[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 24 (Monday, June 16, 1997)]
[Pages 851-852]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13048--Improving Administrative Management in the 
Executive Branch

June 10, 1997

    Improvement of Government operations is a continuing process that 
benefits from interagency activities. One group dedicated to such 
activities is the President's Council on Management Improvement (PCMI), 
established by Executive Order 12479 in 1984, reestablished by Executive 
Order 12816 in 1992. In the intervening years, some activities of the 
PCMI have been assumed by the President's Management Council, the Chief 
Financial Officers Council, and the Chief Information Officers Council. 
These organizations are also focussed on improving agencies' use of 
quality management principles. Other functions have been assigned to 
individual agencies. Nonetheless, remaining administrative management 
matters deserve attention across agency lines.
    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America and in order to improve agency 
administrative and management practices throughout the executive branch, 
I hereby direct the following:
    Section 1. Interagency Council on Administrative Management.
    (a) Purpose and Membership. An Interagency Council on Administrative 
Management (``Council'') is established as an interagency coordination 
mechanism. The Council shall be composed of the Deputy Director for 
Management of the Office of Management and Budget, who shall serve as 
Chair, and one senior administrative management official from each of 
the following agencies:
1.          Department of State;
2.          Department of the Treasury;
3.          Department of Defense;
4.          Department of Justice;
5.          Department of the Interior;
6.          Department of Agriculture;
7.          Department of Commerce;
8.          Department of Labor;
9.          Department of Health and Human Services;
10.         Department of Housing and Urban Development;
11.         Department of Transportation;
12.         Department of Energy;
13.         Department of Education;
14.         Department of Veterans Affairs;
15.         Environmental Protection Agency;
16.         Federal Emergency Management Agency;
17.         Central Intelligence Agency;
18.         Small Business Administration;
19.         Department of the Army;
20.         Department of the Navy;
21.         Department of the Air Force;

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22.         National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
23.         Agency for International Development;
24.         General Services Administration;
25.         National Science Foundation; and
26.         Office of Personnel Management.
Department and agency heads shall advise the Chair of their selections 
for membership on the Council. Council membership shall also include 
representatives of the Chief Financial Officers Council, the Chief 
Information Officers Council, the Federal Procurement Council, the 
Interagency Advisory Group of Federal Personnel Directors, and the Small 
Agency Council, as well as at-large members appointed by the Chair, as 
he deems appropriate. The Chair shall invite representatives of the 
Social Security Administration to participate in the Council's work, as 
appropriate. The Council shall select a Vice Chair from among the 
Council's membership.
    (b) The Council shall plan, promote, and recommend improvements in 
Government administration and operations and provide advice to the Chair 
on matters pertaining to the administrative management of the Federal 
Government. The Council shall:
(1)         explore opportunities for more effective use of Government 
            resources;
(2)         support activities and initiatives of the President's 
            Management Council, the Chief Financial Officers Council, 
            the Chief Information Officers Council, the Federal 
            Procurement Council, and the Interagency Advisory Group of 
            Federal Personnel Directors designed to develop, review, 
            revise, and implement Governmentwide administrative 
            management policies; and
(3)         identify successful administrative management practices, 
            including quality management practices, and assist in their 
            Governmentwide dissemination and implementation.
    Sec. 2. Responsibilities of the Chair. The Chair or, if the Chair 
chooses, the Vice Chair shall:
(1)         convene meetings of the Council;
(2)         preside at formal council meetings;
(3)         establish committees or working groups of the Council, as 
            necessary for efficient conduct of Council functions; and
(4)         appoint, to the extent permitted by law and consistent with 
            personnel practices, other full-time officers or employees 
            of the Federal Government to the Council as at-large members 
            for specific terms, not exceeding 2 years, to provide 
            expertise to the Council.
    Sec. 3. Responsibilities of Agency Heads. To the extent permitted by 
law, heads of departments or agencies represented on the Council shall 
provide their representatives with administrative support needed to 
support Council activities.
    Sec. 4. Judicial Review. This order is for the internal management 
of the executive branch and does not create any right or benefit, 
substantive or procedural, enforceable by a party against the United 
States, its agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or 
any other person.
    Sec. 5. Revocation. Executive Order 12816 (creating the President's 
Council on Management Improvement), Executive Order 12552 (establishing 
the executive branch productivity improvement program) and Executive 
Order 12637 (revising the executive branch productivity improvement 
program) are revoked.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
June 10, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 12:12 p.m., June 12, 
1997]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on June 11, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
June 13.