E.O.13604
Improving Performance of Federal Permitting and Review of Infrastructure Projects
·Barack Obama·77 FR 18887
E.O.13603
National Defense Resources Preparedness
·Barack Obama·77 FR 16651
Implements the Defense Production Act of 1950 by delegating presidential authorities among federal agencies to prepare the nation's industrial and technological base for national defense needs. It assigns specific agencies to prioritize and allocate resources in their sectors—such as the Secretary of Agriculture for food, Energy for energy, Health and Human Services for health resources, Transportation for civil transportation, Defense for water, and Commerce for other materials—and authorizes loans, loan guarantees, subsidies, and incentives to expand industrial capacity. It establishes a National Defense Executive Reserve of private-sector experts available for government service during emergencies, sets labor-related responsibilities for the Secretary of Labor, and creates a Defense Production Act Committee of numerous agency heads to advise the President and report to Congress annually. It also defines key terms used throughout, revokes Executive Order 12919 and parts of Executive Order 12656, and preserves other prior orders and authorities not inconsistent with this one. The order contains additional administrative and procedural provisions.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13602
Establishing a White House Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities
·Barack Obama·77 FR 16131
Establishes a White House Council on Strong Cities, Strong Communities, housed within the Department of Housing and Urban Development and co-chaired by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Includes as members numerous cabinet secretaries and heads of agencies such as Treasury, Defense, Justice, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Transportation, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs, and Homeland Security, along with other senior officials. Directs the Council to coordinate federal efforts under the existing Strong Cities, Strong Communities initiative, helping local communities access technical assistance and planning resources, incorporate related goals into agency performance plans, recommend policy changes to the President, and encourage coordinated financing and planning tools. Requires the Council to conduct outreach to nonprofits, businesses, labor groups, state and local governments, and other stakeholders, and to hold an annual meeting to share progress. Requires the Council's Executive Director to report to the Co-Chairs within one year and annually thereafter on its work and achievements.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13601
Establishment of the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center
·Barack Obama·77 FR 12981
Establishes an Interagency Trade Enforcement Center within the Office of the United States Trade Representative to coordinate enforcement of U.S. trade rights under international trade agreements and enforcement of domestic trade laws. The Center works with the Departments of State, Treasury, Justice, Agriculture, Commerce, and Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and other agencies the President or the Trade Representative may designate. It is led by a Director from the Trade Representative's office, a Deputy Director detailed from the Department of Commerce, and an Intelligence Community Liaison. The Center is to serve as the main forum for coordinating trade enforcement, exchange information on potential violations of trade agreements by foreign partners, and conduct outreach to U.S. workers and businesses. Funding and administrative support come from the Office of the United States Trade Representative, subject to available appropriations, and the order defines relevant terms such as 'U.S. trade rights' and 'domestic trade laws.'Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13600
Establishing the President's Global Development Council
·Barack Obama·77 FR 8713
Establishes the President's Global Development Council, housed administratively within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to advise the President on development policy as part of national security and foreign policy strategy. The Council includes up to 12 outside appointees representing academia, nonprofits, civil society, and private industry, plus non-voting officials from the State Department, Treasury, Defense Department, USAID, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. The President designates a Chair and Vice Chair. The Council is directed to advise on effective development approaches, support public-private partnerships, and gather public input on development issues. USAID provides funding and administrative support, including an Executive Director appointed by its Administrator. Outside members serve unpaid but may receive travel expenses. The order specifies that agency heads must assist the Council as needed, and states the Council will terminate two years after the order's signing unless the President renews it.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13599
Blocking Property of the Government of Iran and Iranian Financial Institutions
·Barack Obama·77 FR 6659
Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and other authorities, and building on the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12957, this order blocks all property and interests in property of the Government of Iran, including the Central Bank of Iran, and of any Iranian financial institution, if such property is in the United States or comes under the control of a U.S. person, including foreign branches. It also blocks property of anyone determined by the Treasury Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to be owned, controlled by, or acting on behalf of such blocked parties. It prohibits donations, contributions, and transactions benefiting blocked persons, bars evasion or conspiracy to violate the order, and exempts official U.S. government business. It waives advance notice to affected parties, authorizes the Treasury and State Departments to issue implementing regulations and exercise related statutory authorities, and states the measures respond to Iranian actions occurring after the 1981 Algiers Accords. It took effect February 6, 2012.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13598
Assignment of Functions Relating to Certain Promotion and Appointment Actions in the Armed Forces
·Barack Obama·77 FR 5371
Assigns the Secretary of Defense to perform certain presidential functions under title 10 of the United States Code related to military promotions and appointments. This includes reviewing reports on promotions to brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half) and above, extending officer promotion eligibility periods, and appointing members of the Marine Band and Marine Drum and Bugle Corps to grades up to captain. The Secretary may reassign the reporting and eligibility-extension functions only to Senate-confirmed civilian officers within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, but may not reassign the authority over Marine Band and Drum and Bugle Corps appointments. The order states it does not limit the President's constitutional authority as Commander in Chief or over appointments, and it creates no enforceable legal rights for any outside party.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13597
