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E.O.12987

Amendment to Executive Order No. 12964

Signed January 31, 1996·William J. Clinton·61 FR 4205

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Amends Executive Order 12964, which established the Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy, in two ways: it increases the maximum number of commission members from 15 to up to 20, and it extends the commission's reporting deadline from before February 1, 1996, to about December 31, 1996.

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), and to facilitate the work of the Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy, it is hereby ordered

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Disposition

Amends: EO 12964, June 21, 1995;; ; See: EO 13032, December 26, 1996;; ; Revoked by: EO 13062, September 29, 1997

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Executive Order 12987 of January 31, 1996

Amendment to Executive Order No. 12964

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), and to facilitate the work
of the Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and
Investment Policy, it is hereby ordered that Executive
Order No. 12964 of June 21, 1995, is amended (i) in
section 1(a) by inserting in the second sentence “up
to 20” in place of “15”, and (ii) in section 2(a) by
inserting in the first sentence “about December 31,
1996,” in place of “before February 1, 1996,”.

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    January 31, 1996.

Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed January 31, 1996. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.