[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 45 (Monday, November 11, 1996)]
[Pages 2349-2350]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13023--Amendments to Executive Order 12992, Expanding 
and Changing the Name of the President's Council on Counter-Narcotics

November 6, 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, and in order to change the name of the 
``President's Council on Counter-Narcotics'' to the ``President's Drug 
Policy Council'' and to make the Secretaries of the Interior, 
Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, 
Education, Veterans Affairs, and the Assistant to the President for 
Domestic Policy, permanent members of the Council, it is hereby ordered 
as follows:
    Section 1. The Council established by Executive Order 12992 shall 
henceforth be called the ``President's Drug Policy Council.''
    Sec. 2. Section 1 of Executive Order 12992 is amended by deleting 
``President's Council on Counter-Narcotics'' and inserting ``President's 
Drug Policy Council'' in lieu thereof.
    Sec. 3. Section 2 of Executive Order 12992 is amended to read as 
follows:
    ``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 the Interior;
``(h)       Secretary of Agriculture;
``(i)       Secretary of Health and Human Services;
``(j)       Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;
``(k)       Secretary of Transportation;
``(l)       Secretary of Education;
``(m)       Secretary of Veterans Affairs;
``(n)       Representative of the United States of America to the United 
            Nations;
``(o)       Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
``(p)       Chief of Staff to the President;
``(q)       Director of National Drug Control Policy;
``(r)       Director of Central Intelligence;
``(s)       Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs;
``(t)       Counsel to the President;
``(u)       Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff;
``(v)       National Security Advisor to the Vice President; and
``(w)       Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.

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    ``As applicable, the Council shall also comprise such other 
officials of the departments and agencies as the President may, from 
time to time, designate.''
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
November 6, 1996.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., November 7, 
1996]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
November 8.