Establishing Visa and Foreign Visitor Processing Goals and the Task Force On Travel and Competitiveness
·Barack Obama·77 FR 3373
Directs federal agencies to improve visa processing and foreign visitor travel to the United States while maintaining national security. Requires the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security, within 60 days, to develop an implementation plan to increase nonimmigrant visa processing capacity in China and Brazil by 40 percent, ensure 80 percent of visa applicants are interviewed within three weeks, expand the Visa Waiver Program, and expand expedited-travel programs like Global Entry, with progress reports due within 180 days. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to maintain a public website tracking travel industry metrics. Establishes a Task Force on Travel and Competitiveness, co-chaired by the Secretaries of Commerce and the Interior with representatives from multiple agencies, to develop a National Travel and Tourism Strategy within 90 days aimed at increasing the U.S. share of worldwide travel, including from Brazil, China, and India, promoting visits to public lands and rural communities, and coordinating with Brand USA and the Tourism Policy Council.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13596
Amendments to Executive Orders 12131 and 13539
·Barack Obama·76 FR 80725
Amends Executive Order 12131 to revise the membership list of the President's Export Council, specifying the executive departments, agencies, and offices (including State, Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Energy, Transportation, Homeland Security, the Trade Representative's office, and several other bodies) whose heads or representatives serve on it, along with representatives of the National Governors Association and U.S. Conference of Mayors, ten members of Congress, and up to 28 presidentially appointed citizens from business, agriculture, and labor. Also amends Executive Order 13539 to shift responsibility for funding and administrative support of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and for performing certain functions under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, from a prior designated official to the Secretary of Energy.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13595
Instituting a National Action Plan On Women, Peace, And Security
·Barack Obama·76 FR 80205
Establishes a policy requiring the executive branch to maintain a National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security, covering integration of gender considerations into diplomatic, development, and defense work; women's participation in peace processes; protection from violence including sexual and gender-based violence; conflict prevention; and access to relief and recovery in conflict-affected settings. Directs the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development to designate coordinating officers, submit agency-specific implementation plans within 150 days of the plan's release, and monitor and report on execution to the President's National Security Advisor. Directs the National Security Advisor to set up an interagency process to coordinate implementation, establish progress reporting, provide annual reports to the President, and coordinate periodic reviews and updates of the plan, with the first review in 2015. States it does not alter existing agency legal authority, applies subject to available funding, encourages independent agencies to comply, and creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13594
Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
·Barack Obama·76 FR 80191
Sets updated pay rates and schedules for various categories of federal employees, effective at the start of 2012, under authority including a law freezing certain civilian pay schedules at 2010 levels through 2012. Establishes rates for the General Schedule, the Foreign Service Schedule, Veterans Health Administration pay, the Senior Executive Service, the Executive Schedule, the Vice President and Congress, federal judges, uniformed service members and cadets, administrative law judges, and locality-based pay adjustments, each attached as separate schedules. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to implement locality-based comparability payments and publish notice of them in the Federal Register. States that pay for uniformed service members and cadets takes effect January 1, 2012, while the other schedules take effect at the start of the first pay period on or after that date. Supersedes the prior year's pay order, Executive Order 13561 of December 22, 2010.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13593
2011 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
·Barack Obama·76 FR 78451
Amends Parts III and IV of the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States, which was originally prescribed by Executive Order 12473, incorporating changes described in an attached annex. The amendments take effect 30 days after the order's signing. They do not make punishable any act committed before the effective date that was not already punishable, and they do not invalidate nonjudicial punishment proceedings, restraint, investigations, referral of charges, trials where arraignment had already occurred, or other actions begun before the effective date; such ongoing matters may continue as if the amendments had not been made. The order applies to military justice procedures under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13592
Improving American Indian and Alaska Native Educational Opportunities and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities
·Barack Obama·76 FR 76603
Establishes the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, co-chaired by the Secretaries of Education and the Interior, to expand educational opportunities and improve outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native students, including those in public schools, Bureau of Indian Education schools, and Tribal Colleges and Universities. Creates an Executive Director post and an Interagency Working Group with representatives from several federal agencies. Directs the Education and Interior Departments to sign a Memorandum of Understanding within 120 days, and requires participating agencies to develop four-year plans with performance measures, submit them for review, and file annual performance reports. Assigns the National Advisory Council on Indian Education as the Initiative's advisory committee, directs a study collecting data on American Indian and Alaska Native education, and encourages private-sector support for affected schools. Revokes Executive Order 13270, Executive Order 13336, and part of Executive Order 13585.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13591
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
·Barack Obama·76 FR 74623
