[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 26 (Monday, July 5, 1993)]
[Pages 1201-1202]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12852--President's Council on Sustainable Development

 June 29, 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, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Establishment. There is established the ``President's 
Council on Sustainable Development'' (``Council''). The Council shall 
consist of not more than 25 members to be appointed by the President 
from the public and private sectors and who represent industrial, 
environmental, governmental, and not-for-profit organizations with 
experience relating to matters of sustainable development. The President 
shall designate from among the Council members such official or 
officials to be chairperson, chairpersons, vice-chairperson, or vice-
chairpersons of the Council as he shall deem appropriate. The Council 
shall coordinate with and report to such officials of the executive 
branch as the

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President or the Director of the White House Office on Environmental 
Policy shall from time to time determine.
    Sec. 2. Functions. (a) The Council shall advise the President on 
matters involving sustainable development. ``Sustainable development'' 
is broadly defined as economic growth that will benefit present and 
future generations without detrimentally affecting the resources or 
biological systems of the planet.
    (b) The Council shall develop and recommend to the President a 
national sustainable development action strategy that will foster 
economic vitality.
    (c) The chairperson or chairpersons may, from time to time, invite 
experts to submit information to the Council and may form subcommittees 
of the Council to review and report to the Council on the development of 
national and local sustainable development plans.
    Sec. 3. Administration. (a) The heads of executive agencies shall, 
to the extent permitted by law, provide to the Council such information 
with respect to sustainable development as the Council requires to carry 
out its functions.
    (b) Members of the Council 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).
    (c) The White House Office on Environmental Policy shall obtain 
funding for the Council from the Department of the Interior or such 
other sources (including other Federal agencies) as may lawfully 
contribute to such activities. The funding received shall provide for 
the administrative and financial support of the Council.
    (d) The Office of Administration in the Executive Office of the 
President shall, on a reimbursable basis, provide such administrative 
services for the Council as may be required.
    Sec. 4. General. (a) I have determined that the Council shall be 
established in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 
amended (5 U.S.C. App.). Notwithstanding any other Executive order, the 
functions of the President under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 
amended, except that of reporting to the Congress, which are applicable 
to the Council, shall be performed by the Office of Administration in 
the Executive Office of the President in accord with the guidelines and 
procedures established by the Administrator of General Services.
    (b) The Council shall exist for a period of 2 years from the date of 
this order, unless the Council's charter is subsequently extended.
    (c) Executive Order No. 12737, which established the President's 
Commission on Environmental Quality, is revoked.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
June 29, 1993.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 2:40 p.m., June 30, 
1993]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on July 
2.