[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 6, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 16507-16508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-8427]


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[Federal Register: April 6, 1994]



                Editorial note: For the President's remarks concerning 
                the National Day of Reconciliation, see his radio 
                address in No. 14 of the Weekly Compilation of 
                Presidential Documents.


                        Presidential Documents 


                
                Proclamation 6662 of April 4, 1994

 

Transfer of Functions of the ACTION Agency to the  
                               Corporation for National and Community 
                Service

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                On September 21, 1993, I had the honor of signing into 
                law the National and Community Service Trust Act of 
                1993, which created the Corporation for National and 
                Community Service. The Corporation was designed to 
                involve Americans of all ages and backgrounds in 
                community projects to address many of our Nation's most 
                important needs--from educating our children to 
                ensuring public safety to protecting our environment. 
                It was chartered to foster civic responsibility, 
                strengthening the ties that bind us together as a 
                people, while providing educational opportunity for 
                those who make the commitment to serve.

                In the few short months since the Corporation's 
                establishment, enormous progress has been made toward 
                the achievement of these invaluable goals. Final 
                regulations have been published governing the 
                Corporation's new grant programs, grant application 
                packages have been developed, and a national 
                recruitment effort has begun. As a result of intensive 
                outreach efforts, most states have already established 
                State Commissions on National and Community Service, 
                and many local programs, national nonprofit 
                organizations, institutions of higher education, and 
                Federal agencies are eager to participate. Grant 
                competitions have begun for a summer program that will 
                focus on our Nation's public safety concerns, and all 
                community service grant competitions will be completed 
                by this summer. Finally, the Corporation has 
                established the National Civilian Community Corps, 
                which will take advantage of closed and down-sized 
                military bases to launch environmental clean-up and 
                preservation efforts.

                The ACTION Agency, provided for by the Domestic 
                Volunteer Service Act of 1973, has worked closely with 
                the Corporation, sharing its many years of experience 
                in engaging Americans in service to their communities. 
                Because the Corporation's initiatives and those 
                programs operated by the ACTION Agency involve similar 
                goals, the National and Community Service Trust Act 
                calls for the merger of ACTION with the Corporation no 
                later than March 22, 1995. To build upon the tremendous 
                accomplishments already achieved by the Corporation, 
                and to facilitate the further development of community 
                service programs across the country, I am pleased to 
                order that the functions of the Director of the ACTION 
                Agency be transferred to the Corporation for National 
                and Community Service.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, acting under the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States of America, including but not limited to 
                sections 203(c)(2) and (d)(1)(B) of the National and 
                Community Service Trust Act of 1993, proclaim that all 
                functions of the Director of the ACTION Agency are 
                hereby transferred to the Corporation for National and 
                Community Service, effective April 4, 1994.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen 
                hundred and ninety-four, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and 
                eighteenth.

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[FR Doc. 94-8427
Filed 4-5-94; 11:01 am]
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