[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 13 (Friday, January 19, 2001)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 5421-5423]
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 The President

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                Executive Order 13189 of January 15, 2001

                
Federal Interagency Task Force on the District of 
                Columbia

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, and in order to further the revitalization of, 
                and to improve prospects for the success of ``home 
                rule'' in the District of Columbia, the Nation's 
                Capital, it is hereby ordered as follows:

                Section 1. Background and Policy. The District of 
                Columbia is the Nation's Capital, and the Federal 
                Government is the largest employer, landholder, and 
                purchaser in the region. The Executive Office of the 
                President has established and maintained an interest in 
                fostering the Federal relationship with the District of 
                Columbia since 1963. This Administration has long 
                sought to strengthen the relationship between the 
                Federal Government and the District of Columbia by 
                initiating a historic restructuring of this 
                relationship. At the request of the President, in 1995, 
                the Federal D.C. Interagency Task Force, chaired by the 
                Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and 
                directed by the Special Advisor to the President and 
                Executive Director of the Federal D.C. Interagency Task 
                Force, was created to revitalize the District of 
                Columbia and improve prospects for ``home rule'' to 
                succeed in the Nation's Capital. The Federal D.C. 
                Interagency Task Force Office has worked with Federal 
                agencies, the Congress, and local officials to promote 
                long-term financial stability, economic growth, and 
                opportunity for self-government for the District of 
                Columbia. In 1997, the President signed into law the 
                National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government 
                Improvement Act of 1997, under which the Federal 
                Government undertook certain responsibilities and 
                governmental functions befitting a State or county 
                government. Also in 1997, the President signed into law 
                tax incentives designed to spur economic growth in the 
                District of Columbia.

                It is the policy of this Administration, therefore, to 
                build on the momentum of the accomplishments over the 
                last 5 years by formally establishing the Federal D.C. 
                Interagency Task Force to further assist the District 
                of Columbia in achieving financial stability, economic 
                growth, and improvement in management and service 
                delivery.

                Sec. 2. Establishment of the Federal Interagency Task 
                Force on the District of Columbia.

                    (a) There is established the ``Federal Interagency 
                Task Force on the District of Columbia'' (Task Force).
                    (b) The Task Force shall be composed of the 
                following members:

 (1) The Attorney General;

 (2) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;

 (3) The Secretary of Health and Human Services;

 (4) The Secretary of Labor;

 (5) The Secretary of Transportation;

 (6) The Secretary of the Treasury;

 (7) The Administrator of General Services;

 (8) The Secretary of Education;

 (9) The Secretary of the Interior;

 (10) The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;

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 (11) The Secretary of Commerce;

 (12) The Secretary of Agriculture;

 (13) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget;

 (14) The Administrator of the Small Business Administration;

 (15) The Commissioner of the Social Security;

 (16) The Secretary of Energy;

 (17) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management; and

 (18) Such other members as the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget may provide (including the Director of the Court Services and 
Offender Supervision Agency, which office is located in the Department of 
Justice.)

                    (c) The Task Force shall be chaired by the Director 
                of the Office of Management and Budget (Director). The 
                Director may appoint an Assistant Director or other 
                senior official to assist in the management of the Task 
                Force.
                    (d) The Office of Management and Budget shall 
                provide administrative support for the Task Force. To 
                the extent permitted by law, other executive 
                departments and agencies may provide such staff, 
                resources, and information as may be required in 
                carrying out the provisions of this order.
                    (e) The Director shall develop, review, modify, 
                and, as appropriate, implement program recommendations, 
                in cooperation with the appropriate elected Federal and 
                local officials and agencies, to promote long-term 
                financial stability, economic growth, and opportunity 
                for self-government for the District of Columbia.
                    (f) To the extent permitted by law, the Task Force 
                staff shall communicate with Federal and local elected 
                officials as early in program planning cycles as 
                reasonably feasible, to develop and explain specific 
                Federal and local plans and program actions.

                Sec. 3. Purpose. The purpose of the Interagency Task 
                Force will be to coordinate and better leverage 
                Administration efforts and initiatives for the District 
                of Columbia in concert with local and regional 
                initiatives to improve the long-term financial 
                stability of the Nation's Capital and to improve self-
                governance. The Director's designee shall serve as 
                liaison between the executive branch and the executive, 
                legislative, and judicial branches of government of the 
                District of Columbia, as well as the private sector.

                Sec. 4. Responsibilities. To the extent permitted by 
                law, the Interagency Task Force shall:

                    (a) formulate and recommend interagency compacts 
                and cooperative agreements between Federal agencies and 
                the District of Columbia;
                    (b) develop, on a continuing basis, a comprehensive 
                and coordinated plan to establish priorities to promote 
                long-term financial stability, economic growth, and 
                opportunity for self-government for the District of 
                Columbia;
                    (c) provide for an understanding by the public of 
                the needs and assets of the District of Columbia;
                    (d) support District efforts to encourage economic 
                growth in the District of Columbia;
                    (e) serve as the focal point and coordinating unit 
                for Federal programs, technical assistance, and other 
                support for the District of Columbia; and
                    (f) provide a forum for consideration of problems 
                within the District of Columbia and propose and 
                effectuate solutions.

                Sec. 5. Assistance to Economically Distressed Areas. 
                Members of the Task Force, to the extent permitted by 
                law and within existing budgetary resources, shall 
                provide targeted assistance to economically distressed 
                areas within the District of Columbia and to projects 
                that require economic development

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                assistance. To the extent permitted by law, members of 
                the Task Force shall also participate in comprehensive 
                neighborhood revitalization initiatives requiring 
                Federal assistance, including programs organized by the 
                government of the District of Columbia, and 
                collaborative efforts organized by private 
                organizations, such as the Anacostia Best Practices 
                initiative.

                Sec. 6. Local Accommodation. To the extent permitted by 
                law, the Federal Interagency Task Force shall make 
                efforts to accommodate the concerns of local elected 
                officials in proposing Federal technical or other 
                assistance.

                Sec. 7. Judicial Review. This order does not create any 
                right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable by law against the United States, its 
                officers, its employees, or any other person.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    January 15, 2001.

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