For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 1, 2001
Continuance of Federal Advisory Committees
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, 2003.
(a) Committee for the Preservation of the
White House; Executive Order 11145, as amended (Department of the
Interior).
(b) Federal Advisory Council on
Occupational Safety and Health; Executive Order 12196, as amended
(Department of Labor).
(c) President's Advisory Commission on
Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans; Executive Order 12900
(Department of Education).
(d) President's Board of Advisors on
Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Executive Order 13021, as
amended, (Department of Education).
(e) President's Board of Advisors on
Tribal Colleges and Universities; Executive Order 13021, as amended
(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 Committee on Mental
Retardation; Executive Order 12994 (Department of Health and Human
Services).
(k) President's Council on Physical
Fitness and Sports; Executive Order 12345, as amended (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 Defense).
(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 and whose work is completed, are revoked:
(a) Sections 3 and 4 of Executive Order
13134 pertaining to the establishment and administration of the
Advisory Committee on Biobased Products and Bioenergy, superseded by
the Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee
established pursuant to section 306 of the Biomass Research and
Development Act of 2000 (Title III of Public Law 106-224);
(b) Executive Order 13080, establishing
the American Heritage Rivers Initiative Advisory Committee;
(c) Executive Order 13090, as amended by
Executive Order 13136, establishing the President's Commission on the
Celebration of Women in American History;
(d) Executive Order 13168, establishing
the President's Commission on Improving Economic Opportunity in
Communities Dependent on Tobacco Production While Protecting Public
Health; and
(e) Executive Order 13075, establishing
the Special Oversight Board for Department of Defense Investigations of
Gulf War Chemical and Biological Incidents.
Sec. 4. Sections 1 through 4 of
Executive Order 13138 are superseded.
Sec. 5. This order shall be
effective September 30, 2001.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 28, 2001.
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