E.O.13040
Amendment to Executive Order 13017, Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry
·William J. Clinton·62 FR 14773
E.O.13039
Exclusion of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group From the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program
·William J. Clinton·62 FR 12529
Amends Executive Order 12171 to add the Naval Special Warfare Development Group to the list of agencies excluded from the federal labor-management relations program established under Chapter 71 of title 5 of the United States Code. The order is based on a presidential determination that the group's primary function involves intelligence, counter-intelligence, investigative, or national security work, and that applying standard labor-management relations rules to it would be inconsistent with national security requirements. The change applies specifically to that Navy unit, excluding it from the collective bargaining and related provisions that otherwise apply to federal employees.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13038
Advisory Committee on Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters
·William J. Clinton·62 FR 12065
Creates the Advisory Committee on the Public Interest Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters, made up of up to 15 presidentially appointed members drawn from commercial and noncommercial broadcasting, computer industries, production, academia, public interest groups, and advertising, with a chair designated by the President. The committee must report to the Vice President by June 1, 1998, on what public interest obligations digital television broadcasters should assume, consulting with the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information as needed. Federal agencies must provide requested information, and may make facilities, services, and personnel available to support the committee's work. Members serve without pay but may receive travel expenses. The Department of Commerce provides administrative support, and the Assistant Secretary of Commerce performs presidential functions under the Federal Advisory Committee Act except reporting to Congress. The committee terminates 30 days after submitting its report unless the President extends it.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13037
Commission To Study Capital Budgeting
·William J. Clinton·62 FR 10185
Establishes the Commission to Study Capital Budgeting, a bipartisan 11-member body appointed by the President, with two co-chairs also designated by the President. Members are to include people with expertise in public and private finance, government officials, and labor and business leaders. The Commission is directed to study capital budgeting practices in other countries and in state, local, and private-sector settings; how to define capital for federal budgeting purposes; the role and measurement of depreciation in a federal capital budget; and the effects a federal capital budget could have on budget choices, economic stability, and budgetary discipline. It must adopt its findings by majority vote and report to the National Economic Council by March 15, 1998, or within one year of its first meeting. Members serve without pay, though private citizens may receive travel expenses. The Department of the Treasury provides funding and administrative support, and the Commission ends 30 days after submitting its report.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13036
Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between American Airlines and its Employees Represented by the Allied Pilots Association
·William J. Clinton·62 FR 7653
Establishes a three-member Emergency Board under the Railway Labor Act to investigate a labor dispute between American Airlines and its employees represented by the Allied Pilots Association, following a National Mediation Board finding that the dispute threatens to substantially interrupt interstate commerce. Board members must have no financial or other interest in any airline or airline employee organization. The Board must report to the President within 30 days of its creation, and for 30 days after that report is submitted, neither party may change the conditions that gave rise to the dispute except by mutual agreement. The Board's records are treated as records of the Office of the President and, once the Board terminates, are to be kept in the physical custody of the National Mediation Board. The Board's existence ends automatically upon submission of its report.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13035
Advisory Committee on High-Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet
·William J. Clinton·62 FR 7131
Establishes the Advisory Committee on High-Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet, made up of up to 25 non-federal members appointed by the President, including representatives from research, education, library, networking, and industry sectors, with co-chairs designated by the President. The committee advises the National Science and Technology Council, through the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, on progress and balance within the High-Performance Computing and Communications Program and the Next Generation Internet initiative, and on whether related research is maintaining U.S. leadership in advanced computing and communications technology. The Department of Defense provides financial and administrative support, and the Director of the National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications provides coordination and technical assistance. Executive agencies must supply requested information, and the committee may form subcommittees or invite outside experts. Members serve unpaid but receive travel expenses. The committee terminates two years from the order's date unless extended by the President.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13034
Extension of Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses
·William J. Clinton·62 FR 5137
