Further Amendment to Executive Order 12981, as Amended
Signed March 31, 1999·William J. Clinton·64 FR 16591
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Plain-language summary
Amends Executive Order 12981, which governs export control administration, to remove the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from various provisions listing agencies with a role in export license decisions. The change reflects the agency's reorganization into the Department of State and specifically eliminates its vote on dual-use export license decisions. It edits several sections of the earlier order by deleting references to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, including in provisions on agency consultation and licensing procedures.
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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 order to further the implementation of the reorganization of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) into the Department of State, in this instance by eliminating ACDA's vote on dual-use export license decisions in the administration of export controls, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Amends: EO 12981, December 5, 1995 Note: This Executive order amends the administration of export controls
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13117 of March 31, 1999
Further Amendment to Executive Order 12981, as
Amended
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America and in order to further the implementation of
the reorganization of the Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency (ACDA) into the Department of State, in this
instance by eliminating ACDA's vote on dual-use export
license decisions in the administration of export
controls, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order
12981, as amended (“Executive Order 12981”), is
further amended as follows:
Section 1. The second sentence of section 1 of
Executive Order 12981 is amended by deleting “, and
the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency”.
Sec. 2. The second sentence of section 5(a)(1)(A) of
Executive Order 12981 is amended by adding “and”
after “the Secretary of Defense” and before “the
Secretary of Energy,” and deleting “, and the
Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.”
Sec. 3. The first sentence of section 5(a)(2) of
Executive Order 12981 is amended by deleting “, and
the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.”
Sec. 4. The second sentence of section 5(a)(3)(A) of
Executive Order 12981 is amended by deleting “, and
the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.”
Sec. 5. The first sentence of section 6 of Executive
Order 12981 is amended by deleting “and the Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency”.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 31, 1999.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed March 31, 1999. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.