[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 40 (Monday, October 6, 1997)]
[Pages 1459-1460]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13062--Continuance of Certain Federal Advisory 
Committees and Amendments to Executive Orders 13038 and 13054

September 29, 1997

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, and in accordance with the 
provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. 
App.), it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Each advisory committee listed below is continued until 
September 30, 1999.
    (a) Committee for the Preservation of the White House; Executive 
Order 11145, as amended (Department of the Interior).
    (b) Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health; 
Executive Order 12196, as amended (Department of Labor).
    (c) National Partnership Council; Executive Order 12871, as amended 
(Office of Personnel Management).
    (d) President's Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for 
Hispanic Americans; Executive Order 12900 (Department of Education).
    (e) President's Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and 
Universities; Executive Order 12876 (Department of Education).
    (f) President's Commission on White House Fellowships; Executive 
Order 11183, as amended (Office of Personnel Management).
    (g) President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology; 
Executive Order 12882 (Office of Science and Technology Policy).
    (h) President's Committee of the Arts and the Humanities; Executive 
Order 12367, as amended (National Endowment for the Arts).
    (i) President's Committee on the International Labor Organization; 
Executive Order 12216 (Department of Labor).
    (j) President's Committee on the National Medal of Science; 
Executive Order 11287, as amended (National Science Foundation).
    (k) President's Committee on Mental Retardation; Executive Order 
12994 (Department of Health and Human Services).

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    (l) President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports; Executive 
Order 12345, as amended (Department of Health and Human Services).
    (m) President's Export Council; Executive Order 12131, as amended 
(Department of Commerce).
    (n) President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory 
Committee; Executive Order 12832, as amended (Department of Defense).
    (o) Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee; Executive Order 
12905 (Office of the United States Trade Representative).
    Sec. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Executive order, 
the functions of the President under the Federal Advisory Committee Act 
that are applicable to the committees listed in section 1 of this order, 
except that of reporting annually to the Congress, shall be performed by 
the head of the department or agency designated after each committee, in 
accordance with the guidelines and procedures established by the 
Administrator of General Services.
    Sec. 3. The following Executive orders which established committees 
that have terminated and whose work is completed, are revoked:
    (a) Executive Order 12891, establishing the Advisory

Committee on Human Radiation Experiments;

    (b) Executive Order 12964, as amended by Executive Orders 12987 and 
13032, establishing the Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and 
Investment Policy;
    (c) Executive Order 12946, establishing the President's Advisory 
Board on Arms Proliferation Policy;
    (d) Executive Order 12864, as amended by Executive Orders 12890, 
12921, and 12970, establishing the United States Advisory Council on the 
National Information Infrastructure; and
    (e) Executive Order 13015, establishing the White House Commission 
on Aviation Safety and Security.
    Sec. 4. Executive Order 12974 is superseded.
    Sec. 5 In Executive Order 13038, the second sentence of section 1 is 
amended by deleting ``15'' and inserting ``22'' in lieu thereof.
    Sec. 6. Executive Order 13054 is amended by revising section 1 to 
read as follows: ``A United States citizen who is a family member of a 
Federal civilian employee who has separated from Federal service to 
accept employment with the American Institute in Taiwan pursuant to 
section 11 of Public Law 96-8 (22 U.S.C. 3310(a)) may be appointed 
noncompetitively in a manner similar to noncompetitive appointments 
under Executive Order 12721 and implementing regulations of the Office 
of Personnel Management to a competitive service position in the 
executive branch, provided such family member meets the qualifications 
and other requirements established by the Director of the Office of 
Personnel Management, including an appropriate period of satisfactory 
overseas employment with the American Institute in Taiwan.''
    Sec. 7. This order shall be effective September 30, 1997.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
September 29, 1997.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., October 1, 
1997]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on September 30, and it was published in the Federal Register 
on October 2.