Extends the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses, originally established by Executive Order 12961, keeping in place its existing membership, chairperson, and administrative rules. The committee will continue reporting to the President through the Secretaries of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and Health and Human Services, focusing on overseeing the Department of Defense's investigation into possible chemical or biological warfare agent exposures during the Gulf War and evaluating the government's progress implementing recommendations from the committee's December 31, 1996 final report. It may also offer advice on new developments related to its original mission. The committee must submit a status report by April 30, 1997, and a final supplemental report by October 31, 1997, unless the President directs otherwise, and will terminate 30 days after submitting that final report. The order states it creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13033
Executive Order 13033 of December 27, 1996
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 68987
Sets adjusted rates of basic pay and allowances for various federal pay systems, including the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration schedules, the Senior Executive Service, and uniformed services members, based on schedules attached to the order. Leaves unchanged the pay for the Executive Schedule, the Vice President, Congress, and federal judges, as required by prior appropriations law. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement locality-based comparability payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. Sets January 1, 1997 as the effective date for military pay adjustments, with other schedules taking effect at the start of the first applicable pay period on or after that date. Supersedes Executive Order 12984 of December 28, 1995, and Executive Order 12990 of February 29, 1996. Applies to federal civilian employees, senior executives, uniformed service members, and certain government officials.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13032
Further Amendment to Executive Order No. 12964
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 68985
Amends Executive Order 12964, as previously amended by Executive Order 12987, to extend the deadline set in its section 2 for the Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy from December 31, 1996, to February 28, 1997. The change applies only to that single date and does not alter any other provisions of the earlier orders.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13031
Federal Alternative Fueled Vehicle Leadership
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 66529
Directs federal agencies to develop plans to meet alternative fueled vehicle (AFV) acquisition targets under the Energy Policy Act of 1992, rising from 25 percent of new fleet vehicles in fiscal year 1996 to 75 percent in fiscal year 1999 and beyond, applying mainly to general-use vehicles in larger metropolitan areas. Requires agencies to report compliance to the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Energy, and the General Services Administration within 60 days and annually thereafter, explaining any shortfalls and claimed exemptions for law-enforcement, emergency, or certified military vehicles. Allows agencies to meet targets through leasing, purchase, or conversion, and grants extra credit toward targets for medium-duty, heavy-duty, and zero-emissions vehicles. Ends dedicated Department of Energy funding for other agencies' incremental AFV costs, except for a new partial funding program for electric vehicle purchases starting in fiscal year 1997. Directs the Secretary of Energy to coordinate vehicle placement and refueling infrastructure with nonfederal stakeholders. Supersedes Executive Order 12844.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13030
Administration of Foreign Assistance and Related Functions and Arms Export Controls
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 66187
Amends three earlier executive orders concerning foreign assistance and arms export controls. It updates Executive Order 12163 to reference additional statutory provisions from the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and several foreign operations appropriations acts. It amends Executive Order 11958 to delegate authority under Section 40A of the Arms Export Control Act, as added by the 1996 antiterrorism law, to the Secretary of State, and renumbers related subsections accordingly. It also makes a technical wording change to Executive Order 12884 to expand a cross-reference within that order. The amendments primarily adjust legal citations and delegate specific statutory authority to the Secretary of State rather than creating new policy directives.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13029
Implementing, for the United States, the Provisions of An- nex 1 of the Decision Concerning Legal Capacity and Privileges and Immunities, Issued by the Council of Ministers of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe on December 1, 1993
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 64592
Directs that the privileges and immunities described in Annex 1 of a December 1993 decision on Legal Capacity and Privileges and Immunities, issued by the Council of Ministers of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, be extended to the personnel and institutions covered by that annex. The order implements this for the United States under authority granted by section 422 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995. It also notes that, effective January 1, 1995, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe is renamed the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13028
Further Amendments to Executive Order No. 12757 Implementation of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 64589
Amends Executive Order 12757, which implements the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, to reflect authority granted under section 571 of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1996. It updates the order's preamble and Section 1 to cite this new law, delegates to the Secretary (in this context, the Secretary of the Treasury) certain presidential functions under section 571, to be exercised based on recommendations of the relevant Council and in consultation with the Secretary of State. It renumbers the former Section 6 as Section 7 and adds a new Section 6 stating that references to section 571 also cover any future law that is the same or substantially similar. The order states it is meant only to improve internal federal management and creates no enforceable rights for outside parties.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13027
Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and Its Employees Represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 58971
