[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 20 (Monday, May 24, 1993)]
[Page 905]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12847--Amending Executive Order 11423

 May 17, 1993

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 
3, United States Code, and in order to amend Executive Order No. 11423 
of August 16, 1968, to provide for the issuance of permits for the full 
range of facilities that may be constructed and maintained on the 
borders of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

    Section 1. Section 1(a) of Executive Order No. 11423 is amended to 
read: ``Except with respect to facilities covered by Executive Order 
Nos. 10485 and 10530, the Secretary of State is hereby designated and 
empowered to receive all applications for permits for the construction, 
connection, operation, or maintenance, at the borders of the United 
States, of: (i) pipelines, conveyor belts, and similar facilities for 
the exportation or importation of petroleum, petroleum products, coal, 
minerals, or other products to or from a foreign country; (ii) 
facilities for the exportation or importation of water or sewage to or 
from a foreign country; (iii) facilities for the transportation of 
persons or things, or both, to or from a foreign country; (iv) bridges, 
to the extent that congressional authorization is not required; and (v) 
similar facilities above or below ground.''

    Sec. 2. Section 1(b) of Executive Order No. 11423 of August 16, 
1968, is amended by deleting the text ``subsection (a)(iii) or (iv)'' 
and by inserting ``subsection (a)(iii), (iv) or (v)'' in lieu thereof.

    Sec. 3. All permits heretofore issued with respect to matters 
described in section 1 of Executive Order No. 11423, and in force at the 
time of issuance of this order, and all permits issued hereunder, shall 
remain in effect in accordance with their terms unless and until 
modified, amended, suspended, or revoked by the appropriate authority.

                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
May 17, 1993.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:48 a.m., May 19, 
1993]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on May 19, and it was published in the Federal Register on May 
20.