[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 7 (Monday, February 21, 1994)]
[Page 304]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12899--Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a 
Dispute Between The Long Island Rail Road and Certain of Its Employees 
Represented by the United Transportation Union

February 15, 1994

    A dispute exists between the Long Island Railroad and certain of its 
employees represented by the United Transportation Union.
    The dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of 
the Railway Labor Act, as amended (the ``Act'').
    A first emergency board to investigate the dispute was established 
by Executive Order No. 12874 on October 20, 1993. The emergency board 
terminated upon issuance of its report and, subsequently, its 
recommendations were not accepted.
    A party empowered by the Act has requested that the President 
establish a second emergency board pursuant to section 9A of the Act (45 
U.S.C. 159a).
    Section 9A(e) of the Act provides that the President, upon such 
request, shall appoint a second emergency board to investigate and 
report on the dispute.
    Now, Therefore, by the authority vested in me by section 9A of the 
Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Establishment of the Board. There is established, 
effective February 15, 1994, a board of three members to be appointed by 
the President to investigate this dispute. No member shall be interested 
pecuniarily or otherwise in any organization of railroad employees or 
any carrier. The board shall perform its functions subject to the 
availability of funds.
    Sec. 2. Report. Within 30 days after creation of the board, the 
parties to the dispute shall submit to the board final offers for 
settlement of the dispute. Within 30 days after submission of final 
offers for settlement of the dispute, the board shall submit a report to 
the President setting forth its selection of the most reasonable offer.
    Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section 9A(h) of the 
Act, from the time a request to establish a board is made until 60 days 
after the board makes its report, the parties shall make no changes in 
the conditions out of which the dispute arose, except by agreement.
    Sec. 4. Expiration. The board shall terminate upon submission of the 
report provided for in section 2 of this order.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
February 15, 1994.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:06 a.m., February 16, 
1994]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
February 17.