[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.