Establishes a three-member emergency board under the Railway Labor Act to investigate a labor dispute between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, effective November 16, 1996. Board members must have no financial or organizational ties to railroads or railway labor organizations. Requires the parties to submit final settlement offers to the board within 30 days of its creation, and requires the board to report to the President within 30 days after that, selecting the most reasonable offer. Bars either party from changing the conditions underlying the dispute, except by mutual agreement, from the time the board was requested until 60 days after it reports. Directs that the board's records be treated as records of the Office of the President and, once the board dissolves, be kept by the National Mediation Board. The board terminates automatically once it submits its report.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13026
Administration of Export Controls on Encryption Products
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 58767
Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and continuing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12924, this order sets rules for regulating encryption products that move from the State Department's Munitions List to the Commerce Department's Commerce Control List. It declares that foreign availability of such encryption cannot be examined publicly or in court without risking classified information, and exempts these exports from certain foreign-availability provisions of the Export Administration Act, though the Secretary of Commerce may still consider foreign availability at his discretion. It amends Executive Order 12981 to require the Departments of State, Defense, Energy, and Justice, and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, to review encryption export license applications, giving Justice voting membership on related review boards and committees. It directs that encryption software be treated based on its functional capacity rather than as informationalRead the full summaryShow less
E.O.13025
Amendment to Executive Order 13010, the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 58623
Amends Executive Order 13010, which established the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection. Changes the rule for choosing the Commission's Chair so that a qualified individual from outside the federal government is designated by the President from among the Commission's members. Restructures the Commission's Steering Committee to comprise five members: four appointed by the President and the fifth being the Commission's Chair, with two of the five required to be employees of the Executive Office of the President. Also increases a numerical limit in section 5 of the original order from ten to 15. The order does not otherwise describe the Commission's duties or timeline.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13024
Amending Executive Order 12015, Relating to Competitive Appointments of Students Who Have Completed Approved Career-Related Work Study Programs
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 58125
Amends Executive Order 12015 to expand the types of appointments available to students who complete approved career-related work-study programs. It revises the rule so that qualifying students may be converted to a term appointment, in addition to career or career-conditional appointments, and adds a new provision allowing students given a term appointment to later be converted, without competitive hiring procedures, to a career or career-conditional appointment before their term appointment ends. The order also renumbers a later section of the original order to accommodate this addition. It applies to federal agencies administering such student employment conversions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13023
Amendments to Executive Order 12992, Expanding and Changing the Name of the President's Council on Counter-Narcotics
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 57767
Amends Executive Order 12992 to rename the President's Council on Counter-Narcotics as the President's Drug Policy Council. Expands the Council's permanent membership to include the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Education, and Veterans Affairs, along with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. The revised membership list also retains existing members such as the President (as Chairman), Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, Secretary of Transportation, the U.S. Representative to the United Nations, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the White House Chief of Staff, the Director of National Drug Control Policy, the Director of Central Intelligence, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, the Counsel to the President, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Advisor to the Vice President. It allows the President to designate additional department and agency officials to serve on the Council as needed.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13022
Administration of the Midway Islands
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 56875
Transfers jurisdiction and control of the Midway Islands, Hawaiian group, from the Department of the Navy to the Department of the Interior, superseding earlier executive orders that had placed the islands under Navy authority. Dissolves the Midway Islands Naval Defensive Sea Area and Naval Airspace Reservation. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, to administer the islands as the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, focused on preserving biodiversity, conserving fish and wildlife habitat, meeting international treaty obligations, supporting research and education, and maintaining the islands' historic significance. Gives the Secretary of the Interior civil, executive, legislative, and most judicial authority over the islands. Pending legal proceedings under the Midway Islands Code remain with the Secretary of the Navy, while future cases fall to the Secretary of the Interior. States that this order overrides any conflicting prior orders and does not affect the Attorney General's authority to represent U.S. legal interests in related cases.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13021
Tribal Colleges and Universities
·William J. Clinton·61 FR 54929