Amendment to Executive Order 13073, Year 2000 Conversion
Signed June 14, 1999·William J. Clinton·64 FR 32793
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Amends Executive Order 13073 to add a new section establishing the Information Coordination Center within the General Services Administration, to help the Chair of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion respond to Y2K computer conversion problems. The Center is to assist in sharing information within the federal government and with the public and private sectors, coordinate agency assessments of Y2K-related emergencies affecting U.S. interests at home and abroad, and, if needed, help federal agencies and the Chair restore normal operations afterward. It will be staffed by officials from executive agencies with expertise in management, technical, computer, and recovery matters, plus additional hired personnel as needed, and will coordinate with the Council and the Office of Management and Budget on restoring critical systems. The Council's Chair is directed to designate a Director for the Center. The order also renumbers the prior section 5 of Executive Order 13073 as section 6.
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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 create the Information Coordination Center to assist the Chair of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion in addressing year 2000 conversion problems both domestically and internationally, it is hereby ordered
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Amends: EO 13073, February 4, 1998
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13127 of June 14, 1999
Amendment to Executive Order 13073, Year 2000
Conversion
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to create the Information
Coordination Center to assist the Chair of the
President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion in
addressing year 2000 conversion problems both
domestically and internationally, it is hereby ordered
that Executive Order 13073 is amended as follows:
Section 1. A new section 5 is added to the order and
shall read “Sec. 5. Information Coordination Center.
(a) To assist the Chair in the Y2K response duties
included under section 2(c) of this order, there shall
be established the Information Coordination Center
(ICC) in the General Services Administration.
(b) At the direction of the Chair, the ICC will
assist in making preparations for information sharing
and coordination within the Federal Government and key
components of the public and private sectors,
coordinating agency assessments of Y2K emergencies that
could have an adverse affect on U.S. interests at home
and abroad, and, if necessary, assisting Federal
agencies and the Chair in reconstitution processes
where appropriate.
(c) The ICC will:
(1) consist of officials from executive agencies,
designated by agency heads under subsection 3(a)(2) of
this order, who have expertise in important management
and technical areas, computer hardware, software or
security systems, reconstitution and recovery, and of
additional personnel hired directly or by contract, as
required, to carry out the duties described under
section 5 of this order;
(2) work with the Council and the Office of
Management and Budget to assure that Federal efforts to
restore critical systems are coordinated with efforts
managed by Federal agencies acting under existing
emergency response authorities.”
(d) The Chair of the President's Council on Year
2000 Conversion shall designate a Director of the ICC.
Sec. 2. The preexisting section 5 of Executive Order
13073 shall be renumbered as section 6.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 14, 1999.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed June 14, 1999. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.