Amendments to Executive Orders 11030, 13653, and 13673

Executive Order 13683 of December 11, 2014

Amendments to Executive Orders 11030, 13653, and
13673

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Executive Order 11030 of June 19, 1962, as
amended (Preparation, Presentation, Filing, and
Publication of Executive Orders and Proclamations), is
further amended as follows:

    (a) in section 1(f), by striking “inches” where
it appears after the phrase “approximately 1” and
inserting “inch”;
    (b) in section 4, to read as follows:
    “Sec. 4. Proclamations calling for the observance
of special days or events. Except as may be otherwise
provided by law, responsibility for the preparation and
presentation of proposed proclamations calling for the
observance of special days, or other periods of time,
or events shall be assigned by the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget to such agencies or
offices as the Director may consider appropriate. Such
proposed proclamations shall be submitted to the
Director, or to an office within the Executive Office
of the President designated by the Director, at least
sixty days before the date of the specified observance.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2, the
Director or the head of such designated office, as
appropriate, shall transmit any approved commemorative
proclamations to the President.”;
    (c) by inserting a new section 5 to read as
follows:
    “Sec. 5. Trade Proclamations. (a) Proclamations to
be issued under the Trade Act of 1974 or other trade
law (“trade proclamations”) shall be prepared by the
United States Trade Representative and submitted to the
Attorney General for consideration as to both form and
legality. Section 2 of this order does not apply to
trade proclamations.
    (b) If the proposed trade proclamation is
disapproved by the Attorney General, it shall not
thereafter be presented to the President unless it is
accompanied by a statement of the reasons for such
disapproval.”; and
    (d) by renumbering current sections 5, 6, and 7 as
6, 7, and 8, respectively.

Sec. 2. Executive Order 13653 of November 1, 2013
(Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate
Change), is amended as follows:

    (a) in section 6(b):

(i) by inserting “, and the Director of OMB” after the phrase “the
Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism”;

(ii) by striking the “and” preceding “the Assistant to the President for
Homeland Security and Counterterrorism”;

(iii) by striking “(xxviii) the Office of Management and Budget;”; and

(iv) by renumbering current subsections (xxix), (xxx), and (xxxi) as
(xxviii), (xxix), and (xxx), respectively; and

    (b) in section 6(d), to read as follows: “(d)
Council Structure. The Co-Chairs may designate a subset
of members of the Council to serve on a Steering
Committee to help determine priorities and strategic
direction for the Council. The Co-Chairs and Steering
Committee may establish working groups as needed, and
may recharter working groups of the Interagency Climate
Change Adaptation Task Force, as appropriate.”.

Sec. 3. Section 2(a)(i)(I) of Executive Order 13673 of
July 31, 2014 (Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces), is
amended to read as follows: “(I) the Vietnam Era
Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1972 and the
Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of
1974;”.

Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an agency or the head thereof; or

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

    (b) 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,

    December 11, 2014.