[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 39 (Monday, October 2, 1995)]
[Pages 1744-1745]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12974--Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory 
Committees

September 29, 1995

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in accordance with the 
provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 
App.), it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Each advisory committee listed below is continued until 
September 30, 1997.
    (a) Committee for the Preservation of the White House; Executive 
Order No. 11145, as amended (Department of the Interior).
    (b) Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health; 
Executive Order No. 12196, as amended (Department of Labor).
    (c) National Partnership Council; Executive Order No. 12871 (Office 
of Personnel Management).
    (d) President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for 
Hispanic Americans; Executive Order No. 12900 (Department of Education).
    (e) President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and 
Universities; Executive Order No. 12876 (Department of Education).
    (f) President's Commission on White House Fellowships; Executive 
Order No. 11183, as amended (Office of Personnel Management).
    (g) President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology; 
Executive Order No. 12882, as amended (Office of Science and Technology 
Policy).
    (h) President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities; Executive 
Order No. 12367, as amended (National Endowment for the Arts).
    (i) President's Committee on the International Labor Organization; 
Executive Order No. 12216, as amended (Department of Labor).
    (j) President's Committee on Mental Retardation; Executive Order No. 
11776, as amended (Department of Health and Human Services).
    (k) President's Committee on the National Medal of Science; 
Executive Order No. 11287, as amended (National Science Foundation).
    (l) President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports; Executive 
Order No. 12345, as amended (Department of Health and Human Services).
    (m) President's Export Council; Executive Order No. 12131, as 
amended (Department of Commerce).
    (n) President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory 
Committee; Executive Order No. 12382, as amended (Department of 
Defense).
    (o) Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee; Executive Order 
No. 12905 (Office of the United States Trade Representative).
    Sec. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Executive order, 
the functions of the President under the Federal Advisory Committee Act 
that are applicable to the committees listed in section 1 of this order, 
except that of reporting annually to the Congress, shall be performed by 
the head of the department or agency designated after each committee, in 
accordance with the guidelines and procedures established by the 
Administrator of General Services.
    Sec. 3. The following Executive orders or sections thereof, which 
established committees that have terminated or whose work is completed, 
are revoked:
    (a) Executive Order No. 12878, as amended by Executive Order Nos. 
12887 and 12912, establishing the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement 
Reform; and
    (b) That portion of section 2 of Executive Order No. 12844 that 
established the Federal Fleet Conversion Task Force.
    Sec. 4. Executive Order No. 12869 is superseded.
    Sec. 5. This order shall be effective September 30, 1995.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
September 29, 1995.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:17 a.m., October 2, 
1995]

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Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
October 3.