[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 14 (Monday, April 11, 1994)]
[Pages 666-667]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6662--Transfer of Functions of the ACTION Agency to the 
Corporation for National and Community Service

April 4, 1994

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    On September 21, 1993, I had the honor of signing into law the 
National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, which created the 
Corporation for National and Community Service. The Corporation was 
designed to involve Americans of all ages and backgrounds in community 
projects to address many of our Nation's most important needs--from 
educating our children to ensuring public safety to protecting our 
environment. It was chartered to foster civic responsibility, 
strengthening the ties that bind us together as a people, while 
providing educational opportunity for those who make the commitment to 
serve.
    In the few short months since the Corporation's establishment, 
enormous progress has been made toward the achievement of these 
invaluable goals. Final regulations have been published governing the 
Corporation's new grant programs, grant application packages have been 
developed, and a national recruitment effort has begun. As a result of 
intensive outreach efforts, most states have

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already established State Commissions on National and Community Service, 
and many local programs, national nonprofit organizations, institutions 
of higher education, and Federal agencies are eager to participate. 
Grant competitions have begun for a summer program that will focus on 
our Nation's public safety concerns, and all community service grant 
competitions will be completed by this summer. Finally, the Corporation 
has established the National Civilian Community Corps, which will take 
advantage of closed and down-sized military bases to launch 
environmental clean-up and preservation efforts.
    The ACTION Agency, provided for by the Domestic Volunteer Service 
Act of 1973, has worked closely with the Corporation, sharing its many 
years of experience in engaging Americans in service to their 
communities. Because the Corporation's initiatives and those programs 
operated by the ACTION Agency involve similar goals, the National and 
Community Service Trust Act calls for the merger of ACTION with the 
Corporation no later than March 22, 1995. To build upon the tremendous 
accomplishments already achieved by the Corporation, and to facilitate 
the further development of community service programs across the 
country, I am pleased to order that the functions of the Director of the 
ACTION Agency be transferred to the Corporation for National and 
Community Service.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United 
States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including but 
not limited to sections 203(c)(2) and (d)(1)(B) of the National and 
Community Service Trust Act of 1993, proclaim that all functions of the 
Director of the ACTION Agency are hereby transferred to the Corporation 
for National and Community Service, effective April 4, 1994.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of 
April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of 
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
eighteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:01 a.m., April 5, 
1994]

Note: This proclamation was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on April 5, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
April 6.