[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 19 (Monday, May 13, 1996)]
[Pages 814-815]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13001--Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a 
Dispute Between Certain Railroads Represented by the National Railway 
Labor Conference and Their Employees Represented by the Transportation 
Communications International Union

May 8, 1996

    A dispute exists between certain railroads represented by the 
National Railway Labor Conference and their employees represented by the 
Transportation Communications International Union. The railroads 
involved in this dispute are designated on the attached list, which is 
made a part of this order.
    This dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions 
of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) (the 
``Act'').
    In the judgment of the National Mediation Board, this dispute 
threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree 
that would deprive a section of the country of essential transportation 
service.
    Now, Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 10 of 
the Act (45 U.S.C. 160), it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Establishment of Emergency Board (``Board''). There is 
established effective May 8, 1996, a Board of three members to be 
appointed by the President to investigate the dispute. No member shall 
be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad 
employees or any railroad carrier. The Board shall perform its functions 
subject to the availability of funds.
    Sec. 2. Report. The Board shall report to the President with respect 
to the dispute within 30 days of its creation.
    Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section 10 of the 
Act, from the date of the creation of the Board and for 30 days after 
the Board has made its report to the President, no change, except by 
agreement of the parties shall be made by the railroads or the employees 
in the conditions out of which the dispute arose.

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    Sec. 4. Records Maintenance. The records and files of the Board are 
records of the Office of the President and upon the Board's termination 
shall be maintained in the physical custody of the National Mediation 
Board.
    Sec. 5. Expiration. The Board shall terminate upon the submission of 
the report provided for in sections 2 and 3 of this order.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
May 8, 1996.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., May 9, 1996]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on May 
10.