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The registerExecutive Order 12991
E.O.12991

Adding the Small Business Administration to the President's Export Council

Signed March 6, 1996·William J. Clinton·61 FR 9587

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Amends Executive Order 12131 to add the Small Business Administration as a member of the President's Export Council, which advises the President on matters affecting U.S. export trade. The change is made by inserting a new subsection naming the Small Business Administration among the agencies represented on the council, expanding its membership to include that agency alongside those already listed.

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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. 2), and in order to add the Small Business Administration to the President's Export Council, it is hereby ordered

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Amends: EO 12131, May 4, 1979

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Executive Order 12991 of March 6, 1996

Adding the Small Business Administration to the
President's Export Council

 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. 2), and in order to add the
Small Business Administration to the President's Export
Council, it is hereby ordered that section 1-102(a) of
Executive Order No. 12131, as amended, is further
amended by adding a new subsection (8) to read “(8)
Small Business Administration.”

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    March 6, 1996.

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