[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 29 (Monday, July 22, 1996)]
[Pages 1288-1289]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13012--Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a 
Dispute Between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority 
and Their Employees Represented by The Brotherhood of Locomotive 
Engineers

July 18, 1996

    A dispute exists between the Southeastern Pennsylvania 
Transportation Authority and its employees represented by the 
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
    The 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'').
    A party empowered by the Act has requested that the President 
establish an emergency board pursuant to section 9A of the Act (45 
U.S.C. 159a).
    Section 9A(c) of the Act provides that the President, upon such 
request, shall appoint

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an emergency board to investigate and report on the dispute.
    Now, Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President, by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States, including Section 9A of 
the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Establishment of the Board. There is established 
effective July 19, 1996, a Board of three members to be appointed by the 
President to investigate this dispute. No member shall be pecuniarily or 
otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees or any 
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 9A(c) of the 
Act, from the date of the creation of the Board and for 120 days 
thereafter, no change, except by agreement of the parties, shall be made 
by the carrier or the employees in the conditions out of which the 
dispute arose.
    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 submission of the 
report provided for in section 2 of this order.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
July 18, 1996.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., July 22, 
1996]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
July 23.