Interagency Task Force on the Roles and Missions of the United States Coast Guard
Signed March 25, 1999·William J. Clinton·64 FR 15283
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Establishes an Interagency Task Force on the Roles and Missions of the United States Coast Guard, made up of representatives from the Departments of State, Defense, Justice, Commerce, Labor, and Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget, National Security Council, Council on Environmental Quality, Office of Cabinet Affairs, National Economic Council, Domestic Policy Council, and the Coast Guard. The Secretary of Transportation names a Chair and Vice Chair. The Task Force is to review Coast Guard roles and missions through 2020, focusing especially on deepwater missions beyond 50 nautical miles from U.S. shores, and to recommend which functions should be added, maintained, reduced, or shifted to other organizations, while assuming the Coast Guard remains a law enforcement agency and armed force. Agencies must supply requested information, and the Coast Guard provides administrative and financial support. The Task Force is to operate for six months from its first meeting, unless extended, and submit a written report; an interim report may inform preparation of the Fiscal Year 2001 federal budget, particularly regarding the Coast Guard's Deepwater Capability Replacement Project.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Amended by: EO 13138, September 30, 1999
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Executive Order 13115 of March 25, 1999
Interagency Task Force on the Roles and Missions
of the United States Coast Guard
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. (a) The Interagency Task Force on the Roles
and Missions of the United States Coast Guard is
established.
(b) The Task Force shall be composed of one
representative from the:
(1) Department of State;
(2) Department of Defense;
(3) Department of Justice;
(4) Department of Commerce;
(5) Department of Labor;
(6) Department of Transportation;
(7) Environmental Protection Agency;
(8) Office of Management and Budget;
(9) National Security Council;
(10) Council on Environmental Quality;
(11) Office of Cabinet Affairs;
(12) National Economic Council;
(13) Domestic Policy Council; and
(14) United States Coast Guard.
The Secretary of Transportation shall select from among
the Task Force members a Chair and Vice Chair for the
Task Force.
(c) The members of the Task Force shall be
officials or employees of the Federal Government.
Sec. 2. Functions. (a) The Task Force shall report to
the President through the Secretary of Transportation,
and shall provide advice and recommendations regarding
the appropriate roles and missions for the United
States Coast Guard through the Year 2020. While the
Task Force will comprehensively review all Coast Guard
roles and missions, it will give special attention to
the deepwater missions, which are those that generally
occur beyond 50 nautical miles from U.S. shores.
(b) The Chair shall consult with the Secretary of
Transportation, Commandant of the Coast Guard, and, as
appropriate, other heads of departments and agencies.
The Chair may invite experts to submit information to
the Task Force and hold field briefings or visits.
(c) The Chair may acquire services or form teams to
carry out the functions of the Task Force. The Task
Force and/or the Task Force staff may travel as
necessary to carry out the Task Force's functions.
Sec. 3. Methodology. (a) The Task Force will seek to
identify and distinguish which Coast Guard roles,
missions, and functions might be added or enhanced;
might be maintained at current levels of performance;
or might be reduced, eliminated, or moved to other
private organizations or Government agencies. The Task
Force also will consider whether current Coast
Guard roles, missions, and functions might be better
performed by private organizations (by contract or
otherwise), public authorities, local or State
governments, or other Federal agencies. The Task Force
will provide explicit reasons for its recommendations.
(b) The Task Force will establish explicit criteria
for screening roles, missions, and functions to
determine how and by whom they would be best performed.
(c) For those roles, missions, and functions that
the Task Force recommends be performed by the Coast
Guard, the Task Force will advise as to how they might
be performed most effectively and efficiently.
(d) The Task Force will consider the impact on
Coast Guard roles, missions, and functions of future
prospects in various areas, including technology,
demographics, the law of the sea, marine pollution, and
national security.
(e) The Task Force shall review each of the Coast
Guard's law enforcement and national security missions
and functions according to the methodology described in
this section. However, in conducting that review, the
Task Force shall assume that the Coast Guard will
remain a law enforcement agency and an armed force of
the United States.
Sec. 4. Administration. (a) The heads of executive
departments and agencies shall, to the extent permitted
by law, provide the Task Force such information with
respect to the roles and missions of the Coast Guard as
it may require to carry out its functions.
(b) The Coast Guard shall support the Task Force
administratively and financially.
(c) The Secretary of Transportation shall appoint a
Staff Director for the Task Force.
(d) Assigned staff shall possess a balanced and
broad base of experience to include persons of
experience in national security, military operations,
foreign and domestic policy, international affairs,
economic policy, environmental protection, and law
enforcement. Staff members may include military members
on active duty, Reserve members of any component, and
Federal civilian employees.
Sec. 5. General. (a) The Task Force shall exist for a
period of 6 months from its first meeting unless
extended by the Secretary of Transportation and, at the
conclusion, submit a written report as discussed in
section 2 of this order.
(b) The recommendations of the Task Force will be
considered in determining the appropriate level of
investment in the Coast Guard's Deepwater Capability
Replacement Project, a system of cutters and aircraft
with an integrated command, control, communications,
and sensor infrastructure. The Task Force may provide
an interim report for use in preparation of the Federal
budget for Fiscal Year 2001.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 25, 1999.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed March 25, 1999. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.