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Vol. 84
Thursday,
No. 95
May 16, 2019
Part III
The President
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Executive Order 13872--Economic Empowerment of Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 84 , No. 95 / Thursday, May 16, 2019 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Executive Order 13872 of May 13, 2019
Economic Empowerment of Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to empower Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders to improve the quality of their
lives, raise the standard of living of their families
and communities, and more fully participate in our
economy, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. There are presently more than 20
million people of Asian American or Pacific Islander
(AAPI) descent residing in the United States, which
amounts to more than 6 percent of the population. The
AAPI population is the most rapidly growing ethnic
group in the country and is expected to increase to
over 40 million individuals by 2060. At that time,
people of AAPI descent are projected to be more than 9
percent of the Nation's population. Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders have helped build a strong and
vibrant America. Generations of AAPI individuals,
families, and communities are composed of diverse and
varied ethnicities, languages, and cultures, and
include residents of United States Pacific Island
territories and freely associated states. They play an
important economic role, having started businesses and
generated jobs that pay billions of dollars in wages
and taxes, including founding some of our Nation's most
successful and innovative enterprises. Asian Americans
and Pacific Islanders have made important contributions
to science and technology, culture and the arts, and
the professions, such as business, law, medicine,
education, politics, and economics. Their shared
accomplishments and legacies are an inspirational,
significant, and celebrated part of the American
experience.
While we celebrate the many contributions of the AAPI
communities to our Nation, we also recognize that AAPI
communities and enterprises encounter challenges
accessing economic resources and opportunities. Many of
the more than 1.9 million AAPI-owned enterprises are
small sole-proprietorships that need assistance to
access available resources such as business development
counseling, small-business loans, and government
procurement opportunities. Today's AAPI workforce is
the largest it has been in American history, and we
will continue striving toward furthering AAPI
advancement in employment and workforce development as
well as increasing AAPI participation and
representation in the upper levels of leadership in the
public and private sectors.
The purpose of this order is to establish the
President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders and the White House Initiative on
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Each will work
to broaden access by AAPI employers and communities to
economic resources and opportunities, thus empowering
AAPIs to improve the quality of their lives, raise the
standard of living of their families and communities,
and more fully participate in our economy.
Additionally, each will work to advance relevant
evidence-based research, data collection, and analysis
for AAPI populations, subpopulations, and businesses.
Sec. 2. President's Advisory Commission on Asian
Americans and Pacific Islanders. The President's
Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific
Islanders (the ``Commission'') is established in the
Department of Commerce.
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(a) Mission and Function of the Commission. The
Commission shall provide advice to the President,
through the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of
Transportation, who shall serve as Co-Chairs of the
Initiative described in section 3 of this order, on:
(i) the development, monitoring, and coordination of executive branch
efforts to broaden access by AAPI employers and communities to economic
resources and opportunities;
(ii) strategies for encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship in AAPI
communities, empowering the economic growth of AAPI enterprises and
communities, and increasing AAPI business diversification, including
through general reductions in regulatory and tax burdens;
(iii) strategies for increasing Federal procurement opportunities for AAPI
enterprises;
(iv) strategies for increasing participation of AAPI enterprises in
partnerships between the public and private sectors;
(v) economic strategies for AAPI enterprises and communities to employ
existing knowledge and relationships in order to pursue trade and
investment opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region;
(vi) opportunities to empower students and families with the freedom to
pursue the educational opportunities that best prepare them for success in
life and work;
(vii) strategies for increasing the diversity of our workforce with greater
inclusion of AAPI employees through better recruitment, training,
educational workshops, career development, advancement, vocational
training, or other appropriate and effective means;
(viii) the compilation and analysis of research and data related to AAPI
populations, subpopulations, and businesses; and
(ix) an analysis of the economic condition of the United States Pacific
Island territories and freely associated states in an effort to devise
strategies for helping each island develop and maintain a strong and
diversified economy that supports its residents.
(b) Membership of the Commission. The Commission
shall consist of members appointed by the President who
are United States citizens or nationals, or who are
citizens of the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the
Marshall Islands, or the Federated States of Micronesia
who are subject to an applicable compact of free
association with the United States, and shall include
individuals having a history of engagement and
involvement with AAPI communities and enterprises. The
President shall designate one member of the Commission
to serve as Chair.
