E.O.13220
Waiver Under the Trade Act of 1974 With Respect to the Republic of Belarus
·George W. Bush·66 FR 35527
E.O.13219
Blocking Property of Persons Who Threaten International Stabilization Efforts in the Western Balkans
·George W. Bush·66 FR 34777
Declares a national emergency over threats to peace and stability in the Western Balkans, including extremist violence in Macedonia, southern Serbia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and acts obstructing the Dayton Accords in Bosnia or United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 in Kosovo. Blocks all property and interests in property within the United States, or held by U.S. persons, belonging to individuals and entities listed in an annex or later designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, for committing or supporting such violence or obstruction. Prohibits donations, contributions, or transactions benefiting designated persons, as well as any transaction intended to evade these restrictions. Authorizes the Treasury Secretary to issue regulations and delegate authority to enforce the order, and directs all federal agencies to assist as needed. Applies to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and entities operating under U.S. jurisdiction. Effective June 27, 2001.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13218
21st Century Workforce Initiative
·George W. Bush·66 FR 33627
Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish an Office of the 21st Century Workforce within the Department of Labor to study workforce issues, gather information through summits and hearings, and identify ways to streamline Labor Department rules and services. Creates the President's Council on the 21st Century Workforce, made up of up to 13 presidentially appointed members representing business, labor, government, and academia, plus the Secretary of Labor and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management as ex officio members, with the Secretary of Labor chairing. The Council will advise the President on technological, demographic, and economic changes affecting workers and employers, and is set to terminate two years after the order unless extended. Amends Executive Order 13111 to require coordination between its Advisory Committee on Expanding Training Opportunities and the new Office and Council. Revokes Executive Order 13174, which had established the Commission on Workers, Communities, and Economic Change in the New Economy.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13217
Community-Based Alternatives for Individuals With Disabilities
·George W. Bush·66 FR 33155
Directs the Attorney General, the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Education, Labor, and Housing and Urban Development, and the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration to work together to implement the Supreme Court's Olmstead decision, which requires states to place qualified individuals with disabilities in community settings rather than institutions when appropriate. These agencies are told to help states assess compliance, provide technical guidance, and use federal resources to support community-based services. Each agency head must evaluate its own policies, programs, statutes, and regulations for barriers to community placement, involving consumers and advocacy groups, and report findings to the President through the Secretary of Health and Human Services within 120 days. The Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services are directed to enforce Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, including investigating discrimination complaints, and to use cooperative or alternative dispute resolution methods with states. Agency actions must remain consistent with the Administration's budget, and the order creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13216
Amendment to Executive Order 13125, Increasing Participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Federal Programs
·George W. Bush·66 FR 31373
Amends Executive Order 13125 by renaming it from its original title to "Increasing Opportunity and Improving Quality of Life of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders." Also extends the life of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, which was created by Executive Order 13125, by changing its expiration date so that it continues until June 7, 2003, unless the President renews it before that date.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13215
President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, Further Amendment to Executive Order 13035, as Amended
·George W. Bush·66 FR 30285
Amends Executive Order 13035, which established the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, to extend the committee's life and adjust member terms. Provides that members appointed before June 1, 2001 serve until December 1, 2001 unless reappointed, while members appointed or reappointed on or after that date serve up to two years unless the President extends their service. Requires the President to designate two co-chairs from among the committee's members, each serving up to two years or until their committee membership ends, whichever is shorter. Also extends the committee's overall termination date from June 1, 2001 to June 1, 2003.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13214
President's Task Force To Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans
·George W. Bush·66 FR 29447
Establishes the President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans, made up of 15 presidentially appointed members, including two co-chairs, drawn from health care experts, officials familiar with Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense health systems, and veteran and military service organization representatives. The Task Force is charged with identifying ways to improve coordination and benefits between the two departments, reviewing barriers to cooperation such as budgeting, billing, and information technology, and finding opportunities to share resources and infrastructure. The Department of Veterans Affairs must provide administrative support and funding, and other agencies must supply information and staff support as needed. The Task Force must report findings to the President through the Secretaries of Veterans Affairs and Defense, issuing an interim report nine months after its first meeting and a final report within two years, after which it terminates within 30 days of the final report or no later than two years from the order's date.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13213
