    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 3 (Monday, January 25, 1993)]
    [Pages 65-66]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Executive Order 12832--Amendments Relating to the National Research
    Council

     January 19, 1993

        By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
    the laws of the United States of America, and in order to update the
    National Research Council, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order No.
    2859, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:
        ``National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences
        ``Whereas (1) the congressional charter of the National Academy of
    Sciences (`Academy') charges it, upon call from any U.S. Government
    Department, to investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any
    subject of science or art and (2) the actual expenses of the Academy for
    such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports shall be
    paid to the Academy through one or more of the following: private gifts
    and bequests; appropriations for the benefit of the Academy; grants-in-
    aid, contracts, and other forms of financial agreement with executive
    departments and agencies, provided that the Academy shall receive no
    compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United
    States; and
        ``Whereas the National Research Council (`Council') was organized in
    1916 at the request of the President by the National Academy of
    Sciences, under its congressional charter, as a measure of national
    preparedness; and
        ``Whereas the Council is the principal operating agency of the
    National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering,
    the latter having been established in 1964 under the charter of the
    National Academy of Sciences; and
        ``Whereas the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of
    Sciences, established in 1970 under the Academy's charter, conducts its
    programs and activities under the approval, operating, and review
    procedures of the Council; and
        ``Whereas in recognition of the work accomplished through the
    Council in organizing research, in furthering science, and in securing
    cooperation of government and nongovernment agencies in the solution of
    their problems, the Council has been perpetuated by the Academy as
    requested by the President in Executive Order No. 2859 of May 11, 1918;
    and
        ``Whereas the effective prosecution of the Council's work may
    require the close cooperation of the scientific and technical branches
    of the Government, both military and civil, and makes participation by
    officers and employees of the Government in the work of the Council
    desirable; and
        ``Now, Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the
    Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is ordered
    as follows:
        ``1. The functions of the Council shall be as follows:
        ``(a) To stimulate research in the mathematical, physical,
    biological, environmental, and social sciences, and in the application
    of these sciences to engineering, agriculture, medicine, and other
    useful arts, with the object of increasing knowledge, of strengthening
    the national security including the contribution of science and
    engineering to economic growth, of ensuring the health of the American
    people, of aiding in the attainment of environmental goals, and of
    contributing in other ways to the public welfare.
        ``(b) To survey the broad possibilities of science, to formulate
    comprehensive projects of research, and to develop effective means of
    utilizing the scientific and technical resources of the country for
    dealing with such projects.
        ``(c) To promote cooperation in research, at home and abroad, in
    order to secure concentration of effort, minimize duplication, and
    stimulate progress; but in all cooperative undertakings to give
    encouragement to individual initiative, as fundamentally important to
    the advancement of science.
        ``(d) To serve as a means of bringing American and foreign
    investigators into active cooperation with the scientific and technical
    services of the Federal Government.
        ``(e) To direct the attention of scientific and technical
    investigators to the importance of military and industrial problems in
    connection with national security, to the importance of environmental
    problems in connection with public health and the economy, and

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    to aid in the solution of these problems by organizing specific
    research.

        ``(f) To gather and collate scientific and technical information, at
    home and abroad, in cooperation with governmental and other agencies,
    and to disseminate such information to duly accredited persons and the
    public.

        ``2. Scientists, engineers, and other technically qualified
    professionals who are officers or employees of departments and agencies
    of the executive branch of the Government are encouraged to participate
    in the work of the Council as requested by the Council to the extent
    authorized by the head of the officer's or employee's agency or
    department and permitted by law.

        ``3. To the extent permitted by law and regulation, and in
    accordance with the congressional charter of the Academy, the actual
    expense of investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports by the
    Academy for the executive branch of the Government shall be paid to the
    Academy through one or more of the following: private gifts and
    bequests; appropriations for the benefit of the Academy; grants-in-aid,
    contracts, and other forms of financial agreement with executive
    departments and agencies. The Academy shall receive no compensation
    whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
    Further, the Academy shall be subject to all provisions of OMB Circular
    A-122, `Cost Principles for Non-Profit Organizations,' and to such other
    requirements regarding or limiting the Academy's recovery of costs as
    the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may specify from
    time to time in writing to the Academy and to agencies and departments
    of the Government.

        ``4. When a department or agency of the executive branch of the
    Government determines that the Academy, because of its unique
    qualifications, is the only source that can provide the measure of
    expertise, independence, objectivity, and audience acceptance necessary
    to meet the department's or agency's program requirements, acquisition
    of services by the Academy may be obtained on a noncompetitive basis if
    otherwise in accordance with applicable law and regulations.''
                                                       George Bush
    The White House,
    January 19, 1993.

    [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:54 a.m., January 21,
    1993]

    Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press
    Secretary on January 20, and it was published in the Federal Register on
    January 22.