(c) Administration of the Commission. (i) The
Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the
Secretary of Transportation, shall designate an
Executive Director for the Commission. The Department
of Commerce shall provide funding and administrative
support for the Commission to the extent permitted by
law and within existing appropriations, and shall, as
necessary and appropriate under section 1535 of title
31, United States Code, enter into one or more
agreements to obtain goods or services from the
Department of Transportation in support of the
Commission. The heads of other executive departments
and agencies shall assist and provide information to
the Commission, consistent with applicable law, as may
be necessary to carry out its functions. Each executive
department and agency shall bear its own expenses of
assisting the Commission.
(ii) Members of the Commission shall serve without compensation, but shall
be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as
authorized by law for persons serving intermittently in the Government
service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707). Insofar as the Federal Advisory Committee
Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.) (the ``Act''), may apply to the
administration of the Commission, any functions of the President under the
Act, except that of reporting to the Congress, shall be performed by the
Secretary
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of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, in
accordance with the guidelines issued by the Administrator of General
Services.
(d) Termination Date. The Commission shall
terminate 2 years from the date of this order, unless
renewed by the President prior to that date.
Sec. 3. White House Initiative on Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders. There is established the White House
Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
(Initiative), a Federal interagency working group whose
members shall be selected by their respective agencies.
The Secretaries of Commerce and Transportation shall
serve as the Co-Chairs of the Initiative and shall
convene regular meetings of the Initiative, determine
its agenda, and direct its work pursuant to the
guidance and direction of the President. The Executive
Director established in section 2(c) of this order
shall serve in the same role for the Initiative and
shall report to the Co-Chairs, or their designees, on
Initiative matters.
(a) Mission and Function of the Initiative. The
Initiative shall work to broaden AAPI access to
economic resources and opportunities and thus empower
AAPIs to improve the quality of their lives, raise the
standard of living of their families and communities,
and more fully participate in our economy. The
Initiative shall advise the Co-Chairs on the
implementation and coordination of Federal programs as
they relate to AAPI access to economic resources and
opportunities.
(b) Membership of the Initiative. In addition to
the Co-Chairs, the Initiative shall consist of senior
officials from the following executive branch
departments, agencies, and offices:
(i) the Department of State;
(ii) the Department of the Treasury;
(iii) the Department of Defense;
(iv) the Department of Justice;
(v) the Department of the Interior;
(vi) the Department of Agriculture;
(vii) the Department of Labor;
(viii) the Department of Health and Human Services;
(ix) the Department of Housing and Urban Development;
(x) the Department of Energy;
(xi) the Department of Education;
(xii) the Department of Veterans Affairs;
(xiii) the Department of Homeland Security;
(xiv) the Office of Management and Budget;
(xv) the Environmental Protection Agency;
(xvi) the Small Business Administration;
(xvii) the Office of Personnel Management;
(xviii) the Social Security Administration;
(xix) the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs;
(xx) the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs;
(xxi) the White House Office of Public Liaison;
(xxii) the National Economic Council;
(xxiii) the Domestic Policy Council;
(xxiv) the Office of Science and Technology Policy;
(xxv) the Office of the U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator;
and
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(xxvi) other executive branch departments, agencies, and offices as the
President may, from time to time, designate.
The heads of each of the foregoing executive branch
departments, agencies, and offices shall designate the
senior Federal officials who will serve as their
respective representatives on the Initiative. At the
direction of the Co-Chairs, the Initiative may
establish subgroups consisting exclusively of
Initiative members or their designees under this
section, as appropriate. To the extent permitted by
law, members of the Initiative, or their designees,
shall devote the time, skill, and resources necessary
and adequate to carry out the functions of the
Initiative. Each executive department, agency, and
office shall bear its own expenses for participating in
the Initiative.
(c) Administration of the Initiative. The
Department of Commerce shall provide funding and
administrative support for the Initiative to the extent
permitted by law and within existing appropriations,
and shall, as necessary and appropriate under section
1535 of title 31, United States Code, enter into one or
more agreements to obtain goods or services from the
Department of Transportation in support of the
Initiative.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) This order supersedes
section 1(s) of Executive Order 13811 of September 29,
2017 (Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory
Committees), and Executive Order 13515 of October 14,
2009 (Increasing Participation of Asian Americans and
Pacific Islanders in Federal Programs).
(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to
impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, 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.
(c) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(d) For purposes of this order, the term ``Asian
American'' includes persons within the jurisdiction of
the United States having origins or ancestry in any of
the original peoples of East Asia, Southeast Asia, or
South Asia; and the term ``Pacific Islander'' includes
persons within the jurisdiction of the United States
having origins or ancestry in any of the original
peoples of Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or other
Pacific Islands.
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(e) 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,
May 13, 2019.
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