[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 146 (Friday, July 28, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 46563-46564]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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Part III





The President





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Executive Order 13163--Increasing the Opportunity for Individuals With 
Disabilities To Be Employed in the Federal Government



Executive Order 13164--Requiring Federal Agencies To Establish 
Procedures To Facilitate the Provision of Reasonable Accommodation
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                Executive Order 13163 of July 26, 2000

                
Increasing the Opportunity for Individuals With 
                Disabilities To Be Employed in the Federal Government

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, and in order to promote an increase in the 
                opportunities for individuals with disabilities to be 
                employed at all levels and occupations of the Federal 
                Government, and to support the goals articulated in 
                section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 
                U.S.C. 791), it is hereby ordered as follows:

                Section 1. Increasing the Federal Employment 
                Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities. (a) 
                Recent evidence demonstrates that, throughout the 
                United States, qualified persons with disabilities have 
                been refused employment despite their availability and 
                qualifications, and many qualified persons with 
                disabilities are never made aware of available 
                employment opportunities. Evidence also suggests that 
                increased efforts at outreach, and increased 
                understanding of the reasonable accommodations 
                available for persons with disabilities, will permit 
                persons with disabilities to compete for employment on 
                a more level playing field.

                    (b) Based on current hiring patterns and 
                anticipated increases from expanded outreach efforts 
                and appropriate accommodations, the Federal Government, 
                over the next 5 years, will be able to hire 100,000 
                qualified individuals with disabilities. In furtherance 
                of such efforts, Federal agencies shall:

(1) Use available hiring authorities, consistent with statutes, 
regulations, and prior Executive orders and Presidential Memoranda;

(2) Expand their outreach efforts, using both traditional and 
nontraditional methods; and

(3) Increase their efforts to accommodate individuals with disabilities.

                    (c) As a model employer, the Federal Government 
                will take the lead in educating the public about 
                employment opportunities available for individuals with 
                disabilities.
                    (d) This order does not require agencies to create 
                new positions or to change existing qualification 
                standards for any position.

                Sec. 2. Implementation. Each Federal agency shall 
                prepare a plan to increase the opportunities for 
                individuals with disabilities to be employed in the 
                agency. Each agency shall submit that plan to the 
                Office of Personnel Management within 60 days from the 
                date of this order.

                Sec. 3. Authority to Develop Guidance. The Office of 
                Personnel Management shall develop guidance on the 
                provisions of this order to increase the opportunities 
                for individuals with disabilities employed in the 
                Federal Government.

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                Sec. 4. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to 
                improve the internal management of the executive branch 
                and does not create any right or benefit, substantive 
                or procedural, enforceable at law or equity by a party 
                against the United States, its agencies, its officers, 
                its employees, or any person.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    July 26, 2000.

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