Further Amendments to Executive Order 12757, Implementation of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative
Signed July 22, 1999·William J. Clinton·64 FR 40733
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Amends Executive Order 12757, which implements the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, to incorporate the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 into its title, preamble, and operative sections. It updates statutory citations, extends the Enterprise for the Americas Board's advisory role to cover the Secretary of State's negotiation of Tropical Forest Agreements with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, and adds two U.S. government members to the Board: a representative of the International Forestry Division of the Forest Service and a representative of the Council on Environmental Quality. It also revises provisions on Board membership, specifying that the President appoints the five private nongovernmental organization members and two additional members under the Foreign Assistance Act. The order states it is meant only to improve internal federal management and creates no enforceable rights against the government.
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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 Agriculture Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (“ATDA Act”), as amended, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), as amended, the Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-07), and the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-14), it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Amends: EO 12757, March 19, 1991 See: EO 12823, December 3, 1992; EO 13028, December 3, 1996 Revoked by: EO 13345, July 8, 2004
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Executive Order 13131 of July 22, 1999
Further Amendments to Executive Order 12757,
Implementation of the Enterprise for the Americas
Initiative
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including the Agriculture Trade Development
and Assistance Act of 1954 (“ATDA Act”), as amended,
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), as amended,
the Foreign Operations, Export Financing and Related
Programs Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-07),
and the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998
(Public Law 105-14), it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Amendment of Executive Order 12757.
Executive Order 12757, “Implementation of the
Enterprise for the Americas Initiative,” as amended by
Executive Orders 12823 and 13028, is further amended as
follows:
(a)L The Title is amended by adding at the end thereof
“and the Tropical Forest Conservation Act of 1998”.
(b)L The Preamble is amended:
L(1) by striking the comma (“,”) after Public Law
101-624, and inserting instead “and”; and
L(2) by inserting “and Public Law 105-214” after
“Public Law 102-549”.
(c)L Section 1 is amended:
L(1) by striking “and” after “sections 703”,
and inserting instead a comma (“,”);
L(2) by inserting “, 805(b), 806(a), 807(a),
808(a)(1)(A), 808(a)(2), 812 and 813” after “704”;
L(3) by inserting “and the corresponding
determinations required by section 805(b) of the FAA,”
after “FAA” the second time it appears; and
L(4) by inserting “sections 808(a)(1)(B) and (C),
and 808(a)(4) of the FAA, and by” after “The
functions vested in the President by” the second time
it appears.
(d)L Section 3(b) is amended:
L(1) by striking “also” after “Enterprise for
the Americas Board shall”; and
L(2) by inserting at the end of the section “The
Enterprise for the Americas Board, as constituted
pursuant to section 811 of the FAA, shall also advise
the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the
United States Agency for International Development on
the Secretarys negotiation of Tropical Forest
Agreements.”
(e)L Section 3(c) is amended:
L(1) by striking “section 708(c)” after “the
ATDA Act and”, and inserting instead “sections 708(c)
and 809(c)”;
L(2) by striking “and” after “environmental
framework agreements” and inserting instead a comma
(“,”); and
L(3) by inserting “and the Tropical Forest
Agreements, respectively” after “Americas Framework
Agreements”.
(f)L Section 4(a) is amended by inserting at the end
thereof “The two additional U.S. Government members of
the Enterprise for the Americas Board appointed
pursuant to section 811(b)(1)(A) of the FAA shall be a
representative of the International Forestry Division
of the United States Forest Service and a
representative of the Council on Environmental
Quality.”
(g)L Section 4(c)(1) is amended by striking “section
708(c)(3)(C)” and inserting instead “sections
708(c)(3)(C) and 811(c)(3)”.
(h)L Section 4(c)(2) is amended by striking “Part IV”
and inserting instead “Parts IV and V”.
(i)L Section 4(d) is amended to read as follows: “(d)
The five private nongovernmental organization members
of the Board appointed pursuant to section 610(b)(1)(B)
of the ATDA Act and the two additional members
appointed pursuant to section 811(b)(1)(B) of the FAA
shall be appointed by the President.”
Section 2. Judicial Review. This order is intended only
to improve the internal management of the Federal
Government, and is not intended to create any right or
benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by a
party against the United States, its agencies or
instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 22, 1999.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed July 22, 1999. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.