Additional Measures With Respect To Prohibiting the Importation of Rough Diamonds From Sierra Leone
·George W. Bush·66 FR 28829
Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the National Emergencies Act, and the United Nations Participation Act, and building on the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13194 regarding Sierra Leone's civil war, the order prohibits the direct or indirect importation into the United States of all rough diamonds from Liberia, regardless of where the diamonds actually originated, effective 12:01 a.m. on May 23, 2001. It cites United Nations Security Council Resolution 1343, which found the Government of Liberia complicit in facilitating the Revolutionary United Front's illicit diamond trade. The order bans transactions by U.S. persons that evade or attempt to evade these restrictions, and applies definitions from Executive Order 13194. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, is authorized to issue regulations and take other actions needed to enforce the order, and may delegate these functions to other federal officers or agencies. All federal agencies must take appropriate measures to carry out its provisions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13212
Actions To Expedite Energy-Related Projects
·George W. Bush·66 FR 28357
Directs federal agencies to expedite their review of permits and take other appropriate actions, consistent with applicable law, to accelerate energy-related projects that increase the production, transmission, or conservation of energy, while maintaining safety, public health, and environmental protections. Establishes an interagency task force to monitor and assist agencies in speeding up such permit reviews and to help coordinate federal, state, tribal, and local permitting in areas expecting increased permitting activity. The task force includes representatives from numerous federal departments and agencies, including State, Defense, Interior, Energy, and the Environmental Protection Agency, plus other bodies as designated by its chair. It is chaired by the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality and administratively housed at the Department of Energy. The order states it does not affect existing avenues for judicial review of agency action, and creates no enforceable legal rights against the federal government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13211
Actions Concerning Regulations That Significantly Affect Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use
·George W. Bush·66 FR 28355
Directs federal agencies to prepare a Statement of Energy Effects when taking a "significant energy action"—generally a proposed or final rule likely to significantly and adversely affect energy supply, distribution, or use, as defined under Executive Order 12866. The statement must describe any adverse effects on energy supply, distribution, or use, and identify reasonable alternatives along with their expected energy effects. Agencies must submit these statements to the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget whenever submitting related rulemaking materials under Executive Order 12866, and must publish the statements, or summaries of them, in Notices of Proposed Rulemaking and Final Rules. The order applies to executive agencies but excludes independent regulatory agencies. It states that it is meant only to improve internal government management and does not create any legally enforceable rights against the United States or its officials.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13210
President's Commission To Strengthen Social Security
·George W. Bush·66 FR 22895
Creates the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, a 16-member bipartisan panel with two co-chairs from different political parties, appointed by the President. The commission is directed to recommend ways to modernize Social Security's finances while following set principles: no benefit changes for retirees or near-retirees, dedicating the full Social Security surplus to the program, no payroll tax increases, no investment of funds in the stock market, preservation of disability and survivor benefits, and inclusion of voluntary personal retirement accounts. The Social Security Administration must provide administrative support and funding, and members serve without pay, though private citizens may receive travel expenses. The commission is to submit an interim report on challenges facing Social Security and evaluation criteria, followed by a final report with recommendations in fall 2001, timed by the co-chairs in consultation with the President. The commission terminates 30 days after submitting its final report.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13209
Amendment to Executive Order 13183, Establishment of the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Statis
·George W. Bush·66 FR 22105
Amends Executive Order 13183, which established the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status, by extending the deadline for the task force to report to the President. The reporting deadline in section 4 of that order is changed from May 1, 2001 to August 1, 2001, giving the task force three additional months to complete its work.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13208
Amendment to Executive Order 13202, Preservation of Open Competition and Government Neutrality Towards Government Contractors' Labor Relations on Federal and Federally Funded Construction Projects
·George W. Bush·66 FR 18717
Amends Executive Order 13202 by adding a new provision allowing the head of a federal executive agency to exempt a particular construction project from that order's requirements barring project labor agreements. An exemption may be granted upon application by an awarding authority, grant or financial assistance recipient, party to a cooperative agreement, or a construction manager acting for them, if the agency head finds that, as of the date of the original order, that party had already issued or was party to bid specifications, project agreements, or other controlling documents containing the requirements or prohibitions in question, and that one or more construction contracts under those terms had already been awarded. It applies to federal and federally funded or assisted construction projects.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13207
