[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 7 (Monday, February 17, 1997)]
[Pages 178-179]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13035--Advisory Committee on High-Performance Computing 
and Communications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation 
Internet

February 11, 1997

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the High-Performance 
Computing Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-194) (``Act''), and in order to 
establish an advisory committee on high-performance computing and 
communications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation 
Internet, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Establishment. There is established the ``Advisory 
Committee on High-Performance Computing and Communications, Information 
Technology, and the Next Generation Internet'' (``Committee''). The 
Committee shall consist of not more than 25 nonfederal members appointed 
by the President, including representatives of the research, education, 
and library communities, network providers, and representatives from 
critical industries. The President shall designate co-chairs from among 
the members of the Committee.
    Sec. 2. Functions. The Committee shall provide the National Science 
and Technology Council (NSTC), through the Director of the Office of 
Science and Technology Policy (``Director''), with advice and 
information on high-performance computing and communications, 
information technology, and the Next Generation Internet. The Committee 
shall provide an independent assessment of:
    (1) progress made in implementing the High-Performance Computing and 
Communications (HPCC) Program;
    (2) progress in designing and implementing the Next Generation 
Internet initiative;
    (3) the need to revise the HPCC Program;
    (4) balance among components of the HPCC Program;
    (5) whether the research and development undertaken pursuant to the 
HPCC Program is helping to maintain United States leadership in advanced 
computing and communications technologies and their applications; and
    (6) other issues as specified by the Director.
    Sec. 3. Administration. To the extent permitted by law and subject 
to the availability of appropriations, the Department of Defense shall 
provide the financial and administrative support for the Committee. 
Further, the Director of the National Coordination Office for Computing 
Information, and Communications (``Director of the NCO'') shall provide 
such coordination and technical assistance to the Committee as the co-
chairs of the Committee may request.
    (a) The heads of executive agencies shall, to the extent permitted 
by law, provide to the Committee such information as it may require for 
the purpose of carrying out its functions.
    (b) The co-chairs may, from time to time, invite experts to submit 
information to the Committee and may form subcommittees or

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working groups within the Committee to review specific issues.
    (c) Members of the Committee shall serve without compensation but 
shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
subsistence, as authorized by law for persons serving intermittently in 
the Government service (5 U.S.C. 5701-5707).
    Sec. 4. General. (a) Notwithstanding any other Executive order, the 
functions of the President under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 
amended, except that of reporting to the Congress, that are applicable 
to the Committee shall be performed by the Director of the NCO in 
accordance with guidelines that have been issued by the Administrator of 
General Services.
    (b) The Committee shall terminate 2 years from the date of this 
order unless extended by the President prior to such date.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
February 11, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., February 13, 
1997]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
February 14.