[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 34 (Monday, August 25, 1997)]
[Page 1264]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13060--Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate 
Disputes Between Amtrak and Its Employees Represented by the Brotherhood 
of Maintenance of Way Employes

August 21, 1997

    Disputes exist between Amtrak and its employees represented by the 
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes.
    These disputes have not heretofore been adjusted under the 
provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) 
(the ``Act'').
    In the judgement of the National Mediation Board, these disputes 
threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree that 
would deprive a section of the country of essential transportation 
service.
    Now, Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States; including section 10 of 
the Act (45 U.S.C. 160), it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Establishment of Emergency Board (``Board''). There is 
established, effective August 21, 1997, a Board of three members to be 
appointed by the President to investigate these disputes. No member 
shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of 
railroad employees or any railroad carrier. The Board shall perform its 
functions subject to the availability of funds.
    Sec. 2. Report. The Board shall report to the President with respect 
to these disputes within 30 days of its creation.
    Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section 10 of the 
Act, from the date of the creation of the Board and for 30 days after 
the Board has submitted its report to the President, no change in the 
conditions out of which the disputes arose shall be made by the parties 
to the controversy, except by agreement of the parties.
    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 the submission of 
the report provided for in sections 2 and 3 of this order.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
August 21, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., August 22, 
1997]

Note: This Executive order was published in the Federal Register on 
August 25.