The Board is also tasked with developing a Private Sector Strategy to encourage private contributions and partnerships. Board members serve without pay but may be reimbursed for travel. The order revokes Executive Order 12876 of November 1, 1993, as amended.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13255
Amendment to Executive Order 13227, President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education
·George W. Bush·67 FR 6157