[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 12 (Monday, March 25, 1996)]
[Pages 511-512]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12992--President's Council on Counter-Narcotics

March 15, 1996

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 
3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Establishment. There is established the President's 
Council on Counter-Narcotics (``Council'').
    Sec. 2. Membership. The Council shall comprise the:
    (a) President, who shall serve as Chairman of the Council;
    (b) Vice President;
    (c) Secretary of State;
    (d) Secretary of the Treasury;
    (e) Secretary of Defense;
    (f) Attorney General;
    (g) Secretary of Transportation;
    (h) Representative of the United States of America to the United 
Nations;
    (i) Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
    (j) Chief of Staff to the President;
    (k) Director of National Drug Control Policy;
    (l) Director of Central Intelligence;
    (m) Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs;
    (n) Counsel to the President;
    (o) Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; and
    (p) National Security Advisor for the Vice President.

As applicable, the Council shall also comprise the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services; the Secretary of Education; and the Assistant to the 
President for Domestic Policy and such other officials of the 
departments and agencies as the President may, from time to time, 
designate.
    Sec. 3. Meetings of the Council. The President, or upon his 
direction, the Vice President, may convene meetings of the Council. The 
President shall preside over meetings of the Council, provided that in 
his absence, the Vice President will preside. The Council will meet at 
least quarterly.
    Sec. 4. Functions. (a) The functions of the Council are to advise 
and assist the President in: (1) providing direction and oversight for 
the national drug control strategy, including relating drug control 
policy to other national security interests and establishing priorities; 
and (2) ensuring coordination among departments and agencies concerning 
implementation of the President's national drug control strategy.
    (b) The Director of National Drug Control Policy will continue to be 
the senior drug control policy official in the executive branch and the 
President's chief drug control policy spokesman.
    (c) In matters affecting national security interests, the Director 
of National Drug Control Policy shall work in conjunction with the 
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
    Sec. 5. Administration. (a) The Council may utilize established or 
ad hoc committees, task forces, or interagency groups chaired by the 
Director of National Drug Control Policy or his representative, in 
carrying out its functions under this order.
    (b) The staff of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, in 
coordination with the staffs of the Vice President and the Assistant to 
the President for National Security Affairs, shall act as staff for the 
Council.
    (c) All executive departments and agencies shall cooperate with the 
Council and provide such assistance, information, and advice as

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the Council may request, to the extent permitted by law.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
March 15, 1996.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:06 a.m., March 18, 
1996]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
March 19. This item was not received in time for publication in the 
appropriate issue.