[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 17 (Monday, April 28, 1997)]
[Page 563]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13044--Amending Executive Order 12752, Implementation of 
the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as 
Amended, and the Food for Progress Act of 1985, as Amended

April 18, 1997

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in order to provide for 
carrying out the provisions of the Agricultural Trade Development and 
Assistance Act of 1954, as amended by Public Law 101-624 (7 U.S.C. 1691 
et seq.), it is hereby ordered that:
(1)         The first sentence of section 1(a) of Executive Order 12752 
            be amended by deleting the words ``developing countries'' 
            and inserting the words ``developing countries and private 
            entities'' in lieu thereof;
(2)         Sections 4(a) and (c) be deleted; and
(3)         Sections 4(b), (d), (e), (f), and (g) be renumbered as 
            sections 4(a), (b), (c), (d), and (e), respectively.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
April 18, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:17 a.m., April 21, 
1997]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on April 21, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
April 22.