Amending Executive Order 14007
Signed September 13, 2021·Joseph R. Biden Jr.·86 FR 51579
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Plain-language summary
Amends Executive Order 14007, which established the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, by increasing the maximum number of council members. The revised text specifies that the council shall be composed of not more than 32 members. The order also includes standard provisions stating that it does not alter the legal authority of executive agencies or the budgetary functions of the Office of Management and Budget, that it will be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to available funding, and that it creates no enforceable legal rights for any party against the United States.
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Claimed authority
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to expand the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Amends: EO 14007, January 27, 2021 Revoked by: EO 14148, January 20, 2025
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The order, in full
Executive Order 14044 of September 13, 2021
Amending Executive Order 14007
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to expand the President's Council
of Advisors on Science and Technology, it is hereby
ordered as follows:
Section 1. Amendment to Executive Order 14007. The
first sentence of section 2(b) of Executive Order 14007
of January 27, 2021 (President's Council of Advisors on
Science and Technology), is hereby amended to read as
follows: “(b) The PCAST shall be composed of not more
than 32 members.”.
Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or 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 shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) 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,
September 13, 2021.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed September 13, 2021. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.