[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 15 (Monday, April 15, 1996)]
[Pages 626-627]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12998--Amendment to Executive Order No. 11880

April 5, 1996

    By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including section 
3347 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered that Executive 
Order No. 11880

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of October 2, 1975, as amended, is further amended as follows:
    A new section 2 of Executive Order No. 11880 shall be added to read: 
``The President may at any time, pursuant to law but without regard to 
the foregoing provisions of this order, direct that an officer, as 
defined in 5 U.S.C. 3347, and specified by the President shall act as 
Secretary of Commerce.''
    The present section 2 of Executive Order No. 11880, as amended, 
shall be redesignated as section 3.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
April 5, 1996.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:27 p.m., April 8, 
1996]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
April 9. This item was not received in time for publication in the 
appropriate issue.