Amendments to Executive Order 12992, Expanding and Changing the Name of the President's Council on Counter-Narcotics
Signed November 6, 1996·William J. Clinton·61 FR 57767
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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.
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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 section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in order to change the name of the “President's Council on Counter-Narcotics” to the “President's Drug Policy Council” and to make the Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Veterans Affairs, and the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, permanent members of the Council, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Amends: EO 12992, March 15, 1996
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13023 of November 6, 1996
Amendments to Executive Order 12992, Expanding
and Changing the Name of the President's Council on
Counter-Narcotics
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including section 301 of title 3, United
States Code, and in order to change the name of the
“President's Council on Counter-Narcotics” to the
“President's Drug Policy Council” and to make the
Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Health and
Human Services, Housing and Urban Development,
Education, Veterans Affairs, and the Assistant to the
President for Domestic Policy, permanent members of the
Council, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. The Council established by Executive Order
12992 shall henceforth be called the “President's Drug
Policy Council.”
Sec. 2. Section 1 of Executive Order 12992 is amended
by deleting “President's Council on Counter-
Narcotics” and inserting “President's Drug Policy
Council” in lieu thereof.
Sec. 3. Section 2 of Executive Order 12992 is amended
to read as follows:
“Sec. 2. Membership. The Council shall comprise the:
(a) President, who shall serve as Chairman of the
Council;
(b) Vice President;
(c) Secretary of State;
(d) Secretary of the Treasury;
(e) Secretary of Defense;
(f) Attorney General;
(g) Secretary of the Interior;
(h) Secretary of Agriculture;
(i) Secretary of Health and Human Services;
(j) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;
(k) Secretary of Transportation;
(l) Secretary of Education;
(m) Secretary of Veterans Affairs;
(n) Representative of the United States of America
to the United Nations;
(o) Director of the Office of Management and
Budget;
(p) Chief of Staff to the President;
(q) Director of National Drug Control Policy;
(r) Director of Central Intelligence;
(s) Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs;
(t) Counsel to the President;
(u) Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff;
(v) National Security Advisor to the Vice
President; and
(w) Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.
As applicable, the Council shall also comprise such
other officials of the departments and agencies as the
President may, from time to time, designate.”
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 6, 1996.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed November 6, 1996. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.