Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory Committees

Executive Order 13316 of September 17, 2003

Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory
Committees

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in accordance with the provisions of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C.
App.), it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Each advisory committee listed below is
continued until September 30, 2005.

    (a) Committee for the Preservation of the White
House; Executive Order 11145, as amended (Department of
the Interior).
    (b) National Infrastructure Advisory Council;
Section 3 of Executive Order 13231, as amended
(Department of Homeland Security).
    (c) Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety
and Health; Executive Order 12196, as amended
(Department of Labor).
    (d) President's Board of Advisors on Historically
Black Colleges and Universities; Executive Order 13256
(Department of Education).
    (e) President's Board of Advisors on Tribal
Colleges and Universities; Executive Order 13270
(Department of Education).
    (f) President's Commission on White House
Fellowships; Executive Order 11183, as amended (Office
of Personnel Management).
    (g) President's Committee on the Arts and the
Humanities; Executive Order 12367, as amended (National
Endowment for the Arts).
    (h) President's Committee on the International
Labor Organization; Executive Order 12216, as amended
(Department of Labor).
    (i) President's Committee on the National Medal of
Science; Executive Order 11287, as amended (National
Science Foundation).
    (j) President's Council on Bioethics; Executive
Order 13237 (Department of Health and Human Services).
    (k) President's Council on Physical Fitness and
Sports; Executive Order 13265 (Department of Health and
Human Services).
    (l) President's Export Council; Executive Order
12131, as amended (Department of Commerce).
    (m) President's National Security
Telecommunications Advisory Committee; Executive Order
12382, as amended (Department of Homeland Security).
    (n) Trade and Environment Policy Advisory
Committee; Executive Order 12905 (Office of the United
States Trade Representative).

Sec. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other
Executive Order, the functions of the President under
the Federal Advisory Committee Act that are applicable
to the committees listed in section 1 of this order
shall be performed by the head of the department or
agency designated after each committee, in accordance
with the guidelines and procedures established by the
Administrator of General Services.

Sec. 3. The following Executive Orders, or sections
thereof, which established committees that have
terminated or whose work is completed, are revoked:

    (a) Sections 5 through 7 of Executive Order 13111,
as amended by Executive Order 13188 and Section 3(a) of
Executive Order 13218, pertaining to the

establishment of the Advisory Committee on Expanding
Training Opportunities;
    (b) Executive Order 12975, as amended by Executive
Orders 13018, 13046, and 13137, establishing the
National Bioethics Advisory Commission;
    (c) Executive Order 13227, as amended by Executive
Order 13255, establishing the President's Commission on
Excellence in Special Education;
    (d) Executive Order 13278, establishing the
President's Commission on the United States Postal
Service;
    (e) Executive Order 13210, establishing the
President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security;
    (f) Sections 5 through 8 of Executive Order 13177,
pertaining to the establishment of the President's
Council on the Use of Offsets in Commercial Trade;
    (g) Executive Order 13263, establishing the
President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health;
    (h) Executive Order 13214, establishing the
President's Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery
for Our Nation's Veterans; and
    (i) Executive Order 13147, as amended by Executive
Order 13167, establishing the White House Commission on
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.

Sec. 4. Executive Order 13225 is superseded.

Sec. 5. Section 1-102(a) of Executive Order 12131, as
amended, is further amended to read as follows:

    “(a) The heads of the following executive agencies
or their representatives:
     (1) Department of State.
     (2) Department of the Treasury.
     (3) Department of Agriculture.
     (4) Department of Commerce.
     (5) Department of Labor.
     (6) Department of Energy.
     (7) Department of Homeland Security.
     (8) Office of the United States Trade
Representative.
     (9) Export-Import Bank of the United States.
     (10) Small Business Administration.”

Sec. 6. This order shall be effective September 30,
2003.

    (Presidential Sig.)B

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    September 17, 2003.