Amendment to Executive Order 13173, Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of the Central San Joaquin Valley
Signed October 20, 2004·George W. Bush·69 FR 62391
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Amends Executive Order 13173, which created the Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of the Central San Joaquin Valley. Revises the Task Force's membership to include the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, the Interior, Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Energy, Labor, Transportation, and the Treasury, the Attorney General, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of National Drug Control Policy, the Administrator of General Services, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, or their designees, plus other senior officials the Task Force designates. Keeps the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development as Chair and directs each participating department or agency to designate one staff person for 2004 through 2006 to work on Task Force issues. Adds a reference to analyzing regulations in the Task Force's duties, and restates that the order creates no enforceable legal rights against the federal 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, and in order to improve the operation of the Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of the Central San Joaquin Valley, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Amends: EO 13173, October 25, 2000
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13359 of October 20, 2004
Amendment to Executive Order 13173, Interagency
Task Force on the Economic Development of the Central
San Joaquin Valley
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to improve the operation of the
Interagency Task Force on the Economic Development of
the Central San Joaquin Valley, it is hereby ordered
that Executive Order 13173 of October 25, 2000, is
amended as follows:
Section 1. Section 1(b) is amended to read as follows:
“The Task Force shall consist exclusively of the
Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce,
the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the
Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Education,
the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the
Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Labor, the
Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of the
Treasury, the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget, the Director of National Drug Control Policy,
the Administrator of General Services, the
Administrator of the Small Business Administration, the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,
or their designees, and such other senior executive
branch officials as may be determined by the Task
Force. The Chair of the Task Force shall be the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Each of the
Federal departments and agencies, as appropriate, shall
designate one staff person, for the years 2004 through
2006, to work on issues of the Task Force and to ensure
the participation of the staff person's department or
agency in the operations of the Task Force.”
Sec. 2. Section 1(c)(1) is amended by inserting
“regulations,” after “analyze”.
Sec. 3. Section 5 is amended to read as follows:
“Judicial Review. This order is intended only to
improve the internal management of the Federal
Government and is not intended to, and does not, create
any right, benefit, or trust responsibility,
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in
equity by a party against the United States, its
agencies, entities, its officers or employees, or any
other person.”
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 20, 2004.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed October 20, 2004. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.