[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 42 (Monday, October 23, 1995)]
[Pages 1881-1883]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12977--Interagency Security Committee

October 19, 1995

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in order to enhance the 
quality and effectiveness of security in and protection of buildings and 
facilities in the United States occupied by Federal employees for 
nonmilitary activities (``Federal facilities''), and to provide a 
permanent body to address continuing government-wide security for 
Federal facilities, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Establishment. There is hereby established within the 
executive branch the Interagency Security Committee (``Committee''). The 
Committee shall consist of: (a) the Administrator of General Services 
(``Administrator'');
    (b) representatives from the following agencies, appointed by the 
agency heads:
    (1) Department of State;
    (2) Department of the Treasury;
    (3) Department of Defense;
    (4) Department of Justice;
    (5) Department of the Interior;
    (6) Department of Agriculture;
    (7) Department of Commerce;
    (8) Department of Labor;
    (9) Department of Health and Human Services;
    (10) Department of Housing and Urban Development;
    (11) Department of Transportation;
    (12) Department of Energy;
    (13) Department of Education;
    (14) Department of Veterans Affairs;

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    (15) Environmental Protection Agency;
    (16) Central Intelligence Agency; and
    (17) Office of Management and Budget;
    (c) the following individuals or their designees:
    (1) the Director, United States Marshals Service;
    (2) the Assistant Commissioner of the Federal Protective Service of 
the Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration 
(``Assistant Commissioner'');
    (3) the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; 
and
    (4) the Director, Security Policy Board; and
    (d) such other Federal employees as the President shall appoint.
    Sec. 2. Chair. The Committee shall be chaired by the Administrator, 
or the designee of the Administrator.
    Sec. 3. Working Groups. The Committee is authorized to establish 
interagency working groups to perform such tasks as may be directed by 
the Committee.
    Sec. 4. Consultation. The Committee may consult with other parties, 
including the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, to 
perform its responsibilities under this order, and, at the discretion of 
the Committee, such other parties may participate in the working groups.
    Sec. 5. Duties and Responsibilities. (a) The Committee shall: (1) 
establish policies for security in and protection of Federal facilities;
    (2) develop and evaluate security standards for Federal facilities, 
develop a strategy for ensuring compliance with such standards, and 
oversee the implementation of appropriate security measures in Federal 
facilities; and
    (3) take such actions as may be necessary to enhance the quality and 
effectiveness of security and protection of Federal facilities, 
including but not limited to:
    (A) encouraging agencies with security responsibilities to share 
security-related intelligence in a timely and cooperative manner;
    (B) assessing technology and information systems as a means of 
providing cost-effective improvements to security in Federal facilities;
    (C) developing long-term construction standards for those locations 
with threat levels or missions that require blast resistant structures 
or other specialized security requirements;
    (D) evaluating standards for the location of, and special security 
related to, day care centers in Federal facilities; and
    (E) assisting the Administrator in developing and maintaining a 
centralized security data base of all Federal facilities.
    Sec. 6. Agency Support and Cooperation.
    (a) Administrative Support. To the extent permitted by law and 
subject to the availability of appropriations, the Administrator, acting 
by and through the Assistant Commissioner, shall provide the Committee 
such administrative services, funds, facilities, staff and other support 
services as may be necessary for the performance of its functions under 
this order.
    (b) Cooperation. Each executive agency and department shall 
cooperate and comply with the policies and recommendations of the 
Committee issued pursuant to this order, except where the Director of 
Central Intelligence determines that compliance would jeopardize 
intelligence sources and methods. To the extent permitted by law and 
subject to the availability of appropriations, executive agencies and 
departments shall provide such support as may be necessary to enable the 
Committee to perform its duties and responsibilities under this order.
    (c) Compliance. The Administrator, acting by and through the 
Assistant Commissioner, shall be responsible for monitoring Federal 
agency compliance with the policies and recommendations of the 
Committee.
    Sec. 7. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to improve the 
internal management of the Federal Government, and is not intended, and 
should not be construed, to create any right or benefit, substantive or 
procedural, enforceable at law by a party against the United States, its 
agencies, its officers, or its employees.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
October 19, 1995.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 2:55 p.m., October 20, 
1995]

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Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on October 20, and it will be published in the Federal 
Register on October 24.