[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 39 (Monday, October 3, 1994)]
[Pages 1906-1907]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12930--Measures To Restrict the Participation by United 
States Persons in Weapons Proliferation Activities

September 29, 1994

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 203 of the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702), the 
National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of 
title 3 of the United States Code,
    I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, 
find that the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical 
weapons, and of the means of delivering such weapons, constitutes an 
unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign 
policy, and economy of the United States, and hereby declare a national 
emergency to deal with that threat.
    Accordingly, in order to limit the participation by United States 
persons in weapons proliferation activities, it is hereby ordered as 
follows:
    Section 1. The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, is hereby authorized and directed to take such 
actions, including the promulgation of rules, regulations, and 
amendments thereto, as may be necessary to continue to regulate the 
activities of United States persons in order to prevent their 
participation in activities that could contribute to the proliferation 
of weapons of mass destruction and the

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means of their delivery, as provided in the Export Administration 
Regulations, set forth at 15 CFR Parts 768-799 (1994).
    Sec. 2. Any rules, regulations, orders, licenses, or other forms of 
administrative action issued, taken, or continued in effect heretofore 
or hereafter under the authority of the Export Administration Act, or 
the authorities provided under Executive Order No. 12868 on September 
30, 1993, are hereby continued in effect unless altered, modified, or 
rescinded by the Secretary of Commerce pursuant to section 1 of this 
order.
    Sec. 3. Executive Order No. 12868 is revoked and this order shall 
take effect at 11:59 p.m. on September 29, 1994.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
September 29, 1994.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:20 p.m., September 
30, 1994]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on September 30, and it was published in the Federal Register 
on October 3.