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The registerExecutive Order 12974
E.O.12974

Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees

Signed September 29, 1995·William J. Clinton·60 FR 51875

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Extends, until September 30, 1997, a list of federal advisory committees established under earlier executive orders, including the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the President's Export Council, the National Partnership Council, and others spanning agencies such as the Department of the Interior, Department of Labor, Department of Education, and Department of Commerce. Assigns responsibility for the President's duties under the Federal Advisory Committee Act for these committees, other than annual reporting to Congress, to the head of each committee's designated department or agency, following procedures set by the Administrator of General Services. Revokes the executive orders establishing the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement Reform and the Federal Fleet Conversion Task Force, since their work is complete, and supersedes Executive Order 12869. States that the order takes effect September 30, 1995.

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), it is hereby ordered

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Disposition

Continues certain committee established by: EO 11145, March 7, 1964; EO 11183, October 3, 1964; EO 11287, October 24, 1964; EO 11776, March 28, 1974; EO 12131, May 4, 1979; EO 12196, February 26, 1980; EO 12216, June 18, 1980; EO 12345, February 2, 1982; EO 12367, June 15, 1982; EO 12382, September 13, 1982; EO 12871, October 1, 1993; EO 12876, November 1, 1993; EO 12882, November 23, 1993; EO 12900, February 22, 1994; EO 12905, March 25, 1994; Revokes in part: EO 12844, April 21, 1993; Supersedes: EO 12869, September 30, 1993; Revokes: EO 12878, November 5, 1993; Superseded by: EO 13062, September 29, 1997; See: EO 12887, December 23, 1993; EO 12912, April 29, 1994

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Executive Order 12974 of September 29, 1995

Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory
Committees

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in accordance with the provisions of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C.
App.), it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Each advisory committee listed below is
continued until September 30, 1997.

    (a) Committee for the Preservation of the White
House; Executive Order No. 11145, as amended
(Department of the Interior).
    (b) Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety
and Health; Executive Order No. 12196, as amended
(Department of Labor).
    (c) National Partnership Council; Executive Order
No. 12871 (Office of Personnel Management).
    (d) President's Advisory Commission on Educational
Excellence for Hispanic Americans; Executive Order No.
12900 (Department of Education).
    (e) President's Board of Advisors on Historically
Black Colleges and Universities; Executive Order No.
12876 (Department of Education).
    (f) President's Commission on White House
Fellowships; Executive Order No. 11183, as amended
(Office of Personnel Management).
    (g) President's Committee of Advisors on Science
and Technology; Executive Order No. 12882, as amended
(Office of Science and Technology Policy).
    (h) President's Committee on the Arts and the
Humanities; Executive Order No. 12367, as amended
(National Endowment for the Arts).
    (i) President's Committee on the International
Labor Organization; Executive Order No. 12216, as
amended (Department of Labor).
    (j) President's Committee on Mental Retardation;
Executive Order No. 11776, as amended (Department of
Health and Human Services).
    (k) President's Committee on the National Medal of
Science; Executive Order No. 11287, as amended
(National Science Foundation).
    (l) President's Council on Physical Fitness and
Sports; Executive Order No. 12345, as amended
(Department of Health and Human Services).
    (m) President's Export Council; Executive Order No.
12131, as amended (Department of Commerce).
    (n) President's National Security
Telecommunications Advisory Committee; Executive Order
No. 12382, as amended (Department of Defense).
    (o) Trade and Environment Policy Advisory
Committee; Executive Order No. 12905 (Office of the
United States Trade Representative).

Sec. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other
Executive order, the functions of the President under
the Federal Advisory Committee Act that are applicable
to the committees listed in section 1 of this order,
except that of reporting annually to the Congress,
shall be performed by the head of the department or
agency designated after each committee, in accordance
with the guidelines and procedures established by the
Administrator of General Services.

Sec. 3. The following Executive orders or sections
thereof, which established committees that have
terminated or whose work is completed, are revoked:

    (a) Executive Order No. 12878, as amended by
Executive Order Nos. 12887 and 12912, establishing the
Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement Reform; and
    (b) That portion of section 2 of Executive Order
No. 12844 that established the Federal Fleet Conversion
Task Force.

Sec. 4. Executive Order No. 12869 is superseded.

Sec. 5. This order shall be effective September 30,
1995.

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    September 29, 1995.

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