[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 50 (Monday, December 18, 1995)]
[Page 2153]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12982--Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces 
to Active Duty

December 8, 1995

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 
12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby determine that it is 
necessary to augment the active armed forces of the United States for 
the effective conduct of operations in and around former Yugoslavia. 
Further, under the stated authority, I hereby authorize the Secretary of 
Defense, and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast 
Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Department of the 
Navy, to order to active duty any units, and any individual members not 
assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit, of the Selected 
Reserve.
    This order is intended only to improve the internal management of 
the executive branch and is not intended to create any right or benefit, 
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law by a party against the 
United States, its agencies, its officers, or any person.
    This order shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
December 8, 1995.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:46 a.m., December 11, 
1995]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
December 12. This item was not received in time for publication in the 
appropriate issue.