Extends the operating deadlines for several federal advisory committees created by earlier executive orders. Continues committees including the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, the President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, the President's Management Advisory Board, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development, and the State, Local, Tribal, and Private Sector Policy Advisory Committee until September 30, 2013. Extends the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health until September 30, 2012. Amends Executive Order 13530 so the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability terminates on January 29, 2013 unless extended. Assigns the President's functions under the Federal Advisory Committee Act for these committees to the head of each designated department or agency, following procedures set by the Administrator of General Services.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13590
Authorizing the Imposition of Certain Sanctions With Respect to the Provision of Goods, Services, Technology, or Support for Iran's Energy and Petrochemical Sectors
·Barack Obama·76 FR 72609
Invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12957, this order authorizes the Secretary of State, in consultation with other agencies, to impose sanctions on any person found to knowingly sell, lease, or provide Iran with goods, services, technology, or support above set dollar thresholds that significantly aid Iran's petroleum development or petrochemical production, as well as on successors, owners, or affiliates of such persons. Available sanctions include denial of Export-Import Bank support, export license restrictions, exclusion from U.S. government contracts and financial roles, limits on loans and foreign exchange transactions, blocking of property and interests in the United States, and import restrictions. It bars transactions that evade these prohibitions or conspiracies to violate them, directs the Treasury Secretary to issue implementing regulations, states that blocked persons need not receive prior notice, and specifies that these measures respond to Iranian actions after the 1981 Algiers Accords. It took effect November 21, 2011.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13589
Promoting Efficient Spending
·Barack Obama·76 FR 70863
Directs federal executive departments and agencies to reduce combined administrative costs covered by the order by at least 20 percent below Fiscal Year 2010 levels by Fiscal Year 2013, with implementation plans due to the Office of Management and Budget within 45 days. Encourages agencies to cut travel and conference spending by using teleconferencing, government-controlled meeting space, and reviewing relocation policies, and asks each agency to designate a senior official to oversee such spending controls. Calls for limiting employee issuance of mobile phones, computers, and other IT devices, consolidating IT services, reducing hard-copy printing in favor of electronic documents, limiting executive vehicle transportation building on an earlier presidential memorandum on federal fleets, and curbing purchases of promotional items like plaques and clothing. States it does not alter existing legal authority of agencies, the OMB Director, or inspectors general, applies subject to available appropriations, and requests but does not require independent agencies to comply. Creates no enforceable legal rights.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13588
Reducing Prescription Drug Shortages
·Barack Obama·76 FR 68295
Directs the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take steps to prevent and reduce shortages of prescription drugs, particularly those that are life-supporting, life-sustaining, or that prevent debilitating disease. Instructs the FDA to use its administrative authority under federal reporting law to require drug manufacturers to give advance notice of manufacturing discontinuances that could lead to shortages. Directs the FDA to expand efforts to expedite regulatory reviews of new drug suppliers, manufacturing sites, and manufacturing changes when doing so would help avoid or ease shortages, prioritizing based on severity and public health importance. Requires the FDA to report to the Department of Justice any findings that shortages have led market participants to stockpile drugs or sell them at excessive prices, with the Department of Justice then responsible for determining whether such conduct violates the law and pursuing enforcement as it deems appropriate, in coordination with other agencies.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13587
Structural Reforms To Improve the Security of Classified Networks and the Responsible Sharing and Safeguarding of Classified Information
·Barack Obama·76 FR 63811
Directs structural reforms to how federal agencies share and protect classified information on computer networks. Requires agency heads to designate senior officials for information sharing and safeguarding, implement insider threat detection programs, and conduct compliance self-assessments. Establishes a Senior Information Sharing and Safeguarding Steering Committee, co-chaired by the Office of Management and Budget and the National Security Staff, to set government-wide goals and report to the President within 90 days and annually thereafter. Creates a Classified Information Sharing and Safeguarding Office to support the committee, names the Secretary of Defense and the Director of the National Security Agency as joint Executive Agent for developing technical safeguarding standards, and establishes an interagency Insider Threat Task Force, co-chaired by the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence, to issue binding minimum standards within one year. States that these activities must not interfere with lawful whistleblower disclosures and do not override existing agency authorities under prior executive orders and statutes. Applies to all agencies and contractors operating or accessing classified computer networks.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13586
Establishing an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between Certain Railroads Represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and Their Employees Represented by Certain Labor Organizations
·Barack Obama·76 FR 63533
Creates a five-member Emergency Board, appointed by the President, to investigate unresolved labor disputes between certain railroads represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and their employees represented by certain labor organizations, listed in an attachment to the order. Acting under the Railway Labor Act after the National Mediation Board reported that the disputes threaten to substantially interrupt interstate commerce, the order sets the Board up effective October 7, 2011, bars members with financial ties to the railroads or unions, and requires the Board to report to the President within 30 days. It also freezes existing conditions underlying the disputes until 30 days after the report is submitted, unless the parties agree otherwise, directs the Board's records to be kept by the National Mediation Board after the Board ends, and states the Board terminates once it submits its report.Read the full summaryShow less
E.O.13585
Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees
·Barack Obama·76 FR 62281