[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 11 (Monday, March 17, 1997)]
[Page 343]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13039--Exclusion of the Naval Special Warfare 
Development Group From the Federal Labor-Management Relations Program

March 11, 1997

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including section 7103(b)(1) 
of title 5 of the United States Code, and having determined that the 
Naval Special Warfare Development Group has as a primary function 
intelligence, counter-intelligence, investigative, or national security 
work and that the provisions of Chapter 71 of title 5 of the United 
States Code cannot be applied to this organization in a manner 
consistent with national security requirements and considerations, 
Executive Order 12171 of November 19, 1979, as amended, is further 
amended by adding the following at the end of section 1-205:
    ``(i) Naval Special Warfare Development Group.''
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
March 11, 1997.

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

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on March 12, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
March 14.