Further Amendment to Executive Order 10000, Regulations Governing Additional Compensation and Credit Granted Certain Employees of the Federal Government Serving Outside the United States
·George W. Bush·66 FR 18399
Amends Executive Order 10000, which sets rules on additional compensation and credit granted to certain federal employees working outside the United States. Makes technical changes to three sections: it removes a subsection label and a cross-reference definition in Section 201, eliminates a subsection in Section 205, and removes language in Section 210 concerning the frequency of reviewing pay differentials and allowance rates and the handling of substantial reductions from program or methodology revisions. The order does not create new policy but restructures and simplifies existing regulatory text governing how these employees' pay differentials and allowances are administered.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13206
Termination of Emergency Authority for Certain Export Controls
·George W. Bush·66 FR 18397
Revokes Executive Order 12924, which had continued export control regulations in effect under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act following the reauthorization of the Export Administration Act of 1979, and rescinds the related declaration of economic emergency. States that this revocation does not affect any violations that occurred while the earlier order was in effect, and that existing rules, regulations, licenses, and other administrative actions issued under it, including those codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, remain in force until amended or revoked by proper authority. Preserves the continued applicability of administration and delegation provisions in several earlier executive orders, and specifies that rules relating to section 38(e) of the Arms Export Control Act remain in effect until changed by proper authority.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13205
Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between Northwest Airlines, Inc., and Its Employees Represented by the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association
·George W. Bush·66 FR 15011
Establishes a three-member Emergency Board, effective March 12, 2001, to investigate a labor dispute between Northwest Airlines, Inc. and its employees represented by the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, under the Railway Labor Act. Board members must have no financial or other interest in any airline or airline employee organization, and the board must report to the President within 30 days of its creation. From the board's creation until 30 days after it submits its report, neither party may change the conditions that led to the dispute except by mutual agreement. The board's records are considered records of the Office of the President and will be kept by the National Mediation Board after the board terminates. The board's work ends once it submits its report to the President.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13204
Revocation of Executive Order on Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Certain Contracts
·George W. Bush·66 FR 11228
Revokes Executive Order 12933, which had required successive contractors on public building contracts to offer a right of first refusal of employment to the employees of the prior contractor. Directs the Secretary of Labor, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council, and heads of executive agencies to promptly move to rescind any orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, or policies implementing or enforcing the revoked order, to the extent consistent with law. Also directs the Secretary of Labor to immediately terminate any ongoing investigations or other compliance actions based on the revoked order.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13203
Revocation of Executive Order and Presidential Memorandum Concerning Labor-Management Partnerships
·George W. Bush·66 FR 11227
Revokes Executive Order 12871, which had established the National Partnership Council and required federal agencies to form labor-management partnerships for management purposes, along with the amendments made to it by Executive Orders 12983 and 13156. Dissolves the National Partnership Council immediately. Also revokes a 1999 Presidential Memorandum that had reaffirmed and expanded the partnership requirements. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management and the heads of executive agencies to promptly rescind any orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, or policies implementing or enforcing the revoked order or memorandum, to the extent consistent with law. States that nothing in the order voids collective bargaining agreements already in effect.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13202
Preservation of Open Competition and Government Neutrality Towards Government Contractors'Labor Relations on Federal and Federally Funded Construction Projects
·George W. Bush·66 FR 11225
Directs federal agencies awarding construction contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements to ensure that bid specifications and project agreements neither require nor prohibit contractors from signing agreements with labor unions on federal or federally funded construction projects, while allowing contractors to enter such agreements voluntarily. The order applies only to contracts awarded after its effective date, not to earlier ones. It lets agency heads exempt specific projects for reasons of public health, safety, or national security, but not because of labor disputes. It directs the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to amend federal acquisition rules within 60 days to implement these requirements. It revokes Executive Order 12836 as it relates to project agreements and revokes a 1997 presidential memorandum on the use of project labor agreements for federal construction, directing agencies to rescind related rules and guidance. It states it creates no enforceable rights against the government.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13201
Notification of Employee Rights Concerning Payment of Union Dues or Fees
·George W. Bush·66 FR 11221