Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business Development

Executive Order 13540 of April 26, 2010

Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business
Development

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including section 102 of title I of the
Military Reservist and Veteran Small Business
Reauthorization and Opportunity Act of 2008 (Public Law
110-186) (the “Act”), and in order to establish an
interagency task force to coordinate the efforts of
Federal agencies to improve capital, business
development opportunities, and pre-established Federal
contracting goals for small business concerns owned and
controlled by veterans and service-disabled veterans,
it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Establishment. The Administrator of the
Small Business Administration (Administrator) shall
establish within the Small Business Administration an
Interagency Task Force on Veterans Small Business
Development (Task Force).

Sec. 2. Membership. The Administrator shall serve as
Chair of the Task Force and shall direct its work.
Other members shall consist of:

    (a) a senior level representative, designated by
the head of the respective department or agency, from
each of the following:

(i) the Department of the Treasury;

(ii) the Department of Defense;

(iii) the Department of Labor;

(iv) the Department of Veterans Affairs;

(v) the Office of Management and Budget;

(vi) the Small Business Administration (in addition to the Administrator);
and

(vii) the General Services Administration; and

    (b) four representatives from a veterans' service
or military organization or association, who shall be
appointed by the Administrator.

Sec. 3. Functions. Consistent with the Act and other
applicable law, the Task Force shall:

    (a) consult regularly with veterans service and
military organizations in performing the duties of the
Task Force;
    (b) coordinate administrative and regulatory
activities and develop proposals relating to:

(i) improving capital access and capacity of small business concerns owned
and controlled by veterans and service-disabled veterans through loans,
surety bonding, and franchising;

(ii) ensuring achievement of the pre-established Federal contracting goals
for small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans and service-
disabled veterans through expanded mentor-prot[eacute]g[eacute] assistance
and matching such small business concerns with contracting opportunities;

(iii) increasing the integrity of certifications of status as a small
business concern owned and controlled by a veteran or service-disabled
veteran;

(iv) reducing paperwork and administrative burdens on veterans in accessing
business development and entrepreneurship opportunities;

(v) increasing and improving training and counseling services provided to
small business concerns owned and controlled by veterans; and

(vi) making other improvements relating to the support for veterans
business development by the Federal Government; and

    (c) not later than 1 year after its first meeting
and annually thereafter, forward to the President a
report on the performance of its functions, including
any proposals developed pursuant to subsection (b) of
this section.

Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) The Small Business
Administration shall provide funding and administrative
support for the Task Force to the extent permitted by
law and within existing appropriations.

    (b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to
impair or otherwise effect:

(i) authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the
head thereof; and

(ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

    (c) Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
as amended (5 U.S.C. App.) (FACA), may apply to the
Task Force, any functions of the President under the
FACA, except for those in section 6 of the FACA, shall
be performed by the Administrator in accordance with
guidelines issued by the Administrator of General
Services.
    (d) This order is not intended to and does not
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    April 26, 2010.