[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 46 (Monday, November 18, 1996)]
[Pages 2401-2402]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13027--Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a 
Dispute Between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority 
and Its Employees Represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers

November 15, 1996

    A dispute exists between Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation 
Authority and certain of 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 a second emergency board pursuant to section 9A of the Act (45 
U.S.C. 159a).
    Section 9A(e) of the Act provides that the President, upon such 
request, shall appoint a second 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 12:01 a.m., eastern standard time, on November 16, 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

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railroad employees or any carrier. The board shall perform its functions 
subject to the availability of funds.
    Sec. 2. Report. Within 30 days after creation of the board, the 
parties to the dispute shall submit to the board final offers for 
settlement of the dispute. Within 30 days after submission of final 
offers for settlement of the dispute, the board shall submit a report to 
the President setting forth its selection of the most reasonable offer.
    Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section 9A(h) of the 
Act, from the time a request to establish a board is made until 60 days 
after the board makes its report, no change, except by agreement, shall 
be made by the parties 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,
November 15, 1996.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., November 19, 
1996]

Note: This Executive order will be published in the Federal Register on 
November 20.