[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 31 (Monday, August 7, 1995)]
[Pages 1349-1350]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12967--Establishing an Emergency Board to Investigate 
Disputes Between Metro North Commuter Railroad and Its Employees 
Represented by Certain Labor Organizations

July 31, 1995

    Disputes exist between Metro North Commuter Railroad and certain 
employees represented by certain labor organizations. The labor 
organizations involved in these disputes are designated on the attached 
list, which is made a part of this order.
    The disputes have not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions 
of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) (the 
``Act'').
    Parties empowered by the Act have 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 disputes.
    Now, Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including 
section 9A of the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Establishment of the Board. There is established 
effective July 31, 1995, a board of three members to be appointed by the 
President to investigate these disputes. No member shall be pecuniarily 
or otherwise interested 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 disputes shall submit to the board final offers for 
settlement of the disputes. Within 30 days after submission of final 
offers for settlement of the disputes, 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

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time a request to establish a board is made until 60 days after the 
board makes its report, no change, except by agreement, shall be made by 
the parties in the conditions out of which the disputes arose.
    Sec. 4. Records Maintenance. The records and files of the board are 
records of the Office of the President and upon the board's termination 
shall be maintained in the physical custody of the National Mediation 
Board.
    Sec. 5. Expiration. The board shall terminate upon submission of the 
report provided for in section 2 of this order.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
July 31, 1995.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:52 p.m., July 31, 
1995]

Note: This Executive order, with its attached list, was published in the 
Federal Register on August 2.